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Show From a syrup salesman sales-man to the man who printed the pluck poem. Somo seven years ago I began collecting col-lecting Idens on n. certain special subject sub-ject and ono day a joung man, who was on tho road selling liquid sweetness sweet-ness nnd had becomo Interested In my collection of thoughts, said to me: "Why don't you get that poem In a wholesale ofllco on South Water streot?" Then ho told mo about It and I called at tho wholesale office, learned something about tho history of the verso and copied it. Slnco then It hns gono around tho world In various ways. A few weeks ago I noticed that a printer had put It on a card and circulated cir-culated It with his compllmonts. One day when ne.ir his placo I called on him and found thet wo wero Interested In tho samo subjects and there Is a chanco of our being useful to each other. Tho verso was painted nnd framed a quarter of n century ago by n mnn who crow a ImKlnnsR with lirnnnhan In many American cities nnd ho placod a duplicate of tho framed thought In each office. ' A mlno owner told tho printer that ho wanted somo of tho cards for the young men at his placo as somo of thorn wero easily discouraged. Here aro tho words slightly changed: Pluck wins. It nlwaya wins; though days bo glad aud ulghts bo dark 'twlxt times that como nnd go; still pluck v.111 win, Its nverago Is sure. Ho gains tho prize who can tho most enduro, who faces Issues, ho who nover r.hlrks, who waits nnd watches and who al ways works. |