The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-04-20
SCRUBS.

when it takes the form of scrubJism. There
is no class of men who labor under more
painful delusion than those who practice up
on this prncipe-who, as II moralist says,
"think. to get the weatherguage of all man.
kind by cribbing off sixpences from trades
mems bills, and never giving dinners" 1t is
true such persons meet with degree of
worldly success, sometimes, that justiies
their stinginess to themselves; but, nine times
out of ten, it will be found that they have
succeeded in spite of that qualify, and not
on account Of it, the natural tendency being
to drag them down. They have accumulated
wealth, not by their scrubpsID, rs they chuck.
lingly fatter themselves, but by their indus
try, perseverance,, caution, and other qualities
which may have CHANGED to be associated
with their meanness, and which would have
ensured far more brilliant results without it.
There is an old English proverb, that "a pen
ny soul never came to two-pence;' and when
we consider how an extreme narrowness in
money dealings disgusts the public, making
enemies of those on whose good will fortune
greatly depends-and how fatal, too, is such
narrowness to that spirit of enterprise which
is necessary to q brilliant successive shall
not deem the old saw an exaggeration.
If we look abroad into society, we shall see
abundant proofs of the truth of these re-
marks. The history of business men teens
with cases of brilliant results flowing from
generous, noblcninded policy. A writer in
an English journal adduces several of a stri-
point that we cannot forbear quoting them
The first is that of NJ. Lafitte, of Paris, who,
though it was remarked of him that the gen.
erosity of his nature made him the dupe OF
whoever chose TO attempt imposing upon him,
yet rose from the condition of a penniess
clerk to be the first banker of his day, and
one of the most eminent public characters
of his country. His case reminds one of the
remark of JenkinsOn in the Vicar of Wake
field, about his simple, knd-hearted neighbor
Marlborough, whom he had contrived TO
cheat in one way or another once eve ;y>year
"and yet" said he, "Flamborough, has been
regularly growing in rches,whiIe hayec6ne
to poverty and Jail" Another case is that
of Mr.. Fowler, famous beer brewer in
Scotland, who died very rich, and was believed
to have owed his wealth to benevolent lib
erality of nature, which, taking profess
siona direction, induced him to make his
liquor unusually good He would 90 up to
his watts, and, tasting the infusion, say, Still
rather poor, my lads--give it another cast of
the malt" By adhering to this course, he
obtained the highest character as a brewer,
and in n few years had large remunerative
sale for his ale, throughout Great Britain, In
dia, and the Colonies. IB discussion of the
directors Of an English railway about fares
and arrangements for the public convenience,
the chairman is said to have remarked that
hard bargain is euer a bad bargain for The dp-
parent gainer--a maxim to which all assent
ed; and, as consequence, its spirit being i'm
pressed on the whole management Of the line,
late writer hazards the prophecy that the
road will be eventually amongst the most
prosperous in Europe.
Such ever has been, AMI ever will be, the
results of n liberal, whoIe-soued policy. And
is it not reasonable, and only reasonable, that
he should best succeed in Lille, who pursues
his ends in this spirit, rather than he who
adopts selfish, eXtorting policy? Can it be
expected that he will make great headway in
the world, who is doing everything to gain
the i'll will, instead of the good will, Of his
fellows? "ln the one case" it has been truly
remarked, "it is himself and n thousand minor
influences working to the end; in the other,
it is himself working to it, but thousand
secret influences working against it. Con-
sidering the difficulties which they ncedleSsly
raise in their course, the successes of the sell
fish are far more wonderful than those of the
generous. Where, with competent prudence
and skill, there is n genuine natural suavity
towards others, accompanied by n practical
liberality according to the measure of the un-
derstood means, all works we'll and ultimate
triumph is certain; but the prosperity of the
thorough scrub,attained amidst the contempt
ana detestation of the public, can never be
anything but kind OF miracle when il occurs,
and, far more probably, il is strained after in
vain"
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