The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-05-29

sh2d methods of doing things. Some
years ago we were walking along the
principal street of small town when
the following incident came under our
observation. A summer shower had
lJust passed over the town and the trees
were still dripping with rain, A little
stream was rushing along yellow as the
clay through which it was dragging its
way. Two small boys had been swift to
discover the rare opportunity which the
muddy little stream afforded them to
Dulld dam, and with pants and shirt
sleeves rolled up they were down in the
water hard at work. Just as we CHANGED
to pass by one little fellow deposited
large handful of mud on the rising EN-.
bankment, which his comrade encour.
aged with words of approval. "That's
the way, Bill; you carry the mud and
III do the building" said the master
builder. "Yes," said the passer by to
himself, "Bill's comrade is a representa-.
tive person." The world is full of peo-
pie who are willing, yea! even ambitious
to build if only people can be found to
carry the mud for them. In other
words, it is an intirmity of human ma
ture to shirk all hard work and try to
promote success by using other peoples
brains and Drawn. We do not know of
course how it is in these days. Condi.
tons may have become very much in.
proved over former years. But when
the speaker was attending school there
were always some fellows in the class in
Greek or the class in Latin or the class
! IN geometry or the class in algebra who
were willing that the other fellows
should carry the mud while they did the
building. That is to say they were will
Ing that others should dig out the les.
sons and they were willing to copy the
results. Failure is inevitable when such
methods are practiced. If you are con.
tent in life to be poacher, a cribber, a
parasite, you will always have dwarfed,
shrlveled and good for nothing ex-
lstence The masters of art, of science,
OF literature, of finance, of commerce
are hard workers without an exception.
lake Robert Lewis Stephenson, Andrew
Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Marconi and
host OF others who have charmed the
world with the products of their genius,
and IN every instance their success NAV
be traced to the fact that they are indie.
fatigable workers. Hard work is the
power of success,
Fourth, some people fail in life be.
cause they lack good moral character.
There is an idea abroad that character
does not cut much figure in success, If
a person is smart and we'll educated and
admitted to polite society and is willing
to work his heart may be as black as the
Devlls and yet succeed. 1t is true that
1or time such person may apparently
succeed, but with blackened character
the foundation of his success is rotten
and sooner or later the effort of life
time will fall into complete ruin anc
destruction. William M. Tweed rulec
New York City for years. He ruled leg
islation, blinded the eyes of judges
pointed the finger of scorn and con
tempt at the people and sneeringly
cried, "What are you going to do about
it," But he was detected, flew from his
country, pictures of him were published
they followed him to Spain, where be
thought himself secure, by them he was
identified and arrested and brought tc
New York, where he died in prison
That is the success that accompanies
rottenness and impurity of character
You can have that kind if you want it,
Only few years ago Mr.. Parnell was
the astute and thoroughly trusted leader
of the Irish cause in the English Parlia.
ment. He had eloqusnce, education,
common sense, and above all was a
master OF men. Beginning alone, he
fought his way step by step until such
men as Mr.. Gladstone believed in him
and respected him and victory seemed
certain for him and his cause. There
was time when almost any man with
a clear eye for historic perspection would
have said, "Here is man who will live
in history as one of its great figures. %
In 1882 he was great enough to offer Of
his own accord to Mr.. Gladstone to re.
tire from public life altogether if in that