{"1": {"fulltext": "OW-rO WORK\\nAMOSRWELLS", "height": "4674", "width": "3052", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No,\\nShellA^-.^\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nI", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "How to Work", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "The How Series\\nBy Amos R. Wells\\nHow to Play\\nHow to Work\\nHow to Study", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "How to Work\\nBy AMOS FU WELLS\\nAuthor of How to Play How to Study etc.\\nUnited Society of Christian Endeavor\\nBoston and Chicago\\n1", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "_61407_\\nl-ibwu-jr of Co\u00e2\u0080\u009e tfPe \u00c2\u00abJ\\nwb Copies Rbxkco\\nOCT 15 (900\\nCopyright, 1900,\\nby the\\nUnited Society of Christian Endeavor", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nCHAP. PAGE\\nI. Pkocrastinating and Puttering 7\\nII. Take Your Own Pace 13\\nIII. Work s Parables and Promises 17\\nIV. A, E, I Workers 23\\nV. O, U Workers 27\\nVI. How to Feel Like It 31\\nVII. Poor Kinds of Faithfulness 35\\nVIII. Working to Break the Record 38\\nIX. Workers That Consume Their Own\\nSmoke 42\\nX. Batting, and Doing Things 46\\nXI. Hypnotic Laborers 50\\nXII. Taking Hints 55\\nXIII. Hurry Up!. 61\\nXIV. Keeping Pencils Sharp 71\\nXV. Four-Tracked Workers 74\\nXVI. Getting-Ready Days and Finishing\\nDays 79\\nXVII. Buckling Down to Work 82\\nXVIII. Can Conquers 85\\nXIX. Prepared to Fail 91\\nXX. The Shoemaker and His Last 94\\nXXI. A Pride in Your Work 98\\nXXII. Expensive Workmen 100\\nXXIII. People That Mean Business 103\\nXXIV. Where to Work 108\\nXXV. What Is Under Your Head 115\\n5", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAP. PAGE\\nXXVI. Make Ready, Take Aim! 119\\nXXVII. Heaping It On 126\\nXXVIII. Time, the Worker s Gold Mine 129\\nXXIX. The Bulldog Grip 137\\nXXX. Our Breathing-Spells 144\\nXXXI. The Trivial Round 151", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "HOW TO WORK.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nPROCRASTINATING AND PUTTERING.\\nWISH to give you my decalogue of\\nwork, my ten commandments of la-\\nbor. And I want to write them, not\\non tables of stone, but on the fleshly\\ntablets of your hearts. Now you each have\\ntwo hearts, luckily, a right and. a left one,\\njoined together so that I can divide my com-\\nmandments into two tables, easy for you to\\nremember. You are to fix the first table by\\nthe letter p. The commandments are: Do\\nnot procrastinate. Do not putter. Take your\\nown pace. Read work s parables. Remember\\nthe promises. You are to fix the second table\\nby the vowels, a, e, i, o, u. That is Be am-\\nbitious. Be easy. Be intelligent, Be orderly.\\nBe upright. That is the outline of what I\\nwant to say to you in these opening chapters.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 HOW TO WORK.\\nThe first commandment of labor is, Do not\\nprocrastinate. There was once a Yankee-\\nfarmer whose acres were covered with bowl-\\nders, and very much needed stone fences.\\nI ll build em, said the Yankee, to-morrow\\nor next day, I guess. But after many to-\\nmorrows and next days a good fairy took him\\nin hand. Wherever he walked, she threw\\ngreat bowlders before him. He lifted them\\nout of the way. She sent immense stones in\\nfront of his plow. He got a crowbar, and\\nrolled them into the next furrow. She piled\\nthem on his wheelbarrow. In surprise he\\nthrew them off. At last she sent him a dream,\\na dream of a stone fence, broad, square, neat,\\nand strong, and far-reaching about his farm.\\nThis is the fence, she cried in his ears, the\\nfence you might have made with the strength\\nyou used in throwing stones out of your way.\\nDo you ever think of this, that it takes a\\ncertain amount of energy to reject tasks when\\nthey press upon you for the doing, that the\\nworry over an unaccomplished duty is a bur-\\nden it takes strength to bear Do you realize\\nthat I am speaking not in rhetorical exaggera-\\ntion, but in literal exactness, when 1 say that\\nprocrastination requires power, and often a\\npower that, when summed up, would do the\\ndeed? Oh, how we cheat ourselves! How", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PROCRASTINATING AND PUTTERING. 9\\nwe hammer away on cold iron How we set\\nthe mill to grinding after the water has passed,\\nso that we must laboriously turn the mill-\\nwheel ourselves\\nThe waste of strength is not the worst of it.\\nBy the street of By and By one arrives at\\nthe house of Never. 5 That s the worst of\\nit. Putting off means leaving off. Going to\\ndo is going undone, ten cases out of nine.\\nThink of it. If the little grain of corn does\\nnot sprout in the springtime, the liberal sum-\\nmer and wide autumn and the whole round\\nyear has henceforth no abiding-place for it.\\nBut if it begins to grow in that acceptable\\ntime, the crowded summer will find space for\\nthe tallest stalk it can push up, and the full\\nautumn can contain its heavy ears. This is\\nthe interpretation of the parable there is no\\nroom in all the infinite future for a single deed\\nthat ought to be done now. So the first com-\\nmandment of labor is, Do not procrastinate.\\nDO NOT PUTTERo\\nThe second commandment about labor is, Do\\nnot putter. This is the second in the order of\\ntime, but the first of all in the order of impor-\\ntance. For a worker s prime virtue is vim.\\nYet there are thousands of workmen, so-called,\\nwhose practice, if not whose lips, read the text", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 HOW TO WORK.\\nin this way Whatsoever thy hands find to\\ndo, dilly-dally with all thy might. Puttery,\\nputtery, puttery, that s what Tennyson s\\nYorkshire farmer would hear their horses\\nhoofs sa-ay.\\nApropos of horses, there is a fairy story\\nabout a horse, which you have never heard,\\nand which you ought to know. It is this\\nMary Ann was attempting to drive, one day,\\nalong a straight road and before many min-\\nutes the horse knew what Mary Ann knew at\\nthe start, that she did not know how to drive.\\nShe held the reins loosely, then she pulled\\nthem tight. She jerked now one side and now\\nthe other. She flapped them. She got them\\ncrossed. She kept up a constant clicking with\\nher tongue. She fussed with the whip. At\\nlast Dolly, the horse, who was a very sensible\\nold horse, got tired of such nonsense, and called\\non the horse- fairies to interfere. (This is a fairy\\nstory, you know.) So straightway they came,\\nand while one unharnessed Dolly, and changed\\nher with a tap of a magic wand into a girl like\\nMary Ann, another changed Mary Ann into a\\nhorse Like Dolly, and harnessed her in a jiffy.\\nThen Dolly got into the carriage, and took her\\nrevenge on Mary Ann. And oh, such pullings\\nand twitchings and Mappings and jerkingsl\\nMary Ann never forgot the lesson. Do you", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PROCRASTINATING AND PUTTERING. 11\\nwonder what is the moral of my fairy story\\nIt is this Drive your business, or your busi-\\nness will drive you. Go at your work in\\na straightforward, sensible way. Hold firm\\nreins. Don t jerk and twitch and flap and\\nfuss. Don t putter. For if you do, then in\\nstern reality, and no longer in ridiculous fable,\\nthe retributive fairies of worry and vexation\\nand disappointment and impatience and wasted\\ntime and strength and reputation will harness\\nyour soul to the tasks you should have ridden\\nupon, and you will be driven unmercifully by\\nthe very powers you were made to drive.\\nThere is a beautiful word, which every one\\nwho aspires to the high title of worker\\nmust manage in some way to get into the vo-\\ncabulary of his life. That word is alert.\\nWhat a picture flashes into our minds when\\nwe say it Alert, bright eyes, quickly\\nmoving as the Greeks loved to see them body\\nin nice equipoise ready for prompt obedience\\nmotions delicate, exact, and swift speech clear-\\ncut, quiet, and steady. That word alert is\\nthe poetical form of our American adjective,\\nbusiness-like, the opposite of puttering.\\nA straight line, your geometries tell you, is\\nthe shortest path between two points. The\\nsame definition fits the word alert, the word\\nbusiness-like. It means taking the shortest", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 HOW TO WORK.\\nand easiest way to your goal. Is it mastery of\\na newspaper? You may putter over it an\\nhour, or by alert skimming along headlines\\nand coarse type you may get the very marrow\\nout of that newspaper in ten minutes. Is it\\nwriting an essay You may putter over pen\\nand paper for days, or, by alert watching of\\nyour mind and your reading, prompt jotting\\ndown of ideas, energetic blocking out of the\\nessay, you may do it much better in one-fourth\\nthe time. Lazy folks, puttering folks, take the\\nmost pains, while they think they are taking\\nthe least.\\nThe King s business requireth haste. And\\nthis is one good reason why Christ s yoke is\\neasy, because He teaches us to carry it with\\nbusiness-like alertness. There is a best way to\\ndo everything. That is also Christ s way, the\\neasiest and shortest. The night cometh, when\\nno man can work. Do not procrastinate. Do\\nnot putter.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEK II.\\nTAKE YOUR OWN PACE.\\n]0 not procrastinate. Do not putter.\\nWe must set alongside of these the\\nthird commandment of labor Take\\nyour own pace. Any good driver\\ncould tell you what would happen if you\\nshould harness up short-pacing Dolly with long-\\npacing Dobbin. The necessary compromise\\nwould wofully tire them both.\\nYou remember Dr. Holmes s felicitous com-\\nparison of the short-legged man to the little\\nDutch clock, briskly ticking his way through\\nlife, while his long-legged brother is the\\neight-day wall-clock, with its solemn and slow\\nvibrations. Well, people s minds are just that\\nway. And the little fellow may have the\\neight-day mind, and the tall fellow the brisk\\nlittle Dutch-clock mind, and it would beat\\nTime himself if you should force them to vi-\\nbrate together.\\nLet me take a stride of two feet, nine and\\none-half inches, and I can walk twenty miles\\nwithout stopping but force me to keep step\\n13", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 HOW TO WORK.\\nwith a stride of two feet, eight and one-half\\ninches, or with one of two feet, ten and one-\\nhalf inches, and I should be worn out in eight\\nmiles. This is one of the first truths that a\\nteacher is made to learn, in that school where\\nhe is receiving lessons as fast as he gives them\\nand I do not believe that the great Teacher of\\nus all is less considerate, or that he expects as\\nmuch from his dull scholars as from his bright\\nones.\\nThis is the one danger in reading inspiring\\nbiographies. They are likely to urge us to the\\nfutile imitation of men and women whose pace\\nis longer and swifter far than ours. And\\nwhen we try that pace, as some will, we are\\napt to draw no other conclusion from our cer-\\ntain failure than that their way is not our\\nway. It might be our way, if we took our\\npace to it. These great men and women may\\nbe able to learn twenty languages, master a\\ndozen arts, write poetry and novels and ser-\\nmons, and play ten musical instruments, do-\\ning it all well, and you think you can do it.\\nYou have been fooled by this that fools us\\nall, at one time or another. Everybody carries\\nabout with him the germs of power to do al-\\nmost everything, and sometimes he finds this\\nout, finds out that he has music in him, and\\npoetry, and art, and skill to do nice handiwork,", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "TAKE YOUR OWN PACE. 15\\nand strength for the hammer and the plough,\\nand a tongue to move men. And then he be-\\ngins to develop them all, and gets into the\\nsame scrape I did this summer.\\nI thought it would be nice to have my own\\nflowers, that I might not be obliged to depend\\non the floral charity of my neighbors. So I\\nspaded up a bed about four feet by two, made\\nnice little trenches, filled them with seed, cov-\\nered them up, and waited in faith. I put into\\nthat little bed one paper of phlox, one of\\nmignonette, one of sweet alyssum, one of asters,\\none of dahlias, one of zinnias, and, for good\\nmeasure, one of something I did not know.\\nAll my seeds sprouted finely, and you may\\nfancy the result. I am glad I had that ex-\\nperience, because the present condition of that\\nflower-bed furnishes the best illustration on\\nthis planet of the sage phrase, Jack-of-all\\ntrades, master of none.\\nThe question is not, says Souvestre, un-\\nwisely, to discover what will suit us, but for\\nwhat we are suited. That is not the question\\nat all. Too many things are possible for us.\\nThe question is to discover what of all our pos-\\nsibilities God wants us to develop. Paul\\nmight have been a distinguished orator, states-\\nman, philosopher, general, author, merchant\\nbut he said, This one thing I do.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 HOW TO WORK.\\nPower and inclination call in many ways\\nduty, only in one. Take that one way and\\nthe pace in it that God has made natural for\\nyou, neither fretted because others get along\\nfaster than you, nor proud because you are\\npermitted to surpass others and you will be\\ncrowned with Paul s crown at the end of the\\nway. Do not procrastinate. Do not putter.\\nTake your own pace.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nwork s parables and promises.\\nHE fourth labor commandment is,\\nRead work s parables. Did you\\never notice that just two-thirds of\\nChrist s parables are based on events\\nin some business or other Shepherds, bank-\\ners, merchants, housewives, farmers, fishers,\\nstewards, lawyers, day-laborers, all find their\\noccupations illuminated in these marvellous\\nstories. How much Christ must have thought\\nof human labor\\nBut did He exhaust the parables of work in\\nthose twenty-nine short stories They were\\ngiven for examples merely, to teach us how to\\nregard these occupations of ours. We are to\\nmake our work a college and a church and\\nbroom, saw, plough, and yardstick are to\\nteach us and to preach to us. George\\nHerbert, after all, has written the true psalm\\nof labor\\n1 Teach me, my God and King,\\nIn all things Thee to see,\\nAnd what I do in anything\\nTo do it as for Thee.\\n17", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 HOW TO WORK.\\nu All may of Thee partake\\nNothing can be so mean\\nWhich with this tincture, For Thy sake,\\nWill not grow bright and clean.\\n11 A servant with this clause\\nMakes drudgery divine\\nWho sweeps a room as for Thy laws\\nMakes that and the action fine.\\nu This is the famous stone\\nThat4urneth all to gold,\\nFor that which God doth touch and own\\nCannot for less be told.\\nWith one line only of that priceless poem I\\nam inclined to quarrel. No one can make\\ndrudgery divine, for it is already so. But,\\nalas how many poor drudges do not dis-\\ncover the divinity of their drudgery, do not\\ntouch it with that famous stone of conse-\\ncration which turneth all to gold, do not\\nread the parables of labor as Christ read\\nthem\\nLet the clerk in a drug store see that he\\nmay be an assistant of the great Physician.\\nLet the farmer s boy know that the seed, even\\nthe literal seed he plants, is a word of God.\\nLet the young mechanic see in saw and ham-\\nmer reminders of the world s Carpenter. Let\\nthe cook bethink herself that her bread may\\nbe bread of the higher Life as well as of the\\nlower, and that the Hesli she prepares, if the", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "WORK S PARABLES AND PR03TISES. 19\\nMaster s spirit be in the preparation, may be\\nmeat indeed. Let the busy housemaid, as she\\nsweeps and garnishes, prepare that house for\\nthe seven spirits of blessedness. Let the\\nearnest student of surveying, philosophy,\\nzoology, never forget that all ways lead to\\nthe one Way, all truths to the one Truth, all\\nlife to the one Life. These are some of work s\\nparables.\\nO that I could emblazon this thought on the\\nsoul of every worker in the world that the\\nsecret of all joy in labor is in these words,\\nmy Father s business My teaching, your\\nstudying, farming, housework, our Father s\\nbusiness. That thought once fixed in the\\nworld s commerce, greed would die, dishonesty\\nwould hide its head, hearts weary of trifles\\nwould exult in them, hearts anxious for results\\nw T ould grow grandly confident, for would not\\nGod care for His own\\nExcept the Lord built the house, they labor\\nin vain that build it. It is in vain for\\nyou that ye rise up early, and so late take rest,\\nand eat the bread of toil. For the Lord giveth\\nunto His beloved in their sleep, not in their\\nsloth, but in that restful dependence on Him\\nthat prevents anxious lying awake, since they\\nhave read the parables of their work and know\\nthat they are about their Father s business.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 HOW TO WORK.\\nA few decades hence, at best, and how\\nclearly each of us will know this How, in\\nthe revealing light of that day, what we call\\nour real practical work will fade to the thin-\\nness of a fable, and that higher parabolic\\nmeaning which lies hidden in our work will\\nstand forth as the one real and practical thing\\nof all, to crown us or condemn us\\nDo not procrastinate. Do not putter. Take\\nyour own pace. Kead work s parables and\\nponder them.\\nThe last commandment on the first table is\\nREMEMBER THE PROMISES.\\nThere is a tool that every carpenter must put\\ninto his tool-chest, or the fullest chest is empty.\\nThere is an ink into which every author must\\nfirst dip his pen, or the blackest ink will be in-\\nvisible. There is a word that every student\\nmust read before he can understand a line of\\nhis text-books. That tool, that ink, that word,\\nis faith. The universe is full of promises.\\nBetter be a blind spinner in the sun of\\nthese promises than own sharpest eyes which\\ncannot see them.\\nWhat are these promises for the worker?\\nOne is history, which is a crowded procession\\nof toilers rewarded, some soon, some late,\\nbut all gloriously. One is nature, whose every", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "WORK S PARABLES AND PROMISES. 21\\nrainbow promises seed for the sower and bread\\nfor the eater, whose liberal fields, rich sun, and\\nfruitful seasons are crammed with guaranties\\nfor labor from the Father who worketh hith-\\nerto. One is our own spirit, which in its loft-\\niest moments sees that everything is good and\\njust and no toil unrewarded. One is God s\\nwritten Word, a long promise of joy to those\\nwho labor together with Him.\\nI watch the noble young men as they try to\\nopen the doors of this world. Some apply a\\ngold key that is genius. Some have keys of\\nflashing silver they rely on zeal. Iron keys\\nare borne by others they are the plodders.\\nAnd for all these the bolts fly back, to be sure,\\nbut the doors remain obstinately closed. But\\nI see a few who carry, in addition to their\\nkeys of gold or silver or iron, a tiny key that\\nglitters like a diamond. This they thrust into\\nan unnoticed cranny of the heavy doors, which\\nfly back eagerly to give them entrance. Those\\ndiamond keys mean confidence confidence in\\nGod, trust in the order of things, faith in one s\\nself and one s fellows.\\nCan he work Has he brains Has\\nhe tact These are not the first questions\\nthat the world asks about a young man, but,\\nstrange to say, it is this Does he expect to\\nsucceed If the answer to this is No, or", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 HOW TO WORK.\\na half-hearted Yes, all is up with the young\\nman but if he believes in his life, the world\\nbelieves in him. The cynical old maxim is an\\nuntrue one Nothing succeeds like success.\\nLet the young workman adopt a bolder and\\nmore genuine principle Nothing succeeds\\nlike the expectation of success. Learn that\\nyour rightful endeavors are in the line of a\\nliterally resistless current of promises. You\\nhave half learned how to work when you have\\nlearned that. Remember the promises.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nE have filled out the first table of\\ncommandments about labor, which\\nwe were to remember by the letter\\nP do not procrastinate do not\\nputter; take your own pace; read work s\\nparables remember the promises. Kow I\\nmust treat my second table of commandments\\nwith undeserved brevity. These five were to\\nbe fixed by the vowels, A, E, I, O, U.\\nFirst, be ambitious. A great man once\\nwished to select from a crowd of applicants a\\nteacher for his young boys. Xow for a test,\\nhe said, you shall each show me how you\\nwould teach my sons to do one of the simplest\\nthings, to break a stone in two. So he led\\nthem to a pile of bowlders. The first took the\\nhammer, and quite dexterously split a slab of\\nlimestone. Very neat, remarked the great\\nman, but limestone is easily broken. The\\nsecond, with a shrewd blow, parted a mass of\\nhard quartz. Better, said the great man\\nbut something is lacking still. The third\\n23", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 HOW TO WORK.