The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-17

UrotiuS at Il. EOmuluS at %, Pitt at y,
Whitefeld at 81. Bonaparte at -. Ig-
natius Lovola at 30. Raphael at 81 had
made the world feel their virtue or
their vice. and the biggest strokes you
will probably make for the truth
or against the truth will be before
you reach the meridian of life.
Do not wait for something 10 turn
up. Go to work and turn it up. There
is no such thing as good luck. No man
that ever lived has had better time
than have had; vet never had any
good luck. But instead thereof. kind
Providence has crowded my life with
mercies. You will never accomplish
much as long as you go at your work
on the minute you are expected, and
stop at the first minute it is lawful to
quit The greatly useful and success
full men of the next century will be
those who began half an hour before
they were required and worked at
least half an hour after they might
have quit Unless you are willing
sometimes to work twelve hours of the
dav, you will remain on the low levels,
drum.
Word the next: Fill yourself with
biographies of men who did gloriOusly
in the business. or occupation. or pro-
fession you are about TO choose, or
have already chosen. Going to be a
merchant? Read MP Peter Cooper, and
Abbot Lawrence. and James Lenox,
and William E Dodge. and George
Peabody. See how most of the mer-
chants at the start munched their noon
day luncheon made up Of dry bread
and hunk of cheese. behind a counter
or in a storeroom. as they started in a
business which brought them to the
top OF influences which enabled them
to bless the world with millions of
dollars consecrated to hospitals. and
schools, and churches, and private
benetactions. where neither right
hand nor left hand knew what the
other hand did.
You young men, and all the other
young men-instead of wasting your
time on dry essays as to how to do
great things. go to the biographical at
cove of your village or city library,
and acquaint yourselves with men
who. in the sight of earth. and Heaven,
and hell, did the great things. Re-
member, the greatest things are yet to
be done. If the Bible be true, or as l
had better put it, since the Bible is be-
vond all controversy true, the greatest
battle is vet to be fought, and COM
pared with it Saragossa, and Gettys-
burg. and Sedan were child's play with
toy pistols. We even know the name
of the battle, though we are
not certain as to where it will
be fought. l refer to Armageddon.
The greatest discoveries are vet to
be made. A scientist has recently dis
covered in the air something which
will vet not yet been found out. An
explorer has recently found in the
valley of the Nile whole feet of ships
buried ages ago where now there Is no
water Only six out of the 500 grasses
have been turned into food like the
potato and the tomato. There are hun
dreds of other styles of food to be dis
covered.
Worlds like Mars aud the moon will
be within hailing distance. and instead
of combining our knowledge - their
canals and their volcanoes. they will
signal all styles of intelligence to Us,
and we will signal all styles of intelli-
gence to them. Coming times will class
our boosted nineteenth century with
the dark ages Under the power of
gospelization the world is going to be
so improved that the sword and the
mus1et of our time will be kept in
museums as now we look at thumb
screws and ancient instruments OF tor
ture. Oh, what opportunities YOU are
going to have. young men all the world
over. under 50. How thankful you
ought to be that you were not born any
sooner. Blessed are the cradles that
are being rocked now. Blessed are the
students in the freshman class. Blessed
those who will yet be young men when
the new century comes in, five or six
wears from now. This world was hard
" fit to live in in the eighteenth CEN
turv. do not see how the old folks
stood it.
During the nineteenth century the
world has by Outstanding and educa-
tional in fiuences been fixed up until it
does very well for temporary residence.
But the twentieth century. All. that
will be the time to see great sights,
and do great deeds. Oh. young men,
get ready for the rolling in of that
mightiest, and grandest, and most
glorious century that the world has
five autumns more: five winters more;
FIVE springs more, and then the clock
of time will strike the death of the old
century and the birth Of the new.
do not know what sort of 4 December
night it will be when this century lies
down TO die: whether it will be star
lit or tempestuous, whether the SHOWS
will be drifting. or the soft winds will
breathe upon the pillow OF the expir-
ing ceutenarian. But millions will
mourn its going, for many have re-
ceived from it kindnesses inuumerab bic,
and they will kiss farewell the aged
brow wrinkled with so many vicissi-
tudes.
Old nineteenth century of weddings
and burial: of defeats and victories: of
nations born and nations dead; thy
pulses growing feebler now, will soon
stop on that thirty-frst night of De-
cember. But right beside it will be
the infant century, held up for bap-
tism. It's smooth brow will glow with
bright expectations. The then more
than seventeen hundred million in
habitants of the earth will hail its
birth and pray for its prosperity. Its
reign VIII be for one hundred years,
and the most of your life I think will
be under the sway of its seepter. Get