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Show H J k Man nnd his nccom- --.' fitt.. 7tT jL pHshmcnts almost always H Vilijattrr a iHaUOX tit are measured necordtng m j('i 'l e8rcc f m'CCCH8 H 1UtI that is attained. Adtni- B ration for failures has By JOHN A. HOWLAND. f fo,IoWe" ,n th. fcW- m est )ossthlo oirciun- m stances. H Out of this fact, how- fl ever, have grown some misunderstandings as to the why and the how of 1 success. To the mind of thu untried young man there is a disposition to H make only two classifications of human cHorl. Onu of these accomplish! H . success : tlie other results in failure. Therefore, after success is reached M ' and projwrly measured, one man is a success, just as the man who is down M and out is a failure. One man has the admiration of the ambitious; the B other may have his choice of scoffs or of sympathy. Hut, as between this man on the pinnacle of siutcm and this man in M "tlie slough of despondency, who will soy ollhaud which was the betlei H fighter? Which was the better man according to his opportunities? H Without opportunity, which may como to him or which can bo forced H no man would ho anything above another. Senator lugalls pictured op- M ortunity as knocking once at the door of every man. Me did not specify H that frequently bIio knocks loudly and plainly here, with scarcely n tap M upon thu door over there. Hut that she knocked only onco was his dictum. H We will take the lugalls philosophy, admitting only that opportunity 1 knocks more loudly at some doors than at others, or at least insisting that H Kime men have better hearing thnu do others, M Hut when opportunity hits knocked she is not a guest merely to be M invited in, to he asked to sit down and there unload her treasures. Hei M knock merely is tho invitation to the listening one to drop the trivial thing M vuth which he is engaged and to come out in search of that success of H which she is the forerunner and prophetess. B We assume that she has knocked at two doors, and that two young M men hac stepped out into thu world of accomplishments, spurred by the M s.uuc degree of ambition, and, with the Mime degree of earnestness, set H themselves the task of winning their way in their chosen fields. M When one huj succmled and the other luis failetl, who shall sit in H judgment as to which was thu better man? .Modem civilization has become such an intricate well of humanity nnd of material substance, one field of effort so inctfaceably interlinked m with another nnd others, that in tho beginning few men are free ugeuU H iu any eudeuvor loading to an ambitious end. Circumstance at once Ik H tomes the sole arbiter iu many cti'-es. Kveu time must rijK-n to some end? M before the knock of opportunity shall have any significance. If thu lmndf H of the clock to-day might ho turned 20 hours forward, men who will go H down in failure to-night would be the marked successes of to-morrow, H Tlie rising of only one more sun would be the determiner of fate. H There are fixed conditions iu material progress in this world against H which nny man must light without avail. It is not by . . H any means alwuys n kn-nuess of intuit ion and foresight 2P ' which allous thu ono man to escajm such conditions; nor W H is it stupidity nnd foolishness which brings tho other T - V M Mjuarely face to face with them. One may rojicat that pi W mM "There is a divinity which shapes our ends," or ho mny I l H look no furtlur, ami call it chance. Hut, whichever hi V"55" S H philosophy dictates to him, that elemental something KTwk M plays iU part iu the affairs of men. YoZj-JH HHHb |
