Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-25
(Joseph II. Odel. in Philadelphia
Evening Ledger

iff'fiiih Af'AbtAFI
Two things are fatal TO success
vaclllation ana drifting. John Sher-
man, in "A letter to young man who
believed himself TO be failure, said.
NO ship ever reached its port by
sailing for dozen ports at the same
time There is a limit" said Glad
stone, Ito the work that can be got
out Of a human body or human
brain. He Is wise man who wastes
no energy in pursuits for which he is
not fitted he rs wiser who, from
among the things he can do well,
chooses and resolutoly follows the
best Cecil Rhodes, the South AZ
flcan millionaire and statesman, said,
III took mo fifteen years 10 get my
first mlno, but got II. Though my
boat may have been slow in the race,
| knew exactly what / was starting
for"
Edward Emerson Barnard began
life as a photographer boy, his work
being to ait upon a roof and watch
the exposure of Photographic plates,
While thus engaged his thoughts were
upon the sky and the stars, and he
determined 10 know all about them.
Alone and unaided he struggled
through such books as he could get
upon astronomy, studied and mas
tered mathematics, scrimpcd and
saved until able 60 purchase small
telescope, and finally, so great was
ambition, he worked his way through
Vanderbilt university Nothing
swerved or daunted him, rebuffs from
prominent astronomers who thought
him only precocious boy did not dis
hearten him, apparently insurmount-
able difficulties only served to stimu-
late his determination lie WIS grad
uatcd from the university in 1886, and
in less than twenty years found him.
self one Of the worlds foremost as
tronomers. The discoyerer Of the
fifth satellite OF Jupiter, and the
recorder Of more comets than any
other living man.
Atlantic Gable Took Time.
Such wcll-dirocted effort is bound
To win fame, or power, or wealth, or
whatever other goal the worker has set
before him. Field spent thirteen
years IN laying the Atlantic cable,
Webster gave six years to the COM
pilation OF his dictionary; Bancroft
devoted twenty-siX years to the writ
ing of his 'rlistory of the United
States" It took James Watt thirty
years to bring his eondensing engine
to perfection There IL no road too
long 60 the man who advances dellh-
efately and without undue haste;
there are no honors too distant to the
men who prepares himself for them
with patience" said La Bruyere
John h. Herreshoff, the designer OF
the nvincible yachts which have held
the coveted challenge cup on the
American side OF the Atlantic, was
born blind, While still boy he de-
termined not TO let the terrible afflic-
tion cheat him out OF n successful
life He would not allow Il even to
him The business he
chose seems the last enc that blind !
man should attempt. AT the age of
II he was learning the lines Of a boat |
by the sense OF touch Soon after /
ward he began to make models. lie
quickly learned 20 select material by |
RUNNING his hand over It, and a de- |
fective beam or plank never escaped /
detection. Beginning In a modest /
way, he made rowboats and sailing /
craft of small and simple pattern. He /
laid ii down as a rule never TO excuse /
never to give way TO a diff /
Guilty, never to accept a problem rs
but "a think and work un-
I'll every obstacle was overcome.
Nothing worthy can be accom- /
plished BY the man who simply drifts /
of life-faiures may be
thus accounted for every ycar--the /
men who never decide, only drift. /
They were born into the world With
out any conscious effort on their own
part and they wish TO continue to
the end with inst as much ease. SO
they dodge difficulties and eyade re-
sponslhilities. nothing is SO distaste-
full TO them as tho act of decision, or
So irksome as sustained application.
They drift into school and ont again.
they drift into the occupation that
the fewest initial difficulties.
they drift from job 20 Job, from city
to city, they drift from pleasure 10
pleasure from meal TO meal from