Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-18
PERSONALITY.

PERSONALITY.
The Something that Makes Some Men
Count in the World.
To make the man you are count In
the world for his full value, you must
be more than a man-you must be a
person. On all sides of us we see those
who are content to be merely slight
ly noble and more thoughtful order
of animal. Their first care +. is. for
what they shall eat and wear, and for
"a comfortable pillow; their last con-
sideration il bestowed upon an ampler
mind. Q, wider heart, truer, tenderer
feeling. They are lost In the mere
mechanics Of living, never discovering
the fine art and the beautiful science
Iof life. They move on from one day
to the next, as though there were to
be no end of days. Their minds are
ever 80 slightly fixed on any world but
this. on any time but now; on any life
but this life. They do not aspire, nor
inspire, nor reach out beyond a mar
row. pitiful tether, well-worn cir
cumference that only leaves a rusty
circle in the grass where they have
walked and eaten. Is that the life of
man? Is that his destiny? Is that
what he was put on earth to be and to I
do? tft no EFJ2 ;lFS9
But there are some who difrer-
some who stand out clearly and are
Observation-Disclosures whose cominGs
and goings change an atmosphere, give
wings, dissjpate our malaria, throw
light into dark places Of our souls,
open wide windows and let in fresh
air. These are the people that we look
for many days ere we see them, and
are wistful after when they have de-
parted What makes the established
istinction-wherein are they to be
marked and considered apart from
other featheriess bipeds? Who shall
read US the riddle Of that mysterious
quality-the union Of all qualities
that we call personality?s How shall
we detect man from superman, human
from superhuman, moral from angelic,
carnal from spiritual? What Is the
galvanometer to register, by the de-
Election OF q slender needle, the force
Of the spiritual current that we may
read It? How shall we know person
when we have met one? Does 1t not
profound experience to read another
soul Alright? May we safely trust the
earliest casual impression?
II is possible to waste a whole lot of
time endeavoring to discover some
thing that Is not there In another
human being. We are prone to ideal
ization and hero worship-and Ii Is a
blessing that such is the bent Of our
minds We should be poor, indeed, IL
we did not believe that others are bet
ter and drawer than we are. "A 3
mother has an inalienable right to be-
lieve that her own child Is the most
voyed to earth by an admiring host OF
seraphs The most miserable creature
that encumbers the face Of creation
must have someone, somewhere, who
attributes to him more satisfactory
character than he possesses. But Is Ii
a wise plan to spend much time and
trouble erecting shrines and planting
temples to clayfooted idols when we
know what and where the true gods
are and have once breathed the pure.
free air upon Olympus? When half
gods go, the gods arrive" In our
blindest and most fatuous illusions we
keenness Of vision to penetrate hy-
pocrisy and sham, to read the differ
ence between the man or woman who
is real and the one who isn't, to dis
tinguish between the anemic drowser
and drifter and the one who Is bent
starward with fixed resolve that no
sorrow disheartens, no defeat plows
under, no major violence cam over
throw, and the devil himself cannot
countervail. iF'F 323Q
A man like that is man who
counts, who impresses himself, the
coiled handspring Of initial impetus In
many an effort whose central inspira-
tion is hidden, as invisible as steam
ere It condenses. Such prime mover,
such leverage, Is needed In almost
any community where one may look.
But the respected man Is not he who
invites attention to the uncommon
struggle that he has survived and the
uncommon fellow that he Is today.
He is not heard for his much speaking.
He is not always bleating for the
credit and the headlines. He does not
show his hand; anonymity is his con-
genial refuge He leaves 1t to the lesser
breed to squabble as to whose name
shall be uppermost, whose place shall
be foremost. And the woman whose
tells Is not the viciferous
one. She is not one men dread to
meet because she is deadlier than the
male. Her influence Is unobtrusively
exerted, but profoundly felt: 1t hoWs
through deep and quiet channels.
What does Influence" literally mean
II we will consider the word, 1t implies
anything but explosive violence, ag-
gressive upheayal, rendering dynamic
How wonderfully a ,wo-
man can bring about what she wishes
by gentle indirections-as Shakespeare
calls them-instead Of by masterful
II Is always worth while to enrich
our own natures by contact at all pos
sible points with the life Of the world
around us-with what real, live men
are doing and saying and thinking, as
well as with the memorials Of the dead
and buried past that lives again IN
it's books and in its art. Those who
never take in will have nothing to
give out. They will remain neutral,
impersonal, and they
will be lost in the crowd.-Philadei-
phia Ledger. s1z
Jonah's Tomb.-The site Of Ninevah
Is almost perfectly level. But ad5oin-
ing the western wall are two huge
concealing the burial places OF
the greatest kings Of Assyria. The
lower or southern mound Is occupied