Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard., 1853-04-30
st1ccEss IN LIFE.

oet ahead in the worldu If they are born rich
they manage to become poor, and if they begin
poor they have a mack of always remaining SO.
In the race for fortune or fame they are contnuai
ly being passed by others, less favored oy crc11n
stance originally, or less endowed by nature. Yet
they never admit that their want OF success IS the
fault of themselves. They attribute it to their
hard luck, to the roguery of men they nave con-
6ded in or to the improper organization OF soclety
but never to their Incidence, folly, or dencleh
CIV of brains. To believe them, no beings were
ever so unfortunate. A constant subject OF lrrl-
taton to them is the success OF their nelghoors'
In their Judgment, nobody prospers through merit.
IIf friend makes fortune, it is his good luck.
If an old schoolfellow becomes a man OF mark,
tbey express their wonder that one, who was such
stupid boy, has humbugged the world so com
pIeteiy If an acquaintance moves into hne
house, or sets up carriage, they whisper every
where g that fool and his money is soon parted:
In short they can no forgive others tor rising
than they can rise themselves.
Yet such persons invariably owe their want OF
success to some radical defect in their own charac-
tiers. In cne man it is Incidence, in another lack
of shrewdness, in third, it is some other vice OF
education or inheritance. Frequently failure III
life is to be traced to mistaken calling. man,
who might have made good farmer, happens to
be born of ambitious parents, who think, errone-
ously that it is more honorable to have their son
Latin, attends lectures, gets diploma, and then
settles down to kill people till his incapacity is
found out when he starres. Or lad IS forced,
! by equally i-judging parents, to become merch-
ant when he should have been left to become
lawyer. Or an engineer instead OF an artist. Or
a farmer, instead of a mechanic. In short, there
is no end to the mistakes which are made, by lS-
norant or foolish parents, in starting their children
in life and the worst of these sort of errors is,
Al f1,o If bpc9OSp a
business, once adopted, is not easily laid aside.
To spend years at college, in store, or at the plane,
and find, at twenty-one, that the vocation is a
wrong one, is disheartening to all but men OF the
hardest stamp. The discovery plunges even minds
of ordinary strength often into despair. 1t ship
wrecks the feeble invariably, and, as it were, in
sight of the port they are leaving.
| But the great bulk of those who fail in life are
ruined through their on dement's. Not that in
dustry, energy, and capacity always command an
immediate return for frequent and fierce are often
the buffets which the best men have to encounter
But, in the long run, enterprise, economy, know
ledge of business, assiduity, and an honest policy
will carry the day. A with these sterling
qualities is like cork he may be submer 5ed for
while, but he cannot be kept down. Just in pro
portion to the perfection in which he enjoys these
attributes, will also be the completeness OF his sue
cess. If he joins to them unusual fitness for his
pursuit, his triumph VIII Oe ooIA CARRIER aHu
Iprouder; for in every business there are opportu
mites which sagacious mind of this sort will see
and to detect these turns in the tide, which "1ead
on to fortune," requires talent peculiar to the par
tcular profession rather than that which is uni
versal. So true is this, that while all know &c
muses." who never succeed, no one knows a man
with special faculty. and in position to exercise
it, who fails in life; while all point to those
who have risen without general ability, one car
point to those who have thus risen, unless they
were adopts at their trade. 1t would seem to re-
qure no talent to make candles, yet rich tallow
chandler, if lie has earned his wealth, is never
Ounce. An ordinary tailor stitches all his life
great tailor cuts his way" to opuience. An(
Uice fool, if bred to profession, sinks into
a pauper.
A brave man will never give up, however much
fortune, for while, goes against him. A hopeful
man will never even be dsheartened. A generous
man will never envy his more successful neighbor
Finally, wise will wait patiently for his turn
sure that it will come some time, and determined
when it happens, to be wide awake, so that he may
avail himself of it. "Life is too short to waste
its moments in deploring bad luck" said a shrcwt
thinker, we must go after success, since it viii
not come to us and we have no time to spare"
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.
PADDLE Your Own CANOE. Young man yol
must paddle your own canoe 1t is OH the who'll
better that YOU should See that younr man Wh