The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-11-20
Can't Find Work.

Can't Find Work.
How often do we receive this an
swer flom young men loailng about
town. Yes, they can not find the KIND
Of work they look for, that is, a place
with big pay and little or no work
Now, We undertake to say that every
hoy aud ,oung man can find work we
positively know they u IL lie must
not he fastidious. If he cannot AZ
once find such work as he would prefer
let him accept whatever is offered.
Let him then throw his whole soul
and mind into the work he has to per
tvrm let him make himself indispen-
sable to his employer, faithful and i'll
dustrious, and our word for it, he will
succeed. Perseverance, aud industry
VIII counterbalance a great many minor
short comings and carry their possess
or on TO prosperity.
Young men should bear in mind
that they have life before them, and
that by industriously working end
saving u few years, they a make
enough to strike out independently
and gain y competency for the balance
of their lives. In taking this step they
should be careful not to allow thei'
fancies and desires to over-rule their
better judgment, and be ready to lis
ten to advice frsm such experienced
persons as they have found to be their
true friends McMinnvillc New Era
We have said so much in the Home
Journal upon this subject that really
we fear to say anything more, lest it
may be said that we are crazy about
the matter. But when We remember
the daily appeals made by young men
for situations, our pen refuses to be
silent. Here in Winchester we have 4
number OF boys, able. bodied and sen
sible, who are living upon their home
steads. They are ashamed to work,
and are looking out daily for some
soft position in a store, where they a
be free at night to indulge their love
OF 80 called pleasure during the alb.
sence OF the boss" And then, they
must dress a little better than boys
who have to work at trades, and will
have more time for calling upon their
s%weethearts. POOR, foolish girls they
will some day see their error in not
giving their smiles to the industrious
boy who is too busy at his business
to post himself upon the latest fash.
ions in dress.
But to boys who want to become
men, in the true sense of the word, we
wish to say that the path to success in
business is invariably the path of com
mon sense. Notwithstanding all that
is said about lucky hits" the best
kind of success in every mans life il
not that which zones by accident.
Just now We are in financial trouble
in OUT land, and times are hard. But a
good time will come if we will make it
for ourselves. The fable of the labor
OF Hercules is the type of all human
doing aud success. Aud every parent
should make his children feel that if
they would get through the world use.
,ully and happily they must rely upon
and thei, own exertions.
There are too many young men in
'ur country who are making no exer.
ion simply because they are looking
onward to help from their fathers
'hen they die. We scorn such ayoung
ian. Too lazy himself to make mon.
y as his father did, he must take his .
erltage from a dying fathers hand.
nd then he swslls in his foolish pride
' II ne was entitled to praise. What a .
NY that Oil OF us were not born poor
hat a pity that men arc such fools ss I
} labor hard IN order that their bows
lall not learn trades! 1t is not good
n human nature to have the road of
le mace too easy. Indeed, as some
says, to start in life With notbino
ems so necessary as a stimulus to
ork that it may almost be set down
one Of the conditions essential to =
ccess in life. Hence an eminent
ige, when asked what contributed .
ost to success at the bar, replied
some succeed by great talent, some
high connections, some bv
racle, but tho majority by common.
g without . shilling" How is il esl
in Winchester. Go back al, far in,
you please and you will find that our TO-
althy and influential men commenced Law
'hout a cent. Andrew johnson was al
Inc only poor u.an who got to be kcr