The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-11-14
X Gle Social (OblrI X


most miserable people in the world
are the very careful ones. You that
are SO anxious about what shall hap
pen on the morrow that you cannot
enjoy the pleasures of today, you
who have such a peculiar cast of
mind that you suspect every star to
be a comet, and imagine there must
be volcano in every grassy mead !;
you that are more attracted by the
spots in the sun than by the sun it
self, and more amazed by one scar
leaf upon the tree than by all the YER
dure of the woods; you that make
more of your troubles than you do OF
your joys-you belong to the most
miserable of mankind.
Idleness is ignoble in this world OF
busy hands, working brains and eager
aspirations.
We may fold ease to our bOsoms
and call her dear, but she will, like
the subtle lotus blossom, steal away
our energies with her opiate breath,
and leave us mentally and morally
weak. We must not sit with folded
hands, idly dreaming in the wide
fields of life We must work, and we
must work with steadfast minds and
willing hands.
Toll is not a suppliant labor is not
beggarly to honest toll, and patient
labor belongs a rightful heirship to
honor and eXaltation, and to him who
labors fearlessly and perseveringly
is given generous guerdons of sue
cess. There are endless varieties ana
grades of labor, the physical, the
moral and the intellectual and to
each belong adequate rewards.
To the physical laborer, he who
tills the ground or hews the wood, or
with strong arm and skillful hand
shapes the massive iron to his will,
is given the power of limb, the
strength of nerve and the glorious
development of form. The grateful
earth yields to his hand abundant
harvests of flowers and fruits the
hewn wood lights his fireside and
warns his hearth and protects him
from the chill blasts of winter. Truly
the physical laborer has his reward.
And the intellectual laborer, he
also has full recompense. To him is
given a glorious dover of intellectual
strength and power as requital for
his unfaltering patience in toiling to
make rich the beautiful and fruitful
regions of the mind. For him do the
unfailing springs of knowledge open;
for him do the large harvests OF Wis
dom ripen and for him do life's
overhanging boughs of beauty am
poetry droop. full of fair flowers ant
fruit.
1t is not right for any of us to 81
in idle ease. We should exercise ant
develop, as far as we have the power
the intellect which has been giver
us. whether it be great or small.
To the moral laborer is given
higher reward in proportion as his la
bors are more holy, more ennob
hing than that which has for its OBJ
ject the eternal welfare of souls, tina
which seeks out earth-erring one:
and leads them with brotherly hama!
and loving counsel into the wide shell
ter of infinite love.
Such is peculiarly the task of thu
faithful, self-denying laborer in thu
moral vineyard of life, and it is prob
able that his reward should eXceet
that of one who labors merely TO
his own temporal advantage, To hin
who sows in the spring time, the har
vest time will bring a visible re
ward, he doubts it not, he knows, be
cause he has seen, nor is he trou
bled or cast down because of uncel
tainty of delay. But to him who SOW
the seeds of truth and virtue in tn
soul-it may be among weeds or i
stony places-is given recompens
only in trust while here. He look
not for earthly rewards, his lot
generally one of privatfon and disaI
pointment and sacrifices on eartl
but if there is a heaven, his rewar
is great To all such let us reac
forth helping hands and whispe
words of encouragement, that the
may faint not, neither grow wearie
in their hallowed work.
Toll on, then, faithful teacher
toll and trust till
Unto thee is given
A life that bears immortal fruit
In such great offices as suit
The full grown energies of heaven
.
A little verse clipped from the bus
ness budget gives another idea of a
tumn:
THE naked hills lie wanton to Il
breeze;
Nude are the fields, the groves u
frocked,
And bare are limbs of the shiveril
trees