The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-05
Uncle DQUe's Letter

Did 1t occur to you that most Of
the worries to which we daily sub
ject ourselves are over things that
never occur? The keenest anguish
that sometimes we endure 10 In an
ticipation and never crystaiizes into
fact. Have you evEr dreaded for days
a certain encounter; q certain un
pleasant meeting; certain business
necessity and find when you had fin-
ally steeled yourself for 1t, had final
ly shut your eyes. gritted; your teeth
and reached out to4tuRsle with it
that 10! It had turned into q friend?
What you feared and, shrenk from and
dreaded was creature OF your own
imagination, and afterwards you won-
dered how you couiu ever have
thought otherwise. Yet out OF this
very condition Of things grows the
difference between success and fail
ure.
1t is tho things wy make ourselves
do that In the doiEg conquers. and
after q while series of them resolves
itself into what it called success.
There Is nothing beautiful about, the
bull dog-yet the world over he is
admired for hia tendency to "hang
hn." II success could be carried out
with nothing to do but to smile, those
who succeed would be greatly aug
mented In numbers. There are no
machine-made successes. They are
only found down the path where we
urged our feet to carry us. Not
where inclination led. They are found
away on past the unpleasant encoun-
ters. the pleading of our own case, the
convincing others Of our views, the
ability to hold onto hang by-until
conviction Is wrested from the re-
cesses of unbelief, and final victory
walks forth to remain thereafter IL
constant trophy. Many of us are able
to 20 ahead for little while with an
undertaking because, when first tack
led, enthusiasm Is big assistant. We
can endure few knocks and console
ourselves that we are heroes and our
ability is boundless. but by and by the
billows come oftener, the Ill wind in
creases to a roar, advice is offered on
evoTy side but no assistance. the gem
eral tide is threatening 10 engulf us
and 1t begins to look dark to our
selves. We are passing through the
crisis now, and our bang on" ability
will mean success or failure. Right
here is where men fail--wheTe man
kind fails. A little longer and the tide
must recede, the shoal must disappear
and the deep clear water float 0Nr
craft without O danger or n scar.
With indefinite sailing Of the sami
kind ahead. Now the men who win
can always tell you that they passed
through this crisis and they arc ahead
of their fellows today.
The other ones, those who grew
faint hearted. who let go. Well, you
will never know from them whether
or not the thing they clung' to had the
elements of success: "They let CO." It
was O use of the man and not the
deed and this procedure is true OF
every individual in this world, be 1t
carving out one hundred acre land
or building transcontinental rail-
way.
Apply the stick-to-it plan, and brain
and Drawn will bend to your will and
assist In carving ont success such
az it Is hoped can be the lot of every
reader Of The Intelligencer.
Don't send your children 10 Sur-
day school: go yourself and take
them.
The man who thinks that tho world
or. town he lives in, could not get
along without him, would be surpris-
ed II he only knew how little he
would be missed. even among his
|.every day associates.
"A country store Is public place.
and much is often said there about
people. by thnnghtless farmers, The.