Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-29
-4ENEESS LIVES.

Cdu JOutLl, III lar loo large NUMBERS, nave
the inclination to shirk good, honest hard
work, and are altogether too successful in
doing it. They exhibit only a languid
appetite for education, are without the
sturdy purpose to learn trade and find
employment in it. Industry they are not
acquainted with, but enjoy great familiar
ity in all the courts of aimless idleness.
Many young man who would make a
good blacksmith or carpenter, thinks it
beneath him to choose an aTocation of that
sort for his life work. He wants some
thing easier, and so, if he has not parents
on whom he can rely for support, he be-
comes clerk, or something of that sort,
passing his days in minor form of labor,
and his nights in revel and useless associ-
alton. The aimless young man frequents
the billiard room, the concert saloon,
the variety theater and all sorts of
places where idle conversation abounds.
and habits are, formed that lead downward.
The great want of the period is the want
of disposition to make resolute, persistent
application, without which no man ever
was or ever can be useful. One of the
malle-shifts for drifting along in the
world is to enter some profession, and the
legal profession is generally selected as
offering the most opportunities to the
youth, who rather hide his talent in a
napkin than apply himself to
calling which demands continu-
GUS, honorable industry. That pro-
fession, the country over, is overcrowded
with class OF uneducated, unequipped
hangers on of fortune, who detract from
the nobility of the profession and are an
incubus to community.
A recent inquiry at Philadelphia devel-
oped the fact that in that city there are
but two trades in which native American
apprentices predominate-in the machine
shops and the printing offices. In nearly
all the trades German apprentices largely
predominate. It is fairly presuma-
BILE that what is true of PhiladeI-
phia is equally true of all other
cities, towns and sections, for human ma
| ture is not far different where ever found.
The boy who is not cheerfully interested in
| learning trade, even if by some force of
circumstances he is apprenticed to it, will
| only be failure, and the trouble is with
most American youths, that unless the
| force of conditions require, that class of
coming men do not learn any trade Or any
thing else that is worthy of them. It is
quite to the discredit of American youth
| that they are so outstripped in
industrious inclinations and occupations
by the youth of foreign parentage.
If it we're not for these last, the great aud
cessities to the people would be begging
for labor, which it would be impossible to
supply. The farmer boy sees the young
man IN town in the apparent enjoyment of
ease, and he too is seized with the mania
to live without the unceasipg occupation
which the agriculturalist must apply. AS
soon as he can, he fees the farm, and Joins
the idling throng in the town or city, and
OF course finds living by his wits the most
unprOductiye occupation he has engaged
| in, and sooner or later he learns the lesson
that the world owes no man living, who
does not honestly earn II.
Success in life is only to be attained by
honest, hard work, and Unceaslng, practical
| application, no matter what occupation,
profession or calling is decided upon for
ones life work. Everyone can have, prac-
tically without money or without cost, a
| liberal education, a sufficiency for the sue
cessful meeting Of the responsibilities
that mature years may bring. Work is
honorable, and is necessary. and it is with
in the possibility OF any young man to
win, If he will live clean life, allow his
employment to compel constant intel
| lsctual growth, bringing to bear upon the
work IN hand-trade, business or profess
sion-the force of an energetic
mind and willing hands. There is nothing
to be trusted 10 luck. That is a fantasy
that beguiies only to disappoint. Things
don't turn up. They are wrought out
Don't take any stock in destiny. Nobody
ever had lucky star. The great Napoleon
followed his star, but it took him to ST.
Helena and despair. ga pound of pluck is
worth g ton of luck Don't be ashamed of
poverty, no matter how uncomfortable.
and it is uncomfortable, nor envy those
who have, or appear to have, money to
spend that you cannot. How many hun
dred times men and families have been
dragged down to sorrow, discour-
agement and perhaps sin, by
the weakness of not being brave
enough to stand fair and square in their
lot, with contentment. Poets may be born,
but success is made. It is every mans
birthright, attainable in some degree, and
in sufficient degree, by the man who puts
his whole heart into the work he under
takes. Men succeed because they deserve
success, and earn it. Having a purpose,
pursue it, and success will come into your
house and abide with you, while the aimless
colleague who started on the journey with
you, will tramp on, never coming to the
end of his rainbow.
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which it cost the government TO print
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