Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-11-13
DR.. Marden's
Uplift Talks
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARpEN.

BY oRIsoN SWEET MARpEN. S
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Copyhght b. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
ID USKIN kept on his study table q
~ handsome block of chalcedony. or
which was engraved To-day"
We all know people who, according
to their own account, would be very
philanthroptc II they had but the
time; who would visit the sick. relieve
the poor, and comfort the widow and
the fatherless In their afiictions. did
leisure permit.
Others would become great authors.
singers. inventors, statesmen. II they
only had the time. But, alas! they
have absolutely no time-not more
than one or two or three hours q day
at most, and what does that amount
to-?
An education that would acorn a
man of letters. or. qualify a college
professor, has been secured In the
fragments Of leisure that are often
wasted because they are SO brief.
Some people will pick up a good
education In the odds and ends of
time which others carelessly throw
away. as one man saved q fortune by
small economies which others disdain
to practice. Who is too busy to give
an hour day for sek-improvement?
Great characters have ever been
misers Of their moments; they have
always placed high value upon their
time, and have never known q man
to do anything very great in this
world who set q light value upon his
time. A youth has the ability that
does things when he sets high value
upon his time and Is always trying to
Improve himself in his spare moments.
have never known such youth who
het not turned out well.
You will never find" time for any.
thing. II you want time, you must
make Il.
There are moments" says Dean
Afford, which are worth more than
years. We cannot help it. There is
no proportion between spaces of time
In importance or in value. A stray,
unthought-of five minutes may contain
the event of a life. And this all-im-
portant moment-who can tell when
1t will be upon us?
Drive the minutes. or they will |
drive you"
Many a great man has snatched his |
reputation from odd bits of time which |
others, who wonder at their failure to |
get on. throw away. In Dante's time |
nearly every literary man in Italy was |
hard-working merchant, physician,
statesman. Judge. or soldier.
Rufus Choate used to lay out
course Of study in the classics prac.
tically parallel with that Of the young
men in Harvard university. and by
improving the few spare moments
which his immense practice left him
would keep pace with the students,
year after year. |
Macaulay wrote his Lays Of An
Client Rome" in the war ONCE while
holding the post Of secretary Of war.
Mr.. Gladstone also kept in front OF
MIN this word: Today" This was
to be a perpetual reminder to him of
The rapid flight Of time. the rapid slip-
ping through his fingers of his pre-
cious life capital. and It was his de-
termination never to allow an hour to
pass through his hands from which he
1ad not extracted every possibility.
he was always storing up bits of pre.
'ious knowledge. valuable information.
Ind this colossal accumulation. this
n"rvelous. self-improvement and self
culture. were responsible, for a large
'art of his gigantic achievement.
What q rebuke IL such.a life to thou.
ands Of young men and women who
brow away whole months, and even
ears. of that which the Grand Old
IAN" boarded up to even the smallest
fragments.
Success in life IL what Garfield
allied question Of margins" Tell
ne how a young man uses the little
aged edges Of time while waiting for .
aeals or tardy appointments. after his .
avs work IL done. or evenings-what
e is revolving in his mind at every
pportunfty-and I win tell you what
hat young mans success will be.
The worst Of lost hour 10 not %
,uch in the wasted time a. in the }
lasted power. IF you are idle, you b
re on the way to ruin. and there are q
Nv stopping places upon 1t. Il 10 c
ather a precipice than . road" said b
[enry Ward Beecher.
Let no moment pass until you have :
from Il every possibility.
7atch every grain in the hour-glass. =
ct your record be for the coming :
ew year: mo moment wasted. no !.
over perverted. no opportunity neg =
'cted."
ONE time ago ! read . story about
q young ofl1cer In India who con-
aultod \ uroat rhvsfn&>~ A>~~.NI