HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-3-25, Page 3FAILURES WHO
ACHIEVED SUCCESS
ALLENBY, ROBERTS AND
CECIL RHODES.
Men Who Have Succeeded! to
Spite of Their Inability Co
Pass Exams.
,it little time ago Lord Allenby, the
famous general, created a great laugh
'when he was presented with the free-
dom of the City of London. What
happened is best told In his own
words;
"I must thank the City Chamberlain
for hie kindly reference to my work
and my career. But he has made one
little mistake. He told you I passed
for the Indian Civil Service, 'Well,
now, as a matter of actual truth, 1
didn't—I tried tol But I —"
Generous applause and great laugh-
ter saved hie lordship, also laughing
heartily, from completing the tale of
woe. He said he consoled hineeolf,
however, with the comforting reflec•
tion that, bad be passed that exam„
it was extremely unlikely he would
be standing there that day, having ac-
complished what he had done!
He Failed In German.
John Hassell, the famous designer
of posters and clever painter of many
pictures, tells with much delight an
episode of his examination days.
He relates how he was educated at
a fine school in Germany, whore, na•
Orally, he learned to speak German
almost like a native. Yet, when he
oat later on for an important examina-
tion wherein that language was a lead-
ing subject amongst those he took he
failed! And it was given ont after-
wards by the examiners that he had
not passed in German!
Luckily, Mr. Hassall had not to be
examined in drawing ere he could
take up poster work, or we night bave
had him also pronounced by "expert
examiners" as a failure in artistic
work!
The late Lord Roberts had to ap-
pear before a hoard ot Army doctors
when ho first applied to be accepted
se a junior cadet for the British Army,
'They turned him down owing to what
they called his "extremely delicate
constitution," and advised the lad so
keen on soldiering to try semethir.g
else!
The Great Little "Bobs."
But the boy had made up his mind,
eo he afterwards offered himself as
a candidate for the Indian Army,
where, curiously enough at that time,
the authorities were not he- ;o strict
in their decisions. He r a>. accepted,
and as everybody now ::.Iowa, went
out to the great Dependency, where ho
won the V.C., had a marvellous career,
and made a big name, finally rising
to be the greatest general of the Bri-
tish Army in our days.
Roberts lived to be quite an old man,
and enjoyed excellent health most of
his life.
One of our leading admirals told the
writer not long since how he had had
e narrow escape from being "thrown
out of tate Service even before I had
got in, so to speak!"
Ile sale that when he first appeared
before a number of naval examiners
on board ship, he was hardly more
than fifteen, and very nervous. Chal-
lenged by an admiral with a thunder-
ous voice to spell "ricochetting;' iu
relation to a shot from a gun, the boy
epelt it phonetically! His version
was "riclterting," which so annoyed
the examining one that be yelled:
"Not a bit like it! Out you go!"
Winston at School.
however, it seemed that another ad-
miral present had different views, or
was more sympathetic and kindly, for
he put in, "Wait a bit, my boy! Now,
do you know who won the Battle of
Trafalgar?"
"Yes!" said the would-be middy,
who came from a naval family. "It
was Nelson and my grandfather, sari"
The whole Board could not help
smiling, and the kindly one added:
"Good, my. lads You're the sort we
want for the Navy! You'll do!"
One who was at Harrow with Mr.
Winston Churchill has told more than
once how Winston was clever enough
at work, but not given to listening too
keenly to what tutors and masters said
abort the classics and similar "dry"
subjects to him, It was certain
qualities of his, well known to -day,
rather than the passing ot exams.,
which carried young Churchill onward
at Harrow over better scholars, just
as they have done these last few
years Over men whom most of the
public would have expected to be
above him at present.
And who that knew Cecil Rhodes
will easily forget with what glee he
used to relate that, though Ire went
for years to Bishop Stortford Gram-
mar School, and then to Oriel, at Ox-
ford, he usually came in at the foot
el the list when any exam. had to be
method!
So take comfort, you who fail now
and then at school, It isn't always the
prizewinners who afterwards do hest
in the world.
SCrentl is Theory,
According to one European scion-
tist:, animals havo been distributed
over the world by the oscillation of its
We, e, Melt has altered the climate of
its sones.
44,
The bamboo sotnetjmee grows a
toot in tweletyfotrl' hours.
LOSS OF STRENGTH
THROUGH INDIGESTION
The Stomach Can Only Do Its
Work When the Wood is Rich
and Red.
quircd the colonel, who knew the
Georgian temperament,
"It is revolutionary enthusiaani,"
replied the oUll'ial in lithium English.
