Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-10-20
MAN,.

Men covet no higher compliment
than to be called a MAN. Weak men
entreat; strong men command. The
measure of greatness is the capaci-
ty to guide with gentleness.
Man is the supreme creature of
imagination. The beaver has indus
try; the dog love and loyalty; but
man employs the imagination and di-
reefs or suppresses the labor of all
other creatures as they may serve or
obstruct his purpose.
| Man is the superlative power be-
cause he pits his mind against matter,
ever attempting to harness and put
to use the forces upon the earth. He
| is the only animal that has risen to
the heights of prophecy and he COM
pels the prophecies of one age to be-
come the realities of the next.
Men are measured not by muscle
but by the use they make of muscle.
1t takes a good head as we'll as a
good arm to pillow field or weld iron
on the anvil.
Men are measure by the use they
|
are trained but by what they can do
with their training.
Great men profit by the accumulat-
ed experience of the past and bequeath
their Interpretation of achievements
to those who follow.
The world has produced but few
Michelangelos, Millions, NewtOns, and
Shakespeares, but they have lived to
show us to what supreme heights man
may rise when he drinks at the fount-
ain of the worlds ripest experiences.
They have shown us that one man
may concentrate in one channel the
forces of many channels.
The history of mankind is the story
of the investment of sincerity and
faith; of failures and disappointments,
that like buried acorns rise into
mighty forests.
/, The mans part is not to measure
the passing worth, but the ultimate
worth of labor that is dedicated to
an ideal,-to a service pursued with
might and main.
The true man builds his life around
the core of divinity within him as the
vine climbs the lattice to lift it's bios
som high.
Man is like tree in that he is
planted to bear fruit. And, like a
tree, if he is to bear fruit, he must
invest himself in the land on which
he is accustomed to stand. If trans
planted, he must invest himself in the
new land or he fails to bear the fruits
that are priced.
A man without country is as sad
sight as tree with naked roots re-
clining on a travelling cart. And it
is as impossible for a man to claim
two countries as for a tree to claim
two orchards.
All men are self-made men. 1t is a
common practice to regard as self
made only that man who curries the
doctors horse to go thru college. The
test of manhood comes not III prepar-
alton but in performance.
Aff1uence is not less a handicap than
adversely. The rich may perform the
noblest part no less than the poor
The world does not measure man by
his money but by the use he makes OF
money-by the way he invests him
SELF
Booker T. Washington tells us that
it is a great privilege to belong to
an ascending race because the man
who attempts to scale the Alps OF
nobility clasps his hands with the
hands of the worlds best men. 1t is
the worlds nOblest who are always
reaching down to help humanity up
1t is left to the snip to sheer.
The real man will not wantonly
walk on a worm nor crouch before
an emperor
Because it is human to err, no just
man condemns any man for one bad
action. 1t is the accumulation of deeds
put into the balance that fixes mans
worth in the world.
Only fool is consistent. The wise
man is not afraid to make mistakes
to own his mistakes and to correct
them. The open mind is the road to
wisdom.
A good man, like Z. dog, never has
to rest on pedigree.
A man is honored as he gives worth
to his word and they live longest
whose deeds endure beyond stone
Madison Journal.
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