The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-03-16
Get to Work, Young Man.

ly imbued with the progressive and
wide-awake spirit Of the time. In the
series of Success Talks" now going
the newspaper rounds, he contributes
an article on Perpetual Pushing, ="
contains message for young Amer
leans.
One of the most distinctly marked
characteristics of the age Is impa-
tience.
Electric, motive power seems to
have set the pace. Men are every
where and always on the go. They
are no longer tolerant of the slow
methods which prevailed in days less
strenuous. But DR.. Peters reminds
the youthful generation that perser-
verance and hard work are still the
Keys by which the doorway of
achievement Is unbarred; and that
nothing really worth while has been
accomplished In the long march of
civilization without prodigious effort.
Says he:
Difficulties have yielded to per-
petual pushing ever since the world
began. Invincible determination
puts every difficulty out of counten-
ance and makes seeming impossi-
bilities stepping stones to success.
Carlyle once said: Know thy
work and do 1t. Work at it like a
Hercules. One monster there is in
the world-an idle man.
Turner, the painter, said: L have
no secret. but hard work. Beetho-
ven, the master musician, said: The
barriers have not been erected which
can say to aspiring geninus, Thus
far shalt thou go and no farther"
Dickens, one Of the worlds great
est writer's, wrote: Whatever inven-
ton or imagination I may have been
blessed with, 1t would never have
served me as 1t has but for my habit
of daily drudging.
Perseverance built the pyra-
mids, inclosed in adamant the Chi
nese empire, scaled the stormy cloud
capped Alps, opened a gateway thru
the water-wilderness Of the Atlantic.
'eveled the forests of a new world
and reared the peerless American re-
public.
Genius dutters, flushes and often
falls, while perseverance works,
wears and wins.
1T is impossible to leap at once
to fame. Gibbon spent 20 years on
his Rome Webster 26 years on his
dictionary, Bancroft &c years on his
history, Stephenson was fifteen Years
perfecting his locomotive, Harvey
was rldiculed by physicians as a
crack-Drained imposter for 25 years
before he was recognized by the pro-
fession.
John Ruskin said: Never depend
on your genius. If you have talent,
industry will improve it, If you have
none, industry will supply the de-
fciency.'
opposing circumstances not only
create strength, but give greater
power to resistance. BE sure your
calling is good one-then be as
true as steel to it. Whether conduct
ing bank or planting a row of po-
tatoes' do your very best, with an
IRON determination to succeed.
"Longfellow thus sings of tenacity
Of purposes:
The divire insanity of noble minds.
That never falters nor alates,
But labors and endures and waits,
TIL all that it foresees 1t finds.
Or what ii can not find II creates
Marcus Morton ran sixteen times
Tor governor of Massachusetts. At
last in admiration of his pluck, his
opponents voted for him and he was
elected by one majority.
Every great triumph is tho re-
ward Of persistence. Thinking.
while other slept reading, while 9TH
crS riotcd. explains why some men
succeeded and others failed.
Tho head Of Hercules is repre-.
Scutcd as covered with a lions skin
with claws Joined under the chin to
SNOW that when We have conquered
our misfortuncs Lccomc our help
crs."