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Yon Must Do Your Own
Climbing
The Steps Are High and Broad, and the Climb I? a Long One—
to REAL SUCCESS
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This is Hi* country of success, and we hear endless talk
about it
These talks 'ary from simple advice concerning a man like
Lincoln, who had only a few books and a few chances, but made
the best use of them he could, all the way up to the complicated
recipes for succeeding that are given out by the gentlemen of the
insurance companies and the get-rich schemes.
This newspaper has discussed success often, yet it takes the
subject up again today, for the young men among our readers,
and the young women as well, are writing constantly for advice
or for suggestions.
Certain men whom we call successful, by which we mean
that they have got MONEY, have “succeeded” without the
quality of industry They are the gamblers, the Wall Street
geniuses or others who, with tricks, have got the better of their
fellow men. BUT THEY ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL.
Men of the same stamp have succeeded, even without sobrie
ty or honesty.
But even such success as theirs demands certain qualities.
They must have, for instance, at. least temporarily, SELF DE
NIAL. They must know how to hold themselves back, husband
their resources, keep themselves in hand until they shall have
achieved the particular object or the particular sum which they
had in mind
To tell a young man that he NEEDS certain qualities is
wasting his time and your own except as you may direct his
attention TO THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING IN HIM
SELK the essentials of success.
The late Collis P. Huntington, asked to advise a young man,
said: " lake ten thousand dollars and go into the business of
raising rubber trees." The young man didn’t have ten thousand
dollars.
Mr. Huntington said: “Well, go and get it before you come
tp me for advice."
The great railroad man's attitude is very much like that
of the ORDINARY adviser of the young He says, “Be honest,
he industrious, be self-denying, he courageous, patient, sober”—
but he does not tell him how he ('AN BE these things
To make a real success you must have, first of all. INDUS
TRY—the faculty for hard work. That quality is greater than
all others put together. AND YOI CAN Cl LTIVATE THAT
QUALITY IN YOURSELF.
Map out what you are going to do each day. AND DO IT.
Never let yourself get into the habit of leaving a thing UNFIN
ISHED. It is hard; for some it is almost impossible. But if
you WILL IT, you can make yourself a hard worker eventually.
You must do that—that is the FIRST step to the real success
SELF-DENIAL is especial!.' a matter of self-education
Instead of putting your mind on the question, “How can I
amuse myself or dress mvsell ?" sav to vnurself, “WHAT CAN I
DO WITHOUT?"
Self-denial is not important simply because It saves your
money—it is especially important because IT SAVES YOUR
TIME A\D YOUR VITALITY Sobriety is, of course, a part of
self-denial If yon don’t smoke excessively or at all, if you
don’t drink excessively or at ail you save money and you save
vitality. If you don't pay foolish attention Io dress—only neat
ness and common sense are necessary to success yon save the
time and the thought that man,' nu n pul on worthless worrying
about their personal appearance,
The most important in the line of self-denial perhaps is TO
MAKE YOURSELF NOT WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHERS
THINK OE YOU Try to earn the approval of those who are
worth while, and dismiss from tour mind the opinion of the
crowd that means nothing to you and can do nothing for you.
More nun waste lime and energy and worry on the opinions of
others than would make them successful if they could he indif
ferent to public opinion.
ENTHUSIASM is one of the great factors in success. It is
important especially BECAUSE IT HELUS A MAN TO GET A
START
Unfortunately, enthusiasm is one of the qualities most diffi
cult to cultivate. It is almost a part, of a man's own self, like
his dark hair or regular features, or wide shoulders. Vet even
enthusiasm CAN be cultivated, and if should Im cultivated. Be
gm hv getting out of your mind the critical, complaining, dis
satisfied feelings That is like pulling the weeds out of a field.
If you can get out of your own brain the foolish feeling of
complaint, of mortified vanity, you will bp clearing the field for
enthusiasm to grow
Enthusiasm is largely a matter of vitality, health and
strength
Get up in the morning after eight hours good sleep, and you
wll be enthusiastic, ready tn attack any proposition Get up
with five hours’ sleep and a night foolishly spent, and you will
have no strength for enthusiasm. Cultivate your strength, save
it, and train yourself to look enthusiastically and hopefully at
the world, scorning its difficulties.
Honesty has been talked of incessantly ever since the writ
ing of the Ten Commandments, and long before There are
many false reputations, and not a few big fortunes, built ON
DISHONESTY (’here are sonu? men who might have been rich
if they had been dishonest, but who are poor now. But be sure
that REAL success comes only to the honest man, to the man
alio thinks and works AND TREATS OTHER MEN HON
“stTjY
Whatever 'Ou do HAS GOT TO BE ODNF, \RSOI,I'TELY
BY THE EXERCISE OE YOUR OWN WILL POWER: IE
YOI DECEIVE YQI RSELE BLAMING OTHERS INSTEAD
OF YOURSELF YOU AVILL NEVER GET AHEAD YOU
MUST BE YOUR OWN MOST REVERE JUDGE. R.■member
that it is not sufficient to WISH for success or to ADMIRE the
qualities that, make success Yon must develop those qualities
and use them.
