The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

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dia. He laughed again. more cheerfully.
The spring has gotten strange hold
on my Judgment" he said to himself.
i At dinner chat night he had the COM
pany Of that estimable German savant. the
Herr Doctor yon Herzlich. He did not
/ seek to Incur the experience, but the
amtable doctor was so e.fusive and inter-
ested that he saw no way OF avoiding 1t
gracefully. Returned from his archaeo-
logical expedition to Central America. the
doctor was now on his way back to Mar
burg.
II pleasure much in your news, said
the cheerful man over his first glass OF
Rhine wine with the olive in 1t. You I
shall now, If have misapprehended you
not, develop a new strongness OF the char
acter."
'Percival resigned himself to listen. He
was not unfamiliar with the lot OF one
who dimes with the learned Won Herzlich. |
Now he's off, he said to himself.
"Ach! 1t Is but now that you shall be-
gin to live. Is 1t not that while you
planned the money amassing you were de-
ferring to live-ah, yes-until some day
when you had so much more? Yes?
common thought failure 1t s--a common
failure of the to-take -thoughtedness of
life-its capacities and the intentions
of the scheme under which we survive.
Ach! So few humans learn that this invita-
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a o'clock. 1t says-so we'll as Father
Mother Nature has learned TO write the
words to our unseeing eyes-at once. put
we ever put off the living we are invited
to at once-until tomorrow next day,
next year-until this or that be done or
won. So now you will find this out. Be
fore, you would have. waited for time
that never came-no matter the all
4 money you gathered.
Nor yet, my young friend shall you
take this matter to be of seriousness
to be sorrow worthy. If you take Of the
courage, you shall find the world to smile
Ito your face, and father-mother you.
You recall what the English Huxley says
All! what fine, dear man, the good Hulk
lley-he says, yes, In the 'Genealogy OF,
the Beasts 1t Is a probable hypothesis
! that what the world IS to organisms In
general, each organism is to the molecules
of which 1t is composed So you laugh
at the world, the world it laugh back
'ha! ha! ha!'-then-soly-all your little
molecules obediently respond-you thrill
desre-the capacity--you out-go and
achieve. Yes? So fret not. Ach we
fret so much Of what 1t shall be unwise
to fret Of. It is funny to fret. Why?
Why fret? Yet but the month last, they
have excavated at Nippur, from the pre-
Sargonic strata lady and gentleman
of the House Of Ptah. What you say In
New York-'a damned fine old family,
yes, Is it not? I am read their descrip-
ton and seen of the photographs. They
have now the expressions Of indifference
in Of disinterest-without the prejudice-as If
n they say, .Ach! those troubles Of ours,
We three thousand eight hundred years in
the B. C.-nearly come to six thousand
as years before now-Ach those troubles
ne say this phlosophic- lady and gen.
er tleman, Of the House of Ptah of Baby
n lonia-'such a silliness-those troubles
le and frets; it was not the while worth that
we should ever have sorrowed, because
II the scheme of time and creation is such1y
ST big; had we grasped but it's bgness, and
ne the littleness of our span should we have
IL. felt gr1efs? Nay, nay-ntt, like the street
l youths say-would say the lady and gen
AZ tleman now SO passion1ess as to have
ne philosophers become. And you, it should
w mean to you much. Humans are funniest
=, when they weep and tremble before like
~ ~ you say, the facts in the case IIa!
- ~ laugh to myself at them often when OBJ
IN ~, serve Their funniness of the boards and
% eyebrows the bald head, of the dress, the
solemnities of manner, as 1t were they
~ were persons of weight. All, they are OF
'A~A their insignif1cance so loftily unconscious
Was 1t not great skill-to compel the ad.
i. miration Of the love worthiest 5sciertis
81. ~ Ito create a unit Of a numberless mass
of units and then to enable 1t to feel eacf
~, one the Importance Of the whole, as Il
each part were big as the whole? So 70,
% shall not fret I say.
IF the fret invade you, YOU shall .dt
j well to lie out in the friendly space
- and look at this small top spinning
of a world thru the glass
that reduces. Yes? You had thought i
r. OF such bigness--its concerns of sublim
M tie animals on the surface Of the spinning
in ball How frantic, as If all things wer
about to eventuate, remembering not tina
,rd nothing ends. So? Observe the mark
= of their Stiffness, their unworthiness 70,
lila have reduced the ball to so big as a melon
yes? Watch the insects run about in tn
craziness, laughing, crying, loving thei
iss loves, hating their hates. fearing frettin
killing one the other In such funny littl
clothes. made for such funny little purpos
rev precisely-falling sick over the money-los
~ ings-and the ball so small but one Q
rod such many-as many stars under tn
. earth. remember, as above It,
so! YOU are back to earth; you are
mi human like the rest, SO foolish, so funn
~ as any-so you say, Well I shall not
..tu more troubled aga In yet play the sam
pht game, but 1t Is only a game, a little gam
to last an afternoon play my part-ye
hall the laughing part, crying part-lovins
i'n hating, killing part-what matter if sa
1t is good? If the Maker there be to loo
W. down. what joys him most-the cowar
who fears and frets and the whine make
for his soul OR body? Ach! no, it is tt
Wv, , one who say, it is good-I could not bette
Ho'o uOHe IuySGlI---d great game, yeS--It
80 her rip. like you west people remark-1,
~, a her rip-you cannot lose me, like YOU ga
'uio also. Ach so!o And then he say. II
great Palmer Of it. .Ach! I am under
=. stood at last-good! bright man thai
s ooA like you say. also-'bright man that-it
'ess of pleasure to see him do well!'
). ~ $50 my young friend, you shall pie,
ltiu. sure yourself still much yet. It Is Of I
o"n lexcellence to pleasure ones self jud
you ciously. The lotus is q leguninous pla
~ I-so excellent for the salad-not Tor d
here roast. You have. of the salad over eat
on you shall learn Of your successful cap
city for it-you shall do well, then; "a
'aik have been Of the reckless deportment-v
;lsm n may still be Of 1t. That is not the matt
lull You shall be reckless as you like-b
) ne without your stored energy surplus
ne harm YOU. Your environment from
Der now demands of you the faculties v
now. will most pleasure yourself in Develop,
spite You shall produce what you consume. T
her, gods love such. Acf, yes!"
ETo be Continued To -morrow.1
A Marked Step In the Direction Of
TRUE TEMPERANCE