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Volume I. Millcdgeville, Ga., Saturday, January 30, 1915. Number 42
SELF-DISCIPLINE IS A VALUABLE ASSET
The Gratification of Desire is an
Endless Task. It is Like At
tempting to Fill the Bot
tomless Pit With Wa
ter from a Tin Cup
It is bitrer medicine, but the
only thing most needed in the hu
man soul is discipline.
It is well to have force, genius,
vigor, enthusiasm, power; but you
may have them and be dishonest, a
maniac, or a cad ; you become great
only when you add self-control.
You may attain to the true aris
tocracy of the world. These are
overcomers. These are they -who
have passed through the cleansing
fires. These are they who rule their
own stormy passion, their own
mighty ambitious and boundless
longings with a will of tempered
steel.
And these are the beloved You
know them in every walk of life
you have met them, soldiers of the
light, the old guard of the best
things of humanity.
How then, can I learn the art of
self-mastery? you ask. Here are a
few suggestions.
First, it comes by practice. Y^ou
must learn it as you would learn to
play the violin,, It is a matter of
patience and persistence. And sure
ly if you are willing to exercise to
develop your muscles, you ought to
be willing to exercise to develop
your character, your power to en
joy yourself and your ability to be a
source of happiness to others. Don’t
make a resolution. Just b€gin do
ing it. Whenever you have a con
viction, whenever your reasons
points out a certain thing to do, do
it at once.
Then, when you see clearly what
you ought to do, do it cheerfully.
Don’t pity yourself. Don’t adver
tise your virtue.
Don’t wrestle, fight and pray.
The essential element of a strong
personality is quite power. Those
A DEER AND A DEAR
“One hundred and fifty years ago
There was a wilderness here—
A man with powder in his gun
Went out to get a deer;
Now the times have greatly changed
And on a different plan;
A dear, with ^powder on her face,
Goes out and gets a man.”
who fight are weak. Do what you
have to do, dismiss the matter, and
go ahead.
The first of all insurance policies,
to insure oneself the maximum of
happiness and efficiency, is to learn
how to make oneself do what he
knows he ought to do, yet what he
hate to do, and to learn to do this
smoothly, withouC’struggle or self-
torture. Without that, there is pos
itively no peace. Without that,
life is sure to turn bitter.
The contented people are those
who have themselves in hand. The
gratification of desire is an endless
task It i? like attempting to fill
the bottomless pit with water from
a tin cup.
But the control of desire is a sure
road to a full and joyous life. The
man who has disciplined-himself
can be happy whether poor or rich.
He is the'master of the world, not
its slave.
Your vision must be clear. You
must see plainly that to let your de
sires master you means self-con
tempt and degradation. And you
must learn, whenever you have com
manded the fierce waves of passion
to be still, when you have resisted
the storm of fierce and evil longing,
and the waves and winds have sub
sided, baffled by your strength, you
must learn then, to laugh in pride,
to realize how good it is to be a
man.
You know them, the real ladies
of the world, a real gentleman not
by heredity or endowment, not by
display or cheap vanity, but by the
open, free, happy, strong life that
comes from self discipline constant
ly exerted—Frank Crane.
CERTAIN SIGNS OF SNEAKING SPRING
Soon the Birds and Flowers and
Trees Will Wake Us Up to Get
Busy for a New Crop.
Tired of Loafing
Want to Work
The rainfall has caught up with
its program, and we are all glad to
see fair weather come again, and oh
how gladly we will welcome the
first signs of approaching spring!
Frogs and snakes and other reptiles
are not the only things that hiber
nate in winter. Practically all na
ture ceases its accivity and goes
into winter quarters when the chill
ing frosts come bringing the dis
comforts of winter. February is
here and we are looking for the
briars and elder stalks to give us
warning that the season is near for
fish to bite and swimming holes to
to be dammed up. We want to
plow, build terraces and work in the
soil and earth when it begins to
warm up for another crop of na
tures bleessings. When the birds
begin to sing, and wake you up in
tlie morning with that tired feeling
and you get out in the mellow sun
shine and it makes you want to go
work in the garden.
You wonder why every man is
n’t a happy prosperous farmer, and
resolve to make two blades of grass
grow where only one grew last year.
And when the long yulter days come
and the “Lazy Lawrence” begins
to dance on the fences,.the inviting
shade in the back yard and the easy’
chair on the porch sing their siren
songs of ease. Then you wake up
at the end of a long wet spell and
take a stroll out in the garden and
field and then take a survey of
General Green with his terrible ar
my with banners, and for the first
you realize how successfully and
literally you have cartied out your
resolution.
The signs of spring are scarce and
seldom but you may take our word
for it, old sore-toe time’s a-comin’.
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