Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-07

that the mill shall never grind again with the water that has passed
 The little, tender feet which we can now hold in the bollOwS of o'sr hands simply must come. in due lime, to that mountain wall and begin that heart breaking climb. It is not kind ness which forbids those feet to walk except on carefully smoothed and graded paths. and which finally, un able longer to prevent, sees them be- gin the periiouS ascent unlla rdened to the toll which it needs all a trained mans toughened brawn and tried nerves to endure. A trucr kindness would be th2t which should slowly accustom them first to the natural in- equalitieS of the valley, then to it's scattered krohs and to the buttress- ing foothills before permitting them to attack the massive mountain range itself. Such a training would at least give them some chance to succeed. while the opposite training handicaps them from the outset with the probability of failure
 Only yesterday my New York paper told bit of business history that may be pondered over by all who aspire after business success. One Of the oldest. largest and most profitable re- tail houses in New York city has just come into the possession of a new
 
 some twenty or twenty five years ago, and was given a job at sweeping in one of the big departments. He did his sweeping well and learned all he could about the way in which business was managed in that department A sudden vacancy which had to be quickly filled led the manager to give him a "chance higher up" From that clerkship he worked his way on to foreman and manager and now to the !propriietorship So much the teaching of what my western editor calls Broom college did for one young man between 1885 and 1911.
 Now, am not going into any rhap- sodicai fiapdoodle about the pleasures of sweeping. As a straight matter of fact, l do not like to sweep. I sus- pect very few people do like to sweep. It might not be out of the way to construct new form of the verb ito sweep:
 do not like to sweep:
 You do not like to sweep:
 He Cor she) does not like to sweep. think that would cover the gram mar of sweeping with fair accuracy. But what hiTe our likes or dlsli<es got to do with it? There's the dirt: sweep that dirt with that broom or take the consequences, which are those that naturally come from living in unswept dirt. like the other hogs It takes some little strength and some little skill 10 do even so simple a thing as sweep. Some of us use the broom a great deal: some of us the hoe: some of us the axe: some of us the saw and hammer: some one tool and some another Whatever it be- the sooner we begin to learn it's use and the sooner we callous our palms yt hn hot will be able to do with it later when its use becomes necessity, and less painful will then be the blisters on our hands.
 Is seems to be an unavoidable law of nature that we must, the most of us, work for a living Likewise in- exorable is the law which makes practice and training absolutely es- sential to the doing of any work we'll and with comparative ease. We gain more strength by using to it's limit the little we begin with. We can acquire skill only by constant practice. Some men are born courageous but most of us learn bravery only in battle. We sharpen our faculties Keenest by pain- fui attr1tion on the grindstone of ex- perience. Now we must have brawn and we must have skill and we must have courage and we must have keen wits, if we are to win any sort of success in the long struggle which we know as life.
 Isn't 1t worse than absurd for US to stand in the way of the younger gen. eratiOn acquiring these qualities so essential to their own future welfare Just because we can't bear to see them undergo the processes which are fun damentaly requisite? We can't by any possibility prevent them from meet ing hardships what we too often do is to forbid them the training in hardihood which will fit them to meet hardship with contempt and conquer it with honor
 THE FARMER.