Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-07-03
no opportunities, will make us perfect

no opportunities, WAL make u5 perfect
without it.
Never suffer energies to lie inactive.
There is no genius like the genius of
energy and industry. The tradi tions
current among young persons that.
great characters have wrought their
greStness by an inspiration, grow out
OF Il sad mistake. No rivals are so for
midable as those earnest, determined,
minds, which reckon the value OF |
hours and achieve eminebce by per-
sistent application. .... -
Tho difference between children
consists not SO much in talent as in
energy. Provided the Ounce han
persistency and application, he would
inevitably lead the cleverer child
without these qualities. James G..
Blaine Was not clever at school, it was
! other qualities that placed him so far
ahead of his companions. 1t is
energy that explains how the position
of boys at school is often reversed in
after life. 1t is curious to note how
some who were then SO clever have
| since become common place, while
other, dull boys, Of whom nothing
was expected, slow in their faculties,
but sure in their pace, have assumed
the position of leaders CT men.
The tortoise on the right road will
beat racer in the wrong. 1t matters
not il youth be SLOW, if he be dill
gent. Quick7ess OF parts may even
prove defect, as the boy who learns
readily will often forget quite as
readily; because he finds no need of
cultivating that quality of application
and perseverance which the slower
youth is compelled to exercise, and
which proves so valuable an element
in the formation of every character.
| The highest culture is not obtaiued
from teachers, 30 much as from our
own diligent self educat ion after we
are grown.
Parents need not be iu too great
haste to SEQ their children's talents
forced into bloom. Let them watch
and wait patiently for good example
and quiet training to do their work.
Let them SEQ to it that tie youth is
set fairly on tho path Of self.culture,
carefully train his habits of uppica-
ton and perseverance; and as he
grox vs. older, he will be enabled to
cultivate himself.
He who has heart has everything.
1t is astonishing how much may be ac-
complished in self.culture by the ener-
geLic and the persevering, who are
careful to- avail themselves OF op
portunities, and use up the fragments
Of spare time which tho lido permit
to run to waste. In study as in bust
ness energy is a great thing. We
must net only strike the iron while
it is hot, but strike it until it is made
hot.
Energy will also make friends.
Who will not befriend the energetic
youth, the fearless man Of industry?
Houest in :ustry will procure friends
in any community and any part OF
the civilized world. 1t is in honor Of
Columbus energy Of four hundred
years ago, that the great Fair at
Chicago is now in progress. If you
ask the men of business and influence
who shall have theiI confidence and
supporC, they will tell you, the men
who falter not by the waY-sIde, who
toll on in their callings against every
barrier, whose eyes are fixed upward.
These are the men to whom they
give their confidence. But they shun
the lazy, tFp2 indolent, the fearful,
the falterinc. First we should DO
sure that our aim is good one; then
we should DO true TO IL. We should
work for it, throw our mind, heart,