Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — The Fable of Four Men. [ARTICLE]

The Fable of Four Men.

“I got off a street car this morning,” said a doctor to me, “and, being in no hurry, I began moralizing on the actions and ■probable character of three men who had alighted just ahead of me. The first one was even then half way down the block and was going on with such rapid strides that he had already put a couple of hundred yards between himself and the next man. •There,’ thought I, 'goes a hustler—a man who's bound to succeed in life.’ The second mail was walking rather slower, and impressed mo as one who would do fairly well, perhaps, in this world. But the last fellow was just dawdling along in the most shiftless sort of way. I very quickly set him down.for a loafer. "Just then another idea came home to me. All three were ahead of me!’’ —Success.