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\ Uncle Tobey’s Lcctunc
l 4* On Pluck 4*
One of God’s best gifts to man
is pluck. Did you ever think of
it' It is pluck that plants the
milestones of progress in this old
world. Much of what we call gen
uius ie common, everyday, home
made pluck. A man who has
pluck needs but little else. The
rest will follow. Some men are
more fortunate in their environ
ments than others, but pluck lev
els all inequalities. Life is a suc
cession of ups and downs hills
and valleys. They rise before us
and hedge us in on every side.
Love, ambition, wealth, honor,
success and power are on the hill
tops. The road is rugged and
sometimes steep. There are ra
vines to cross, streams to ford and
chasms to bridge. Hut pluck picks
us up and nerves us to the effort.
Sometimes we are in strange lands,
but the music of the woods and
songs of birds are just as sweet. If
we desire to succeed in life some
where, on some of those hills that
confront us is the goul on which
we have set our hearts. To reach
it, we must climb the hill. There
are no life gems in the valleys.
God lias set them on the hill-tops.
Hut the stout of heart, the plucky
of soul will reach them somehow
and press them to their bosoms.
True greatness consists in the
act of achieving it. It has been
said that some men are born great.
It is a lie. Men cannot be born
great. They may lie born in the
shadow of greatness and revel in
its resplendent light, but it is only
the reflection of the greatness of
others. When Napoleon dropped
down into Italy to the consterna
tion of his enemies and the aston
ishment of the world, he was al
ready great. Not because he was
in Italy, but for the reason that he
bail taken an army across the Alps
—H feat which engineers had pro
nounced an impossibility. It was
the pluck of this young Corsican
that carried him and an army,with
its equipment of heavy aatillery
.and supplies, over rugged steppes
that had hitherto been considered
impassable.
Look around you, and see who
it is that succeeds. It isn’t the
man or lx>y who drops his lower,
jaw when he sees an obstacle loom
up in front of him. It isn’t the
timid heart that shields himself be
hind the “’Fool’s adjective: ’I
can’t."
Your l nclf To bey knows boys,
or rather young men, who haven't
pluck enough to pop the question.
JSome tla.v some other fellow who
hu> the pluck will come alone- and
pop it, and then well, then, the
gosling's gone. I believe that
three-four1 hs of the men who are
married would never have reached
the goal, had it not been for the
encouragement and taet of their
sweethearts, who had more pluck
than they had. And some of these
women are like the old darkey
who traded a mess of fish for a
wife; lie often wished afterward
that he had ate the fish. But
somehow, when a woman takes a
notion to go to a wedding she i>
going, even if it has to be her own
and she does wet the worst end of
the bargain. But the pluck that
enabled her to win what she
thought was a husband, sustains
her in the discovery that it was
nothing but a barroom lounger
and a prominent member of the
Order of Common Plugs.
Pluck, my dear boys, will fill
your pockets with gold, but be
careful lest the gold shrivel your
.souls. There are grander objects
in life than gold. There are few
that are not grander. Pluck will
win you friends and challenge the
admiration of the world. The road
may In* rough and the path lined
with thorns, hut keep a stiff upper
lip and a brave heart, and when
you have reached the pinnacle of
success the sears you hear will he
high legacies for your children.
Men without pluck are of no more
j account than straw men, and straw
‘ men are lit for nothing hut to scare
the crows out of the cornfield.
The boy who inherits or accum
ulates a large quantity of pluck
has more than an education. He
has that which will give him an
educaiton, and will make it of
some account to him when he has
it.
The plucky hoy is self-reliant,
and has an object in life, lie has
“a heart for every fate." lie de
fies opposition and laughs at ditli
Culties. He climbs the ruggedest
hills, for he knows that the exer
cise makes his muscles firm, his
eyes clear, and his nerves steady,
it was Davy Crockett who said:
"Know you are right and then go
ahead." There is a whole sermon
in that sentence. We should al
ways know that we are right. But
even if we are right and don't go
ahead we amount to nothing. We
are like a pump winthout a handle,
or an engine without steam. To
go ahead means pluck. I’ncle
Davy Crockett had plenty of it.
It put him in Crongress. It sent
him to Texas in the interest of lib
erty, and helped to give undying
fame to the Alamo.
Kver since this old world began
there have been dark days. And
there'll he more. It is the storms
that try the hearts of men. It is
the struggle that hardens Ins mus
cles and steadies hi> nerves. It is
adversity that develops pluck, and
pluck again snatches success from
the grasp of adversity. A thous
and dark and gloomy mornings
have ended in the most glorious
sunset. Many a dark cloud has
passed over and left a clear sky.
There are always (tetter days in -
fore us. Hope never dies. Nil
tions and people die and pass off
the state of action, but hope lives
on forever. Hope beckons us for
MJETSHONEMM
Btcp&i the couj^h unci heals
ward. She spread
wings above us. \
.3 HAND
\\*e r.
spirit and press onward and up
ward forever. Home & Farm.
FOUND IN WHITE RIVER.
Winslow. Aug. 'J<>. Today the
body of a man with the jugular
vein severed was found in the west
fork of White river, about two
and a half mile* from here. There
was nothing on his person which
would lead to identification but a
slip of paper on which was writ
ten “L. Stoub, Van lluren.*’
The man was about o<> years of
age, heavy of build and wore a
luxuriant mustache, lie bought
something to eat at one of the
stores here Thursday, and when
iast seen had -tarted up the track
going north.
Mayor Sharp impaneled a jury
and h.*ld an inquest. A verdict of
suicide was rendered. The body
i was buried here.
J. S. PETERSON SUICIDED.
Fordyco, Any. 25.—.J. S. Peter
son committed suicide at his home
near Molly Springs by shooting
himself through the lioad with a
AS calibre revolver Tuesday. He
went to his barn about 7:30 a. m.
on the morning *ot‘ Any list 22. and
! die! not return. 11 is wife, think
! iug something wrong1, made a
; search for him .and about 10
(o’clock he was found in the barn
i dead with a pistol shot through
! his forehead and the pistol in his
lmnd.
Mr. Peterson was serving his
tir-r term as representative and
was very popular over the county.
The cause of his self destruction
j is not known.
CHOLERA IN MANILA.
An outbreak of cholera in Mani
la has been reported. It is thought
! that it is due to green vegetables
| from Hong Kong. Two soldiers
j died at (’amp McKinley, which is
; now quarantined. In the city sev
! era! natives and an American wo
j man have died. I’he surgeons of
the board of health state that tin*
■disease is not serious and that he
roic efforts will be made to place it
under control
Incredible Brutality.
It would have been incredible
brutality if (Tins. F. Lcmberger.
of Svracu-t . N. V. had not done
tile best he eoulU for his suffer
ing son. "My bov. nc says, "ent
a fearful gash over Ids. and I ap
plied Buck leu s Arnica Sal.\,which
quickly healed il and saved his
eye.” (b>od for hint's and ulcers
tot ()nl\ 25c il Sturdivant’s.
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