Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-13
THF MAN WHO
MAKES GOOD.

Aou uiaI not De aDie 20 distinguish
the man who makes good when he is
walking down street with thousands of
his fellow citi7ens. But the moment
you step into the Office where he is em-
ployed, the factory in which he works,
the church in which he breaches, or the
bedside by which he practices, you rec
ognize him at once.
He may be little, insignificant-look-
ing fellow, but there is breezy man
ner about him that compels attention
He may weigh like Taft, but you for
get his obesity in his ability to make the
wheels go round. He has swing and
step born only of accomplishment.
He Is neither gay, gaudy nor garrulous.
He Is neither sleepy, sloppy nor Shiny.
He Is manly, mannerly and methodical.
He knows when. where and why. He
has the happysafaculty of arriving at
exactly the right time and place. When
he lands he lands squarely, with both
feet pointing forward.
The man who makes good is master
of the situation! He is not compelled
to ask privileges or make apologies in
order to hold his position. He is not
treated as an inferior by those who hold
more responsible positions, paying lar
ger salaries, for these men know that
he is using the usual talent of mankind
for the accomplishment of usual work.
Unusual mental power, unused, does
not equal usual mental power, usedl The
man who makes good never whinesl He
is never compelled to do the baby act
or work the sympathetic racket.
His work speaks for itself, 1t is the
testimony of the faithful fidelity of a
conscientious worker.
The man who makes good is not con-
tent to rest on past accomplishments.
Every act of making good is an incen-
tive to further attempts in the same di-
rection. The past, therefore, gives i'm
petus in the present and strength for
the days that are to come.
The man who makes good is always in
demand. He need not worry about po-
sitions. If through necessity, he must
make change, other men in the same
line are only too glad to give him en-
ployment.
The majority of men who knock from
pillar to post are men who failed to
make good in tho days when the cur
rents of life flowed swiftly in their
veins.
Every once in a while you hear man
of sixty and upwards called to the su-
perintendency of some business estab-
lishment or rendered position where
brains are required rather than muscle.
Such a call is living witness of the
truth. In the days of youth he made
good.
When you hear of men complaining
that they have no chance, explaining
they are life's unfortunates, sitting
down and letting children support them,
you may hang it on your walls as truth
that they have wasted life, been quer-
ulous, insubordinate, impractical, or
have not used their brains for the men
for whom they worked in the days of
opportunity. There is no necromancy
about life. 1t proceeds on definite and
prescribed rules, obeys laws, and accom-
plishes practical results. He who obeys
life's law need not fear the long, cold,
barren and unproductiye years between
sixty and eighty. Take time to study
the lives of men who have not made
good. You will find they failed to lay
strong foundations of education, missed
opportunities and esteemed selfish inter.
ests and pleasure of more moment thar
employers work. The man who make.
good knows that his employer has ;
right to every minute of his time, hi
best work, his highest endeavor. II,
does not watch the clocki He does no
dallyl With him the greatest thing dur
, ing the working hours is his employer,
interests. The man who works in tina
, spirit never fails to make good. Ma
than Baker, in the Trcstle Board.