Bandon recorder., January 20, 1910, Image 7

By EDWIN A. NYE
LUCK OR PLUCK?
II. C. Gibson is Lis uume.
He wus a coiuiuou laborer, with no
ambition except to draw his wages
and »pend the money.
One day n railway train came along
and cut off ls>th ills legs close to bis
body. It is intimated, though not prov­
ed, that Gibson had bxiked upon the
wine wlii’ii it was red to sih-b an ex­
tent that he failed to see the traiu
when lx* cauie up to it.
However that may be, be was dis­
charged from tlie hospital without
money, without friends and without
legs.
It was generally aupposisi that Gib-
sou Mould I m a beggar or become a
public charge.
But it soon was proved that if be
lacked legs he had plenty of nerve, an
asset having which no man is bank­
rupt.
What do you suppose this II. C. Gib-
sou. penniless, friendless and legless,
started to d<> sell lead pencils ou the
street? He started in to learn the
bricklayers’ trade.
lie put a sort of tricycle under him in
lieu of legs anil, rolling along a scaf­
fold by tlie side of a brick wall, soon
was able to cry out to tlie hodcar­
riers “More inort'!" airing w itli the best
of them.
People iiegan to have a sincere re-
s|*ect for what was left of Gibson.
And lie’on ids part Iiegan to study
the statutes of the state of Virginia.
Then he ran or rolled -for justice of
the peace He was elected, made a
successful magistrate and was re-ele» t
ed.
And now lie is on wheels for sheriff
if the county.
They say lie lias a good chance for tlie
office. He has won tile regard of the
people for his grit and is esteemed as
one of the best citizens of the com­
munity. The salary and fees are good,
and Gibson will be able to go out of
oflice well fixed financially.
Mr. Man-
Hare you brooded over your hard
luck? Have you felt that you were
handicapped by lack of education or
opportunity?
Contemplate the career of legless
Gibson and be ashamed.
Gibson won by pluck and In spite of
luck.
Indeed—
His bad luck was a big blessing in
disguise. If he bad kept his legs lie
would tdday lie a common laborer—or
a bum.
Luck is a slipshod and craven crea­
ture, waiting for something to turn up.
Pluck is fearless valor witli its boots
on going out to turn something up.
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A WORTHY PRIDE.
Are you proud?
You should be.
But you should be proud in the prop­
er way and of tlie proper things.
What is finer, for instance, than the
pride that scorns to do a mean act, the
pride that will not stoop to conquer, or
the pride that will not “crook the
pregnant hinges of tlie knee that thrift
may follow fawning," or the pride
that will not permit a kind act to go
unaccompanied by gratitude?
But there is also a false pride.
There is tlie pride that tills tlie fool­
ish witli tlie desire to keep an estab­
lishment beyond ids means, the pride
that leads to extravagance in order to
keep up with his neighbors, the pride
that leads him to the enjoyment of
luxuries he cannot afford.
That sort of pride “goeth before a
fall."
And there is the pride that makes
the unwise person ashamed of the hon­
est labor by which lie makes his bread.
Such a one is ashamed of the very
thing in which lie ought to take the
greatest pride.
To work for one's living. . > t y one's
debts, to live within om
,u orne—
what more worthy?
Did you ever know a man who was
truly self made who wus ashamed of
the fact? It is tlie last thing he cares
to conceal.
True pride is self respect-plus.
If you are rightly proud you will
live in a shack and subsist on beans
rather than be supported by charity.
If yon are justly proud you will pre­
fer the humblest place rather than to
make a show at tlie expense of your
creditors whom it would be necessary
for you to dodge.
If you are righteously proud you will
wear old garments many times cleaned
rather than affe t rich raiment bought
with other people's money.
What If some one does scorn your
plain clothing or humble home?
■corn to be scorned b one si horn I scorn—
Is that a matter to make tne fret’’
Is that a matter to cause regret?
Honest pride in oneself, in one'»
work, in one's reputation — that is
worth while.
Bo proud of yourself.
But make yourself worthy of your
pride.
Be proud i f your work, your charac­
ter. your .ambition«
But make your character, your work,
your ambitions, worth) of yourself.
A FINGER NAIL DIAMOND.
Rome seek the bubble reputation at
tin- cannon’s ni< nth. some seek distinc­
tion in listening senates, and some are
noted be att-ff they loud the german.
But M. Alplionso Albert Dupuis, late
of Paris and now of Chicago—voila!
Alphonso has attained the unattain­
able.
He Is the only person in all the
world who wears a diamond set in
the nail i f Ids little finger!
Behold
This so great conception and stroke
iff <
'' liniatfoii by the so fertile M.
Dupuis was th<> result of much artistic
lol. mg.
Hat Ing by moans of many Gallic
gesture and exclamation points ex­
plained his sublimated Idea, his aes­
thetic vi-ion. to a friend and country­
man who was a manufacturing jew
elcr. the latter was so stunned by the
stupendous mind of M. Dupuis that
lie could only raise ills hands skyward
to exi laltn:
"Superb! Magnifique!”
