Success Demands Work

(jolden Argofv. What rosy visions wc have oí the world in our young days! Fame and fortune awaits us beyontl a doubt. We get glimpsea of the magnitude and splendor of commeree, of the wonders of our great nianufactories. and of the excitements and trinmphs of professional life; and we think "some of that I shall share in." Our young hearts glow with the prospect, and we are impatient for our school days to end r that we oan flinoourselves upon the current of tho world's work, and float on and away lo wealth and happiness, Yet how few tako into accouut the eftbrt, the struggle, the wearing and tearing, worry and work, that raust be the price of suecess. How many when they have launehed out into whát tliey dreamed and hoped would be a sea of prospcritj-, are astounded and discouraged by the sterras that beat upon theni. How many cry out in despair: "O. wind ! O wind ! why dost tbou blow And out to ooean roar, Wheu I would stoer my little bark Toward some picasant shore;" Those men upon whom favoring winds always blow are few. Not many are born with silver spoons in their möuths, as the old saying is. Ninety-nine out of one hundred win suecess by earnest and severe toil. When ono loo'ks upon the magnificent palaces which are built for the purposes of trade; when he soes tho sloek, suecessful merchant rolling away in nis inxurioos carriage, he inclines to think that all must be plain and easy saillng there. IIow many boys onter the mercantilo houses in otir 'cities with such ideas- that all they have to do is to drift alongin asort of vacationfrolie, and they will come swimimngly into thé snug harbor of wealth and oase in duo time! But ask these merchants, ask the Buocesaful men in any trado or profession They will teil Vou of days, of weeks and years of' ceasoless anxiètv and labor. They will teil you that eveñ in their palatial stores, Clled with tho luxuries of the worhl, nothing but incessant watching and keeps tliem afloat. They will teil you that oneyearof reat prosperity "is often followed bv othera in whieii all their efïbrts do not bring a penny of profit. And they will poiut out to yöu nino out of ten of their ïëllows in business who havo failed and fallen by the wav. Ifinthclowet wálksof business- in mechanical trades, in salariad positions and in farming- there are fewor risks and lesa stupendcraa èfforts required than in the grand enterprises, there i none the less need of constant exertion if one is to gain snecess. Fortune rarelv eomes to os, She must bc pursued Without rest and earnestly. Whether the winds blow fair or fon!, it mattere not to the one who has ;i rorree! idea of the wnrk of the world: "Koep by the niiccl, Meer etaadllj i Keep watch abare, liclow ; Such hcarts will niake the ports they seck No matter what irindiblow." Well, what of it, vou may ask. Nothnin-, if il is not your aim to gain a high and honorable place in whatover departnient of effort you intend to enter. Nothing, if you care only to drift, and mean to bc content with the company of the good-for-nothings of the world. but if you desire to do your best, it is ivell to appreciate, whfle youno-, that ane s best is only done bv "hard work md that the habit of hard work is easi;st acquired in youth. A lazy boy will most likely make a azy man. An idle girl will in all probibilicy grow up to le aburden tosomejody, whon she might be a help. School lays are worth littlo to youug people if hoy do not toach them that hard effort s necesry in order to attain edge. And what ia requisito in uiastoi in" geography and arithmetie is equall needed in making one's way in th worid. [n entering upon a life occupalion i is ahvays ivell to remernber that, il thougb lianl work is needed to ge aheaa, iftere is "ahvavs plenty of roon at the lop.'' Tlie gteat majorily of mei and WOÖien are eitliei' content lo stay a t!ic bottom, or thfy.wül nol 80 traii thenisolvcs and so stVivc :i to reach the top. But it is weli also to keep in mindone tiiinof. The suecess whicb comes f rom bard work is not always wealth or fame. Om: truly succeeds when lic lias done bis very best. if be enjoys tbe esteera of li ís felíowmon and has a conscience olear bofore God. Work for tbese ends by all means, whatever happens amid the cnaíaging fortines of life.