\\nchose one equally large piece of quartz, broke\\nit nicely, and then selected a very tough\\nbowlder of greenstone. The hammer fell\\nsharply, and the obstinate stone was shattered.\\nThat s what I want my sons taught, said\\nthe great man, to go on from what is hard\\nto what is harder.\\nThe great man understood what parts\\nmediocrity from success. The first is content\\nwith mastery of the difficult. The second\\ntakes to heart Browning s grand words\\nlt Ah, but a man s reach should exceed his grasp,\\nOr what s heaven for\\nGood things are hard. That was Plato s\\nfavorite saying. But Plato himself would\\nagree that what is good fades to worse and\\nworst unless the worker goes on to harder and\\nhardest. Be ambitious.\\nThen, be easy. That is, never be contented\\nuntil your work has become second nature to\\nyou. You know how the young girl learns to\\nplay on the piano. How like witchery it\\nseems, as her white fingers flash rippling along\\nthe keys, moving them to obedient music!\\nBut that pliant dexterity came by way of stiff\\nknuckles, aching muscles, weary hours, strong\\npatience, and the try thai means triumph.\\nyou remember how it was when you", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "u E, I WORKERS. 25\\nlearned to ride the bicycle how tensely you\\nheld your arms, and how bent was your mind\\non turning your wheel to balance the push on\\nthe opposite pedal how your brain whirled\\nand your shoulders complained at the end of\\nyour first mile Now you pedal instinctively,\\nand you turn the wheel to and fro with no\\nconsciousness of effort.\\nAnd the girl does not really play the piano,\\nnor the boy ride the bicycle, nor any worker\\ndo any work at his best, until this thing has\\nhappened to him, that his work has become his\\nplay. What we must do, says Coleridge,\\nlet us love to do. It is a noble chemistry\\nthat turns necessity into pleasure. And so\\nagainst our sixth labor commandment, Be am-\\nbitious, go on from hard to harder, we must\\nhasten to set this seventh, Be easy, continue\\nat the hard work until it has become play to\\nyou.\\nNext, be intelligent. Add to your work\\nthat last important item in the old lady s rec-\\nipe for bread. Stir in a little judgment,\\nsaid the dear old soul. You want me to esti-\\nmate the yield of that wheat-field Let me\\nsee. Bich, deep loam. Good situation.\\nOught to give twenty bushels to the acre. But\\nstay. Let me see the farmer. That stupid,\\nlazy lout The field will not give ten bushels", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 HOW TO WORK.\\nto the acre. I am wrong, and the farmer is\\nthat thoughtful young fellow, crumbling the\\nsoil in his hand and examining it with such\\ncare His field will give thirty bushels to the\\nacre, such a good r ear as this. As the man\\nis worth, his land is worth, says the shrewd\\nFrenchman.\\nStir in judgment. Do not make two trips\\nof it with one hand full when the filling of\\nboth hands might finish it in one trip. Do not\\nrun upstairs to bring something down and then\\ngo up again to take something up. Do not go\\ndown town for a stick of sealing- wax, and\\nafter your return bethink yourself of the meat\\nyou must get for dinner. Do not hunt through\\nthe book page by page, when a glance at the\\nindex would show you what you wish.\\nThe old proverb is right. Contrivance is\\nbetter than hard work, not merely because it\\nis more economical of God-given strength and\\ntime, but because it puts our work on a higher\\nplane. For what does Ruskin tell us It is\\nonly by labor that thought can be made\\nhealthy, and only by thought that labor can\\nbe made happy. Bo intelligent, then, as well\\nas ambitious and easy.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\n0, U 77 WORKERS.\\nJE not only ambitious, easy, and intelli-\\ngent, but be orderly, too. I wonder\\nhow many thousand lives have been\\nstraightened out by that fine ad-\\nmonition from the old English parsonage\\ndown by the sea, Do ye nexte thynge. It\\nhas unwound the tangle of my life many a\\ntime, and when duties pulled this way and\\nthat, when time was short and work was long,\\nand a maze of worriment surrounded me worse\\nthan any Cretan labyrinth, this was a better\\nclew than Ariadne s to lead me into clear ways\\nagain, Do ye nexte thynge.\\nThere are some men whose idea of order is\\nlike this, that at 7 A. m. they will consume two\\neggs, a plate of hash, and a cup of coffee. At\\n7:30 they will put on a dressing-gown\\nbuttoned at the third buttonhole from the\\ntop. At 7:40 they will dip a stub pen\\ninto violet ink and write five and one-half\\npages of their new novel. And if anything\\nis wrong with hash, buttonhole, or violet ink,\\n27", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 HOW TO WORK.\\nall is over for the day, and they must wait\\nuntil the next 7 A. m. for an orderly start.\\nThe order of a worker who means business\\nis not the order of a whimsical schedule, but\\nthe order of proximity. Take up 7 our work\\nvigorously as it presents itself to you. Get up\\na mental turnstile that will make your crowd\\nof duties step forward one by one. Permit no\\njostling. Give yourself closely to the first as\\nthe experienced ticket agent does at the sta-\\ntion, finish it, call out Next, and let the\\nturnstile turn the first out and another in.\\nMy word for it, there s a magic in such a\\nmethod that will seem fairly miraculous to a\\nman who is in the habit of worrying about one\\ntask with one-half his brain, and planning an-\\nother with the other half, while his hands are\\nexecuting the third. Be ambitious in your\\nwork, easy, intelligent, orderly.\\nFinally, be upright. That is, be straight.\\nBe honest. Give worth for wages. Despise\\nfrom your very soul all braggart short-cuts to\\nknowledge, to money, to influence and posi-\\ntion. Work your way up. That s your only\\ninsurance against tumbling down.\\nThese are golden words of Emerson s\\nhate the shallow Americanism which hopes to\\ngel rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps\\non midnight tables, skill without study, mas-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "0, U WORKERS. 20\\ntery without apprenticeship, power through a\\npacked jury or caucus, or wealth by fraud.\\nThey think they have got it, but they have\\ngot something else, a crime, which calls for\\nanother crime, and another devil behind that\\nthese are steps to suicide, infamy, and the\\nharming of mankind. In this life of show,\\npuffing, advertisement, and the manufacture of\\npublic opinion, all excellence is lost sight of in\\nthe hunger for sudden performance and un-\\nearned praise.\\nLet that never be said of you. I will not\\nadd more, lest you charge me with preaching.\\nCry Excelsior, though your path lies all in\\nthe valley. Allow no endeavor to stop short\\nof thorough performance. Be upright.\\nNow my second table is complete, bearing\\nthe exhortations to ambition, ease, intelligence,\\norder, and uprightness in work. I must add\\none thing more it is the gold, which, pressed\\ninto all the words thus inscribed on your\\nheart-tablets, will make them shine with\\nheaven s own light. That gold is prayer.\\nNeed I say to Christians that without that\\nelement all ten of these qualifications of the\\nnoble workman go for naught? Need I re-\\nmind you of our height s littleness, of our\\nsight s blindness, of our strength s utter feeble-\\nness before our commonest tasks But there", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 HOW TO WORK.\\nis a Workman in our midst taller than the sons\\nof men, whose eye knows no barrier and whose\\npower knows no obstacle, and, best of all,\\nwhose love speeds to our whispered prayers.\\nAre we workers together with Him", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "v\\nWin 1 i\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nHOW TO FEEL LIKE IT.\\n]OW much easier we can work when\\nwe feel like it than when we do\\nnot The task that on other less\\nfortunate da} r s hitches and halts and\\ngrinds like a bicycle with dirt in its bearings,\\nnow rolls itself off as smoothly and delightfully\\nas a bicycle newly cleaned and oiled rolls off\\nthe miles. So true is this, that in many a piece\\nof work quite half of the undertaking may be\\nconsidered accomplished before you begin, if\\nyou only feel like beginning.\\nTherefore it is a very important problem for\\nthe practical worker, How can I feel like it\\nall the time How can I abolish blue Mon-\\ndays? How can I get rid of the sense of\\nmonotony How can I keep my work always\\nfresh, always interesting and enjoyable?\\nSuch a spirit would be worth more to most\\nmerchants than a capital of a hundred thousand\\ndollars, and some of them are sensible enough\\nto know it and to plan their lives so wisely\\nthat they are always eager for their work, and\\n31", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 HOW TO WORK.\\ngo to it at the end of twenty years with the\\nappetite and zest of a novice.\\nOne of the secrets of the matter is that\\nat the very start they took up work that\\nthey could like, work for which they were\\nfitted, work in which they might reasonably\\nexpect to succeed. O, those poor giris that\\nby the thousand are at this very moment\\npushing rebellious fingers up and down the\\nivory keyboard, with not a scrap of music\\nin their souls, just because their ambitious\\nmammas want to make pianists of them, though\\nthey are dying to crochet, or trim bonnets\\nO, those thousands of poor boys who at this\\nmoment are poring over law books that to\\nthem are dry as last century s leaves, just be-\\ncause their ambitious papas want to make bar-\\nristers of them, while their own unfettered\\nfancy would mount a horse and herd cattle on\\nthe great plains, or board a train to get partic-\\nulars of the railroad wreck for the Herald\\nCan Susie be expected to like it Can Tom\\nbe expected to like it\\nBut, granted that the work is a task that he\\nis able to like, one way always to feel like it\\nis never to wait till he feels like it, but to pitch\\ninto the work as soon as the time for work\\ncomes, with no reference to the feelings what-\\never. Lead forth the nag, though your head", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HOW TO FEEL LIKE IT. 33\\naches. Jump into the saddle, though rheuma-\\ntism rebels. Canter away, with your teeth\\nclinched and your brows set. It will not be\\nlong before your lips will begin to smile, and\\nthe wrinkles will come out of your forehead,\\nand on the home stretch your eyes will sparkle\\nand your cheeks will glow, and you will feel\\nlike it very much indeed.\\nThe second rule is, Don t stop till you do\\nfeel like it. This is very important. Napo-\\nleon had what we have come to call the pres-\\ntige of success. He had won in so many bat-\\ntles that his foes keeled over almost at sight of\\nhim, to save him the trouble of knocking them\\ndown. Stick to every pursuit, every task, un-\\ntil it becomes enjoyable, and you will acquire\\nfor yourself just such a prestige, so that what-\\never distasteful undertaking you may approach\\nwill say to itself, There comes a man who\\nnever leaves a task till he has subdued it ut-\\nterly, body and spirit. I might as well make\\nmyself agreeable to him at the start. And it\\nwin.\\nI suppose this is all there is of it, though\\nvarious subordinate thoughts might be pressed\\nhome, such as these In approaching a disa-\\ngreeable task, first take up all the easier and\\nmore agreeable portions of it conquering them\\nwill give you a feeling of strength, and you", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 HOW TO WORK.\\nwill say to yourself, There is so much out of\\nthe way, and without difficulty certainly I\\ncan accomplish what is left. Trick yourself\\ninto a game, as by saying, Now let me see\\nhow many sticks of wood I can saw in ten\\nminutes, and then let me run a race with my-\\nself the second ten, and then try to beat that\\nrecord, and so on. Keep before your mind\\nthe result, the reward the eye on the goal\\nshortens the mile. Fall in love with processes.\\nIf you are painting a barn, see how far you\\ncan make a brushf ul go, and without spilling a\\ndrop. If you are baking a pie, think up some\\nunique pattern with which to ornament the\\ncrust. There is no task, not even digging a\\nditch, but has interest and even romance in it,\\nif you dig in the right way.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nPOOR KINDS OF FAITHFULNESS.\\nHAT you say, can any kind of\\nfaithfulness be a poor kind Yes,\\nindeed. Listen.\\nA mistress of a large house once\\nassigned her four housemaids each to a room,\\nto clean it and put it in order before noon.\\nThe first housemaid, Susan, said to herself\\nas she set vigorously to work, Now there s\\nBetsey. She thinks she s so smart. I ll show\\nmistress who is the best housemaid here. My\\nroom shall be cleaned perfectly, and set in\\norder before that conceited Betsey is half\\nthrough. But though Susan worked faith-\\nfully, Betsey s room was finished first, and\\nlooked much nicer than Susan s. As soon as\\nSusan saw this she threw down her tools\\nand worked no longer. Her faithfulness was\\nfounded on emulation, and the superiority of\\nher fellow- worker ended it.\\nKate, on the contrary, set herself doggedly\\nto her task, saying, I ll make this a job to\\n35", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 HOW TO WORK.\\nbe proud of. I propose to do it perfectly.\\nShe began in a little corner, and scrubbed and\\nscrubbed, always seeing something more that\\nneeded doing in that corner, until noon came.\\nThe corner was perfect, but the rest of the\\nroom untouched. And so Kate s overfaithful-\\nness concerning a part of her task made her\\nfaithless in regard to the whole.\\nThe third was Milly, who was a very am-\\nbitious girl. If I clean this room well, she\\nplanned, mistress may take more notice of\\nme, and let me wait on the children, or even\\non herself, and then I may get to be governess,\\nand then who knows? I may even set up\\na ladies seminary of my own So Milly\\nworked very faithfully, her head full of such\\nambitious plans. Too full, however, for, quite\\nengrossed in these enticing thoughts, she let\\nfall a magnificent vase, and quite ruined it.\\nSo she became faithless in little things, because\\nher faithfulness in them was only through\\nhope of greater things.\\nBut Betsey, the fourth, loved her work and\\nher mistress, and carried common sense and\\nsprightliness to her tasks. She took no thought\\nabout the success of others, except to praise it.\\nShe judged of the thoroughness expected, by\\nthe time i^iven to the task. Her one ambition\\nwas to do her best in the present. And so it", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "POOR KINDS OF FAITHFULNESS. 37\\nhappened that her work was accomplished\\nfirst, and best.\\nFaithfulness which springs from over-fond-\\nness for details, from emulation or from ambi-\\ntion, is often very hard to tell from the true\\nfaithfulness. But it is not true, and nothing\\nis true faithfulness which does not spring from\\nlove of the work, and love of the Master.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "i\\nH\\n^1\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nWORKING TO BREAK THE RECORD.\\nHAVE grown very tired of hearing\\npeople talk about breaking the rec-\\nord. In my boyhood days a horse\\nwas thought to do something hand-\\nsome if he made his mile in 2:40, but such a\\nhorse is nowhere nowadays, the record has\\nbeen so badly broken. Every steamship cap-\\ntain who crosses the Atlantic is unhappy if he\\ncannot bring back with him as part of his cargo\\na smashed record. Every sheriff who runs for\\noffice, no matter how well qualified for the\\nposition he may be, or how much the people\\nlike him, or what a respectable majority they\\ngive him, feels half-defeated unless in the elec-\\ntion he has broken somebody s record. News-\\npapers strain every nerve to break the record\\nof day s sales; locomotive engineers endanger\\nlives to break the record of rapid runs popular\\npreachers do sensational advertising in order to\\nbreak the record of big congregations; nay,\\neven nations are in reeled with the plague,\\nand if France builds a big ship, Germany\\n38", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "WORKING TO BREAK THE RECORD. 39\\nmust straightway build one a few inches\\nlonger.\\nNow I sometimes wish that I could take\\nthese poor, old, broken records in my arms,\\ncould mend them up and comfort them. They\\nwere getting along well enough; the world\\nwas acquainted with them and satisfied with\\nthem until some ambitious upstart came along\\nand broke them, in order to patch himself up\\na crown out of the fragments.\\nUnderstand me now, my readers. I am not\\nsuch a ninny as to snarl at progress, simply\\nbecause it upsets some of my old-fashioned\\nnotions only, it must be progress worth the\\nmaking. Did you ever think what a vast dif-\\nference there is between making a record and\\nbreaking it When Tennyson wrote the\\nsweetest lyrics of the world s literature he did\\nnot break any one s record, spoil any one s\\nfame. People still read Burns and Shelley,\\nMoore and Horace, with as much enjoyment\\nas if Tennyson had never written. Tennyson\\nsimply made a sweet and noble record of his\\nown. When Lincoln gained the presidency of\\nthe United States he did not break any one s\\nrecord. Who knows or cares what his major-\\nity was, or whether Illinois gave him an un-\\nusually large vote Mr. Lincoln made a rec-\\nord for himself which needs no lustre from the", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 HOW TO WORK.\\nbroken records of other men. Have you ever\\nobserved which of the monthly magazines brag\\nmost loudly of their enormous subscription lists\\nand make boldest claims of predominance over\\nall others Does the Atlantic Monthly, or the\\nother three which stand with it at the head of\\nour American culture? No. The Atlantic\\nMonthly would not wish to pose in the eyes of\\nits readers as a record-breaker, but as a record-\\nmaker, a creator and not a racer. Conse-\\nquently when we think of it we do not think\\nof figures, so many hundred thousand a\\nmonth, so many tons of paper, but we think\\nof men, of Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes,\\nEmerson, Whittier, and Lowell.\\nIn fine, that is the mischief of this mania\\nfor record-breaking, we get to thinking more\\nof statistics than of manliness, more of the re-\\nlations of our work than of the work itself.\\nWhen a man is to be chosen for office, we look\\naround not for the wisest statesman and the\\nnoblest Christian, but for the politician who\\ncan roll up an unprecedented majority. In\\nselecting a plan for a vessel, the steamship\\ncompany does not pay half so much attention\\nto the comfort and safety of her future pas-\\nsengers as to the lines and construction which\\nmay diminish time a few minutes and give\\nthe ship a temporary record-breaking fame.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "WORKING TO BREAK THE RECORD. 41\\nIn choosing his writers and the subjects they\\nare to treat, the average magazine editor has\\nno thought for the effect upon the national\\nliterature and the national morals, but con-\\nsiders only or chiefly the probable totals of the\\nsubscription-books.\\nDoes any one pretend that, for instance, this\\nceaseless breaking of the record in horse-rac-\\ning is all to improve the breed of horses Are\\nmodern racing horses a whit more serviceable\\nthan the old two-forties or were these, in fact,\\nof more use than plain Dobbin who never car-\\nried a jockey on his back Does the great\\nPanoramic Monthly Universe, with its half-\\nmillion of subscribers and its yard-long list of\\neminent writers and popular features,\\nelevate perceptibly our American literature\\nand life Oh, yes record-breakers always\\nmake money. But let them not make also the\\naudacious pretence that they are improving\\ncharacter.\\nMy dear young man or woman, I warn you\\nthat if you care to make any worthy record\\nfor yourself you must refrain from all thought\\nof breaking the record of some one else. A\\nrecord-smasher s record is sure to be smashed\\nin its turn, but independent, original, manly,\\nand modest work stands firm for ages of\\nages.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nWORKERS THAT CONSUME THEIR OWN\\nSMOKE.\\nHIS chapter has nothing to do with to-\\nbacco smoke. I suppose I may take\\nit for granted that my readers have\\nnothing to do with it, either, except\\nwhen some foul-mouthed fellow puffs it into\\ntheir faces, and they must hold their breath\\nfor a block.\\nI want to talk, rather, about those dense,\\nblack, carbon-laden masses of hot air that rush\\nout of our chimneys and locomotives, and fall\\nto the earth to fill our lungs and befoul our\\ndwellings within and without, or else rise into\\nthe heavens to darken the sun and blacken the\\nclouds. In many cities this smoke emission,\\nfrom tugs, factories, furnaces, locomotives,\\ndwellings, has become a serious menace to\\npublic health, as well as an immense public\\ndiscomfort.\\nThere is scarcely a large city in the world\\nthat is not anxiously studying the means of re-\\nmoving, or at least checking, this nuisanoe.