Show O lQ QI-Q QI ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL By ny THOMAS A. A CLARK Dc of Dr ale 11 Mm taJu et of Iw IS D. D ills 1114 W uro r PURPOSE ft SI A ND Daniel purposed In his hll A AND AND 41 heart that he would not de defile himself by eating the kings king meat the story goes and Daniel was wu a strong healthy young fellow who no doubt would ha hove have C enjoyed a good steak as 81 aswell aswell well as 88 anyone It was OS not that be he liked spinach and dandelion greens so 10 much that kept him religiously to pulse but because ho he w was s determined to do what he Ill had been taught was right tight what he knew was his duty When Daniel made mode up his mind that thata a thing wee was right or his duty to do he went ahead In the execution of his purpose even If It the path he be was following following fol fol- lowing lead lend him Into the lions lion's den The trouble with a good go many people people peo pee pie has been and Is now nolY that they I have no special and definite purpose Obligation rests on them lI lightly duty has as a II strange and ond unfamiliar sound In III their ears eurs purpose Is II a thing with which they have never had hod much Intimate Intimate In In- connection Present comfort and pleos pleasure re concerns them most Sometimes men seem to have a a purpose purpose pur pur- pose pos but It apparently does oes not get as 81 asfar asfar far as their hearts was not that sort When In knickerbockers he was running about the dirty mining town In which his father worked he was determined to have ha an education lie He got himself through high school schoola a n very poor high It was too tl too too- by selling newspapers at first fiut and doing odd Jobs about the mine After he be was fifteen he did a mans man's work In III Inthe Inthe the mine though he was ns n not t a husky boy lIe He got Into college by examina examination tion not lion not the easiest method as BI things are ore dons don these days He Ile lIe had no friends he had no money be he had no no special talents excepting a willingness to work at anything honesty and ond a determined purpose to fight his way through He lIe was often otten discouraged for he was was only sixteen and he be knew very little of the world lie Ue confesses confesses' now that sometimes at nt night when the lights were out and he be was hungry and tired his pillow was vas wet with tears nut But his purpose triumphed he be fought It out he h made ade friends t be he e won won the respect of everyone who knew him and he got a better Job and be he made every honor society to which he lie was WOI eligible That was a 8 good many years ago and Wetherill Is head hend of a big prosperous prosperous pros pros- corporation What a fortunate fellow Wetherill Is Ie Is one of his friends said to me not long ago Soft Sott Job big salary wide Ide Influence Some fellows seem to be born lucky Youre right I 1 answered Anyone Anyone Any Anyone one Is lucky who like when he Is 18 young develops a 1 definite purpose purpose pur pur- pose and has hns the courage and the determination determination de de- termination to carry It through |