The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
MORNING THOUGHT
Poets may be born but men are made.
 Humanity. like iron in the
BY .. MARVIN NICHOLS.

Poets may be born but men are made.
 Humanity. like iron in the 1 A rough always gives little GFeater promise. But 9 bar valued Work at $5 is worth $12 when made into horseshoes: into needles. s350; into penknives, $3.0O0; Ito balance wheels for watches, S200.- 900. As by these processes Iron is in- persistent mental discipline do men DC" come great and useful.
 The greatest statesman this con- ltinent ever produced said: If work in marble, in time 1t will crumble; if rode; but if work with the mind. I work with that which will grow brighter through all eternity" This was but an anticipation of the great English philosophers declaration: "On earth there is nothing great hut man lin man there is nothing great Dus
 Webster once declared that yhere is saying saying Is S true. And yet. too many Young men plunge Into the world nn- lfitted for its desperate struggle. some men have succeeded without the best | uture years there win be but few who can thus stem the tide, Our greatest menace now Is the amasstng or for ltunes-I mean the dream of reaching that end. He who builds q fortune Is gold one piles up the less he becomes a public benefit. The tendency. Of wealth is toward seclusion in every himself on a cross of gold. There Is nO greater bondage than an abject slavery to money. An English tourist returned with this ieda-how the American: The lSThe Americans ideal Is the millionaire If such be our ideal--how low how infi- lniteIy low! It is said that Gladstone died comparatively poor because he was too busy to make money. Have you tsears s9 'ns Henry N Clay spoke of his iisad- horough training. George washington was "a self-made man." but in the pre- paration of his state papers he sought el graduate of old Columbia University. This Is no time for fiinching-no time for whining Our ferefathers Iiarges the vision of the youth of this lday. The world has a niche of honor or every young man our schools can turn out The day Of opportunity presses hard upon the Sountry's young greatness or our weakness. The worlS's biography establishes the supremacy of young life. Goethe declared that Shs %sn must In inc pc prime of fife have ruled the world and always will. A
 etrospect may prove an inspira- ton.
 Napoleon made all Europe trembls at I25.
 charlemagne was master of France Cortez conquered Mexico at 26
 Lord Bolingbroke was sent to Parlia' Iment at 2S.
 Clay and Calhoun entered congress lat 2s.
 Clay was speaker at s4.
 Calhoun was secretary or war at ISe.
 Webster was without a peer at ,SO.
 Goethe was a literary giant at 2& Burns wrote his best poetry at "A.
 Schubert and Mozart died at less than
 Raphael ravished a ,worm of art at
 Michael Angelo made stone to live
 Ellison harnassed lightning at 25.
 That truth is an inspiration-ths greatest thing in the world Is man: the greatest thing in man Is mind. When Jenny Lind was stirring old Boston with her power of song Mir. Webster called upon her When he had gone she arose. walked to and fro, and with describable earnestness exclaimed: |: 'Oh, that Is a man. that is man. l never saw a man before" That brings t one's mind the phrase of George FL Jott: 'T have seen Emerson; nave sen a man"