Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1913-11-14
oMcial Paper of Ramsey County.
SUCCESS DESPITE HANDIcAPs.

SUCCESS DESPITE HANDlCAPS.
Between cugcnic marriage agitations
and demand for other forms of health
legislation human beings seem to be
making themselves quite miserable.
Hitherto Tranquil souls are now begin
ming to worry about germs. They see
dread diseases standing on every street
corner
All of which does not mean that en-
genie marriages are not needed aud are
not he rfnl to the race, aud that health
legislation docs not show progress.
Evils exposed to daylight arc more
easily cured than those whoch flourish
in darkness.
There is a danger, however, in our
having so much light that our eyes
become blinded and we dare not move
for fear of pollution. Some Of us too
often fear that every twingc in the
abdomen mcans appendicitis and every
cough, phthss. Never mind what
phthsis means; We know the names Of
too many diseases already.
Do not try to 1.-Two forever: YOU
Will not succeed, Use your health.
even to the point of hearing it out
That is what it is for These words
Of Bernard Shaw contain much need
ed lesson for many of us. We are too
fond Of making nuisances of our bod
les. They are made to serve MS not
to harass our minds
Man can stand more hard use than
any other animal. No other creature
on earth can live in so many parts of
the globe. We can probab overcome
more hardships than we think it is
possible to endure.
Even men who have been really sick
q large portion Of their lives have
been successful. Their illnesses have
mere been obstacles in Their path
which they have surmountcd. To con
quor difficult makes a man strong
er. sickness % a thing to be fought
ar"l to lie oN nic0me.
Most OF US Surrender ~ Hines the
moment ii approaches to give cattle
The uverase ache or pain. however, IS
meager foe. In this med cally- 50.
phisticatel age. nevertheless we mag.
nifty it. Yet to magnify a pain
nIS+ Il will {a'N
courage it.
Where would many of our grea.
men have been had they given in to
thcr illness instead of fighting thems
Where would Demosthenes the great
orator, have been if he had not cured
himself of q serious impeachment in his
speech' Caesar would never have
been born, according to medical his
tory, if his mother had not consented
to the first caesarian operation. The
infant, who came into the world in
much the same manner as an appendix
is taken from the body, was later af-
aicted with falling sickness, but his
illness did not hinder his success.
Alexander Pope, though cripple all
his life, became the master of the
men of letters, of his age and one of
the greatest poets that ever lived.
Emerson, who had one of the greatest
poets that ever lived Emerson, who
had one of the greatest, if not the
greatest, that America has yet pro-
duced, was always in poor health When
youth he was forced to take sea
voyage, but he live dto good age
and to be famous in two hemispheres.
Heine, the German poet, was con-
demned to a mattress graveD for
eight years, but during that time he
produced some of the noblest works.
Milton wrote the greatest epic poem in
the English language after he was
stricken blind. Matthew Arnold
waged contest with illness all his
life.
Francis Parkman, in many ways
America S greatest historian, could not
open his eyes except in darkness for
many years and his health was so poor
that he rarely could work more than
one hour each day. The limits of his
daily accomplishment for a long per.
iod was six written lines. But he
fought his intirmities, wrote many mas.
terly books and did not die until he
was 20 years Of age.
Amos Lawrence, one of the most
enterprising Of Boston's pioneer mer
chants, was an invalid for twenty five
years When he was "a years old thi.
founder of great Boston family was
90 III that prayers were offered in hi.
behalf In church in Groton.
Joseph Pulitzer never relinauishec
his hold on the New York World un
til his death, although he was stricken