ENTHUSIASM—AN ASSET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 2 November 1907, Page 4

ENTHUSIASM—AN ASSET.

Cash doesn’t tell the tale of success in anything, ns stock-i.\ trade to start on. Nor does csh very clearly indicate a successful career when yon consider the latter end of that career. Some successful men have no cash to show for their work, others have lots ol it Likewise, some unsuccessful men can showa big hank accoui t. But for a young man * tatting out in lile, no matter what his aim, enthsiasm is tar mere useful than cash. The retired wealthy farmer can start his boy with a small fortune, and say, “ Now, there is the farm, it is yours. Go to work. ’ ’ But suppose the son does not want to be a farmer. Will he succeed ? Not likely. Another farmer who has worked bard and spent his earnings in making a beautiful home, and in educating his children, has no fortune to bestow upon his son. He cannot even loan him a sum of any consequence. But he has instilled into him from babyhood a love for the farm. He has taken pains to open the secrets of nature to him. The boy has never considered farm life a drudgery, and starts upon his own career full of enthusiasm. Nothing will keep that young man down. Riches take wings and fly. Moths and rust currupt worldly goods, thieves break through and steal, but as long as a man has enthusiasm he is dauntless. He will rise above the ruin and succeed in spite of everything. There are two kinds of enthusiasm, the spasmodic and the chronic, or abiding. There are folks who tackle a new thing with enthusiasm and soon lose it. When a boiler blows off at a safety valve no power is generated. It is only as it comes through the arteries of the engine that it has power to move things. The fellow who jumps from one thing to another does not accomplish anything. He is wasting his energy. It is the abiding enthusiasm that counts. The man loves farming not only for a week or a month, but for life. He will study, work, and accomplish something—more than that, he will live a happy life.