Connecticut western news., 1886-12-01
HOW HEROES ARE MADE.
Exhmp'es of Men who Make, Tkeir Own
 Way in This World.

Way in This World.
 It is much easier to promise than to perform sd much easier to dream great deeds than to do them! so much easier to be hero once in a lifetime than to be one every day ''A hero every day p you exclaim. Yes, you can be a hero every day. A true hero is he who acts up to his highest opportunity; and every day presents an opportunity that is the highest for that day, and if you made use of 1t, act at once, you have been a hero for that day. A hero, you think, is one who rescues some one from drowning or fire, or snatches d little child from the danget uf beih g run over of stops a run away horse; doing these renlarkable deeds are, you think, what makes the herd. Yes, they do; but, the boy who is able to do these . things has certainly been doing the little things that have, trained him to equal the great thing when it came
 The boy Who Is able to rescue child , from drowning certainly learned to swim properly, had learned to think quickly and accurately, and act on the moment. The boy who stops a run, away horse is boy who has developed his muscle, and who sees at once what is to be done, and does it at once. The sports, who is asleep with his eyes open; is not the boy who would see tile horse coming; and know how to act as soon as he saw the danger.
 1t is very delightful to know that one has acted bravely, to hear ones sell talked about as remarkable. Yet the truest heroes are the every day heroes The boy who forgets himself in his de sire to help others, who does the little things that are disagreeable; are hard are annoying, is the boy who will forget himself entirely when danger surrounds others. The boy who is first in his own thoughts, and values his own com fort before another's, is the boy who will think twice before he will risk any danger to himself. The doing the every day duties, the learning to do tho little things, Is the 0nly way to fit one's self to do the great things.
 How hard it was to learn how t( make the simple figures 1, 9, 8, etc How you frowned and Struggled ano worked before you succeeded iii making the. whole nine! But if you had no learned to make these figures ydu coulo tever succeed in the business world How easy it was to make the fgute' after you had learned how, but how hard 1t was to add!, So every frs less oti in new study Is difficult, but i must be learned iii order to go forward to the next highest study:
 Just so in the business life A bo, begins to run errands. He does no dreain that he is taking step, and { most necessary step, forward. He Ii learning to know the streets, and if h. is bri ght boy he is watching to se' better and quicker ways of doing things he is sent to A, B, and R streets, bu before he starts, if he is the right kin6 of boy: he will arrange his plans st that he will not retrace his steps; h' will do his errands in the order tha will consume the least time, hot loite along with his mind wandering oi everything but the business ill hand He will be direct in his thoughts ane actions; giving the present time to tn present duty.
 When the late Commodore Wander bi!t began his career he only managed sloop; when he died he managed nor miles of railroad than any man in tn world. He learned how to carry tn ohe passenger for the least money tlla would pay profit, and, by learnin! how to please the one so that be woult want to engage passage the next tim he came that way, and urged his friend to engage passage by the same route E 6fhsssderes x;snd derblIt It-1earntd how t manage means of travel to acconilnodat thousands. The late A. T. Stewaa knew how to please the one customer s we'll that he wo;ld come again an bring the second, and by this means il built up the largest dry goods trade i , the country.
 Success comes to him who learns tn little things we'll, does the little thing thoroughly, keeps his eyes open, act quickly, and is master of himself an
 all his powers. He that conquers hin self is king, and he only can be kin who masters every lit e difficulty tha comes in his way, and loses no time conqueriny it. The boy who master
 the alphabet is the boy who learns { read, and here he enters a new and ur f limited kingdom. The boy who learr to do errands quickly is the boy wh
 will have the time to learn more impol tant things, and be ready 10 do thel . when the opportunity comes. The tru
 hero is he who makes use of every or
 portunity to go forward, while he give he ping hand to those who are wall ing the same way. Keep your eyt open, and learn to think accurately an : act quickly CHristia'a Union.
 A Co1D BED--A small dog fell into
 vat of tanning liquid in a New LondC