The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-01-10

which is better For Opportunity knocks again and
again and comes persisently and in many different
guises to all. The musty old axiom which asserts
the contrary just refuge for the Stacker and the
shirk.'
1T is true, however. that as in the processescf
nature there in every life longer shorter
periods when things seem to come pretty definitely
to standstill. The tide goes until it
despairing eyes be recedng far the horizon;
there is nothing but sand in every direction It
chokes Threats and smarts in eyes and we'd
lief die live But the tide that goes has to
come in Action and reaction; that the law of the
universe. And during the deadly periods when we
seem to be marking time, we really gathering our
forces for fresh attack Let fall back upon the
eternal platitudes which have been surpassed
as illustrations of human life, the grub within the
chrysals making ready to emerge as butterfly, the
grain beneath the winters snow silently gathering
energy TO expand and ripen in the summer harvests
After all. the success which achieves may
be directly traced these intervals of apparent dis
couragement and inaction.
An important figure in the manufacturing
world today occupied, as young man. position of
trust with large corporation. He drlfted into
fortunate associations and trying to keep up the
pace, became defaulter. His shortage was. dis
covered. he tried and to States prison. And
that the end of hm-or would have been, if he
had been made of ordinary stuff. VII
But he did not yield to the debasng influences
of his surroundings. Neither did he whine, cry
nor murmur that life was over for him. For once
imprisonment had the reformatory effect which it is
theoretically supposed to exercise. In his cell and
during the hours that he employed he had ample
opportunity for reflection and he put it TO good
purpose.
Leaving, he went back to his home town. met
disgrace and conquered it where he had courted it,
Not that it was easy. There was lot of hard work
and small pay at the start. But he and now
directs of the largest corporations in the country
And Mrs Woodrow says: That fault of his youth has
been utterly expunged that even to himself it
must like dream"
find the great thing in this world is not so
much where stand in what direction we are
moving.-OLIvER WENDELL HOLMES.
High up on the slopes of Mount Marveles in
the Philippine Islands dwell the last remnants of an
ancient and mysterious race-the negritos or little
interchangeable in the chase. He will hunt all day
without eating anything but the Mango banana,
that he may seize he rushes by. If the dogs are
for any reason women pressed into service
and they go Looping through the brush yelping in i'm
itation of the CANNES for whom they are substued
People who go through life bemoaning their
luck and thinking that is for others and not
for Them expect failure for self confidence is
the very foundation of all accomplishment.
If you would succeed up to the limit Of your
possibilities, hold the belief that you are success
organized and that you will be successful, matter
what opposes. Regard a traitor every suggestion
that your life may be failure that you are not made
like those who succeed and that success is not for
you. Expel it from your mind as you would thief
! from your house.
Believe in burself, not with selfish egotsm
that dsregards all around you but with such rever-
ence for the good that is within you as to render
failure impossible MAxIMs.
The Light spot