The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-04-08

across the lake from Cnlcago, IS Ilne
copy" He keeps himself and his i'm
terests constantly in the public print.
He has invented painless dentistry. "
While the dentist is extracting the
tooth, at the crucial moment, he jabs
a pin in he leg Of the sufferer and in
stantly the victim forgets his tooth and
rubs his leg.
The power of suggestion is beyond
understanding. The mountain coming
to Mahomet may easily be understood
if the power of realization is suffi-
GENTLY developed. The moment, one
realizes thing. that moment the OBJ
ject becomes a reality. They say. you
are well. J" 1t is repeated often. When
the time comes that realization becom-
es fact. then the body is well. Can't
be otherwise. The fanatic is CORE
spondingly dangerous for the reason
he realizes his thoughts and knows that
they are true. He acts on knowledge
WHICH 10 IllIu is true
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We do only the things we want to.
Couldn't do anything else. Little Babb
driving US through Louisiana late at
night, took the wrong road and halted
at the edge Of swamp. He said: Il
thought | was right. Job Hartman
said: "Of course you did, Babb; you
would not have taken the wrong road
otherwise" A philosophy summed up
in this.
The hypnotist says, and you say af-
ter him: Il can't open my hands;
can't open my hand" and you can't
because you don't want to.
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The entombed dead of the great
Woodlawn cemetery are noisily dissol-
wing into the primal elements in hous-
es fit to house the greatest monarch
Of earth. Noisily! Yes, had you the
ear Of the microphone the breaking up
of the tissues, the explosions of gas. the
burning and dying Of animals feasting
on the helpless flesh, would make you
think that cataclysm was taking
place.
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Of the Fear thoughts of those behind
and the spirit Of competition control
ling life in trade.
SIS = -
One man had his name craven deep
on granite, and M. D. followed it. The
thought was raised whether he expect
ed that his profession would be pari
of him when he got into the beyond
They say that there is no sickness OF
death there. Useless vanity, but van.
ity after all. He was proud of his pro.
fession..
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Four people stood at the foot of a
grave and tears coursed down then
cheeks. The newly-turned sod gave
evidence that a loved one had passed
What were they crying for9 Theil
loss. We are selfish in our joys a:
we'll as in our sorrows. Do we mourn
for the departed or for something tax.
en- out of our lives9 1t is selfish de.
sire to keep joy. The desire for hap.
piness is wound up in the feeling o.
sorrow.
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When a loved one leaves us W,
grieve for ourselves, not for them
Soon that grief passes and another in
terest takes its place. Time is grea
destroyer. One of the best things tina
Time does is to smooth out the Jagged
edges of grief.
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| Evidences of belief in immortaIit,
abound everywhere in this paIacial cit,
Of the dead. 1t will continue g as lon,
as the lips of love kiss the lips 0
death" 1t doubtless will take an entire
" different form from that Of our con
ception. The conception is limited t
the limits of our imaginations. w
fashion our gods and angels after tn
images we know. We cannot go be
yond the imagination. The Wisdor
that controls the Universe and the soul
of men very likely has different roI
for the departed to play from what W
Imagine.
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Death does not stop the struggle fc
human supremacy. The offspring {
the buried dead raise monuments on
after the other. each striving to sho'
uniqueness and distinction, represen
ing honor, greater than that of h
neighbor. Here is a shaft of grant
forty feet high; twenty feet away
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