The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-01-08
XII.
XII.
PESSIMISTIC HUMBUGS.
(Continued.)

(Continued.)
you. young man. when you git through
with your schooling and start out IN the
world TO make your own living, because
I know OF the disappointments that will
face you in every direction that you try
to labor in, simply because mankind as
a whole is so mean and penurious-
You'll find lots OF men that won't ad-
NIT that you've got any talent. not even
II you've always been at the head OF
your class. They will take a kind OF
fendish delight in making you feel bad.
II they can jab sharp knife into your
sensitive nature by anything that they
can say they're always ready to say just
that thing
My opinion is that more young men
have been disheartened and sent down
the incline OF bad life by the stingy
meanness OF men in business life who
call themselves honorable. than the
liquor habit has ever sent there. And
these men will have something 10 answer
for when the day OF reckoning comes. /
imagine. and they are generally the men
that strap up their hearts just about as
tight as they do their wallets. and they
let go of their contents with just about
the same degree of liberality.
You'll go home TO your boarding place.
young man. many "A time, and set down
by yourself and think over the possi-
bilitles of life. and you'l wonder II it's
wuth the struggle. everything seems so
set against you. But you must always
remember that IL Is wuth the struggle
Never try TO get comfort out OF pessls
mistlc idea of things nor let any or these
INSCRIPTIONS men turn you aside from
the path OF duty and the high ideal OF
life that you have formed.
Why, IF IL wasn't for these obstacles
that you will have to meet i'm every di-
rection, you never become a strong man
such as you want to become.
II takes n crucible TO bring out fine gold
you know. Well, these obstacles and
discouragements that sometimes tear
your heartstrings, Is the crucible for the
refining of your nature into n noble man
hood So you see. from all OF these
troubles In life there is a blessing at the
end OF IT all
II YOU have determined TO be temperate
in everything that you do, and you have
some high purpose I'm life that you are
determined TO work to attain. you'll reach
II II you are true. and all OF the phalanx
OF selfish and evil-minded men of the
universe can't interfere with you.
When you git ready TO go into business
and you want TO hire another thousand
dollars, then you'll find out why me
world calls charity so cold
You'll probably want an endorsement
and he'll look you up. That means, by
looking YOU up that when they git
through with the process there won't be
much left Of you. unless the looking up
process finds that you are possessed Of
some real estate somewhere on the earth
] think that federation tells the truth
when he says, "The ordinary banking
institution has got about as much heart
and real warm blood in it's veins as
rooterbagy turnip has" n YOU haven't
got much money to begin with don't ever
larn on banks to help you out
What you need most OF anything Is
courage That's the best capital that
any young man can have. without II
you'll never git very far In the CONNER
cial world. The most successful men
we've ever had succeeded because they
had courage.
Just see what Cyrus w Field accom-
plished when he laid the Atlantic cable
He'd been successful as merchant and
had retired with a snug fortune. Then
IL came 20 him that he should do some
thing for mankind besides spending n lot
OF money that he had laid up. and he
set 10 work His first attempt lost 200
miles or cable, and $500. .O0O Sunk most
OF his own furtune. Tried again: lost
300 miles more OF cable alone with lots
OF money His friends got discouraged.
but he kept on They called him a
visionary mortal. Finally. the cable was
successfully @ IN 1888 and n message
sent across the water TO England. All
OF a sudden the current OF electricity
stopped and 10 wouldn' work any more.
All loet: tho entire line abandoned
Started again, and lost l.2co more miles
OF cable.
Probably you and would have given
up there. but he didn't. In 1856 after
thirteen years OF comparative failure. a
cable waE made sufficiently strong and
laid across the Atlantic Ocean so that 70
worked and worked permanently. To-
day we are talking 90 our friends and
neighbors across the seas as a result of
this mans courage.
For there Is no other thing that had
20 much 10 do IN bringing ab0Ut me
Trans Atlantic cable as courage. and Il
took a lot OF it
Mr. Field said that all that troubled
him most was the thought that he might
not live 10 see his undertaking carried
through. and 20 he prayed 90 his Maker
that he might be spared 90 finish tho
work. and he was.
wonder n any pesslmlsts or inadels