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

Did II occur 20 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 is i'm an
ticipation and never crystalizes into
fact. Have you eynr dreaded for days
certain encounter: a certain un-
pleasant meeting; a certain business
necessity and find when you had fin-
ally steeled yourself for It. had final
ly shut your eyes, gritted your teeth
and reached, out to tussle with it
that 10! 1t had turned into a friend?
What you feared and shrank from and
dreaded was q creature of your own
imagination, and afterwards you won
thought otherwise. Yet out of this
very condition of things grows the
difference between success and fail
ure.
II. is the things we make ourselves
do that In the doing conquers, and
Ter while a series Of theri resolves
itself into what 1t called success.
There is nothing beautiful about the
bull dog--yet the world over he is
admired for his tendancv TO ''hang
on" If success could be carried out
with nothing to do but to smile, those
VINO 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 go ahead for a 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 i'll wind in
creases to a roar. advice is offered on
evcry side but no assistance. the gen.
eral tide is threatening to engulf lis
and II 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-where man
kind fails. A little longer and the tide
must recede. the shoal must disappear
and the deep clear water float our
craft without danger or scar.
With indefinite sailing of the same
kind ahead Now the men who win
can always tell you that they passed
through this crisis and they are ahead
of their fellows today. !
The other ones, those who grew
faint hearted, J, 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." 1t
was a case OF the man and not the
deed and this procedure Is true of
every individual in this world, be It
carving out q. one hundred acre land
or building q transcontinental rail-
way.
Apply the; sackSto-it plan. and brain
and Drawn will bend to your will and
assistyin carving out success such
as 1t is hoped can be the lot of every
reader Of The Intelligencer.
Don't send your children to Sun
day school; go yourself and take
them.
The man who thinks that the world
or town he lives In. could not get
along without him, weuld be surprss-
ed If he only knew how little he
would be missed, even among his
every day associates.
country store is a public place