New-York tribune., 1903-04-28

mother. Pride overestimates itself I simply see
-Specious, but false" I told him. Pride has
h0odWnked INK you 2I you would never choose SCI mac &C
oh, mother!" Lillian FASTENED to the defence.
Who is Gilbert" said, Ito decide that; he
is not genius, he will be a nobody? Whatever
his powers may be. they are his 10 use. not to
how dare he let them rest unused. untesed?
said my boys doggedly. Zone might as well cry for
You beg the question" said. 1T is never i'm
possible TO use ones power as Ear as
And: again. who are you. to know what is is not
Lillian ne said. laughing. this is certainly
| not hattery, is it? What has become of our ad-
Lillian is wrong, too" said. for although
ae is IS not 509 Proud e orb6 to Gds the d unless e
her half-h@arled; and robs her of that good hope
prise: the overmodest are tne hackers out and
selfa basement is either vice at best a sckly
virtue. Life on ones marrow bones is an uEproft-
But @ n motheT yoq aig knGT II Wogd be Tegogs
monstrated my pretty rosebud wtstfuy. "Ciilbsrt
i'si% reach agree ''i'' '0 Us success Is 'lo' "''"'n
As I looked at them. both IN the promise of their
ttalftv of human nature overwhelmed me
tell? How dare you say it? And even if it were
so. Is ii not Just the things that may be bevOnd
our reach that are most worth striving for? Read
your Brovntng: "A mans reach should exceed his
grasp; or what's a heaven for? And aEain. What
aSlrfI 20 'tr Itno "as nor: comforts me. No
Wl1nn rH!ch IIHe II YOU M no ringer toward
for those who never leave the starting point. the
nrize fnr those who viii enter the lists the
laurel leaf for AL who shirk the contest They
1.-THE dif7culty." said Gilbert 'fs just that-to
thiUk can.
Put it 70 The test urged; make the expert
/ n7ert Self -distr1'st is such a ba~ren thing far
fatal to vir'le living then sslfconcett. II Is
tho cerker Of those who. through an error Of
pride r1odastv. venture no+hIug. In nine cases
ont OF effort irteIligen- and sustained. is the
srindIe ready ard Cod will ye~d the FAX who
81 said hat the saints are the sinners who kept
OF trying -"
'He that can d'e~ern ends
ShaTl pure erou~h to love them
Strong enou0h 70 strive for them.
PraVe enough n reaCh them
Th~i~~'s d~fuftion Of Nanpiress is worth consider
ine: Work 70 the end Of my life. and life 10 the
er1 OF work
''rt sounds IKE the treadmf'I' said nv SON azily
''Shun latharev as YOU would shun lenrosv." 7
advised him: remember that In earthly knowl-
Fr~e-son was right '~hAH he said that this world
he1o-,os 10 the ererpetic.''
lillian left her chair. and sitting down the
stool AT nv feet raised her fare to mine, a
horn receive tre-~hl're n her sweet eyes.
IT win trv rnotherI'nE'' she wrisner@7 "but what
"FverY+Nirg that Is worth having auSvered
hnld1v .'Tieten tn Stevenson: T. IS not ca'v in ~
II ho- enirit out ~ the man who MEANS exc
rr,-Jon which ou'lives the most u1trnelv ending.
TilIiau darling The great thing is 70 SCI out, Az
laast knock at fhe doo~ % achievement Long
ago a. omen door rro0nised 70 all who knocv-''
.sNfothe- ought to have hee7 narSon." sad
C-irhe-t laughing. He had flushed little. but his
S..rrben lev me give YOU nv hened'ction" said
for Il e4e stand Hte greyhounds in the slips.
etrairir,r upor the start .
va f,ot ,.o7-r s1t~ted. and ft'he~t did not
even Sbr,R his eto,,Iae-s think strictly between
all the world still within my reach-tIhe Cen
tlewoman.