Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-05-09


come up from the very bottom of the
ladder. The brightest day began with
the twilight The adnlirals who COM
manded the navies of the world started
as cabin boys.
The merchant princes whose messen-
gers are ships and whose servants the
nations custom houses once swept the
store and kindled the fires. The orator
who lifts up the gate of the soul, as
Samson carried off the gates of GAIA,
once stammered and blushed on the
stage of country school house. The
young painter, under whose pencil skies
blossom and waters CLEAN, understands
his subject so well because he has but
little to shelter him from the one and is
obliged to find his only beverage in the
other.
Out Of the dark. deep mines of want
and suffering has been dug the marble
for the worlds greatest temples of wis
dom and palaces of power Vanderlyn,
the artist, must first content himself
with charcoal sketch. Franklin, be-
fore becoming the renowned philoso-
pher, must be a journeyman printer.
Columbus must weave carpets before he
can weave hemispheres. David must
take care of his fathers sheep before he
rules Israel Amos must be herdsman
before he becomes a prophet. Daniel
must be the humble student before he
rises to be the prime minister of Baby
lon.
If a young man starts in life with
large notions of what he must imme-
diately have, willing to consider no
economy, but expecting with small
ship to unfurl as much sail as an ocean
frigate, he will find himself capsized by
the first northeaster. 1t is the small
splig that you can carry in one hand
which will thrive best when planted
But if. by levers and huge lumber wag
ons, you bring down from the mountain
a century oak, though you may plant it
you cannot make it live. So he who be.
gins life on such grand scale and with
such exorbitant notions, will never
succeed, while some young man who
went to town without means, but hav-
ing a right spirit, through his self de-
NAL, planted a tree which has reached
above Wall street and flung its shadow
in one direction over the granite palaces
on the avenues and in the other far out
over merchant vessels anchored in the
bay.
Men say success in life is all matter
of good luck, but industry and economy
and self denial put together always
make good luck. There are young
men who failed twice and are getting
notes shaved the third time before they
are as old as their father when he first
began business for himself. They started
with the idea that their wit would do as
well as capital For awhile it did, but
when creditors sent their Guns and
banks their protests, they found that
mere shrewdness was greatly below par.
You cannot cross the ocean in yawl.
THE FOLLY OF AMBITIOUS IGNORANCE.
A young eaglet, far up in the noun
tain eyrie, saws to its winged mother,
~ will fly no longer from tree to tree
as you tell me, but like you, mother, l
will swing from this Chimborazo peak
to yonder Chimborazo peak" Like an
arrow it shot into the heavens, but when
over the awful chasms it's head was
dizzy and its wing weak, and it began
to whirl downward, and with wild
scream, until it struck on the rocks. A
traveller passing through the gorge saw
the mangled remains of the eaglet.
"How came you to have this fall?' said
the traveller. "Ah, me-" says the eaglet,
sit was because | would not fly from
tree to tree until L was old enough, but
headstrong | started from Chimborazo
peak toward Chimborazo peak"
If young men would seize the advan-
tages of intelligence it will be by great
economy of time and the refusing of
many forms of qualification. Show me
a man who, refusing many of the frivol-
tiles of gossiping youths, can see more
to attract his attention in the pages of a
treatise or history than in the flash of
bright eyes or the airy step of those who
find more skill in their heels than their
heads, and | will show you man who will
yet master languages and sway very
scepter over his fellows. Many an edu-
cation which is now considered COM
plete is made up of smattering of news
papers and the last page of a fashion
magazine.
The parlor and the drawing room
cannot educate us. They may give us
outward adornments of manner, but get
ting valuable knowledge is like swelter-
ing at a forge, bellows in one hand and
hammer in the other-like digging in
mines with crowbars, prying under the
ledge and the constant bang of blasted
rocks. Especially is it true that no
growth in grace is possible unless, like
Daniel, we are willing to take up the
cross, however heavy it may be and
rough with nails. Moses chose Attic
ton with the people of God rather than
the pleasures of sin, and if we would be
anything like him we must be willing
sometimes to choose the hard bread of
self denial rather than the imperial clus-
ters from royal vineyards.
To get strength and depth enough in
rivers for turning mill wheels and man
ufactories, dams are built across them,
and then through the mill race the quick
floods leap on the water wheel to turn it
with tremendous power. So natures
that would otherwise have been power
less and insufficient by self restraints
have been damned back and deepened
until, with concentrated power, they
rush into the world, turning its ponder
GUS machinery of important interests.
Unrestrained men may have much
good in them, but it is SO scattered that
you see no positive effects. Electricity
in the air does not strike, but gathered
in the cloud with its bare red arm it