The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-09-17
A SATURDAY SERMONETTE
Making Good
vs..
Making a Front


/ the hand-palnteu trees ana rocks OF
I the stage and the dependable God
made things Of the forest.
A front is tin thunder. 1t is sand
coated wood, and however much ii
( looks like stone, it will not stand the
/ strain.
The buffer is at discount when
I IL comes to a show. down.
| The clay feet of the front-maker
/ are likely to crumbIe at any minute.
| 1t does not matter what work
man does, so long as he makes good.
/ 1t isn't the kind Of business "a man
/ is in that decides his success. It's
/ the man himself.
/ The anderbiit fortunes grew out
OF an inconsequent ferryboat
The Astor opulence started in
picayunIsh skin deals.
/ Jay Gould peddled rat traps.
Edison was a country telegrapher.
! Look around you-the successful
men are not all in one line. They
I
started as errand boys, as pie
/ bakers, as wagon drivers, as tele-
gfaph operators, as clerks, as ditch
/ diggers, as mechanics they
made good.
| A successful man in one line
would pretty surely have been sue.
cessful in another. A man of brains
and energy ana industry will sue
ceed wherever you put him
/ Sam'l of Posen used To say; "In
one year I'll be on the road. In two
years Ill be partner, In three
/ years I'll own the business"
| But he had To make good as porter
/ or stock clerk before he could get
on the road. And the man on the
road must make good or make
tracks.
/ Have you ever noticed that it is
the brilliant salesman who falls
down9
/ His eyes are blinded by his own
/ brilliance He knows his ability
and be sees, always just ahead OK
him, big order that will make good
/ for the days of drouth. He depends
on al occasional star performance
( to pull him out.
/ Meanwhile the plugger goes plod-
ding along, pounding out of each
day the good that day owes him,
and at the end OF the week he has
made good. He starts the new week
even with the mark, while Mr..
Smart Boy has handicap, due to
4 his past performance.
Dearly beloved brethren, il is
work that does the business. just
/ plain, earnest, honest work. Just
doing what youh hands find 10 do
aud doing IL with all your might.
IT II work, in favorable conditions
F IL possible, ia rainy weather IL need
be.
+ As Bob Fitzsimmous says: "Hit|
from where your hand is. DO the
work you can reach today. OF
course, the territory is better in
+ Ohio, butjyou re not In Ohio-you We
got 60 make good ia Rhode Island,
or kamchatka. or wherever you hap
pau &C. b.
Z Make good lea psweEo. and when
the Ol1 Man rs looking for a real
warn lmembsr 60 nn tbe Chicago
lob, you sill bee among those present.
Most ~ the big city obs are hllea
F by boys wba first made-yood lu the
country.
4 It's tbe same old story oi being
faithful ia small things.
+ 10 your work So sell that nobody
eau follow aud 30 better Whatever
The ios il clean it up The boy
wno does a good job of fioof,swrep
lug vii MAKE good ln other things.
Give BIN n chance. he may not be
brilliant tie used not sclntillaGe.
/ 4 iigtle horse sense aud good deRl
of eaFnestnsss aud honest wogk will
/ pail aim tbfauKh
1 How many successful men that
yon knaw AFe brilliant msug
4 NtEhtv few
Moas hFglitans m@u ate tno busy
shining So AtteHd to murh af auy.
thlne elise
Nuow quite sn assortment nf|
brilliant iuseIleefss Ausi most of them
A. = little mashy aFouud the esiEes
how often base vou msi 'hlw
man 81 sInd thai hs IL insignificant
So appearance, wgth nn apparent
stfewanaess ar ability worth men-
tauulne. aad generally about a. lrm.
pFm@sive - really aggressive
shrimp
haf fhm man las sag@ly made good
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