Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-12
II Ha re no Chance

Don't say that. You have five chances
on each hand. Then you have thirty
six at least in your head Every facui-
ty you have will vote you into office, if
you only enfranchise it, and from con-
federation between the freemen in your
brain and the freemen at the ends of
your arms.
Chances, plenty of them, fall under
our eyes, if We have only eyes to see
them and hands to pick them up.
The falling of an apple was the oppor
tunity for Newton to solve the secret of
the skies.
A fioatirg sea weed, drifting by the
vessel when the crew were uttering
mutinOus threats, was the chance seized
by Columbus to pacify an incipient re-
beilion, and to inspire his men with
the promise of new continent and a
new world ofenterprise.
The picking up of pin in street of
Paris by poor boy, as he was going
from great band saddened at the
denial of his application for place, was
the founding of the success and pros
perity of one Ofthe great bankers of the
queen city of the world. The simple
act, illustrative of the economical spirit
asserting itself over present grief, was
observed from the window; the lad was
recalled. and The refusal recalled at the
same moment-industry, patience and
honesty did the rest.
y chance remark from a peasant girl,
in an obscure county district in Eng
land, falling upon the ear of the young
observing thinker, DR.. ,,Jenner, gave
vaccination to the world, and saves
hundreds OF thousands of lives an
nually.
A pewter plate founded the Peel
family. Robert, in the poor country
about Black burn, seeing large ,family
growing up about him, felt that some
source of income must be added to the
meagre products of his little farm. He
. quietly conducted experiments in calico
printing in his own home.' One day
thougtfully handling q pewter plate
from which one cf the children had just
dined, he sketched upon its smooth
surface the outline of a parsley leaf, and
filling this with coloring matter, he
was delighted to find that the impress
sion could be accurately conveyed to
the surface of cotton cloth. Here was
the first suggestion toward calico print
ing from metal rollers. The ''parsley
leaf' on the pewter plate opened upa
world of industry to Lancashire; and
Robert Peel, to this day, is called, in the
neighborhood of Blackburn, Parsley
Leaf"
Richard Arkwright, the thirteenth
child in howell, with no knowledge of
letters-an underground barber, with a
vixen for a wife, who mashed up his
models and threw them oHt-gave his
successful spinning model to the world,
and put sceptre in England's right
hand such as Victoria never welded.
A jumping tea-kettle lid is said to
have put the steam into that boys head
who gave us the great giant of modern
industry.
A kite and key, in Franklin's hands,
were the grandparents of our telegra phs,
and all the blessings of modern inven-
tions applying electricity.
A swinging greasy lamp, just filled
with oil by verger in the Cathedral
of Pisa, caught the eye of Galileo at
eighteen years OF age, taught him the
secret of the pendulum, made many a
discovery in astronomy and navigation
possible, and gave US the whole modern
system of the accurate measurement of
time.
Don't say you have no chance! You
have the same chance, and better, than
the worlds greatest and best men have
enjoyed. Men uniformly overrate
riches nd.underate their own strength;
the former will be far less than we sup
pose, and the latter far more"
The longer.I live" says one ofearth's
noble sons. "the more am certain that
the great difference between men, be-
tween the feeble and the powerful, the
great and the insignificant, is energy
inviaci6le determinations "a purpose once
fixed. and, then death or Uictory" That
quality will do any thing that can be
done IN this world; and no talents, no
circumstances, no opportunities, will be
worth much without il.