The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-18
-nrlne Lhnse long years of war

during those long years of war. it was the inspiration of hope that made the North willing to sacrifice her sons for the preservation of the Un- ion
 The miner has wandered far back among the forbidden hills. At night, as he sits besides his dying campfire, memory and hope are both busily at work. Memory paints picture of a distant cottage In the doorway stands familiar but a lonely figure. Hot tears blind his eyes He has all but said "I will SO home" when hope with few quick strokes paints ,n another figure. lt is himself Ha sees Q joyous welcome, the praise ef friends and ease and comfort in d0. clining days, and then he falls asleep. In the morning he journeys further still among the hills to find the gold and realize his dream. He may find 1t, he may not, but 1t is hope that leads him and naroless throng of others in a multitude of ways.
 In Texas grows what Is called the "Mesel button" It is known as the dry alcohol of Texas. The Indians eat 1t and are temporarily drugged by its poison. forgetting their hunger or pain or misfortune in Che bewildcr. ingly gorgeous and beautiful colors that come and fade and change and blur and blend before their sight but always more beautiful than the nat ural eye has seen or the mind conceiv- ed of dreamed. Hope may be called the Nesel of the race. None so poor. none so sick, none so unfortunate but that may find the plant of hope and eat of It. And having partaIen of hope then we see health, or wealth, or position or fame Only hope in- stead of drugging. intensifies the ac- tion of evern natural faculty and pow CT Inspired by hope CYes it would sometimes seem intoxicated) men brave the tropic and heat and levers the Arctic cold or suffering or ocean storms; burrow into the heart of the earth or soar into the heavens. lin- ger for years. yes, a lifetime, around a musical instrument, a telescope a microscope in labratory, or h- brary, by piece Of canvas or a block of marble. As a result the world is beautified. exalted. perfected. It is hope that explains our progress. Hope is our good friend She will lead us where otherwise We would not go. to heights we would not reach, to treas ures we could not find She will be your counselor comforter. encourag CT. Hope ought to be your inseparl able and boon companion through all the coming days.
 But do not forget this that as your dearest friend may be grieyously, but lnintentionally, injured by you so al ! SO may this precious influence in your life. And l wish to forewarn you to-i night against this very thing.
 One way in which you may injure l nope Is to misues your past Many people brood over the past, hypnotis sd by wrong, fascinated by evil, and hey allow themselves to continue thinking and thinking over these hings until they become thoroughly by them when it happens hat hope, before she can penetrate his atmosphere or dissipate it, be- .omes herself viciously poisoned by t. Just as every good housewife ees to 1t that dirty rags which are lot. only Of no use but whose pres. nee is a menace, are consumed, ut erly destroyed; so every individual hould see to 1t that those thoughts, hose practices, those habits which re of no use to them and whose resence are or may become men ce are destroyed. Do not have them