The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-07-10

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tent with its rewards. You NAV not
walk so many miles in six days as Fitz-
gerald. but you can sleep great deal
more in that time; and if you do not
get so much money for it, neither do
you get SO many blisters. On your little
salary at the suspender counter, YOU
can notclean up $500, coo on Wall Street
this week. But, then, neither can you
be cleaned out of S450,00O next week.
You may not be able to set the fashions
in male attire. but you can fill your
soul with nameless Joy and an exalt-
alton Of celestial birth, and climb to
the top of high Olympus, and lean back
and pile your feet on the sofa and make
| yourself easy with the immortal gods.
by paying your landlady every Satur-
day and keeping even with your tailor.
You may never be the Washington cor
respondent OF society paper, but then
your hair won't turn white in the ago
nized effort to explain what it is about a
senator's wife, who has red hair,
freckles, no upper teeth, hair Wart on
her nose, and twang in her shrill
voice, that s'makes her so be-
witchingly beautiful and univer-
sally admired" Just be dilioent in
your own business, and wait in patience
for the reward of your diligence. 1t
may be little slow in coming. The
mills of the gods grind slowly, so does
a hand-organ on the Last Rose of
Summer stop, but it always gets there.
And don't pay more for the reward than
the reward is worth. A man who lives
on twenty nine cents day will be apt
to die wealthy, but he won't die very
fat. It is the liberal soul that shall be
made fat.
AND HAVE ONE TO MIND.
Again, my hearers, you will observe
that the exaltation is promised the man
| who is diHgent in 'tbusiness. u Then
mano or woman who labors diligently
for years, until the ability to write
forty-four chapters of the Bible on a
postal card does not stand before Kings
because that sort of thing isn't busi.
ness. The man who spends all his life
trying to invent a perpetual motion
machine has nothing to do with bust.
ness. The inventor, so to speak, OF
the Keeley motor will not stand before
Kings; he will not even stand before
his own stockholders, although they
| hht . oltC1 ttlCQ W Scb UCUfHu ulIu
The man who is diligent in construct.
ing one hundred and nine sentences
and three hundred and fourteen words
out of "Constantinople' 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 re4rm acociachin.' ,
The man who diligently educates hi;
feet until he can waltz au hour anG
seventy eight minutes without stopping
does not stand before Kings, because
''as snow IN summer, and as rain in har
vest, so honor is not seemly for a mar
who wears his brains in his shoes.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.
1t seems to me, beloved, that the sue
cess of the dilligent people who stand
before Kings of various degree. is in q
measure due to their successful dill
genee, 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
pampered pets of unjust favoritism dc
not ''stand'' before Kings; they bow
and crouch before them. But when ont
is successful in spite of adverse criticism
and sharp competition, I am inclined t.
think there must be some reason fol
his success. You ask me, for instance
what is the secret of Mrs. Langtry'.
success? Well, | think it is her success
But you say ''There are twenty girls il
Brooklyn more beautiful than She.
don't doubt it, think there are twenty
one. And s'they are more gifted. anC
blessed with better educationp" Yes,
know that. "And their social position
is higher?" l should say SO, m,
brother. ''And they have greater his
trionic talent?" Indeed they have;
agree with you. They can act al
around her9" OF course, they can
Sand they ought to. have her place OF
J the American stage?" We'll, then, why
! don't they have itP
is SUCCESS.
|, Verify, beloved, when people talk likt
| that, and often they do, | begin to be
lieye that none but unsuccessful peo
pie succeed in this country. AS
wander up and down the land | fine
about all the real talent and merit il
the back seats, picking up scanty
crumbs that fall from the groanine
tables of successful pretenders, while
the sad, voiceless spirit of justice sits OF
the front fence and broods with q ten
der mystery over the devious ways o.
man and the uncertain favors of tickle
fortune and pitiless fate.
UNSEEN BLUsHEs.
Scarcely village do enter but the
villagers proudly point out for my ad
miration young man whois ''funnier'
that ever Mark Twain dared to be
Many of Twain's best jokes, indeed,
they assure me, were stolen bodily from
young .sFunniboy." Why, he keeps
the debating society in roar of laugh.
ter all the time he is on his feet He is
called "The Artemus Ward of Gullivau
County and the Northeastern Bum.
6teiohas has predicted for him future
equal to none. / have been introduced
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 off Mr. Beecher; who were more
original, more eloquent, possessing a
kansaar {aauffy of ohSaryafi0n and q