The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-04-15
FLASHLIGHTS
BY Beau Esprita

BY Beau Esprita

II The Call Of The Land
II Into the silence of springtime dusk,
II The peace of pipe and my rocking chair;
II Ripping roy heart like ugly tusk,
II Comes the call of day more fair.
II Here for moment is all content,
II Peace, and pipe, and the fire side glow
i Then in on the wings of fury bent
| Comes the call of day know
| Comes the call of the spring and the
| north-bound birds;
Comes the call of the grass springng
green to the herds
Comes rude from my dreams of contentment
to goad
| And to lead me Heaven-The Call
Of The Road
Chimes with the rumble of factory wheels
| The mans size song of mans size jobs
sweeter music, in softest peals,
And it fills my heart with sobs.
For here have worked through the months in joy,
And happy am in the work at hand;
But the spell is broken my good employ
Must yield to the Call Of The Land
Comes the call of the spring and the
new-harrowed earth;
Comes the call of all nature in travail and
birth;
Comes the call of the grains where the
farmer has sowed;
Like the voices of Heaven-The Call
fThe Road
"Honesty Pays
The phrase which heads this article my opinion
of the most contemplate we'll of the most injurious
invented by 1t and it's twin brother what do you
expect gain have ruined lives have turned
back into the soughs of dishonesty when they earnest
y striving after better e than any other equal
words.
The feeling of who has snned and repentan
delicate instrument sensitive the ghtes TOUCH tuned
infinite capacity for harmony discord To pound violin
with billiard will give sound is music? To
strike who suffering under the knowledge that he has
done with the statement that to do right will pay him
to rob him of all hope of atonement with which he would
save his wounded conscience and disgust him with morality
whose opponents consider necessary bolster up and make
appezng by constant of the box Office statements If the
best argument for honesty it's cash DIVIDEND
soul the size of peanut would be honest woudbe morast
said you should live better e because pays
and wanted tell him that the saloon paid too wouldn't
60 the business of selling everlasting perdon my fellow
men just because of that.
The trouble with many people who would help
reform that they to down do it, They think that
necessary get lower level of moral thought order
to reach the they would aid That their fatal bunder
that why they degrade honesty honor clean living and clean
thinking the level of commercial proposition the
which the aoon the sweashop, the traffic chdren
lives which is factorysysem of todayand all of which
"pay."
When has done wrong, and has realize that
he has done wronghas to hate the thing which he did
it WRONG-which is the necessary basis of all
character REFORM is not good for him have to look
onto lower moral plane order find examples honesty
and right does help him have balance honesty
thrust in his face matter what the credit balance of
sheet my be.
who has done wrong and repented thereof pretty
apt to be suspicious of anything that advertised paying
proposition merely the lure of that into
wrongdoing; what he wants evidence that cleanvng is
RIGHT to show that honesty will help atone for
the wrong he has done he right because is right
not because it will fill his pockets.
pay' is held him the highest criterion of right
the fine edge of his newly acquired buned his
high aspirations toward right of personal atonement
fade; and the opened for embrace
doing which gives promise of equality with right
doing.