Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
Work Deliberately.


We are not much on offering advice
ouroelf, but we cannot object 10 throw
ing in chunk or so of it, now and then
as offered by others, the more especlaily
when those others are such good author
tiles as the editors of the Manufacturer
and Builder. In a late Issue OF their
paper those gentlemen say 'there are
some things that must be done IN
hurrv-catchng fieas, for instance
But as rule, in most other perform
auces, it is safe to say, the man or Wo-
man who works deliberately accompllshes
the most, The deliberate worker Is the
thoughtful worker, with wnom the haot
of system has become second nature
ANY one may cultivate it who Will take
the trouble to try and the most unsys-
tematio, spasmodic worker will realize
with amazeinent how easy 1t Is 10 get
through an allotted task in half the time
il formerly required, by planning II all
out before beginning the work.
The article from which is taken the
above extract, says the buried worker,
whether mechanic or farmer, is one who
fancies he is an uucommonly busy man.
True, he is, so is the man who tries 10
bale out leaky boat with Il crownless
hat, and in proportion to the energy ex-
pended, very often the one accomplishes
about as much as the other. The busiest
men known 10 the writer are those who
never seem to be in hurry. There are
no fits and spurts about them-a rush
here and a rest to get breath there; but,
on the other hand, It Is a constant but
apparently not fast move 'all along the
line which invariably counts out
ahead In the end.
In no calling is this kind of thing more
clearly demonstrated than in farming.
| One plowman slaps his horse up win
| the line, and yells at him to move faster :,
while the other moves quietly along pay
! ing more attention to his work than TO
what his animal Is doing. When the day g
work Is ended the rushing man is ex-
hnusted, likewise his plow-horse, but
| the quiet man has nothing in particular
| to complain of, and his horse seems little
| il any the worse for wear. Then look at
| the result of the days performance-the
| Quiet man g work has almost invariably
been better done than has that of the
other and las prevailing rule, 1T extends
over broader acreage.
The manufacturer and builder would
not have US understand that the fore
| going Is offered as an argument in favor
of slow and pottering operations. The
faster a man can accomplish what he ha:
undertaken to do the better, provided be
works with system and thought. The
quiet piowman had his work planned II
his mind before he struck furrow, anc
all through the day he worked up to those
plans while the other man plowed one
furrow and then thought, for the FIRST
time OF the next. The one was running
on regular schedule, as railroad people
say, while the other was going 1t WHO
without any regard to where he ought t.
be at certain time. The point INTENDED
to be made is that there is nothing to b.
gained by rushing ones work ahead o
ones plans or thoughts. Think OF you
work before you begin it, and then g
at it deliberately. 1t will save wear AM
tear of nerve and muscle, you will &C
complish more, and what you do will
| better done.