The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-26

Of poverty to bring out what is brightest
in a man. 1t may be hardship, but It
seems ito be a law OF the social economy,
and, being law, IL must have Justice and
compensation in it somewhere.
! The question Of getting position" re-
solves itself into two grand essentials-first,
| proficiency of some Sort which stands for
dollars and cents in the worlds market
place, and Eext, tact to demonstrate this
proficiency in a way to attract the worlds
! attention.
Ii is mistake to depend on Influence"
to get work in a legitimate calling; infu-
ence belongs more properly to the domain
OF politics. As rule, too, IL is a mistake
| TO ask OF co expect employment on the
ground OF charity-not that charity and
business are Incompatible, but that each
should stand on its own bottom. The best
recommendation is a sample of your work
that, with frank address and neatness of
| appearance-for 'the apparel oft proclaims
tn man"-may often prove the ''open ses-
anne" to success.
While it is good to have a due apprecia-
ton Of ones abilities, it is not good to be toe
exacting ,as to the field for their dis play.
The distance between the foot of a ladder
AID the top is but a short span TO him who
has within himself the power of rising.
The writer heard of a young man who.
being in needy circumstances, went bravely
digging for contractor That was his OPP
portunity. One day his employer-not q
well-educated man-needed some one to
keep a time roll of the men. The young
man volunteered. The contractor took a
fancy to him, found him increasingly USE
full and the young man is now well up the
ladder.
1t is another requisite Of the successful
worker that he shall be In love with his
work. II he is a mechanic, he will take
pride In his tools; IL he Is bookkeeper, he
will plume himself on the merits of his pen
and on the neatness aud forwardness of his
| accounts. Julian Hawthorne counts among
| the pleasures of authorship the satisfaction
got from good writing materials. As the
late Col. Forney once said to youthful
member of the staff, "a man must work
con amore to have his work worth any
| thing"
A young lady who wished place as type
writer got it IN a common-sonse way. She
wrote out a half dozen ''replies,n so to
speak, brief, bus1ness-like and respectful,
setting forth her experience. qualifications
| and ideas as to pay. putting her figures
| rather above the market rate. Next morn
| ing there were four advertisements for
! typewriters in the Ledger. She promptly
mailed her four replies directly at the main
| postoffice, inclosing 2-cent stamp in each.
| One Of the four shots brought down her
OAN. AAoS OfOhAh5 hSA DOoAeAOL NAAlA0 w
| her by mail
| tits not true that the world is a better
| market for muscles than for brains. The
| difficulty Is that brain matter, whste YER its
native brightness, is practically worthless
with training and experience. For one
| play produced by a manager l,00U are re-
| jected- The accepted one may be inferior
IN many respects to many a rejected one;
may have less talent In it; but it is from a
| trained head, and it suits the manager .
want, and that is enough. IL is SO with
| story writing, with headwork of every
kind. Suitability is the quality that gives
| it pecuniary value.
Men and women who with certain brill
| liant qualities fail to realize this truth often
| fancy that the conditions Of SUCCESS are
hard and limited. Yet theatrical managers,
| magazine publishers. and maoy others are
! subject to the very same law themselves.
They in turn are employees OF the public
They must suit, or il will turn elsewhere for
| what il wants.
| Finally, it is not necessary that a want
should be proclaimed in order to exist
| Sometimes it may be anticipated. Some
| times it may even be created. Whoever can
create a want for his wares or his work is
on the way to masterful success.
The philosophy of SUCCESS in life is not q
whit changed from what it was in "Poor
| Richards" day. His homely old maxins on
industry and thrift-whieh he quantity ad
units that he himself found difficult tc
practice-have not been outlawed by the
lapse of years. There is an impression that
| opportunities for individual success are
being restricted nowadays and over
Swallowed by corporations. To some extent,
and temporarily, this may be true, but
| corporations in turn are dependent on the
intellectual and moral qualities that insure
individual success, and these eau no more
be dispensed with than manual labor can be
superseded by the multiplication of ma
chlnery.