Whereupon with skilled fingers of
art tlie jeweler set a little gold plate
under the little finger nail of M. Du-
ptii ' left hind, and then he mounted
a tl’i’oo carat blue white diamond on a
little screw that penetrated the end
of the finger nail and caught the
threads in the little gold plate.
Parblcn! The great transaction’s
done.
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Moreover. Gs a sweeping stroke of
•.'cnlus Piero was designed a silver
rase, fashioned somewhat after the
finger stalls we boys used to employ
while “shucking" corn, to protect the
pre Ions jewel and the so precious
finger nail when not on public exhibf
tion.
How admirable!
The women of a certain latitude
wear rinrs in their noses, and the yld
von ' ) i f Banbury Cross had bells on
her toe-, lmt whoever before won the
hb h satisfaction of finger nail jewel­
ry''
M. Piipuis is in a class by himself,
nis nidio in tlie temple of fame is al-
readi ni< lied, and that so glorious
Pari« only waits to confer the laurel
wreath of genius.
No sovereign of history was ever so
de orated.
Solomon in all his glory was not
thus adorned.
Seriously—
Ono could but wish Balzac wore still
alive. How he would have pictured
< I: racier of this M. Dupuis, who.
In tlie city uf Chicago, where children
hungry to school and men beg for
w irk to liny a bit of bread—h<>w the
<. ‘t noii list would have revealed the
1i¡¡di«hne«s of this supremely silly
I'reni liman!
<1 the Brann | ri . us the last student
>f the universities of America aud
Europe.
m 4I
Won by a girl.’ mint*, you.
made." over nil the young men.
il.it victory „ires h r about $3,000
.i y ir to l>e used in traveling and ob-
items of tto»
world.
And now this farmer girl of Mls-
-omi bus started on her tour of the
world, one of the most distinguished
women iu the world of education.
How did she tlo it?
Just as any man would succeed along
tlie same line—by ability for study and
determination to win.
Thapks t<> our coeducational system
a system less than fifty years old—
thi?- girl bad tlie same chance to edu­
cate herself as any boy.
And she relied oil herself.
That tells tlie story. You can edu­
cate yourself only by yourself, of your­
self and for yourself.
M dern psychology has revealed tl»e
wondrous iiossibilltios of the human
will. Tlie desire to do. ¡»ersistently
kept. Licked Ly the will to do. gives
the power to do.
Miracles aside, the mysterious and
wondi ¡ fid power within you can do
anything you want to do.
It is the |K>wer within, mind you, not
without.
And just here is tlie mistake of the
girl or boy who says; “I have no
chance. There is no one to help me."
Mabel Sturtevant had no better op­
portunity tli in other girls of poor par­
entage. She had no one to help her.
She helped herself!
And that Is what you must do. my
girl or boy. The best any one can do
for you Is to help you to help yourself.
The power is within.
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MARLBOROUGH THE LITTLE.
Pity tli ■ sorrows of the Duke of
Marlborough!
He In s ids kingdom, besides prince­
ly titles. 23.000 acres in the heart of
England, a town palace, a castle and
a rich wife, but—
He bewails the tendency of the
times to make the nobility pay its fair
Proprietor!
share of the taxes and especially com­
plains of the income tax which the
new budget imposes on vast inherited
properties.
This silly scion of the house of M.irl-
bor< ugh says lie Is weary of the strug­
gle to take care of his pro| erty and
would throw himself out of the win­
dow but for the brutal Inheritance tax,
which would “rob ids son." the duke-
let.
In oilier words, he is tired of living
because lie lias to pay taxes on his
income, and he dreads to die because
his son would have to pay taxes on
the inheritance,
Tims tlie duke.
What would John Churchill, fho
smooth, wily founder of the house of WlNE-5,
LIQUORE AND
Marlborough, think of this whining
descendant of his?
The first Marlborough oscillated be-
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tween the royfll houses of Stuart and
Oramre as occasion and his purse de­ Bandon
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manded. If William III. was on top,
Chur hill was a strong adherent of
Orange: if Charles II. seemed to have
tlie best <’f it. he was for the Stuarts.
Able, nimble witted and treacherous,
the first Marlborough never whined
against fate. Whatever charges are
bronchi against him. it cannot be de­
nied that lie was a bold general and
A. Garfield
an able diplomat.
His addle pnted. childishly Indiscreet
descendant is of a different sort of
Mill ami Steamboat Work Our
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If the present duke should by some
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favorable chance jump out of n ldgh
window in his castle, why. there would
lie a dllkely funeral, that's all.
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And if current reports be true Con-
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Screws. Macbuo Bolts. Pipe
who brought the dukedom a good slice
and Fittings, Brass Work
of old Commodore Vanderbilt’s mil­
lions. while she would bo chief mourn­
er at tlie funeral, would not weep as
GENERAL REPAIRING
those who have no hope.
