Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-03-31
Business Endurance.

N'iiA VI OuSliiSSS lutAy una III Impossible
to continue therein all their DAYS. Ill
health may demand change. New
and wider fields of enterprise and sue
cess may be opened to them; new ele-
ments OF character may be developed.
Men may have positive distaste for
some pursuits, and success may demand
change. None of these cases fall
within the general rule. Men NAV have
rare talents, but if they care everything
by turns, and nothing long," they must
not expect to prosper No form of bus
mess is free from veXation; each man
knows the spot on which his own har-
mass chates; but he cannot know how
much his own neighbor suffers. 1t is
said that Yankee can splice rope in
many different ways an English sailor
knows but one method, but in that meth
cd he does his work well. Life is not
long enough to allow any one to be re-
ally master of but one pursuit.
The history of eminentmen in all pro-
LESSONS and callings proves this. The
great statesman, Daniel Webster, was
a lawyer. His boyhyod was marked
"
er 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. Whites poor
student, not the tempting prize of fifteen
hundred dollars year as clerk of the
courts, then large sum, gained with
great difficulty for him, by the zeal and
influence of his father, nor all his faith
ers persuasiors, could turn him from
the mark he had set before him and to
his great eulogist, the Attorney Gene
raj Of Massachusetts, is another marked
illustration Of resolute endurance and
indomitable -life-long--cen-
tering in one profession, making him
one of the chief ornaments of that pro-
fession, if not its head, in the United
States.
The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, whose
wealth is poured out for all benevolent
purposes, in donations as large as the
sea, can recall the time when he had his
profession to select, and the first dollar
of his splendid fortune to earn. He
chose deliberately calling; he pursued
that object with integrity and endu-
rance, through dark days aud trying
seasons, and the result is before the
world. This case affords an apt illus
tration Ct the proverb Of the wise man,
that 4 man "diligen5 in his business
shall stand before kings, and not before
mean men,"
The late John Jacob Astor, as he left
his native Germany, paused beneath
linden tree not far from the line that
separated his native land from another.
and made three. resolutions, which he
intended should guide him through life:
l. He would be honest. 2. He would
be industrious. 3. He would never
gamble. He was on foot; his wealth
was III the small bundle that SWINE
from the stick laid on his shoulder.
The world was before him. He was
able to carry his resolution out. His /,
success is the best comment on his en-.
durance, Stephen Girard, at the age
OF 40 years, was in quite moderate cir
eumstances, being the captain of small
coastiDg vessel on the Delaware, and
part owner Of the same. No trait in
his character was more marked than
his endurance, and this element gave
him fortune.
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 gambling; the !
passion increased with his years he
knew that he must at once master the !
passion or the passion would master
him. He made firm resolve that he |
would never play at a game Of hazard |
He could make such q resolution he |
could keep it. His subsequent emf
nence was the fruit Of that power
William Wiberiorce, in his early DAYS
like most young men Of his rank and
age, loved the excitement of games of
hazard. He was one night persuaded
to keep the faro bank. lie saw the ruin
of the vice of gaming as he never saw
it before; he was appalled, with what
he beheld. Sitting amid gaming, ruin
and despair, he took the resolution that
he would never again enter gaming
house. He changed his company with
the change Of his conduct, and subse-
quently became one of the most distin-
guished Englishmen Of his age.
DIR. Samuel johnson WIS once re-
quested to drink wine with friend
the Doctor proposed tea. "But drink
little wine," said his host. 81 cannot
was the reply; 9 / know abstlnance-I
know excess but | know no medium.
Long since l resolved, as | could not
drink little wine, / would drink none
at all. A man who could thus support
his resolution by action was man oil
endurance, and that element is as well
displayed in this incident as in the com
pilation of his great work. When Rich
ard Brinsley Sheridan made his first
speech in Parliament, it was regarded
by all hands as a most Notifying fail
ure. His friends urged him to abandon
a parliamentary career, and enter upon
some new field better suited to his abil-
ity. "No," said Sheridan, "no; it is in
me, and 1t shall come out % And it did,
and he became one Of the most splendid
debaters in England. Loyola, the foun
der Of the order Of Jesuits, the courtier,
the man of gallantry and dissipation, OBJ
tanned such mastery over himself, by
labor and endurance, that, to illustrate
the fact, he stood several hours, appa-
rently unmoved, in pond Of ice and
muddy water, up to his chin. Perhaps
no other nation in Europe, at that time,
could have won the battle of Waterloo
except the British, because no other
could lave brought to that conflict that
amount of endurance needed to win
For many hours that army stood man.
fully before the murderous fire of the
French column after column fell, while
not gun was discharged on their part.
o.. IL. q nIcnnr