Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-04-09

no one will find any fault, il that is
your highest ambition. Do the very
best you can and do not see how
much you can soldier. Make the
most of every opportunity and some
day you may be like a man I know.
| He was a section boss on the rail-
| road but he kept striving and working
and finally he was promoted and then
kept going up until he got to be road
master and eventually to Division
Superintendent of the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad.
A great many fellows think they
are men when they are not. also think
that chewing tobacco and drinking
are manly qualities. But l want to
tell you that they are not the very
best recommendations for position
and besides help to break down your
constitution. Don't do it! You may
be wise and know how to appear in
society; you may not drink enough
liquor to hurt you; you may wear
diamonds on your fingers and on your
shirt bosom and you may have clubs
and club houses, summer houses and
winter houses-you might have all
these things and not be a man. But,
after all, to be a real genuine man.
you must be honest, industrious and
upright Be absolutely pure gold
like a cube OF gold, which is just as
big on one side as on the other and
the more you use it and the more you
rub it, the brighter it gets. Rise
above those injurious things. and say.
No plug OF tobacco nor cigars can
dictate to me-" And if wine should
come your way, if woman with a
you, refuse it. Look not thou upon
the wine when, it is red, for at the
last it biteth like serpent and sting
eth like an adder" Rise above it and
get it under your feet. Don't spend
your money for that which is not
bread but get the best out of your in.
tellect. Be a mana manly man
With your brain, your muscle and
your heart working in harmony with
God is what makes you what you
ought to be.
1t is great thing to Try to de-
velop your very best self. l don't
say that because man takes a glass
OF beer he is low sort OF fellow. |
don't say that, but l do want to say
that If you wish to get out of you
thing that will give you less control
over yourself. ! consider Man the
greatest being that walks and if you
can add to the worlds wealth and
power and goodness, it will help to
make the world better and add some
thing to its advancement and chal-
lenpe the attention and admiration OF
men. -.
can remember the day when my
brother and l carried papers. We
used to get up at three o'clock in the
morning and start out on our routes.
We had one Of those good old Ger
man mothers came over from Ger
many when she was little girl, only
eleven years old, and my father also
came over when he was a FIVE year
old boy. They met and. in the course
in the good old-fas shioned way-you
know-and plenty of them at that.
And you may know the notions
about dressing the children the moth
ers had in that good old day. Well
some boys wore what they called
jeans, you all know what they are.
Our mother was particularly fond OF
brown jeans and that was what we
| wore. If We wore them two or thrce
months they would fade out and the
| original color would not be recog-
nized, so mother would put big new
square patch on each knee and one
in the rear. sometimes in the shape
our way some OF the high-toned Yam
KEGS would laugh at us. But we
went on Our way just the same. My
brother said. I'VE have not as much
money as those high-toncd Yankees
and may not be as good-looking, but
| we are just as good after all and
will show them some day what am
and what | will be-" But the days
rolled on and We grew older and still
worked for so cents day. working
from six to twelve and from one TO
six. / never know then that | was
going to be preacher. There was a
big wholesale house on our
route and my brother used to
leave the morning paper there. One
day he said, Il am not going to stop
here but ! am going to work and do
something better" Il am going to
be the head OF that big whole sale
house Aomc day." and now today he
is one OF the head men in one OF the
biggest wholesale houses in Iowa
where he used to slip the paper under
the door. He started to save his
money and now he is president OF that
stock company. Fellows, you can
not stop the man with enterprise and
grit Make the best OF every oppor-
tunity: always do your level best;
try to get the best out of life. You
can be something and somebody and
Use above the ordinary. but. II you
want to be a mole hill and are salts
fed. that is all right, but be a noun
tain il you can.
A man who succeeds is the man
who watches the little things. For
instance. see how the goldsmith does.
After he is through with his days
work he sweeps up the little filings
..s 4 Il
work table and, instead OF throwing
them ont. he keeps them and by put
ting them into the crucible he saves
enough gold every now and then to