The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-05-15

Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY NEMo.

10 YOUNG MEN.--hememDe Der now
small place money ought TO have 10
your calculations: at any rate that
you should never reckon yonr success
by the amount of money you make.
Even granting that you are toiliug In
order to win wife, If money Is your
sole standard you will lay at her feet
the least valuable gift If you bring
not 70 her clean mind, an upright
life. and soul above robbery. And
he that maketh haste to be rich runs
danger of stopping to things SO mean
and so contemplate that he is not fit
to be the husband OF any wife or the
possible father of any living children,
though he be wealthy as most golden
dream can fancy.
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Remember that courage-the quail
lty you so much admire and about
which you possibly use such false cs-
timates-is not measured by the
strength Of the arm nor readiness TO
die. Bodily courage is sometimes
only the mark OF coarse-grained na-
ture-mere insensibility To danger,
like the mad frenzy of bull. Real
courage, Is that OF the mind that will
keep you working on in the face Of de-
feat, or that enables you 10 dare great
purposes, when the way to their ac-
complishment is like the way to an
Alpine summit, only attained by
cheerful self-denial and the constant
crying TO that inner purpose. "Ex-
celsiprl Excelsiorln H. requires more
than a broad chest TO stand a snecr,
more than fearless eye to turn from
the pleading chances OF pleasure
loving woman, more than mere mus
Gle TO keep on doing those things that
are of good report, when all the COM
panions of your youth call you fool.
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Remember that disappointments
much as walking strengthens our bod
les. 1t Is the things we have to strug
gle with that make us men. Some
few geniuses seem able at a leap to
accomplish whatever their hearts are
set upon, but the vast majority Of us
attain our ambitions only by stern
purpose and unwavering effort. II a
tide just drags along we are as dead
things or sticks; II we swim against IL.
we grow more and more in power,
Welcome the north wind, 1t wonld
seem TO wrest thy all from thee only
to make thee hold on TO the faster.
Heres to the men who lose
The tombstone of trne worth is not
success;
There ia Il higher lest
Though fate may darkly frown, onward
to press,
And hravely do ones best.
Here's to the men who lose
II lriunph's easy smile our struggles
greet,
Courage is easy then;
The king is he who, after nerce defeat,
Can up and fight again.
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Remember that mistakes ares not
necessarily fatal. Show me man
who has never made mistake, and
| will show you lazy good-for- nothing
who has escaped errors of judgment
and conduct by being too indolent to
attempt anything. Mistakes are good
schoolmasters; they show us that we
know not. in order that we may be
better able to know. A mistake is
danger signal that warns into new,
more careful and more thoughtful
ways. And / do not limit the utility
OF mistake merely to the range Of
studies and business, | refer even to
awful mistakes in morals, to social
sins that are sweet to the taste and
bitter in effects. These may teach
and purify, If we will but drag our
selves away from them and think
them over mt distance.