The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-13
STEPS UPWARD.
Importance of Things That Sometime.
Seem SO Ins!gnifca1t.

Importance of Things That Sometimes
Seem So Tns!gnifcant.
Young people in beginning life are
apt to be impatient of the first little
steps that apparently make NJ advance,
forgetting that seeming ''trifies make
up the sum of life" just as, in building.
the little bricks, laid carefully. one at a
time, side by side, and securely cement
ed together, make at last the great,
strong structure.
A young man, having exhausted his
patrimony in obtaining professional
eduea ton, settled himself in town
already filed with successful lawyers,
to practice law. One day one of these
older lawyers asked him how, under
such circumstances, he expected to
make living.
IL hope may get little practice"
was the modest reply.
1T will be very little" said the law
yer.
Then I will do that little WELL" an
swered the Young man. decidedly.
He carried out his determination. The
lits}e things well done brought larger
ones, and in time he became one of the
most distinguished jurfsts of his state.
Again, certain old bishop, who was
fond of finding odd characters in out
of-the-way places, was visiting in a
quiet neighborhood. One day, in a
walk with a friend, he came across
crossroads settlement of few houses.
Among them was snug little shoe
shop kept by an old negro man, which
showed signs of prosperity.
Interested in the old cobbler, the
bishop stopped for chat.
"My friend" he said, 81 would not
think SO small a business as mending
shoes would pay so we'll"
"Ah." said the gentleman with him,
"old Cato has the monopoly of shoe
mending IN this region. No one else
gets job"
GLOW is that, Gator" asked the
bishop.
just SO. marster," replied Cato. "It
Is only little patches put on with little
stitches or tiny pegs. But when I
takes a stitch, it is stitch, and when I
drive a peg it holds" Little things well
done!
The good bishop used that reply as
text for many sermon afterwards.
A bright young girl, living in n
mountain region, By accidental contact
with some visitors at a near watering
place became conscious of her lack of
.ducation and consequent mental in
leriority to them.
She was intensely anxious to obtain
this education, and az once set q bout
gaining the money to secure it. There
was absolutely only one way within
her reach. Near her home vas stream
died with mountain trout. which she
knew TO be greatly in demand by the
proprietor of the watering place hotel
She made arrangements with him to
supply fish for his table.
Every day found her with her rod
fishing diligently, and every morning
found her at the same early hour at
The hotel with her fish. A benevolent
old gentleman CHANGED to see her one
morning, and was greatly interested
when told her story and the object she
had in view in selling the fish. Partjc-
nlariy when the hotel proprietor added:
you will scarcely believe it, but this
young girl is actually the only one
though l have tried many-who has
kept ssrupuiously 30 her bargain. She
never fails me, be the number of her
6sh large or small"
Thinking that such diligence in
small matters deserved large reward.
the old gentleman obtained the consent
Of the girls parents, and out of the
abundance of his means placed her at
school 30 be fitted for a teacher.
With painstaking care she mastered
each difficulty IN her new life, and be-
came Al educated. cultured woman and
skilled teacher-M. E. Saffold, IN
Christian Union.