\\n42", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "WORKERS C0NSU3IE THEIR OWN SMOKE. 43\\nIn some cases it must be done by the adoption\\nof brightly burning, almost smokeless, fuel,\\nsuch as coke or anthracite or gas. In other\\ncases it must be done by the adoption of va-\\nrious devices that burn the carbon dust entirely\\nup, before it escapes into the outer air. In\\none way or another it may be done, and every-\\nwhere, nowadays, cities are demanding a re-\\nform in this important particular, and are\\nmaking compulsory the use of some contrivance\\nfor the consumption of smoke on the premises\\nwhere it is made.\\nNow I have spoken of this with a purpose\\nbeyond the merely material aspect. There is\\na spiritual smoke emission, and there should\\nbe a spiritual smoke consumption. No man ever\\nlived so perfectly that he did not allow some\\nfragments of his life to float off, black and aim-\\nless, useless and hurtful. No man s w r ork was\\never an absolutely clear flame, all his energies\\nutilized in it, concentrated upon it. There s a\\nragged edge to all our endeavors, a residuum of\\nunappropriated material.\\nFor instance, we are about some noble task,\\nand are trying so hard to accomplish it that\\nwe do not regard at all the little, black, im-\\npatient words and fretful, preoccupied frowns\\nthat fly off from the periphery of our task.\\nOr, we are lost in thoughtful planning, and by", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 HOW TO WORK.\\nour very thought we are rendered so thought-\\nless of our immediate duties that black flakes\\nof discomfort sprinkle everything about us,\\nand even darken the sun. Or, we spend every\\nenergy upon a single duty, quite heedless of\\nother duties, until a long, black column of fail-\\nure caps a very feeble flame.\\nThese examples, which you can multiply\\nindefinitely, are sufficient to show that it is\\njust as necessary in the spiritual as in the\\nphysical world to consume our smoke, to\\nguard against leaving on the outskirts of our\\ntasks any mischievous remnants that may\\nwholly counterbalance the good our tasks may\\naccomplish. But how may this spiritual\\nsmoke be consumed? How may we get to\\ndoing clean jobs, living completed lives?\\nHere also, as in the world of carbon, two\\ndevices are possible. As the men of chimneys\\nconduct the smoke, after it is made, back to\\nthe furnace, and make it pass again through\\nthe fire until every grain of carbon is burned\\nup, so we may do. We may keep zealous\\nwatch over ourselves in our work, lay stern\\nhands on all escaping bits of passion, fret ful-\\nness, thoughtlessness, overanxiousness, and use\\npart of the iiery zeal wherewith we work, to\\nburn it up, and purify ourselves from it. That\\nis one way.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "WORKERS CONSUME THEIR OWN SMOKE. 45\\nBut the other method goes to the root of\\nthe matter use smokeless coal. There is a\\nfuel, wherewith we may feed our lives, that\\ndoes not produce this mischievous residuum of\\nannoying side-results. It is a compound fuel,\\nmade up of the love of God and the love of\\nman. This, burning in our lives, gives off no\\nsmoke, though the least admixture of love of\\nself raises a dense cloud. If our lives burn with\\nthis smokeless fuel, we may direct them to\\nwhatever tasks we will, sure that our labors,\\nseeking solely the happiness of others, will not\\nbe marred by their discomfort or discredited\\nby their hurt. Use smokeless fuel.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nBATTING, AND DOING THINGS.\\nHE great American game The game\\nwhich cuts a bigger figure in our\\nnewspapers (and possibly with right)\\nthan the great European game of\\nwar The democratic game, around which\\ncluster high and low, rich and poor, equally\\nenthusiastic, and equally uncomfortable in\\nthe broiling sun! The game which in the\\neyes of the small boy divides honors with the\\npresidency Baseball\\nAn old professor of mine, in his youthful\\ndays, was considered quite a crack player in\\nhis college nine, and once in a long while, on\\nthe village green of his native hamlet, he\\nswings a bat still to the admiration of the vil-\\nlage club, or are they laughing in their\\nsleeves at the old gentleman; who knows?\\nIt was at a business meeting of this village\\nnine, held at the house where I chanced to be\\nstaying on my annual vacation, that he, hap-\\npening to look in upon the boys, was forced\\nto remain; and after the business was com-\\n46", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "BATTING, AND DOING THINGS. 47\\npleted, and it was finally decided who should\\nplay first base and who should be left fielder\\nand who should pitch, there were vociferous\\ncalls for Brownlow Professor Brownlow\\nand he was compelled to make the following\\nlittle speech\\nBoys, said he, I played ball before you\\nwere born, and I ought to be able to give you\\na few pointers. You get up a good game,\\nboys (loud applause), but I have noticed one\\nserious defect. You are weak in the battery\\n(murmurs of surprise and disapproval). O, I\\nknow you think that s one of your strong\\npoints. I suppose the stag is very proud of\\nthe antler that hangs him.\\nIn the first place, every boy of you bats\\nfor show, and not for the game. You glory\\nin home runs and three-bagger^, I know\\nhow the spectators applaud when they see the\\nball rising so beautifully, high in the air, far\\nout into the field. But you lost that last\\ngame of yours through those sky-scrapers.\\nThe other fellows did some easy fielding, and\\ncaught your flies every time while their\\nbatsmen, on the other hand, sent you hot\\n4 liners and i ground-scrapers, and you could\\ndo nothing with them. They didn t get half\\nso much applause, but they got the game.\\nWhen you are at the bat, fellows, and, for", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 BOW TO WORK.\\nthat matter, everywhere in life, you must not\\nask yourself first, How can I make a big\\nrecord for myself but How can I put in my\\nwork so that it will be best for all concerned\\nSee whether any one is on first base or not.\\nIf he is, don t crowd him. If a man is on\\nthird, bring him in. Make a sacrifice hit.\\nStrike at the ball even if it isn t just where\\nyou want it. Score points for the nine, not\\nfor yourself.\\nThen, I object to the* position some of you\\ntake in batting, just for all the world like the\\nattitude assumed by conceited young folks\\nwhen they go out into life. Some of you\\ncarry your bat away back over your shoulder,\\nmaking it necessary to swing it so far that all\\naccuracy of stroke is destroyed. Then how\\nyou stand, as if you were posing for your pic-\\nture, and wanted the camera to get a front\\nview of the big red C on your uniform\\n1I re s the way to stand (and with his cane he\\nillustrated, amid loud applause). You are all\\nready, you see, to throw your whole weight\\non your left foot, to meet the coming ball.\\nYour bat is given enough swing for a good\\nmomentum, and not too much for accuracy.\\nAnd you strike the ball down, and not danger-\\nously up, ready for the fielders. There s\\nnothing fancy about this. It s like a man s", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "BATTING, AND DOING THINGS. 49\\nwearing his plain business clothes on business\\ndays.\\nNo, boys, I don t want to take the glory\\nand the show out of your ball-pla} T ing, or out\\nof your lives. It s all right to be pleased with\\napplause. Only, wouldn t you a little rather\\nhave the applause at the end of the game, and\\nlet the other fellows get it through the first\\ninnings, if they can In life and in baseball,\\nboys, those most honored in the long run are\\nnot the highflyers, not the showy and\\nsplurgy men, but the judicious, self-sacrificing\\nworkers, who seek the common welfare, and\\nlet their own glory come in where it will.\\n(Loud applause.)", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XL\\nHYPNOTIC LABORERS.\\nHERE is always a fairy land of\\nscience. This fairy land is filled\\nwith the things we know so little\\nabout that we say Pooh pooh\\nat them. When we find out about them, we\\nsay We always thought so, and then the\\nfairies go somewhere else.\\nOne of these fairy lands just now is that\\nsleepy country known as hypnotism. Hypno-\\ntism is artificial sleep. In this, just as in\\nmost kinds of natural sleep, some of the facul-\\nties remain awake, and especially are they\\nawake to the bidding of the man who puts the\\npatient to sleep.\\nIndeed, in hypnotism, the faculties that do\\nremain awake are more wide-awake than usual.\\nPresident (i. Stanley Hall, in one of his lec-\\ntures, illustrates this finely. Take a long gas\\npipe from which projects fifty lighted jets.\\nThen turn out the lights one by one. The\\nlights that remain burn all the more brightly,\\nuntil the last jet glares with groat brilliancy.\\n50", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "HYPNOTIC LABORERS. 51\\nSo in the case of a mesmerized man, all the\\nphysical and mental energies seem to flow\\nthrough the single channel that remains open.\\nIf, at the will of the doctor, he sees, then he\\nsees with unwonted intensity and with gro-\\ntesque imagination. If he feels, he is conscious\\nof pressure that does not exist. If he is bid-\\nden to hear, his ear catches strains inaudible\\nto all others. His memory is intensified, so\\nthat he will hold in mind the most complicated\\norders, and even execute them after he has\\nwaked, and on a distant day. But all this is\\nonly at the bidding of the hypnotizer. If he\\npresents a wisp of paper as a rose, straightway\\nit has beauty and fragrance but if you or I\\nshould present a perfect Jacqueminot, the pa-\\ntient would neither see it nor smell it.\\nAnd now, my workers, how many of you\\nare hypnotized You shake your vigorous\\nheads, and declare them wide-awake and self-\\ncommanded. But are you sure\\nI know scores of men who are spiritually\\nand mentally hypnotized. That is, nearly all\\nthe holes in their pipe of life are choked up,\\nnearly all the natural avenues of activity,\\nand their energy must be exerted hysterically\\nand disproportionately through the few out-\\nlets that remain open. Every one-sided man\\nis hypnotized.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 HOW TO WORK.\\nHere s a man asleep on the physical side.\\nHe has no love for nature, no zest for bodily\\nsport, for hearty food, for vigorous living.\\nHere s a poor fellow asleep on the spiritual\\nside. He knows no Sabbath, owns no closet\\nof prayer, fears the dark, and finds it dull to\\nbe alone. Here s a man mentally hypnotized.\\nHe is interested in nothing but beetles, or\\nGreek roots, or compound fractions. Here s a\\nman socially hypnotized. He can see no good\\nin artisans, or he has no use for rich folks, or\\nhe dislikes Germans, or he has an aversion for\\nmen who wear stovepipe hats.\\nEvery hobby carries its rider swiftly into the\\ndull land of hypnotism. And it s the easiest\\nthing in the world to mount a hobby, much\\neasier than for the present writer to mount a\\nhorse. At first the hobby is a toy horse, and\\nslips between youv feet, you scarcely know\\nhow. But the hobby grows apace. Now he s\\nthe size of a goat. Now he s a donkey, and\\nyour feet are just off the ground. Soon he s a\\nfull-grown horse, and your feet are in the\\nstirrups. Speedily he s a camel, and you are\\nperched on the loftiest hump. And before\\nyou know it he s an elephant, and you are\\nafraid to get down, if you want to.\\nOr, to go back to our first symbol. No\\nman who is onesided will confess it, any more", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "HYPNOTIC LABORERS. 53\\nthan the mesmeric patient is conscious of his\\nhypnotic condition. Indeed, among my ac-\\nquaintances some of the folks who are most\\ncertain that they are unabridged encyclo-\\npaedias are those whose minds do not even\\ncover one letter of the alphabet. You see,\\nthey are using all their energies, and they are\\nunconscious that they are pouring them all\\nout of the same hole.\\nAnd finally, these spiritually and mentally\\nhypnotized folks are not their own masters,\\nany more than mesmeric patients are. Some-\\nbody or something hypnotized them at the\\nstart. Possibly it was a fascinating teacher,\\nto whose specialty they gave themselves\\nup, body and soul. Possibly it was a book, to\\nw r hose ideas they became such stupid and abso-\\nlute converts that no other ideas were thence-\\nforth admitted to their heads. Possibly it\\nwas a taste, a fancy, a whim, indulged in\\nblindly until it became supreme. Whatever\\nit was, the poor fellow is no longer his own,\\nbut thinks and feels, hears and sees, at the\\nmere suggestion of this teacher, or book, or\\ntaste, or habit of life, all the time believing,\\nmind you, that he is his own master, and\\nscorning the insinuation that his mind and\\nsoul are another s.\\nO, you poor, deluded, hypnotized, sick folks", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 HOW TO WORK.\\nAs the doctor slaps his hands smartly before\\nthe face of the entranced patient, so I would\\nwake you up with a sharp exhortation Be\\nmen Be women Do your own thinking\\nUse all your powers Live all over Light\\nall the jets", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nTAKING HINTS.\\nl^]HE successful people are those who\\ncan take a hint.\\nThere is a very ancient proverb\\nthat some people think a quotation\\nfrom the Bible, which runs, A word to the\\nwise is sufficient.\\nThe successful people everywhere are those\\nwise folk to whom a word is sufficient.\\nA word is all we ll get, anyway, to help us\\ntoward success, The world is full of hints to\\nthe hearing ear, the seeing eye, but it has no\\ntime to preach full sermons. A word here, a\\ngesture there, is all it has for us, and if we\\nwould learn its lessons we must be apt at tak-\\ning hints.\\nIn the world of business how often this\\ntruth is illustrated Here is a man whose\\nstock is always stale, whose methods are al-\\nways antiquated, whose prices are a week be-\\nhind the market quotations, whose advertise-\\nments are stereotyped, who never used a tele-\\nphone, whose tools were patented before the\\n55", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 HOW TO WORK.\\nwar, who takes none of his trade papers,\\nwhose house is mortgaged, brow wrinkled,\\nheart discouraged and discontented.\\nAnd at his side, his shop in the same block,\\nhis farm joining fences, is the business man\\nwho has been wise enough to discern the signs\\nof the times, who has had eyes to see and ears\\nto hear the hints the world was giving him,\\nwhose stock is of the freshest, whose methods\\nare of the newest, prices the current prices,\\nadvertisements piquant and novel, tools of the\\nmost improved pattern, who keeps the tele-\\nphone hot, and devours the papers and books\\npertaining to his business. You all know\\nthat the last will succeed and the first will\\nfail. And the last has had no one to lay\\ndown a course for him to follow, a system\\nfor him to pursue. He has succeeded merely\\nbecause he has been able to take a hint from\\nall sources.\\nIn social life here are two young people,\\nequally good looking, minds equally brilliant,\\ncharacter equally founded on the right, yet\\none will have hosts of friends, be followed\\neverywhere by smiles of loving approval, and\\nthe other will bo a solitary, not so much dis-\\nliked as ignored. Nine times out of ten it s\\nbecause one can take a hint and the other can-\\nnot. One is sensitive to see in a shrug, a", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "TAKING HINTS. 57\\nfrown, the expression of the eye or the tone of\\nvoice, the disapproval of those around him,\\nand shrewd at remedying whatever in himself\\nmerited their disapproval. The other is blind\\nand deaf even to the most plainly expressed\\ncriticism. One is quick to perceive by expres-\\nsion or attitude when others are ill at ease,\\nand ready to put them at ease. The other\\nhas no eyes for others constraint. One is a\\nveritable spiritual thermometer, and knows\\ninstinctively whether his friends are sad or\\nhappy, hopeful or despondent, and adapts him-\\nself to their needs. The other is blind to the\\nlittle indications of the unhappiness and dis-\\ncontent and joy and longings of his compan-\\nions, and is joyful in their sorrow, and unsym-\\npathetic in their joy, and stolid in their times\\nof aspiration, because he cannot read the par-\\nable of their faces. And the first will have\\nmany friends, and the second will go through\\nlife alone.\\nHow conspicuous are the examples of this\\nprinciple in the world of study and of science\\nBits of wood had been pushed by eastward\\nbreezes across the mysterious Atlantic for cen-\\nturies before the man was born who could\\ntake the hint and discover a continent. A lit-\\ntle girl, the daughter of a Dutch spectacle-\\nmaker, was playing with her father s lenses,", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 HOW TO WORK.\\nHolding two out before her she cried suddenly,\\n0, father how near the steeple is That\\nmay have happened many times before, but\\nHans Lippersey was a wise man, and that\\nword was enough for him. The telescope was\\nmade, to do for astronomy what Columbus did\\nfor geography. To enumerate all examples\\nwould be almost to detail the history of sci-\\nence, for, from the fall of Sir Isaac Newton s\\napple to the day when that puffing teakettle\\nsang of the steam-engine, and down to the\\npresent decades, when an all but imperceptible\\nretarding of an almost invisible point of light\\nis made to add a new planet to the system,\\nand when a minute shifting of a line of light\\nis forced to disclose to us the rate and direc-\\ntion of motion of the star which the light left\\nyears ago, all the triumphs of the human mind\\nhave been won by its power to read parables,\\nto take hints.\\nAnd now may I not, must I not apply all\\nthis to the life of the Spirit, to the pursuit of\\nthings highest and noblest for the soul Here,\\ntoo, success comes to the man who can take\\nhints; who has eyes for the sunlight and the\\nsky who can interpret the parable of the sea-\\nsons who can hear with intelligent ears the\\nbirds morning hymns; who finds tongues in\\ntrees, books in the running brooks, sermons in", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "TAKING HINTS. 59\\nstones to whom the sight of the meanest\\nflower that grows is sufficient for uplifting to-\\nward the flower s Creator. Success here comes\\nto the man who is open to the contagion of\\nfaith, open to the contagion of cheer, open to\\nthe contagion of love to the man who is able\\nto live in others lives, be strengthened by\\nglimpses of their belief, gladdened by a smile\\nout of their happiness, comforted and assured\\nby a single look which speaks of their love.\\nSuccess in the spiritual life comes to the man\\nwho can take hints from the past, from his-\\ntory, from biography, from written words\\nthe man to whom a saying of Christ s is life-\\nfood more than brain-food to whom a deed\\nof a wise and great man is more than a fact,\\nis an inspiration whose reading is done\\nwith his heart in his eyes. And most of all,\\nsuccess in the higher life comes to the man\\nwho can hear God s Spirit speaking to him,\\nwhose conscience is prompt and sure to con-\\ndemn and approve what needs blame and\\npraise, w^hose will is yielded to God s slightest\\nhints of warning or of guidance.\\nBusy men of old heard in the midst of their\\ntoils two words, spoken in that clear voice\\nwhich can never die out of this world, two\\nwords, Follow Me. And the two words\\nwere sufficient, for the hearers were wise,", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 HOW TO WORK,\\nand led them into an immortality of useful-\\nness and honor and joy supreme.\\nSo, from commonplace events, from the\\neveryday marvels of the natural world, from\\nbooks, from friends, from the Spirit within\\nand above, come promptings daily and hourly,\\nFollow Me, to manhood and womanhood\\nand God. We who have ears to hear, let us\\nhear.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nHURRY UP!\\nE\u00c2\u00a5 virtues of the worker are more\\nneeded nowadays than serenity.\\nWhen a long-legged, raw recruit,\\nwith a stride like a pair of com-\\npasses, comes on the parade-ground, it is the\\ndrill-sergeant s first care to tame the noncon-\\nformist s pace to ordinary measure. This he\\ndoes by bidding the novice to walk for two\\nhours on an elevated horizontal ladder, whose\\nrounds are the due distance apart, and whose\\nheight from the ground insures careful at-\\ntention to the matter in hand under foot, I\\nshould say. Graduated from this precarious\\nschool, the soldier feels on the safe earth in-\\ntangible rounds everywhere and his step\\nhas become attuned to the regimental average.\\nEven so for here comes the inevitable simile\\neven so, I fancy, we are set to walking in\\nthese measured spaces of time, that we may\\nlearn how to bear ourselves in the portionless\\nreaches of eternity.\\nCautiously and sedately must our recruit\\n61", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 HOW TO WORK.