Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-18
ut Can't Be Done!"

This is the cry of weakness ,indecision
indifference,and Incidence. What can't
be done? Something that some other
man has done- Well-you can do
it-or you can do something toward
it. At all events, you can try. Until
you have tried-tried once and again
tried with resolution, application,
and industry to do thing,
no one is justified in saying cit can't be
DONE" The plea in such a case is a
mere excuse for not attempting to do
anything at all. .-..
"Mother, 1 can't do it, said a little
boy looking up from his slate, on which
he had been trying hard to work out a
sum in algebra. 'Try again, my son."
said the mother; ''never give up until
you do it, Stick to it like man." The
boy would be like a man; he was en-
couraged by the hopeful words sof his
mother. He stopped down again over
his task, and applied himself. The diff
ficulty cleared itself away before his
stout determination to overcome it; and
in few minutes after, he looked up
from his slate with an air of triumph,
"Well!" asked the mother, show is it
now? ?" 81 have done it ?' said the boy
"nothing like sticking to 1T" Right,
my son when you have taken any good
work in hand that must be done, never
think for moment of abandoning it
until it has been accomplished. That is
the way to be man." He took the
mothers advice, and fr served him
throughout life. The boy is now man
one of the most famous teachers in our
most famous university.
SIT can't be done," ruins the best of
projects. The very words mean fail
ure and defeat. They are the ejaculation
of importance and despair. When they
are uttered, resolution and determine
tion-the soul of all success-have gone
out of the man; and unless he be in
spired with some new life and energy,
he will Go nothing. impossible" said
a young French officer of artillery
ssthe word should be banished the die
tionary." The officer was Napoleon
Bonaparte.
You may remember the story Of Ii
mour the Tartar and the spider in the
cave. Trying to climb to a certain point
the spider fell to the ground again and
again; but still the little creature rose
again to the task, and at the fortieth eff
fort it succeeded. Surely" said Ii
mour, ''if spider can succeed after so
many failures, so can after my de-
feats;" and he sailed from his hiding
place with new hopes, rallied his men,
and ultimately conquered.
So in all things. We must try often,
and try with increased resolution to
succeed. Failure seems but to discip-
line the strong; only the weak are over
whelmed by it. Difficulties draw forth
the best energies of man; they reveal
to him his true strength, and train him
to the exercise of his noblest powers.
Difficulties try his patience, his energy
and his working faculties. They test
the strength of his purpose, and the
force of his will. SIS there man, 'says
John Hunter, "whom difficulties do not
dishearten-who takes them by the
throat and grapples with them? That
man never fails" John Hunter him
self, originally working carpenter, was
precisely man of that sort; and from
making chairs on weekly wages he rose
to be the first surgeon and Psychologist
of his time. - ,
Had Clarkson and Wilberforce, look
ing at the strong powers Of despotism
banded together in defense of slavery
sat down crying, at can't ba done, "the
slave trade has never been abolished
throughout the British dominions. Had
Rowland Hill-deterred by the Opposi-
ton of the Government and the Post
Office authorizes, to his grand scheme
of postage reform-abandoned it with
at can't be done," the penny post
would never have been achieved. Had
James Watt or George Stephenson, sat
themselves down withTt can't be done ,
the magnificent power of steam and
the railway system would have re-
mained undiscovered and unapplied.
Let no one say that because he knows
a little, and can do a little, he ought,
therefore, to rest where he is, and, dis
mayed at difficulties give up with cit
can't be done-it's of no use trying"
Would you lie in the gutter if thrown
down there? No. get up, act, work,
cultivate your nature, determine to ad-
vance; and if you are resolute, you must
eventually succeed. There may be diff
ficulties to encounter, but the dawn will
surely come to him who has patience to
await it,and who has energy of purpose
to grapple with those difficulties, and
subdue them. One half of the difficult
ties will be found imaginary, when they
arc fairly fronted.
Hope and diligence are the life and
soul of success. The temper in which
the words sit can't be done, "are uttered
have no kinship with these. ait can't
be done" does nothing;-it is n giving
up in despair. But ''It can be done"
SIT shall be done, always achieves
wonders-and in the end seldom fails.
"Katarina, 1 like to know who grief
you de privilege dat you shall go and
spent me fife cents for dat ploo ribbon
vot you got died arount your waterfalls!
You want to prake me up in peesiness,
eh? pet you dem tings don't nefer
happens again in dis family, again be-
cause sclaps You down so flat as you
can't slant, don't it," "Coom, Shake"
turning to friend, "let's go; lent us a
half tollar, and go on sphree out nit
de Scheutzen.'
In old times, an essential part of a
brides outfit was sand for securing her
kitchen implements. Nowadays, they