The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-25

ders how the saloons survive and f he goes an un expected Journey he thinks tho whole world is a-tfav cling Dwellers on the slopes of vosuvlus down after each eruption. When 1t is over they move back again. and if they've ever heard of Galveston their frank astonishment is how many people willing to risk the dangers of tidal wave They VIC are almost as intelligent as the bloody boomin sparrow of the cockney doggerel who lived in the rain spot He too moved out as the waters fell, and then moved back again
 Americas clearest thinker said that faith comes at rare moments but that vices habitua Back of the thought the deeper that habit itself Is vice. Life is both a citadel and a journey, most largely the latter The way one takes determines the deeds that are done ChrIstanys Founder named two. the narrow and the broad Buddha's seven paths are no different except as to their aspirations The error of Arnold Bennetts 'AIlestones" is that he imagined new roads had been discovered It is always the same humanity and a choice of the old roads, Along these roads are met the unchangng and unchangeable friends or enemies Every fresh endeayor. each new foray Into unknown territory. discoses them. The spr .tual places are filled with the latter Entrance into the land of promise meant that the ineroper had to be dslodged. and the war with the AmaleNte was to be from generation to generation. So 1t is between the flesh and the spirit
 Yet habit possesses It's ameliorating qualities It may be made @ liberating influence although 1t seldom ls For 1t returns again and again. Hereward the Wake told of the death of his father burst into the rovers song calling 1t "a straw death, cows death. But he too was driven into tho dark recesses and was his rebelious souls fate start the mehodical work that ended in draining the fens of England Habit thus berates only to bring comfort and seIfsatIsfac
 ton to happier race. upon which the chances of habit are once wore welded
 When habit sets free its mission is justified. With such the daily round becomes nonvolitonal in order that the conscious forces may in directions Childhood and youth know least of the trammelings of the accustomed which why children find fresh zest in everything and lambkns leap throughout the long and eventfu day old age comes when habit has placed the seal of ownership It's victim Kittens never seek the dependable warmth of the ingenook, but cats and other folk who have ceased to live always do.
 Fault has been found with Providence that per mis wars and pestlences and famines to come along and disturb the settled order the universe It may be that poets and seers know better Instead of being indifferent to the welfare of mankind the overrung Power may be most Intensely interested Gods in Ills Heaven. ars right in the world" under such assump ton might well be sung in the teeth of typhus and worldwide war To shake humanity out of its rut calls possibly for these menaces which arise from time to
 me fighting against the death lethargy of habit rath CT than against men. giving exercises to their r.inds and consclences demanding of them whether ther views of politics religion. society and progress han those meekly inherited their fathers not be needed