The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-12-26
opportunitiazaa Condition. :
Success in Life.

WHICH Uhe auOnor a comprehensiya
survey of the principal industries ans
vacations which are or can be carried
in the United States, with a view 4 4
certain and to point out the onnayt,,.
tiles which they present for the attaI..
ment of success in life. The ANA
says truly that whenever a change 4.
ones condition is desirable it is RIGHT Z
effect a change. 1t is right if a man.
position is a bad one that he sbonla
seek for a better one. The right posi.
ton for q man to occupy is the best ona
to which he can honestly and borcs
ably attain by the exercise Of All H.
powers and the best use OF all his On
portunities. The chapter en- Mechanics
and Manufactures contains a great daaI
of valuable information and advice. which
can be ~proftably studied by all who ara
engaged in those pursuits. The author
sums up the main conditions as fol.
lows:
First-Choose well the particular
advocation in which you are to engage.
having special reference to your
W qualifications, mental as well q
physical. If you are of delicate
frame, the trade of blacksmith and
carpenter is not for you. If your
fingers are deficient in suppleness.
and in celebrity of movement, the
craft of compositor is not for you. If
you happen to be color blind, do not
try to become a painter. If there is no
special disqualification, then of all tie
occupations open to you, select the one
which promises opay best. If for any
reason, or We for no reason which You
can definitely assign, you have a liking
for any particular trade, that one, other
things being equal, should be chosen.
If you are fond of reading, that is d
good reason for becoming a printer; If
you have a natural mechanical turn, You
are specially fitted for a machinest, q
cabinet-maker, or a mill wright, and all
the more so if you have an inventive
genius. The inventor who cannot, with
his own hands, make, at least, a model
of his invention, labors under a serious
though not insuperable disadvantage.
Second-Make yourself a Thorough
master of your trade, including the use
of the machinery and other tools used
in it; but do not confine yourself to it as
to render yourself incable of doing any.
thing else. No one handicraft is suff
cient to exhaust all the capabilities Of
any one man. You viii be the better
painter for being able to handle the. saw
the better joiner for knowing how to use
the brash; the better machinist for ac-
quiring the use of the pencil.
Third-Having learned your trade,
whatever it may be, look well for .
location in which to exercise it. Lit is
as important to know where to dos
thing as how to do it. Do not become
SO enamored of your present abode as
to refuse to leave it for a better one, nor
SO given to change as to seek it merely
for it's own sake. OF course healthful-
ness or unhealthfulness of a place Isl
great reason for or against choosing IT.
Fourth-Be on the alert for oppor-
tunities to better your condition. Look
for them, for it is not often they Will
come unsought, or that accident will
throw them in your path. 1t IS very
right and proper to be always con.
tented with our present condition,
provided always that it is the one we
are best fitted to fill. But it IS Dy
no means certain that the condition
in which one finds himself is the one IN
which Providence designed him TO re-
main. To George Washington It may
have seemed al o time that the lot OF .
land surveyor was divinely appolnted
TO him; and he would certainly have
made a good surveyor. George Ste.
phenson was a GOLFERS helper, lgnoraEs
OF the alphabet until he had al.
most reached manhood. When az
thirty he was made an engine
driver at G100 a year, he thought no
was o made man. and hal reached inc
highest stage to which Providence naa
assigned him; but Providence wlliea
thai he should not be content IN tnas
position. Had Peter Cooper remained
In any one of the yarions OCCUPATIONS 70
which Providence had apparently called
him, we cannot we'll imagine how greas
losers we should have been. 1t IS tne
men who have not been content wi.h
their present condition" but nave az
ways yearned after and striven lot
something better, who have not only
improved their own affairs, but those
of the world.
Fifth-To skill and industry, presls'
tence and energy, with intelligence q
guide them, add honesty IN act ana
purpose. Be content with no presen1
state, however good, SO long as there
appears to be something beyond at-
tainable. However high you nave
climbed, let your motto and watchworo
still be "Excelsior"--yet higher.
Reversed Things.
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