The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-05-21
but I WAS A GOOD HosrLER. SIR

Our bright contemporary, the Saint
Michacl's Comet, thus scnsibly dis
courses upon the lesson young men may
draw from the career Of one OF the most
prominent citizens Of Cecil county:
Recently Hon. Jacob Tome, Of Port
Deposit, had occasion to chide host
Ter for some delinquency. The fellow
was surly, and answered back sharply,
"You forget, Mr.. Tome, that you were
once hostler YOURSELF" Mr.. Tome
replied, "No, do not forget it. re-
member it, and ! remember too that
when was hostler was good one"
Jacob has been a remarkably SUGGEST
full man. He is now a man Of great
wealth. He has large possessions
Broad acres he owns and spacious
houses. Bonds and mortgages yield to
him their revenues dividends from
stocks and consols glide into his Golfers.
Wealth, with its means Of enjoyment
and its opportunities for doing good
with its responsibilities and its privi-
leges, is on his right hand and on his
left. But these acres and houses, these
bonds and mortgages and stocks, these
dividends and coupons, cannot be traced
to some mouldy and faded last will and
testament Of some wealthy man in which
to Jacob Tome was devised and be-
queathcd the fruits Of some ancestors
toll, the labor Of some other mans
hands. II is not inherited wealth that
is blessing Jacob Tome and giving him
the opportunity Of blessing others and
honoring Him whose is "Every beast OF
the forest, and the cattle on thousand
hills"
His wealth is the result Of his own
efforts. His success he has made. His
life and his works contain lesson, and
that lesson is epitomized in his answer
to the hostler. Formulated and cast
into general phrase, il opens up to us
the secret Of his success, and the secret
Of success in the business life. II is the
habit Of doing we'll that which it is
necessary to do. The laggard cries out
for opportunities men like Mr.. Tome
make them. There are many young
men competent to do better things than
the circumstances Of the times have them
now doing. Some will do these things
well when they do not measure up to
their own capabilities, and do them
cheerfully and make friends and patrons
while doing them. Others do their
work carelessly, without any heart, when
their tastes and inclinations are averse
to their employment. The youth whom
early disadvantages compel to curry,
and feed, and drive the horse Of others,
need not hope ever to own horses Of his
own, unless he is good hostler while
that is his business. This country af-
fords many an illustrious example Of the
rise from obscurity to fame but il is
always a rise and never 4 leap. Roger
Sherman made good shoes Elihu Bur-
ritt's horse-shoes could be depended
upon Millard Fillmore's wood-carding
was exceptionally well done; Abraham
Lincoln's rails were carefully split ;
James A. Garheld's mule teams were
finely handled William Wirt's country
school was a model BENJAMIN Frank
lin was as exceptional as printer as he
was as philosopher; George Washing
tons surveys were painstaking and ac-
curate.
The same road that others have trod
lies open for all to tread. The youth
Of to-day can carve career in spite oi
circumstances. The ladder Of life,
whose top is in the clouds, must be
climbed round by round; none Can
vault from the bottom round at the
ground to the top one high in air.
Each round is station, and each has
its duties that must be carefully and
conscientiously performed at each sta.
ton there is work that must be faithful.
| ly done; OF the climbing must cease
and the earth receive its own. Peasant.
have become poets, painters, philoso
pliers and popes, but they have riser
and not leaped.
Insurance companies will not under
write air castles. All would becom,
rich il dreams, instead Of work, earnet
wealth; all would be wise IL dawdling