The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-20
"Scatter
Sunshine
All Along
the Way"

mere could be no greater folly than
Ior men ana women to permit themselves
| 10 go fanplng across the desert sands of
wasted todays: deceived by the illusion Of
| tomorroW's mirage. Why promise your
self you viii be 4 better man tomorrow
| than You are today? Unless today is BE-
| lEg lived faithfully there is no hope Of
| your delivering the goods of an honest
| I:fe tomorrow Solid character today IS
| the only material that you can be sure
| VII not fail you tomorrow.-Lcuis Albert
Banks.
What the poet writes.
he Writes Mankind accepts it if it su is,
ana mats success; if not, the poem s
From hand to hand, and yet from hand
Until the unborn snatch it, crying out
IN pity on their fathers being so dull
ana that's success. too.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Did you ever think how you would
IKE Tx TO spend your last day on earth?
may be YOUR last And YOU should be
spared until tomorrow, don't imagine it
was on account of your dignity and i'm
Portance and that you have long lease
on life.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when
PRAYING for forgiveness. or else forgivipg
another When thou f0rgives+ tho man
who has pierced thy heart stands to thee
IN the relation Of the sea worm, that PER
tGrates the shell Of the mussel which
straightway closes the wound with a
pearI.-Jean Paul Richter.
A woman made memorandum of her
worries, and then waited to see how
many o. them realized the fears they
bred. She found in the first two weeks
tEat three of the five principal ones
turned cut to be unfounded she had had
her anxiety for nothing; the other two
turned cut not so bad as they locked
in advance.
There is nothing better worth learning
ma, man n. the joy there is in the simple
i iny1hI9 OF life. When man has once
learned the great Fourth commandment
the duty of leisure, when he has enamel
rated himself from the greatest of al
slavery, the slavery Of hurry-every day
ana every season and every year-then he
mas but one thing more TO learn, and
that is to consecTate this beauty Of the
rhymth of life to the worship of God
thus he finds happiness.-Richard Green
Moult0n.
Worry is the twin sister of nervous
ness. Neitcer should ever enter into the
dally life of anyone. God in h s all
wise providence. put the head Of human
beings on top. that all beneath it might
be subservient to it. There is something
wrong above the eyes, in the region of
the VIII power, when enc becomes nervous
self" is good; control myself is better
Worry and excitement never aided any
one.
There are two sides to Question,
As we know; 50 the suggestion
OF the side which holds the sunlight
seems reasonable to me.
And you know we can't he merry.
And make our surroundings CHEEKY
If we will insist in coddling every
gloomy thing we see.
Abraham Lincolns unfalling humor was
source Of constant surprise to all those
who were associated with him during
war times He had discovered t1at
there was no prop to courage like cheer
fulness. In the corner of his desk he
kept a copy of late humorous work,
and when fatigued. annoyed or denSess-
ed and the hateful blue devils were in
sight. is was his habit to get out the
mirthprovoking volume and read a
chapter or two. This invariably rested
him. and he was once more the cheerful
philosopher, confident that all would turn
out for the best.