The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-19
Uncle DaUe's Letter

1 When l was a boy there used TO
be a story In one OF my readers that
| told of a man who went a long way
from home to look at piece of land
he had bought. In order TO get bet-
ter view OF the place than he could
from the ground, he climbed to the
top OF stub OF tree. When me
reached tue top he found that the stub
was hollow. His foothold giving way,
he fell inside, clear TO the bottom He
must have had some interesting
| thoughts on tf y way down, but these
were as nothing compared TO his feel
ings when he found a bear lying
curled up down there. The mans sud-
| den appearance frightened the bear
terribly and with a grand lunge he
| sprang up and started for the top.
Now Is my chancei" thought the
man. and he grabbed the bear by the
whiskers on the sides OF his hams
| as he bounded out Of the hollow, and
| the animal quickly whisked him out
| OF his desperate position. | have al
ways had great deal OF resrect
for that man. He saw his chance and
| made a dive for it. The result was
all he had reason TO expect. If he
had stopped to figure It out, whether
| the bear would be strong enough to
pull such weight out OF that hole,
or whether he would turn about and
eat him up alive or not. probably
there never would have been a man
left to tell this story. But he lust
grappled with his opportunity and let
Ihe speculation. go till the next day.
! That was sensible. Millions of men in
our day are sitting down in the bottom
OF holes that are darker than that old
hollow stub, philosophizing what the
bear Will do and when he viii do Il,
and all the time the bear is fairly
bounding toward the top, leaving them
there alone with their speculations.
good many Of us weaf life away
\ isharpening our ra2ors and getting
ready to shave. In the meantime the
whiskers are getting fiercer and long,
er. IL will hurt like Sam Hill TO take
them off when we get around to It.
andtthen we will make bad lob of
It, II you and ever get much that
is worth getting in this world we
will have to get IL for ourselves. The
world is too busy with its own chores
to come over and do ours for us. So
what is the use Of waiting for the
other fellow to pick the peaches for
US? Grab and grab today. must be the
| word.
Simply because the peaches on our
tree do not seem to be swimming In
sugar and cream, let us not sit by and
wait until they are, The chances are
that we will never see the day vixen
we viii not have to pick the peaches
arst and look out for the cream and
sugar afterward. Nature, likes to do
things In her own way, and we must
.neknowledge her supremacy in such
II. There may be. a better day than ,thls
one we. are living I'm, hnfiit never VIII
come unless we gtaS. 1t with the
iseion of today. ~
! Some OF the Presbyterian churches
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