\\npace the ladder. It is his apprenticeship to\\nthe slow-marching dignity of his company.\\nHe could not run for office on that ladder.\\nIt is not the fall of stocks that excites a panic\\nin his breast. Corners, deals, combines,\\nand other speedy ways of getting there, are\\nmeaningless to him. Nor would he answer\\npleasantly if told to hurry up. It is plod,\\nplod, plod, and the reward, adoption into the\\nresistless, glorious swing of the regiment.\\nAs I said, possibly our whole life is a ladder-\\ndrill in leisure. If so, it is a query whether\\nthose who scorn that discipline here below will\\never get time, in all eternity, to become ac-\\ncustomed to no-time. Manifestly, our space-\\ndevouring recruit would not look so ridiculous,\\nspoiling the harmonious movement of his com-\\npany, as a man to whom the present day means\\nmore than a thousand years to come would\\nlook, if set in a host who have learned to hold\\na millennium as a day. One heavenly spirit\\nbidding another hurry up the idea seems\\nhalf impious. Yet the earthly existence of\\nsome very excellent people is summed up in\\nthose two words.\\nHurry v/p when all hurry tends down-\\nward! Time and tide wait for no man, so\\nhurry up, ye heirs ol eternity Hurry up\\nwith your marriage, and down into a leis-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HUBBY UP! 63\\nurely repentance Hurry up with an educa-\\ntion, and down into mediocrity Hurry up\\nwith your book, and down to oblivion\\nProbably every one knows about the won-\\nderful old fable that tells how Hercules, set-\\nting out on the journey of life, was met at the\\nfirst fork in the road by two beautiful women,\\nVice and Yirtue, each of whom strove to per-\\nsuade him to go with her. But the fable does\\nnot tell how, when Hercules had chosen Vir-\\ntue, like the sensible old hero that he was, the\\ntwain came in their travels to a second fork in\\nthe road, and were accosted by two very hand-\\nsome men. One, who wore a flashing busi-\\nness suit and had a very jaunty air, advanced\\npromptly and said, I am To-day. If you\\nwould be successful in life, come with me, and\\nhurry up\\nThe other, whose dress Hercules did not\\nnote, so simple was it, but whose eyes were ex-\\nceedingly beautiful and penetrating, said\\nquietly, I am called Forever, If you would\\nhave abiding success, come with me.\\nSaid To-day with a sneer Pay no atten-\\ntion to him; he is a visionary. The present\\nmoment is the only time you dare call your\\nown. Live with me, with To-day\\nThen Forever answered, The present\\nmoment is always dying, but the future is", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 HOW TO WORK.\\nnever dead. I can teach 3^011 how to make\\nthe present alive with the life of the future.\\nThat fellow, with his far-off gaze, said\\nTo-day scornfully, will make you miss every\\nopportunity for immediate profit. Who are\\nthe millionaires, the merchant princes, the Na-\\npoleons of finance They are men of the\\ntimes, who live in the day, who grasp their\\nchances speedily.\\nAh, yes, replied Forever with equal\\nscorn, u and the gold they heap up is no more\\nenduring than coined butter. Is there by the\\nside of the dark river any bank that will give\\nthem a bill of exchange on heaven\\nTo-day shuddered as he answered, That s\\nthe way with Forever. He s always gloomy\\nand talking about death. Come with me,\\nHercules, if you want a pleasant, happy life.\\nCome, hurry up. Don t stop to think so like\\na dolt.\\nThen Forever laughed as he replied, There\\nwill come a time, To-day, when your very\\nname will be changed to Death, and your\\ncompanions will shrink from you but my\\nname never changes, and though my comrades\\nthink me stern and hard at first, before long\\nthey count it all happiness to live with me.\\nTo-day interrupted impatiently: This For-\\never, Hercules, is one of the most impracti-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HURRY UP! 65\\ncable creatures imaginable. He would have\\nyou take a course in the fine arts, to improve\\nyour mind. I would send you to some man\\nof business, and set you to work at once. He\\nwould have you studyjiistory before entering\\npolitics, but I would have you join yourself\\nimmediately to a man who knows how to get\\nvotes.\\nThen Forever interrupted in his turn\\nYou are strong, Hercules. Eemember how\\nyou became strong. Was it not by making\\nevery day serve the future Was it not by\\nenduring immediate pain and hardship, and by\\neating only the plainest food, always looking\\nnot to the muscle and vigor and pleasure of the\\nday, but to what you expected as the result\\nof the day s privations And was not that\\nthe most practical way of becoming strong,\\nclear Hercules\\nHereupon To-day set up a tremendous\\nclamor. Time flies, Hercules Make hay\\nwhile the sun shines Every moment you\\ndelay here is worth a dollar The present\\ncalls you, to make money, to win applause, to\\ngain power. Be bold and business-like. The\\nworld is his who hustles. Come, hurry up\\nBut by this time Hercules had made up his\\nmind, and clasping hands with Forever, said,\\nI will go with you, dear master. For I think", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 HOW TO WORK.\\nyou will give me all that To-day offers, and\\nvery much more.\\nAnd so it happened that through all these\\ncenturies the world has never forgotten Her-\\ncules and the glorious life he lived.\\nAnd now let me lay aside ladder-simile and\\nHercules allegory. The world is made up of\\ntwo sets of people those that live for the\\nfleeting moment, and so must be ever in a\\nhurry and those that live in the moment for\\nall eternity, and so live unfretted lives.\\nOnce I went to see an exhibition of Gustave\\nDore s pictures. As a boy, I had been fasci-\\nnated with the spirited work of this artist as I\\nsaw it represented in engravings, and I antici-\\npated a rich treat in seeing the glorious\\noriginals. But, alas! though a few of them\\nmet my anticipations and were brilliant indeed,\\nmost of them were only immense sheets of dull\\ncolors, some of them mere ghosts of pictures\\npeering out of a world of black. Dore did not\\nuse properly made colors, and so his paintings\\nscarcely outlasted the life of the artist himself.\\nIt is said to be thus with the much admired\\nwork of the great Hungarian painter, Mun-\\nkacsy, who painted Christ before Pilate and\\nChrist on Calvary. Ho was very fond of\\nthe use of bitumen, which imparts exceeding\\nrichness to pictures, but must be used with", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HURRY UP! 67\\ngreat caution or it will turn the painting\\nblack. But Munkacsy used it lavishly, and\\nsome of his most valued works are already al-\\nmost indistinguishable. Of course the knowl-\\nedge of this peculiarity has operated to dimin-\\nish greatly the prices paid for his paintings.\\nBut Dore and Munkacsy and other careless\\nartists are not the only ones that use perishing\\npigments. Many an ambitious youth is doing\\nthe same with his life. He would be rich in a\\nhurry. He has no time to complete his school-\\ning. He plunges into trade from the grammar\\nschool or the high school, rises for a while, and\\nthen, when it is too late, finds himself rapidly\\npassed in the race by the wiser boys that took\\ntime to make ready. Or, he would shine as a\\nscholar, but scorns the years of toil necessary\\nto make himself master of what has already\\nbeen wrought in his chosen field. He puts out\\na piece of flash writing or crude speculation,\\nthat wins a temporary success, but is speedily\\nforgotten, having merely served to stamp him\\nas a hopeless mediocre.\\nOr, there is the rich man who has so devoted\\nhimself to money -get ting that he has lost the\\npower of enjoying his wealth after he gets it.\\nThere is the young married man, who, after\\nwinning the object of his choice, finds himself\\ntoo busy to take satisfaction in his home.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 HOW TO WORK.\\nThere is Martha, so fuming over household\\ntasks, needlessly magnified, that she has no\\ntime for her Saviour. There is the young\\npianist, who has practised so ardently as to\\nlame his hand for life, and the young teacher,\\nwho has studied so hard without exercise as\\nto break down in the first good position. Yes,\\nthe world is full of these lives that are painted\\nwith bitumen.\\nfestina lente, make haste slowly. There\\nis no surer way to waste time than to hurry\\ntoo fast. Certainly the Creator knows how to\\nget things done, and with what superb se-\\nrenity and masterly leisure He proceeds about\\nall His tasks His paintings endure, every\\none of them. His pigments never fade. And\\nas we become His apprentices, and dip our\\nbrushes into His patience and His peace, marvel-\\nlous colors will begin to glow on the canvas of\\nour lives, colors that not all the sunlight of\\ntime will obliterate.\\n1 often see the expressive word, Hush\\nhastily scrawled on commissions of all kinds.\\nNow it is written on a drawing sent to an en-\\ngraver s, and the finished engraving, that a\\nfew years ago would have been the proud work\\nof a week or a month, must be in the art edi-\\ntor s hands the next day. Sometimes these\\nimperative Four Letters are written on a proof-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "HURRY UP! 69\\nsheet that accompanies a page of type sent to\\nthe foundry, and then they mean that even\\nelectricity must put its best foot foremost, and\\ncomplete the electrotype within half a day.\\nSometimes the order for an edition of a book\\nis thus emphasized, and then it means that a\\nvolume which not many decades ago an entire\\nprinting establishment would have required\\nmonths to turn out, must be in the hands of\\nthe readers within a week.\\nIt sometimes seems to me that I can read\\nthis word everywhere, Kush Kush Eush\\non the electric cars, instead of the street signs\\non office doors, instead of the familiar Push\\nand Pull on the faces of the hurrying\\ncrowds that scramble along our sidewalks on\\nthe front of railway stations nay, that I can\\neven hear the word now and then in the bells\\nof certain churches Could a more appro-\\npriate word be found to emblazon on this cen-\\ntury s escutcheon\\nNow, most of this is wrong. Of course\\nemergencies will arise when the utmost speed\\nis necessary, but they are not half so frequent\\nas we think they are and at least half of the\\nemergencies that at the time are necessities\\nwould not have been so, had proper fore-\\nthought been exercised.\\nBut we do not plan for restful lives, lives", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 HOW TO WORK.\\nthat move without jar or friction. We have\\ngot into our heads the insane notion that a\\nman, to be smart, must always be in a rush,\\nand keep every one else in that condition.\\nWe have forgotten, if we ever knew, that the\\nbest workers work, like God, ohne Hast, ohne\\nliast We try to do more than we can do\\nwell. We fill every moment so full that it\\nhas no time to plan for the next moment, let\\nalone for the next day. We have not learned\\nthe immense advantage of the long forward\\nlook. And so emergencies come upon us un-\\nprepared for. And so our lives are worn away\\nin the fever of anxiety and fretting, and wear\\nout other lives also, that without us might be\\nmore sensible.\\nYoung men, young women, abolish from\\nyour vocabulary the words rush and hurry\\nup Be modest in the stints you set your-\\nselves, be merciful in the stints you set others.\\nGet into your lives the leisureliness of the\\neternal years, where there will be time for\\neverything, just as there is in a well-ordered\\nlife on earth, and where no one will ever be\\nknown to rush! A thing is not worth\\nhurrying after at all that would not be better\\ngained without hurry. It is never worth\\nwhile to live for the day unless at the same\\ntime we can live for all days.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nKEEPING PENCILS SHAEP.\\nOU can tell a great deal about a man\\nby the way he cares for his pencil.\\nThis article always comes from some\\nmen s pockets with the neatest imag-\\ninable little tip, just such a tip as the pencil-\\nsharpener of an advertisement is pictured as\\nputting on the pencil, but never can be induced\\nto put on in reality except with the destruction\\nof the lead. This pencil tip, in its beautiful\\nsymmetry and its business-like readiness for\\nthe next demand, is the despair of most men\\nand of all women, for the majority of us inef-\\nficient mortals chew our pencils into ragged\\nugliness, break the lead, or wear it down to\\nthe bone, and then slip our clerkly tool into\\nour pocket, blissfully unconscious that there\\nwill ever be a next time when the pencil will\\nbe in demand.\\nA man who always keeps his pencil in good\\norder is pretty certain to have some other val-\\nuable characteristics. In this little act he\\nshows forethought for the future, a prudence\\n71", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 HOW TO WORK.\\nthat is likely to extend to greater matters.\\nThe man whose motto is, Sufficient unto the\\nhour is the pencil point thereof, will, if he\\ncarries out that notion, spend his salary as rap-\\nidly as he gets it, use his strength to the utter-\\nmost stretch of endurance, and lay in no sup.\\nply for the mental and physical needs of to-\\nmorrow or next year.\\nWhoever keeps his pencils sharp is likely to\\nhave a proper regard for tools. He will prob-\\nably brush his teeth regularly and thoroughly.\\nHe may care for his nails, and for the rest of\\nthat most marvellous of all tools, the human\\nhand. His books will not be dog s-eared. His\\naxe will have an edge, and his razor will\\nshave.\\nMoreover, if he cares properly for his pen-\\ncil, it is probably because he intends to be\\nready for emergencies. The man that has to\\nsharpen his pencil to get lead enough for an\\nentry in his memorandum-book will never be\\nready with his tongue to oppose an unworthy\\ncandidate when he is sprung upon the primary,\\nnor prepared with his wits to do the right\\nthing in an accident or at a Jire.\\nNeatness in pencil, according to my obser-\\nvation, is attended by neatness in dress. A\\nsloven in any one particular is likely to be a\\nsloven in other and in many particulars. More-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "KEEPING PENCILS SHARP. 73\\nover, accuracy in pointing a pencil is often ac-\\ncompanied, according to my observation, by\\naccuracy in speech and with the pen. And,\\nfinally, patience has few better exemplifica-\\ntions than in the careful and painstaking sharp-\\nening of one of these little cedar sticks.\\nFrom one thing learn all. A man s entire\\ncharacter may be read even in his necktie, if\\nwe have eyes to see. How much more may it\\nbe read in his lead-pencil One sure test of a\\nworker is his tools.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nFOUR-TRACKED WORKERS.\\nHE railroad on which I live made not\\nlong ago, at great expense, a decided\\nimprovement. For miles, where they\\nhad had only two tracks, they added\\ntwo more. The outer tracks are used for the\\nthrough traffic, that moves rapidly, and the\\ninner tracks for the local trains, that must stop\\nat every station.\\nYou can see at once what an advantage this\\nis. The fast trains are not obliged to choose\\nbetween possible rear collisions or slowing\\ndown to the time of the locals. Freights can\\nmove more conveniently and when anything\\nis the matter with one track, why, there are\\nthe others to fall back on.\\nNow I know people that could with great\\nprofit take a lesson from this railway. They\\nrun all their interests on one track, or two at\\nthe most. They do everything in the same\\nway, at the same rate of speed. They delib-\\nerate as long over a friendly note as over a let-\\nter to the President. They study as long over\\n71", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "FOUR-TRACKED WORKERS. 75\\nthe probable length of the judgeship of Barak\\nas over the Ten Commandments. They sharpen\\na pencil as an artist would carve a statue.\\nYou see what I mean. These are people\\nthat have no sense of proportion. They are\\nequally thorough in everything, and never do\\nthe important things half as well as they\\nshould, just because they do the unimportant\\nthings twice as well as they should. They run\\nno express trains, but all their trains are ac-\\ncommodation.\\nIf these folks, now, had only four tracks to\\ntheir lives, what a difference it would make\\nThey would see that here is a matter whose\\nvalue consists, not in its being done precisely\\nas well as with time and the quiet use of all\\nour powers we might be able to do it, but in\\nbeing done quickly. They would put such\\nthings on the express tracks. They would see\\nother matters that require deliberation and\\nplodding painstaking. They would place these\\non the accommodation trains.\\nThis is no slight matter. More and more in\\nthis whirling world success is won by those\\nthat know something about relative values,\\nwhat books to skim and what to read care-\\nfully, what speeches to write out and com-\\nmit to memory and what to make off-\\nhand, what bits of work to do only as well as", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 HOW TO WORK.\\nthe need requires and what to make master-\\npieces.\\nGet a move on you, is one of the most ex-\\npressive of the slang phrases of the day, so\\nexpressive that I regret that it is slang. Pos-\\nsibly it will not be slang if I paraphase it to\\nread, Get several different moves on you.\\nIn other words, Live four-tracked lives.\\nBut how about Solomon some of you\\nwant to ask. Did he not tell us to do with\\nour might what our hands find to do\\nCertainly and Solomon, as usual, is correct.\\nTo say, however, that Solomon in that sen-\\ntence meant to urge equal thoroughness in all\\nmatters is to charge him with the opposite of\\nwisdom, and even with a decided lack of com-\\nmon sense. Do you suppose Solomon spent as\\nmuch time and thought in writing a letter to\\nHiram, king of Tyre, as in writing Ecclesias-\\ntes The degree of thoroughness adequate\\nfor the one would have been very inadequate\\nfor the other. Do you imagine that he\\nthought over as carefully what he was going\\nto say at the first audience given the Queen of\\nSheba at the dedication of the temple\\nNo. Solomon would never have gained the\\nworld s love and admiration for his wisdom\\nif lie had not known how to divide his time\\nfitly among his duties, assigning to each", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "FOUR-TRACKED WORKERS. 77\\ntheir proper proportion of thought and atten-\\ntion.\\nDo with your might what your hands find\\nto do, he urged, and most wisely. Put your\\nwhole soul into everything you undertake.\\nDo everything well, and with enthusiasm.\\nBut and this is the point don t do anything\\ntoo well don t put so much of your time and\\nenergy into one thing that no time and\\nenergy, or insufficient time and energy, are\\nleft for matters which God would rather you\\nwould do. To make a crate as carefully as\\nyou would make a parlor cabinet is not thor-\\noughness, but wastefulness.\\nIf you could realize how many thorough\\nbusiness men have no time to go to prayer\\nmeeting, how many thorough letter- writers\\nhave no time for reading their Bibles, how\\nmany thorough housekeepers have no time\\nfor the games and the merry cheer that would\\nsoften and gladden and enrich their children s\\nlives and bind them forevermore to home if\\nyou could realize what crimes against God and\\nman are daily committed under cover of this\\nfalse thoroughness, you would eagerly join in\\nmy protest against it.\\nBe thorough in everything, yes, I can even\\nput it that way, but recognize always vari-\\nous degrees of thoroughness, and give to each", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 HOW TO WORK.\\npleasure and each task just the thoroughness\\nthat will keep it in its right relation to other\\npleasures and tasks, and you will be a thor-\\nough workman who needs not to be ashamed.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVI.\\nGETTING-READY DAYS AND FINISHING DAYS.\\n^|VERY worker, doubtless, is sadly\\nconscious that with respect to work\\nthere are two classes of days. On\\nthe first kind of day everything\\nslips along as easily as a toboggan going down\\nthe slide. On the second kind of day every-\\nthing gets sidetracked. At the close of days\\nof the first kind you can reckon up a long list\\nof accomplishments, and your immortal head\\ncollides with the stars. At the close of days\\nof the second class you sorrowfully and igno-\\nminiously ask yourself, What have I\\ndone to-day, anyway and echo answers,\\nWhat?\\nYet on the second days you are just as busy\\nas on the first, only you don t seem to do\\nanything. It is like trying to go upstairs in a\\ndream. It is like attempting to climb to the\\ntop of a tread mill. It gives you a sort of\\neerie feeling, when you stop to think of\\nit. Are you bewitched? Or are things\\nbewitched\\n79", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 HOW TO WORK.