Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-02


Luther singing on the public square
for any pennies that he might pick up,
and John Bunyan mending kettles. and
:he late Judge Bradley, of the United
States supreme court, who was the son
of a charcoal burner, and Turner. the
painter, who was the son Of a barber,
and Lord Give, who saved India to
England. shipped by his father to
Madras as useless boy whom he want
ed to get rid of, and Prideaux, the
world-renowned scholar and theolo-
eian. securing pots and pans to work his
way through college, and the mother of
the late William E. Dodge, the philan-
thropist and magnificent man, keeping
a thread and needle store, and Peter
Cooper, who worked on small wages
IN glue factory, living to give $500, 900
for the founding of an institute that
has already educated thousands of the
poor sons and daughters of America,
and Bowditch, the scientist, beginning
his useful learning and aff1uent career
by reading the books that had been
driven ashore from a shipWreck at
Salem. There is, young man, great
financial or literary or moral or re-
ligious success awaiting you if you only
know how to go up and take it. Then
take it or get ready to take it, The
mightier the opposition the grander
the triumph when you have conquered
There is a flower in Siberia that blooms
only in January. the severest month
of that cold climate. It is astar-shaped
Hover and covered with glistening
specks like diamonds Russian took
some of the seeds of that flower to St.
Petersburg and planted them, and they
grew, and on the coolest day of Janu-
airy they pushed back the snow and ice
and burst into full bloom. They called.
it the ''snow flower" and it makes me
think of those whom the world tries
to freeze out and snow under, but who
in the strength of God push through
and up and out and bloom in the hard
est weather of the worlds cold treat
ment. starred and radiant with beau
ty given only to those who find life a
struggle and turn it into victory
Again, if you would master the sit
uation. when angry do not utter
word or write letter, but before you
speak a word or wTite word sing
verse of some hymn in tune arranged
in minor key and having no sfaccato
passages. If very angry, sing two
verses. If in a positive rage, sing three
verses. First of all. the unhealthiest
thing on earth is to get mad 1t jangles
the nerves enlarges the spleen AMI
sets the heart into wild humping.
Many man and many woman has
in time of such mental and physical
agitation dropped dead. Not only that,
but it makes enemies out of friends,
and makes enemies more virulent, and
anger is partial or consumHnate SUI
eide. Great attorneys, understanding
This. have often won their cause by
willfully throwing the opposing coun-
sci into a rage. There is one man you
must manage or one woman you must
control In order to please God and
make life a success, and that is your
self There are drawbridges to every
castle by which you may keep out OF
your nature foreign foes, but no man
has a defense against himself unless
It be a Divine defense. Out of the mil
lions of the human race there is only
one person who can do you permanent
and everla sting harm, and that is the
being that walks under your own hat
and in your own shoes. The hardest
realm that you will ever have to gov
ern is the realm between your scalp
and heel. The most dangerous cargo
a ship can carry is dynamite, and TIE
most perilous thing in ones nature is
an explosive temper. If your nature
is hopelessly irascible and tempestu-
GUS, then dramatic placidity. If the
ship is on fire and you cannot extin-
guish the flames. ait any ia te' keep down
the matches. When at some injustice
inflicted upon you or some insult Of
fered. or some wrong done, the best
thing for you to say is to say moth
ing, and the best thing for you to write
is to write nothing. If the meanness
done you is unbearable. or you must ex-
press yourself or die, then / commend
a plan that | have once or twice sue
cessfully adopted. Take sheet Of
paper. Date it at your home or office.
then put the wrongdoer's name at the
head Of the letter page. without any
prefix of ''colonel" or suffix of sd. D.,
and begin with no term of cour-
tesy. but a bold and abrupt 'sir."
Then follow it with statement of
the wrong he has done you and of the
indigna ton you have felt. Put it into
the strongest terms of eDecration you
can employ without being profane.
Sign your name to the red-hot epistle.
Fold it, Envelope it. Direct it plainly
to the man who has done you wrong
Garry the letter a week or two weeks,
ifneed be, and then destroy it. In Gods
name, destroy it!
I like what Abraham Lincoln said
to one of his ca binet officers. That cab
met officer had been belied and mis-
represented until in fury he wrote
letter of arraignment to his enemy
and in ten1sest possible phraseology
told him what he thought of him. The
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