The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-06-21

who have been taught the old max
i'm, mind your own affairs and you
will be always happy and not in the
way of Others"
A happy, genial, gentle, manly,
womanly and friendly disposition will
help us to gain opportunity more than
any other factor we can learn to &C
quire.- Create within yourself the
same kind of life, both at home, at
play and at work.
The public hates and despises a
back-biter and a knocker. Better for
a person to be asleep in a cemetery
than to be a grumbler and GROWER.
He is a nuisance to those with whom
he ONE in contact. He will be a
failure to himself, to his friends and
to his God.
We all shudder when we hear of
the awful death bed scenes that are
brought up in the .limelight of pub
licity.
Look at the opportunity that Harry
K. Thaw had to redeem himself and
help repay his aged mother, who stood
by him and fought for him through
those long dreary years. But instead
of showing a manly dispositionhe has
fallen deeper into the slought of mis-
cry.
Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the
greatest example of a person grasp
ing opportunity that we have any rec
ord Of.
He was born of humble origin and
hardly knew what the world was like
outside of his own limited surround
ings. From a boy of obscure and
humble ~parentage he rose to the ex-
allied position as the chief executive
of one of the greatest nations on
earth. When the opportunity came
he hit the dreadful curse of slavery.
He hit a death staggering blow from
which it has recovered and won
for himself the proud title of "The
Great Emancipator." His life was
crowned with success and glory be-
cause he was broad enough, deep
enough and clean enough to grasp op-
portunity when it came his way. Ev-
en- in death he has not failed as his
broad, clean spirit has guided many
another man up the steep hill of op-
preston and doubt and set him on the
) road to success and prosperity.
- Another man who knew enough and
had the necessary requisites to grasp
an opportunity was George Washing
ton. He learned early in life the fun
damental principles Of all of our lives
above us and who knew the best ways
to do truth. Truth, too, was a great
factor in his success; he is the only
man that we have any record of hav
= ING never told a lie. He always was
a gentleman, whether talking to the
most enlightened men and women OF
t his time or the poorest tenant that
was ever on his estate. He a the
necessary force Of character that
/ made him a leader of men. He al
WAYS was to the front in everything
that. held an opportunity so that he
could do good and help others. he
always was a defender Of the weak
and a helper Of the poor.
: He won for himself the fitting title
as "Father of his Country" and was
first in war, first in peace and first
| in the hearts of his countrymen.
Woodrow Wilson is today the most
: talked of man in the world as he has
, won the admiration and respect OF
the world for he has had the tact and
ability to grasp opportunities when
they came his way. He arose from, be-
) inc the son of a Presbyterian minis
ter to the leading professor in one OF
our eastern colleges and from that
to the presidency Of the College, then
Governor of his state and then to the
greatest position within the gift O q
free and sovereign people.
He has passed some OF the greatest
reform laws through congress in the
history of the nation because ne has
8 the initiative and ability to grasp ar
Z opportunity when it comes to him:
: We have also another opportunity
and that is being patriotic. Patriot
i ism is taken up in different views
According to some Of the press ont
must be in for war IN order TO bt
patriotic. but the fact II that tht