Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1910 — UNCLE HIRAM TO HIS NEPHEW. [ARTICLE]

UNCLE HIRAM TO HIS NEPHEW.

Showing Him Juat How He Can Get a Square Deal<- * “If we fail, Henry,” said Uncle Hiram to his hopeful young nephew, “you may be sure that we owe it as a rule not to our limitations or to lack of opportunities, but to our lack of thoroughness, to our not using such talents as we have to the best advantage. It is an old, old story, Henry, but however old a story may be it still remains new to those who hear it for the first time, and are not new hearers coming into hearing all the time, to whom everything, the world, is new? And now let me say this again for your benefit. “When I see the window cleaner falling to get down into the corners to dig out there, failing to make a perfect job of his work, I know not only that he lacks inspiration, I know that he lacks the two simple essentials of application and- thoroughness; he lacks the two for getting on in the world at all. As he grows l older he will wonder why he doesn’t get ahead faster, and when dull times come he will wonder why he is laid off while other men are kept at work, ’and then, unless happily light should come to him, He’ll get sdur and discontented and in his own way cynical ; he’ll think that everything in-the order of things is wrong, that he isn’t getting a fair deal, when the fact is that every man is bls own dealer. * "As it is-about the window cleaner so it is with every one of ns in what-' ever we may have to do. We all of us think we ean do big things when, as we say, ‘we get a chance’; but the truth is that unless we can do a little think well we can’t do a big thing well and we never get a chance. Big things are made up of little things. If a man-or boy'couldn’t sweep a sidewalk clean nobody would-think of hiring him to sweep a city. “Don’t think you’ve got a mean job and slight ilt till you can get something better; no matter what your work may be, magnify it and dignify it by application and thoroughness. It is the only way to get on, and In that way you’ll be sure to get on. There’s nothing the matter with the deal, Henry. Every man can have a square deal if he Whnts it hard enough, for every man can (leal for himself if he will.” “You;” everyone is saying in manner and thought,to a new widower, ’‘will soon get mw Ut’’,, , t ’• "" V- ■■ No boy was ever heard to say at the table, “Thia is my full meat”