The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1886-10-16


humble but worthy citizens.
Habits of industry, frugality and per
severance have always been large factor
in development of any community
They who laid the foundations of our city
we're neither idlers nor spendthrifts
They had neither time for the one, MOI
means for the other. The support of
themselves and their families was the
achievement of their own exertions.
They did not stand and wait for some.
thing to turn up-fOr some windfall to
6ll their Golfers. They hewed their own
fortunes out of the native forest. They
dwelt notin ceiled houses. They welded
the ak and saw with their own hands;
felled the virgin oak, and hewed and built
II into the cabin sixteen feet square as re-
quired by law TO validate their titles.
And so they grew and prospered, and left
to their children this goodly little city
with its happy, comfortable, and some
times luxurious homes. And let me take
occasion here to say to the young
men and women of the present, that
these are the elements of success in life
aizOays and eOe,1'a0heye. Don't despair if
you have not goodly patrimony. Don't
wait for fortune. Don't think you are
going to grow rich some day by buying
lottery tickets, or by running about to
get points for the race track. Get down
to work, hard work Of some kind.
Begin at the beginning. Don't think to
begin where your fathers left of. If you
wait on fortune, spend your time in COM
planning idleness, try to live with the
| best and carouse with the fastest with or
without means, it requires no prophets
ken to predict that in the coming CEN
fury your home will much more likely be
the sixteen feet square cabin your fathers
began in, than some mansion as much
better than ours as ours is better than
theirs. success in life is achieved, not
picked up, not dreamed out. If you
would do anything for yourself, or to i'm
press yourself on coming generations,
buckle on the harness, get down to toll
hard-fisted, if need be, and by sObriety.
industry, frugality and g,1f, build up your
own fortune and project yourself into the
century to come.
No, no, my friends, what we see about
us to-day is not the work of the few con-
spicuous individuals whose names have
furnished the themes of the orators
and poets eulogiums. We have not to
wait to become great before we can
influence the future. Those beautiful
islands that dot the Southern seas, and
rise like mountains from the oceans
depths, we're not thrown up there by the
efforts of few prodigies of those coral
insects, but by each one continually
depositing its grain of sand. So this
community now is the aggregation of the
thoughts, deeds and influences of all who
have lived, toiled, suffered and died here.
The now sainted spirits that have during
the century presided over Frankfort's
homes; the willing tOilers who have gone
out and gathered in the children and
taught them of Gods love and Saviour
every one who has lived right and devel-
oped strong and true Christian charac-
ter-every one who has toiled diligently
at his trade or business or profession,
and has honestly built up his own for
tune-every one who has put hand to any
part of the church's great work-all who
have suffered patiently, borne heroically-
all who have spoken words of cheer, lived
kindly lives, done charitable deeds, and
shined by the light of good example
all these are represented in the social
structure into which we of the new CEN
fury now enter. If they have not all been
architects and master builders, they have
been good workmen, building in pillar
here, or girder there, or dressing and lay
ing a stone, or placing brick, or putting
straw or grain of sand into brick; and
so the whole building has risen through
the century, and without the work of any
one of all these it would not be exactly
what it is to-day.
And as we enter into the labOrs of the
past, SO will coming generations into
ours. Each one of US has work to do
on the social fabric of the future. "None
Of US liveth to himself" We can't do it
if we would. We all are busily weaving
the threads of our lives into the mighty
warp and welt that is to stretch across the
centuries. What is the form and color of
the patterns we are working in which are
to remain for all time the impress of our
lives? We say fippantly We shall not
live till another Centennial. All! but we
shall. We will live by our influence, by
the issue of our deeds. And We shall live
in the great hereafter to look back upon
the results of our lives, whether for veal
or woe on humanity. Be careful, there
fore, how you build from day to day.
Live as before the eyes of coming genera
items. Send out influences you may not
want to call back. You can never do
that. You may pray God to stay or de-
stroy the evil influence that has gone
out from your life, but in vain; on it will
flow, not only through the century, but to
the end of time. Shine by the light of a
humble, faithful, holy life. Align your
self with the Church of the living God.
Fight with the army of the right. Wit
ness for the worlds Savior, take his cross
upon your shoulder and hold it aloft and
bear it on down the century as far rs God
will give you life to go; and tits radiance
sfreamin0N will do tan Thousand fimes