Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-07-14
Have no Chance..,

Don't say that. You have five chances
in each hand Then you have thirty-six at
least in your head Every faculty you have
will vote you into Office. if you only enfran-
chise it, and for confederation 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 opportu-
nifty for Newton to solve the secret of the
skies. A floating sea-weed, drifting by the
vessel when the crew were uttering muffin
GUS threats, was the chance seized by COL
umbus to pacify an incipient rebellion, and
to inspire his men with the promise of
new continent and new world Of enterprise.
The picking up of pin in the streets of
Paris by POOR bog. as he was going from
great bank saddened at the denial Of his
application for place, was the founding of
the success and prosperity of one the
bankers OF the queen city of the world -
That simple art illustrative of the economi-
cal spirit asserting itself over present grief,
was observed from the window the lad was
recalled at the same moment: industry. pa
thence and honesty did the rest. A chance
remark from q peasant girl, in an obscure
county district in England, falling upon the
young, observing thinker, DR.. Jenner, gave
vaccination to the world, and saves hundreds
Of thousands Of lives annally.
A pewter plate founded the Peel family.
Robert, in the poor country about Black
burn; seeing a large 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 expert
ments in calico printing in his own home
One day, thoughtfully handling pewter
plate from which one Of the children had
dined, he sketched upon its smooth surface
the outline of parsley:leaf, end filing 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 towards calico
printing from metal rollers. The "parsley
leaf" on the pewter plate opened up a world
of industry to Lancashire, and Robert Peel
to this day is called, in the neighborhood Of
Blackburn, parsley Peel"
Richard Arkwright, the thirteenth child
in howell, with no knowledge of letters -
an underground barber, with vixen for
wife, who smashed up his models and threw
them out--gave his successful spinning mod
els to the world, and put scepter in Eng
lands right hand such as no sovereign ever
welded jaE
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 Franklin's hands. were
the grand parents of our telegraphs, and
the blessings of modern inventions applying
electricity. A swinging, greasy lamp, just
filled with oil, by verger in the Cathedral
of Pisa, caught the eye of Calico, at eight
cen ye'rs of age, taught him the secret of
the pendulum, made many 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 W orld's
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 I live," says one of
earth's noble sons, ''the more I am certain
that the great difference between men, be-
tween the feeble and the powerful, the great
and the insignificant, is energy invincible
determination, purpose once fixed, and
then death or victory p That quality will
do anything that can be done in this world !;
and no talents no circumstances m onnor
tunities, will be worth much without it.