\\nIn reality it is neither. In reality probably\\nyou have been accomplishing just as much on\\none day as on another that is, if you are a\\ngood worker. It will save you much needless\\ndepression, and the lack of efficiency that de-\\npression brings with it, if you will recognize\\ntwo classes of days, equally necessary, equally\\nfruitful, but far from equal in the show they\\nmake, namely, getting-ready days and finish-\\ning days.\\nOn the getting-ready days you hunt up your\\nmaterial on the finishing days you write\\nyour article. On the getting-ready days you\\ndo your shopping on the finishing days j^ou\\nmake your dress. On the getting-ready days\\nyou straighten things out on the finishing\\ndays you bring in the new sofa. More work\\nis likely to be done on the getting-ready days\\nthan on the finishing days, but it is hidden\\nunder ground, like the foundation of a house.\\nDid you ever know that builders consider a\\nhouse half built when a good level foundation\\nis laid And yet people who look on, date\\nthe beginning of the building from the first\\ncourse laid on the foundation.\\nAnd the point of application is, that we\\nouo-lit to distribute over the getting-ready\\ndays the sal isfaction or most of it that at-\\ntends the finishing days. We ought to recog-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "GETTING-READY DAY AND FINISHING DAY. 81\\nnize the foundation work as genuine accom-\\nplishment. Rightly considered, everything\\nfinished is only the beginning of something\\nelse, and all beginnings, as far as they go, are\\nfinished achievements. And to a worker\\nwho is under God s direction, and seeking\\nonly to do His will day by day, whether in\\nthe cellar or on the house-tops, getting-ready\\ndays and finishing days will be equally happy\\nand equally successful.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nBUCKLING DOWN TO WORK.\\n^UBTLESS your friends heard you\\nsay, Now I mean to buckle down\\nto work, but doubtless also they\\nhave often watched you after this\\nso-called buckling down, and have seen that\\nyou didn t even fasten yourself to your work\\nwith a double bow-knot, nothing but a slip-\\nknot, and a very poor one at that.\\nThe virtue of a buckle is that by means of\\nit you can get right tight hold of a thing, and\\nkeep tight hold. To a buckle there are three\\nparts. In the first place there is a strap,\\nwhich gives the buckle a long reach then\\nthere is a frame, whereby the buckle gets a\\nleverage and finally there is a tongue or\\ncatch, whereby the buckle retains its hold on\\nall that the strap gathers in through the lever-\\nage of the frame.\\nNow all this is a part of the parable which\\nyou unconsciously use when you declare that\\nyou mean to buckle down to your work. The\\nstrap of this work-buckle is the understanding\\nR3", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "BUCKLING DOWN TO WORK. 83\\nof your work, which reaches all around it,\\nand gives you a grasp on all sides of it.\\nYou can t buckle down to work if you know\\nonly the top of it. No buckle will hold on a\\ntask if you are acquainted with only one side\\nof the task. No half-way man, no one-sided\\nman, can in any real sense buckle down to his\\nwork, though, in good sooth, he can easily\\nenough pretend to. The first third, then, of\\nthis operation of buckling down to one s work,\\nconsists in the application of the strap, the\\ngetting some all-round comprehension of the\\nwork and its requirements.\\nThe second third is the frame. It is the\\nspiritual leverage or purchasing power on the\\nwork. No one can buckle down to a task with-\\nout will power, a bull-dog determination to do\\nthe work, come what may. The man of weak\\nwill throws off his coat, rolls up his sleeves,\\ngrits his teeth, and then sits down in the\\nshade to think about his work. The frame-\\nwork of the buckle doesn t say anything. It\\nlets the bundle that is being grasped do the\\ntalking and the groaning, while it squeezes it.\\nThus the worker who buckles down to his\\nwork quietly goes ahead with persistent deter-\\nmination, and the work some way goes ahead\\nwith him.\\nBut, after all, important as the grasp of the", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 HOW TO WORK.\\nstrap and the leverage of the frame may be, it\\nis the catch of the buckle that holds. Without\\nthat, however the strap may be tied and\\ntwisted, however stout the frame may be, the\\nbest buckle in the world is worthless. This\\ntongue of the work-buckle is the tongue of\\nprayer, whereby your strength is stayed by\\nGod s strength. In that case alone there is no\\nslipping. In that case alone the widest reach\\nof the most comprehensive purpose will hold\\ngood. In that case alone the firmest purchase\\nof the most dogged will has no chance of los-\\ning what it gains.\\nThe next time you promise yourself to\\nbuckle down to your task, bear in mind, then,\\nthese three factors of the metaphor and while\\nyou look on all sides of your work, and while\\nyou go at your task with vigor and energy, do\\nnot forget the little tongue of prayer that is to\\nmake it all taut and permanent.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVIII.\\nCAN CONQUERS.\\nT is said that Henry Ward Beecher\\nconsidered that the best lesson he\\never learned, he learned at school in\\nthe following way. He was sent to\\nthe board to do an example in arithmetic.\\nWhen he had finished, the master looked at it\\nand said, Henry, you may do it again.\\nHenry did it again but as before the\\nteacher, after glancing at it, merely remarked,\\nHenry, you may do it again.\\nI think it is right, sir, said the boy, but\\nI will try it once more.\\nThe third time he tried it, and the third time\\nthe teacher merely said, Henry, you may do\\nit again.\\nWhy, said young Beecher, the answer\\nis right I know it is right.\\nYes, replied the master, it has been right\\nall the time, but you did not know it was.\\nNothing is right to you until you know that it\\nis right.\\n85", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 HOW TO WORK.\\nMuch of the discipline of life is simply to\\nteach us confidence in ourselves. We could\\nsave ourselves much of that discipline by rec-\\nognizing our own powers, and adhering more\\nfaithfully to the truths God gives us. It is a\\ngreat folly to be conceited and obstinate, but\\nprobably more young men are in danger of\\ndistrusting their own thoughts and methods,\\nespecially when they see that adherence to\\nthem puts them in the minority and makes\\nthem a laughing-stock. I* Go back to your\\nslate and your A B 0, says the world to many\\nan enterprising toiler; but the true worker,\\nlike Beecher the abolitionist, knows when he is\\nright, and goes ahead from the decisive start-\\ning-point of that decision.\\nSo much, in work, depends on the state of\\nmind in which the worker is.\\nIt is just the way you feel, said the man\\nin front of me in the car. Now some days I\\nknow I won t make a strike they were evi-\\ndently talking about bowling a strike or\\neven a spare; and I don t. And then again,\\nother days don t you know I can feel it in\\nmy bones that I am going to hit em just right,\\nand the ball spins right down the centre and\\nknocks em every time. Why, I can tell be-\\nfore the ball leaves my hand whether it s going\\nright or wrong. It s funny, isn t it? But I", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "CAN CONQUERS. 87\\ncan. There was more of it, much more of it,\\nfor he was one of the men that say a thing\\nover several times in as many different ways\\nas they can think of but he didn t say any-\\nthing else.\\nWhat he had said, though, was enough to\\nset me to thinking. Isn t it true of the great\\ngame of life, as it certainly is true of bowling,\\nthat the man who feels he is going to fail gen-\\nerally justifies his feelings, while the man who\\nis confident of success comes out the champion\\nThere are exceptions to all rules, but do we al-\\nways realize how much of the battle is the\\nspirit in which we enter it\\nSkill counts of course it does. No amount\\nof confidence will gain a victory for a wretched\\nbowler against a crack player. But when two\\nare evenly matched, have you any doubt which\\nwill win, the one that believes in himself, or\\nthe one that distrusts himself\\nA spent bullet, that will nestle harmlessly\\nagainst a soldier s shirt, will nevertheless so\\nstun him by the force of its impact that he\\nmust be carried from the field. A cannon-ball\\nwas once rolling quietly along the ground,\\nseemingly ready to stop. A soldier tried to\\ncheck it with his foot, and it broke his leg.\\nMotion has in it a terrible power. Simply to\\nbe set going, and then to keep on going, will", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 HOW TO WORK.\\ntransform any dull block of stone or metal into\\na mighty engine.\\nThere are some men that have caught the\\nknack of this. I never have failed, often\\nsays a young man we know, and I do not\\npropose to fail this time. Thus he gathers\\nup all his past successes into a present momen-\\ntum and thus Emerson s noble line has be-\\ncome true of him, His heart is the throne of\\nwill.\\nBut and this, alas Emerson did not see\\nthe young man s heart is the throne of will\\nonly because Christ is enthroned there. I\\ncan do all things through Christ who strength-\\nened me, is the young man s favorite motto,\\nand in that sign he conquers.\\nIn this way Christian confidence is recon-\\ncilable with Christian humility for it is the\\nChristian s duty to be confident, but it is his\\nruin to be ^//-confident. Momentum is al-\\nways something impressed on matter from the\\noutside no cannon-ball can set itself to rush-\\ning through the air. Do you expect to make\\nany impression on the vast Chinese Empire\\nthey asked Morrison, the pioneer missionary to\\nChina. No, was the grand reply, but I\\nexpect that God will. And so was put in\\nmotion a cannon-ball that will yet batter down\\nthe great Chinese wall. The more we get of", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "CAN CONQUERS. 89\\nGod s spirit and power, the more, in other\\nwords, God becomes ourselves, the more we\\nhave a right to trust ourselves. When God is\\nwithin, to trust ourselves is, in a true sense, to\\ndishonor God.\\nI can, then, must be our motto, brother\\nworkers, sister workers, and we dare let no\\nweaker words pass our lips. The taps of a\\ncork hammer, repeated regularly and long\\nenough, will set to swinging an enormous\\nmass of iron. Store up your little successes\\nAvon through Christ, and soon their accumu-\\nlated momentum will be irresistible. Do not\\nadmit for a second the possibility of failure\\nthat would be to lose all you have gained for\\nthe cannon-ball, if it stopped in its course and\\nretreated only a sixteenth of an inch, would\\ndestroy all its momentum as surely as if it re-\\ntreated a mile.\\nFear is dead Fear is dead cry the\\nHindoos, dancing around the ugly clay image\\nof the god but some creep within the circle\\nand kiss the statue s feet, lest Fear be not al-\\ntogether dead, after all. How often we Chris-\\ntians imitate that heathen ceremony Let us\\nimitate it no longer. Let us advance to what-\\never work God appoints with the cry upon our\\nlips, God wills it God wills it and with\\nevery step of our onward rush, motion will be", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 HOW TO WORK.\\nchanged to momentum, and it will be harder\\nto check our progress, and this petty barrier\\nand that will be tossed lightly aside, until at\\nlength, by the continued accretion of small\\nvictories, we shall have drawn to ourselves His\\npower whose name is Victory, and all things\\nwill be possible to us, because we believe.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIX.\\nPREPARED TO FAIL.\\nMAN that works rightly, then, has a\\nright to expect success more than\\nthat, it is his duty to be confident.\\nBut we must set over against this a\\na complementary truth the Christian worker\\nwho is prepared to fail is in a large measure\\nprepared to succeed. This is true of no worker\\nbut a Christian worker. A man of the world\\ncan have little heart for his toil unless he ex-\\npects to prosper in it. Forecast of failure is\\nto him present despair and languor. Expecta-\\ntion of success is his necessary spur. It is\\nsaid of the worldly worker that nothing suc-\\nceeds like success. This is not true, even of\\nhim, but it is true of him that nothing suc-\\nceeds like the expectation of success. This is\\nbecause the zeal of the worldly worker is not\\nfrom within, but from without; born not of\\nthe work itself, but of the work s reward.\\nNow the zeal of Christ s workmen is of the\\nSpirit and not of the success, of the work and\\nnot of the result. His Master is not like the\\n91", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 HOW TO WORK.\\nmasters of worldlings, that measure approval\\nby accomplishment but his Master looks on\\nthe heart. And so it happens that the spirit\\nof confidence which in the worldling s under-\\ntakings is most necessary, is seen by the spirit-\\nually minded man to be actually a peril.\\nIn Christian work almost everything de-\\npends on throwing the emphasis where it be-\\nlongs, on pleasing God, just as in worldly work\\nit must be thrown, as worldlings think, on\\npleasing men. And nothing is more pleasing\\nto God than the zealous surrender of our wills.\\nThis is far from the abject, inane, Buddhistic\\nreduction of humanity to nothingness. It is\\nthe elevation of humanity, rather, so near to\\nGod that we will God s will, however it may\\ncross our lower desires.\\nAnd this is the last grace the Christian\\nworker wins, his crowning glory. When he\\nbegins to work for Christ the results he seeks\\nseem so necessary and noble that the collapse\\nof the universe must follow his failure. After\\nlong trial and many tears and much rebellious\\ndoubting of God s providence, he begins to see\\nthat God fulfills Himself in many ways, and in\\nways too vast for his comprehension. Upon\\nthe ruin of his labor God serenely builds more\\ngrandly than he had planned. His human\\nfailures are cheerily converted into divine sue-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "PREPARED TO FAIL. 93\\ncesses. And all this, as he comes to see, is not\\nbecause God wishes exultingly and tantaliz-\\ningiy to prove His own superiority over men,\\nbut simply because God loves His workmen and\\nHis work too well to let them spoil each other.\\nBlessed be God that He uses us at all that\\nHe grants to us clumsy blunderers a share in\\nHis vast building. Blessed be God that He\\nloves us for our willingness to serve, and not\\nfor our success in service. Blessed be God\\nthat He permits us to fail for Him", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "CHAPTFE, XX.\\nTHE SHOEMAKER AND HIS LAST.\\nKNOW of a man who, in spite of the\\nfact that he receives a good salary,\\ninsists on doing almost everything\\nfor which other men hire outside\\nhelp. He runs his own garden, spending more\\nfor fertilizers than he ever gets from it in veg-\\netables, and putting in his time at hard work\\nafter office hours, when it should have been put\\nin at play. He beats his own carpets, leaving\\nhalf the dust in them, and giving himself such\\na backache that he is fit for nothing at his regu-\\nlar work next day. He does his own carpen-\\nter work, botching every job. He mends\\nhis own pans and kettles, so that they\\nleak almost as badly as ever. He does his\\nown plumbing, until things get into such\\nshape that he has to spend twice as much on\\nthe regular plumber as he would have spent if\\nhe had called him at first. He doctors his\\nchildren as long as he dares, handing over to\\nthe physician aggravated cases every time.\\nHe regrets that he hasn t a shoemaker s outfit,\\n94", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE SHOEMAKER AND HIS LAST. 95\\nso that he might imitate his grandfather of\\nthe good old days, and cobble the family\\nshoes. He prides himself on being able, as he\\nexpresses it, to turn his hand to anything,\\nand he calmly forgets that the clock he cleaned\\nhas stopped forever, and the piano he tuned is\\nthe terror of the neighborhood, and the new\\ncarpet he put down looks like a bird s-eye view\\nof Switzerland.\\nThe days when men did practically every-\\nthing for themselves are passed, and happily\\npassed. It is better for men in this, as in other\\nrespects, that they should not live alone, that\\nthey should not live unto themselves. When\\neach man does his proper work, the work for\\nwhich he has a native skill coupled with an\\nadequate training and experience, and calls on\\nothers to do their proper work for him,\\nthen all work is done in the shortest time and\\nin the best way. The shoe is more neatly\\ncobbled, then, and really at less cost. The\\ngarden brings a profit, then, and the dress fits,\\nand the carpet lies smooth and lasts longer.\\nBesides, for most men, there is a most im-\\nportant side to this question, their duty to\\ntheir employers. Statute law may not touch\\nthe case, but what moral law permits a man,\\nwho has sold his strength and talents to an-\\nother for an agreed salary, to spend his", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 HOW TO WORK.\\nstrength and talents in ways detrimental to\\nthe work he has agreed to do\\nI have seen clerks so sedulous up to mid-\\nnight in cultivating their musical talents in an\\namateur .orchestra that they could scarcely\\nkeep their eyes open next day to wait upon\\ncustomers.\\nI have seen teachers so devoted to their\\nflower-garden that they gave far more atten-\\ntion to their tulips and their roses than to\\ntheir boys and girls.\\nI have seen preachers I would not call\\nthem by the sacred name of ministers more\\nbent on bicycling than on the saving of souls.\\nWorkers, you cannot improve Paul s motto\\nThis one thing I do. You cannot afford\\nto spread yourselves over more ground than\\nPaul. This advice does not preclude doing\\nmany things. Work to the top of your\\npowers, and you will not be likely to work in\\nhalf as many difficult ways as that mighty\\napostle, missionary, preacher, evangelist,\\nscholar, traveller, writer, and tent-maker.\\nThe advice does require, however, that all\\nyour diversified occupations have a common\\ncentre and aim. That aim, for you, as for\\nPaul, is the work, whatever it is, that God\\nhas given you to do.\\nAbout this let all things cluster. To tin s", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE SHOEMAKER AND HIS LAST. 97\\nlet all things minister. To do it best you\\nmust play, but play only enough to do it best.\\nTo do it best you must mingle socially with\\nmen, but only enough so that you may do it\\nbest. To do it best you must cultivate your\\nmusical talents, perhaps, or your talents for\\nwriting, or speaking, or painting, or cooking\\ndoughnuts, but only enough to do it best.\\nAnd this is the only way to keep your life\\nfrom confusion, and fretfulness, and failure.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE XXL\\nA PKIDE IN YOUR WORK.\\nT is great fun on my railroad,\\nthat is, the road enriched by my\\ndaily twenty cents, to notice the\\ndifferent ways the different brake-\\nmen take of calling out the stations reached,\\nor next to be reached. Some will wait till the\\nvery last minute, when, amid the final jar of\\nthe cars as the engine slackens its speed, they\\nwill throw open the door and bawl out,\\nCogefum, for Cottage Farm, or Nunvul\\nfor Newton ville. When the train takes up its\\ncourse again, they slam the door with another\\nfierce scream, Nestay Aundle, which, being\\ninterpreted, is, Next station, Auburndale.\\nSome brakemen are evidently in the last\\nstages of consumption, and feebly whisper\\ntheir announcements. Some are thick-tongued,\\nand put unavailing vigor into what might just\\nas well be Choctaw. Some drawl out their\\ncalls as if they were pulling a long rope of\\nmolasses candy. Some clip off their calls as if\\nevery word were cayenne pepper.\\n98", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "A PRIDE IN YOUR WORK. 99\\nThere is one brakeman on my road, how-\\never, who delights my heart whenever I am\\nfortunate enough to catch his train. He closes\\nthe door quietly, advances into the middle of\\nthe car, and sings out cheerfully and with per-\\nfect distinctness, The next station is Allston.\\nThis having been accomplished, he retires with\\ngreat dignity.\\nEvery time this happens, I feel like getting\\nup and saying to the young men in the car\\nGentlemen, there has just been enacted be-\\nfore you a parable of success. That brakeman\\nis not afraid to do more than his duty. He\\nmagnifies his office, and I shall be greatly sur-\\nprised if his office does not magnify him. He\\nought to be a conductor right away, and, as\\nsoon thereafter as possible, superintendent of\\nthe road. Yes, he ought. He does more than\\nthe contract calls for. He gives good measure,\\npressed down and running over. He takes\\npride in his work. He rounds off the corners\\nand putties up the cracks. Be such a clerk,\\nyoung man, as he is a brakeman, or such a\\ntypesetter, or bookkeeper, or teacher, or sten-\\nographer, or what not, and success is yours.