The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-07

died rich in goods who were morally.
Intellectually bankrupt. Then success
does not depend so much on the occu-
patton one pursues as the way he pur-
sues it. Pope says :'Honor and
shame from no conditions rise: act
we'll your part there all the honor
lies.' All experience shows that the
greatest and most continued favors of
fortune cannot of themselves make a
man happy, neither can the deprivation
OF them render altogether miserable
the possessor of a clear conscience
and we'll regulated mind. Goethe,
who seems to have been born to show
how little worldly goods can do to
make man happy, confessed that he
had not during the whole course of his
life enjoyed five weeks of natural hap
plness. But success is necessary for
happiness. for it is certain that if hap
piness is not found in success it is
not found in failure, and it must be
admitted that the pleasure of a long
sought for, ardently desired success,
dreamed of by night and toiled for by
day, is probably as complete as any
thing this side of heaven. Behold a
tall tapering cone, having like pic
torial representation of the temple of
Belus at Babylon, pathway winding
around and around terrace above ter
race upward. Crowds set out for the
top and along the lower terraces
multitudes crowd the way, but as we
look up the crowds become thinner
until at last we behold a few stray
glers going up, up, up, and a smaller
number standing on the apex. Such
is success. Since this is success, how
it is won will be the next question. Is
it won by the persons sitting with their
hands folded awaiting for opportun-
tiles to come in their way? No, it is
by those who are up and doing for
themselves: working out their own
problems of life, each days problem,
if worked we'll, making easier the next
days to solve. Many of the unsuc-
cessful think they could have done
great things if they had only had a
chance. They say something or some
body has been in their way SO that
they could not carry out their plans
or they repine that the fates have been
against them. But we are all given
opportunities and abilities enough to
enable US to be moderately successful,
and if we fail IS times out of a
hundred it is our own fault. Let us
not complain because the fates are
against us. but when we trip and fall,
let US. like Caesar when he stumbled
against the shore, 60 forward and by
escaping the omen change it's nature
and meaning. There are many who
want to begin not at the bottom of the
ladder but half way up. They want
some one to give them a lift or carry
them up in balloon so that they
might avoid the early and arduous
struggles Of a successful life. But we
should all begin at the bottom of the
ladder and work our way up toward
the top, each one willing to do his
part and share the difficulties. And
let US begin to climb toward success
when we are young, for then we are
stronger both mentally and physi-
cally, more able to perform those
tasks which are before us. In order
to be successful we should be ones
own helper and not look to others
for support. ''Help yourself and
heaven will help you:" ought to be
the motto of every one who Graves sue
cess. For he who begins with
crutches will end with crutches, and it
must be remembered that it is not in
the sheltered hot house but on the rug
ged Alpine cliffs where the storms
beat most violently that the healthiest
plants are reared. Courtesy is
another of these elements, feeling of
love and Of kindness for ones fellow
men. and this courtesy should not be
merely thin covering that can by the
least breath be moved from it's posi-
ton and discourtesy discovered un-
derneath, but it should be deep and
penetrating. For ture worth is in
being not seeming. In doing each day
that goes by some little good, not in
the dreaming of great things to do by
and by, for whatever men say in their
blindness, in spite Of the fancies of
youth, there is nothing as kingly as
kindness and nothing so royal as
truth" Charity also is an essential
element. By this we mean the help
ing of the poor and disconnected, and
we should help them in the right way
if indeed by nothing more than a kind
word which, in fact, is worth more
than 100 pounds in gold if this be not
given in the right way. Let US not