The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-09

accumulated in his journey through life,
and pointed each one with an anecdote.
Getting on in the world" said the doc
tor, lis generally a matter of brains, hard
fighting and learning the plain lessons OF
experience.
"But the man who happens to have
brains shouldn't be puffed up because ne
has them 1t isn't because of anything
he has done that he isn't stupid. The
clever man who is conceited because OF
his cleverness is like certain watch tnat
hung in a row with a lot of other watches
in a jewelers. window. This watch kept
much better time than the others. Every
one of them was sometimes out OF order'
now running too fast and now 100 Stow
and the ieweler regulated them all by TINS
one watch. After a while it fell into
state of great conceit with itself, and to i
man who had often regulated his time
niece bv its hands, its ticking seemed one
dav to sound exactly like self-pralse
p" see how much better am than my
fellows its secondhand clicked out, as
il worked it's busy way round ITS marrow
circle they are entirely untrustWorthy :
,nlees someone gives special attention 70
ttan1 Won can never learn the time of day
',tth Certainty from their dals But you
can depend upon me. am always
right ho a,d,,t like
a. baor the infallible timepiece praise IL
ee,f nevertheless, so he opened us cases
and read an engraved name me ,lliio-
riaca had been put together by the most
eminent matchmaker in the whole world.
".C,lick away at your own self-pralse'
soid tho man What you say about your
@,,oiities as a timekeeper is all quite true
But the credit is due to your maker.
"Desnise Not Small Things"
.Arv first patient after I left the hospi-
%, ISas a little child with the scarlet
fovar Her father was pretty well known
~ Now York 1 felt proud that l mad
u,o,, his confidence. and | worked as falth-
fnIIv over the case as ever did IN my
re- THE child got well, and after the
ionea If what seemed like proper period
presented my bill. There had been nine
toen visits and the bill was for Sl9 The
fotbor looked il over, and then dellber-
ateiv asked me whether l would like him
70 nav re the whole when it was con-
venient or what he thought proper rght
then. . ,.. e,r
,,,, money but / wanted the full amount
alf' NV bil He said he'd give me $17 on
~ spot. otherwise I'd have to wait. l
ao,Idn't take the SIT, and | have never
Got ANYTHING 1t is sometimes better 70
lake what you can get in this world ana
he thankful things are no worse than they
are.
go to Headquarters.
"N1v first real victory over circumstances
nos won while | was studying medicine.
rrbe enring term had come TO close. l
went to nv father and limited that my va
cotton expenses might be a little in eX-
cess of mn allowance. He didn't take the
RIM AT ali kindly. In fact, he said things
70 the boy that didn't set very Wen;
he nointed out that I was already pretty
weli suDplied with cash, which was true,
ana drew my attention to the fact that
aitboueh l had been working hard as
student. perhaps, I had never yet earned
onv money for myself That being the
fact I had no answer TO make.
"Rut the next day / went down town,
walked into the office of a big corpora
tion and asked for the president. l scorn-
ed TO state my business to any lesser light
when that was suggested, and in due time
was ushered into his presence. The
nresident was busy talking to some one
when I entered. but made myself known
as soon as I could.
"sYou don't happen to want to hlre
likely young man for a clerk, do your 1
asked him. .. ,.-,.,....
No he said, shortly, without looking
I'M or stopping the smooth flow OF his
conversation for an instant.
81 was surprised AT first l thought Of
going away without further parley, but