The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-05-14
BY T. S. ARTHUR

NO,
No did you say?'
4 did,
'Humph! Unjust beg leave to differ from
you
why should you feel gloomy, HarEy?'
sWhy2 Havn't Just said?'
you have mentioned that business was
dull
sAnd so it is, duller than have ever known
it,
| And are you gloomy on that accountF
Yes am, and think the cause quite SUI
fcent'
I w hch is more than do
/ Suppose | go to the wallH Ind the
/ young man compressed his lips tightly, and
! looked steadily into the old gentleman's
/ face.
! 1T will be your own FAULT if you do
i 4 don't see how. can't make business.
! Yes you camp
'How?'
/ by trying
! 4 10 try
by setting down and dreaming about GO
ing 10 the wall. Doyou call that trying?'
Bull can't force customers to come to my
store and purchase goods
No but / can tell you what you can do,
SIR
For which will be infinitely obliged to
YOU
The will is creative; thai is my doctrine
4 don't understand you
Where there is a will there is way.-Do
you understand thatP
Yes little better, butt don't believe the
d octrine.'
Though il is true, Notwithstanding
Hone makes n man~Despondency ruins
him. Ifyou wish to succeed, you must have
confidence II you wish 10 go 10 the wall,as
you say, doubt and you win go there quick
| " enough. While you have been sitting
here, brooding over your dull sales u more
sangune man would have been half out of
his difficulties His will would have created
the means ofhis extricaion.'
Il doubt it,
Observation-Disclosures. hate the word !!
/ II should be stricken from our language
! Well hath il been said, He that doubteth is
damned For doubt will ruin any one. 1t
has already ruined its hundreds of thous-
ands, and will ruin its hundreds OF thousands
more. Hope-confdence-th make sue
cess-while doubt and dependency may
overthrow even the best-lard schemes
"A very beautiful theory, uncle. should
/ like TO know how, 10 a man while three
thousand dollars 10 pay in the next thI ct
weeks, confidence, or hope, or any menta
state is going TO bring the money. nigh
sit here and hope until doomsday and not bt
a dollar better off, nor one step nearer the
end of my difficulties
That is certainly true, if you sit still, II
would set you busilY at work in the effort Il
get YOU out of your difficulties
Hope would have hopeless task to per
form;
The old gentlemen shook his head, anC
looked vexcd-walked backwards and for
wardsbelo his nephew for a minute or two
and then pausing said,
Harry, are you willing 10 succeed in busl
ness?'
1T is strange that you should ask such
question: c.,
cess then. must result from well-drected
confident action-not for gloomy inaction.-
Being both gloomy and inactive, you are, o
course, not in the way of success
But, what can do uncle?,
; Let US see. You say that you have three
: thousand dollars u pay in The next ihre'
S weeksP
Yes
How much will you have towards thu
| sumr
'Notover fifteen hundred
You are certain of that much?'
Quite so. have now eight hundred i
the bank, and three or four small notes
which will be paid in during the time. Be
sides nv sales will amount 10 two or tire
: hundred. But, still, you see, will be fitee
hundred dollars short Where is that
come fromP
Haven't you number Of good bills o
: your books?
). yes, to the amount of three times what
e want
t, why don't you make an effort to colle'
q themP
o q intended doing so, but thus far hav
o neglected TO make out the account
n y on haveP With look of surprise.
Il 4 shall do it at once. But all can get
: this way won't be over three or four hundre
: dollars at best
J, Suppose you get three hundred?
II sWellP
you will still be short twelvehundred do
larsP
e .And where that's to come from, the LoI
a knows, for DON'T
1t What is your stock worth q
/ Twenty thousand dollars
&C sCan'tyou force a sale at cost, or a trli
l. above cost, TO the extent you need
NO, | don't believe cam
q 'Why not?'
l. who will sell toy
t Think. Havn't you goods in your stor
which, if put under the hammer, would bril-
g costp
10 yes, think have
ut Then send them to auction if you cal
- make private SALE
y don't like 10 send my goods 10 auctio
1t has bad appearance,and might affect n
c. credit
3 Offer them at private sale, them
/ have never done such thing. and har
n ly know how 10 go about it,
4. You will be willing 10 sell portion
your stock at cost, in order 10 procure mo