The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-11-08

Copyright 1907 BY Henry q Parani1
A face enough Ike BIsmarek's e
make the resemblance startling. q
slender. Eiry. boyish figure topped By
a white head. a manner self-assured
yet never eoarsely aggressive. There
IN a nutshell. IS the personality Of one
Of the most picturesque. interesting
figures in all New Easland-;hai o; W.
L Douglas. Ex-Governor OF MAssaehu-
sets.
But IT Is net chiefly as Ex-Governor.
or indeed as statesman at al. that the
world at large knows Mr.. Douglas. a
quarter-mIle OF factories. yearly out
put OF something over three million
pairs OF shoes. and a face that looks
out from the advertising columns Of
eight thousand neWspapers-these are
the outward attributes that have made
the name OF " L Douglas 50 familiar
nom Maine to California
The story Of the man who could make
himself 50 well known: his secret Of
achievement. his life history and his
hints on business success viii not only
be OF interest. but Of prOnt 70 every
class Of reader.
For the description Of = hard climb.
Of a winning fight against circum-
stances and the climbers rules for
victory are always worth herring The
world loves a fighter and takes an In
terest In his battles.
And W. L Douglas Is a fighter. as
even the most casual student OF human
nature could CLEAN from one glance at
the strong. prominent Jaw. the level
brows. the arm set OF the lips.
That cast Of features set Bismarck
20 topping European thrones The sauce
with = gentler mould Of
ere and MOUTH has caused Douglas TO
revolutionlre business, TO wiring wealth
from poverty and political power from
q State peopled BY a maturity that dif-
feFs from him In politics
bismarck tore down Douglas has
built I'D. That Is where the mIlder ere
and mouth come in.
There Is = keyEord to Douglass sue
cess. OF course Several OF them. in
fact The foremost Is Advertising"
His Life Motto.
Newspaper advertising Is his life
motto in business. First. be cure you
have something worthy to advertise.
5omething just as good as you say II
b. Struggle to keep IT as good. and
then advertise It constantly. The
newspaper Is the field In which my ad-
has brought me the only per-
'ectly satisfactory returns. And I have
iried many lines before settling down |
exclusively to that theory
The same "cradls" served FOR New
England and for the man who was one
lay TO be Governor Of is Oldest state.
For It was in ancient Plymouth. scene {
" the Pilgrims lanflnr. that Douglas /
vas born. in ISIS. his was as pathetic
nd hopeless Z chEth3cd AZ eve u.cr-
ms pictured for David copperneId or
'ther OF his luckless boy heroes Tat
Douglas rose from Il 10 any later POSI- .
ion whatever speaks volumes for the
itun he was made or
In $50 news came 10 a Plymou-h
woman that her husband. tie bread
winner OF their large family. lad been
iroEne1 al sea Al the cLIiren were
Iouns. The mother vas almost With
'ut means 50 tro years later size
bound our one OF The broaI
a precocious bor o. zcre--.o he
ineie. a shoemaker. TIE chlFs ass
rom then on became one long ga %
irudEery and hardship HIS ulea -.
i'm al once q pezE1s shoes by hanJ.
This Was a task lo- gF5wn a1ras.a.
1ut Tia baby fingers were KEEP. 81 d.
ncessalt toll Of i from d. 70 d1r-
No holiday. 70 iet-1p Of a1y scrt, and
Eo-1t OF AL 10 W
Iae sevel-.ear-o.l BOY waF carrying
iria-y heavy weapons in IFS nfs-ba.- I
De. Il, has been csrrying. them ever
iiace- His ABILITY % 10 20 sx5ilins
rhr he became Governor william L
DouEias. instead Of merely Jouraeymaa
Bill D0u-i2s.
Hiz uncle was. a stern task-aas,s-.
Apart from the shoe-pegEins. the chns
vas called upon 10 perform 4 score OF
equally severe duties. Among them
vas the twiee-a-day journey into n I
woods. In bliterest New Enr.aad
winter weather. TO cut and drag in
wood for the shops fires.
Only at rare intervals was he allowed
70 leave his workbench for he school, Z
'oom- But at such periods he proved I
70 apt scholar as to make W FOR the I
Ong lapses He was greedy for educa-
don and seemed 10 absorb his scantv I
PORTION OF Il without EFFORT. II was
'nly BY this strange proficiency that he /
cleaned any learning at all
For four years the slavery went on.
Then Douglas returned to his mother.
But so valuable had he become In the
hop that his uncle induced him TO
'ome back to him at the munlacen,
rage OF 5 a month. Untn he was fs-
cen he continued to work thus. all the
line busy with new ideas along his
'Wn line. These Ideas were one day to
'ear frult
Once. seeking TO better himself. he
rent to work In Plymouth cotton
niil At = cents day. This meant fully
month. and the = ralsa seemed
~ unlike . dream 81 wealth. But fA,s :