Article January 23, 1904 Issue

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Concord (N. H.) Daily Patriot

Don't spend your days wishing for this or that opportunity. If you cannot find your opportunity right here and now you will never find it, though you live to be as old as Methuselah and undergo every experience of which human life is capable.

So many people go through the world "looking for opportunities," with their heads in a perpetual whirl of "schemes." Every new thing that presents itself is eagerly taken up and discussed, and, it may be, tried for a time, then dropped, simply and solely because of the human animal's inability to be doing many things at the same time.

The world contains a fairly large proportion of people of this class; you meet them everywhere, in stores, banks, offices, on the streets, the railways and steamships; men and women who get to middle life with a certain amount of youthful enthusiasm, ever on the lookout for "something to turn up," as they express it. These are the jobbers of life, the scene-shifters, the "hacks," the go-betweens, and seeing that the world has need of them, and can use them all, there is every reason for their existence; the sadness of their condition so often lies in the manner in which it has been brought about; the waster of God-given strength, and intelligence, and time; the frittering away of these things in absolutely useless flittings after the unattainable.

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