The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1905-02-23

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and let nothing prevent. A man may
be honest truthful, ambitious and all
that, and yet If he does not cultivate
and push the spirit Of perseverance he
will travel through a lifetime and
bring up in a thistle patch at last.
Do not confound the traits Of self
viii or obstinacy with those Of persever-
ance. A man may be SO stin necked
that he will live and die claiming that
Noab's ark was painted blue, with yal-
Ter trimmings, but at the same time he
will never be heard OF outside his W
village. The spirit Of perseverance has
descended to us from the gods; the
spirit Of obstinacy Is kicked into US By
an old dun colored mule when we are
young.
/ still have my eye On the young man
with the yaller hair and am prepared
for any move he makes. but let US cite
the case Of Pliny. OF course Pliny lived
and died without having heard OF this
town of Gainesville and without hav-
Ing read that you once raised a prize
hog weighing 7c0 pounds, but his ex-
ample Is a good n to follow. He was
born tongue tied and cross eyed, but
early In life he determined to become a
great man. Some of you may have done
the same thing; but, unlike Pliny, you
got a sore heel or were crossed In love
and gave 1t up. He stuck. During his
boyhood, when he should have been 90
ing to school. his father had him out
digging for clans or angling for catfish
to supply the family larder and threw
many other discouragements in his
way.
At the age of sixteen, when most
boys start for college. young Pliny was
cutting marsh hay and digging pota-
toes on shares. Even at twenty about
all he knew was that twice five are ten
and that a full moon will make cucum-
bers grow an inch every night. Bun
perseverance was there. 1t was born
there In the first place. and in the next
1t wasn't charged any rent to remain
on hand till wanted. Pliny had his
idea, and he e let 90 OF it. 1t lay
down with him at night, and it rose up
with him I'm the morning. His mother
wanted him to go to work in a cotton
mill. so hat she could get her towels
and sheets ct 10 per cent off. and his
father wanted to apprentice him to a
shoemaker. SO as TO get cement patches
for nothing, but the young man took
the bit In his teeth and started in TO
study and learn. You all know what
he made of himself by the time he
reached thirty. He stood at the top.
and people for fifty miles around fell
pulls and send him In Early Rose pc
tatoes. He stood on the pinnacle be
fore he stopped, and a great nation
honorcd and respected him.
Perseverance put him there. Had
he stopped when he found that the
woodchuck had gone into his hole he
might possibly have turned out to be a
good windmill agent, but he would
never have become Pliny. l don't say
that any OF you will eve reach the ex-
allied station he did. and l couldn't
guarantee It even II there was So In
the house. but perseverance will boost
you up to a higher point than you &C.
cupy now IL you give her the chance.
I am happy to see that the young
man with the yaller hair has got oycr
looking for a circus and gone to sleep,
and ! will therefore cite you a case not
quite SO ancient, that Of Sir Isaac
Newton. the d~iscoverer of gravitation,
AT the age Of ten months. when he
pushed his nursing bottle over the edge
Of the cradle and saw It fall to the
door. his face wore a puzzled look. and
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