Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-19
BE USEFUL.
BOYS WHO DESIRE TO SUCCEED
INLIFE SHOULD OBSERVE
The Drift of Affairs in This Age of Labor
and Acquire Knowledge that Can be
Sold for Hard Money.

This is day of industry and work.
Young men who enter the great arena of life
are wholly unable to battle with its hard
ships, viciSitudeS and struggles unless they
know something. After i boy leaves
school and enters the field in search of
work, equipped only with a smattering
knowledge of reading, writing and arith
metic,'' he finds that his dream of swaying
the world with the majesty of his brain is dis
PEELED by the fact that there is no market
for his talents. He is compelled to walk
the streets of large city day after day,
while the faugs of the wolf snap and grit
in his face, or wander through the lanes
and green fields in search of mental labor.
The boy who grows weary with his lot and
shifts from one field of labor to another,
until he eventually acquires the name of
Observation-Disclosures, ;" dies a complete fail
ure, unwept, unhonored and pauper. 1t
is the boy who, upon leaving school, has
sufficient sense to know that he is wholly
incompetent to face world OF labor, where
men have spent years in learning their
trades, applies himself to the task of acquir-
ing knowledge that will be useful and COM
mand price in the market. In
other words, when boys start
in life, without money, without friends and
without experience, there is no avOcatlon
that needs their inexperienced labor, and
they are in the same position as merchant
who has 100000 worth of diamonds, and
has for market the wilds OF Africa The
merchant will starve and die in his efforts
to sell his diamonds, while a savage in the
same place will pluck fruit and kill animals
and live sumptuously. A boy may enter
life with a bright intellect, cultivated and
enriched by a thorough education, but he
must first apply himself in such manner
that he can use his information and intel
lect in some line of labor that is in demand,
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the practical men who are living in an age
of labor. Thus, the success of boy de-
pends to a great extent. upon the persist
ency with which he applies himself, and his
aptness in acquiring knowledge that IS
worth money. There was never time in
the history of the world when INFORM
genius demanded money. 1t is the cult
waited talent that rules the world, and in
order to cultivate genius time and labor
must be expended. The brightest boy on
earth will not be mechanic in two days,
and he must have the energy and manhood
to select his business and stick to 1t until
his industy, sobriety and efficiency COM
mands for him remunerative salary. In
order that the boys, who are anxious TO be
successful, law abiding citizens, who can
support family in comfort and ease and
meet their obligations to the public, re-
porter is pursuing system OF interviewing
the mechanics and artisans of all trades,
and he submits the result as space per-
mits.
Mr.. A. Palmer, sober and Industrious
timer, stated that three or four years were
necessary to acquire proficiency in the
timers trade The salary of competent
workman is $3.50 per day, and ranges. &C
cording to ability from S2.5O to $50. Boys
make while learning the trade from IS to 81
per week. However, Mr.. Palmer added,
that machinery was rapidly superceeding
the timers trade, which was now develop
ing into proficiency in handling the ma
chimes.
Mr.. Lloyd Bowman, marble workman
who has served many years at the trade,
sculptor of magnificent talents, said !:
ssAdarble workmen make from s1.75 to 90