The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18

was going to be the metropolis of the
world. He had a long head on him.
That's right.
Daniel webster's father wanted
him ~ be a farmer. He had no am
bition to farm. They used to cut the
grain with a knife shaped like this
that they called a cradle. He used
cutting 9p the fieeld one dayn PANEL
right"
The old man took it and looked at
it and sharpened 1t up until 1t was
as sharp as a razor. handed 1t back
to him and said, IT'S all right now,
Daniel"
so they went along little further
and Daniel said. pretty soon. 'It
doesn't hang right" ---
The old man took X and looked at
1t and seized it up and said, TITS per-
fect and he sharpened It and hand
ed it back.
Daniels cut on for several PAGES and
he said. Il tell you, pa. 1t doesn't hang
right"
The old man said, We'll. hang it
to suit yourself" so Deniel walked
over and hung 1t on the limb of an
apple tree.
Failed Fourteen Times.
B. T. Barnum failed fourteen dif-
ferent callings before he found out
he WAS naturaf-born Snowman.
Goldsmith failed as a physician--who
else could have written '-The De-
serted village?" Oliver Cromwell was
a farmer when he was forty years old.
General Grant was tanning hides in
Galena, H.. when he was thirty-nve.
d. l. Mooty was selling boots and
shoes in Boston when he was TWEEN
ty-five.
Many of you start at third base.
The run doesn't count No. sir. You
are offside: play the game OF life I'M
fairly. II -FOUR pockets are empty I'LL
your hearts full of ambitions and go
to It! Tell yourself what everybody
knows-you're a gutter.
Helen Kefiert preached In Bos-
ton one night and they said, '<Helen
Keller is on the stage, she'd like to
shake hands with you" / looked into
her face--Helen Keller. blind. deaf.
dumb, since a baby-she's got a
her example to shame you on, stop
knocking and go to climbing in the
world. Many a young fellow didn't
know whether God wanted him to be-
come an auctioneer or a college pro-
fessor, but ne has been fortunate
enough to be kept out of the poor
house because he was lucky enough
to marry a girl that has been brave
and strong and willing enough to
bend over a washtub to earn money
enough to pay the house rent while
he loafed around stale beer joint.
talked politics argued religion, held
forth on the principles of life and set
tied sociological questions
Study Yourself.
Study your capabilities. Somebody
said to a boy, kid, what are you 60
ing to do when you are man ''
He said. II guess III be an cleo
trician."
The man said, Why
He said. Because like to monkey
with door bells"
That was pretty good. II God
wants you TO be an iron cogwheel in
machine, the sooner you stop try
ing to be a searchlight and a whistle
and be the cogwheel. the better you
will be and the better the machine
viii work and the better the world
will be-
1t is as impossible for some young
men and women to succeed the way
they are doing as II would be for a
tonncat to teach or play tho organ al
the Audubon society. It's as impos-
sihle to make silk purse out OF q
sow's ear as IL was in the days OF
Solomon.
Oh, they might have lowered up
like church steepies If they only had
some ambition in order to win out In
the world. why my friend. the late
proprietor OF the waldorf Astoria,
John Bofdt. he started on two dot
lars week~-*tarted on two dollars
week
Ex-President Roosevelt said. in an
address to young people. The young
man or woman who succeeds in life
is not the one who waits for some
thing sufficiently spectacular to pre-
sent itself. by and through the doing
of which you can show your SUPERB
ority over your competitor, but the
one that does the thing that lies next
at hand and does that with the ef-
fective intelligence the best you know
how to do IT."
William Jennings Bryan said, You
can always afford to be in the minor
ity, but you can ever afford to be
in the wrong"
A Long Road.
Ex-President Eliot, OF Harvard uni
versity. 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 beginning and after a
lifetime spent In studying and re-
search, then you will only have a
right to consider yourself just fairly
well educated"
Buiwer Lytton said. TN the lexicon
of youth. which fate has reserved for
a higher power. there is no such
word as fail
Somebody said to boy. How did
you learn TO skate?"
We'll" he said. 'by getting UT
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 wavertng."
Somebody asked Napoleon. What
is the secret OF your success
He said ~ am a half hour ahead o;
my enemy. am prepared for any
move they may make because l an
ticipate their plans"
A piowhorse makes more miles In a
year than a Kentucky thoroughbred
on race track. One reason why we
have so many ound-shouIdered men
I, loafing around stale beer points, sit
ting around fashionable c1ubs. soused
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