Life — February 21, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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How to Succeed. LL success is due to the fact that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. The angels know that every success is really ng more than a high-class failure, while the fools are so purblind that they consider their failures successes, and so the world wags, In order to suceced in what you have set your heart on, try to do something else, and you will succeed while failing in that. Of course, this sounds irrational, but Jet us take a few instances. Sir Walter Scott was ambitious to shine as a statesman and man of affairs and, while failing in that, to pay his expenses wrote a series of novels that made him immortal. Napoleon Bonaparte failed to conquer the world, and in the meantime wrote the Code Napoleon, which, the most eminent thinkers agrce, constitutes his best claim to enduring fame. In American publ it is well known that if you are ambitious to be a Senator, Cabinct Minister, or reprr- sentative at a foreign Court, it is folly to strive for it directly. The thing to do is to apply yourself to some profitable line of business, like contracting for army supplies, and then when you have a barrel of sufficient size to attract the practical politicians, you can have anything you want. At first blush this sounds like making a double success without any of the failure mentioned in the beginning, but you will find that by the time the politicians are through with you, you are a financial failure. In literature it has long been a proverb that the successful critic is the man who has failed in doing creative work, and all the poets and novelists tell us that the way to succced in love is to make a bluff at loving some one else, and, while you are apparently failing at that, you will win your heart's desire. From these instances, it seems to me that it should be evident to any trained thinker that the way to succeed in anything is not to try, and that if you fail with sufficient energy at something you will succeed with something else, even if it is only in developing a patience that will make you indifferent to both your own failures and the supposed successes of others, P, McArthur, noth Unfortunate Aeronaut ; sUmvino suriten! Wen IT ts ELGUT O'CLOCK, AND I PROMISED MY WIFE I'D BE HOME AT SIX. The Christian Abroad. TT (CONSIDERING recent Chinese history, it is safe to assume that this item from Peking did not startle the world: PEKING, Feb. 4.— The Reverend W.S. —<=—" Ament, one of the missionaries of the __ American Board of => Foreign Missions,was ~~ recently arrested with two British subjects by German and French troops, near Tung-Chow. | He was charged with endeavoring to cxtort money from the Chineso villagers. The British subjects were released, but Mr. Ament was held. He says he was merely trying to settle the affairs of the church there, and he has applied to Mr. Conger to request General Chaffee to send cavalry to release him. ‘The matter has been referred to Count von Waldersee. The Rev. Ament did not go among the heathen for his health—nor for theirs. He went on business, like most other missionaries. Poreuping; THAT'S FUNNY. MY MAMMA NEVER LICKS ME THAT WAT. comicbooks.com