The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

Six Months 30 cents.
have plenty of food and no appetite,
we know that it will pay us better to
work up an appetite than to seek
new species of tempting food; but
when the conditions under which we
live are reasonably good, and we have
pleasures and privileges in fair quanti-
ty and are still restless, we don't always
recognize that what we need is not
more enjoyments, but better, appetite
for those we already command.
It is conceivable that when the mill
lennium comes everything will 60 right
on the earth, and there will be nothing
to bother about. But meantime, while
there is much to bother about, 1 cannot
think any one entirely fortunate who is
not bothered in reasonable proportion
to his powers. To have no anxieties, to
be subject to no annoyances, to have no
unwelcome duties, and no occasion for
self-denial, is not by any means to be
in good case. Anyone finding him
self in such predicament is bound to
60 out and hunt up labors and troubles
merely to make life worth living. Ev-
cry one of us is wheel with cogs in it,
meant to fit in with other cogged
matchmaking harmonious whole
and turn more or less laboriously and
effectively in the great human machine.
Either we fit ourselves into that ma
chine and turn with the other wheels,
or we 60 to the scrap pile. Let us
ponder over this we'll, for it is the ne
cessity of our circumstances, that each
one of us must get himself into line
and harmony with this system of
things. Otherwise each one of us will
find himself working at cross-purposes
with the human machine Usefulness,
success, satisfying fruition of all our
work are possible only when our work
is in harmony with the general sweep
of human activities.
Did you ever think why it is that
crime cannot possibly be successful, no
matter how able the criminal? 1t is be-
cause the criminal is combating every
settled method of civilization. Every
device of business becomes detective;
and the criminals operations are in con-
flict with the whole course of the daily
life of eighty millions of our people-of
all people. Let him take precautions
ever so cunningly, the criminal finds his
plans utterly irrational and is bound to
run up against it sooner or later, when,
if he be wise, he will mend his ways
and consecrate himself to higher pur-
poses and become useful member of
society and an honor to himself and
the world at large. There was a pris-
on warden who once announced that
he had made new conservation of
himself to public duties. He was
an honest and honored man, but not
especially holy, and the public press de-
rided his conservation good deal. But
no doubt he had, on a somewhat larger
scale, the same feeling that you and [
have when we weigh our past efforts
and review our progress, and disparag-
ing little our daily course, sigh and
long to lead a better life. 1 don't
know that there is any better way for
us to mark the return of Thanksgiving
than by taking out new CONSIDERATIONS
, for our own use. 1t is not necessary that
, we should do it dismally. Nothing
that is dismal fits the Thanksgiving
season. We should be determined to
be as good humored as possible about
} everything, to accept cheerfully and
kindly our share of life's labors, to
practice charity, avoiding evil and
moving along on life's highway with as
little friction as possible.
'Spite of all the sorrow,
Spite of all the song,
Mountain top or valley,
Movin' right along!
D SIN the icy winter
I Still summer song,
Any sort o. weather
Movin' right along"
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