The Newtown bee., 1901-06-14

IN THEIR ROOMS SATURDAY EVEN
 ING, MAY 9.
 | If there is one thing more than another which fills the thought of ev- cry young man and woman in the land, it is the desire to make a success in life. No one is worthy to be called a man or woman who is not generized by such an ambition. If then the desire is universal, surely it will be as widely interesting to ask: What constitutes true success? This I will not try to answer but leave it to those to do who participate in this debate this even- ing.
 One could not help but wonder as he stood and watched the almost noiseless workings of the great engines in any of the large manufacturing plants of the the state, that give life and action to every piece of machinery in the fac tory, or restrain the thought of what a mighty power was gathered as from the water over the lire was gener- ated the steam that seemingly so easily set the whole factory in motion. Fire was the inspiration of that life. So the fire in our hearts, which we call ambition, keeps the great human world in motion, and noiselessly it does it's | work with such power as to move with it's impelling force the whole family on earth. How important it is that this motive power should be right, for only as it is right can real success be reached.
 That life is not real success which finds it's motive power in the thought that money getting is the great object in life A man may amass the wealth of Rothschild or Rockefeller, and yet his life may be miserable failure. It is not how long is the income or how big the vault which carries our earth ly treasures that attest the victory in living. An, no, rather, as you have piled up money, what has been your thought in accommodating it? Has it been that you might be the almoner of Gods bounty, that you might help and relieve those about you less for tunate than yourself?
 If your only motive has been to minister to your own selfish comfort and luxury in the heaping up of riches with none to call you blessed, then your life, say, is a miserable failure. Are you living with the one thought of how you can serve your selfish am- bition and rise0tO' places of influence simply to gratify selfish greed of pow CT? Surely such life none, judging by right standards, will name as inn pelled by proper motives, neither can it be called in any sense successful | Understand, I do not belittle the power that money gives, or the laudable ambition in gain. ing it, but I do say it is shame to figure from such accumulation o1 riches or power alone an answer of sue cess. That life is real success which blesses as it goes; which, while it en. riches self enriches others; which, while it accumulates power, lifts others with it. Little words of sympathy, little acts of kindness, little deeds of love- little helping hands encircling others and making easier the way for them these are the little successes which gathered into one great whole, give the pattern of life which God approves Such life alone makes men honored and loved, makes of the life a sweet garden all fragrant with the perfume of it's flowers which, while they bloom for the gardener, cheer and bless those who pass his way.
 Like the line of the brook which, as far as the eye can reach, you can follow by the fresh green of the field through whice it flows, so the in fluence of the really successful life is felt by all that touch it, and when ii opens up into the everlasting life be yOnd, will still leave behind a fragrance and fruitage which shall be a halo o1 blessing and an inspiration to others struggling along life's way.-[x** E As will be noticed by the advertise ment of Mrs George Dunham, 1O9- Main street, Bridgeport, they are hay ing large vacating sale preparatory to removing to their new store. Tht new store is is not quite finished yet it is in Taylor's new block on Broas street, between Cannon street an( . Fairfield avenue. This will be one G the pleasantest and best appointed millinery stores in Bridgeport. Th vacating sale is now taking place an, goods will be sold regardless of price.
 Mrs Charles G. Stowe of Zoar wa
 thrown from her wagon near the hom , of George Winton, on Saturday aftel ) noon. She was returning home whe
 the shaft broke. She was not serious
 ly injured but her back was somewha strained and she sustained some ba , bruises.
 Mrs Nettie Curtis and friend of AT