Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1905 — DON'T RECOGNIZE DEFEAT. [ARTICLE]

DON'T RECO GNIZE DEFEAT.

IProre Your Manhood by Battling oa Bravely Alter Reverses. After 12,000 of Napoleon’s soldiers had been overwhelmed by the advance of 75,000 Austrian troops he addressed them thus: “1 am displeased with you. Ton have evinced neither discipline nor Valor. You have allowed yourselves t$ be driven from positions where a hand-

ful of resoTnte men might have arrested an army. You are iu> longer French soldiers. Chief of stuff, cause It to be written on their standards, ‘They are no longer of the army of Italy.’ ” In tears the battered veterans replied: “We have been misrepresented. The soldiers of the enemy were three to one. Try us once more. Place us In the post of danger and see If we do not belong to the army of Italy.” In the next battle they were placed In the van, and they made good their pledge by rolling back the great Austrian ar-* my. He is a pretty poor sort of man who loses courage and fears to face the world just because be has made a mistake or a slip somewhere, because his business has failed, because his property has been swept away by some general disaster or because of other trouble Impossible for him to avert. This is the test of your manbood. How mucb is there left In you after you have lost everything outside of yourself? If you lie down now, throw up your hands and acknowledge yourself worsted there is not much In you. But if with heart undaunted and face tdrned forward you refuse to give up or to lose faith In yourself, if you scorn to beat a retreat, you will show that the man left In you is bigger than your loss, greater than your cross and larger than any defeat. “I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind,” said Emerson, “as that tenacity of purpose which, through all changes of companions or parties or fortunes, changes never, bates no Jot of heart or hope, but wearies out opposition and arrives at its port.” It is men like Ulysses S. Grant, who, whether in the conflict of opposing armies on the battlefield or in the wear and tear of civic strife, fighting against reverses, battling for a competence for his loved ones, even while the hand of death lay chill upon him, “bates no jot of heart or hope,” that wring victory from the most forbidding circumstances. It is men like Napoleon, who refuse to recognize defeat, who declare that “Impossible” Is not In their vocals ularies, that accomplish things.—Success.