Semi-weekly herald., 1915-06-28
STICK TO YOUR DREAM, BOY.

The cartoonists are busy making
funny pictures of young men gradu-
ates and their dreams of future
achievements. 1t was always SO. Any
boy with dream of doing something
great in the world is likely to be
laugher at and many a boy with a
big idea has been squelched by ridi-
cule.
But nearly every great man was
once u boy with dream and the rea-
son the dream came true was beacuse
he stuck to it and was not disheart-
ened or turned aside by ridicule.
Thomas Carlyle, the poor Scotch
tutor; how his fellows laughed when
he told them of his dream to be
a great author. The idea of that
dreamer with threadbear coat and run
down shoes aspiring to be writer
of books And, when stung by their
ridicule, he cried:
"I have better books in me than
we're ever written" they roared with
laughter, and then told each other
that he was touched in the head"
He stuck to his dream. Rrdiculc
could not swerve him; failure did not
dampen his ardor. Lifelong dyspep-
sia and scolding wife could not
hinder him. He spent thirteen years
writing the "History of Frederick
the Great" one of the greatest Of
all historical books. He worked years
on his French Revolution" and
when it was finished housemaid
kindled the fire with it. Undaunted,
he wrote it over again, and if you
have never read it read it now, for
it is one of the greatest books ever
written.
Lafcadi Hearn, with facial dis
figurement that repelled the butt Of
his schoolmates because he had big
dream of becoming a great writer, 60
ing to London to fulfill his dream,
wandered homeless wait Of the
sluIls, coming as stowaway, sleep
ing with the horses in a stable in
Cincinnati, pauper in New Orleans
through it all the star of his dreams
never set, and then it far away ia
pan that dream came true, and he be-
cane the interpreter to the English
speaking world of the literature of
that mystic land of flowers and leg
ends.
Napolean Bonaparte, walking alone
in the garden of the military school at
Brienne, his classmates laughing at
him because he had dream of be-
coming a great general. He stuck to
his dream and became an emperor
and the head of conquering armies.
Joseph Pulitzer, poor German i'm
M grant boy had a dream which
brought him over the ocean to the
new world. Cralling into the cellar
way of big building in New York
City to sleep he said to a companion:
"Some day | shall own this building"
and they said he was dreaming. He
was. and he stuck to that dream. AS
Il poor waiter in st. Louis, reading
law al night in the public library, the
dream was ever near him. And it
came true when he erected upon the
spot where he slept in doorway in
New York one OF the greatest news
paper buildings in the world.
And so the story might be length
ened into columns of Benjamin Frank
lin going out into the world with a
loaf of bread under his arm, luder
by his dream that came true when
the United States achieved indepen-
dence and became a nation; of Dav-
id Livingstone studying medicine at
his loom in a cotton factory dream
ing of the unlocking of the mysteries
of dark Africa and upon tablet
above his body in Westminster Abbey
you may read of his dream come true;
of Thomas A. Edison, the newsboy,
with his pockets filled with electrical
apparatus, and in his head a great
dream of his factories in Menlo park
you may see the realization of his
dream.
Stick TO your dream boy If you
have hitched your wagon to a star
let nothing dismay you.-Kansas City
Star.