The Brandon news., 1910-01-06

many EoItuHdtely, we know not whom
fate menaces, and sd MsH9pe.a Ii'EsAi
But surely good Will comes Ep bot /
few, fortune, friendship, love and hap
piness will be their need. and still we
know not iwho.is toGbe Iblessed, and who
banned. 1t is we'll that we know not what
is TO be our fate, whether good or
evil, we might be too despairing and for
lorn, and if we could see our blessings
before they reach us we might forget to
pray and to be thankful, therefore it is the
divine will that we must wait and know
oaiadssdhy vhehlit shhlI bq aY3tded,
therefore:
"Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower
the proud; s. aysaa77 sae
Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm
and cloud;
''Tarn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with
smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or
down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
"Smile and we smile, the lords of many
lands; 2.a .t11nisa. 2
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own
Z handsi1.sz s,.s ne . -.
For man is man and master of his fate.
''Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring
! ~ crowd: 1@2a5 .sf:e so0 E.i
Thy wheel and thou are shadows J; in
the clouds III .
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor
hate .,..
The old year-has been in some, respects
notablesoIt has been the birth centennial
Of some of the worlds greatest men, such
as Lincoln, Darwin, Gladstone, Tennyson,
Poe, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Holmes.
Two important tercentennials also nave
been celebrated during the past year,
marking the three hundredth anniversa-
Fies of the discovery of the Hudson River
and Lake Champlain. 7
AS TO the claim that 1909 was the year
Of the discovery Of the north pole, after
nearly four centuries of daring effort, all
must be left in doubt, since the two
claimants for the honor have no other evi-
dence than their own unsupported state
ments, when they could have had credible
and capable witnesses whom they expressly
sent back to prevent any other white men:
from sharing an honor which is all the
more doubtful, since one of the claimants
has been wholly -discredited. There Is,
therefore, no proof that any human being
has ever reached the north pole. -s''
But the wonderful advances made in
human aviation greatly distinguish the
past few years from every other. 1t is
not merely fact that progress has been
made in dirigible baIlooning, but the no
table success in flying with self-propelling
dirigible, heavier-than-air machines is /
doubtless the crowning mechanical inven- |
ton of the decade.
Next to it, as a practical scientific sue
cess, is the triumph of wireless telegraphy,
which has robbed ocean navigation of
half its perils and rendered the four-day
voyage. between Europe and the United
States comparatively safe.
But are men growing in divine grace;
are they becoming more free from vice
and crime; is the world advancing in
truth and righteousness? Is it not easy
to answer these questions in face of the
frightful daily record of bloodshed and
lust, But it can be said with confidence
that there is one, and that the chiefest of
the divine graces, which is being most
shown forth by men, and
that is Charity. Never in the entire history
of the world were there SO many asylums
and hospitals for the care and cure or the
helpless of every race, creed and congre-
CATION, and whether they be supported by
public or private beneficence there is no
failure in doing good. Then is not the
world being uplifted in truth and righ
teousness, and is it not being made, slowly
but perhaps steadily, better place in
which to i've and to perform good work
meet for repentance? 1t seems so, and
let us so believe.-New Orleans Picayune.