The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-10-01

in the hearinf OF Red azandiAn
\ cb8sf 6f the Six Nations. that he had not time
for such and such things. WE'LL" responded
the old warrior, CURLY, {" 1 suppose you have all
thu time there isl ,, All the time there is! yes
and that is sufficient for a great deal more work
than most people dream of; and he is the best
| and Wisest man who can crowd the most good ac-
tons into now. Adopt the plan of improving
your whole time, and it will really seem as 1t the
old gentleman with the scythe slackened his pace
in order to give you an opportunity tor your
work. 1t will seem as if the more work you have
to accomplish, the more time you have before
YOU TO do it in. Everybody has observed that
there are in all communities, certain men VINO
accomplish more labor than any others who seem
to be always busy, and yet who can always hnd
time for something else. These are the men OF IN
dustrious habits who make time they are the ones
ALWAYS placed upon important committees; they
are made secretaries and treasurers of all kinds OF
institutions; and their industrious habits enable
them to do all these duties we'll and thoroughly,
in addition to their usual business, and to the
great establishment of their neighbors. who, after
unconsciously lounging and idling away half tn
dav. complain that the days are too short.
Industry is, in all professions, a requisite OF
success. Uenlus IL ItiCh ~ VI iA''S
out it. Indeed industry has been said to be the
parent of genius. The best genius in the world
is .w11LL" and .'woRk." Happiness, too, as
well as success, generally follows hard upon IN
dustry. The man whose time is constantly en-
| ployed, has less room for vain regrets and useless
cares. His mind is occupied with the things OF
| the present and in his brief intervals OF relaxa-
ton it dwells mostly upon the brightest phases OF
the past and future. How many a man has made
the latter wears of his life miserable by acquiring
wealth and retiring from business-by breaking
up his active pursuits and beginning to live at
his ease. The secret of happiness lies in content
ment. and the secret of contentment lies IN work.
Industry is the great master key that uniocks the
best blessings of life-contentment happiness, and
last, as well as least, wealth.
1t is one of the best signs of the prosperity OF
any community when idle and useless bodies are
regarded as discreditable among the citizens. 1t
is the case in the most enlightened countries that
any man, be he commoner orlord, worth only the
clothes on his back, or worth his millions, who
lives for the good of nobody but himself, COM
mands neither the respect or confidence OF men.
If he possesses the advantages of wealth, he is re-
garded as all the more culpable should he neglect
to improve those advantages and make them sub
yersive to the great end of living usefully. In
the cities of the United States public sentiment
emphatieally condemns the man of leisure :;
and so strong is public sentiment en- this point,
| that it is considered discreditable for a young
man, however wealthy he may be, to possess no
ostensible employment or profession. 1t is Tor
work that men are placed upon earth. The best
purposes Of man, the great end of being, can be
accomplished only by industry.