The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-31
The Genius Of Success.

The Genius of Success.
The Americans, as a class. have
reached their position as merchants,
farmers, bankers, mechanics, and in
ventors from q race OF men who
struggled with ~privatjon at the start.
They have met the rocks and hills
Of New England, the forest and the
Indians of the West, the undeveloped
world, from other worlds apart, and
conquering these have gained the
courage of success, for failure brings
weakness and victory brings an added
strength.
1t is the same even story with the
banker or the peasant. 1--WE value
most what costs us most;'' we own
longest what we earn with hardest eff
fort, and retain the most of what we
study deepest. The rule is proved by
the prudent saver of money or tie
spendthrift of time. While n bred
to luxury has little need of toll, an
other born with fortune will waste no
effort for it, and all bred in climates OF
even heat and pleasure may sleep and
rest aud live in idleness. So exertion
is the developer of mind and body.
Very many Americans are born poor,
and they feel the cold and know what
hunger means.
The same hard exercise that athletes
use to make a grand physique, mental
ly applied, makes a strong mind.
The same close drill in thought that
racers and gymnasts practice bodily
will harden every mind-muscle, every
faculty, encourage every energy, and
deepen every plan and purpose.
Thought to the mind of thinkers is like
callous to the hand of workers. the
hardening fbre-maker that each pro-
duces.
The accident of poverty is the ge-
MUS of success. The rich rarely in
vent anything; the poor and thought
full give a life to active energy. Taken
as a class we have all started poor.
AS the farmers among the rocks OF
New England met the hills and hind.
RANGES of broken lands and stony
fields, SO the Western landowners were
met by IN army of trees and q navy
tered opposition from deserts and riv-
ers, lakes and mountains. So in over.
coming these obstacles by inventions
the keener mental mettle was devel.
oped.
The history of railroads and bridges,
and of the struggles and progress OF
their projectors, is too lengthy to more
than glance at, but we all well know
and deeply realize that their improve,
ment and development hath both beer
the marvel of the century. The elo,
quent words of Van Dyke in 1859 mos
beautifully drew the graphic picture
''Who shall stop this glorious work
which is spreading blessings and pros.
perlty around us? Who shall dare tc
say, thus far shalt thou GO and ne
farther'p Who shall dictate to it after
doing so much? Must it now paus.
and rest in inglorious ease? No, new
er! 1t shall not be stayed. 1t shall
speed onward in triumph; it shall ado
link after link to the great chain thai
binds mankind together; it shall speed
onward, still onward, through the
gorgcs of the mountain, over the
depths of the valley, till the iron horse
whose bowels are fire, 'out of whose
nostrils goeth forth smoke and WHOSE
breath kindleth Goals shall be hearc
laundering through the echoing soil
tudes of the Rocky Mountains, start
ling the lone Indian from his wild re,
treat, and ere long reachiug the gold
en- shores of the far-otf Pacific, there
to be welcomed by the glad shouts o.
American freemen at the glorious
event which has conquered time anC
distance. and bound them by nearer
chords to older homes and sister
States"
A few inventions came from men il
easy circumstances, but by far the
greater growth is from the struggling
classes. The remark of the learned
and eloquent English advocate, Lore
Erskine, that he never cut loose from
embarrassment and pleaded from the
heart until one day when reduced t.
actual want he felt his children tug
ging at his coat skirt, saying, Father
give us bread" is the true sentimen
OF inspiration to Americans. Thei.
families have been pleading for breae
and intensified their energy. This il
the stimulus to the woodlands arm a
he hews down the wilderness; the mo
tive of the engineer as he climbs thu
steep ascent of the Rocky Mountain
railway, or burns the midnight LAM
in experiments with electric light
This is the restless, active energy borl
with those who are born to labor
children of the same ancestry; heirs o
the same Inheritance; rewarded by tn,
same applause and nonored for thu
anne pluck that picks bright jewel,
from the earth's rich mines, or shape
rude wood and metals into palac,