El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-18

clock strikes twelve and then one, two,
and sometimes even four before he
steals into the door. And not infre-
quently the grey dawn steals in that
| window only to fall on a face stained
and furrowed by the stream of tears
| that have plowed there all night.
She throws herself on her bed with
feverish agony and despair. It is the
same old story, nights carousel in q
gambling house, a saloon, or brothel.
The money that was to go for new
hat or dress or shoes; that WAS to be
laid up for rainy day, or till payments
could be commentator home ;that was
to go to the church, the poor or the
mission collection, has gone to the de-
vii. The husband is disgraced, he has
brought Disgrace on his family, and to
that poor heart and her sympathiZing
friends all looks truly as black as hell
itself.
And yet that woman washes away
the tears, writes q tender note to her
husband and says: Hurry hons
dear, your sweetheart Is awfully lone
your wrong. I'll kiss it all away. I'll
love you till you can't do it again"
And after this, she straightens up the
house, battles her face again and again
and seeks to rub out every wrinkle that
he may not be chided with her sorrow.
And when he does come home there is
no word, no sigh, no reprCach, naught
but love and kindness seeks to win him
back again.
Now mark you do not say that I
would be strong enough to do that my
self. But do say that a woman who
thus bears her burden is heroine,
and the only reason the world would
not do her homage is because of the
weakness of humanity that either
forces the innocent to suffer with the
guilty, or would be so far from doing
such q thing themselves that they
have no patience with those who do.
But while we have many heroes here
we also find many towards. True
hard and grievously unjust so far as
man is concerned. But they are yours
and with few exceptions the man or
woman who refuses to bear them, or
shifts them wholly on others,i is weak
ling and q coward. The suicidist Is
invariably coward or q lunatic.
Don't get into the habit of complaining
about the unavoidable burdens Of life.
It has wonderful growing. tendency.
This is one of the hardest things I have
to deal with.
1t is the easiest kind of q thing to be-
come pessimist, almost as easy as to
become q gossiper. And when I read
q few days ago little note on grumb-
ling, which said, substantially, don't
grumble about things you can Z remedy;
quit them If you can't stand them, and
stand them if you can't quit them, but
don't grumtl lie, said, 'thst fits me,
and by the grace of God I will take 1t
to myself and walk by It," Bear your
own burden and don't grumble.
Seek;advice and sympathy from friends
you can trust, to be shure. Let them
share your burden if it will help you
and you are quite sure they want to,
but don't thrust it on them, don't shirk
it yourself. Bear it nobly, and you
will be the stronger for it. Bear 1t
bravely and you will convince the world
and yourself that you are made of noble
stuff.
"a sacred burden is this life we bear,
Look on it. lift it, bear it solemnly,
stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly,
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin.
But onward, upward. till the goal ye win."