The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-29
Life Goes On

We are surprised to find that the
world does not stop for us or with
us. We lay firm hands upon the
spokes of the star-hitched wagon of
progress, and pull back with all our
weight, and are discounted to find
it is us who are dragged out of our
footing. Conscious of our own
minds and nerves, it seems as though
the eyes of the world were upon our
self conscious doings; could we but
know it and feel it, We are the
smallest thing that ever breathed,
and we count for less than nudge
borne along with sticks and bubbles
on a stream. All of any largeness
or power we may have comes from
a divine concession. OF ourselves we
are mere minute quantities. Whether
we stand or fall, life goes on-the
crowd fills the streets and transacts
its various business and seeks its
, homes, and in each person is an err
rant, striving, irreducible spirit like
our own.
Some, for all the time they are
on earth remained spoiled children.
They cannot get rid of the notion
that all creation is standing to them
for it's portrait to be painted. The
truth is what they see in the way
they see it. That is the danger OF
introspectation-th pillareo
mind in solitude begins to think OF
itself as the center of the whole Wis
ible creation, the fulcrum of the
leverage of important history. How
can YOU educate a man who has all
his fixed standards in his own tint
ness? Because he uses microscope
there are no telescopes. Because nc
speaks the tongue of a swelterine
forest tribe of Amazonia there is nc
other speech. Because he never has
climbed to the white crown of the
snow mountains everything beyond
is darkness and devil-people.
The brutal fact must deal will
such conceit as the crushing, ulti
mate rebuke. There is no mere tall
that will convince. Poor Chantl
cleer was quite convinced the SUI
depended on his own up-getting ant
: clarion annunciation till the da,
came when he sang not and the sui
climbed anyway. 1t broke his heart
but the sun could OF stop scallin
: the pathway to mid-heaven for nj
; bewildered mind.
, AS the world oldens, it favors les
and less the plan of letting one ma
have things too much his own way
Another Alexander or Napoleon
impossible. 1t is found that eve
= great kings return to clay, or en-
=. perors in their PRIDE" Yet the chi
dren play in the streets and the su
- shines and the gay leaves revel
their fall as though nothing hs
:. happened.
# How impossible 1t seems, as Y
n sit in grief at times, to think
p anything that is not like the dism
IN purlieus of this present misery!
ID little while ago all was Joined as
ut Maypole dance. Now, by quart
an of a tern of fortunes wheel all t
IN fun is vanished, not to come aga
at Detach ourselves from our surroun
h. ings, we are advised. Hold t
trouble off at arms length,
ct though it were kitten or pup
an and look it severely in the face a
~ behold how trivial is it's defian
IT, That is an easy preachment, hard
is carry out.
I'd, None of us is indispensable.
to there is work to do, and what
be, shirk must be super-added to a b
den that perhaps already over ia
ge, another's strength. The size of
to- sea of life all around us does
ng realize us from the need of sw
or ming; drowning is readily acce
ad- plished in an ocean or pond;
md because there is an "intolera
vastness" round about us and