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RULES FOR SUCCESS IN LIFE.
During this season of school com
mencements we shall hear a great
deal about how to succeed in life.
Graduates and orators of the day
will give their recipes, in more or
less eloquent language, and all of
them will be interesting to those
within earshot. One of the oldest
themes in the world is “How to Suc
ceed,” and at the same time it is
ever new, for the reason that new
children are being born every day and
new graduates are being advised at
every commencement. Good advice
loses nothing in the repetition, so
when a particularly apt code of prin
ciples is presented to a certain stu
dent body, it is well enough to pass
it along for common contemplation
and absorption. Such a code was
suggested the other day to the grad
uating class of Stevens Institute, Ho
boken, N. J., by Paul Morton, presi
dent of the Equitable Life Insurance
Company and until recently Secre
tary of the Navy. It is brief and to
the point. Every boy leaving school
and starting out in life would do
well to cut it out and paste it in his
hat. Mr. Morton’s rules for success
are:
Hard work and common sense.
Willing application, no matter what
the work may be.
Enthusiasm.
Work oyertime whenever you can.
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WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Take an animated interest in pub
lic affairs; you owe it to your coun
try.
Be natural, so that you will be
judged by your real value.
Avoid timidity. Many a man of
ability has continued in the rut be
cause he was too timid.
Aspire to do something which will
benefit all mankind.
Be loyal to your employer. If you
find that you cannot be loyal to him,
seek one to whom you can be loyal.
Cultivate self-control. It is nec
essary to success.
There is nothing abstruse or diffi
cult about the foregoing rules. They
are simple, plain and easy. They
enjoin only those things that a
healthy young man of evenly bal
anced temperament would do in the
routine of duty. The natural im
pulse is to work hard and strive to
please. A worker who tries to shirk
and do as little as he can for his
money, who watches the clock all the
time and never arrives a minute early
or stays a minute late, is following
an artificial standard that will keep
him a wage earner, and a poor one,
as long as he lives. The young man
who gets ahead is he who forgets all
about the clock when there is work
to be done, who never quits until he
has finished the job in hand, and who
is not afraid of giving his “boss”
just a little bit more than he is pay
ing for.
Condensed, Mr. Morton’s rules em
brace these points: Work, willing
ness, application, enthusiasm, natur
alness, courage, self-confidence, ambi
tion, loyalty. That embraces the es
sentials. The young man who makes
these his rules of life will not fail.—
Saavannah News.
THE FARMER FEEDETH ALL.
My lord rides through his palaeo
gate,
My lady sweeps along in state,
The sage thinks long on many a
thing,
And the maiden muses on marrying;
The minstrel harpeth merrily;
The sailor plows the foaming sea,
The huntsman kills the good red
deer,
And the soldier wars without a fear;
But fall to each whate’er befafl,
The farmer he must feed them
all.
Smith hammereth ehcerily the sword,
Priest preacheth pure and holy
word,
Dame Alice worketh broidery well,
Clerk Richard tales of love can teli,
The tap-wife sells her faming beer,
Dan Fisher fishes in the mere,
And courtiers ruffle, strut and shine,
While pages bring the Gascon wine;
But fall to each whate’er befall,
The farmer he must feed them
all.
Man builds his castles fair and high,
Whatever river runneth by,
Great cities rise in every land,
Great churches show the builder’s
hand,
Great arches, monuments and io were,
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers;
Great work is done, be’t here and
there,
And well man worketh everywhere,
But work or rest, whate’er be
fall,
The farmer he must feed them
all.
—Charles G. Leland.
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