Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1871-05-12
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have thirty-six at least in your bead
Every faculty you have will vote you into
Office, if you only. enfranchise it and form
a confederation between the freemen in
your brain and the frecmen 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 floating sea-weed. drifting by the ves-
sci when the crew were uttering mutinous
threats, was the chance seized by Colum-
bus to pacify an incipient rebellion, and
to inspire his men with the promise of a
new continent and q new world of enter
prise.
The picking up ola pin in a street of
Paris by poor boy. as be was going from
a great bank. saddenei at the denial of
his application for place, was the found
ing of the success and the prosperity Of
one of the great bankers Of the queen city
of the world. That simple act, .illustra-
tive Of the economical spirit asserting it.
self over present grief was observed from
the window; the lad was recalled at the
same moment. Industry, patience and
honesty did the rest.
A chance remark from a peasant girl
in an obscure country district. falling upon
the ear of the young observing thinker.
DR.. Jenner, gave vaccination to the world
and saves hundreds of lives annually.
A pewter plate founded the Peel fami-
lly. Robert. in the poor country about
Blsckburn. seeing laEge family growing
up about him. felt that some source of in
come must be added to the meagre pro-
ducts of his little farm. He quietly con-
Quoted experiments in calico printing in
his own home. One day thoughtfully
handling pewter plate. from which one
Of the children had just diued he sketches
upon its smooth surface the outlines of a
parsley leaf. and filling this With coloring
matter he was delighted to find that the
impression could be accurately conveyed
to the surface of cotton cloth. :, Here was
the first suggestion toward calico printing
from metal rollers. The parsley leaf"
foc the pewter plate opened up world of
industry to Lancashire. and Sir Robert
Peel to this day is called in the neighbor-
hood of Blackburn, Parsley Peel"
Richard Arkwright, the thirteenth
child, in hovel with no knowledge of
letters-an underground barber, with q
vixin for wife. who mashed up his mo-
dels and threw them out-gave his sue
cessful spinning model to the world, and
put sceptre in England's right hand such
as the Queen 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 telegraphs
and all the blessings of modern inventions
applying electricity.
Don't say you have no chance, young
man! You have the same chance. and
better, than the worlds greatest and best
men have enjoyed ''Men uniformly
overrate riches and underrate their own
strength; the former will do far less than
we suppose, and the latter far more"
"The longer live" says one of earth's
noble sons, ''the more l am certain that
the great difference between men, between
the feeble and the powerful, the great and
the insignificant, is energy-iuvincible de-
termination-a purpose once fixed, and
then. death or victory!' That quality
will do anything that can be done in the
world; and no talents, no circumstances,
no opportunities, wilfbe worth much with
out it.