"If you have a Phomas . a Great Bri-
tain 'Thomum--or a0 to lend us--"
" 'braid not," said the colonel. "I
have just four men with me."
"it is enough!" exclaimed the official
joyfully. "The Great Britain Thome
Indigestion means loss as well as is rnuoli reepected by my country -
suffering to many people. Loss of me '
strength, loss of time and loss of Perhaps it might have been enough,
money follows indigestion and dein,- but the redone) could not spare his
ty continues as loug as ten indiges- four and Closed the interview with a
tion remains. Workers suffer from rather curt, "So sorry!"
indigestion because their hours are A few days later, Mr. Choler and a
long, and often they cannot give pro- medical friend learned a little more
per time to meals, Then the appetite of the ways of 'Thomas with the Geer -
becomes tickle, digestion becomes glans, They had been puzzled by the
feeble and the blood becomes im- sight of a Tommy on a street corner,
poverisbed. So the general health apparently carrying on a fluent con -
suffers; langour, nervous troubles vorsation with a Georgian soldier, and
and often sieepiessneee follows. It is toand an opportunity afterwards to
well to remember that the whole eye- queetion him.
tem relies upon good blood and tbat "Yon don't speak, t>eorgian?" asked
good blood Is impossible unless the the doctor.
digestion is good. "No, sir," answered 'Tommy.
The stomach cannot do its work un- "And that Georgian doesn't under -
Tess the blood is made rich and red, stand Engiish'?"
and so new blood alone can cure MO- "No, sir."
gestion. It is for this reason that a "How on earth, than, do you man.
remedy like Dr. Williams' Pink Pills age to understand each other?"
which makes now, rich blood, 'cures "'Well, you sec, it's this way, sir,"
indigestion and builds up the whole replied Thomas with the utmost
system. The great value of Dr. Wii. solemnity. "Ono of these 'ere .foreign
lianas' Pink Pills in cases of this kind chapel . conic up and say to mo,
is prover by the statement of Mr. R.'Nitohyviila, nitchyvllla?' And I'll say
E. Small, Winghatn,.Ont,, who says:— to 'int, 'Don't mild if 1 do 'ave one,'
"The truthfulness of my statement can And then maybe 'e'll say to me, 'Batt•
be proven by scores of nay friends and sky, ittsky, boo!' And then I biffs 'im
acquaintances. I am a glove cutter one on the jaw."
by trade and for six long years, have "But why? Why knock him downs'
at times been a great sufferer from "Because, sir," answered Thomas
coliplication of ills chiefly due to in- with simplicity, "for all I know, sir, 'e
digestion, Gal would accumulate on may be making insulting remarks
the stomach, causing me great pain, about me,"
I would bloat up at times and almost It is perhaps not far his logio that
suffocate, and often when at work the Great. Britain Thomas is respected
would be overcome by a drowsy op- in Georgia; but respected he is,
pression which was almost intlescrib•
able. Finally I began the nse of Dr'
The Real Good.
Williams' Pink Pills, and after taking
seven boxes I feel like a new man. "What is the real good?"
The transformation they have made in I asked in musing mood,
me is simply remarkable, and while Order, said the law court,
using then, I gained thirteen pounds Knowledge, said the school,
in weight. I may add that I began the Truth, said the wise man,
use of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills as a Pleasure, said the fool,
result of what they did for a niece,
who underwent a critical operation, Love, said t e maiden,
and who diel not regain her strength Beauty, said the page,
until she started using the pills, In Freedom, said the dreamer,
her case they fully restored her health, Hone, said the sage,
and this encouraged nee to begin their Fame, said the soldier, .
use, with, as 1 have already said, a Equity, the seer.
complete restoration of health in my Spake my heart full sadly, "
own Casa." "The answer is not here;'
Yon can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Then within my bosom,
through any dealer in medicine, or by Softly this I heard:
mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for „Each heart holds the secret;
$2,50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Kindness is the word."
Co„ Brockville, Ont.
Why the Great Britain
11
Thomas is Respected.
The British Tommy is cheery, cour-
ageous and dependable. He also
adapts himself successfully, in his
own peculiar fashion, to strange coun-
tries, comrades and responsibilities.
