The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-23
ABOUT GETTING A ITvING.
Some Valuable Hints for Those out oil
Employment.

iHAAuoIPnA Hines
Every year the great multitude Of thost
who stand in the worlds m~arketplacei
waiting to be hired grows greater. The
learned professions are full, and still col
lege doors open to let out eager aspirants
bl%ue.ribboned parchments in hand, who,
with the old cry, "Plenty Of room ct the
top" rush TO join the pushing, %jostlins
crowd at the bottom Of the ladder, strug.
Cling togain foothold on the lower rounds.
In all grades Of life 1t is the same thing.
Advertise for an Grand boy and your
door will be besieged by boys Of every
species, from the youngster who knows
he is little, "but pease try me mister,' to
the gray-haired applicant, who, though
not a boy is willing to work for a boys
wages; all over the land men an women
are crying for work, work.
PititullY large is the class OF young men,
moro or less well educated, college gradu.
ates many Of them, without either the
sword Of profession or the oyster.knife Of
q trade, yet monet the less confidently look.
ing to the world as their oyster and expect.
ing easily to open It's rough, hard shell.
Frequently such as these turn 10 journal.
ism regarding 1t as a genteel pursuit open
to any n whocNn write an essay or even
a decent letter, oblivious ofthe fact that to
become asuccessful Journalist callsnot only
for talents Of apeculiar kind, but for years
Of patient, careful training, so that the
printers boy who has worked his way up
by sheer perseverance, Is usually a better
journalist than the prize essayist and
valedictorian OF his class, who has yet 10
learn the ropes in q newspaper Office.
Go West, young man, go West" quotes
the philanthropist, but the West makes
answer that there, also, the professions are
full. I'VE want no fine gentlemen" says
o Nevada journal. Send us skilled me.
chanics; practical farmers, with at least a
few hundred dollars on which to begin;
bonafde laborers. For such as these there
is plenty Of chance; but for professional
men there is no opening, and non.profes-
SIGNAL gentlemen who cannot work had
best stay at home" Even where in the
West and Northwest millions of acres Of
government land lie ready for those who
may settle on 1t the work Of pre.empting
u homestead Is hard, requiring health and
strength to labor and at least capital
enough to live on until the land is re-
claimed and yields a crop. The settler
who is willing and able to labor with his
hands, to lead the hard, rough life OF the
frontiersman, and who has In addition two
or three hundred dollars, can make him.
self a home in the West. Otherwise it is
folly to attempt it.
But the lack Of desirable openings is no
excuse for remaining idle. There Is work
of some sort in the world for every man
who really wants to work. II you cannot
do n thing, do another, and whatsoever
you do, do your best; patient, faithful la
Dor is sure OF its reward in the end. Or
If you car actually find nothing to do, set
yourself earnestly 10 acquire some art or
profession which may yield you aliving.
The stories Of the beginnings Of men Of
whom the world has heard arc many OF
them records OF perseverance in the face
OF difficulties. Franklin's penny roll,
Abraham LinColn's rail-splitting, Andy
Johnson's %tailoring-all these are historic.
Stonewall Jackson walked overmOuntains
and through forest to Washington to ask
his c%adetship, and to West Point when he
got it, because he had not money to pay
his iare. ANY employment, however dis
for the man who has his way to make in
the world. II he has pluck and energy
he will make otsuch a stepping stone to
something higher. The mere fact that a
man is out OF employment is something
against him. The world Of employers
look askance at the man without work
and demands explanation, however anx-
ious he may be to find something to do.
There is no greater mistake in the search
for work than that which tends young men
to turn their backs on the home farm and
crowd to the cities without even the prom
Use OF steady employment when there,
while at home their father must hire help
on the farm. Farming ones self, on ones
own land, is the only employment certain
always at least to yield a living. And the
secret otsuccessin farminghas been shown
to lie in high cultivation. He who makes
two blades Of grass grow where but one
grew before is q public benefactor. Veg
etables and small fruits, when raised
within reach OF q market, pay even
better than grain. Ten years ago q Mary
land planter wa pitied by his neighbors
because part Of his farm would grow moth
ing but blackberries. To-day the black
berries are duly cultivated and shipped to.
market, and the despised blackberry field
Is the most valued portion Of the farm.
America is destined at no distantd day to
become notonly the grainery butthe mar:
ket garden Of the world, and the practical
cannot fail of success. This way lies the
road, to comfort and perhaps wealth.
Don't go away until you have tried work
at home.