The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-19

your lcllOWs-ll you are more truthful,
more ise, more eloquent, more intluen
tial--thc shadow Of your success will
chile somebody. The road ofhonor and
virtue is within ieach O. tue enemies
guns. Jealousy says, "Stay down or
will knock you down." Iu midar a
snowflake said to u snowtird, 81 DON'T
like YOU" "Why don't you like me?n
said the snowbird. "Becuse," replied
the snowflake, 'you are gong up and [
am coming down."
Success IS often a synonym for scoru.
The first thing q man wants is rclgioa.
The second is grit. If you do not want
to lace wild beasts YOU must never get
to be prime minister. If you are now,
rs Il young man, rising in any one res
pcct. L bless God for your advancement,
but [ wish to say before 1 quit this
thought, look out Tor the lions. Young
merchants, yolng lawyers, young ply
slcians, young ministers have much
sympathy, and kind advice is given
them at first, but as you become your
own master and begin to succeed in
your different occupations and Irofcs.
'lons, how IS 1t then, young merchants,
youhg lawyers, young physicians, young
minister's How is it then?
Again. let this story of Daniel teach
It's that the way to future success is
through present self denial. Not only
uld Daniel show his Willingness for self
restraint 10y refusing the luXuries of
the kings table, but must have denied
himself much social endowment and
sightseeing in order to have attained
most wonderful proficiency in study,
ihc rush of the chariots under his win
uoW ANA the sound of mirtn that rang
out on the air of Babylon would have
alIractG".. most young men into the
y lis and TO expensive places of
amu>unIcnt. But Daniel knew that it
was only through severity of applica.
'l"n hn could attain the honorable pO-
| Ml'nn Tor which he was intended. In
d2' Ct, You may carry this truth into I'M
lNtrSal application.
The most of those who have succeed
"h III any profession or occupation have
come up from the very bottom Of the
ladurr. The brightest day began with
| til" twilight. The admiralS who COM
nandcd the navies of the world started
iH cabin boys. The merchant princes
Whose m"SScngcrS are ships and whose
| servants the nations custom houses,
IIlrG swept the store and kindled the
Ilrt#. The orator who lifts up the g lte
o! tn" soul, rs Samson carried off the
gates OF GaZa, once Slamnered and
| hluSlrd on the stage of a country school
| house. The young painter, under
whose pencil skies blossom and waters
glram, understands his subject so well
because he has but little to shelter him
| from the one and is obliged to find hls
| only beverage i'll the other,
| out OF the dark, deep mines of want
ana suffering has been dug the marble
| Tor the worlds greatest temples Of wis
dom and palaces of power. Nanderlyn,
the artist, must first content himself
with Il charcoal sketch. Franklyn, be-
lorr becoming tho renowned philoso-
phcr must be jOurneyman printer.
| Columbus must weave carpets before
he can weave hemispheres. David
must take care Of his fathers sheep be-
| fore he rules Israel. Amos must be a
hcru$man before he becomes apIODhet.
Danicl must be the humble student be-
lore he rises to be the prime minister
of Babylon.
| If young man starts in life with
large notions OF what he must immed-
la'tiy have, willing to consider no
economy, but expecting with small
snip 10 unlurl as much sail as an ocean
irlgHte, he will find himself capsZed
by the llrSt northeaster. 1t is the small
| FnriG that you can carry in one hand
| winch Will thrive best when planted.
But II, by levers and huge lumber wag.
| "nS, you bring down from the noun
tam century oak, though YOU NAV
plant 1t. you cannot make it live. SO
he who begins life on such Il grand
scale and with such eXorbitant notions
Will never Succt ed, while some young
man VINO went to town without means,
but having right spirit, through his
Sell DENIAL, planted tree which has
rrachtd above Wall street and flung its
Shau0W III one direction over the gram
llr palaces on the avenues and in the
other far out over merchant vessels an
churrd in the BAY.
Men say success in life is all mat
ter ct good luck. but industry and econ
omy and self denial put together al.
ways make good luck. There are Young
men who tailed twice and are getting
notes shaved the third time before they
are as old rs their father when he first
began business for himself They
started with tie idea that their wit
would do as well AS capital. For awhile,
|, "ld, tut when creditors sent their
dunS and banks their protests they
l.
~ i"'l"W par. You cannot cross the
"cTAn III y!wl.
\ young eaglct, far up in the noun
!Nh eyre, says 10 It's winged mother.
II WI! Hy no longer from tree to tree
aS You tell me, hut like YOU, mother, ]
WiiI SWING from this Chimborazo peak
TO N"Hhrr Chimborazo peak" Like an
arrow Is shot INTO the heavens, but
"hcn over the awful chasm its head
WAS GIZIy and It's wing weak, and it be.
gan TO whirl downward and with wild
scream un!Il ii struck on tho rocks. A
traveller passing through the gorge saw
the mAng!cd lcmalnS of the oaglet.
"IloW calGc you to have this fall?"
sad the Traveller. "Ah, me-" said the
"Hglet, "lt WAS because | would not ny
from tree to tree until was old enough.
but headStrung started from Chimbo-
raHo peak toward Chimb0raZo peak"
II young men would seize the auyan-
tascs Of intelligence, it will be by great
economy Of time and the refusing of
many forms of qualification. Show wme
man who, refusing many Of the fri.
voli,ies of gOssiping youths, can sec
more to attract his attention in the