The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-11-16

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"1HAvE NO CHANCE"
Don't say that. You have five
chanoesia each hand. Then You have.
thirty-six at least in your head. Every
faculty you have will vote you into Of
flee, ifyou only enfranchise it, and for
a consideration between the freeman in
your brain and the freeman 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 op-
portunity for Newton to solve the. Sc
cret Of the skies. a floating sea.Weed,
drifting by the vessel when itf,e crew
were uttering mutinous threats, was the
chance seized by Columbus to acify an
inoip'ent rebellion, and to. inspire his
men with the promise of a new CONT,
nent and a new, world of enterprise,
The picking up Of a pin in a street of
Paris by spoor boy, as he was going
from great bank saddened at the de-
NAL Of his application for place, was
the founding Of the success and pros-
perity of one of the great bankers of
the queen city of the world. The SIM
pie act, Illustrative Of the economical
spirit asserting itself over present
grief, was observed. from the window :
the lad was recalled, and the refusal re-.
called at'the same moment;u industry,
patience and honesty did the rest. 4
chance remark from q peasant girl, 10
an obscure country -districtin England,
falling upon the young, observing
thinker, Dr.. Jenner, gave vaccination
to the world, and saves hundreds of
thousands of lives annually. -.
A pe"ter plate founded the Peel
family. Robert, in the POOR country
about Blackburn, seeing a largo family
growing up about him, felt that some
source Of income must be added to the
meagre products of the little farm. He
quietly conducted, d,experiments in calico
printing in bis own home. One d ay,
thousshtfally handing a pewter plate
from which one Of The =, children had
dined, he sketohed upon its smooth
surface tho outline Of parsley leaf,
and filling this with coloring matter,
he wis delighted to find that the i'm.
preston could be accurately, conveyed
to the surface Of cotton cloth. Here
was the first suggestion towards calico
printing from metal rollers: The
"parsley leaf'' on the pewter place open
ed up world Of industry to Lancashire,
and Robert Peel to this day is called,
in the neighborboood of Blackburn,
"Parsley Peel"
Richard Arkwright, the thirteenth
child in hovel, with NO knowledge of
letters-aa underground barber, with a
vixen for a wife, who smashed up his
models and threw them out-gave his
successful spinning models to the world,
and put a acepter in Eogland's right
hand such as no sovereign ever WELD.
ed.
The 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 Frank.
Inns hands, were the grandparents 81
cur telegraphs, and all the blessings ol
modern inventions applying electricity
A swinging, greasy lamp, just filled
with oil by a vergef In the Cathedral Of
Pisa, caught the ego Of Galileo, al
eighteen years Of age, taught him the
secret of the pendulum, made many ,
discovery in astronomy aud navigation
possible, and gave us the whole modern
system of the accurate measurement o
time.
Done say you have no chance |! 70,
have the same chance, and better, tina,
the worlds greatest and best men hav'
enjoyed. Men uniformly .over-rat'
riches and und.r.rate their o5wi
strength j.; the former will do far les
than we suppose, and the latter ia
more. ''The longer I live,"' says on
Of earth's noble sons, "the more I. an
certain that the great difference betwee,
men, between the feeble and the pow
erfal, the great and the insignificant, i
enerqy-in,inoible determination,
purpose. once fixed, aud then death o
victory" That quality will do any
thing that can be done IN this world
and no talents, no circumstances, 20 op
portunities, will be worth much with
out 1t. 81 - ,o:.;".,''i ;, -