The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-15

laid down their arms because possess-
ed OF the idea that they had had
their one chance and failed, and that
opportunity would knock at their
door NO more. We were talking with
mch not long ago and he said that
he never expected TO do anything
more except just try to live, as he
had missed all chances and would
never have 81" more. This is a mis-
taken idea, L~ever, for 1t is not a
single opportunity that comes to al
man-it is a train OF opportunities,
a never ending procession. Some
small, some large. growing perhaps
more small as the years flow oH,i but
ever and always opportunities too
numerous and too large for us TO
utilize fully. And this Is a good,
healthy optimism for these times OF
bocndless opportunities. They are
bobbing up everywhere and on every
corner and are confined neither to the
city nor the country. Instead of
merely one skinny opportunity
knocking at the door and then scurry-
ing away, there are whole focks OF
good ones simply pounding for ad-
mittance at the door OF every capable,
vide awake man or woman. 1t Is true
we may fail to recognize some of the
best ones. perhaps. and they slip
away; We may slight others to our
sorrow. but in this golden age there
fa nevet~0 time when there Is not at
least one opportunity awaiting the
grasp OF the poorest and most unfor-
tunate. II they will only take advan-
tage OF them. Time was when the
opportunity 10 pile dollars was ac-
counted about the only one worth
while, but of late reaction has set,
pin and now the man with an oversup~
ply of gold bricks rs sometimes look
led upon witt; suspicion. There Is %
growing sentiment In favor OF mod
crate means and integrity Of charac-
ter, and the man who maIes the sad
mistake OF grasping the one oppor-
tunity of inc asing his pile is no
longer an oil ct OF envy or admira-
ton. At the present time there are
abundant opportunities for every man
and woman. every boy and girl in this
land to make life worth living. and
build up character and a reputa-
tion that all the gold of;the multimil-
iionaires cannot purchase. and at the
same time, to gain for themselves a
comfortable home and a god living.
AT the present time there Is also q
growing sentiment for quiet and un-
pretentious homes. In the country and
In small towns and II is to these
very homes that the eyes OF the world
are now turning for the sturdy man
hood and ']omanhood that Is to safe
guard the future OF our country-to
these doors that the best and greatest
opportunities are; even now knock
ing, ~ =
0pie Read says this would be O
dreary old world IL everybody in it
had million dbilars. Think of II.
Just. think OF 1t. lis. everShody- was
worth $1,000. 900 and q man asked
another to do some work he would
just put on q high tair and tell him
to go to HI. There was never q
falser belief ,thanetllat money and. ie-
horance can make O man happy. /
would like to impress this on, the
young man who hasn't dollar, Pow
erty does not mean virtue any, more
than ignorance means righteousness.
Some persons marry on railroad
trains fra ;s
And some atop a skyscraping
peak;
But most foolish and brave are those
Who marry on FIVE dollars a. week.
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A good many observers of the war
are OF the opinion that its end will
be reached rather by economic than
by military operations.
Did you ever see q hen try to swim?
Did you ever see one succeed A hen
knows better than TO try It, that Is
the reason why you have to say no to
those two questions. A duck may
swim all day leug on water with
cakes Of ice floating abound It, and
be. none the worse for the experience;
but a hen would die In short order IL
thrown into such water. The, duck is
built for 1t, the hen is not .5aF-
II the Lord, or the forces OF naSnre,
or whatever your religion leads you
to call the great creative genius, OF
the earth, makeBe eheh8jto i've, only OH /
the land and the ducks 10, live, on
either lard or water, IS but natural
to suppose that he also niakea some
people TO be faSfhers ana others to be
doctors, lawyers. merchants and
chiefs. Is the doctor tries to be q
lawyer, or the farmer tries to be d
merchant or doctor, he Is Just about
as sure TO prove q failure at 1t as
the hen is sure TO prove q failure at
trying to be a ddck.
The business Iiian--whe doctor,
lawyer or farmer will fid ert what
he Is cut out to be, aud. then stick 20
1t through thick and thin. If he d1ss
II with concentration and coHragsons
stick to It iveness he will win out In