The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-29


through sunshine and storm, through
sleet and rain, even when there is a
leak and the crew In mutny, and new
er gives up the helm until IL steers
into the harbor of success. Ii will
bring a man through when every 9th
er quality will fail him.
Henry NJ. Stanley speaking Of his
success in Africa against tremcnduu
odds says:
no matter how near death might
be, even IL were In the hands Of the
eXecutioneer and surrounded by
guards, should never yield without
one last desperate struggle. should
be oyerpowered, but what OF that? !
had died hghting."
when Gen. Gordon saw soldier
at Appomattox running away from the
battle at the top OF his speed he stop
ped him and demanded.
What are you running for?"
Because cant ny' and on he
went
How many run away from battle
and victory just that way,
Irresistible determination. looking
for future triumph through present
trial, has always begotten confidence
and commanded success. Caesar
would not have crossed the Rublcon
nor Washington the Delaware had
they not fixed their gaze on objects
far beyond the 3erils at their feet.
Most of the failures In life are due
TO want Of grit or nerve \ yielding
disposition. or, in other words, no
backbone to map out course and
pursue il steadily unswervingly TO
the end, leaves many a one behind in
the life race. You know how the
boy said he learned to skate--bv get.
ting up every time he fell DOVE and
trying again.
Men who have been always success.
full have often been defeated, but they
turned each defeat into stepping
stone to further progress.
Edmund Burke said, Never dc.
spair, but If you do work on in de-
spair.' Every successful man is the
story Of an iron will and invincible !
Franklin dined on
small loaf in a printing office, with a
book in his hand.
Locke lived on bread and water In
a Dutch garrett II was this same in
spirit that sustained Lin |
coin and Garfield on their hard jour
ney from the log cabin and the tow
path to the splendors of the white
house.
Prescott was blind, but he put grit
in place of eyesight into his work and
became one of our greatest historians
In our own time remarkable in
stance OF what grit can do even when
by seemingly insur-
mountable obstacles, is presented in
the case of the deaf, dumb and blind !
girl, Helen Keller.
Miss Keller has conquered all ami |
despite her defects has demonstrated !
that she Is able TO take her place in
almost any line with her more for.
tunate compeers. In her blindness
she sees the beauty of the universe,
in her deafness she hears the music
OF the spheres through the ears of a
contented mind, and with her left
fingers she voices the emotions OF her
being and the happy thoughts that are
hers. So far from bemoaning her
fate she would not exchange places
with queens.
Another great specimen Of grit
and determined manhood was man.
tested in the statesman Jew, Benja- !
min Disraeli, afterward Lord Beacon
field. Sooffed at in the house Of com
mons on account of his race, he hurl !
ed forth:
The time will come when you will
hear me- and so II did.
On another occasion, when attack |
ed he thus Acknowledged and defend
ed the faith Of his race:
Yes, am Jew, and when the
ancestors of the honorable gentleman
were sayages in an unknown island
mine were priests in the temple"
With such qualities as that you can
not keep a man down; he will make
stepping stones OF stumbling blocks
and cross the river Of opposition TO
the bank OF success Imagine Eng,
lands surprise when the hated jew
became prime minister and got a
seat on the woolsack,
Louisa NJ. Alcott fought poverty for
tWapty ,aarg NgltiuU 10 uyfth p,lt+ !