The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-11

"QuiZ Hour" and l grew to look for
my week "off the road" with keen zeal,
because Of the opportunity afforded to
canvass, in the seclusion of my home,
the things had seen, heard and read.
Since conditions have changed so
tragically for me 1 still pursue this
plan, and this beautiful afternoon
here in quiet and seclusion / want to
talk to you while; | am not going to
! try to preach; preaching is not grace
ful or consistent; | am rot going to
mOraliZe, for [ detest the man who
moraliZes. | only aim to set down
some of the thoughts or things which
pass like a Kaleidoscope before my
minds eye. | do not ask you to agree
with me or to even indorse my views,
but if any word of mine shall arouse
!. your interest and cause you to forget
your woes and he more cheerful, if for
only an hour, shall feel richly repaid.
know from my own experience,
that into every life there comes
crisis in which supreme courage and
special power are needed, but in our
daily work, not only here, but outside,
petty trials aud irritating nOthings
ARISE which trip our feet and cause us
to stumble. When we meet these
trials and tribulatiOns, as meet them
we must daily, it is meet, right and
our bounden duty to overcome them
with courage and fortitude. We are
in the crucibie and this firing is nec-
essary to separate the dross
from the fine gold. | remarked "a
moment ago that into every life come
; trials or great crises which demand
heroic fortitude and great courage iii
, snbduipg and snrmounting them.
; LastAeiiday, 1t. talking with aaais
with whom l come III daily contact
5 during the early months of my sojourn
{ here, he said: IL needed this turn here
1t has done me power of good. 1t
not only has opened my eyes, but it
Y has set me thinking, and were it in my
: power to blot out the past l should re-
J.
D has been exactly what | needed. The
: world is wide and am bright enough
e (and he is, too) to make living it
q cut out liquor and its attendant evils
q His voice had the right ring, and his
K tone carried conviction. l have faith
I to believe that he has met and con.
9 quered that which to many others will
n be their Appomottox.
s We all have our troubles. Some
l. times | think there is more of the bit
s. ter in life than the sweet, but | always
!. try to think that the bitter is not 81
s awfulIy bitter, and that the sweet il
l. very sweet indeed.
IS A philosopher writing in the Detroi
!. Free Press, divides trouble into three
e classes: The trouble you have had
J. the trouble you have, and the trouble
n you are looking for What is done, i
8. done. There is no use in feeling re
o morseful or crying over it. The com
IS mon sense view of the situation
~ demands that one cast out of one
s. mind the regrettabe network of Gil
" cumstances which surround the pas
s and turn a bold front to the eve
n present, determined to fight for hi
nt own, to take his fighting chance her
G and now in the glowing hour which W
w are pleased to call the present. Tha
es which tOrments you now is yer
w. real, and very bitter, according to tn
temperament of the individual who
passing under the rod. can think G
nothing more appropriate to cover tn
troubles of the present than tn
Jingle we learned in childhood:
'Tender handed touch a nettle,
Sy And it stings you for your pains;
he Grasp it like man of mettle,
as Soft as silk it now remains"
a. The lesson is obvious. No trOubl
" no matter how crooked may be yor
er mental or moral vision, will stay wit
;ly you if you turn on it and fight. II
Us man who is looking for trouble alwa.
We finds it good and plenty. l never y
to saw boy or man who carried chi
ch on his shoulder but what that san
m, chip was knocked off, and always by
on bigger individual than the bearer, wi
at. not only found his bluff called, but e
nut licked besides. This chip may be
est the form of very real or fancied i
we jury some man has done you. Y,