The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-06


1000 times to vast audiences, and Pres
ident Roosevelt said of it only two
weeks. ago, If / had nothing else to
do should like to sit and hear 1t over
and over again for a hundred consecu-
tive nights
Ever since l was old enough to eat
pudding and milk I have contended
that every human being born on this
earth was born to fill certain niche
and that there are always plenty of
inches lying around loose. The longer
live the stronger grows my opinion
that this is so. The only trouble rs to
find your particular niche and find your
mark OH 1t.
"If l should ask this cultivated and
expansive audience who Shakespeare
was Il would feel insulted. All the
world knows of him. He was the first
man in the world to sling the English
language into such shape that n fellow
could go to the grocery and make the
grocer understand that he wanted two
pounds of sugar instead Of a bar OF
soap. Shakespeare was a long time In
finding his niche. He tried farming
and poultry and gardening before he
struck his gait, but when he finally
did he had the sense to stick to 1t and
make success. Literature was his
niche, and he flied II up TO the neck.
! He also filed us up to the neck with
pyoper English. Until his time the
husband who got up in the morning
and found his collar button gone
couldn't holler for his wife and do jus
tice to the occasion. He had to stand
and jump up and down and express
| himself In conglomeration OF lam
! guages the only word of which the lis
tening neighbors could catch on to was
| dammit
! Napoleon was also a long time In
finding his niche. He sloshed around
and tried his hand at half dozen
things and then struck the right one
and began to make the splinters fIy. II
the old man could have had his way
he would have made the boy cob
bier. Can you imagine the great Bona
parte pegging away at shoes or put
ting on cement patches? He came
along to his niche one day, found thai
Il fitted him, and he went to work lick
ing the whole world. His was fight
ing niche. As a farmer he couldn't
have raised enough buckwheat to get
up case of the scratches. AS a poet
he couldn't have earned his salt. AS a
politician there are 10000 men IN this
country today who could have side
tracked him as easy as grease. Some
thing told him this, and he stuck to
his niche.
Concerning piogenes.
81 shall not ask you who Dlogenes
was. You never met him. but you
have read all about him over and over
Never was there a denser child, never
bigger lunkhead Of youth, never
greater doughhead Of young man
1t was said OF him that he didn't know
enough TO pound sand. Up to twenty
FIVE he hung around between his ia
theirs house and the Idiot asylum, and
he was an object Of pity to all. HC
married woman that tried TO whacl
some sense into his noddle with thu
broomstlck but It was a failure, and
she returned TO her father, I'm a-tell
Ing you that Dlogenes didn't amoun
to molasses when his niche fnall
came gliding by and he fell into 1t, Ill
started out at being philosopher
The world had never had any philoso
ply up TO that time, and 1t took TO
like coon to cornheld.
''Diogcnes, without straining his bacl
a
lighted lantern. When asked VIII
he did II he had chance to repl
that hO was looking for an homes
man. That tickled the public, an