Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — Not to Be Balked. [ARTICLE]

Not to Be Balked.

A comparison made by an old carpenter twenty years ago may be applied in a much wider sense than he had in mind. He was speaking of two boys, brothers, who had been sent to him to learn the trade. They were bright boys, and their father, in telling the carpenter of his pleasure at their progress In their work, said he could not see but one hand had done just as well as the other.; “Um-m!” said the carpenter. “I presume to say their work looks about of a piece, but I’ll tell you the difference betwixt those two boys. Yqu give Ed just the right tools, and he’ll do a real good job; but Cy. If he hasn’t got what he needs, he’ll make his own tools, and say nothing about It. “If I was casted on a desert island and wanted a box opened, I should know there’d be no use asking Ed to do it, without I could point him out a hammer. “But Cy!” added the old carpenter, with a snap of his fingers. “The lack of a hammer wouldn’t stump that boy! He’d have something rigged up and that box opened, if there was any open to it! I expect Cy’s going to march ahead of Ed all his life?’ ■twenty years have truth of the words, for while the boy who “made his own tools” is rich, his brother is still an ordinary workman.