Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-16
A FUTILE MAN.

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Some ten or Twelve years ago wien
| was now to London. ! wrote an article |
,,.ti,I,J "Strcnnad Americans" II dealt |
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WIZ" u" 'N"'P.'",'"s "'NN -,
who preys principally upon AHeHc'HS
stationed IN London
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Kind OF man VINO seHls Whht IL u'u''
y,hablc than money. and that Is time
,,u This btsud of Individual "1hc Flu
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a'e Nah ho' '"', Wv N'I"'',- l n'o
law docs moi allow Won TO XII him.
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| "a kind of man WIN W"pp-y nr"ln
| who doesn't know quite what God put
No., IL, ,hiy world f,r
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| w hcn YOU d'h MN VIM 'e '"'i ~
MS he applies TO you for some sort oil
situation. he answers, quite cheerfully:
"Obt cnu turn NV hand 10 almost any.
o"' va" '''" "''
thing"
Now. | want 20 state right here, to
IN, h,ys and tha vounr mon who do me
~ II, IT., ,,.,s,, "a,
the houor OF t'Nulhs Nh"t 1 Mrte' tu''
the man who can do everything is not
worth u cent, There Is no place for him
on this earth. aud the earth does not
need aim.
My advice 10 the boys is this Make
your minds not to do everything, but
To do one thing. and that thing particu-
nrly welt This is an age, Of specialists
The man who can dig ditch the man
who can plane board, the man who can
, lay one brick on another. or the man who
! can compose an opera, is the man who
! IL needed, and who will get along In this
J. world.
The futile man is willing and ready
4 10 turn bis hrud to anything, and conse.
+ qucntly he comes up and bothcrs me and
d other busy men to find something for
g him TO do,
Il One pathetic fact about the futile man
r IS his willingness to work. His ncbu.
4 lous brain, h.wevcr, has never taught
u him the stern fact that he must do some
o one thing well and not fool away nj;
b, time doing every thing badly Then h,
Is must storm the ctadels whore that par
ID tculnr thing is being done until he get
c. II to do and, when he has got his situa
tion. he must do his work well tina
e his employer cannot afford to do withOu
u him
!. give here conversation which ha
2. no particular point to it md whose onl
II merit is that Il is 3 fair specimen OF som
Il hundreds like il that I have taken par
lG in,
!. other day the cnrd Of d man whose nam
sc l had dim recollection of having see
IN | somewhere before There was "a vagu
in something away back In my mind a
NJ IL | had read d book by man of tha
Ia name, but ms had uselessly lost SO niue
on time of late in seeing people, | said
BIZ the hoy:
III ASK him what he wants"
nd "Ilc refuses 10 say what his busine,
ds ls," answered the boy.
&c, Every well, 20 and tell him that I
~, must sny what his business Is before
es, will see him"
After a few moments the hoy returne
ng saving; "Ho SAYS he knows Won, III
RITZ thai noth9ns You won't remember hir
ith iic saws he's from America"
OF "Oh. very we'll, then" | said. "sho
Ms him H."
he THE moment he came In | rnnen,ber
tho him. Some three months before he n,
ore called on mo and wasted the host na
,on Of nm afternoon while 1 explainei
cht him thatNI had no situation 10 give hi
osi and did not know any Que who want
of n handy tnnn who coril al eyery,i,i,s,
He nleced his hat ON a tabln bis =,
rms brella In a corner and greeted mo NJ
lat ercat cordinlity. 4 nanny. opiimistic
eie t,hr,,odeJ bis manner t,,,,snr1 mo ~, L