What's the use of always weepin',
Makin' trouble last?
What's the use of always keepin'
Thinkin' of the past?
Each must have his tribulation,
Water with his wine.
Life it ain't no celebration.
Trouble? I've had mine--
But to-day is fine.

It's to-day that I am livin',
Not a month ago,
Havin', losin', takin', givin',
As time wills it so.
Yesterday a cloud of sorrow
Fell across the way;
It may rain again to-morrow,
It may rain--but, say,
Ain't it fine to-day!

_Douglas Malloch._

THE ARROW AND THE SONG

We can calculate with fair accuracy the number of miles an automobile
will go in an hour. We can gauge pretty closely the amount of
merchandise a given sum of money will buy. But a good deed or a kind
impulse is not measurable. Their influence works in devious ways and
lives on when perhaps we can see them no more.

I shout an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

_Henry Wadsworth Longfellow._

THE INNER LIGHT

"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted,"

says Shakespeare. But not only does a clear conscience give power; it
also gives light. With it we could sit at the center of the earth and
yet enjoy the sunshine. Without it we live in a rayless prison.

He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the center, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the midday sun;
Himself is his own dungeon.

_John Milton._

THE THINGS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN DONE BEFORE

It is said that if you hold a stick in front of the foremost sheep in a
flock that files down a trail in the mountains, he will jump it--and
that every sheep thereafter will jump when he reaches the spot, even if
the stick be removed. So are many people mere unthinking imitators,
blind to facts and opportunities about them. Kentucky could not be lived
in by the white race till Daniel B