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tzAMES T. WHITE. 
|i Character 
Lessons to 
Train Youth 
‘By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
(Copyright, 1909, by thesCharacter Devel- 
" opment League. ] 
VII.—Usefulness. 
VERY one in the 
world is bound 
to the world of 
men and women, out- 
wardly by obedience 
and inwardly by love 
and sympathy, and 
growing out of this 
is another obligation 
fully as important, 
which is usefulness. 
The first demand of 
usefulness is to do 
one’s work in the 
world, whatever it is, in the best man- 
ner possible; otherwise the great work 
of society and of the world cannot go 
on. Every one has his part. Each is 
as necessary as a cogwheel in ma- 
chinery. 
The great interrogation point of this 
country is, “What can you do?” 
Knowledge must be converted into 
faculty. A college course is not an 
education; it is only the beginning of 
an education. The college is primarily 
_a discipline, a mental gymnasium; but, 
other things being equal, a. college 
man as a business man will outmatch 
one who has not received that mental 
training. President Charles fF, Thwing 
says a college education stands for in- 
vestment of power. The ability to 
think clearly, largely, truly, and the 
power to will promptly, firmly and 
with a large intelligence represent an 
enormous return from a college edu- 
cation. 
A confidential man became jealous 
of a new clerk to whom his employer 
had just given a raise in salary, ex- 
ceeding his own. He went to his em- 
ployer and said, “Are you not satis- 
fied with my work and my faithful- 
ness?” 
“Oh, yes,” was the reply. 
“Why, then, do you give this new 
man more salary than to me?” 
Instead of replying to the question 
the grain dealer said: “Do you see that 
load of grain going by?. Run out and 
see te whom it is going.” 
The confidential man returned and 
said it was going to Wilson’s place. 
“Run out and find out what they got 
for the grain.” He returned and said 
85. cents per bushel. “Run out and 
find out if Wilson wants any more.” 
He returned and said, ‘Yes, he wants 
another carload.” 
At this moment the new clerk came 
fm. and the grain merchant repeated to 
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him his first instruction: “Kun out ana 
see where that load of grain is going.” 
In a few minutes the new clerk re- 
turned and said, “The grain is going > 
to Wilson’s; they are paying 85 cents 
per bushel and want another carload.” 
The merchant, turning to the confi- 
dential man, said: “You have your 
answer. It took you three trips to 
find out what this man learned in 
one.” The new clerk had wit enough 
to know that the merchant did not 
eare about where the grain was going, 
but if there was a probability of sup- 
plying some of the demand and upon 
what terms. 
For children, the preparation for 
usefulness in the world is to be ready 
to help in household duties, to lift the 
burden from the tired mother, to give 
attention to what is needed to be done 
in the daily round of life and vofun- 
teer to help before being asked. Be 
alive to every need 
and quick to help! 
Get into the habit 
of doing things for 
others. Make it a 
rule with yourself 
to have “nimble 
fingers, heart and 
hand that work to- 
gether, feet tha 
run on willing er 
rands.” 
Marshall Field's 
instructions to his 
employees is an ad- 
mirable summary 
of usefulness: 
‘Do the right thing at the right 
time and in the right way; do 
some things better than they have 
ever been done before; work from rea- 
son rather than from rule; know both 
sides of a question; be enthusiastic; 
work for the love of work; ‘do it now;’ 
anticipate requirements; master cir- 
cumstances; eliminate errurs—in short, 
strive toward all those ideals which, 
if they really were carried out, would 
make this world a place where com- 
petition would be useless.” 
Practice.—Let each child go home 
with the determination to do some- 
thing today—to help mother. 
CHARLES F. THWING. 
Literature. 
If time be heavy on your hands, 
Are there no beggars at your gates 
Nor any poor about your lands? 
Oh, teach the orphan boy to read 
Or teach the orphan girl to sew. 
—Tennyson. 
Be ashamed to die until you have 
won some victory for humanity.— 
Horace Mann. 
When a man dies they who survive 
him ask what property he has left be- 
hind. The angel who bends over the 
dying man asks what good deeds he 
has sent before him.—Koran. 
Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do 
it with thy might.—Hcclesiastes. 
The world desires to know what a 
man can do, not what he knows.— 
Booker T. Washington. 
Heaven will never arraign him for 
what he thinks, but for what he does. 
—Goldsmith. 
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