' '"’There is one feature «»f real sneers about which wr shall
gay little. That is UNSELFISHNESS. It is the greatest,
highest quality of all although the usual talkers on success d<>
not mention it Unselfishness enters into our modern calcula
tions but littu Yet, any man who would be truly great in bis
achievements must have for inspiration an unselfish d«sire to he
of us* to ofbe> men II ma;, pile up trellinnx, but h. will not
he one of tlrn world's really great nun unless guided by the con
Bcious:i*ss that a man's ti» -t duty and la.-t duty is t<» In to makr
oth«r‘ better of! and happiei tor his having lived nn the earth
The Atlanta Georgian
Farming by Dynamite
By GARRETT P. SERVISB.
DOING work by explosion ♦«
one of the most remarkable
features of modern
advaru**. Antomobih-s aeroplane',
and motor boats are driven by a
»»rir-n of rapid explosions; in
cylinder of an engine, instead of
b’ the prepare of steam, and with
oUt these engines actuated by ex
plosion inany of the most marvel
ous triumphs of * iff locomotion
with which we have recently be
come familiar uonld be impossf
ble. With their aid man has con
quered the air. TV science of ex
plosives hae reached a point where
their application appears to be al
inert limitless
By careful manipulation and In
genious machinery an explosive
agent, lik dynamite or nitro-gly
cerine. tn somc’of their many forme,
can be made io work with the
nicely and certainty of a steel tool
in boring tunnels through rocks
mountains. Sturiy and experience
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hsv” rendered il possible tn direct
and confine the force of an explo
sive almost as If It were a hammer
or a chisel of superhuman power tn
the hand of a workman. Working
by the application of slow, gradual
pressure is an out-of-date process
now we work with strokes as quick
as lightning, but perfectly eon
trolled. Modern machines operated
by explosion are THE GUNS Ol'
SCIENCE. Their font- Is cmpnw
ered not to hurl projectiles, but to
do useful work
Among all the apllcations of the
principle of explosion none Is more
surprising than Its recent introduc
tion into agriculture, de cribed by
Dr Henry Smith Williams in
Hearst's Magazine for May Ry ox
plotting sticks of dynamite in the
ground the subsoil Is broken up
and pulverized to a depth of tire or
six feet. This la three or four times
as deep aw a subsoil plow can go.
W
and the pulverization effected is
more complete. The result Is that
new soil Is made available to an al
most unlimited extent. The work
of the farmer with his old-fash
ioned plow compares with that
done by dynamite as the scratch
ing of a rake with the delving of
the plow Itself.
Rv the new process the locked
up treasures of the soil several
fret beneath the surface air re
leased. and th» consequences are
amazing Corn, cotton, hay. gar
den veegtables. fruit trees -all re
spond astonishingly to the stimu
Ips tn some cases cotton crops
have been QI JADRUPEED by the
dynamite ticatment of the soil one
■nitty tor of fruit declares that he
has got from four year old peach
trees, ‘planted with dynamite/' as
much fruit a. 'ix '.ear old trees
ordmarllx yield, and when a tree
begins to decline, be starts it off
again by exploding r|y npmtte sticks
around ii
Simple Explanation
Tim explanation, as In William*
points out. Is simple The effect of
breaking up and pulverizing the
soil is to bring its constituents into
contact with air and moisture. The
plow only scrapes the surface, while
deep beneath lie vast quantities of
potential 'oil energy, which can
not be brought into play as long
as the ground remain? in a hard.
i ompa-t state Ry deepening his
available ml l th* farmet t'RE
ATES y \l \y t’ARM ..nd even
many new t om- on the ame area
o' g'oumt
;-lmi tv mads from 'one <"1 fork.
FRIDAV. MAY 31. 1912.
EXPLOSION OF 12-INCH SHELL BURIED EIGHT FEET UNDER SAND
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(CENTER PICTURE) THE OLD, LABORIOUS METHOD OF PLOUGH
ING AS SHOWN IN THE FAMOUS PAINTING BY ROSA RON ■
HEUR .BOTTOM PICTURE) EXPLOSION OF 12 INCH SHELL
SUSPENDED EIGHT FEET UNDER WATER. ALL
THREE PICTURES REPRODUCED FROM HEARST’S
MAGAZINE FOR MAY.
Nature works slowly In breaking
these up. Even when triturated
by natural processes the resultant
soil is not very deep. and. more
over, it has to be stirred up again
every year In order that its plant
stimulating powers may be fresh
ened. The plow and other anti
quated agricultural implements
simple stir the old soil over and
over again until He potential en
ergy is exhausted. The explosive
pro'-ess by cariwjiig the pulverlza
tion several feet downward brings
new soil into activity.
Amazing Figures.
