The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13

novels who used to 'vow to the Peacock and the Ladies that he intended to put great enterprises through some day, must have left great many descend ants.
 There isn't day that we don't meet some windy dreamer who tells us of great things he is going to do some of these times. In the meantime he has no definite trail marked out; the chances are that he isn't even on the bright side of the street. he's meandering along all over the road, getting nowhere in partic- ular himself and what is a great deal worse he Is actually blocking the progress of. men who have definite goal to reach, who are in a tremendous hurry to get to it.
 Personally. I've never believed it was because the Hare stopped to take a nap that the Tortoise won the race
 We seldom waste the time; we stop to refresh ourselves; we usually come back to the race made over, and with energy enough to double our former speed, but anyone who knows the imaginative rabbit temperament naturally draws his own conclusions.
 The rabbit in the Fable no doubt took some side road chancing on it leading to the goal lndfy, anu WHtI nt ps-J pant in, the Tortoise was flaming himself at the Post.
 Have you ever known the man or wom- an who, having made up their mind to WHERE they wanted to go, about WHAT they wanted to accomplish, bend ing every energy to that end, fall in the result desired?
 q don't believe I have"
 And it isn't question of genius or taI ion, rla a n old logged determination, and being obsessed with fixed idea"
 "tTixed idea" isn't a handicap; those who are swayed by casual incidents of the day into this deversion or that one may make more agreeable dinner companions. but the final achiever is who lays aside all except the ballast he is required to carry and with some ONE end in INVENTORIES toward 1t.
 The race isn't to the swift or the strong, but to the PERSEVERING.
 one of the most brilliant newspaper correspondents in the world today begged for years in a southern town to be given place on a local paper as a reporter.
 He was told at last with brutal can dor that he couldn't write, and the edi- tor who gave him this confidence ad-
 
 drumming" preferably.
 But I CAN write" the undaunted spirit defied. Anybody that WANTS to write as much as l do, who is willing to work as hard as l will work, MUST have ability hidden away somewhere. tell you I am GOING to write.'
 He didn't get the job-even after all that-the editor remained obdurate, but he went to England later on and Ia, sn Af ft,a nef fa ,atta q newspaper correspondents in the east, and the same paper that turned him down years ago, pays more now for one of his articles than 1t would have given him a month in the days when he NEEDED the job.
 I've come to believe this noted war correspondent declares, that the walls of Jericho will tumble down for any body who walks around them long enough and batters against them hard enough. So few people WANT any thing with their whole heart and soul. The few who do, if they have enough persistence can reach up and pluc. the very stars out of the skies"
 The man or woman who doesn't know where he's going" but tells you he's on his way" isn't very much of a rival in any line of endeavor.
 We have to KNOW where we are go- ing before the race takes on any REAL significance.
 A cripple without his crutches could beat him to the Postoffice and come back with the mail before he got to the Courthouse corner.
 The man who doesn't know WHERE his is going hasn't any REAL value to himself or the community in which he lives; he's a dawdler and so insuffera- bly, indifferent that he doesn't take th | trouble to stand out of the way of the other person who is making for some given point.
 You may not be brilliantly clever. or endowed with the personality that sweeps all before 1t. but if you mark out your life in definite fashion with some goal to make and bend your en- ergies to that end all the lucky plan cts in the Heavens can't keep you back.
 The way may seem long and lone some, and the reward very, very far in the future. but it's YOURS-lf yes go after it eneased in the armour of DETERMINATION
 You may rest by the roadside as fre- quently as you feel the need of it, but the main point is to keep to the STRAIGHT LINE that goes directly where you want to end up.
 
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