Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — Beveridge Is Glad He Laugbed. [ARTICLE]

Beveridge Is Glad He Laugbed.

“The direction of my career was completely changed,” said United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge to the writer, “by a careless laugh. When I .was a youth in Illinois I heard that the Congressman from our district intended to hold an examination to determine what young man he should appoint to West Point. I pitched in and studied hal’d for that examination, and found It easy when I came to take It. Most of the other fellows seemed to be still struggling with it when I had finished, and I was so confident that I had made few mistakes that I was in a pretty cheerful frame of mind. This Is why I laughed yrhen one of the strugglers asked a rather foolish question of the professor in charge. The latter evidently felt that the dignity of the occasion had been trifled with, for he scored one per cent against me. Wheii the papers came to be corrected this loss caused me to fall .one-fifth of one per cent below the boy who stood highest on the list. He is a captain in the army now, where I suppose I should be had It not been for that laugh. I believe In* the power of cheerfulness. Looking back, I am rather glad that I laughed.”—Success Magazine. Piso’s Cure for Consumption promptly relieves my littlp 5-year-old sister of croup. —Miss L. A. Pearce, 23 Pilling •treet, Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1901.