The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-12-19

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han IN M9st manage d one woman you
must control In ordsf 70 pleaSs God and
make life success and that 10 yourself.
There ars draw bridges 10 svsfy castle by
which you may keep out Of your nature
foreign foes but no man has 4 defense
against himsslt uniesS II b divine Dc.
tense. Out Of tho millions Of The human
raos there 10 only ono person who can do
you permanent and everlasting harm, and
that h tho being that walks under your
own hat and In your own shoes. The
hardest realm that you will ever have to
govern 10 the realm between your scalp
and heel. The most dangerous cargo q
ship can carry 10 dynamite, and the most
perilous thing In ones nature Is an ex-
plosive temper. II your nature 10 hope
lessly irasoible and tempessuous, then
dramatize placidity. II the ship is ON fire
and you cannot extinguish the flames, at
any rate keep down the matches. Whom at
some injustice inflicted upon you or some
insult offered or some wrong done, the
hest thing for you 10 say IL TO say nothing,
aud tho best thing for you to write IL to
write nothing. II the meanness done you
10 unbearable, or you must expzesSyour-
self or die, then ] commend plan that I
have once or twice successfully adopted.
Takea sheet Of paper. Date 1t at your
home or Office. Then put the wrongdoer's
name at the head Of the letter page, with
out any prefix Of COLONEL or sufax of
ID. d." and begin with no term Of oour-
tesy, but Q bold and abrupt 'sir." Then
follow 1t with statement Of the wrong
he has done you and Of the Indignation
you have felt. Put into ii the strongest
terms Of excavation you can employ with
out being profano. Sign your name to
the redhot epistle Fold it, Envelop 1t.
Direct 1t plainly to the man who has done
you wrong. Garry the letter q week or
In Gods name, destroy It'll
! like what Abraham Lincoln said to
one Of his cabinet officers. That cabinet
officer had been belied and misreprssented
until In fury he wrote n letter Of arraikn.
.ment to his enemy and In tersest possible
phraseology told him what he thought Of
him. The cabinet officer read 1t to, Mr..
Lincoln and asked him how he liked 1t.
MIR. Lincoln replied: ut ia splendid for
sarcasm and soorn. never heard my:
thing more complete In that direction.
But q, you think you can afford to send
it," That calm md wise and Christian
Interrogation of the president stopped the
letter, and 1t was never sent. Young man,
before you get far on in life, unless you
are to be an exception among men, you
will be wronged, you will be misinterpret-
ed, you will DO outraged. All your sense
of justice will DO In oonAagration. Let
me know how you meet that first great Of
Tense and I will tell you whether your life
Is to he triumph or o failure. You see,
equipoise ct such time means so many
things 1t means self control 1t means
o capacity to foresco results. 1t means q
confidence In your own integrity. Itmeans
a faith in the Lord God that he will see
you through.
Don't be Suspicious. g.
Again, il you would be master Of the
situation put tho best Interpretation OH
the character and behavior Of others. Do
not be looking for hypoorites in churches,
or thieving among domestic servants, OF
swindlers among business men, or NAL
feasance in office, There is much in life
to make men suspicious Of others, and
when that characteristic of suspicion be-
comes dominant n man has secured his
own unhappiness. End lie has become an
offense In all circles religious, CONNER
cial and political. The man who moves
for a committee Of investigation is gener-,
ally neral derelict. The man who goes
with his nostrils inflated, trying to A,cov-
Or something malodorous, Is not a IAN,
nice people, generous people, people who
nre doing their best-good husbands, good
wives, good fathers, good mothers, good
officers Of the law, good judges, good gov
arnors, good state and national legisla-
tors, good rulers. Does some man growl
out, That has not been my experience,
and think just the oppositeY" Well, my
brother, am sorry for your affective cir
and that You had nh unfor-
innate ancestry, and that you have kept
,uch bad company and had such discourage
ng environment. I notice TINT after q
nan has bcen making violent TRADE
against his fellow men he Is on his way
Town, and II be live long enough he will
% asking You for quarter Of dollar to
get drink or nights lodging. Behave
Yourself well, o young man, and you
will find lifo pleasant thing to live, and
he world full Of friends, and Gods bene-
fiction everywhere about you.
Avoid Gambling. NH
Again, II you would be master Of tho
expect nothing from good luck
# haphazard or gaming adventures. In
his time, when 1t Is estimated that gam
ling exchanges money to tho amount Of
bout So. 100000 day, this remark may
,e useful There come times in many q
mans life when he hopes to get some.
hing for which he does not give an
quivalent, and there arc so kinds of
Stand aloof from all Of them. |
Understand that the gambling spirit is |
disease, and tho more successful you are |
ke moro certain you are to go right on to !
our own ruin. Having made his thou
snds, why does not the gambler stop and
nake a safe investment Of what he has
aimed and spend the rest of his life in
uiet or Less hazardous style of occupation2
he reason is Ae cannot stop. Nothing
ut death over cures confirmed gambler.
'r. Kseley's gold euro rescues the drunk
I'd, and there ore antitobacco prepara-
ons that will arrest the victim of nico-
ne, and religion can save any one except
gambler. The fact is he is irresponsible.
LAYING got the habit In him, he Ia no
lore responsible for keeping on than u
ian falling from the roof of four story
ouse can stop at the window of the,seo-
nd story. Here and there you may find
a instance where gambler has been re-
,rted or reports himself as being convert
!, but In that case the man was not fully
nder the heel Of the passion. The real
smbler Ia n through passenger to death
I'd perdition. Tho only use in referring
him Is In the way Of prevention. He
,gan by taking chances on bookcase or
sewing machine at church fair and
lded by getting few pennies for his last
'luable in pawnbroker's shop. The
lily man who CANDLES successfully is the
an who loses SO fearfully ut the start
ut he is Disguised and quits. Let him
In at the start and win again, and 1t
cans farewell to home and heaven Most !
erciless Of all habits!
h. Al /