The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-16
Put Your Heart Into Your Work.

Al banquet, gwen recently in
indianapolis by large saw manu-
featuring concern to its employees,
it was discovered that of the origi-
nal seventy-five men who began
Woak when the firm was estab-
llshed, twenty-five years ago,
slxty-tWo were still III its employ.
AT the present time there are I 100
men on the pay roll.
But reading the story of the
banquet that which impresses most
IS the life-story of one of the saw
polishers who was present. Erect
OF form, clear of eye, and muscles
and sineWS as strong and keen as
that OF any young men. This man,
unknown to fame, the hero of no
battles, gives to the world a splen-
did object lesson in faithfnlness in
the performance of everyday duties
fof life.
For years he has been the star
pollsher of the factory. He is said
to have given the most brilliant
polish to saws of any any man
living. In an interview in an
indianapolis paper he tells how he
did his work, and says. 81 will
show you how | polish the prize
winners referring to prize saws
exhibited at various worlds fairs).
| did not have any handle to my
block. had longer block than
this, and pressed against it with my
own body. In that way could
feel what was going on in that saw.
could get the touch, and somehow
my life went into my work. 1t
was hard, but there is some salts
faction in doing the thing right,
just exactly right, and little bit
better than any one eles could do
it,"
The humble worker in saws has
found the secret of true success:
DO THE THING RIGHT, AND
TO DO THE THING RIGHT
PUT YOUR HEART INTO
YOUR WORK.
| Unconciously this man, William
Miller, breaches a sermon that has
not been equalled by any pulpit
orator in long time. 1t is a ser
mon that goes right down to the
essentials of true character building,
and it's good sermon because it
has been wrought out into the life
OF the man preaching it. Preach
ing is comparatively easy work,
but it lakes great man to both
preach and practice, too.
This little, or, rather, great life
story, should be read by every boy
and girl, every young man and
young woman in the land, and its
lessons buried deep in the heart.
In this mad-rush- after-the- dollar
age we are apt to think that the
accumulation of wealth is all there is
to life, and that it constitutes succ-
cess. But this humble worker had
found, after all, the best and truest
SUGGESTIVE success that can only
come to man who puts his heart
and life into his work. For him
there are two great joys in life that
come to but few. First: The 10Y
of work we'll done. Second: The
JOY OF knowing that the best that
can be done has been done.
Too many people are satisfied
with just good enough. 1t pays in
more ways than one to do the best
that is in us. Not for the hope of
reward, nor for the praise of man,
but for the joy of the work and the
work we'll done. There is no re-
ward from any man comparable to
the approving commentator that
mans own conscience gives him
when he has done his best. There
is no need of praise from any
employer or fellow employee that
equals the praise of the heart that
has put its heart into the work.
These are the days when young
men are going around whining
becausesthey cannot get work that
suits them; these are the days
when employers are hunting for
worthy young men and they are
hard to find And it would be we'll
for these young men who are con-
tinually losing their places and
hunting work to study the life
thought of this old man and the
secret of his success when he says:
"My life went into the work. J"
A discovery has been made at
Mononvasia, in Lagonia, that
| is believed will solve the problem
which has so exercised artists and
archaeologists as to the lost arms
of the Venus of Milo. The find is
an unmutilated terra-cotta statuette,
representing Venus, which repro.