Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-03

sALwAYs BEe1N RIGHL We once knew an old
friend who had but one piece of advice to young
beginners twas, q if thee'l only begin right ali
win 60 we'll We have often thought that there
more IN the recommend ation than even the good
Quaker saw, for there IS scarcely nythng to be done
in life to which the adage ibegin right will not
right 'l.
Who for example, is the healthiest the early riser
or the sluggard 1t is the man who begins the day
right by leaving his bed with the sun and inhaling
the fresh air of morning, not the one who remains
till eight nine o'clock in close chamber sleeping
dull supplying sleep. Who gets through his days
work the easiestP The early riser. The man of
business who is at his store soonest is always best
prepared for the customers of the day. and often in
deed has sold many bill before his laggard neigh
bors are about. Sir Walter Scott used to have half
his days writing finished before breakfast shrewd
observer has said that late riser the day
in trying to the hours he lost in the
ing. Mind and body are both freshest early in the
day. The lawyer should think, the minister study,
the author write, the valetudinarian walk ride,
and the mechanic or farmer be at work early as
possible.
Nor is this ALL The great bulk of enterprises that
fail owe their ruin to not having been begun right
business is undertaken without sufficient capital,
connexion, knowledge. 1t ends unfavorably.
Why? Because it was not begun right. A young
professional man, whose probationary period of stu
dy has been spent in pleasure rather than in hard
reading complains that he cannot succeed. Why,
again? Because he has not begun right either? A
stock company blows up. Still why? Ten to one
the means employed were not adequate to the end,
or else it was started with inefficient officers and in
ether case it not begun right. Two young
housekeepers break up their gay establishment, the
lady going home, perhaps to her fathers, taking her
husband with her. Why? They did not begin
right for they commenced too large scale, for
getting that the expenses of family increase every
year, and that in event. is it safe for to live
up to his income An inventor starts manufacto-
ry, in which his improvements in machinery is
brought into play; but after while he finds himself
insolvent his factory is sold another reaps VIII
he has sown Why? Alas ! like too many others,
he has undertaken more than he has means to carry
through. He did not begin right, and his ruin was
the consequence.
But above all things, life should be begun right.
Young men rarely know how much their conduct,
during their first few years. affects their subsequent
1t is not only that older persons in the
business form their opinions of them at this time,
but that every beginner acquires during these years.
habits for good or i'll which color his whole future
career. We have some of the ablest young men,
with every advantage of fortune and friends SOW the
seeds of ruin and early death by induging too freely
ers, with far less capacity and without any backing
but industry and energy, rise gradually to fortune
and influence. Franklin is familiar illustration of
what can do who begins right. If he had been
too proud TO eat rolls in the street when he was
poor boy, he would meyer have been minister pleni
potentary to the court of France.
Always begin right Survey the whole GROUND be-
fore you commence any undertaking, and you will
then be prepared to go forward successfully Neglect
this, however, and you almost sure to fail In
other words, begin right. A good commencementis
half the battle false first step is almost certain
defeat. BEGIN RIGHT! Philadelphia Ledger.