Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-05

paw cash. Iradesnen are too busy to
study consciences. Nine. Humbert's
scheme was sten-winder for simplici-
ty. She appeared in Paris with claim
to the $2O,OOO,OO0 estate of R. III. Craw-
ford. Rival claimants were also fight
ing. The people looked on. The fact
that there was a fight proved that
there was something to fight for. She
was the happy possessor Of Mr.. CraW-
| ford's will and a vault full of valua-
bles, she said. How were the people
| to know that there was no Mr.. CraW-
| ford, no stocks and bonds, no valua-
bles, no anything except a woman who
possessed a smile warranted to bring
ready money out of a safe, and nerve
that simply outclassed anything ever
heard of in France. She borrowed!
Can man refuse when the borrower
drives to the bank in an outfit for
king-when the horses have pedigrees
as long as their tails, and the harness
is gold plated? So they let her have
the money. The money lenders handed
over sums aggregating $8OO0,0O0 to
$12,O00,000. Nine. Humbert enjoyed
life. She must have possessed an as
bestos conscience, and she kept on
fighting for the Crawford millions"
and talking about the bonds and stocks
she possessed till a money lender de-
manded to see the inside Of the safe
in her palace. The house Of cards fell.
The safe was empty. Nine, Humbert
departed between two days, and Paris
mourns because Of the greatest swindle
in a century. Experience has money
value, but it would be hard to convince
those Frenchmen who are holding the
bag that theirs was worth the price.
A few years ago a man undertook to
establish in various sections Of the
country Don't Worry societies. How
long they endured and whether any
Of them still exist we do not know.
There is no logical reason why their
mission should not be practicable, ex-
cept, perhaps, that it is so purely mega
tive. 1t is not enough to pledge ones
self not to worry and to remind ones
neighbor continually that he must not
do so. Mere negation means Vacu-
UNI. If we don't worry, what are we
to do? That Is a question most char
acteristically American. The Ameri-
can, of all human beings, is most i'm
patient and intolerant Of vacuums.
from an empty stomach to an empty
mind. If the American doesn't worry,
he or she must have something else to
do. Our advice would be: Discard the
negative maxim, for no one yet ever
ceased to worry by forming resolu-f
ton to that effect. Substitute for it the
positive self command: "Be cheerful"
Religion used always to have gloomy
tinge Consolation was offered the all
ing spirit, but it was more than offset
with menace and dread. The truly
living religion Of to-day Is different.
It inculcates, above all, that saving adj
monition. It teaches people how to be
cheerful. If it doesn't do that it is
worth nothing. The most attractive
church is the one in which the clear
| light enters from above, falling alike
in pure benediction upon pulpit and
pew. The most efficacious religion Is
one that lifts from the groveling fears
of the flesh and the finite mind. Some
times a very simple and unpretentious
example of the fruits Of cheerfulness Is
found in ordinary life. Cheerful old
age in itself is the best eulogy of years
we'll spent. You may be sure that 1t
is never the sequence of the opposite
history. There is fictitious cheerful
ness, and the real cheerfulness, that
Of the heart and the tranquil con-
science. No healthy cheerfulness comes
without work or it's equivalent, which
may be generally defined as useful en-
deavor. In it's due proportion 1t is the
sweetening Of life, which without it
has no honest relish. Cheerfulness Is
positive duty. No negative one can
take it's place. To be cheerful Is lot
necessarily to be unselfsh. It is often
to be selfish in the exalted and alto
gether commendable sense: to be ones
best self and therefore happiest and
most benefcent to others.