The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-01-06

| disc; Milton Smith in railroading; a
Philip Armour in manipulating.
A man who does big things, great
big things, and keeps on doing them,
is a genius. Just any ordinary, COM
mon fellow could not do it the first
time; and he cannot keep on doing it.
An oldfashioned cannon will shoot
as loud as Gatling gun, but it just
can't keep on shooting a hundred
times a minute till it gets so hot you
have to pour water on it. Alittle peg
won fill big hole. You have got
to brush the peg or lose it. A frog
might be as big as an OK if his hide
would stand the stretch, but it bursts
on the way. A mule might pull as
much as an engine, and then again it
mightn't. A few great men lead the
procession in all lines. A Brooks, a
Spurgeon, a Beecher, will pitch the
tone for century higher than most
men can sing in the theological world.
Here and there, a farmer is getting
rich, broadening his acres, shows the
world what farmer can do if he is a
man as we'll as farmer. A man who
succeeds at one thing may have sue
ceeded at many others. A failure is a
failure. 1t takes pluck and vim and
brains to "get there Ifa fellow has
got them and don't ''get there he
ought to be left, and will be left, and
left forever. There is good deal of
independence and dogmatism about
fellow who gets there. A man who is
always working, struggling and doing
something loses sympathy with tramps
and idlers. A man who keeps and
saves and accumulates loses sympathy
with the prodigal and wasteful. A
man who studies and thinks and grows
Intellectually soon parts company
with fools. One man will take great
railroad system and bankrupt it. An
other man will take hold of a bankrupt
system, like Samuel Spencer and the
Southern System, and literally raise
it from the dead. One pastor can
take church and run it like thing
of life. Another soon gets it ready
for spiritual interment. One farmer
converts sunshine and showers into
grain and wheat and oats and corn and
cotton and potatoes. For another
all these things seem to make only
weeds and grass. One college gradu-
ate has taken curriculum Of the school
simply as springipg board to leap
into higher and better success. 9th
ers have come home from college to
board with their daddies until their
daddies-iu- law furnish equal or better
lodgings. One man begins braking
on a railroad. BY and by he is pres
ident of the road. Another fellow
| starts out as yice-president and
winds up without the position Of
| brakeman.
Gravity inverted carries man up
ward. He who can invert gravity don't
need wings to fly. A Joseph Pulitzer
| can take daily newspaper out of the
| dust and give it the largest cireula-
tion of any newspaper in the world.
Others turn their newspapers over in
to the hands of the sheriff or receiver.
There is more in the man than there
| is in the land. IF boy has got in
him what we call metal in his blade of
knife he will cut his way. If he
has not he had as well stay down and
take it easy. A little boy was run
ming along in front of gentleman on
the sidewalk once and couldn't keep
out of the way we'll The gentleman
said to him: "Get out of my way,
boy. What are you fit for, anyway?
The little fellow replied: II am the
stuff they make men out Of. There
is the point at last. If the fellow has
got the stuff in him that can make a
man then he gets there.
There is diversity in wives. Some
wives arc but wings to their husbands
by which they can fly from hilltop to
mouptain-top until they soar in the
attitudes of success. Other wives are
but millstones about their husbands
neck. So in every phase Of life they
come and 90. They 90 up and come
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