The gain is almost incredible A
coble foot of stone, as D r . \A il
bams says, has a iota' surface of
six feet, but when this Is broken
into particles as I’m as thos« that
constitute productive soil, the to
tai surface is Increased MANY
THOUSAND TIMER Then the at
mospheric agents set to work upon
It, and the elements needed for
plant growth arc produced in
abundance Each acre of fertile
land. of average depth of soil, ex
poses to the action of air and wa
ter an area of perhaps 70 square
miles." and. "by running this plow
a few incites deeper, the farmer
may add several milet pe» acre
m the available surface of his soil "
Even with the aid of engines to
drive hm plow *, ips farmer >aw
not go much, deeper with them than
he has already gone, but by apply
ing an EXF'LOSION lie can go sev
eral feet deeper. Theoretically, It
would seem to be impossible to set
a limit to flic gain In available soil
that this new process places with
in th* farmer's reach. If he can
thus make several farms out of one.
the prodtn tlvene;s of th« earth
may In lime be made so great
that It ran maintain K.nnn.nno.nnn
inhabitants as easily as ft now sup
ports 1 ..son.non.non rhe relation of
coat tn results remains to be
worked out by experiment.
Perhaps one of the most gratify -
ing results of the us»e of scientific
methods in the cultivation of the
soil may be the encouragement of
Uiat which the world so seriously
needs at present, viz„ a tendency
of tliico who now flock to the cities
to "go back, to the land." Men
will not long devote themselves to
occupation that do not Interest
them. Old-fashioned methode on
the farm are not Interesting when
contrasted with the charm that
mechanical employments offer.
Hut let science once shed her sap
■ inatmg light upon agriculture, let
the farmer feel that bis work, too,
represents the highest results of
knowledge, and there will be no
lack of cultivators! of jhe soil to
’>• d Hm world and keep the price
,,r food niff withm reasonable
. limits.
THE HOME PA
Dorothy DI
Writes
—OF—
Little Things
That Count in
Home
—AND-
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Nagging Wives
and Grouchy
Husbands
IN trying to adjust the matrimo
nial differences of an unhappi
ly married couple a judge re
cently ruled that- a husband has a
perfect right to swear at and in
sult bis wife all that he likes, and
that the fact that he used abusive
language to her every time he
speaks to her does not constitute
any ground for her bringing a le
gal action against him.
Another judge, in deciding the
ease of a wife deserter who had
fled a home rendered Intolerable
by a shrewish wife, punished the
man. and asserted that a wife’s
nagging was no excuse for her hus
i band leaving her.
No doubt these two judges were
perfectly correct In their interpre
tation of the law. No doubt the
law does give a husband the privi
lege of snapping, and snarling and
cursing his wife as much as he
pleases. No doubt the law does
give a woman the right to fret, and
whine, and complain, and harp on
her grievances as much as she likes,
and to badger a man out of his very
soul, but if the law docs permit
these things it ought to be changed.
The divorce law is supposed to
only take cognizance of great
crimes, but it isn’t the big things
that make or mgr a marriage It
is the little things. It isn’t even
the big sin that a man or woman
may commit once, or twice, in a
lifetime that really count.
Little Meannesses
i Cause of Real Misery.
It Is the little meannesses, the
little hatefulnesscs, the daily look'
and words and actions that rile our
tempers, and rub our fur the w rong
way, that make the real misery or
an unhappy marriage.
There isn't a woman in tlie world
who, if given her choice, wouldn't
rather have a husband who came
home blind drunk once a month
and gave her a black eye, but who
was amiabi o . and pleasant, and
agreeable all the balance of the
time, than to be married to a man
who wan as sober as the village
pump, but who was always grouchy
and cross, who never spoke a pleas
ant word In the family circle.
Nor is even infidelity the hardest
fault for a wife to forgive in a
husband. Many a wife overlooks
i’er spouse's weakness for pretty
faces because he Is Just as gallant
and charming and makes as many
delightful speeches to her as he
does to other women. And she’s
wise to be conveniently blind, for
such a man makes a thousand-fold
happier home than the man who is
the pattern of all the virtues, but
who never opens his mouth In his
own home except to find fault.
And precisely the same thing
may be said concerning women.
The worst wife on. earth, and the
one that can bring most misery
down on her husband’s head, is the
nagging wife. Compared with her
the woman who is a poor cook, the
woman who is extravagant, even
the vain and flrtatious woman is a
capital prize in the matrimonial
lottery,
in proof of thia, if you w d| no
tire, you will observe that as long
a« a mans wife Is sweet and »f.
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enemy to the home than
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SStrj. I fra ,
the hangman- -hip tl la t
t|m wretch in orrln r - < n
ca -en, and a man who now
free to sweat at hi- wife and curj
her would keep a civil tongue ■
his head if he knew that he wouM
have to pay her alimony if iJ
didn’t, and that the permanence fl
his liontr* depended upon his pfl
liteness In it. Likewise, many ■
woman w ho now bulbes her unharfl
py husband tn distraction woulß
control her tongue if she wal
aware that not only the lav bill
public opinion would uphold him isl
he fled from her nagging.
It' the little things that inaka
misery or happiness tn mar. .age
If you take rare of the amenit'ee
the morals will take are nf them
selves.