Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — TO WIN SUCCESS. [ARTICLE]

TO WIN SUCCESS.

Do That Well tor Which You Are Bert Fitted. Success in marriage, business and in the affairs of life generally doe# not come by chance. There are certain elements which, properly combined, as certainly produce success as the combination of certain gases produce water. That old and yet generally accepted notion that success is a matter of lock, or a special gift of Providence, has not a leg to stand on any more. In a sense, it is a special providence, because all blessings come from Providence, and when success comes specially to any person it is in a sense a special providence. The successful business man Is a specialized creature. Some of his schoolmates may know more about mathematics, others about astronomy, and others about language than he does, and all because their tastes and inclinations differ from his.Likewise he differs from them and possesses something they never had, and probably can never acquire. His tastes run in a certain direction, and run so si.rqngly that his vital energy hows In that same direction. The result Is that ho becomes a successful business man, while his classmates follow their tastes and drift into various callings, but a lack of vital energy, or something, preveuts them from achieving success. A combination of certain elemonts produces a definite kind of character, and this determines a man’s place in life. Some of these elements are natural and others are acquired, so that Itjis as much the fault of the individual, or his ancestors, that he does not succeed as it is the fault of nature. There are somo persons born into the world so out of balance, or made up of such poor material, that they never can succeed In anything; but these are so few and far between that they may almost be ranked with freaks. The average failure In life Is owing to Improper training or neglect to niako the most out of the material.— Pittsburg Commerclal-Gazetto.