The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-07-25
Choose a Trade, Young Man.

when there Is so much to leal
and to do, a man, to achieve an
: degree Of success, must sele,
=. some particular calling and devo
his time, his mind and his energi,
- persistently and vigorously to IL
work of mastering all of its d,
of tails, and to rendering his service
- valuable in that particular line
The easy going days, when a jacE
of-all-trades could command Gus
tom or renumerative wages, hay
:. passed away; and instead we hav
a more correct idea prevailing, an,
:, higher appreciation of energy
: application and persistence of pur
pose. Scholars, inventors, practi
- cal workers, thinkers, in every
2 field have been laboring constant.
ly, and in the last quarter Of a
century there have been so many
important improvements perfect
ed, so many valuable discoveries
made, SO much light thrown on
hitherto obscure subjects, and the
range of learning is so vast and di-
verse, that anything like marked
success Is attainable only by be-
slowing undivided attention on
some particular department of
thought, some branch of trade, or
some single industrial pursuit.
The correctness of this assertion
is shown in the eminence attained
by certain individuals in different
occupations; who, without the adj
vantage IN starting out that others
had, yet distanced competition
and gained wealth and distinction. |
Every neighborhood furnishes in
stances of aimless persons who
struggle on year after year, barely
making a support, because they
undertook to accomplish too much
when they commenced life.
1t is simply a mental and physi-
cal impossib1ity for man to be
skillful and successful as a carpen-
ter, machinist, and merchant; life
is altogether too brief and the hu-
man capacity too limited, to ena- J
BILE a person to learn all that ought
t. be known Of each of thegs, p iSsb
who started out as farmers, but G
Just when they had been at it long S
enough to acquire a practical ac- |
with the work to be t
done and to get the farm in order t
they would imagine that money &
could be made more easily and Q
rapidly in some other way; and V
at once the labor, time and expe- b
rience of several years would be L
given up for a new idea, to be
itself in time for some e
thing more attractive. Such men i
never manage to seize the fortu- b
nate time or pursuit, for they are {
always giving while others are ac- h
sumulating. t
But a small amount of common n
sense is needed to show that the v
and lack of application e
md resolution must not only keep G
1 person poor, but tend to the for {
nation of shiftless habits and to \
he loss of all benefits acquired \
previously. Let a person first as {
certain for what pursuit he is best a
adapted. Let him determine by t,
and trial the direction r
lis tastes and capacities incline, t,
md then, having reached this i'm tt
oortant conclusion, the contest of
ife is in great measure ended, Il
or industry, perseverance and S
in habits will accom- Il
dish the rest. Many physician ID
S passing his life in severe priya- W
ion, is what is termed unsuccess- Il
alton, simply because he under b
axes to doctor for everything Il
hat comes in his way; he has no "
ime to devote to special attention S
o any particular branch and thus il
rain eminence and fortune. No a
mind can grasp such an immense e
AMOUNT Of knowledge as to master "
avery disease. Hence the sue 1
cess of the specialist, who attends "
exclusively to one of the many i
of the healing art. Many /,
an excellent farmer is growing r
,allow and dull behind a counter
in the city, because it seems gen.
5eel; and there are numerous b
,lientless lawyers, who are losing z
time, health and patience in offices !
who would make money for them t
selves and benefit the country by a
the Yigor and skill with which t
they would pillow and ditch and
SOW. The world is full of useless
lives those who attempted too
many different undertakings, and |
those who sought to do that for c
which nature never gave them
the capacity. II. Boyett, in
Call.
For SALE.-94 acres of fenced s
land one mile west of San Saba {