The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-08
RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
[BY THE EDITOR I

By THE EDITOR.
Suppose for one season the grasses of
the earth should fail to scatter their
seeds-seeds so tiny that almost an
innumerable quantity can be measured
in bushel basket-it is almost ter
rifying to contemplate the consequen-
ces. If the grass of the field should
fail, the human race itself would fail.
We boast of our prowess and of our
greatness, and yet the basis of it all is
food, and without we perish. A happy
life must consist of thrilling sense of
grandeur 10 our human associations
and sense of feeble dependence and
humility. There is not the least rea-
son in the world for any one to be
yain-g glorious. In fact it is only fool
who boasts himself in great swelling
words of pride.
Speaking of the Importance of grass
seed makes us think of all the varied
and wonderful ways whereby Nature
takes steps to perpetuate each vege-
table form. The different methods of
distribution of the seeds of the wild
plants are as numerous as the plants
themselves. All sorts of plans are re-
sorted to to save the seed from des-
truction both while it is ripening and
when il has fallen to the ground, as If
Nature foresaw, as undoubtedly the
great Overload of Nature did forsee,
the calamities that would follow in
the train of disappearing species, es-
sential to the maintenance of higher
lives. The seeding methods are fas-
cinating study, depending in some
cases upon outside influences, like, for
instance, the rubbing of moving ami
NAL against the ripened pod, the ami
NAL becoming the carrier of the seed
to some other place. 1t is almost like
a fairy tale in all the surprising forms
of adaptation. The burdock is an ex-
ample familiar to all, but the burdock
method is only one of many, and all of
them marvellous. Ills easy to run on
in the mind from this watchful care of
Nature to the higher forms of life and
to gather from the thought increasing
veneration for Nature, when the high
est created being is reached, increas-
ing veneration for ourselves.
Too often we forget the dependence
of us all upon labor. There are over
one thousand million human beings in
the world, and none of them live with
out their own labor or the labor of
others for them. Effort therefore
underlies the continuance of effort, so
that labor becomes of all things the
most venerable and the most noble
We realize this all of us tacitly when
we speak derisively of the loafer, for
he lives on other peoples exertions and
gives back nothing to Society in the
way of his own. 1t is just as well to
realize that no all loafers are poor, and
that the pampered idler, with no sense
of his debt to the race and no intention
to serve the race in any way whatso-
ever, is as much parasite On Society
as the tramp and certainly with less
exeuse;for the tramp often is a broken
hearted and defeated man who has
lost his grip on the worlds affairs,
sometimes through his own sins and
sometimes through the sins of Society,
but the rish loafer has no such excuse
: for his being. Accident has in many
r cases entrusted him with the social re-
sponsibility that he absolutely evades.
! Such one. if he can be made to see
life in its right light, is called to great
, purposes, greater than those given to
4 the man toiling for his daily bread.
{ Yet, it is often these toilers who, out
: of strained and hardening existence,
/ working early and late, still have some
energy and some heart to spare for
progressive things. They are the more
! TO be honored for it, because the nat
: ural tendency would be to think that
: social duty had been done when, by
S labor, they had provided for themselv-
4 es and those dependent upon them.
: Praise is theirs, and their example is a
S constant rebuke to those having great
e er power but less purpose.
: order TO show Cause why order of
4 sale of Real Estate should
Not be Made.