\\nBe\\nBut before that sentence, probably, they\\nwould have put me off the train.\\nLrfC", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXII.\\nEXPENSIVE WORKMEN.\\nHERE are some people who, before\\nthey go on very far in life, discover\\nthat they are more expensive than\\nother folks. Their teeth are of the\\ncrumbling kind, whose caverns become regular\\ngold mines, of the reverse order. Their eyes\\nhave so many twists that the fullest pocket-\\nbook gets the cramps trying to fit them with\\nglasses. Their tender feet raise a corn on\\nevery toe as a red flag of rebellion against\\nleather that is not of the finest and shoes that\\nare not of the shrewdest make.\\nO, they are to be pitied, these expensive\\nfolk Ordinary, cheap food is poison to their\\nunreasonable stomachs. Ready-made, cheap\\nclothing is offensive to their fastidious taste.\\nTheir sensitive, accurate ears shrink from any-\\nthing but the finest pianos, and violins worth\\nmany times their weight in gold. A tawdry,\\npaper-covered book, with inartistic type,\\npah they d rather not read at all than read\\nthat. I gly wall-paper drives them out of\\n100", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "EXPENSIVE WORKMEN. 101\\ndoors. Ingrain carpets are nettles under their\\nfeet. Better is a slice of bread at Delmonico s\\nthan a plate of turkey at Mrs. Smith s board-\\ning-house. Worst of all, their constitutions\\nare so delicately adjusted that their work must\\nfit them as a glove the finger, must give pre-\\ncisely the right surroundings, the right hours,\\nthe right amount of freedom and leisure, or\\nthey are unable to work at all.\\nAnd so it happens that where others are\\nlarge and liberal producers, these are chiefly\\nconsumers. If they are rich, they are idle\\nand miserable and if they are poor, they\\npose as martyrs at the very toil wherein\\nothers are singing. In neither case is the\\nworld the richer for them, either in goods or\\ngood cheer. They were born to be expensive.\\nJSTo, that is not true. God did not create\\nthem to be expensive. God is not such a\\nbungling workman as that would indicate.\\nGod makes no mistakes. To be sure, He may\\nhave sent the misshapen eyes and the chalky\\nteeth and the dyspeptic stomach and the ten-\\nder feet and the delicate sensibilities, matters\\nwhich are expensive enough but He always\\nsends far more possibilities of wealth than\\nsources of poverty.\\nListen, ye poor myopic, astigmatic, aesthetic,\\ndyspeptic, rack-eared, plug-toothed unfortu-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 HOW TO WORK.\\nnates Hear a word of common sense from a\\nplain thinker. More can come out of a man\\nthan ever need go into him. If you are ex-\\npensive above the ordinary, be productive\\nabove the ordinary. Make up for the gold\\nmine stowed away in your teeth by those\\nwords fitly spoken, that are like apples of gold\\nin silver baskets. Pay for your complex and\\ncostly eye-glasses by using your eyes in some\\nunique and valuable fashion. Get as much\\nout of your dyspeptic body in your way as\\nCarlyle got out of his, in his way. Must your\\nfeet be daintily shod Speed them on the\\nswifter errands. Are your tastes refined, ac-\\ncurate, sensitive Fall to, with your trained\\nlove of beauty, and beautify this old world,\\ninstead of grumbling at it.\\nThere s a noble work for every one. There s\\na wealth-producing work for every one,\\nwealth of spirit, and wealth of the United\\nStates mint as well. And let every child of\\nGod that appropriates largely of God s good\\nthings bestir himself, with God s help, to pay\\nback even more than he takes. No such en-\\ndeavor can end in failure.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIIL\\nPEOPLE THAT MEAN BUSINESS.\\nYOUNG friend of mine has lately\\nmoved from a little country town\\nto the great city of Boston. In the\\nlittle country town where he had\\nspent his life everything went on in easy,\\nhumdrum fashion, much the same, day after\\nday no one ever too busy to stop and chat a\\nplace where it was rather respectable than\\notherwise to have nothing to do, provided one\\npaid his debts. Now, thought that young\\nman, I know something of cities. I have\\nseen Chicago and New York and other bus-\\ntling, egotistic towns but Boston the learned,\\nBoston the sedate, will be much like my little\\ncountry village, only bigger.\\nArrived, he found streets more crowded\\nthan he ever saw streets before and crowded\\nwith men more intent on business than he ever\\nsaw men before, darting along like confused\\nswarms of dodging arrows, each with an air\\nwhich seemed to say, Keep to your own side\\nof the sidewalk. Don t get in my way. I\\n103", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 HOW TO WORK.\\nmean business The shades of those quiet\\nspirits, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Long-\\nfellow, Alcott, Mann, which he expected to\\nsee still haunting their old peaceful walks,\\nhe saw no room for these calm ghosts. Boston\\nwas a hive of bees which meant business, not\\na drone among them or if drones were there,\\nthey hid their faces in shame in the depths of\\nthe hive.\\nWell, this young friend of mine, after he\\nhad got over his surprise, was pleased with it\\nall. It was an inspiration to get into a place\\nwhere every one had something to do, and\\nwas in earnest about doing it. He rather en-\\njoyed being hustled to one side by energetic\\nmen. It gave him energy to shoulder some\\none else out of the way. He was glad to get\\ninto a place where people meant business.\\nBut he was not long in Boston before he\\nbegan to modify this opinion. He soon came\\nacross folks whose business was chiefly brag and\\nbustle. They snapped every string. They\\npulled tighter every knot. They burst every\\nbutton. They split every box. They tripped\\nover their own feet. They talked so much\\nthat they said nothing. They did so much\\nthat they did nothing. And very soon, in\\ntalking about people that mean business he\\nlearned to explain that he did not mean the?n.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "PEOPLE THAT MEAN BUSINESS. 105\\nNor was he in Boston much longer without\\nstill further limiting the phrase. He learned\\nthat many folks mean business spasmodically.\\nTo-day there is nothing so fine in all the world\\nas the task in which they are engaged. Every\\nenergy shall be given to it. It deserves a life s\\ndevotion, and it shall have it. Hip, hip, hooray\\nfor it To-morrow, yawns, groans, fidgets.\\nThings are not so fine as they appeared at\\nfirst. Work is too hard. Pay is inadequate.\\nProbably another field would be better. No,\\nmy young friend from the country soon de-\\ncided that these people did not mean busi-\\nness.\\nStill later he came across another class of\\nbusiness men. These people did seem buried\\nin business. They were wrapped up in it as\\nin a shroud, so that they walked the streets\\nlike corpses and rode in the cars as if the cars\\nwere hearses. They were deaf to all sounds\\nbut those of their business, and blind to all\\nsights except those of their occupations. They\\nseemed to mean business in earnest. But my\\nyoung friend soon perceived that all business\\nis so closely linked to the world of manifold\\nactivity around it that no man can comprehend\\nhis business without some close acquaintance\\nwith that world. He found that the quickest\\nway to kill one s business is to bury one s self", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 HOW TO WORK.\\nin it. And so my young friend had to make\\nanother exception.\\nYet once more, after still longer acquaint-\\nance with business men, this lad of ours dis-\\ncovered a fourth spurious class. These folks\\nwere harder to detect, because they were\\nbright and sensible in their business ways, not\\nspasmodic, not mere bustle, not buried in busi-\\nness, but wide awake and enterprising. But\\nmy young friend found out that these people\\nmeant business only so long as business meant\\ngain for them, and ease, and popularity.\\nTheir business was based on self. It helped\\nno one else, designedly, at least. It had no\\nends of common welfare. They were ready\\nto drop it like hot coals at any instant when it\\nceased to minister to themselves. These peo-\\nple, my young man concluded, do not really\\nmean business.\\nBut he did find some folks that could not be\\ndenied the title the proud title of business\\nmen. Who were they Do you know of one\\nof old who said, Wist ye not that I must be\\nabout My Father s business Well, they\\nwere people like Him. They were calm,\\nbright-eyed people, who did not jostle others,\\nor knit their brows, or walk the street like\\nmummies in their cases. They were deeply\\ninterested in their work, only it was because", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "PEOPLE THAT MEAN BUSINESS. 107\\nit was not their work, but their Father s. Be-\\ncause it was His, they never worried about it\\nHe would care for His own. But because it\\nwas His, they put their whole lives heartily\\ninto it. These people, my friend decided, were\\ntrue business men. They did mean business,\\ncheerily, nobly, divinely; because business\\nmeant so much to them.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIV.\\nWHERE TO WORK.\\nEW young men, and nowadays we\\nmust add young women, on\\nstarting out in their business or pro-\\nfessional life, realize the immense\\nadvantage of beginning at home, especially if\\ntheir home is in a country town or a small\\ncity. The big, bustling metropolis swims be-\\nfore their dazzled eyes as a very paradise of\\nopportunity. They read stories of the rapid\\nrise of this millionaire or that, stories which\\nmay be true or not, but which are sure to\\nleave out all the discouragements and difficul-\\nties, and which forget to mention the fact\\nthat since our present millionaires were boys\\nthe business world has so changed that meth-\\nods which brought them enormous wealth\\nmight to-day prove but a byway to bankruptcy.\\nIt is my decided judgment that the young\\nman who gets his business training at home\\nhas a chance for advancement when he goes to\\nthe city many times greater than the city boy,\\nand it is merely because I do not wish just here\\nL08", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "WHERE TO WORK. 109\\nto enter upon another topic that take it for\\ngranted that he must go to the city at all. To\\nbe sure, he may spend years on a salary lower\\nthan his city cousins. He may fret and worry\\nover the slow ways and the picayune pol-\\nicy of his country associates in trade. He\\nmay feel that every week a thousand glorious\\nopportunities are slipping by him. But if he\\nhas the right material in him, if he has a\\nclear head and a sound heart, if he possesses\\ngrit and originality and tact, his apprentice-\\nship in the country or in the small town is\\ncoining the dollars of his future fortune.\\nThere he is known; in the city he would be\\nunknown. There he is somebody in the city\\nhe would be nobody. There he has the proud\\nconsciousness more or less justified that he\\nis well toward the top in the city he would\\nbe discouraged by the enormous mass of\\nmortals on top of him. There his originality\\nis unfettered in the city he must make of his\\nlife a cog fitting exactly into the great, whirl-\\ning cog-wheel. There he has room and can\\nexpand naturally in the city he can scarcely\\nbreathe without inhaling second-hand air.\\nThere everybody takes an interest in him.\\nThey may insult his dignity by calling him\\nJack, but he is the Jack whose baby form they\\nhave dangled on their knees, or whose father", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 HOW TO WORK.\\nwas their best friend at school. In the city he\\nwould be You, or No. 52, or That\\nJones. In the country his little successes are\\nthe property and the pride of the entire com-\\nmunity. They get into the village paper.\\nThe small boys point him out. In the city,\\nwell, his boarding-house has a rather transient\\npopulation, that s a fact.\\nI could keep up this sort of contrast for\\nsome time, for I am full of the subject but\\nyou see the point. Stay where you are known,\\nyoung men. Get your experience at home.\\nIt will be good experience. It will come ten-\\nfold easier than in the city. It will develop\\nin you confidence and a courageous manliness,\\nwhile the city would be crushing all the con-\\nfidence out of you and all the good cheer, and\\nchanging you from a man into that thing\\ncalled a pessimist. And if, after some good,\\nsolid years of this, you have a fair chance of\\ncarrying into the city s whirl your freshness\\nand your buoyancy and your fine country\\nsprightliness and sturdy good sense, they will\\nbe quoted at par in its markets, never fear.\\nFor character counts, and courage counts, and\\nability finds a place for itself, and your life,\\nthrough this natural, quiet, simple progress,\\nhas been building into its structure these three\\nsupreme qualifications of all success.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "WHERE TO WORK. Ill\\nSo much for the start now a word about\\nnew situations and when to take them.\\nA very noble story is told of President*An-\\nderson of Eochester University. He w r as of-\\nfered the presidency of Brown University, a\\nmost enviable position, and one especially at-\\ntractive to him. But he declined it, and on\\nquite unusual grounds, for he said Go\\nNo, I am going to stand by Eochester. Eoch-\\nester invested in me when I was unknown\\nand without value if the investment has not\\nproved a failure, Eochester deserves the\\nprofits.\\nHow many men, helped to start in life, con-\\nsider the firm or the institution that has given\\nthem this start as merely a stepping-stone on\\nwhich they may climb to what they falsely\\nthink higher things They call that better-\\ning themselves, when they really, by their\\ndisregard of the first principles of gratitude\\nand honor, have cheapened themselves and\\ntheir eternal life.\\nA dealer in paper was talking to me not long\\nago. I could save to The said he, re-\\nferring to one of the leading journals of the\\ncountry, many thousands of dollars a year if\\nthey would buy their paper of me rather than of\\nthe firm with which they are dealing, but they\\nwill not hear of such a thing. You see, when", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 HOW TO WORK.\\nthe owner of The was starting the paper,\\nsixty years ago, this paper firm had confidence\\nin him, and trusted the young man to any ex-\\ntent, though he had no money to pay his paper\\nbills for some years. And now do you think\\nthat any saving would induce the proprietor\\nof The to withdraw his patronage from\\nthat firm JSTo, sir\\nThe right thing for a young man to do when\\ntempted to leave the employ of a firm he re-\\nspects, and to which he owes his initial chance\\nin this world, is first to consider whether there\\nis any moral reason why he should not remain\\nwith that firm all his life, and if there is not,\\nto decide to put into his position there so much\\nzeal and faithfulness as to make it worth to\\nhim and the world all that he could hope to\\ngain from any position that he could expect to\\nopen to him elsewhere.\\nTo make one s position twice as valuable as\\nit is now is tenfold better than stepping out\\nfrom it into another position twice as valuable.\\nStrike your roots deep, workers, and grow\\nwhere you are.\\nAnd permit me a few remarks, in conclusion,\\non the choice of easy situations. This world\\nis full of soft heads looking for soft jobs.\\nWhat is a soft job It is one that puts hard\\ncash into soft hands. It is one that gives for", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "WHERE TO WORK. 113\\nthe least amount of work the greatest amount\\nof pay. A job that jrou can sublet at a big\\nprofit, a job that offers sure pay for lucky hits,\\na job that calls for one who is good-looking\\nrather than good for something, these are\\nsoft jobs. Ah, the woods are full of men\\nhunting them.\\nNow, there are several reasons why I should\\nfight shy of such jobs, if I were you, young\\nmen. In the first place, a soft job is almost\\ncertain to make a hard heart. No one can\\nsympathize with this world s toilers and suffer-\\ners who is not toiling and suffering with them.\\nThose that have soft jobs are sure to be snobs.\\nIn the second place, a soft job means a soft\\nbrain. Brains are toughened by hard work,\\nnot by soft work. If you have to bend your\\nminds fiercely and constantly upon some\\nworthy task, they find in it a philosopher s\\nstone to turn them to gold. If you exercise\\nyour minds upon bubbles, they also become\\ngassy.\\nBut finally, a soft job means hard luck. It\\ndoes, indeed. Keflect that when hard times\\ncome it is the men with the soft jobs that have\\nto go. The men who are giving money s worth\\nfor money, and they alone, are assured of keep-\\ning their places very long.\\nHonest, solid work for honest, unextrava-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 HOW TO WORK.\\ngant pay, the weary body at night and the\\ncheery song in the morning, a little home\\nwhere love dwells, and a hearth aglow with\\ncontentment, seek no softer job than that,\\nworkers, if you want happiness in this world\\nand the next.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEK XXV.\\nWHAT IS UNDER YOUR HEAD\\nHAVE an important question to pro-\\npound to every worker. As I ask\\nit, you may fancy, if you will, that\\nI am a regular Sphinx, sitting along\\nthe road named Success in Life, and turning\\noff on the gloomy bypath of Disappointment\\nevery one of you that cannot answer my ques-\\ntion satisfactorily. You d better heed it now,\\nas it comes from my harmless self, and be pre-\\npared to make a good answer when you are\\ncross-examined, as you surely will be, by the\\nSphinx of This World.\\nBut I have been rambling on as if you knew\\nwhat the awful question is. I will whisper it.\\nListen\\nWhat is under your head\\nWhat are you laughing at, my giddy read-\\ners? That s a solemn question, I tell you,\\nwhen asked as that Sphinx asks it, with her\\ngreat paw ready to knock you off to one side\\nunless you answer it well.\\n115", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 HOW TO WORK.\\nBut you don t know what the question\\nmeans All the worse for you, if you have\\ndone so little thinking about what is under\\nyour head that you do not at once catch the\\nimport of such a query.\\nFirst (as the Sphinx will want to know). Is\\na good pair of lungs under your head Brains\\nare fine things, with their wise wrinkles and\\nsage convolutions but brains, after all, are\\ndull things without lungs to blow the breath\\nof life into them, and keep it there, fresh and\\nvigorous. Why, your brain may be as big as\\nCuvier s or Butler s, but if your lungs are as\\nshrivelled as some must be, I would no more\\ninsure your intellectual fame than a life-insur-\\nance company would insure your poor, ill-\\ntreated body.\\nSecondly. Is a good stomach under your\\nhead? You may laugh, but just wait until\\nyou try to drive genius and dyspepsia in the\\nsame harness. Brains and bile are mortal\\nfoes. If your stomach won t digest food, it\\nreally doesn t matter how many tons of facts\\nyour brains will digest. A strong head on a\\nweak stomach is about as useful as the Lick\\ntelescope would be planted on a bobbing buoy.\\nThirdly. Is a good pair of hands under\\nyour head Not hands white and delicately\\nformed, though I have no objection in the", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "HAT IS UNDER YOUR HEAD? 117\\nworld to that but what is more to the point\\nin connection with your head hands that are\\nshrewd to carry out what the brain is shrewd\\nto contrive, busy hands, accurate hands, quick\\nhands, ready hands, gentle hands, brave hands,\\nare those under your head? Hands that\\ncan write down your brain s wise fancies with\\na penmanship clear as print. Hands that can,\\nif need be, and need is likely to be, help\\nyour fine brain eke out a livelihood. A brain\\nwithout hands is like a general without staff\\nofficers.\\nFourthly. Is a good pair of feet under\\nyour head Not feet that are weak and\\nclumsy, and smarting with corns, and pretty\\nbecause the tightly squeezed leather outside is\\npretty, but feet that retain nature s beautiful\\noutlines, feet that are on good terms Avith the\\nground, and can press it with loving, easy\\ngrace, for a happy twenty miles at a time.\\nErrand-speeding feet. Dancing, springing,\\nmerry feet. Feet soft and light in sick-rooms.\\nFeet sturdy and swift on the path of duty.\\nAre these under your head\\nO, I know what a masterful thing a head is.\\nI -know what mountain-high difficulties it can\\noverleap. I know what triumphs a Henry\\nMartyn, for instance, can wring out of his\\nfrail, fever-tortured, cough-racked body,", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 HOW TO WORK.\\nburning out for God. I know that when\\nGod chooses to hold up a man s head with\\nnothing under it, or next to nothing, like\\nMahomet s coffin suspended in mid-air by in-\\nvisible forces, God can do it. But, just the\\nsame, He seldom does do it; and it is the\\nmost impudent presumption to abuse our bod-\\nies in the faith that He will do it.