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§ Character 
3 Lessons to 
Train Youth 
| By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
“[Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
‘ : opment League.] 
NDUSTRY is not 
only a duty, but 
it is an essential 
aid in accomplishing 
other duties. It is 
helpful to right liv- 
ing and by keeping 
the faculties employ- 
ed permits no time 
for wrong living and 
temptation. 
Idleness is the great 
JAMES T. WHITE. breeder of careless- 
Ness, impurity of thought and crime. 
| ——s-« WVIII.—Industry. 
_ Regular occupation is necessary to life, 
and it is one of the greatest blessings 
of our lives. Industry is helpful to self 
command, because body and mind are 
disciplined by it into orderliness and 
life is made regular by it, as a body of 
trained troops is more easily controlled 
than an undisciplined mob. - 
It is one of the best helps for con- 
tentment, for it affords a regular vent 
for the activity of life, which would 
otherwise tend to wear out life itself. 
Idleness soon becomes a burden to 
one’s life. Laziness is the worst sort 
of vice, because it sacrifices the higher 
self to the lower self. It is the open 
‘gateway to poverty in its most hideous 
and degrading forms. Where indus- 
try is wanting, poverty and wretched- 
ness are sure tocome. _ 
Industry is essential to the highest 
influence, and it is very necessary that 
the young should be provided with in- 
terests in study and philanthropic ac- 
tivity to give opportunity of increasing 
their influence. With unceasing indus- 
try read books, for “they pay the larg- 
est dividends for the outlay of time 
and remain a permanent possession.” 
‘“Life’s master word is Work. With 
this magic word in one’s heart all 
things are possible. It is the touch- 
stone of progress and the key to suc- 
cess.” Generally speaking, the life of 
all truly great men has been a life of 
Intense and incessant labor. 
To get on in life a boy must not be 
content with simply doing the task set 
for him—he must do more than his 
task. He should be at his work ear- 
lier than is required and stay later. 
That is one way to attract attention. 
The writer, when simply an errand 
boy in a bookstore, only six weeks 
on his job, saw a customer impatient . 
at not being waited upon. He stepped | 
up to him as though he were a sales- \ 
man. learned his wants..and. though 
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not knowing tne location or price or a 
Single book, by dint of quickness of 
{inquiry and search he found them and 
sold a bill amounting to $20. His em- 
ployer happened to be looking on and 
promoted him on the spot. That was 
the turning point in his career. In 
six months he became the head of the 
entire book department. 
A boy in the beginning of his ca- 
reer should do two days’ work for 
one day’s pay. This will then attract 
attention, which will quadruple his 
pay, and if continued will probably 
make him a partner, “There is al- 
ways room at the top” is quoted to 
all. Yes, but we must all climb, for, 
as some one has wittily said, “The ele- 
vator is not running.” 
But industry should be directed to- 
ward a definite object and purpose. A 
boy riding a rocking horse may put 
forth more energy than one riding a 
wheel, but he does not get anywhere. 
It is not necessary for a man to be 
actively bad in order to make a failure 
in life; simple in- 
action will accom- 
plish it. Nature 
has everywhere 
written her pro- 
test against idle 
ness; everything 
which ceases to 
struggle, which re- 
mains _ inactive, 
rapidly deteri- 
orates. It is the 
struggle toward an 
ideal, the constant 
effort to get higher LUTHER BURBANK. 
and further, which develops manhood 
and character. 
Luther Burbank is called the ‘“wiz- 
ard of horticulture” and is an amazing 
worker. He will raise 10,000 seedlings 
to secure a single flower. During years 
of unremitting labor he cross fertilizes 
flowers having desired tendencies un- 
til he conjures new and marvelous 
creations from common flowers, exor- 
elses the spines from the prickly cac- 
tus and the pits out of the prunes and 
by the magic of his industry produces 
strawberries as big as apples. 
Practice.—Let every child resolve for 
this one day not to be idle. 
Literature. 
The heights by great men reached and 
kept 
Were not attained by sudden flight, 
But they while their companions slept 
Were tolling upward in the night. 
—Longfellow. 
If the power to do hard work is not 
talent it is the best possible substitute 
for it, Things do not turn up in this 
world until somebody turns them up. 
‘ pound of pluck is worth a ton of 
luck.—James A. Garfield. 
Nothing good is achieved without 
the severest discipline of heart and 
mind.—Bayard Taylor. 
Pearls unpolished shine not. Pover- 
ty cannot overtake diligence.—Japa- 
nese Proverb. 
It is not enough to be industrious. 
So are the ants. What are you indus- 
trious about ?—Thoreau. 
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