Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-02-06


fatigue and the rising sun finds you a
new man. body. mind and soul--you
have an advantage that ought to be
put in prayer and song and congratula-
ton. The French financier. almost
wealthy enough to purchase a kingdom
but the victim OF insomnia. wrote: mo
slumber to be bought in any market"
He was right. Sleep is a gratuity from
him who never sleeps. Oh. the felici-
ties Of slumber! Let all who have this
real benefaction celebrate 1t. That is
one Of the sweetest strings in all the
instrument OF ten strings.
Further, let US gratefully acknowl-
edge the power Of physical locomotion.
To be able to go where we wish and all
unaided-what kindness! What null
titudes have to call in the aid Of cane
and crutch and invalid's chair, and
their whole life Is hinderment! How
hard to get about with lack OF strong
and healthy and supple limbs! Con-
graduated ought you all to be II you
have the usual physical endowment.
and sympathized with ought all those
to be who can neither walk nor climb
nor enter upon any great activities.
That is one of the thousands Of rea-
sons why l hate war with a complete
hatred. 1t takes off with bullet or shell
or surgeons knife the capacity of men
to achieve their own livelihood or do
the work for which they would other
wise be fully qualified. Brave men.
self-sacrihcing men. for the rest OF
their life are put on the limits and
strangely suffer in stormy weather
from limbs amputated.
How much Of the human family in
every century has been cut up and
shot to pieces and passed into mutila-
ton! American manhood had hardly
recovered from the lacerations OF the
war Of the Revolution when 1t was
called to be carved by the swords and
stabbed with the bayonets and black
ened with the gunpowder OF 1872
Hardly recovered was our American
manhood from that when the war with
Mexico began its butchery. Hardly
was American manhood recovered
from that before the civil war took
hold Of 1t and dug its grave trench
through the north and its grave trench
through the south. Hardly was our
American manhood recovered from
that when the Spanish war came. with
its malaria and crowded hospitals.
Thank God that now four OF the great
est nations are allied in good under
starding-the United States. England.
Germany and Rusgia-and II they will
do the right things they can forever
stop national and international strife
and put an end to wholesale amputa-
ton.
Further. celebrate on the instrument
Of ten strings our illumined nights.
They spread their tents over US. and
some Of US hardly 60 out to look at
them. During the nights other worlds
come in sight. We thank God for the
day; we ought also to thank him for
the night. Worlds on worlds in sight
OF the naked eye, but more worlds re-
vealed by telescope. At least one night
In his lifetime every man ought to go
into astronomical observatory and see
what has been done by the great World
Builder. Thank God for lunar and
stellar illumination.
Further. on the instrument of ten
strings celebrate the possession of our
reason. A severe stroke upon the head
or sudden calamity or any one OF
fifty kinds Of accident might dethrone
our reason and leave us worse off than
the brute. for the brute has substi-
tute for reason in what is called in
stinct. but a mans brain shattered,
and he has neither mind nor instinct
The asylums for the insane. though
all the time multiplying. ara not
enough to shelter the demented
Through the examining system EN-
ployed in many Of the schools of this
country there are tens of thousands of
children having their brain depleted.
Philosophers at ten years OF age, as
tronomers at eleven years of age, geol-
ogists at twelve years Of age. They
will be first on examination day, but
last In all matters of useful and sue
cessful life. II would be amusing to
see how much children are expected to
learn and know II 1t were not con-
nected with the tragedies Of damaged
intellects which follow.
Amid the increasing dementia Of the
world let us appreciate the goodness of
God to US II our mental faculties are In
equipolse. yoyaging from New Zea-
land to Australia. storm swooped
upon us. and We saw all around us
fragments of ships that had been
caught in the same tempest. And how
thankful We were. sailing into Sydney
harbor, that we had escaped! So that
man and that woman whose intellect
goes safely through the storms of this
life. in which so many have foundered.
ought every day and every night en-
ploy one of the ten strings In gratitude
for that particular mercy.
Another string of this instrument
now touch-friendships. deep and abid-
ing, by which refer to those people
who. when good or bad motive may be
ascribed to you. ascribe the good: those
concerning whom you do not wonder
which side they will take when you are
under discussion: those who would
more gladly serve you than serve them
selves; those to whom you can tell
everything without reserve: those who
are FIRST in your home by person or by
telegram when you have trouble. Oh.
what n blessing to have plenty OF