\\nLook upon your head, young people, and\\nold, as the glorious climax of your body\\nbut don t try to build a pyramid out of an\\napex, with no foundation. In one sense, the\\npedestal is as important as the statue that it\\nsupports. And if your pedestal is crumbling,\\nand just ready to totter, stop your chiselling\\naway at the statue long enough to build up a\\nstout pedestal, else the statue itself, with all its\\ngrowing beauty, will topple in ruin to the\\nground.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVL\\nMAKE READY, TAKE AIM\\nE have gone a long way into our\\nwork when we have wisely begun it.\\nIn that delicious book, The\\nPeterkin Papers, Solomon John\\ndecides to become a great writer. So the\\nfamily hunts up some sheets of paper, manu-\\nfactures ink from berries, chases a hen and\\nmakes a quill pen. Paper spread out, new pen\\ndipped solemnly in the ink, awed family\\nstanding in expectancy, Solomon John sud-\\ndenly discovers that he has nothing to write\\nHow like Solomon John do we often start\\ninto our w^prk We propose to make wonder-\\nful progress. But in what direction? We\\nexpect to improve. Improve what We\\nshall reach the goal in triumph. What goal\\nWould we start on a voyage as we start\\ninto a day, a month, or a year? No. We\\nshould have definite aims, know the best ship,\\nunderstand the dangers of the trip, take out\\nan accident insurance policy, study the route.\\nDo men start thus in business No. They\\n119", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 HOW TO WORK.\\ntake account of their capital, watch their\\nrisks, study the state of the market, note their\\nchances for gain.\\nWhy, we plunge into most of our work as\\nrash boys dive into strange waters eyes shut,\\nhands over heads, and down we go No won-\\nder that we sometimes bring sharply up against\\nstones.\\nHow the proverbs cry out against us\\nForesight is better than insight. A stitch\\nin time saves nine. Prevention is better\\nthan cure. Well warned is half armed.\\nI used to be drilled by a shrewd sergeant,\\none of whose tricks was the command, Make\\nready take aim and then would come a\\npause, during which some impatient gun would\\nbe certain to go off. Vy don t you vinish\\naiming growls the sergeant.\\nTake good aim, every day, before you fire\\ninto your work. Stop right here, nd think.\\nDo you want to begin this day where you be-\\ngan last, or where you left off If the latter,\\nthink over the experiences yesterday brought\\nyou. What did it show to be your special\\ntemptations? What helps did you find most\\nbeneficial And where are you faulty now\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baSelect one point for improvement, and only\\none. Do not aim too high, or too low. Do\\nnot try to do more than you can, or less.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "MAKE READY, TAKE AIM! 121\\nShall it be your temper, your bashfulness,\\nyour inaccuracy, your slowness Whatever\\nit be, make ready, take a good, long aim,\\nfire\\nThe brute lives in the moments, a life of\\ndisconnected dots. So does the brute-like man.\\nFor him the past has no stimulus and no warn-\\ning, the future no invitation. But the life of\\nthe wise man is a line, with a purpose in it,\\ndirected by what lies behind, and aiming well at\\nsomething ahead. Paul forgot the things that\\nwere behind, he said, and pressed on to things\\nthat lay before him but we can be sure he\\nnever let go of the past till it had yielded up\\nto him its last drop of instruction and blessing.\\nHow can you teil the ignorant laborer and\\nthe skilled mechanic The first goes about\\nhis tasks with an air of monotonous plodding,\\none day s work like another s, with no sense\\nof possible progress. The second looks eagerly\\nat what he has done, with an eye trained to\\nnote defects and beauties, and a brain quick to\\nsee how the next piece of work may be free\\nfrom these defects and increase these beauties.\\nThis last is the only kind of work that grows,\\nand work that grows is the only work that\\nendures. Aimless repetition of tasks means\\ndeath as much as aimless idleness means it.\\nThere is such a thing as stagnation in work.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 HOW TO WORK.\\nGod s labor is permanent in its results -be\\ncause it looks before and after, is cumulative,\\nhas its solid foundations and its spires of desire.\\nAnd if we wish our life-work to have any\\nmeasure of the firmness and success of God s\\ngreat works, it must be made, like His, to grow\\nwith reasonableness out of the past, and look\\nwith purpose toward the years to come. There\\nare no times so appropriate for this wise and\\nlinking meditation as the beginnings and end-\\nings of things the start, when purpose has\\naction, all fresh and unsullied, before it the\\nclose, when reason has action, with its lessons\\nand promptings, behind it.\\nAnd yet, if we are already in the midst of\\naffairs upon which we have entered with no\\nthought of whether they are a worthy con-\\ntinuance of the past and lead toward a worthy\\nfuture, it is best to stop in the midst of things\\nand as the surveyor stations his instrument be-\\ntween the stake just passed and the new one\\nto be set, so let our workman consider whether\\nhis life is in line with the best in his past, and\\nwith his purest hopes. If not, he can retrace\\nhis steps with thanksgiving for a great escape.\\nIf it is, he will plod on with a glad confidence\\nthat will more than pay for the loss of time.\\nMany workers seem afraid thus decisively to\\nplan their work. Probably the wittiest of", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "MAKE BEADY, TAKE AIM! 123\\nall the world s witty proverbs is this, which\\nhas come to us from the Germans The\\nroad to hell is paved with good intentions.\\nIn Italy and France and Portugal they have\\nit that Satan s realm itself has the same sort\\nof paving. Now this is the worst kind of lie\\na half truth I For though many a person has\\nslipped on a shabbily-laid intention-stone and\\nfallen, yet we may lay these paving-stones of\\ngood resolutions so firmly that they will be-\\ncome for us the very gold of the celestial\\nstreets.\\nFor the Chinese are right when they say,\\nBe resolved, and the thing is done Have\\nyou ever heard that abominable proverb for\\nwhich the Germans, again, are responsible,\\nA bad beginning makes a good ending\\nNever believe it, never When the Germans\\nare wiser they cry, Beginning and ending\\nshake hands Which is about what the\\nDutch saying means So begun, so done.\\nI do not like the way our common proverbs\\nsneer at promises. Promises are like pie-\\ncrust, made to be broken. Promises fill no\\nsack. In the land of promise a man may\\ndie of hunger. Fair promises bind fools.\\nA great many shoes are worn out before\\na man does what he says. Promises and\\nundressed cloth are apt to shrink. Four dif-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 HOW TO WORK.\\nerent nations gave us these ugly maxims, and\\nI hope America will never coin such crabbed\\nproverbs\\nNo, promises do make progress resolutions\\nmake reform good intentions pay good inter-\\nest Everything is difficult at first, says\\nJohn Chinaman, and when w r e have to make\\none of these difficult beginnings, of a trade, or\\na lesson, or a year, making a little promise to\\none s self does for the spirit what clinching\\none s teeth does for the body. It doesn t ac-\\ncomplish any of the work, but it braces us,\\nand makes us more vigorous for our task.\\nNever mind if it does seem hard. Begin,\\nany way. Everything must have a begin-\\nning, say the proverbs of half of Europe, and\\nthe French and Italians add this noble saying\\nFor a web begun, God sends thread. Be-\\ngin, that you may know with surprise and\\npleasure the truth of the words which the old\\nGreek farmer-poet Hesiod once wrote, and\\nwhich have become a proverb of all lands\\nThe beginning is half the whole.\\nTwo cautions. Make no promise carelessly.\\nRemember the proverb, He who resolves\\nsuddenly, repents at leisure. Heed these wise\\nwords of stout Warwick: I will forethink\\nwhat 1 will promise, that I may promise but\\nwhat I will do.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "MAKE BEADY, TAKE AIM! 125\\nAnd resolve few things. Who begins\\nmuch, finishes little, say the Germans and\\nItalians. Promise little, and do much.\\nMost of all, if your paving-stones are not\\nto lead you the wrong way, repeat to yourself\\nthe French proverb, He is not done who is\\nbeginning. Everything new is beautiful,\\nremark the Italians, while the Germans add\\nsarcastically, The beginning and the end are\\nseldom alike. Now it is good to begin well,\\nbut better to end well. The end crowns\\nthe work. Do not forget that.\\nSo let us, as the Scotch say, set a stout\\nheart to a steep hillside. Practice the Chinese\\nteaching, Resolution is independent of age,\\nbut without it one lives a hundred years in\\nvain. And heed the German warning, He\\nwho does not improve to-day, will grow worse\\nto-morrow.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVIL\\nHEAPING IT ON.\\nKNOW many overworked men.\\nPeople come to them, begging them\\nto make speeches, lead meetings, at-\\ntend meetings, be on committees,\\nand do numberless such jobs, and when they\\nsay, I have already more work than I ought\\nto do, and you really must excuse me, the\\nfaces of the pleaders light up with a sudden\\ninspiration, it is always the same smile, and\\nyou may always know just what is coming,\\nand they always say, Why, if you had noth-\\ning to do I should not want you, but it is the\\npeople who are busiest that find most time to\\ndo things. And then they look for an in-\\nstant capitulation.\\nI have heard that statement made so many,\\nmany times that I am moved to expostulate.\\nWhy should the work a man is doing be con-\\nsidered a warrant for putting more work upon\\nhim Why should his compliance once, sub-\\nject him to ceaseless requests that continue\\nuntil lie is driven into nervous prostration, or\\nuntil he gets mad\\n12(", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "HEAPING IT ON. 127\\nWe don-t treat the beasts in that way.\\nWhen a horse has all he ought to pull, a driver\\ndoes not say, Now this horse has proved that\\nhe will pull. Let us heap on a ton more.\\nWe don t treat in that way even the insen-\\nsate earth. We don t fill our garden with\\ntwice as much seed as it ought to contain, and\\nsay, If this were not good soil, I should not\\nbe putting my seeds in it ;but ground that has\\ndone the most, can always find strength to do\\nmore.\\nNo we believe in rest for horses. We\\nbelieve in fallow seasons for soil. But for\\nmen we say, The busiest man is the one to go\\nto, if you want anything done.\\nNow, that is shrewd. The man who is hard\\nat work all his life knows, of course, how to\\nwork well and quickly. When we have a job\\nwe naturally take it to the best workman.\\nBesides, noblesse oblige it is God who\\nhas given the workman his power to work, and\\nGod requires that the workman shall use his\\npower to the best advantage. To a certain\\nextent we are working with God when we\\nshow a good workman a chance for some use-\\nful service.\\nBut, with all due regard for both these con-\\nsiderations, let us remember that we are our\\nbrothers keepers, keepers of our brothers", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 HOW TO WORK.\\nhealth as well as keepers of our brothers souls.\\nBefore we even suggest any fresh tasks to a\\nhard-working man, it is our duty to consider\\nfirst whether he has not already as much as\\nwe have any right to expect him to do.\\nBut why cannot the man himself refuse, if\\nhe really has not time In the first place, a\\nhard-working man is always good-natured.\\nThen, too, such a man is almost certain to\\noverestimate his strength. Besides, it is a\\nvery disagreeable thing to do, this constantly\\nrefusing requests to help in good works, es-\\npecially when each of the requests asks for\\nsome quite little thing, though altogether they\\namount to a heavy undertaking. Such con-\\nstant refusals hurt a man s temper, spoil his\\nself-respect, and injure the work he is doing.\\nNo. Be solicitous, if you will, that the lazy\\npeople get their fair amount of work. Set\\nthem to leading meetings. Appoint them on\\ncommittees. Appeal to them in emergencies\\nin your business life, your church work, your\\nsocial work. Seek to equalize burdens, if you\\nwill. Take them off the backs that are heaped\\nup mountain high, and put some of them on\\nthe backs that are now going scot-free. But\\nnever, never say, u That man is bravely bearing\\na noble load. Go to; let us put a straw upon\\nit.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVIII.\\nTIME, THE WORKER S GOLD MINE.\\nUPPOSE that as, one by one, you\\ncame to need your hours, each were\\nbrought to you, a shining substance\\nwrapped in finest silk, borne by a\\nglittering angel Suppose that, if the angel\\ndelayed, you would lapse into unconsciousness,\\nand if he tarried too long, you would pass out\\ninto death. How r ou would value time How\\ngrateful you would be for its unfailing regu-\\nlarity, for the lavish fullness of the royal gift\\nAnd if, at the close of each day, some angel\\nshould spread out before you a great book\\nwherein had been written, with ink that could\\nnot fade, opposite each minute given you that\\nday, the use you had made of it, how careful\\nyou would be in your expenditure of that\\npriceless doAver time\\nGod does not send angels with hours wrapped\\nin silk He does better than that. With His\\nown kind, invisible hand, He pours them out\\nfor you Himself. No such book as I have im-\\nagined exists, but a book more startling for\\n129", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 HOW TO WORK.\\nyour use of every instant of time is written\\ndown in the body you carry around with you.\\nThe way your fingers move is a chapter of\\nyour life history. The quality of your glance\\nis a compact account of many an hour. Your\\nbearing, the tone of your voice, the color of\\nyour skin, the curve of your mouth, all these\\nare epitomes of your time.\\nIf this is true, it should be to every soul a\\nmost solemn question, What am I doing with\\nthis sacred gift The answer to this ques-\\ntion will fairly determine your life. As that\\ngreat man, William Ewart Gladstone, once\\nsaid, Thrift of time will repay you with a\\nusury of profit beyond your most sanguine\\ndreams, and the waste of it will make you\\ndwindle, alike in intellectual and in moral\\nstature, beyond your darkest reckonings.\\nOut of the same bit of meat an eagle will\\norganize swiftness, and a snail, slowness a\\nlion, fierceness a snake, treachery and a dog,\\naffection. So out of the same time some men\\nwill build failures, and others, successes.\\nWhen Joseph Cook Avas in the seminary, the\\nboys often had to wait for dinner at their\\nboarding-house. He always spent that little\\ntime over a dictionary in the corner of the\\nroom. Dickens was able to accomplish so\\nmuch because, when he worked, he labored in-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "TIME, THE WORKER S GOLD MINE. 131\\ntensely, and when he played, he played with\\nall his heart. We admit to our lives too many\\nneutral moments of time, moments when we\\nare doing nothing in particular, and those neu-\\ntral moments color the others.\\nOur American manufacturers are acknowl-\\nedged to succeed largely because of their at-\\ntention to the by-products, the so-called waste\\nmaterial. That has been the secret of all suc-\\ncessful lives they have recognized the supreme\\nimportance of five minutes. The time you\\nwaste in railroad stations, on the cars, at your\\ndressing, over your newspaper, waiting in bar-\\nber-shops, and the like, would serve, if you\\nkept a wise book ready to your hand, to ren-\\nder you a learned man. Ten minutes wasted\\nevery day means, in a working life of fifty\\nyears, an entire year of 350 days, with eight\\nworking hours to each. There is a time,\\nsays the Bible, to every purpose under the\\nheaven, but no time for the purposeless. The\\nsame young woman that can find no time for\\nEuskin has ample time for Conan Doyle.\\nIt is when we come to take this large look\\nover time, that our use of it appears in its most\\nserious aspect. When we come to understand\\neven a little of what eternity means, and of\\nhow intimately it is bound up with the passing\\nminute, we see how well it must pay to treat", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 HOW TO WORK.\\nGod generously with the time He gives us. To\\nsay, in effect, that we are so busy that we\\nhave no time for our Father s business, no\\ntime for our Bible or for the quiet hour, no time\\nfor the Christian Endeavor topic or the Sunday-\\nschool lesson or church-work, is to condemn\\nourselves as the most shortsighted of creatures.\\nIt would be appropriate to quote here a\\nrhyme I once wrote, which the editor of\\nHarper s Weekly was kind enough to print\\n11 There was an old fellow who never had time\\nFor a fresh morning look at the Volume sublime\\nWho never had time for the soft hand of prayer\\nTo smooth out the wrinkles of labor and care\\nWho could not find time for that service most sweet\\nAt the altar of home where the dear ones all meet\\nAnd never found time with the people of God\\nTo learn the good way that the fathers have trod\\nBut he found time to die\\nO yes\\nHe found time to die.\\nThis busy old fellow, too busy was he\\nTo Linger at breakfast, at dinner or tea,\\nFor the merry .small chatter of children and wife,\\nBut led in his marriage a bachelor life.\\nToo busy lor kisses, too busy for play,\\nNo time to be loving, no time to be gay,\\nNo time to replenish his vanishing health,\\nNo time to enjoy his swift gathering wealth,\\nJ in t lie found time to die\\nes\\nHe found time to die.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "TIME, THE WORKER S GOLD MINE. 133\\nThis beautiful world had no beauty for him,\\nIts colors were black, and its sunshine was dim.\\nNo leisure for woodland, for river or hill,\\nNo time in his life just to think and be still,\\nNo time for his neighbors, no time for his friends,\\nNo time for those highest immutable ends\\nOf the life of a man who is not for a day,\\nBut, for worse or for better, for ever and aye.\\nYet he found time to die\\nO yes\\nHe found time to die.\\nThat is a suggestive phrase we use in re-\\ngard to the employment of our odd moments,\\nwe say Ave are putting in time. Putting\\nin time Putting it in what\\nWell, in the first place, we put this time into\\nthe bank of character. Tell me how you em-\\nploy your odd moments, and I will tell you\\nwhether you are becoming wiser or more igno-\\nrant, stronger or weaker, more industrious or\\nmore slothful. Any bank cashier knows that\\nthe greater part of the capital of the world\\nconsists not of the large deposits, but of the\\nlittle accounts of comparatively poor men. It\\nis these small accounts, regularly added to,\\nthat make the backbone of the world s wealth.\\nSimilarly, it is the little bits of time that make\\nthe backbone of character.\\nThese bits of time, when you put them in,\\nare put into your assets of power. The", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 HOW TO WORK.\\nstrength of a tree is not gained, much of it,\\nat the times when it seems to be doing most,\\nputting out leaves, and parading flowers and\\nfruits. It builds itself up in bulk and stamina\\nduring the times when it does not seem to be\\ndoing much of anything. Nature knows how\\nto put in the odd moments. She knows\\nhow to put in time. If your assets of power\\nconsist only of what you have gained by oc-\\ncasional splendid spurts, you are practically\\nbankrupt.\\nAnd then, when you put in time, you put\\nit into a permanent fund of satisfaction, pay-\\nable on demand. What a joy it is to be able\\nto look back upon days and years spent thor-\\noughly well, the chinks all filled with useful\\nwork and useful play I know of no higher\\nworldly joy than this, and the joy is not ab-\\nsent from heaven, either.\\nMy dear workers, if you don t put in\\ntime, it pulls you out. From what And\\ninto what\\nFrom wise thoughtfulness, into silly careless-\\nness. From growing power, into growing weak-\\nness. From happiness, into unrest and discon-\\ntent, From wealth and prosperity, into a\\nslowly eating loss.\\nWatch your account in the great ledger of\\nlife. It is the littles that make the mickle", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "TIME, TEE WORKER S GOLD MINE. 135\\nthere, even more truly than elsewhere. Heap\\nup a comfortable balance in the bank of char-\\nacter, and you can put into your account there\\nnothing more valuable than bits of time well\\nspent.\\nIt is very interesting to watch the running\\nof express trains on one of our great railways.