The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-06-21

for his work. Work should be a hobby
and not a rider, that is you want TO
ride your work and not let it ride you.
You want TO master your horse and
not let your saddle turn on you. II
the work is not considered privilege,
a 10y. a pride, a growth, but merely
to get along with it and sell the pro-
duet. then life is a failure. The com
mercial spirit alone takes the heart
out Of our work. If we work solely
for money then there is no JOY in work,
but when there is JOY in it we never
get tired.
Life is a school and the worse thing
possible for anyone is TO stand up IN
the corner and do nothing. How use
less men or women are who have no
work to do. 1 am not of a sanguinary
disposition. but / sometimes wonder
whether the worker bees in getting
rid of the drOneS are not wiser Oc-
casionally than the human family.
The spur and pulse of the true life Is
to do things, to do them well, at least
as we'll as we know how, and each
time we try to 40 a thing TO do it
better There is always a chance for
growth or Improvement. There are
trees on the mountains of Tennessee
which were growing when the shlps
of the London Company landed the
the first permanent English-speaking
colony at jamestown, and they are
still growing They are not perfect,
nor is the work of man. Ifthere was
perfection I'm person or action or
product life would lose much OF
its charm. We can do things well,
we can assist nature, and when we
make mistakes il should be an inCen-
tive to greater activity. 1t is not over
work that kills, the hard work, but it
Is the worry and dislike for work that
spoils the energies and makes a wreck
of life We have all Uhe time there
is, let us make the best use of it, but
we cannot do this if we hurry and
worry.
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DAILY DUTIES
OF LIFE.
There is a complaint that the farm
life lacks variety and opportunity.
ON the contrary there is no employ
ment of man in which greater variety
exists 1t is only matter of looking
for it. One day at the Smithsonian
Institute | saw an employee arranging
a case of shells. ! remarked: You
have a great many shells to Judge
from the number to be seen in these
cases?'' - Yes he replied, e tens
of thousands. - ''They resemble each
other,'' 1 said. 50 Great difference
exists if you know how to distinguish
them, " was his reply. Picking up
j couple of tiny shells which at first
glance looked exactly alike, he point
ed out the differences between them.
Then he told of his first trip to the
Gulf Coast to gather shells, and how
hard he worked to find a hundred OF
so different kinds. On later trips,
after knowing how, he could find ten
where he found one on his first trip.
This is true of looking for variety
i'm the country. There are thousands
of kinds of vegetable life, from the
delicate lichen on the rock to the
towering oak There is a like variety
in animal life, from the COW and horse
to the microscopic germ The soil Is
made up of living organisms. OppOr-
tunity is tapping at the door of every
man wherever ne Is Just as the cleo
trio Taper keeps up its tapping on
the window to attract the crowd OPP
pOrtunity, however, Is not coming in
a band wagon. with noise and clatter,
looming up in some marvellous shape.
Opportunity is in our daily work.
BOYS and girls, as wen as grOwn-ups,
sometimes wonder why they have not
the chance others have had who have
emerged into high places, and we
hear the exclamation; what luck.'
No. it was not luck, il was going up
from lower places when they were
tried and not found wanting. The
present Secretary of the United States
Treasury, who fills a most exalted pc
sitiOn. is a man who started a few
wears ago as a stenographer in one OF
the departments. He was a good
stenOgrapher and there was no pOliti-
cal or other pull back of him. He
was advanced from one place to an
other. in all of which he did his duty.
The tombs of three Presidents OF
the United States are in Tennessee.
Two of these men of the republic were
born in most humble conditions. One
of them was taught to read and write
while at work in a tailor's shop.
Luther Burbank, farmer boy, had
scarcely reached adult years when he
prOpagated the famous potatOe now
bearing his name. Did he stop with
that one experiment? No, nor did he
ask for help, but kept on in his own
way. and now the nation benefited
by his own achievements hOnOrS him,
and d year or two ago the Carnegie
Institute at Washington rendered him
d1l annual u ~lOs0NU 10
be used as he deemed best in work of
making better fruits and flowers.
The opportunity to do things on the
farm keeps up a continuous calling.
Our opportunity comes every day.
and unless we do our work, however
petty or insignificant it may be, and
do it well, there is little chance to
do big things. A lad protested against
a slice of bread and butter offered him
by his mother, crying Il want a big
ger piecet' My boy" the mother
replied, IF you can't eat a little
piece. you can't eat big one And
so it is with opportunity. The farm
boy and girl who will not look around
and do the best with what they have,
but instead dream of what they
may do in the town and city, and
evade the details of life at home can
never succeed in filling useful posi-
lions anywhere.