Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — INTENTIONS THAT COUNT, [ARTICLE]

INTENTIONS THAT COUNT,

Only Those Carried Out Amount to Anything. " The paving of the road to a very uncomfortable place is said to be composed of good intentions. Nowhere else has this material been tried for paving, says Success, though it is plentiful enough to nse for almost any purpose. We all know people whose houses burn when they are “just going to” insure; who ipse a cow or t horse when they are “just going to” mend the fence or close the gate; who are “just going to” buy stock when it goes up like a rocket; who are “Just going to” pay a note when it goes to protest; who are “Just going to” help a neighbor, when he dies; who are “Just go-

lng to” send some flowers to a sick friend, when it proves too late; in fact, they are “just going to” do things all their lives, but never get them started. “To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it,” says Tillotson, “is as if a man should put off eating and drinking until he is starved to death.” Under every clock in a factory at Cleveland, 0., la the motto, “Do it now!” Such a motto, lived up to by everyone, would spare the world much trouble. It would add thousands of good deeds to dally happiness, save many friends from bankruptcy through bad debts, paint hundreds of pictures only dreamed of, write books without number, and straighten out

half the tangles of our complicated necial life. The habit of putting off dim agreeable duties Is responsible far much needless unhappiness, for theg* bugbears weigh on the mind and prevent the satisfied content that eoaM from duty well performed. Most task* promptly undertaken prove less dlflcult than we anticipated, and the Jeff of accomplishment often compensates for any hardships experienced. Don’t get to be known for unfulfilled good Intentions. Good Intentions carried out become good deeds that make men useful, loved and famous. Doing things, rather than Just planning them, makes all the difference between success and failure. The widow’s mite was not dynamite.