Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-07-09

pOStul Silu upto nOl olultu DSlOlc klnns
because that sort Of u thing isn't bust
ness. The mas who spends all his life
trying TO invent Il perpetual motion
machine has nothing TO do with bust
ness. The Inventor so 10 speak, of
the Keelcy motor will not stand before
Kings; he will not even stand before
his own stockholders, although they
have often tried to get behind him.
The man who is diligcnt in construct
ing one hundred and nine sentences
and three hundred and fourteen words
out of "ConstantinopleN will not stand
anywhere save at the head of the
spelling class, and even there he is in
danger of denunciation and overthrow
by the "speling relrm acociachin."
The man who diligently cducatcs his
feet until he can waltz an hour aud
scventy-cight minutes without stopping,
does not stand before Kings, because
"as snow in summer, and rs rain in har-
vest, so honor is not scemly for a man
who wears his brains in his shoes.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.
II seems TO me, beloved, that the sue
cess of the dilligcnt people who stand
before Kings Of various degree. is in
gencc, and furthermore, this successful
diligence indicates the existence of GER
tain qualities essential TO success. True,
there are Captains who creep in through
the cabin windows and there are Gen
erals unfit to be Sergeants, but these
pampercd pets of unjust faNoritism do
not ''stand before Kings; they bow
and crouch before them. But when ono
is successful in spite of adverse criticism
and sharp competition, am inclined TO
think there must be some reason for
his success. You ask me, for instance,
what is the secret of Mrs. Langtry's
SUGGEST Well, ! think il Is her success.
But You say There are twenty girls in
Brooklyn more beautiful than she. |
don't doubt it, think there arc twenty
one. And "thcy are more gifted, and
blessed with better cducationP' Yes, /
know that. "And their social position
is highcrY' | should say so, my
brother "And they have greater his
trionic talcnt?N Indeed they have;
agree with YOU. "Ghcy can act all
around hcra' OF course, they can.
"And they ought TO have her place on
the American stage Well then, why
don't they have itP
Is SUCCESS.
Verify, beloved, when people talk like
that, and often they do, begin to be-
licyc that mono but unsuccessful peo-
pie succeed in this country. As |
wander up and down the land | find
about all the real talent and merit in
the back seats, picking up scaniy
crumbs that fall from the groaning
tables of successful prctcnders, while
the sad, yoicclcss spirit of justice sits on
the front fence and broods with ten
der mystery over the devious ways Of
| man and the uncertain favors of tickle
fortune and pitiless fate.
UNSEEN DLUsuEs.
Scarcely village do | enter but the
villagers proudly point out for my adj
miration young man WHO'S 'funnier"
that ever Mark Twain dared TO be.
Many of Twain's best Jokes, indeed,
thcy'assure me, were stolen bodily from
young "Funniboy.' Why, he keeps
the debating society in n roar of laugh
ter all the time he is ON his feet. He is
called "The Artcmus Ward of Gullivan
County" and the Northeastern BHm-
Ulej0hH has predicted for him future
tNIllll W uOllCs L INV Z Dttu lHlIONlttV
in nearly every State in the Union, and
usually. too, in the smaller towns, some
distance from any railroad, TO ministers
of the gospel who could preach the
boots oil Mr.. Beechor; who were more
original, moro eloquent, possessing a
kcener faculty of observation and
happier vein of humor and more fertile
and fclicitou> in Illustration. And they
rcScmblcd Mr.. Bccchcr, too, their
friends told me. And SO they did. i
could sec that for myself. They wore
soft felt hats aud long hair. And in
some instances / learned that Mr..
Bcccher rcsemblcd and copied the viii
LACE pastor. | have met many, very
many eloquent lecturers, without audi
cnccs, who could teach John Il. Cough
the rudimcn!s Of temperance lecturing,
and there they were, peggng away ut
evcrybodys shoes, or selling dry goods,
groceries and hardware in n country
store, while Cough, the shallow pre-
tender, usurpcd their rightlul places
on the rostrum. People have shown
me women who could sing more divine
ly than Patti, and know plenty ofmen
who can walk right away from Fitz-
gerald.
ABUNDANT, But HARD TO FIND.
Now, believe in hidden pearls. /
have no doubt the deep unfathomcd
caves of ocean are so full of them that
| their feet stick out of the dormer win
| dows. / think some of them are rarer
and finer and purer than any that have
graced the diadem of an Empress up
| to the date of this writing. Down in
the gloomy caverns of the earth, there
are diamonds, | firmly believe, that
| would make the Kohinoor hide its di-
minished head and sell itself for pebble.
But, dearly beloved, we don't know
where they are. If we did, we would
dive and dig for them; we would bring
them out, aud by them gain wealth and
glory and the envy of our neighbors.
In the meantime, us we can't get down
TO the unseen pearls and they can't get
up to us, we must accept the stars we
have as the best of their several kinds.
Undoubtedly there may be preachers
more eloquent than Mr.. Beecher,
lecturers more popular and earnest
than Mr.. Cough, "1unnier' humorists
there may be than Mr.. Clemens. But
l do not know where they are. They
do not preach, neither do they lecture,
nor yet do they write books. Conse-
qucntly, i have no clue by which | may
find them. And what shall it profit an
eloquent man if he have lecture as
long as whistle and have no audiences
How shall the poet sing if he can find
no publisher TO string his voiceful Tyre
with golden cords? Why do not these
blushing flowers cease to waste their
sweetness on the desert and bring THEN
wares to buoyant marketp Is il not
because they lack the diligence
which enableth men 10 stand before
Kings, and is not the diligence just as
essential as the talentp
THE BURIED TALENT.
/ o, dearly beloved, the talent that j:
| | hid i'm n nanlin hurried In tho oarIl. |.