Mohave County miner., 1889-01-26
AN OBJECT IN LIFE.
HOWARD DISCUSSES THE CUES
TON, WHAT ARE We HERE FoRf

the Average ssss II . Yssi snA Disth as
tias rosa Dtsth AaistAtss which Pas.
erss sasks--An Aim. Hsvsvss Hsmhas.
u Coed Thins.
Tho average man is fool. And hs disth
a. tho fool dieth.
Quietly sitting In your New England homs,
contented with your breakfast, comfortable
In your surroundings, peaceful atmosphere
suggesting an everlasting frssdona from un-
pleasant activities, take . piscs Of paper and
write On 10 the names OF the great OF the
earth. Put down men and women great In
any line mental, moral, physical, financial
Include statesmen, dnancisrs, writers, ora
tors, inventors, cxpiorcrs, humanitArians,
aye, ana IL you viii, put In those who are
noted simply for length Of days. o. personal
prowess, or height o. weight
How many have youf Oughtnt that iist
10 bc longeri
What are we here forf Oughtnt thers TO
be an aim for every human being besides the
mere getting Of bread and butter, providing
OF q shelter and clothssi Parents may with
some degree of Justice say, swell, 1t 10 too
Lotto now for me TO have an aim" But 1
seems TO me, when they have gotten that fsr
in the sentence, the faces Of their childrln
should rise before them, and the thought
born on the instant, that thsir aim should be
TO give their children an aim, should be
thenceforth their guiding star, the very
helm OF the voyage Of hfA
The parents make great mistakes. They
have an idea that TO REFUSE thia, that or the
other to their children Ia an unkindness. As
= matter Of fact, IL is the trusst kindness
often to refuse A majority Of parents hesi-
tate TO refuse favors TO their children from
the most selfish motives, unrecognized, but
existing, all the same Discipline requires
strength Of mind 1t requires not only men
tai strength, bat moral strength and phys
ical endurance. Very few of rs are endowed
with all OF these, and tho great majority OF
US have little OF either. IL takes time and
patience to train dog, therefore IL is very
much cheaper to pay trainer $40 month
than 10 is TO bother ones self about It. Pre-
cisely 30 with children. We spoil them at
homo and send them TO school for their edu.
cation. There Is 30 much In US that IL un-
used, 20 much that might be made available,
TO put IL selfshly, for our own comfort, for
our own happiness, for our own delight and
appreciation OF the bounteous gifts which
are showered upon our path, but which We
have not the sight 70 ssa
A man who goes through life with no other
ambition than saving money 10 mean man;
but after all he has an idea. He wants 10
die rich man, and he does die rich. Every
body laughs when he dies; but he has bad the
solid Satisfaction, all his life long, Of pursu-
ing course designedly and deliberately
marked out The fact that It ts an ignoble
aim has nothing 10 do with the case He has
IN aim, and he follows 1t the end. A man
who desires to become good public speaker
may fail In convincing others that he II .
good public speaker; but he, having marked
out tina. line Ct endeavor, educates himself,
reads books, practices oratory, yells behind
the barn, shouts over the bounding billows,
talks In the seclusion Of his study, speaks a.
he walks the crowded streeta. Do you mean to
tell me that he is not having good timei
DO you mean TO tell me that he II beside him
self when he does thati Can't you see that
be is bstter man, q moro useful man, even
1t he never succeeds in reaching the goali
The very fact that the moment we begin
TO consider the subject Of aims, our minds
divides them into classes, proves conclusively,
first, that It is an interesting thought. and
second. that IL is ons which. outworked, will
do Us good Idon't mean TO intimate that
the average man, the ditch diggers, tho day
laborers, the slaves Of capital, the Indians In
their forests, the vast hordes In Jungle,
swamp or glade, need be expected ever 10
stand upon mountain tops and view the pros
pect DER, hoping by expert eye to detect
some glittering point toward which to shoot
tho arrows Of their deslre, but do say, II
ambition could be implanted In their breasts,
lowly, humble, poverty stricken though IL
bo, tho man would be happier, more useful,
more contented, and tho race would b
elevated many pointa
The ditch digger who means 10 have his
ditch st,.aighter and cleaner than that Of any
other man has an object In life. Tho man
who builds q stone fence and regards its
neat, regular surface, its direct course, with
satisfaction, and compares or contrasts II
with the fences Of others less careful about
him, has an ambition, and he 10 q better man
for the fact. The express clerk, whose tally
book is legible and whose crate list and
drivers books are neat, with readable ad
dresses and decipherabae figures, is q better
man, q better servant TO his company, q
moro acceptable public worker, than his fel
lows who scribble the scrawls we ordinarily
find in express delivery books, the only legi
bio feature about IL being the cabalistic sigr
of c. O. d. Go into any great printing estab
lishment and you win find that thers are Ger
tain clerks in tho advertising department
with whom the public prefer to deal Why
Because they are desirous not only Of serv
ing their employer by pleasing his patrons
but Of advancing themselves In their EN-
ploy. 1t is their aim TO be civil, TO be oblig
ing, to be helpful and to be correct.
(io into the city editors room and tall
with him. II be will condsscsnd, hetwees
his cigarette puffs, to open his oracular lips
he will tell you Of the twenty or thirty re
porters under his control three or four ar,
tho group upon whom he chiefly relies
Why's Because they are ambitious alonl
their Limo Of work; because they are al
ways ON time; because they have . quicl
nose for news; because their copy ID clean
because they don't spend an hour In revising
and interlining and crossing out and chang
ing expressions a... a.. ....
went to school once to . man who's
finger nails were always dirty. He produce,
profound impression on me, and don't be
lievs have ever had o dirty finger mai
since. He little knew what bis object In LII
was, but 10 far as I am concerned, the onl,
| thing I ever learned from him was by oh
scrvation Of his excessively dirty finger nsila
Joe Howard In Boston Globe.
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