The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-01-26

except anticipation, that if l had power
to put all warnings into ONE clap OF
thunder l would with that startling
vehemence say to all young raen what
John Randolph said in yonder senate
chamber as he stretched his long finger
out toward some senatorial opponent
and with shrill voice cried out: Gen.
ticmen, pay as you go!"
Do not say you have no chance, bu,
remember Isaac Newton, the greatest
astronomer of his day. once peddling
cabbages in the street, and Martin
Luther singing on the public square
for any pennies that he might pick up,
and John Bunyan mending kettles, and
the late Judge Bradley. of the United
| States supreme court, who was the son
o: charcoal burner, and Turner the
painter, who was the son of barber,
and Lord Give, who saved India to
England, shipped by his father to
Madras as a 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 f. 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 s5oo.ooo
for the founding of an institute that
has already educated thousands of the
poor sons and daughters of America.
| and Bowditch, the scientist. beginning
bis useful learning and affluent career
by reading the books that lad 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 flower in Siberia that blooms
cnly in January, the severest month
of that cold climate. tits star-shaped
Hover and covered with glistening
specks like diamonds. A 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-
ary 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 Stow under. but who
in the strength of God push through
epd I'm opd ont ,ps1 hIoov,, IN the h ri
est weather of the worlds cold treat
nient, 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 a
word or write letter, but before you
speak word or write word sing a
verse of some hymn in tune arranged
in minor key and having no staccato
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 a wild humping.
Many a man and many a 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 consummate sur
eide. Great attorneys, understanding
this, have often won tl.eir cause by
willfully throwing the opposing coun-
sci into 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 shat is your
self. There are drawbricges to every
castle by which you may keep out Q:
your nature foreign foes. but no ma 4
has a defense against himself unless
it be Divine defense. Out of the mil.
lions of the huma race there is only
one person who can do you permanent
and everlasting 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
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 dramatize placidity. If tine
ship is on fire and you cannot extin-
guish the flames. at any rate keep down
the matches. When at some injustice
inflicted upon yop or some insult CT,
fered. or some wrong done, the best
thing for you to say is to say noth-
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
ceskfully adopted. Take a 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 I'D. d.. .
and begin with no term of cour-
tesy. but bold and abrupt "sir.''
Then follow it with a statement OF
the wrong he has done you and of the
indignation you have felt. Put it into
the strongest terms of execration yoL
can employ without being rrofane.