El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-06
Wisdom From Spiders
Success Lessons Are Taught To
Men By the Industry and
perseverance, Of the
Spider.
BY MADIsOE c. PETERS.

N THE Proverbs we read: "The spf-
dor taketh hold with her hands and
L is in the Kings palaces" What
success lesson in this spider, where in
5ustr- and perseverance mounted into
the kings palace.
That was a long distance for the spi-
der to climb, it must have started from
tbe foot of the outside wall of Solo
mons palace and gone over the panels
of Lebanon cedar. higher and higher,
until it stood higher than the highest
throne in the world And so God has
decreed that they who Take hold with
their hands" shall attain to the kings
palace.
sheer hard work which enables all our
great men to force their way upward
In the face of manifold distractions.
our most successful men have been
among the least believers in the power
OF genius and were as -persevering as
the successful men OF a commOner
sort.
in taking I'D a subject and pursuing
a. Sir Joshua Reynolds was such a be-
lever in the force of industry, that he
held. Excellence in art, however exc
pressed by genius may be acquired"
Lord Chesterfield. who acquired a poll
ished style which made his name i'm
mortal for many years wrote down
every brilliant passage he met with in
Forty Years On a Sermon.
LYMAN Beecher's great sermon was
on 1.-The Government Of Cod. Asked
one day as he descended from the pull
pits steps how long 1t took him to pre-
pare that sermon replied: About 40
wears. sir" 1 have known men to pre-
pare a sermon In forty minutes and
who were wondering why they were
preaching to a lumber yard.
Why is it that the busiest men are
always called on when anything is to
be done? You might think that men
who had nothing to do would be called
on, but not so, the only men who have
are doing things all the time. They
have so trained themselves as never
tOsleave their time unemployed.
Success is ever ON the side Of the
hustler as winds and waves are always
on the side of the best navigator
The molding influence of a mans
life is something to do. Your business
will make you, harden your muscle
strengthen your body, stir your blood,
sharpen your mind, correct your Judg-
ment wake up your inventive genius
put your wits 10 work, arouse your
ambition. make you feel that you are
a man and must show yourself a man
by taking mans part in life.
Nd Progress in Idleness.
Idleness never made its way in the
world and it never will Some men are
always lOking for a snap. and hence
swindlers find It easy to make a living
out OF the gullible. A facetious crook
advertised that for the sum OF one dol
lar he would give the secret OF increas-
ing money fourfOld." His reply to his
artless dupes was, take a dollar bill,
double IL twice and when you open il
you viii find it in creases four fold"
and the fisher got the sucker.
A success saying which has gone the
the ROUNDS has IL that some men sue
coed by great talent. some by the in
fluence Of others, but the majority by
commencing life with a dollar.
Cunard found his opportunity for the
greatest steamship line in the world in
a Jack knife and a piece Of wood from
which he whitfield a model
LincOln'S Opportunity.
Abraham Lincoln found his Oppor-
tUnity in borrowed books which he
read at night. Calico saw his in bits
OF glass with which he made great dis
COVeries.
Nearly all the men who occupy
kings palaces have fought their way
up from the bottom They took hold
with their hands" Hard work is the
royal road to success.
An English author who had been
looking over a book Of biographies OF
eminent Americans said: The cabin
appears to be the birthplace of all
your great men,"