News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-16
HOW HEROES ARE MADE,
Examples of Men who Make Their Own
Way ia This World.

1t is much easier to promise than to
perform SO much easier to dream great
deeds than to do them so much easier
to be hero once in lifetime than to
be one every day. "a hero every day u
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 CT it, act at once, you have
been hero for that day. A hero, you
think, Is one who rescues some one
from drowning or fire, or suatches a
little child from the danger of being
run over, or stops a run away horse
doing these remarkable deeds are, you
think, what makes the hero. 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 a 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
boy who is too lazy to Join in outdoor
sports, who is asleep with his eyes open,
is not the boy who would see the 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 self
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
everyday duties, the learning to do the
little things, is the only way to fit ones
self to do the great things.
How hard it was to learn how to
make the simple figures 1, 2, 3, etc
How you frowned and struggled and
worked before you succeeded in making
the whole ninel But if you had not
learned to make these figures you could
never succeed in the business world.
How easy it was to make the figures
after you had learned how, but how
hard it was to add So every first
lesson in new study is difficult, but it
must be learned in order to 90 forward
to the next highest study.
Just so in the business life A boy
begins to run errands. He does not
dream that he is taking a step, and a
most necessary step, forward. He is
learning to know the streets, and, if he
is bright boy. he is watching to see
better and quicker ways of doing thing;
he is sent to A, B, and r streets, but
before he starts, if he is the right kind
of boy. he will arrange his plans so
that he will not retrace his steps; he
will do his errands in the order that
will consume the least time, not loiter
along with his mind wandering OH
everything but the business III hand
He will be direct in his thoughts and
actions, giving the present time to the
present duty.
When the late Commodore Wander
bi!t began his career he only managed a
sloop; when he died he managed more
miles of railroad than any man in the
world. He learned how to carry the
one passenger for the least money that
would pay a profit, and, by learning
how to please the one so that he would
want to engage passage the next time
he came that way, and urged his friends
to engage passage by the same route,
Commodore Vanderbilt learned how to
manage means of travel to accommodate
thousands. The late A. T. Stewart
knew how to please the one customer so
well that he void come again and
bring the second, and by this means he
built up the largest dry goods trade in
the country.
Success comes to him who learns the
little things well, does the little things
thoroughly, keeps his eyes open, acts
quickly, ana is master of himself and
all his powers. He that conQuers him
self is a king, and he only can be king
who masters every lit difficulty that
comes in his way, and loses no time in
cOnquering it. TIE boy who masters
the alphabet is the boy who learns to
read, and here he enters new and I'M
limited kingdom. The boy who learns
to do errands quickly is the boy who
will have the time to learn more impor-
tant things, and be ready to do them
when the opportunity comes, The true
hero is he who makes use of every OPP
portunity to go forward, while he gives
helping hand to those who are walk
ing the same way. Keep your eyes
open, and learn to think accurately and
act quickly - Christian Union.