Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-11
THE "sELF.MApE MAN.
Many Who Think They ara Such, But
None Who srs.

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A man may think that he stands
alone-but he never does. There is an
invisible company to help him. Mem
bers of that company may be General
Gordon at Khartoum, David Farragut
at New Orleans, Ra,ah Brooke of Sar-
awak, or some simple-minded "aver-
age" mortal who may be an Irish
foreman Of track laborers, puddler
In foundry, q seamstress with small
children to support, bed-ridden inva-
lid with the shutters open. 1t is q
great foolishness to suppose that the
company we keep includes only the
people who are with us. our audible
and visible friends and neighbors. II
includes as many people as we can
imagine-and the mind. can hold a
great crowd of them, and never has to
put out the standing room sign. It In
cludes a whole long list Of Dickens or
Thackeray's or Meredith's characters.
II includes all the people in books that
| are just as real to you as the people
you have met. It includes the teeming
populations OF lands unvisited-Indian
tribes with grave and manneriy chief
tains, Patagonians and Amazonians in
war r-canoes, wild, shaggy-haired ad-
venturers among flnny and feathered
creatures In India or Africa. OF course
some minds are peopled not with per-
sons, but with facts and figures-ser-
ried arrays of statistics, tables and
decimal points, dry distractions CO.
ordinated logical schemes, juiceless
| and desolated stun, punk as dry as
cork-dust ana as dead az rotting tim
Der. But even q mind crammed with
the bleaching bones Of the most arid
arena OF the provinces OF learning Il
irrigated every now and then by some
human impulse Of some kind that
reaches out to claim human personal
connection as q baby's finger wraps
itself In a small pink trustfui tendril
round the finger Of stranger.
You can't get away from IL. No man
Is as solitary as he thinks he is, He Is
In multitude when he Is loneliest.
Even the angels watch to see how he
will acquit himself, and we are sorry
when he does miserably.
You start out to do a mean and con-
temptible thing land 10! there steals
into your perception the face OF some-
body somewhere who would be hurr
and puzzled by the account Of It. The
strongest are those who stand alone?
No: the strongest are those who are
bulkwarked by their known reinforce
ment. No martyr ever walked to the
stake unattended. All antiquity, all
modernity, all futurity accompanied
him and rejoiced for the example OF
the man he was, and the ages have
profted by him. Underneath are the
everlasting arms"
A ridiculous creature, the alleged
self-made mani He may kick away
the ladder from beneath him as null
ishly as he chooses-tlie fact remains,
II the ladder doesn't. that the ladder
was there, and he climbed UP rung by
rung. Many hands helped him to rise.
he Is a base and callous migrate TO
deny it. The first mark Of the POM
pous. inflated fellow who came ''up
from the ranks" is his repudiatlonj Of
others and his ascription to himself OF
all the leviating virtues whereby he
came out through the skylight upon
the ridgepole Of the house Of fame. Al
most he persua6es you that he Is as
sublime as he thinks he IS. But II he
can do so much and be 30 much alone
III he Is so independent Of anothers
voice, OF anothers eyes, of the inspir-
alton Of q quiet life living close along
side his own-then why does he need
your personal audience to boast of It?
the hills, or complete with the roaring
Of the sea against the rock bound
coast2 It Is strange phenomenon
and laughable to see the bold ones
running from every direction, when
the deed Is done, each claiming that
he did II all. and was the first. No
wonder that such point is made Of
the fact that there win be reratings In
the world to come, and many who
branded themselves alpha will be put
among the omegas, and first and last
will be inverted. 40 @t ja1isRs
It is q world of ,interdepepdence 9 II
you could stand alone you would have
no business to do soa The stronger
you are the more. you are bound to
look out for the weaker. Your thews
and sinews were not given to you to
lift dumbells and display the CORFU
gated knotty upper arm and invite
feared champions to come on and take
a pounding from your fists, and there
by make reputation. Moral courage
Is the thing that counts. You must
take sides In the fight for the preva-
lence Of the good that ceaselessly Is
waged all around you. You must take
hands and take part with others. You
must suppress In yourself the element
Of the soloist and the self advertiser.
II you are going to try to do every
thing all by yourself, you viii be
nearly useless, for there are 30 many
things that must be done by concerted
team play. not by an individual. A big
python escaped from the snakehouse
In geological garden. At last sone-
body found II, black coil on coil, under
the floor. Il took twelve men to get
the reptile back where II belonged, for
the snake instantly tried to get Its
coils round any man who tackled II
alone, and in q flicker It would have
crushed his ribs In. The whole twelve
had to stand along the body, each man
Just the way with cooperative action
to make a city better or business
successful. There's got to be team
play, each holding on with all his
might to his own part Of It. Cross
purposes, friction, one tugging one
way and his teammate pulling and
hauling vexatiously at q tangent-that
never lands an enterprise anywhere
except In the slough of despond and
the chaotic welter Of ruin and old
night" such as the devils and the bats
love best. a.. fa 80
Take warning from the sad precept
VI dll past ulSdSpefb, anu VIC" WIN
suspicion the proposed course of him
who intends to do 1t all himself. The
man who did not listen to the intui-
tion Of his wife lost the most valuable
tuition Of all, in the classroom Of this
life Of ours where one preceptor sue
ceeds another to the end Of the work.
ing hours. He didn't take advice" Is
many a mans unchiseled epitah. 1t Is
no credit to you II you disdain and
overrule the guiding hand and mind
Of one who is much older than your
self In the business. You will be writ
ten down, not as the genius or the
seraph, as You would like, but as the
blatant jackass. To learn is to be wise,
and the wisest are the humblest. The
real meaning Of the word humble Is
on and of the ground itself; and hu-
mility Is fundamental in every mans
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
To Help the Farmer Till His Crops.
1t was announced yesterday that
Secretary Houston had created In the