Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-09-23

erage is as mucn an IulaluaIlOn as is lnI
smoking of opium by the Chinese, and
the former is quite as destructive to the
success of the business man as the latter
5th. Let hope predOatndtc, bit be moi
too visionary. Many persons are always
kept poor because they are too visionary
Every project looks to them like certain
success, and therefore they keep changing
from one business to another, always in
hot water, and always under the har-
row. The plan of " counting the chick
ems before they are hatched," is an error
of ancient date, but it does not seem to
improve by age.
9th. DO not scatter YOatr foarc,S. En-
gage in one kind of business only, and
stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or
until you conclude to abandon it, A
constant hammering on one nail will gen.
orally drive it home at last, so that it can
be clinched. When mans undivided
attention is centered on one object, his
mind will continually be suggesting i'm
provements of value, which would escape
him if his brain were occupied by do
zen different subjects at once Many a
fortune has slipped through mems fingers
by engaging in too many occupations at
once. .....-
9TH. Engage loroper emrloyoeS. Never
employ a man of bad habits, when one
whose habits are good can be found to
fill his situation. l have generally been
extremely fortunate in having faithful and
competent persons to fill the responsible
situations in my business, and man can
scarcely be too grateful for such a bless
ing. When you find a man unfit to ELL
his station, either from incapacity or pc
culiarity of character or indisposition,
dispense with his services, and do not
drag out miserable existence in the vain
attempt to change his nature. 1t is utter
ly impossible to do so. " You cannot
make a silk purse" &c. He has been
created for some other sphere; let him
find and fill it.
8th. AdrertiSc y0ar business. DO not
htde yoIr light uqder buSheE. Whatever
your occupation or calling may be, if it
needs support from the public, adrc>7isc
it thoroughly and efficiently, in some
shape or other, that will arrest public at
tention. L freely confess that what sue
cess l have had in life may fairly be at
tributed more to the public press than to
nearly all othercauses combined l..-Ts
9th. Aroid all ertrorugonce and al
scays Ire cotsideraby aritjtin yoatr income,
If you can do 50 acitls0aa absolute aarr0ion!
1t needs no prophet to tell us that those
who live fully up to their means, without
any thought of a reverse in life, can nev-
er attain pecuniary independence. A
brief reference to my own history may,
perhaps, serve to illustrate this part of the
subject BY the death of my father in
1926, | was thrown upon the world at the
age of sixteen, dependent solely upon my
own resources for support. l never found
any difficulty in making money, but the
thought did not occur to me during ff-
teen years. of trying to save. At one
time, when lotteries were lawful in my
native State (Connecticut), I was extern
siEely engaged in the sale of tickets, and
my prophets were enormous, sometimes as
high as five hundred dollars per day-but
| thought very little Of trying to lay up
money | could always easily manage to
expend my income, lett be ever so great.
In l641, / purchased the American
Museum in New York, without dollar,
for I was not worth a dollar in the world.
But I was never .disheartened L always
felt that | could make money fast enough,
if | only set my mind to it. | remember
meeting friend in Broadway a few weeks
before [ came in possession of the Mu-
scum o. $50 Hsst 5or ss95 ntgo 8dI
-zs' Well, y says5I, :" Mr. A., / am going
TO buy the American Museum. ~ niif Draw
/" Buy it" says he, for he knew / had
no oproperty. 1"oWbat do you intend buy
ing with!" 1g % aa1o9i 5oa gnd sbIaf
Brass" I replied, a for silver and
geldfI have nene," 8T--rL4 ZION
odaIt was even s0.eg Everybody who
had any connection with theatrical, cir