Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-22
GETTING AHEAD ON RIGHT PRINCE.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: One night | I picked uD a book which my daughter | was reading, and in it I saw this quo l tation:: It is better to travel hopefully | than to arrive e'i think the quotation $ by Stevenson and am going to tell you l tine little story I read for l think it will | be Q help to, you. 2.
 Riding uptown on a Fifth avenue bus. we passed one of the richest and most penurioas men in New York. My friend said to me: Did you ever stop to ana lyze aYarie = to discover what makes people so hard and grasping?"
 Its fear" he continued "Men are afraid of being hungry afraid of being cold afraid of losing their money, and having to start all over again. Now it seems to me there is nothing in all the world more tragic than the withered soul of a man who has Httle money and who lies down and getssup in terror lest it should somehow be taken from him." He told me about his father, who came out of the Civil war penniless. and built up a fortune. He lost every cent in the panic of 1878, he said. In ten years he l had made it again. Then came the awful 1 year of 1S92-3. banks failed and right | in the midst of it, when 1t was inapos- i sible to borrow q dollar anywhere, cer- ! tain men tried to force a proposition on 1 my father by which he could have saved i his business at the expense of his busi-
 ness honor.
 He called them into his office-I was | just old enough to remember it-there i he stood man of more than fifty, gray | haired. facing financial ruin
 "Gentiemen," he said, you have been | doing business with me for good many years; you know am square and req.
 sonabie, and now, when my back is
 against the wall. you want me. to comprO
 mise my principles, and threaten. to de.
 stroy me if I don't" He looked them
 squarely in the eye: 'I won't to tell you
 a little story" he continued 'I was jus
 a boy in the Civil war, and after the bat
 tie of Chanceilorsville I. was cold anC
 hungry. and there was nothing to eat
 Walking across the battlefield I found
 the body of dead soldier. He was no
 pretty sight. but clutched in his hanc
 was half loaf of moldy bread. and took out my ram rod and hshed 1t .ou
 of his hand, and for two days lived ol
 that mold crust. You think you ca, frighten me bv threatening to put m out Of business? he said. Let me asl l. you 6 question first: Have you ever liv
 ed on dry crust for two days? No
 Well, I have and what's more T cal
 do it again, and if you can't, you'd ber ter not so to war with me- That's all: I have also read somewhere that fear the first instinct to reveal itse8 In iRAaaa Honor and love and faith and hope a, come later; but the evidence of fear ca be noted in the very first week of a ne, , born life, and all the rest of our live t we battle, some more, some less sue s cessfully, against the bad tnheritanc, T Men who supposed they conquered tea e are shiyertng again under il tl Influences toaay-but my respect Is tc C the pecson, like that man, who says { { himself, whatever fate may threaten am still strong and we'll My purposes 1 e the world are right and can mako C living somewhere, come what may; wh + believes that, through storm and revou Q tion some. how God still works to maj t a world more just and decent for u
 great body of His people
 a Trust in the Lord" and do good IS shalt thou dwell in the land, and veri I thou shalt be fed d have five letters asking me not v change my name in the Corner, to ke, .e if Kitty Lou. so, by request, win ks, h that name. a-'5'.'. - ,e KITTY IOJ