The Washington herald., 1918-01-12

know how 70, do IT, q
Pertinaeity wins worlds.
William Jennings Bryan said, you
can always afford to be In the mi
nority. but you can nevr AFFORD to be
In the wrong
Former President Eliot, of Harvard
University, said TO the freshmen.
Young men, you cannot hope nor
expect TO secure an education In four
years. You can. however. hope and
expect TO secure a beginning and after
ntetirne spent In studying and re-
search. then you will only have a right
70 consider yourself Just fairly well
educated"
Bulwer Lytton said, I'm the lexicon
of youth, which fate has reserved for
higher power. there Is no such word
as Fall"
Somebody said to a boy, How did
you learn to skater
Well" he said, by. getting up
every time I fell down" Yes, but
there is a sermon In that.
somebody said to Alexander the
Great, How did you conquer the
world?"
He replied, by not wavering."
Somebody asked Napoleon, what IL
me secret OF our success?"
he said. Il am half hour ahead
OF my enemy. / am prepared for any
move they may make because ! an
ticipate their plans
A piowhorse makes more miles in
year than a Kentucky thoroughbred
on race track. One reason why we
have 30 many round-shouldered men
loafing around stale beer Joints, sit
ting around fashionable clubs. soused
and whiskey-soaked, is because they
were brought up too easy; they cashed
In too quickly. They couldn't see
that the thing to dow as to keep on,
to win for God and for his truth.
BE like Gen. Grant. He said, II will
fight it out on this line il it takes
all summer"
Cyrus w. Field crossed the Atlantic
ocean nfty-two times to lay the cable
while the rest of the world mocked,
Kissed, sneered, said 1t couldn't be
done and II 1t could II wouldn't work.
He finished laying the cable In 1855 and
1t hasn't missed working ~ hours
since. They have sent millions and
millions Of cablegrams across. oh, 81
is men like that who hang their mugs
In the Hall of Fame for NUTS like
you and me to look at.
Tom Edison invented among the
other things. the phonograph. He
told me this when / was down to
Orange TO see him. He invented.
among other things. the phonograph.
He would speak into It and It would
, reproduce every word perfectly ex-
cept any word that would combine OF
end with the letter s. For instance, he
would speak the word special" and
it would respond and drop the "s'
and say. ''pecia." He knew 1t was
useless TO send 1t out with that flaw.
! He told me he worked from II to p
? hours day for two years 10 make
that machine sound the letter IS. e
He at last succeeded, and the royalty
keeps the wolf from the door. Those
! are the ones that win out In the
world!
, So many people are good at begin
, ming but they are like the fellow who
/ was killed by falling OF the roof
, they stop too quick. That's the trou-
bic. Their aim is high, but they
, haven't got powder enough to make
the bullets pierce the armor of oppo-
, sition. Aim high! It's no harder or
, your arm to knock the feathers out
: Of an eagle than 1t is 10 shoot a
skunk.
: I One day they will go sailing along
= like a COW licking salt. The next day
they will stroll around like fellow
walking through a graveyard read.
ing epitaphs. and as my friend, the
late Bob Burdette. said: Remember
: the world is older by several thou
sand years than you are, young fel,
) low, and IL has been so full of smart.
= er young men than you that their feet
} had to stick out of the dormer win,
! dows. and when they died this old
| globe went whirling on and not one
| in ten million knew that they hst
died or ever heard that they were
Z sick"
Advice to Boys.
|, tell you, boys, know as much a.
you can without blowing all the pack.
ing out of your cylinder head or pune,
turing your tires. The world has
great need of you young men. bu
no greater need than young men have
! of the world That gives you YOU
: | opportunity; your clothes may fit yoU
better than your dads fitted him. you
may get yours at a tailor Che got hi:
/, from Sears & Roebuck). / say YOU
clothes may fit you better than YOU
dads fitted him: they cost more they
= are more stylish; your mustache looks
like Charlie Chaplin's, you've got tho
latest kink in the haircut, but, take
it from me, his scrawling signature OF
a bank check will pull more dough
out of the bank vaults than you
name will in ten years with 1000
reams Of paper and ten hundred type
writer's.
And don't be so fresh that they'll
/ have to put you in salt to keep you
from spelling. People all over the
world are hunting for you, and If you
are worth while they will ind you
| Diamonds are not so easily found a.
| pebbles. but people are looking in
tently for them everywhere and y
| you itch for fame you've got to keeI
scratching. l tell you, boys, Others
have succeeded in harder places thar
/ yours; why not you? Don't turn bach
and loaf around under the shade Of
the first tree you come TO because
the road ahead looks hot and dusty
| No! no! Keep-a-going!
IF you strike a thorn or rose. -
i Keep a goin'!
II It halls or II 1t SHOWS.
Keep a goin'i
| 'Tain't no use to sit and whine
| Cause the fish amt on your line,
| o! bait your hook and keep on tryin'
Keep a goin!'
Nail your flag to a mast with nail:
that clinch: turning a dead lion into
beehive is good business today as Il
was in the days of Samson. and mer
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