Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-10-22

oil KIND Providence.
MARY ANN ROBERTS.
Baltimore. September 10Th, 1886"
| EFFECTS OF PERSEV ERANCE--SEt.
ER DESPAIR.
| The Providence Chronicle furnishes the fol-
/ lowing account OF success from unurlnS per-
severance, morality, and honest labor.
| In the fail OF the year 1880, a young man
Just out OF his time, landed al whitehall, New
| York, to seek employment as journey man
printer. He comparatively poorand Trend
less, and after three months spent IN seeking
work, was about ready TO give up all hopes oil
success; but resolving still TO persevere, he at
length obtained employment at eight dollars
per week. IN the Office OF the New \ ork Evan
gelisi. weekly paper published IN that city.
lie continued in that situation till the sprung
OF 1882, when he procured press and few
! type, on credit, and opened very small print
ing office TO print cards aid circulars. lie
had no sooner commenced business IN this
small way for himself. than the Cholera, that
awful scourge, appeared in the city. he was
compelled, with heavy debt, TO close his Office
and 60 TO wolk as Jouneyman on the Evan
gelist, to procure bread for his little family.
After few months, when the Cholera had
subsidized, nothing daunied by SO unpromlsing
beginning, the perseverng young man re-
opened his office, and obtained occasionally,
| job or two oil work. His first attempt al pub
llclty was The World, at one yiew," geo
graphical chart Of which he published three or
four thousand copies. He found, however,
that his chart would not sell !; he was using
the sheets for waste paper when friend
suggested to him that he ought TO advertise !;
that II the sheet was known, 1t would doubt
lao 10
this hint TO advertise. to which so much oil his
subsequent success is to be traced, he sent an
advertisement to the NEW YORK Sun" Chen
just star,ed,) headed "1he World, for t,celre
and a half cents!" This caption took we'll
HIS little office was the next day crowded
with customers to buy the WORLD for the
small sum Of twelve aud a-half cents. This
sheet was followed by another called the "New
Family Receipt Book" which, by similar ef-
forts, met with similar success, and altogether
about thirty thousand Of these useful sheets
were sold Encouraged by his success, he
conceived an enterprise Of still greater impor-
tance--the publication OF three beautiful vol
umes entitled Pictorial illustrations of the
Blblen Most of his friends dissuaded him
from this expensive undertaking, predicting
failure; some Knocked, and others smiled but
in vain. In the fall of 1910, the work appear
ed 4; and owing partly TO its intrinsic value,
partly TO the beauty of its illustrations and out
side appearance, and partly to its being so ex-
tenslyeiy advertised, IT met with An almost
Unprecedented popularity.
Not 10 extend this article too much, the
reader has already surmised that this enterpri-
sing and persevering young journeyman prin-
ter is no other than RoBERT SEARS, the we'll
known author. writer. compiler, printer, pub
Usher, and bookseller, OF the three beautiful
volumes Of the Pictorial Illustrations Of the
Bible which succeeded each other at intervals
OF about SIX months, and OF which. by the and
OF about $1,000 expended in advertising, the
almost incredible number of 10000 were sold
IN less than eighteen months and also Of sew
eral other Pictorial volumes-"The Bible BIZ
ography )" the pictorial Wonders OF the
World )" "New Pictorial History of the Amer
lean Revolution :" pictorial History OF the
Bible J" Guide to knowledge" Pictorial
Sunday Book" each volume forming large
octave of from 6 10 700 pages. illustrated with
upwards of 200 elegant plates.
All these volumes, arerecsived wiiha popu-
larity nearly or quite equal to that of the Pic
torial illustrations; and IN addition to these,
Mr.. SEARS is now the editor, proprietor. and
publisher of "Sears' New Family Magazine"
"a most valuable periodical publication,
which has already obtained an almost unprs-
cedented circulation. How striking an illus
tration is afforded in the uphill progress OF
this fnendle,s lourneyman printer. OF the truth
of the adage-''Lobor oDlnis rulcst"-and that
there is nothing possible 10 man which indus
try and integrity will not accomplish The
poor boy OF yesterday. so poor that dollar
was a miracle in his vision, houssless and
brcadess-compeied to wander on isot from
village to village, with his bundle on his
back, in order to procure labor and the
means Of subsistence. has become the talented
and honorable young man OF to-day, by the
power of his good right arm, and the potent
influence Of his pure principles, firmly held
and perpetually maintained. When poverty,
and what the world calls disgrace, stared him
in the face, he shuddered not; but pressed on
ward and exulted most in high and honorable |
eIerton in the midst of accumulatlng disasters
and calamitss. Let this young man be cher |
ished, for he honors his country and dignihes |
his race. High blood--f this course not in |
his veins, he IS a free born American, and |
therefore sovereign and prince. Wealth |
what cares he for that, so long as his heart |
is pure, and his walk upright-he knows and |
his country tells that the little finger Of an |
honest and upright young man is worth more
than the whole body OF an ellemnate and dis |
honest rich man. These are the men who |
make the countrywide bring to it whatever
Of iron sinew and uniaiiing spiri, it possesses
or desires-who are rapidly rendering il the
freest land beneath the sun.