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Show THE FINISHER. No boy or man will evor be a success suc-cess If ho drops a plan or quits work on anything before ho has brought It to a successful end. Tho reason some men are failures Is because their Initial energy soon runs out. When thoy strlko the rough places, they havo "neither steam nor sand." You need not put a log across their track; merely a straw or a feather will do, oven If success Is looming up in plain sight. At tho first hint of oxortlon they are done, throw up tho attempt and sink back into apathy. Trying to pull or push such pooplt out of tho slough of llltortuno Is like trying to pull a sheep out of tho Ire. It Is all a dead weight, and i the victim won't wiggle a toa to nelp himself. The minute the holping j hand Is removed, down goes the help-less help-less on deepeer than ever, with louder and louder waits at "bad luck." jThe only way to help such people Is to let poverty get after thora with a club and bang them Into energy or Insensibility. True success In life la simply the leaving of no Job ished. When a boy, I hated to leave a Job half done and then go beck to finish It. u seem' ed It worse than ever before, and It was mere tiresome. Learn to plan every detail first, then carry each step to a successful finish. I have worked for men who were not sure what they meant to do. We hired men who were flying from one half- done Job to another. Wo spent half the time walking around; nil becauso tho boss had no plans outlined for the day. We finished, tired out,' with little lit-tle done. It Is only the perfect work that pays for tho doing. "There, I guess that will do" won't do nt all. Let no work bear your mark that Is not done with all the skill at your command, bo It making a hoe handle or plowing plow-ing stony land. There are too many patched fences In life. Often the lack of "know how" Is tho cause of failure. From this day train your eye to observe. Learn every dttatl of your work. Get a working knowledge knowl-edge of tho "why" of It, for years afterward af-terward that very knowledge may be of great use to you, and save you many dollars. Havo your own trado or profession, and hew to the line; but whatever you begin, finish. A carpenter shop with a brcken. choir presents no recommendation. C. E. Davis. |