Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-13

marked the elder man. Then stick. stick.
keep boring. boring old Fate in the ribs. .
and he thrust his thumb into the side of
the young man with twist of his arm.
It'll even crusty old Fate himself doubles
up and surrenders."
That Is so. Remember that things get
tired as truly as you do If you want to
drill hole IN a rock you must tire out the
rock. The moment you drop your drill
edge on the surface, the rock SAYS {:
''HeIgho! Here comes fellow of flesh
and blood who wants to get inside of me.
He shall not. | can stand it longer than
he can. Come, now, all my stony nerves
and muscles, let's tire out this chaps arms
by resisting" But you hammer away.
Little by little the rocky fiber gets tired
and gives up. You cut your puncture
through.
like to think how things get tired. l
am not the only creature who gets tired
The earth gets tired under my plow, my
hoe, my water-po and gives up. Then
| the crop comes. Distance gets tired:
keep at my walk till l tire out the ten
miles, and they yield; I've got there. The
wind gets tired as the sailor keeps lacking
and going directly into Its eye by his zig
gag; then the wind surrenders and chops
round to help your will Hard luck tires
itself out; your pluck and energy are too
much for it. Suddenly bad luck throws
up its hands and gasps You are too much
for me, oh, soul of an immortal man. You
make me tired. Ten years I've been
against you; but | surrender now. Have
matters your own way.
All what thrill of victory! One feels
c10T-1n +ba e
Bad Luck and stamping, grinding the
heels into its foul carcass. All sorts of
oppos1don are finite and mortal-except
God s opposition. A good man, working
a just cause, is infinite and immortal. He
can prevail. The sea, the earth. disease,
night, poverty, calamity they all get tired.
Stick to your rights. You will win if YOU
do not get tired
l used to saw wood In my boyhood. That
was before the days of coal. | remember
now and then an ugly stick of maple which
seemed to bite the saw. well, old boy"
| used to say, apostrophizing it, 81 can try
you the other side up. I'll turn you over.
But again the saw would bind. "All
right. I'll turn the log again | could
always conquer stick of wood, because |
could plan. The stick could not plan, it
could do only one thing, namely-resist. |
could plan and attack If, finally, the
weary saw would not go on through the
sappy fiber, why took my AK and cut out
the chip. Friend, | am going through
you. You! Who are you? Nothing but
a stick. | am stick-to! All, there your
head is off :"
No man ever invented reaper, sew
lng-machine, or a good speech, or discov-
cred America, who lacked this stick-and-
hang principle. If there is any time when
it is right to get mad, it is when you feel
you st1ck-to-atlveness melting. Not
frenzy that wastes your breath and strikes
the air. You want to be iceberg mad; cold
as the iceberg when it crashes into ship
Keep your health. Sleep and eat. Pre-
serve your energies Be economical of
your powers, for you are mad enough to
think you can win. Think of all the other
men and women about you who are doing
just what you are. Never talk with any
body for encouragement; nobody will help
your grit, in an all days talk, half as
much as you can help yourself by boring
away the same number of hours.
1t is possible to tire out the refusal of a
man whom you want to carry with you In
your scheme. ''What! you here again
I've no patience with you'll All right!
pass him a joke and make him laugh.
While he is shaking, bore him under the
fifth rib. Get in your work. If he will
not laugh to-day, try him tomorrow, just
after dinner. Be sure you have a good
thing, a genuine thing. Then keep at
him. He will see it in time That is the
way the thing is done. Very few things
are snapped at; they have to be drilled,
and bored, and blasted into men. Even a
fly can drive proud stallion; not at first
for the horse pays no.attention for while;
lordly head, and nips at the fly on his neck.
last, Bucephalus can endure it no longer.
He fees from fly, and the fly journeys
FIVE miles without flying.
The trouble with US all is that we get
tired. The secret of success is to remem-
Der all the while that things and other
men are getting tired, just as we are. Vic
tory means firing out the opposition.
Keep to your plan if you can; but if you
must change your plan, keep to your aim.
1t is necessary to have an aim that will
keep. The good thing that will keep for
ten or thirty years is what you want to
work at. A barrel of apples will rot while
you are aiming to earn it. Sugar will
melt while you are working for it. Some
mems aims are not worth the effort; they
turn to ashes while we are sticking to
them. But be sure that your aim is of
adamatine endurance; it is good at eigh-
teen when you first see it; good at twenty
eight, when you see it clearer, good at
thirty-eight. Stick to it until you sue
eeed. At forty years of age you will get
it. 1t will be just as good then.
Such is the aim of an independent bust
ness, useful life, an educated mind,
deed of benevolence, reform in society,
conquest over bad habit. the care of a dis
eased tendency in your body, the help of
some other observing fellow, a liberal pro-
vision for your children, and comforts for
your own old age. Stick and ill.-By
Harkley Harker, in New York Weekly.
GROW JUSTICE.