The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-12-29
The Spirit Of Unrest.
By 2. J. I.

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mitable facts, internal and outer
spheres. In commerce, that high
road to nations supremacy; In war
the depopulator of Empires; in law,
inlove, in peace and peaceful pursuits
in waking hours, in sleep, and to :
eternity's borderland; in Dreams,
there is no wherewithal to compen-
safe this usurper of abject rest, this
spirit, omnipresent in all, and
throughout all, the life and lives, of
individuals. states, nations and uni
verse.
1t is rampant essence, clothed
with supernal benignity, powerful,
pregnant, insidious, all-embracing.
1t creeps in, inveigles itself among
thoughts pleasantly sojourning in
Elysian byways; exacts attention OF
preoccupancy by ften repeated
gibes hurled from it's lofty perch on
the top of the castle, with that irri-
tating hundrum, marked Ahem! or,
| say! / say! But to most OF us 1t
is an evil spirit; and belongs to the
Gas we'd perhaps like to classify IT'D
Stone Age-it leaves a stones i'm
preston. 1t is necromancy, witch
craft, billitec demigod, and leaves
behind it. in its periodical eyanes-
ment, fossilized footprints in record
of it's passage. 1t comes unan-
nounced, stays as it's fancy DEGREES,
! and most generally, its departure re-
quires impetuous assistance. 1t un-
mans, or makes manly, this little,
compact rotundity. It enlivens or
, depresses, scaths or redresses; it puts
to rout, or sets the disarrayed habi-
!, tation in order, but we must ever
l watch that it does not become mas
p teri AS guest it would be treated
f courteously while under our hos
q pitable roof for, be he prince, or
t knave, our breeding we honor in thus
j temporarily. affording shelter. But
8 what significant part does he play
t, in individual life? He makes actu-
IS alities, selfshness, avarice, envy.
r He inspires charity, hope, faith and
is concenters spirituality. He causes
IS hesitancy, remodelling of plans, as
s, pirations; changes vocations, be-
l. strides avocations; merges indecl-
sion with indecision; heals, lacerates,
j, or abrases; corrupts, purifies; clari-
as fes or befuddles, and makes. un-
a. makes, or takes part in the whole
r. realm of individual activity, and has
J. as his yoke-fellow that manufactured
e article-as the case may be-anC
n. called conscience. He is at home
MS wherever he hangs up his hat, anC
,s. his voice is heard in debate where
1T. ever you go. His is a province To-
an which his peculiar talents fit him t.
st, take no humble part. He is Demo
ne cratic, but, moreover, a Socialist
IT, His pagentry includes the aristo. =
a and the common laborer. He recog
nizes neither rank, fame, nor fortune
"a He shakes destinies in the twinkl
by of an eye, and i'm. 'ants his irradie
ms able, powerful personification in tn
IN. heart and mind of every man, won
,ur an and child. The world is his fiel,
es. and the progress of peoole may |
rit seen in just that ratio as he inspired
IN The life of Saint is n assured /
his bea.ification; martyr in sanct
oi. 6 ,etioa Genius by accustom,
raj poverty; and Fame by courtly pc
md traiture in a Nations Hall. But w
no. shall say that the last shall be frs
- and the least be greatest, in tt
s, the Spirit of Unrest, is, and W
: and ever shall be, the last mile-sto
ices in the events of the Universe, a
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