The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-07

men in both. They never play on one
string. They always have two or four
strings to their fiddles, or they could
not make such excellent music. ubce
in awhile some celebrated violinist will
take out three strings from his instru-
ment and play something on only one.
He only does it for display, and if he
wishes to play q grand concerto he
would never trust to. one string.
Now, taking the regular trades, car
pentry, brick-laying, painting, shoe
making, and so on, let us observe that
any intelligent young person with fair
common-school education can in few
months learn all that is needed to be q
fairly good workman. 1t has been
thought that it takes three years
to become workman in these
trades. Perhaps it does take the
ignorant peasant of Europe that
time. He learns everything slowly;
he has no books on his work.
and if he had them, often he can not
read. He is, then, grown-up Ounce,
and it is wonder he ever learns any
thing. An American sohool-hoy is
wholly different person. If he wishes
to learn brick-layIng, he can find the
whole business in print and can read all
about it in less than two days. ANY
wide-awake intelligent person, deter
mined to learn. can master the work
| sufficiently well to earn a living inside
of SIX months. y
Having done this, having learned
something of any one of these trades,
there is no earthly reason why he should
not learn another and still another. 1t
is the same in everything If you
write sermons, why not play the pi-
ano? If you sell ribbons, why not be
able to etch or engrave? If You keep
house, why not paint or embroider, or
play the organ in church? You can do
two things WELL if you make up your
mind that you will. Every one has
two talents, and thousands of people
have three or more. They are all
around men. They know their bust
ness and are masters in it, and they
can do something else, too. Many
man is known down town by one set of
peolpe in the daytime and to quite
another set uptown in the evening.
One set think him smart business
man, and the other set say he is Won
derful conductor or violinist, or poet or
wood-carver. The very fact that he
has two trades is the reason that he is
master in both. 1t does not follow that
because you have two trades, that you
must be a "Jack" in either.
: Have one trade whereby you earn
your living, and then have another.
You will earn more in the first by
knowing the second. l know a man
who works on newspaper for his liv-
ing, and yet he has good mechanical
trade and can do any common work.
He can take good photograph, play
the piano fairly we'll, can sail a boat,
, and cook first-rate dinner. Does his
: regular trade suffer- Not at all. He
, is all She better workman because he
has such variety. He can do so many
things that he is always fresh and
| ready for work.
That's the secret of the whole mat
, ter. To be ready for work, to feel that
you like to do it, and then you do it
| well. 1t is the change, the variety of
, work that rests and refreshes. Your
? one-t trade man is always tired. His life
! is dull and mOnotonous. He never
r thinks of anything except his work, and
{ 80 both his work and his thinking are
poor. Moreover, these are changeable
times. Tho trades are continually
. shifting, and work that pays well one
| year may be utterly fiat the next year.
, and then what will your Jack" doP In
: England, if the frost is severe, and the
> gardeners can not work, they go out in
: the streets in professions and beg, In
' New England, when the winter storms
e keep the fishermen in port, they take
| up their tools and make shoes. Let us
hear no more of this remark. No boy
9 of sense means to be a Jack" in any
q trade; and every boy who means to
r succeed should be master in two or
. more. - Charles barnard, IN Golden
) Rule.
; Benny's Last Ride.