Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-14

to say: poor fellow. He ought to
succeed. How sorry l am for him"
But after awhile You begin to emerge
from the darkness. That was q capital
investment. You purchased Mt just the
right time. Fortune became good ma
tured and smiled. You builded your
own house. You got to be one of the
first men on the street. Now, as you
pass, q number of those late sympa-
thizers stand on the corner of the street.
They scowl at you from under the rim
of their hats. You have more money
now than they have and you ought to
be scowled at from under the rim of
their hats.
Again, behold in our subject an eX-
hibition of true decision of character
Before Daniel were condemnation and
death If he continued faithful to his re-
ligion. Yet, just rs before, three times
q day he prayed with his face toward
Jerusalem. There is nothing more fatal
for religious or worldly advancement
than spirit of indecision. How often
youth is almost gone before the individ-
ual has determined upon his profession.
There are those who for thirty or forty
years have accomplished nothing any
where because they have not felt them
selves settled. They have thought of
the law, of medicine, of merchandise, of
mechanism. They have some idea of
going west. Perhaps they will go east.
Perhaps they won't. They may go
north or south. Perhaps they will in
vest their money in railroads or in real
estate. Perhaps they won't. They are
like vessel starting from New York
harbor, which should one day decide on
going to Liverpool, and the next on
New Orleans, and the next on Marseilles.
How many men have for a long while
been out on the great sea of life and
they do not know to what port they are
destined 1t is an everlasting lacking
of ship but no Roadway. These men
that try everything get to be nothing.
God wrote in your brain and engraved
on your bones what you ought to be.
Then be that, nothing more or nothing
less. In that direction is your success.
Every other road is ruin. Having ad-
justed your compass, go ahead.
Again, let this story of Daniel teach
us that the way to future success is
through present self denial. Not only
did Daniel show his willingness for self
restraint by refusing the luxuries of
the kings table, but must have denied
himself much social enjoyment and
sight seeing in order to have attained
most wonderful proficiency in study.
The rush of the chariots under his win
dow and the sound of mirth that rang
out on the air of Babylon would have
attracted most young men into the
streets and to expensive places OF
amusement. But Daniel knew that it
was only through severity of applica-
ton he could attain the honorable posi-
ton for which he was intended. Indeed
you may carry this truth into universal
application. The most of those who
have succeeded in any profession or
occupation have come up from the very
bottom of the ladder. The brightest
day began with the twilight. The
admirals who commanded the navies OF
the world started as cabin boys. The
merchant princes whose messengers are
ships and whose servants the ma
tion's custom houses, once swept
the store and l1indled the fires.
A young eaglet, far up in the noun
tain eyrie, says to its winged mother: II
will fly no longer from tree to tree as
you tell me, but like you, mother, / will
swing from this Chimborazo peak to
wonder Chimborazo peak" Like an ar
row it shot into the heavens, but when
over the awful chasms its head was dir
Nv 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, lit
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 would be by
great economy of time and the refusing
of many forms of qualification.
Show me man who, refusing
MANY of the frivolities of gos-
siping youths, can see more to attract
his attention in the pages of treatise
or history, than in the fash of bright
eyes or the airy step of those who find
more skill in their heels than their
heads, and will show you a man who
will yet master languages and sway
very scepter over his fellows. Many an
education which is now considered COM
plete is made up. of q smattering OF
newspapers and the last page of fash
ionable magazine. The parlor and the
drawing room cannot educate us. They
may give us outward adornments OF
manner, but getting valuable knowl-
edge is like sweltering at forge, bel
lows in one hand and hammer in the