The Elbert County tribune., 1915-12-31

IF every year we could root out vice we
would sooner become perfect men" lmpatience
Is at the root of many defeats 1t is customary
nowadays to sneer at the virtue for which the
nape OF Job is synonymous, but those who say
that patience is the virtue of beggars
virtue are not wise the Spanish proverb-
maker. who said
Patience! and shuttle the cards." Most people
shuttle the cards eagerly nough but the patience
is lacking. Seeking to grasp the stars at bound
they fall back to the earth.
And so, ii people at he commencement of
New Year adjusted the- desires in accordance
with their abilities and instead of signing for the
unattainabe made the very most OF the oppor
tunities vouchsafed to them. would hear less
of broken resolutions and wasted lives
DO the duty which lies nearest to thee which
thou knowest to be duty, said Carlyle. Thy
second duty will already have become clearer"
The Turning of New Leaves.
7 Good resolutions have almost gone out of fash
ion. On the last night of the year longer
sit down to review past lives and resolve to
be better and wiser" than have been in the
past 1T is of no use making resolutions. never
can keep them, is the plea that is usually prof
fered. This is mistake. however. 1t is com
mendable to resolve ian alarm clock helping one)
to get up half an hour earlier than usual in the
morning, even though it resuts-as alasl it too
often does-in getting up half an hour later
1t is what one aspires to be that counts.
If people could live more in the present It
would help them enormously in the keeping of
good resolutions, So many people persist in be-
ing just little ahead all the time
Tomorrow, they say, I'VE will reform" but
the tomorrow of their imagnings never dawns
Ancient and modern philosophers have agreed
as to the dangers of procrastination Such wide
ly diverse people as Horace. the Latin poet who
hourished in IS B. c.. and pushful persons who
flourish (exceedingly) at the present day. ioin
issue in this particular.
Who begins. possesses half the deed" saws
Horace.
Dare to be wise: make commencement"
DO it now, is the curt command of the mod
ern apostle of Hustle" Again. Horace says IF
you ignoran, how to live Alright give pace
to those who have learn ID .he lesson
Get on or get out says manikin following
in more concentrated If 'ess courteous language
the same line of thought on a somewhat lower
plane The one concerned with the thinpa
OF the soul and the spirit the other with worldly
advancement. There are some who contend that
the two cannot go together. but If las has been
contended by many men of wisdom) what a man
is is of more Importance than what he has II 10
well to make spiritual advancement as the wears
go by. II we have not made progress, we have
gone back. The soul never stands still Time has
no terror for those who have learned wisdom
Pass thou. wild heart,
Wild heart of youth that stn
Hast half mind to stay.
grow old a comrade:
Let part,
Pass thou away.
Some people drag the follies and mm,,,r,,,
of youth into old age. There is wisdom in ad.
justng oneself to time to profit by mast a,,ar,
ences. and to acquire that sense of pronort,on
which refuses to magnify trifes into trapedjas