The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-13
4 DIVERSITY OF GIFTS.
p Difference NetRsen q s6aias ~
he Common Fenow-crsgisy Tnvortgs
Carries . Man Upward-Fallurs
Near Hilltop.

Humanity is many-sided, Is Of man,
k1nds-all casts, colors, cliclssandkinds
IN all phases of life we have diversity
America in its social life ranges from,
the dudes Of the Four Hundred to tn.
old red-nosed buns ia the back alley
saloons; from the society woman wifi
her wealth and want Of heart to the
old darby hunting possu1ns became
his home is out Of meat. In the bust
ness world, from millionaires down Is
mendicants. In the political world.
they range from Gladstone to a state
legislator. There may Be somethiny
below that, but he is nearly out Of
sight. In the fanmer life. from tl,e
biz planter down to the old darkv with
the stif-eared mule. In the manufac-
turing circles, from Carnegie. 81 Pitts
burgh, to the red-neck OF Mississippi,
sitting up with his tar kiln. In the
roilroad world, from GeorgeB. Roberts.
president of the Pennsylvania, to the
brakeman on some little jerk-ypater
rosd out west. Oh the millions Of
teeming, struggling humanity between
these two extremitiea in all the classes
| have mentioned. Energy and thrift
and brains head the procession in the
commercial and professional world.
with Q and then a genius like Edison
in electricity; a Wanamaker in mer-
chandise; a Milton Smith in railroad-
lug; a Philip Armour in manipulating.
A mar who does big things, great
big things, and keeps on doing them.
is genius. just any ordinary common
fellow could not do it the first time;
and he cannot keep on doing 1t. An
old-fashioned cannon will shoot as loud
as a Calling gun, but it just can't keep
shooting a hundred times a minute
till it gets so hot you have to pour water
on it. little peg won't fill a big hole.
You have got to brush the peg or lose !
1t. A frog might be as big as an OK
II his hide would stand the stretch,
hut it bursts on the way. Al mule
might pull as much as an engine, and
then again it mightn't. A few great
me lead the procession in all lines.
A Brooks, a Sturgeon, a Beecher, will
pitch the tone for a century higher
han most men can sing in the theo-
logical world. Here and there a farHa-
is getting rich, broadening his acres.
he world what a farmer can
II he is u man as well as a farmer.
A man who succeeds at one thing may
Q secceeded at many others. i
Is q failure. Tt takes pluck ay
7im and brains to get there" Itsss
elbow has got them and don't &c
here" he ought to be left, and will
eft, andleftforever. THERE'S a good al =
Il independence and dogmatism abo ID
fellow who gets there. A man WI
always working, struggling and q
ng somethige lqshunu wasen
man who studies and thinks
rows intellectually o 10 parts CO
any with fools. One man VIII ca
great railroad system and n
4 Another man will take hold Of
system, like Samuel SpenS
md the Southern system, and lit
,nv raise it from the dead.
can take o church and r
/ like a thing of life. Anoth
o gets it ready for splrltr
interment. One farmer converts
shine and showers into grain and whe
and oats and corn and cotton I'M p
ta4oes. For another man oil THESE
tl,inqs seem to make only weeds a1Pd
One college graduate has taken
the curriculum of the school simply ps
a suringing board to leap into hlghfr
and better success. Others have come
horne from college to board with their
daddies until their daddies-in-laRF 1ur-
nish equal or better lodgings. One man
begins braking OF a railroad. By anu
Nv he is president of the road. Another
fellow starts out as vice president and
winds up without the position Of brake
nan.
Crawl. inverted carries q mar up
ward. He who can invert gravity don't
need wings to fly. A Joseph Pulitzer
can take a daily newspaper out g the
dust and give it the largest circulation
of any newspaper in the world. others
rurn their newspapers over into the
hands of the sheriff or a receiver. There
i mora in the man than there Is in the
land. If a boy has got in him what We
call metal in the blade of . knife ne
will cut his way. If he has not he nag
as wen stay down and take it easy. "A
little fellow was running along in frc4t
Of a gentleman on the sidewalk onfe
and couldn't keep out Of the way WEI.
THE gentlemen said. to him: Get utpt
NV way. boy. What + you 1T Ior
anvwayqo The little fellow repiisd;
II am the stun they make men tlt
Of" There is the point at last. a ihe
fellow has got the stuff in him thar eRn
make a man then he gets there.
There is q diversity in wiVfs
some wives are but wings to their hts
hands by which they fly from hi
ton q mountain-top tin they soar IN tfe
attitudes OF success. Other wives IS
: init millstones about their HUSBAND
necks. So in every phase OF life tnlJ
, come and go. They GO up and tnS
!, come down. Ambition, effort, ecq
! omy. honesty-these qualities carry
highest success. Incidence. e1tra4
gance and shiftlessness cut a mans Ief
! and arms of and make him crawl nki'
worm. Idon't know q maj to-day WI
= has sncceeded in life but who deserE
I - succeed. There may be some VI
= have failed who didn't deserve TO 81
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