Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Help Yourse[?]. [ARTICLE]

Help Yourse[?].

Fight, your own battles, Hoe your own row. Ask no favors of any one, and you'll succeed a thousand times bettor than one who is-al ways beseeching some one's influence and patronage. No' one will ever help you as you help yourself, because no one will be so heartily interested in your affairs. The first •stop will be such a long one, perhaps; -but carving your own way up the mountain you make each one lead to and stand firm while you chop still another A out. Men wno have made fortunes are not those who have had $5,000 given them to start with, but boys who have started fair with a well-earned dollar or two. Men who acquire fame have never been thrust into popularity by puffs ibegged or paid for, or given in friendfly spirit. They have outstretched their own hands and touched the public heart. Men who win love do their own wooing, and I never knew a man jto fail so signally as one who induced bis affectionate grandmother to speak a good word for him. Whether you work for fame, for love, for money sr ‘for anything else, work with your hands and heart and brain. Say “I iwill” and some day you will conquer. Never let any man have it to say, “I have dragged you up.” Too many friends sometimes hurt a man more than none at alL—Ex.