In Georgia—not that which Sherman
marched through, but Transcaucasian
Georgia, neigbbor to unhappy Armenia
—Mr. Melville Chater, a recent Ameri-
can visitor, fouud him very much on
the job. He was, indeed, the one en-
livening element amid tragedy and
confusion. The American first learn-
ed of his activities from a British
colonel, his travelling companion on
a Georgian train,
There had been, the colonel related,
trouble between the Armenians and
the Georgians over a boundary chis•
Aute, when along came a party of
twelve British soldiers. The Georgian
and Armenian armies lay on either
side of a railway line. They were
about to attack, when the Briton in
command jumped on a pile of railevay
ties and addressed them.
"Commanders of the Georgian and
Armenian armies in being," he said
politely. "Since you can't carry on
without killing some of His Majesty's
forces, I propose an armistice." There-
upon the British army of twelve sat
down between the firing lines and
comfortably made and enjoyed its tea
whiie the surprised commander's ar-
ranged terms.
It was au amusing anecdote, and
scarcely hall the colonel finished tell.
ing it when the brakes began grinding
and a fusliade of musketry rang out
from the near -by town. Presently a
Georgian official, very scared, came
aboard and appealed to the colonel for
assistance against a crowd Of convivial
fellow citizens who were shooting up
the countryside,
"Is it war or mere play?" coldly in -
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A Strike in the Congo.
A novel method of breaking a strike
is 'described by Mr, E. Torday, who
tells about some of the curious cus•
tones of the Central African tribes in
the Congo. I crossed the river in a
canoe, he says, and then any luggage
was carted to a place above the fails
where another boat was waiting for
me.
The boat was only a dugout, but it
was so large that it required a crew of
forty paddlers, which was changed at
every village so that the men should
not be taken far from their hones.
In one place the meu refused to
work, and for a time I was unable to
proceed. Leaving the women in the
village, they withdrew to a distance
and mocked me.
I instructed cry boy to put e. number
Of paddles into the boat; then I in-
vited the savage ladies to conte aboard
and sell me food. I relied upon the
universal eagerness of the negroee in
that region to trade, and soon thirty
women were in the boat bargaining.
Without attracting their attention,
my boy unfastened the rope by which
the boat was secured to a tree, and
before the saleswomen were aware of
what was happening they found them.
selves floating downstream,
The effect of this Manoeuvre was
immediate, . The men set out in their
little canoes and demanded their wo-
men. I offered to surrender one heat -
age for every man who would come
aboard and take his place with a pad -
die, and in halt an hour I continued
my journey, triumphantly, Ail the
ladies had been redeemed from pawn,
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low and that owners of estates can
More profitably invest their money
elsewhere, 'J'lu're are also 'many
newly -rich Molting fur fine counta'Y
Mollies. But in the main, it is small
fanners who are buying up the big
estates in portions. The agricultural
depression of the eighties and early
nineties ruined many an English far -
mel', but the war with Its Consequent
deula»d for every scrap of food that
could be produced in the IJritish Isles
gave a tr8nlenden]s stimulus to .agri-
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Practically all the, /urge area of
land offered for sale in Kent hoe been
sold timid keen cumpetitiori at sale -
factory prices. Fruit farms have been
in great demand. With many of the
big estates being sub -divided those re.
maining as such will naturally become
more valuable. There ie an unsalable
demand for houses in both London and
the small towns.
WHEN R Y IS CROSS
Mothers, when your baby is cross—
when be cries a great deal and no
amount of attention or petting cheers
him—something is the matter. It is
not the nature of little ones to be
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cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
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That friendsome throng,.
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In which I find
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Coughs and Colds
Restless Nights
which sap the vitality.
Danger lurks In every
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tobring your children
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andstrenath and avoid
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child is having the best and most
harmless laxative or physic for the
little stomach, liver and bowels.
Children love its delicious fruity
taste. Full directions for child's dose
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Maxims of a Successful Man.
The less we think of our own goon
qualities and the more we make of
those of our friends and associates
the better for everyone.
The most successful selfishness la
unselfishness.
Don't taut about your own good
qualities—give your friends a chance,
It is good to both think and act, but
do the first anyway.
Moro men have talked themselves
out of a job than into one.
Conservation is a Valuable thing;
save it,
When you criticise your own organi-
zation remember you are a part of it,
When you find something to criti-
cise in the organization tell me. I ani
interested --the public is not.
It is better to get a headache Chas•
Ing an idea than a sore heats nursing
a grouch, -
A little idea may make a big noise,
but a big noise never made avers a lit.
tle idea.
Boti't chase a customer too ,lard.
Yott may be out of breath and ide.'tc3
when you catch bin],
Don't let George think far you.
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Cyril: "That young bride woreblps
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Ceiiat "Well, she places burnt of-
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Dordt,
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