The Empire County argus., 1854-09-09
STICK to some one Pursuit.

There cannot be a greater error than to be frc-
quently changing ones business. If any man will
look around and notice who have got rich and who
have not, out Of those he started in life with, he
will find that the successful! have generally stuck
to some ore pursuit. Two lawyers for example,
begin to practise at the same time. One devotcs
his whole mind to his profession. lays in slowly n
stock Of legal learning. and waits patiently it'may
be for years, till he gains an opportunity to show
his superiority. The other, timing Of such slow
work, dashes into politics. Generally at the end
of twenty years, the latter will not be worth PEN
ny while the former will have d handsome practice
and count his tens of thousands in bank stock or
mortgages. Two clerks attain ority simulta-
neously. One remains with his former employers
or at least in the same line Of trade first small
salary, then on larger until finally, if he is meri
torious, no is taken into partnership. The other
thinks it beneath him to fill subordinate position
now that he has become man, and accordingly starts
IN some other business on his own account, or un-
doriakcsa new firm in the old line of trade Where
does he end Often in insolvency, rarely in riches
To this every merchant can testify"
A young man is bred mechanic. He acquires
distaste for his trade, however; thinks it tedi-
way to get ahead, and sets out for the West or for
California. But, in most cases, the restless,
discontinued, and speculative spirit, which carried
him away at first renders continuous application at
any one place irksome to him and so he goes wan
dering about the worlda sort OF semi-civzed Arab,
really yagrant in character and sure to die insol-
vent Meantime, his fellow apprentice who had
staid at home, practising economy, and working
steadily at his trade has GROWN comfortable i'll his
circumstances, and is even perhaps citizen Of
mark. r..,'o,., II .. .s.,,.-. r. ' -'.
tgs here are men of ability in every walk of life
who are notorious for never getting along. Usual
ly, 1t is because they never stick to any one busi-
ness, Just when they have, mastered one pursuit,
and are on they point of mskirg some money, they
change it for another which they do not uader-
stand and in a little while, what little they are
worth is lost forever. We know scores Of such
persons Go where you WILL you will generally
find that the men who have failed in life are those
who never stuck to the one thing long .--PhIodsl-
phta Ledger, i III. ....r t... ~. a. t,,d.-.
FitsD DE ATHs ON The E4ANKEErBLADE-Sa Francisco,
Sept Sd. l854--Messrs. Frets and RalstOn, agents
Ihaependent Line. GEN1IEMEN:--I following is
a list Of deaths on board the Steamship Yankee
Blades on her last passage from Panama to San
Francisco: viif " oi lal g'Ho9sd sraaI
Cyrus Stephens, aged IS years, of Cholera e
b., Jacob Stephens, &, 2 & s,tt."
| John Kirk, s,b "a r. SO !" Chrenic Dyscntry.
lHbAlbert Scrbor .a.io % g Cholera r's 81
WIN Mclaughlin, 38 "hres" isa7 ra.
Josanh Anderson q" 80 " yf" .t- ..c4
r.. John Duford, f" S Panama Fever
And one Spaniard, whose name could not be ascer-
feained, of Panama Fever. Ios- gia7ur 'nl
I % .. 9'i'la',t2 ' Yours, very respectfully.
lmi5 oe45 9s tao. baar t LEMuEL WALES Surgeon,