The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-13

be coming from every corner
with gongs sounding in every di-
rection with the shouts of their
drivers. These are trying mo-
ments in which all is excitement.
At length they reach the scene
of the fire, some in advance of
others. Now their exciting strug-
gle is at hand; the drivers unhitch
their horses, their eyes shining
with delight. and the, horses, tho
painting, share his joy. All young
blood, all ambition, all burning
with desire to be first on the
scene. How their nostrils smoke
with the hot breath of excited life:
how all their thoughts, feelings and
desires combine and center in the
one dominant idea-the coming
first to their goal.
If we human beings would only
put our desires on being first to
reach the goal, how much brighter
we could make our lives, and how
much lighter we could make the
burden which we have to bear in
our long journey. through life.
Not alone ourselves, but others
will share in our joy while we are
endeavoring to reach our long
looked-for goal of success. 1t can
be made, by just cultivating a little
courage to bring it up from the
depths, to new awakening. No
matter how low we have descend
ed, if we will only use little more
courage we can pull ourselves up
from the depths and build for our
selves a new life that will not only
benefit ourselves but be benefit
to others as we'll.
Many a man has given up in
despair, simply because he has not
the backbone to support what little
courage he does have. We all
have our faults, and at times do
things we should not do. But we
should not be too proud to ac-
knowledge that we are in the
wrong, or blame all ON the other
fellow.
1t takes courage to acknowledge
our own shortcomings, but we will
have much more respect for our
selves when we have done the right
thing. And that is by pulling our
selves up from the depths: and by
grasping with courage the reins
of opportunity we can drive on to
a goal of success. With a faint
heart, however, this goal will be
long time coming to us. But if
we give up the spirit of despair
and use more courage, we can
climb the ladder to some point in
our life that will be an honor as
we'll as a blessing to US. Our old
life of despair we may give up for
a new life of hope, as old cities
have given way to new ones.
On no spot of earth today will
the traveller find such a combina-
tion of the Oldest of the old and
the newest of the new as in Cairo.
Egypt; the oldest surviving city
of the African continent. In the
immediate vicinity, this mightiest
piece of architecture of the ancient
world, the great pyramid of Gizeh,
casts it's evening shadow on the
electric car-one of the marvellous
products of our modern progress
that shadow bridging over an in
terval of 5000 years.
The southern extremity of the
city of Cairo exemplifies the archi-
lecture of $500 years ago; the
northern extremity possesses all
the luxurious magnificence of the
buildings of the present day, while
the intervening section is bur-
rowed through with the narrow
thoroughfares of the middle ages.
The newer quarters are decorated
with fine boulevards after Partisan
models. There are also princely
mansions in one part of the city,
while there are still to be seen un-
slightly mud-walled cabins with
poverty peering through the pane
less WindOWs Still civilization