New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-01
Stick to Your Business

There is nothing which should be more frequently
impressed upon the minds OF young men than the
inheritance of steadily pursuing one business. The
frequent changing from one employment to anotherls
one of the most common errors committed and to 1t
may be traced more than half the failures OF men IN
business and much of the discomfort and disappoint
men that render life uncomfortable It is very COM
mon thing for a man to be dissatisfied with his BUSH
ness and odesre to change it for some other, and
what seems to him will prove more lucrativtive en-
poyment but in nine cases out OF ten Is mistake
Look round you, and you will find among your ac-
quaintances abundant yertcatlon OF our assertion.
Here is young man who commenced lire as me
chanc, but from some cause imagined That he ought
to have been doctor and, after q nasty and shall
low preparation, has taken up the saddlebags only to
find that work is still work, and that his patients are
no more profitable than his workbench, and the &C.
cupation not whit more agreeable.
Here are two young men, clerks one OF them is
content when his first term OF service Is over to CON
| timed clerk until he shall have saved enough to
| commence business on his own account the other
cannot wait but starts without capital. and with
limited experience, and brings up, after few years,
in court of insolvency, while his former comrade,
by patient perseverance, comes out at last with tor
| tune. That young lawyer who became disheartened
because briefs and cases did not crowd upon him
while he was yet redolent Of cabound volumes, and
had small use for red tape, who concluded he had
mistaken his calling, and so plunged into politics,
finally settled down into the character OF q meddGng
pettioggcr, scrambling for his daily bread,
There an honest farmer who has tolled few
years. got his farm paid for but does not grow rich
very rapidly, as much forlack ofcontentment mingled
with his industry anything though he Is not aware
| of it-he hears the wonderful stories Of California,
and how fortunes may be had for the trouble OF pick
ing them up: mortgages his farm to raise money,
goes away to the land Of gold and after many months
| Of hard toll comes home to commence again at the
bottom of the hill for more weary and less success
| full climbing up again.
Mark the men in every community who are notorl-
Gus for ability and equally notorious for never getting
ahead. and you will usually find them TO be those
who stick to any one business long, Dut are al
nrSaEiOr their OccDltlOQ lust when II begins
to he profitable.
Young man. stick to your business. 1t may be You
have mistaken your calling; II 50, ma OUT as qaek
as possible and change it but don't let any uneasy
desire to get along fast, or dislike Of your honest
calling lead you to abandon it. Have some honest
Calling and then stick to if you are sticking type,
stick away at them if you are selling oysters Keep
on selling them il you at law, hold fast to that
profession pursue the business YOU have chosen per-
+ sistcnty indstriously and hopefully and II there IS
anything of you, it will appear and turn to account IN
that as we'll or better than in any other calling only
if you loater olsake that line OF NE as uiehlv
" as possible for the longer you stick to 1t the worse 1t
:, will stick to you-[ Hunt Merchants Masazlne
A. A Worm IN A Tooru.-A medical gentleman OF
h. Balymela Ireland, employed recently TO extract
lie 4 uatents tooth. 1t was grinder. OF large SIZE,
1t nppareny sound and firmly seated that it broke
IL in the effort Of its removal On examining that por-
n ton Of the tooth which came of with the instrument
II found aChering to the center OF IT, Oh being care
fully removed without injury 1t proved to be i've
TT eights Of inch long, lively as an eel, anu OF
r hloOl.red color and about the thickness OF Wo0eL
" thread On viewing it through microscope OF lin
IS tied power it proved to be rlnged or jolnted IN It.
ID formation. No legs visible, and it moved by
d. erecting its body, archke, in the center, and pro
cctng either end ut pleasure-for tappeared to have
r a head at each extremity One of the heads wa
T. large fiat and broad in proportion to the creature
~ size, with capacous mouth and two black eyes Sc
re very widely apart and projecting from the upper Par
ID of the head. The other head was smaller, with
N lenuthened suOut and a mouth opening from under