The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-08-29
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Every year the great multitude Of
those who stand In the worlds market
places waiting to be hired grows great
er. The tcorned professions arc full,
and still college doors open to let out
ments Ia hand, who, with the old cry,
| 'plenty Of room at tho top" rush to
join the pushing, jostling crowd at the
bottom of the ladder, struggling togain
| fO0thold ON tho lower rOUnds, In all
grades Of life IL Is the same thing. Ad-
| vertise for an GRAND boy and your door
will be besieged by boys ofevcry species,
from the youngster who knows ho Is
little, "but please try me, mister" to
tho gray-haired applicant, who, though
not II boy, Is willing to work for boys
women arc crying for work, work.
Pitifully large Is the class of young
men, more or less wcll educated, col
lego graduates many Of them, without
either tho sword OF a profession or tho
oystcr-knifc Of trade, yet mono the
less confidently looking to the world
as their oyster and expecting easily to
open It's rough, hard shell. Frequently
such as these turn to Journalism, rc-
garsaing 1t as u genteel pursuit open to
any one who can write an essay or even
a decent letter, oblivious OF tho fact
that to become n successful Journalist
calls not only for talents Of a peculiar
kind, but for years of patient, careful
training, SO that tho printers boy who
has worked his way up by sheor pcrso-
verance, Is usually a better journalist
| than the prize cssnyist and yaledicto-
rian of his class, who has yet to learn
tho ropes In a newspaper Office.
| 600 West, young man, go West,"
quotes the philanthropist, but tho West
makes answer that there, also, tho pro-
fessions are full. awe want no finc
gentlemen" says q Nevada journal.
s'Send us skilled mechanics, practical
farmers, with at leust few hundred
lnborcrs. For such AS these there is
plenty OF chance; but for professional
men there is no opening, and non
professional gentlemen who cannot
work had best stay at home" Even
where In tho West and Northwest
millions of acres OF Government land
lie ready for those who may settle on
1t, the work OF pre-ompting II homo
stead is hard, requiring health and
strength to labor and mt 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 tho hard, rough lifo
Of the frOnticrsman, and who has in
addition two or three hundred dollars,
can make himself homo In tho West.
Otherwise 1t is folly to attempt 1t.
| But this lack OF desirable openings
is no excuse for remaining fdle. Thorc
is work Of some sort in the world for
every man who really wants to work.
II you cannot do one thing, do another,
and, whatsoever you do, do your best
| patient, faithful labor is suro Of its ro-
ward in the end. Or If you can act
ually find nothing TO do, set yourself
earnestly to acquire soine art or pro-
fession which may yield you living.
| The stories Of the beginnings OF mon OF
whom the world has heard are many
! OF them records OF perseverance in tho
face OF difficulties. Franklin's penny
roll, Abraham Lincoln's rail-splitting,
Andy Johnson's tailoring--ull these
arc historic. Stonewall Jackson walked
over mountain and through forest to
Washington to ask his cadctship, and
to West Point whom he got it, because
no had not money to pay his fare.
Any employment, however distasteful
OF humble, is better than nothing Tor
the man who hus his way to make in
tnc "OTIu. Al lo HIS l'iuch uiiV cHcASy
he will make of such stepping stone
to something higher. Tho mere fact
that man Is out Of employment IL
something against him. Tho world Of
employers looks nslkance at tho man
without work and demands oxplann-
tion, however anxious lie may bc to
find something to do.
There il no greater mistake In tho
search for work than that which leads
young mon to turn their backs on tho
home farm and crowd to tho cities
without oven tho promise of steady en-
ployment when there, while at home
their father must hiro help on tho
farm. Farming ones SELF on ones own
land is tho only employment certain
always ut least to yield living. Ana
the secret of success in farming mas
beun shown to lie in high cultivation.
He who makes two blades Oh gr"a'
grow where but one grew before IL u
public bcncfctOr. Vegetables ana Sinai'
fruits. when raised within reach OF IL
market, pay even better than grain.
Ten wears ago a Maryland planter was
piticd by his ncigbbOrs because part OF
his farm would grow nothing but
blackberries. To-day the blackbcrrics
are cultivated and shipped to market,