The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-30
Get Up and Try Again.

There is one good thing about the
law of gravitation. If you trip, or
stumble, or lose your balance, it will
bring you down to earth quicker than
you can wink, but it doesn't keep You
t, ere. You can always pick yourself
up again.
Much the same conditions exist in 9th
er planes of life, too. In the business
world, no man who has any life left
has to stay down just because he fell
down. If his health is reasonably good
nothing that can happen to him can floor
him completely.
| once knew a young man who had
the misfortune to lose both of his feet
in railway accident. He was studying
medicine at the time-was about ready
to receive his diploma, in fact and
everybody said what a pity it was that
so promising career should be ruined
in that manner.
1t wasn't long, however, before the
people began to realize that they had
been talking prematurely and without
having ascertained the ideas that the
victim himself might have in regard to
this matter. Had they consulted him
they wouldn't have been so ready to
eondole with him concerning his ruined
career" for he hadn't the slightest in
tention that it should be ruined. His
accident threw him back in his studies
for year but that is all it did. Twelve
months later than would otherwise have
been the case he took his degree, and,
the last | knew, he was practising in
one of the larger cities, doing a great
deal of good and making lot of mon
ey as a successful specialist
The simple fact is that the surgeon
who amputated his feet didn't cut off
his ambition at the same time. They
left him cripple, but he still had plen-
ty of grit left, and, when he was
strong enough, he started out to show
that he had lost none of his brain force
by the operation. Many men would
have been content to take an easy job
that would permit them to sit in
chair all day This young man bought
himself pair OF artificial feet and went
back to college.
And he was not an exceptional in
dividual. There is a lot Of courage EN-
bodied in the human race. Keep your
eyes open for a few days and you will
be surprised to see how many persons
you meet who are laboring under almost
as great, if not greater, handicap.
There is just one place where the blow
is fatal to further endeavor. Take
mans wits away and he becomes
helpless animal As long as his brain
remains unaffected nothing can stop
him except his own willingness to be
still.
In view of the many cases we know in
which men have picked themselves up
and gone on again after a serious fall,
how absurd it is for any person to give
up the fight simply because he has met
with a few financial reversesl The fact
that you may have lost some money
that you have been deprived Of your job
docs npt mean that your last chance
has been taken away from you, un-
less that is the way in which you pre-
fer to look at the mishap. There is
still plenty Of money in the world wait
ing for people to come and take it.
There are still plenty of tasks to be
performed. If you search for these
tasks in the right place you can find
people eager to pay you for performing
them. The only requisite is~ that you
must look for the job that you are ca
pable of filling. Don't hitch your am
bition to SO distant a star that you
are unable to see the opportunities that
are nearer home.
Many persons fail to win success be-
cause they overestimate their present
capacity. Because they know what
things they would like to perform, they
want to jump right into that sort of
work, regardless Of their ability to make
good.
1t is right that we should have high
1t is right, too, that we
should keep them well in view, but that
does not require us to attempt to real
ize them before we have the capacity
for such great undertakings. Lincoln
was content to be a lawyer and Garfield
\ teacher before they became the chief