The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-12

1t does not spur him to greater en-
deavor; who is like a certain player
on the golf links who, as other play
ers hailed him with the question:
What are you trying to do, beat your
self" ran back the answer, yes, l
am trying to beat myself" one who
realizes that the lofty goal cannot be
attained except as he gives patient
attention to the little, and perhaps
prosaic and irksome, tasks just at
hand; one who is ever ready to pay
the cost of the advances, who is not
looking for bargain counters in the
great exchange of life, who has the
power of self denial and self control,
foregoing the indulgence which would
be legitimate If it did not conflict with
the main business, who acts in accord
with the stern advice of grim old
Thomas Carlyle, "do your work and
pocket its annoyances in silence"
Enjoy Life to Fullest.
But We wish not only to do some
thing worth doing, but to be able to
enter into life, and enjoy it most full
ly. We require that fine possession
called culture, which no young man
or young woman can afford to neg
lect. 1t widens ones mental horizon
and broadens and sharpens ones SYM
pathies. 1t is gained in part by the
training of the schools. 1t is found
also in travel, in conversation with in
telligent people, in breathing whole
some social atmosphere, in entering
into the active affairs of life and
learning the lessons of unfolding ex-
perience. 1t lends to one smoothness
and grace, and enables him to main
tain poise and self-possession, when
without 1t he would be awkward and
ill at ease. It puts the touch Of re-
finement upon the matter of fact. It
embellishes and adorns and gives the
aspect Of the aesthetic and the senti-
mental to the practical. It greatly
helps the man to be gentleman and
the woman to be lady. So far from
hurting efficiency, it rather increases
1t. Railroad managers and leaders in
great practical affairs apply to tech
meal schools for boys who have not
only the special training, but also
some knowledge of literature and his
tory, for they are the ones most apt
and ready In an emergency. This
liberal training, makes also for eff
f1ciency In dealing with men, which
Is well nigh nine points toward sue
cess. The granite does not lose it's
strength by taking on polish. st.
John gives us in the Apocalypse
picture true to life when he portrays
the mighty rough-hewn foundation of
the eternal city garnished all over
with precious stones. Strength and
beauty, work and culture, the practi-
cal and the ornamental, go hand in
hand and are mutually dependent, if
the gift of life is to be utilized.
Maintenance Of Honor.
There must also be q maintenance
of honor. Conscience must be kept
untrammeled on Its throne. Con-
science, which gets up with us every
morning and lies down with us every
night, and sometimes awakens us in
the middle Of tho night. There Is
need for more resultful work, but es-
pecially for workers who are distin-
guished by inviolable integrity and
answering conscientiousness. There
is demand for q more varied and more
generally diffused culture, but some
thing more is needed. Aristotle be-
lieved that II you could cram arith-
metic enough In boys head he would
walk the path Of virtue, but we have
discovered that man may be able
to speak dozen languages and to
solve all the problems Of the Calcu-
lus, and yet be an unmitigated rascal.
Furthermore, If we think of culture
as something not merely Of the in
tellect, but of the emotions and feel
ings, there is demand for something
more. Handel as he composed the
Messiah was lifted again and again
to the third heaven while the master
hs.k {n at hot
meanwhile he was living an irregular
life. Not only the culture Of the
brain and heart, but that culture root
steadfast will, yes, and confident
is no such thing as mere morality.
follow your duty as you see it, it will
bye and bye you stand on the summit
Of Mt. Sinai, consciously face to face
with the great law giver. Be moral
enough for long enough time, and
you will surely become religious.
When society woman breaks
down from the nervous strain Of her
occupation, she has too much nerve
II she blames the result on overwork.
We should hate to meet an Italian
Camorrist II he had as much nerve in
the killing game as most of them
seem to have toward the court at
Viterbo.
A Jersey COW is docile-looking
creature, but she frequently has
mean disposition. Nor is the human
desperate always equipped with size
and fierce whiskers.