The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-12
Listen, Young Man!

Listen, Young Man!
The achievement of youth startles the world.
Experience is often the worst teacher. Her re-
bluffs dampen ardor and deader ambition. Youth
is not fettered by knowledge of limitations so it
rushes in where angels fear to tread and performs
miracles. Not knowing the impossible, youth has
faith in achieving it.
Raphael painted the Madonna of St. Anthony
at % years of age, the Sistine Madonna at ~.
Shelly wrote his sublime drama, 'Prometheus I'm
bound, at H. Alexander Hamilton wrote two of
the most influential political phamphlets of his
time at II; and at 20 he joined Washington's pri-
vate staff. John Calvin published his Institutes
of Theology" at ~. Burns wrote three of his
greatest poems at the same age. William Pitt was
Chancellor of the Exchequer at %; at 25 he was
one of the foremost of his time. Give was
head of the English forces in India, distinguished
himself at Arcot, and was called heaven born
general by Pitt, at ~.
Mozart composed an opera for the opera house
at Milan when years old; Fl he had written 800
compositions; at 80 he was the greatest composer
of Europe. Keats won an immortal place among
English poets and died at 26, Edison at % received
$40, 900 for telegraphic invention.
Isaac NEWTON ignored Ill duUuOTlty anu CTdUl-
ton of time and discovered the law of gravitation
at27. Bell didn't know he couldn't talk from Den
yer to Boston, so he invented the telephone at ~.
Napolean rebuked an officer for saying i'm
possible" in his presence. Napolean said: There
are no Alps" and led the French Army into Italy
at ~. Had Joan of Arc been older and experience
ed she would not have attempted to lead the French
into Orleans and drive the English hey ond the
Loire. At II she stood victorious beside Charles
when he was crowned King in the cathedral.
so nigh is grandeur to our DUST
So near is God to man,
When duty whispers low Thou Must
The youth replies, L cam %
The world owes much to the Astounding belief
of Youth. Youth will undertake and accomplish
big tasks. Youth has blazed it's trails into undis-
covered realms and brought back new law new
song, or new machine.
An army of men can run cotton GIN but it
took Eli Whitney, youth of u, with Astounding
faith to invent it. There thousand men who
can send wireless message, but it took Marconi,
youth of "a, with unfathomed faith, to discover
the law. There area host CT to play the March,
but it took Mozart, a youth of 20, with unquench-
ed enthusiasm, to compose it.
LII Une executive Cudlr anu AROUND Cn0 Q1foct-
ors table of successful business enterprise are many
men scarcely turned 3d. They are not demagogues;
they have not sat idle in the market places bemoan-
ing the inequality of fortune
Sad will be the old age of the youth who for
gets his fathers struggles his fathers thrift, his
fathers God; and lets the morrow take care of it.
self
The world owes no man living, but every
youth owes the world life.-Leslies Weekly.
The State Board of Control has received sixty
nine offers of sites for the new woman's reform
atory. Thirty one of the offers received from
commercial clubs or councils.
The Board is planning to visit all the sites be-
fore deciding which will be accepted.
Panama, Aug. 1.-THE Panama canal was re-
opened this afternoon, permitting the passage of
ten ships, including the steamer Finland with
many passengers board. Altogether twenty