The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-04
LEARNINl FROM LIFE.
The Capacity to be Educated by Exper=
ience.-=.A Step Toward the Masterful
Life

Life
1t is almost impossible to overvalue
the capacity to be educated by expert
ence, since experience must be for most
men the prime instrument of educa-
tion, and for all men one of the great
est means of education. Experience,
if it is searching, does not leave us as
it found us it either enriches or de-
pletes, increases or diminishes, our
individual power and does the one
which we accept or shut ourselves
There are men and women who breast
breasts the waves of the sea, simply
pressing his way through them; and
there is often certain heroism in the
despairing courage with which diff
cult position is held or great trial
borne but this is at the best and I'M
der the noblest conditions negative
attitude; it as to the attitude which
takes the poison out of the grief and
which draws spiritual strength and
individual power from misfortune.
There are men and women who go
through life fighting every inch of the
way, setting themselves to the heroic
but impossible task of resisting the
inevitable and contending against the
irresistible. 1t is quite possible for a
man to stand up against the whole Or
der of life and refuse to yield an inch,
and die at his post without yielding
but this is not the attitude of the mas
terful life; 1t is not the spirit of those
who have nobly borne the burdens of
life and met its grief who have carried
the one and passed through the other
to an unshaking repose. To one who
studies closely the careers of a number
of people, it often seems as if definite
lessons were being set, and those les
sons are repeated until they are learn
ed One often hears the remark made
that life goes hard with certain per-
son: when that persons life is an
alyzed it will almost always appear
that it is characterized more by stub
bornness OF by sheer resistance than by
acceptance and willingness to be
taught. To those who are not willing
to learn, life is almost intolerably
hard. They bear the brunt of the
terrible onslaught of events as they
sometimes come rolling in like the
waves of the sea, but they are not
lifted by them, and when the flood is
passed they are stripped of their pos
sessions. Life is never easy to those
who feel, but it is infinitely easier if
one is disposed to accept its lessons
and to find in experience spiritual en-
richment. 1t often happens that they
who have met the events of life with
a stoical courage suddenly find. when
they have put themelves in the right
attitude, that the sea recedes and the
winds abate their fury. In any event,
it is certain that the teachable attitude
puts one in the way, not of easy con-
ISOLATION, but of that strength which
come to those who overcome by &C
ceptance and SO transmutes hardship
into strength, sorrow into sweetness,
and discipline into power.-N Y. Out
look.
And they are already talking of a
coal famine in case tine cold weather
continues. Wonder what kind of a
winter these Twin City dealers have
been expecting, or is their talk prelimi-
nary to putting the price up another
notch2
Mr. Arthur Blomgren, of North
Mankato, who has been student at
the Northwestern School of Telegraphy
for the past three months, left yester-
day for Reedville, Wis, where he has
accepted position with the G. & N.
w. BY.
The laundries of the city have en-
tered into an agreement to close at 80
O clock every evening except Satur-
days, after JAM LIST. Some of the
clothing men are endeavoring to make
a similar agreement
The city reservoir is being cleaned
today. This occurs semi annually,
and pressure on the mains is supplied
direct from the pump.