The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-26
Do 1t Well.
BY GLEN V. WAGNER.

walk steadily ahead toward the
desired goal, without any appar.
ent effort to discover the coveted
way. 1t would be difficult to say
in just what the secret of their
success consists, but to an obser.
yer it would seem to be their read.
mess, watchfulness, and above
all, their effort to do their best
in the smallest particular. These
qualities grant royalty to their
possessors that will, sooner or
later, bring them into recogni-
ton.
No matter what may be the
starting place, the rule is ever
the same. He who keeps to his
work, and does that work well, is
starting toward the top, whether
his duty consists in rolling clods
or making books, in selling prints
and laces or in drumming away
at some profession.
Two lawyers, engaged in a hot
ly-contested case, became some
what personal in their running
cross-tres of remarks.
l believe, said one, with a mean.
ness of spirit, that you once drove
a milk-wagon in this town.
Yes, sir, quickly retorted the
other, and sold good milk. I
did my work well.
And that is the spirit that con.
quers. No matter whether it is
driving milk-wagon, or what
not, he who keeps honest and
does his work well is the good
workman, and the good workman
need never blush to own his
work.
George Whitefeld, when a boy,
BACKED the students boots in
Oxford University, but he black
ed boots as had no other boy who
had ever filed the position before,
and he soon got beyond that ap.
parently humble position. Steph.
en- A. Douglas pushed a plane in
a cabinet makers shop in New
York, before going to Illinois, but
he pushed it so well that he push
ed himself to the van in national
affairs, and became one of the
ideal statesmen of America.
Let me try, said the lad Antonio
Canova, to his art master. He
did try, and tried so well that all
Italy sat at his feet, and did hon.
age to him as the founder of a new
and higher school of art. He who
has learned the habit of trying
of trying earnestly, persistently
and with purpose-has learned
the great lesson of doing. Moth
ing can be done well without tax
ing trouble, said Alma Tadema,
as he spurred on his followers in
art. You must work hard, if you
mean to succeed. This great art
ist, himself, has been often seen
to wipe from his canvas beauti-
full figure or a lovely object, when
he thought by doing so the line of
his composition would be i'm
proved, or greater simplicity
gained.
This habit of doing we'll what
one has to do, like all the great
habits that go to make up life, is
learned most easily in youth. In
deed, there are those who claim
that if it is not learned then it will
not be acquired at all. But it is
never too late to attempt better
things, and one cannot be too late
in trying to do his tasks as
thoroughly and accurately as it
is possible for them to be perfor
med. Better, however, far better
is it, if the painstaking habit OF
carfulness is learned in youth, for
then there is no lost time in after
life in overcoming a bad habit,
and one has the additional power
which comes with practice.
There is the place where learn
ed to fight the battle of Waterloo,
said the Iron Duke of Wellington,
as he was passing the school in
which he had learned his first
lesson. So the youth who begins
in the school of life by taking to
himself good habits and methods
is laying the foundation for the
better things for which he hopes