Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-02-07
RUsINEss RNpURANoR.


Iof business may hnd is impossible To con,
tinue therein all their days III health
Imay demand a change. New aud wider
fields Sf euterprize and success may be
topeneI to them new elements Of charac-
Ysbe defsloped Mensn haxs q
positive distaSte for some puf
J succeed may demand change. None q
these cases fall within the general rule
Men may have rare talents, but if they are
''eyery thing by turns and nothing long, !"
they must not expect to prosper. No form
of business is free from vexation; each
man knows the spot on which his harness
chafs; but he cannot know how much his
own neighbor suffers. 1t is said that a
Yankee can splice rope in many differ
ent ways; an English sailor knows hut one
method, but in that method he does his
work well. Life is not long enough to al.
more than one pursuit.
The history of eminent men in all pro.
fessious and eallings proves this. The
great statesman, Daniel Webster, was
great lawyer. His boyhood was marked
with uncommon industry; as speaker he
did not excel in early life. With great
deliberation he selected the law as his
profession, nor could he be deferred from
his chosen pursuit. While a poor stu
dent, not the tempting prize of $500 a
year, as clerk of the courts, then large
sum, gained with great difficulty for him
by the zeal and influence of his father;ho
could all the persuasions of the father turn
him from. the mark he had set for himself.
And his great eulogist, the Attorney Cen
eral of Massachusetts, is another marked
illustration Of resolute endurance aud in
domitable industry-life long -centreing
in one profession. making him oudEof its
chef ornaments, if not its head I'll the
United States.
Our late distinguished ambassador az
the Court of St. James, Hon. Abbot Law
renee, whose wealth has been poured out
for all benevolent purposes in donations
like unto the sea, can recall the time when
he had his profession to select, and the
first dollar Of his splendid fortune TO earn.
He choose deliberately q calling, he psr,
sued the occupation with integrity and en- :
durance through dark and trying seasons.
and theyresult is before the world. The
case affords an apt illustration of the pro-
verb Of the wise man, that ga man dill
gent in business shall stand before kings,
and not become mean among men"
The late John Jacob Astor, as he left
his native Germany, paused beneath lin
den tree not far from the line shat separa-
ted his native country from another, and
made three resolutions which he intended
should guide him through life. j. He
would be honest. 2. He would be indus
trious g. lie would never gamble. He
was on foot-his wealth was in small!
bundle that swung from the stick laid on
his shoulder. The world was before him.
He was able to carry them out. His sue
cess is the best comment on his endurance.
! Stephen Girard. at the age Of 20 years,
was in quite moderate circumstances, be-
ing but a captain OF a small coasling ves-
sci upon the river Delaware, and part
owner of the same. No single trait in his
character WAS more marked than this en-
/ durance, and this trait gave him afortune.
All men who have succeeded well in
life, have been men Of high resolve and
endurance. The famed William Pitt was
in early life fond Of gaming: the passion
increased with his age; he knew that he
must at once master the passion, or the
passion would master him. He made a
| frn resolve that he would never again
play at game of hazard. lie could make
such resoIution-he could keep it. His
subsequent eminence was the fruit of that
power.
VIM WiIberforce, in his earlier days,
ike most young men OF his rank and age.
loved the excisemen; OF plays of hazard.
He was one night persuaded to keep the
faro bank. He saw the ruin and the vice
of gaming as he never saw it before; he
was appalled, at what lie beheid. Sitting
among gaming, ruin and despair, he took
the resolve that he would never again en-
ter gaming house He changed his
company with the change OF his conduct,
aud became one OF tie most distinguished
Englishmen of his age.
! DIR. Samuel johnson was once request
ed to drink with friend. The doctor
proposed tea. But drink iiHle wine. -
said his host. 81 know sbsLinence-l
know excess-but know 20 medium
Long since resolved as could not drink
4 little wine. would drink none at all. +"
A man who thus supports his resolution by
action. is map of endurance, and that ell
ement is well displayed in this incident as
in the compilation Of his great work.
When Richard Brinsley Sheridan made
his first speech in parliament, 1t was re-
garded on all hands as most mOrtfying
failure. His friends urged him 70 absn
don parliamentary career, and enter up
on some field of labor better suited 70 hi
} ability. s.Eo, - said Sheridan, ''no-it 1
! in me, and i saau come oat!" And it did
: and he became one Of the most splendis
!, debatels in Eaglsud.
= Loyola, the founder Of the order of Je
suits, the eourtier, the man Of gallantT!
| and dissipation, obtaIned such master,
! lover himself ~ labor aud endurance, that
10 illustrate the fact, he stood for sewers