The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-07-06

A reader Of this newspaper writes
to ask for an article on the following
very interesting questions:
"Do you believe success is possible
for all?"
SIS It not true that where one sue
ceeds another must faily"
"Is there success enough to go all
around?"
"What Is success"
Let me dispose Of the last question
first. Having done that. we Will be
In better shape to attend to the other
questions. What then, Is success?
Broadly speaking, may say that
success Is the realization Of ones aim
and object In life. whatever that aim
and object may be.
or course, In a world filed up with
"many men OF many minds" the
direct ions along which We think and
aspire are endless. and OF endless
variety. In more senses than one
what Is one mans meat may be
another mans poison, and that
which one person might consider
success would not seem at all like
success to another person.
don't know what you are after,
| don't know what IT is that you
have set your mind and heart on. but
whatever II Is Its attainment will be
! for YOU at ieast--sucCesS
TO the man who lives to make
money, success means fortune In
dollars and cents. TO the man who
lives to make his fellow men happy,
success means the putting OF sun
shine and Joy into human hearts.
The artist Is successful when he
paints the tine pictures: the orator,
when he lays hold upon some new
secret OF nature; the horseman, when
he breeds horse that sets new
pace at the racetrack; the prize
fighter, when he gets the belt for
being the worlds champion bruiser
and so on without limit.
Hut taking these many men OF
many minds, the question comes
. Can they all "make good" as the
saying goes? In other words, Is sue
cess possible for all?
. 1t depends upon whether or not the
individual is obeying natures law
In the case. Nature, for reasons
!. best known to herself, makes great
. differences In human beings. Some
are strong, some are weak, some are
swift, some are slow, some have
. genius, some only talent, and some
. again are OF very humble mentality.
Some have a natural aptitude fol-
: the things which Others are In nc
way fitted for.
Daniel Webster might, or might
. not, have been able to successfully
!. run his farm at Marshalfield; but II
!. Is absolutely certain that Mr.. Web
/. ster's oversecr at Marshaltield coulG
!. never have made 1.-The Reply t
:. Hayne.
!. Beyond Il doubt Mr.. James j.
!. Jeifrics would have but ilttlt
:. trouble In knocking out Joseph II
{ Choate; but II Is question as L
: whether he would prove to be sue
} cess as ambassador to the court o.
Saint James.
] John ID. Rockefeller has giver
! evidence OF the fact that as n casl
gatherer he Is no 'slouch;" hu
J there are those who would seriousl,
I question Mr. Rockefeller's ability /,
write poem like Paradise Lost
! or To paint Il picture like 9Th,
Angelus' or "Christ Before PLATE. :
The point OF all this Is that, II
. fixing ones aim, one should tirs
: endcavor to determine the direction
of ones adaptabi,ity-t line 70
3 which one would seem, by nature. t,
\ DO best fitted.
l.. There Is very much more than W,
sometimes think In the old chestnu
3 about the "round peg In the squar,
4 hole. ("
. Many OF the failures OF this worl,
y are owing to the fact that the RICH
man gets into the wrong place. Ill
. is the right man-tor some othe
: place. Had he got into that othe
= place he would have been success
2 Having found your place, however
; having found the line for which yol
y are best lifted, there Is no reason
why you should not succeed.if yol
80 viii only resolve TO succeed. 1t !
persistent will power, the stead
concentration OF purpose upon tn
object In view, that wins. To b
faint hearted, to have ones mind bu
half made up, TO lack decision an,
courage and the belief In ones un
conqucrableness Is to fall,
III Hut perhaps the most interestinl