The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-03-09
SELF-RELIANCE.
(By Brownlee Frix)

to lend hlm money, payable on de-
mand, and just when he thought John
D. could not pay it, would demand
every cent. This sounds cruel; few
fathers would treat their sons in such
a manner, but it taught John D. to
be self-reliant, to be resourceful and
to have arrangements always made
for sudden emergencies.
An eagle pushes her young out of
the nest, as if to say, "Fly or fall"
But she does not let them get hurt.
Before the young eagles hit the
ground she swoops down and catches
them on her back.
Andrew Carnegie used to say that
the only true philanthropy is the
kind which helps others to help them
selves. To help poor boy or girl
get an education is philanthropy OF
the purest ray serene. To encourage
and inspire them to work for All edu-
cation is splendid. Did you ever
know a man who had worked his
way through college who was bus
mess failure? l never nave. The
efforts. that he made to make buckle
and tongue meet were the very max
ing of the man.
Some years ago in North Carolina
there was a young farmer who had
a very wealthy bachelor uncle. The
old man had bought land near town
which grew into a city and the land
became immensely valuable. One day
when the young farmer was p.cwing,
a negro came into the field and told
him of his uncle's death. Leaving
the mule and plow where they were
he started running to the house. The
negro said, "Boss, what yer want me
to do wild dis yere mule?" And the
farmer said, "You can have the mule
and the plow, too!" That farmer has
spent all that he inherited and is now
as poor as he ever was.
Give some children money and they
will spend it; give them property and
they will sell it or put a mortgage
on it. But give any child an educa-
ton and he cannot lose it or spend
it or put a mortgage on it. 1t will
stay with him and help him as long
as he lives.
1t is the desire of the average man
and woman to do good as they go
through this world. Sometimes in
their eagerness to do good they do
positive harm. We all know men and
women who are big, overgrown babies,
spoiled by over-indulgence.
A large percentage of lifc's failures
have a sneaking notion that they
can get something for nothing. Like
a nest of young jay birds, their
mouths are wide open waiting for
some one to fill them. The word free"
has advertising magic in it. But
sometimes advertisers lose by display
ing that word too prominently. A
boy that know ordered bicycle,
because he thought it was free. When
it came C. o. D., forty dollars, and
he got card from the express agent
t., that effect, he would not 60 near
the office. He did not have forty
cents. The bicycle WAS free to ex-
anime only.
For the past two years at Christ
mas, every orphan child in and around
Richmond, Virginia, has been invit-
ed to banquet at the finest hotel
in the city. Amid the strains of mus
ic and the perfume of cut-flowers the
little folks feasted on turkey and
cranberries, cake and ice cream and
many other good things until they
were filled up to their necks. These
banquets were given by business
man who was himself an orphan. In
his childhood he wanted to go to
parties and have a good time like
other children, but that pleasure was
denied him. He told these children
that one day he was standing on the
street wondering at the inequalities
of life, when a lady spoke to him.
Presently she said, "I like little boys
and would like to be your friend"
"No, no, lady," he said, "you don't
know me-you just don't understand"
eyes, understand" she said, "and
want you to come to see me-" And
she gave him her address. "But,
lady, I haven't any Sunday clothes
and you wouldn't want me to come
looking like thisw The good woman
convinced him that regardless OF his
circumstances, she wanted him to
visit her and to be friend. He went
to see her and as he walked up to-
ward her palatial home he was tempt
ed to turn around and run back.
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