The Grange advance., 1873-11-05
FAILURE.

souls" when banks are breaking and
general confusion reigns in monetary
affairs, it is an almost daily occurrence
to hear it asserted of some prominent
business man that he has failed and be.
cause he is. said to have failed, every
petty paper in the country rails out up
on him with a bitterness of abuse which
would be appalling were it not so utter
ly contemplate. Yet. though insig-
nificant in themselves as the gnats that
swarm about your horses ears on a
summer day, it is by just such slurs as
these that many a sensitive nature is
stung to madness. Like death they
love "a shining mark" these defamers
OF good men-men who in all that goes
to make true manhood stand head and
shoulders above them-and the more
exalted the position of the one at whom
they aim, the more dastardly are their
thrusts. Suicide is the most cowardly
way in the world of getting out of troub-
le; yet if any one to whom in the late
panic the discipline of misfortune has
fallen shall read all that the newspa-
pers say about him, he will surely be
tempted to commit the cowardly act, un-
less, indeed, he is so happy as to know
the secret pavilion wherein he may hide
himself from the "strife of tongues !"
and be at peace.
There are men who, themselves at
tanning to nothing worthy Of being
called success, count all the world a
failure, and practically to them, poor
souls, it is; but he who has faith in
himself and God can wrest success
from failure itself and turn defeat to
victory. "Men call it failure" said
a friend the other day in speaking of a
"lost cause" with which he had been
connected: but to me it is forty thou
sand dollars worth Of experience" A
brave way of looking at it, surely, for
the venture had left him almost penni.
less; yet forty thousand dollars worth
OF experience is no mean capital on
which to start afresh. To such a man
there is no such word as failure
matter what the world may call it,
counting the loss in dollars and cents
for he has that within himself which
can defy "the world and the devil"
10 such a man call things work to-
gether for good" and he reaps riches
alike from misfortune and prosperity.
Yet men call him a ruined man, and
the enterprise by which he had hoped
to help the world failure, and prophe-
sy that he will never be able to regain
his standing.
Is the summer a failure because to-
day the fields are sere and the woods
stand shorn of their wealth of leaves
for the gossiping winds to hiss at ?
Wait till next May, and the winds will
change their tune and come a-wooing.
Wait year or two and the men who
are down now will be up and at their
posts again, doing, the worlds work just
as they have done it for years past
and they who to-day are snarling at
them will come cringing at their feet
for a thousand and one favors. The
transposition Of the words is only mat.
ter Of time, and by and BY men shall
md that what, in many cases, they
thought meant failure and ruin, meant
ultimate success. Hearth and Home
e: AT the Iowa Agricultural College,
Eln Story county, the students receive
thirty cents s. bushel for digging pots
toes. a lively grubber, With good eye
sight and long fingers, can 6nd shout
tive bu,shels '1'' ,ll'll i a 4 ! dhayy I