\\nEvery energy is put forth and every device\\nadopted that will bring the train to its desti-\\nnation at the advertised hour. In order that\\nthe engineer s attention may not be diverted\\nfrom his important task by constant looking\\nat his watch, and that possible errors arising\\nfrom the imperfection of a single timepiece\\nmay be avoided, the engineer on some roads\\nis not obliged to look at his watch at all, but,\\nas he flies past the frequent stations, men are\\nseen standing by the side of the track holding\\nup a large dial with plain figures and a mov-\\nable hand. On one side the dial simply reads,\\nOn time. On the other side the face and\\nhands show how many minutes the train is\\nlate. If the On time face is presented to\\nthe approaching engine, the man at the\\nthrottle is happy but if the other side con-\\nfronts him, he must crowd on more steam.\\nHow very convenient it would be if we were\\nfavored with such an arrangement at the\\nstations of our life If we could only know", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 HOW TO WORK.\\nwhether we are on time for all opportuni-\\nties on time for God s designs on time\\nfor fortune on time for the well-being of\\nour friends on time for the higher in-\\nterests of the kingdom of God And if we\\nare not on time, if we could only know just\\nhow far behind time we are, and how much\\nsteam we must crowd on to keep up with the\\nschedule\\nBut God has not established any such ar-\\nrangement. I think I know why. I think it is\\nbecause he wants us to crowd on all steam all\\nthe time I think it is because we are not\\non time at any point along the line of His\\npurposes unless we get there just as speedily\\nas we can", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIX.\\nTHE BULLDOG GRIP.\\nROBABLY The Hoosier School-\\nmaster is not read so often now-\\nadays as formerly, which is a pity,\\nfor it is a sturdy and a delightful\\nbook and therefore it is likely that few work-\\ners of the present have the inspiration that I\\nhave gained from that bulldog scene. It was\\na simple enough scene merely the picture of\\na bulldog getting that grip upon a raccoon\\nwhich never lets go until the coon is dead\\nbut it made a profound impression upon the\\nHoosier schoolmaster as he watched it, the\\nspirit of the bulldog got into him, he set his\\nteeth, he conquered the refractory school, and\\nhe won his way through other perils that were\\nworse, and all because of the bulldog s jaws.\\nYou remember the familiar lines of sage\\nDr. Holmes\\nBe firm! One constant element of luck\\nIs genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck.\\nStick to jour aim! The mongrel s hold will slip,\\nBut only crowbars loose the bulldog s grip.\\nSmall though he looks, the jaw that never yields\\nDrags down the bellowing monarch of the fields.\\n137", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 HOW TO WORK.\\nThose resolute jaws under that tree in Indiana\\nshook out many a tough problem for me in\\nmy college days, mastered many a lesson.\\nWhen my brains begun in every convolution\\nto shrink from the task, when the air of the\\nroom settled down upon me like a hot, suffo-\\ncating weight, when the words in the text-\\nbook, from an incomprehensible meaning,\\nceased to have any meaning at all, then I\\nremembered Edward Eggleston I said to my-\\nself, Fool To be worsted by half a hun-\\ndred lines of type! I clinched my hands\\nand my teeth, rushed forward and grappled\\nwith that text-book doggedly, got a mental\\ngrip upon it that no interruption, no wander-\\ning thought, no shout from the campus, no\\nbutterfly at the window, could for an instant\\nrelax, and I worried it, and I shook it up and\\ndown, and got a bigger mouthful, and at last\\nI saw it at my feet conquered.\\nIt is this element of fierceness that wins\\nbattles. There is a certain note which, if a\\ngeneral can ever get into his soldier s yell,\\nmeans victory every time. Ordinarily we use\\nonly the surface of our will, just as in ordinary\\nexercise, so the doctors say, we use only the\\nsurface of our muscles. There are exercises,\\nhard and long continued, which bring into\\nplay the deepest muscular fibres, and really", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE BULLDOG GRIP. 139\\nmake a man strong. Something like that is\\nwhat I am urging for your work, no surface\\nenergy, no nibbling with long teeth, but a\\nfierce, savage plunge at the vitals of the task.\\nIt is this that makes the difference between\\nsuccessful farming and fruitless farming this,\\namong other things the lazy farmer will not\\nplow deep. As in the old days, yes, and\\nas still in many of the slothful tropical lands,\\nit is held sufficient to scratch the ground with\\na pointed stick of wood. As Douglas Jerrold\\nsaid of Australia, One has only to tickle the\\nground with a hoe, and it laughs in a harvest.\\nBut such tickling of most fields brings a rain\\nof tears rather than a harvest of fortunes.\\nPush through the root mold, thrust aside the\\ndisputing stones, press down into the rich\\nheart of things, plow deep, if you would reap\\na goodly fortune.\\nAll analogies point to this strenuous injunc-\\ntion, and I have little doubt that most workers\\nwill promptly accept it as a true guide for suc-\\ncessful labor; but recognition of a truth is\\nvery different from following it so very dif-\\nferent The allurements are many, and the\\nflesh is weak. Many a lesson has been a fail-\\nure because the scholar cheated himself into\\nthinking that what his brain needed was a\\nlittle rest, that after a game of ball or a", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 HOW TO WORK.\\nnight s sleep the problem would solve itself\\nbefore his delighted, invigorated mind. Many\\na victory has been lost for the lack of just one\\nmore charge. Many a house has been ruined\\nbecause the roof was not clapped on as soon\\nas the walls were up. Many a crop has been\\nspoiled because, after it was brought into\\nheaps, the heaps were not immediately carried\\nto the barn. It is the long pulls that make\\nthe oarsman, and it is the long pulls that make\\nthe workman. I have a great respect for the\\ntradesman s sign, Done While you Wait.\\nAt that shop, at least, there is no dilly-\\ndallying.\\nA jolly party of us once spent two weeks\\ntogether in the Maine woods, and one of the\\njolliest of all was a certain distinguished\\nclergyman whom we will call Dr. Peace.\\nNow Dr. Peace, being enterprising, took it\\ninto his head that he would learn to paddle a\\ncanoe an art he had never yet attempted.\\nWe used to stand on the shore, all eight of\\nus, and double ourselves up with laughter at\\nhis antics. He would be paddling along, a\\nmost determined expression upon his face, be-\\ncoining a beatific expression as the tricksy\\ncraft actually seemed under his control at last,\\nand going straight where lie wanted it to go.\\nBut, alas! along would come a whill of wind", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE BULLDOG GRIP. 141\\nand would slue him round in a jiffy. With a\\nmortified and disappointed air he would look\\nup to see if any one was watching, would per-\\nceive the spectators on the shore, and try to\\npaddle out of sight, always bringing up in a\\ncircle again.\\nBut one day Dr. Peace came into camp\\nradiant. I ve got it he exclaimed. Did\\nyou see me I m boss at last. No adventi-\\ntious canoe can get ahead of me\\nWell, how do you do it we inquired\\nwith respectful interest.\\nHow I back her into the wind. Yes,\\nsir, whenever the w T ind swings her around, I\\njust back up. So I get where I want to go.\\nStern foremost Yes, sir. What s the dif-\\nference I get there, sir. I arrive.\\nThis manoeuvre of the genial doctor s pro-\\nduced no end of amusement, as we saw it\\nproudly illustrated on the very next oppor-\\ntunit} r His progress was a combination of\\nprogression, oscillation, and retrogression, but,\\nas he said, he^ got there. It was not long\\nafter this surprising discovery that he became\\nin very truth master of the canoe, and could\\ndirect it bow-foremost in the face of any\\nwind.\\nSo much for determination. So much for\\ngood-natured grit. We all, I think, took the", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 HOW TO WORK.\\nlittle lesson to our own lives, and decided that\\nhereafter, though contrary winds might blow\\naround the uncertain craft of our fortunes, we\\nwould not lose our course, we would back\\nher up into the wind, we would not be too\\ndignified to go stern foremost, and in some\\nway if not in the best way, then in the\\nsecond-best way we would arrive.\\nAn artist once showed me a fine bit of land-\\nscape a wind-blown marsh, with a pool in\\nthe centre which reflected the blue sky and\\nthe dark shadow of a coming thunderstorm.\\nI spent about ten minutes on that, he said\\nto me I had never painted so fast in my\\nlife. The light-effects were changing every\\ninstant.\\nAnd when will you finish it I asked, in\\nmy stupidity.\\nFinish it? It is done! When the scene\\nchanged I could not add another stroke with-\\nout spoiling it. My chance had been given\\nme, and I had used it.\\nToilers, enter upon every task with the\\nardor of that impressionist painter. You see\\nbefore von some ideal of achievement. You\\nhave the opportunity to transfer it to the\\ncanvas of reality and permanence, to make it\\nthe, world s eternal possession. Grasp the\\npalette with eagerness. Seize a handful of", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "TEE BULLDOG GRIP. 143\\nbrushes. Eyes intent, hands swift, mind\\nstretched forth like a greyhound in the chase,\\ncapture the fleeting vision before the sun goes\\nbehind the cloud.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE XXX.\\nOUR BREATHITNTG-SPELLS.\\nID you ever consider the importance\\nof that gap between the steel rails\\nof a railway Without it, the ex-\\npansion of the steel in summer, hav-\\ning no longitudinal outlet, would bend and\\ntwist .the rail sideways, and our American\\nrecord of railway accidents would be far worse\\neven than it is. Alas many a life-train has\\nbeen wrecked because there were no gaps in\\nthe plans along which it ran.\\nMake a programme for the day, say the\\nmoralists, and they say well only, they often\\nforget to add, Insert in your programme a\\nfew intermissions. I will do this, we say\\nin the morning, and after 1 have done this I\\nwill take up that, and after that I will accom-\\nplish the other, and after the other the next\\nthing, and so on through all the hours. AVe\\nplan to do too much.\\nOne of the results is disappointment, for we\\ncannot do all we plan to do. AVe end the day\\nwith an uneasy sense of tasks still untouched,\\nl li", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "OUB BREATHING-SPELLS. 145\\na docket far from cleared. Others might deem\\nus to have accomplished a good day s work,\\nbut the things we meant to do and didn t,\\nblind us to the things we did do. Then come\\nthe blues.\\nWe ought to plan for rest, for doing nothing,\\nor as near to nothing as this work-crazed\\nworld can come to. We ought to imitate\\nGod s wisdom in nature, and provide seasons\\nof fallow ground and of hibernating. But we\\nexpect to go right on raising crops of energy\\nand enthusiasm and all sorts of activity from\\nthe same ground, without a particle of the re-\\ncuperation and fertilization of fruitful repose.\\nSome folks will think this advice very un-\\nwise. They will have in mind the shirks, the\\nsluggards, whom we have to be continually\\nprodding to get them to do any work at all.\\nThey will take your words as an excuse for\\nlaziness, urge the critics. Well, let them,\\nthen, though they have no business to. If not\\nthat excuse, they would have some other. I\\nam not going to permit my care for them to\\nkeep me from giving a greatly needed warning\\nto the precious lives that are doing the world s\\nwork.\\nTo you, then, toilers, and to you alone, I\\nwould cry Live for the eternities There s\\na year to come after this, and a year after that", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 HOW TO WORK.\\nyear. God does not want you to do it all at\\nonce. God wants you to work as He works,\\nwithout hurry or worry, and with a plenty of\\njoyous repose. Keep fresh for His sake!\\nKeep young and vigorous and smooth-browed\\nfor His sake Live for His eternity, into\\nwhich He wants to welcome us strong and\\nalert and buoyant, ready for age-long service\\nwith Him.\\nNow vacations help, but vacations come to\\nmost men only once a year, and go as rapidly\\nas they are slow in coming. The great vaca-\\ntion, after all, is made up of fifty-two days, the\\nSabbaths of the twelvemonth. Those are the\\nworker s chief breathing-spells, and I should\\nsend out a very incomplete book upon work if\\nI said in it nothing about Sabbath-keeping.\\nAll ten of the commandments are working\\nrules, but the fourth is preeminently the com-\\nmandment for workers.\\nIf you want to know whether you are keep-\\ning Sunday, ask yourselves earnestly whether\\nyou are keeping it. What do I mean To\\nexplain.\\nWe never talk about keeping Monday,\\nTuesday, Wednesday. These days have their\\nfixed and peculiar duties and observances much\\nas Sunday lias, but the truth is that instead of\\nII keeping Monday and the rest of the week-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "OUR BREATHING-SPELLS. 147\\ndays, they keep a great deal of us. They\\nkeep so much of us that on Monday night we\\nare usually, if we are common, average folk, a\\nlittle worse off, physically and mentally, yes,\\neven spiritually, often, than we were Monday\\nmorning. And so with the rest of the days,\\nup to Saturday night.\\nI am not saying that it is best, of right, that\\nthe week-days should keep so much of our\\nstrength and our mental faculties and our\\ngood temper and our hope and faith. I am\\nonly talking about facts.\\nBut we all have known days at whose end\\nwe felt ourselves born into a new life. Since\\nthe dawn we have come into wondrous acces-\\nsions of strength and knowledge and beauty\\nand joy. The day has built itself into a per-\\nmanent addition to our lives. We have\\nkept it.\\nSuch days whether the first day of the\\nweek, or the third, it matters not are Sab-\\nbaths. And such days will all our Sabbaths\\nbe, if we keep them aright.\\nThis, then, is the test of your keeping of the\\nSabbath. At the close of the Lord s Day are\\nyou refreshed in bodily powers You have\\nkept it. Is your mind stored with a new\\ntreasure of noble thought? You have kept it.\\nAre you happier, braver, more contented, trust-", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 HOW TO WORK.\\nful, and loving? You have kept it. But if\\nyou are weary and fretful, sad and selfish, you\\nhave not kept it it has kept you.\\nThe Sabbath is for the eternities. It is for\\npermanence. It is for building, for accretion,\\nfor keeping. Is not Monday also for these\\nthings you ask. Have we kept Monday\\nunless at its close we are stronger, wiser, hap-\\npier, than at its beginning Assuredly, no.\\nIf we look well to our Sunday-keeping, how-\\never, we need not greatly fear. We shall then\\nkeep Monday, and Tuesday, and all the days\\nof the week.\\nI have just said that our fifty-two Sabbaths\\nare the chief breathing-spells of the year. That\\nwas a thoughtless remark, for it left out of\\naccount our daily Sabbaths, the holy night-\\ntimes. A worker, after all, is made or un-\\nmade, not by his working but by his sleeping\\nhours.\\nThe well-known Philadelphia physician, Dr.\\nWilliam Pepper, although he died at the age\\nof fifty-five, is said to have done as much work\\nas an ordinary man living to reach one hun-\\ndred years. This he accomplished through\\nhis enviable power of sleeping just when he\\nwished.\\nHe would of ton interrupt a consultation\\nwith a patient by saving, Excuse me, madam,", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "OUB BREATHING-SPELLS. 149\\nbut I could talk with you more satisfactorily\\nif I had a few minutes nap. Throwing him-\\nself on a lounge and telling a servant to wake\\nhim up in ten minutes, he would drop off at\\nonce into profound slumber, from which he\\nwould spring refreshed when awaked, and\\nwould take up the business just where he had\\nleft it.\\nAs he was being driven from one appoint-\\nment to another of his busy life, he would\\nsleep in his carriage. He could sleep on\\ntrains. He would sleep in the parlors of\\nstrangers, no matter what was thought of him.\\nIn fine, he was a master of somnolence.\\nThat is an art especially to be cultivated in\\nthese hurrying, bustling days, these days of\\nnervous prostration and paralysis. We need\\nnot become Dickens s Fat Boys Dr. Pepper\\ncertainly did not. But the first requirement\\nof our physical being, proper sleep, is far\\nnearer to godliness than even the cleanliness of\\nthe proverb.\\nDr. Hale once wrote it as his opinion that a\\nhealthy man should be able to fall asleep at\\nany time he chose, and anywhere. A healthy\\nbaby can. If this is true, how far from health\\nis the average man Insomnia, one of the\\nmost terrible of diseases, is sadly common.\\nMillions of men and women have almost lost", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 HOW TO WORK.\\nthe blessed knowledge of sound sleep. Their\\nnights are as full of tossings as their days of\\nfretfulness and fume. It is the rattle and\\nroar of the iron horse by day, followed, of\\ncourse, by the nightmare. And to the young\\nalas and alas the fearful contagion of un-\\nrest is rapidly passing.\\nAnd what is the remedy Not in drugs,\\nwhere hundreds of thousands are seeking it.\\nIn those drugs lie coiled the chains of one of\\nthe most fearful slaveries groaning man has\\never known. Not in philosophy or mind-\\ncures, reason how you will. In none of these\\nthings but in this I will both lay me\\ndown in peace and sleep, for Thou, Lord,\\nalone makest me dwell in safety. That is it.\\nlie giveth unto His beloved sleep.\\nIt is the Christian contentment, the Chris-\\ntian self-denial, the Christian resignation of\\nthis world, the Christian peace of conscience,\\nand the Christian joy it is this happy frame\\nof mind that alone can cure insomnia. In the\\nmatter of Bleep, as in other matters, the Chris-\\ntian lias become as a little child. And we\\nknow of no better test of one s Christianity\\nthan this.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXI.\\nTHE TRIVIAL ROUND.\\nLADY once heard a friend quote the\\nwell-known line from a beautiful\\nhymn, The trivial round, the com-\\nmon task. O don t say that she\\nexclaimed, impulsively. I could not stand it\\nif that were all, if it were only a round, if the\\nroutine began to-morrow just where it left off\\nto-day, and I had it all to do over again with-\\nout any progress. It is trivial enough my\\nlife, but it must be more than a circle, or I\\ncannot endure it.\\nThat is the feeling of us all. We can do\\nthe common task, we can support the dull\\nroutine, if we know that we are getting some-\\nwhere, if we see the goal approaching, how-\\never slowly. But a treadmill, especially a\\ntreadmill yoked to no achieving machine,\\nnothing in the universe is more dreary than\\nthat.\\nFortunately, though there is a trivial round,\\nand though far too many lives have adopted\\nit as their order, there need be no such thing\\n151", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152 HOW TO WORK.\\nin any life. The rest of the stanza gives the\\ntrue doctrine. Read\\nThe trivial round, the common task,\\nWill furnish all we ought to ask\\nRoom to deny ourselves, a road\\nTo lead us daily nearer God.\\nSo it seems that the trivial round which\\nthe poet had in view is not a circle or a dead\\nlevel, but round and round on an ascending\\nspiral, a great winding staircase, hard enough\\nto climb, as we all know, but conducting us\\nthrough all the damp stones and the darkness\\nand the weariness and the monotony, up to a\\nbright, sunny platform whence the kingdoms\\nof all happiness will be outspread before our\\ndeHghted vision, for we shall have mounted\\ninto the paradise of God.", "height": "4492", "width": "2870", "jp2-path": "howtowork00well_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Our Latest Publications*\\nLincoln at Work* b y wmam o. stoddard.\\nFinely illustrated by Sears Gallagher. 173 pages, cloth, embel-\\nlished cover design. 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About 150 pages each. Price, 75 cents each.\\nHow To Work*\\nThis is a working nation, and yet few among its millions of\\nworkers know how to work to the best advantage and with the\\nbest results. The fundamental principles of wise labor are set\\nforth in these chapters in a familiar, conversational style.\\nMuch of the book consists of actual talks given to young men\\nand women starting out in life. Puttering, Putting Oft,\\nHurry Up! Taking Hints, A Pride in Your Work,\\nCan Conquers, The Bulldog Grip, The Trivial Round,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094these are specimen titles of the thirty-one chapters. The\\nbook is not didactic, but presents truth in illustrations, so that\\nit sticks.\\nHow To Play*\\nThe author of this book evidently believes in recreation.\\nThe very first chapter is entitled, The Duty of Playing. 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