The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-12-11
SUCCESS.
An Grafton Delivered by Harry
T.. Seville at the Farmers In
stitute.

If we wish to meet with sue
cess as we sail on life's stormy
ocean, we must have an iron will.
If we fail, we do not lack strength;
we lack will.
If there be any one that Difficult
ties will dishearten and cause to
lose thatpower which is lever to
success, he will do little to main
tain a higher standing in life.
Is there one who will conquer :?
That kind of man never fails.
He uses ever difficulty as a step
piugstone to success. These are
the kinds of people that the White
House calls fo~. The Legislature
welcomes them to their vacant
chairs, and the farm beckons
them to come; in fact, they are
welcome in every business de-
partmeut throughout the land.
Nothing is impossible to the
man who can will. He says to
himself, "Is that necessary? then
that shall be-" This is the only
law of success.
There are three kinds of peo-
pie in the world-the wills, the
won It's, and the can'ts The first
accomplish everything; the sec
ond oppose everything and the
third-fail in everything.
The shores Of fortune are GOV
cred with the stranded wrecks
of men of brilliant ability, of mer
who have wanted courage, faith
and decision, and have, therefore
perished in sight of the more res
olute but less capable advent
urers who succeeded in making
port. Hundreds of men go tt
their graves in obscurity, who
have been obscure only because
they lacked the pluck to make
the first effort. If they could on
ly have resolved to begin, they
would have astonished the worl6
by their achievements.
The great difference between
] those who succeed and those VIII,
fail, does not consist in tn,
amount of work done by each
but in the amount of intelligent
work. Many of those who fail
labor in haphazard way. They
build up with one hand and teal
down with the other. They have
no faculty of turning honest de
feats into telling victories. They
are forever throwing back anC
forth the empty shuttle, and the
real web of life is never woven.
Now, if we expect to make any
thing out of life, we must graSl
at every golden opportunity as i
presents itself, and use our spar,
moments so as to bring in grea
results. AS we travel along tn,
road of time we read this notice
LOst-somewhere between sun
rise and sunset, two golden hours
each set with sixty diamond min
utes. No reward is offered, foi
they are gone forever Sad tC
think that lost time is never found
Our idle moments can never be
regained. An ancient poet tells
US! Eternity, itself cannot re
store the loss struck from the
minute.
Wealthy men have been miserS
of dollars, but great men are
misers of minutes. If a man ex
poets to succeed in life, he must
not brood over the past or dream
of the future, but seize the instant
and get his lesson from the hour
Lincoln, one of the greatest
lawyers that ever stood in the
halls of justice, studied law dur
ing his spare moments while his
comrades We're idling away theil
golden hours.
J Beautifully has the poet put it
"Of memory many poet sings,
And nope hath Oft Inspired the rhyme;
But who the charm of music brings,
10 celebrate the present time.
Let the past guide, the future cheer,
While youth and health are In their prime
But Oh be still, thy greatest care
That awful pont---the present time"
How many people think they
are not noticed because they can
, not count their millions We car
be rich without money. There i.