The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-08-31
THOUGHTS oE YOU


To H. F. NJ.
When skies are biue,
And fields and flowers catch their
hue;
When violets grow beside the stream,
Where golden giints of sunlight
CLEAN
Upon the azure mirrored there,
And all the world seems strangely
fair
Then thoughts of you make dreams
come true,
When skies are blue
When skies are gray,
And bleak, the brown fields stretch
away
When blighting winters chilling blast
Ger trees and stream and flowers
has passed.;
When all the world seems dark and
With not ray of warmth to
Then thoughts of you keep gloom at
bay,
When skies are gray.
Too late, In former years much
more significance was attached to
his phrase than now, for the reason
hat the world is so much more
broad-minded that almost no mistake
row is irrevocable
There are such wide fields OF OPP
portunity, and they are so numerous
nd accessible, that the old opportuni-
y who was said to knock but once at
very mans door, has been RELOCATED
TO the realm where all knockers de
serve to lie, namely, that of oblivion.
In this day and generation man
Who fails in one experiment has hun
dreds OF other doors open to him; if
he fail in one city he has not to sit
hope. By means of the wonderful
Methods of transportation he may,
n from one to five days, put miles of
and or even the ocean between him
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.ir ships will facilitate matters.
Even society and religion are more
olerant, and willing to give a helping
hand to all who, regretting their
wasted youth and opportunities, are
striving to do better.
So there is little room and less
sympathy in this great world of pos
sibilities, for the chronic regretter of
what might have been" or the con-
.essedly weak who fondly imagine
that they might have achieved great
things had they had an opportunity.
They still may do so if instead of
waiting for opportunity to knock at
their doors, while they are knocking
their successful rivals, they force
open the door and seize the evasive
hermit by the shoulders.
However, there are few authentic
instances where a lack of opportunity
the most of these, the, | might say,
synonym, education, might be substi-
tuted for opportunity. If the thought
,ess would look up facts instead of
formulating fallacies they would find
that all places of prominence now are
illed by the educated,
If there be one instance where the
verdict of too late" may be truly
Qrophesied, it is of that boy who hav-
ing received the God-like gift of intel
iect, of the unusual blessing of talent
is yet allowed to have his brain,
through lack OF exercise and training
remain in the boyhood stage, when
his body shall have attained to mans
growth; the boy who with education
% pe had Cor the taking, is not
'orced to take advantage of his op-
portunities, and who must in later
life see the position he wants
jilled by others while his un-
tutored mind and unskilled hands try
vainly 20 express the beautiful ideas
struggling for utterance
Education is the magic key which
unlocks not only the door of finance
but those-o of intellect, enabling one to
appreciate the fine arts, and all that
is beautiful and poetic in nature.
Wouldn't it be truly pleasant if the
traction company (Which by the way
is said by recent visitor to the city
to have not only the finest but most
attractive looking cars in the South
would furnish some objective point
other than an unitarian one for
those who patronize its industry?
Many people DESTROYS OF spending the
afternoons in the open air are de-
prived of this pleasure by having no
where to so,
There has always existed among
thoughtful people tendency to visit
cemeteries, where on the marble
stones may be read the names of
those whose lahors helped to build
the city or village near whore
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
/ The rude forefathers of the hamlet
sleep"