Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1910 — EXCUSES FOR ADVERSITY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EXCUSES FOR ADVERSITY.

By Willard Dillman.

By exercising sufficient good will, it is possible to believe thaU every adversify 'has its appointed use. The reviving breath of spring has no meaning in a land where winter is a myth. Health, which in Its abundance is hardly held at a pin’s fee, when It has once been lost will be diligently sought after at earth’s furthest ends. Bread and meat, common to the point p.f being despised.

to the starving become prizes of rarest luster. What is so precious to the aged man as those golden hours which fn his youth he flung away like grass?' The joy that is vouchsafed to-day may be magnified in retrospect by future adversity, and should be the more eagerly enjoyed on that account. In like manner present disasters will be the better borne by considering that they may serve to heighten the pleasure of comforts that are on the way.