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Shop in Connection
Tlie people of England are to be con­ Pattern
gratulated.
Through the income tax and the in­
heritance tax they will get back some
FOR
of that money and land long ago stolen
from them by old Jack Churchill be­
fore and after he became earl, privy
allies’ and Children’s Furnish­
counselor and first lord of the bed-
chamber to King William.
ings, Men’s Shirts and
And if to got back some of that 111
gotten property of the people his petty
Overalls
descendant must needs jump out of
WE 4RE JUST RECEIVING
the window, why. let him.
4 LARGE STOCK OF
Moreover—
Would it lie treason to suggest that
ft would lie a good tiling to pass an
AT THE
income and Inheritance tax that would
make sonic of our own money lords
feel like jumping out of a window?
Eiblcs In Hotels.
Tlie “Gideons" constitute an organi­
zation that seeks to have a copy of
tlie Bible placed in each room in every
hotel in tlie United States. The Hotel
Victoria liclieves in the Influence of
the Bilde. The first thing an arrival
will see when lie enters his room is
a ......limn sized and nicely bound copy
of tlie New Testament lying on tlie ta­
ble. “It is tlie funniest thing In the
THE POWER WITHIN.
Tired of the stories of successful world." «aid tin- pretty Irish maid, “to
<ee how the different ones are affect-
men?
• d by tlie in • xpected appearance of
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Some take It up and
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■ Mnliel Stir, t o .ant of loi.k It ver «i'll the greatest Interest,
I.fo- ’. c'.i. M".. v is an ordinary school­ as though it r -lit lie tie first one
ever « ‘on. Others slam It in a bureau
girl "f S iX'.'C’L
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aver:
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”r poor robe n: 1 lci.v < it. there. One man. a
■■ froi.......it of town,
f .icr f. Ik-. But she h. d a treinen
doit« d '-ire to make something of her rang his la’ll furiou.-ly, and when I an-
self.
- w- ri d It v. i 1« ex.ra towel«, thinking
FORGET IT!
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t v >f Missouri. ring my bell for. he thrust the Bible
American tlanfr phtascs is that sen­ winning all sorts of prizes
- to dar- in my hands and roared out. ‘Do you
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tentious one—
ship, by the way. She al­
"Forget ft."
and WK admitted to the
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Moreover, the phrase o
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satisfy kb.dly to finding the B.oie in hotel,
' every« moat girls desiring to di.
philosophy put into ter’
h them- room«, hut tlie travel!’ - public, a* a
<lav speech.
selves.
rule, «eems more fimlliar with cur­
' .nt iron rent !!t. rature th • witli I be New or
It Is part and parcel of the vernacu­
But last year Mabel s
lar of the “Don’t Worry dub," because the crowning triumph. Sli. .
i ward* Ou! Testament.— Leslie's Weekly.
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!f you forget your worries they cannot
JUturb you; if yo i <1> not fester your
grou bea the) will Ui-ipp. ir.
"Forget if also tit» iu more or lew
with the spe«‘< b of the Latin countries,
where the natives say to their troubles,
“Manana”—tomorrow.
We p<<ke fun at the Spaniard's
“mamma." but there is something to
be learned from it.
We need i. >t go to tlie length of the
I a krone w too never deea at j I hl ng to­
day that he can postpone until tomor­
row. but we can and ought to practice
ids disposition to postpone worries
nial mental a'tewtnga to a more con­
venient seaaop.
i specially is this true in hot weather.
The heat of Itself is sufficient bur­
den without adding to it irritation over
trifle ind outbursts f temper because
<>f |>eity annoyances.
Forget it.
By continual thinking of the hot
weather, by keeping an eye on the
thermometer and adding to discomfort
by a fussy disposition, one draws to’
his head more blood than tlie organ
should contain and tlie result is mis-
cry a nd possible prostration or sun-
stroke, Tlie wise way is to buckle
down to buslneau and—
Forget it.
Smile as you sweat.
Sweat and
smile, < lie n ent il habit <>f optimism.
whii’h includes forgetfulness of small
tilings, will make you fairly comfort­
able even under uncomfortable condi­
tions. Therefore—
Forget it. And also—
If something has gone wrong with
tli • farm or tlie store or shop or office,
if tlie plow is perverse, or the store
stuffy, or tli<‘ shop slow, or the office
oppressive, why—
Forget it.
Life is too short to treasure up the
trivial. He who does that not only
t> .its his Idood, but actually poisons
it. as lalHiratory tests have shown.
AVhatever your trouble, it is not as
big pr<’t ably a« you think It is—unless
you make It so by dwelling on it or
brooding over it.
Forgetdt.
Do not nrood.
lior resentment,
get warm mentr
for.l that. Forgi
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enough 1 to
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