The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-01-29

fields of enterprise and success may b.
opened to them; new clements of char
aoter may be developed. Men may hav,
positive distaste for some pursuits, ant
success may demand change. None o
these cases fall within the general rule
Men may have rare talents, but if the,
''a'e everything by turns, and nothing
long," they must not expect to prosper
No form of business is free from vexa
tions; each man knows the spot on which
his own harness chafes, but he canno
know how much his own neighbor suf
fers. 1t is said that Yankee can splice
a rope in many different ways; an Eng
lish sailor knows but one method, but il
that method he does his work we'll Life
is not long enough to allow any one to be
really master of but one pursuit.
The history of eminent men in all pro,
fessions and callings proves this. The
great statesman, Daniel Webster, was O
lawyer. His boyhood was marked only
by uncommon industry as a speaker he
did not excel in early life. With great
dcliberation he selected the law as his
profession, nor could he be deferred
from his chosen pursuit. While poor
student, not the tempting prize of fifteen
hundred dollars a year as clerk of the
courts, then large sum, gained with
great difficulty for him by the zeal and
influence Of his father, nor could all the
pcrsuasions of the father turn him from
the mark he had set before him; and his
great eulogist, the Attorney General of
Massachusetts,, is another marked illus
! tration Of resolute endurance and indom-
table n3ustry--life-long- in
one profession, making him one of the
chief ornaments of that profession, if not
it's head, in the United States.
Tie Hon. Abbott Lowronee, whose
wealth is poured out for all benevolent
purposes in donations largc as the sea, can
recall the time when be had his profess
| sion to select, and the first dollar of his
splendid fortune to earn. He chose de-
lIberately a calling; he pursued that oc-
cupation with integrity aud endurance,
through dark days and trying seasons,
| and the result is before the world This
case affords an apt illustration of the pro-
! verb Of the wise man, that a man "dili-
gent 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 a
| liudcn-tree, not far from the line that
separated his native land from another
aud made three resolutions, which he in
! L. l.
/. He would be honest. 2 He would
be Industrious g. He would never
gamble. lie was on foot his wealth
was in the small bundle that swung from
the stick laid on his shoulder. The world
was before him. He was able to carry
them out. His success is the best com
mcnt on his endurance. Stephen Cir
ard, at the age Of 40 years, was in quite
moderate circumstances, being the cap
tain Of small coasting vessel on the Del
aware, and part owner of the same. No
trait in his character was more marked
than his endurance, and this elemen, 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 IF gaming; the passion
increased with his years he knew that
he must at once master the passion or the
passion would master him. lie made
firm resolve that he would never again
play at a game of hazard. lie could
make such a resolution he could keep it.
His subsequent eminence was the fruit
of that power, William Wilberforce, in
his earlies days, like most young men Of
his rank and age, loved the excitement
of places 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 behela Sitting amid gaming,
ruin, and despair, he took the resolution
that he would never again enter gam
ing house. He changed his company
with the change of his conduct, and sub
sequcntly became one of the most dis
tinguished Englishmen of his age.
Dr. Samuel Johnson was once request
ed to drink wine with friend the Doc
tor proposed tea "But drink a ltale
wine said his host II cannot" was
the reply; ~ know abstinence--l know
excess but know no medium. Long
since, resolved, as | could not drink
ii,tle wine, would drink none at all -
A man who could thus support his ro=o-
luton by action was man Of endurance.
aud that element is as well displayed in
this incident as i u the compilation Of his
great work When Richard Brinsley
Sheridan made his first speech in Parlia-
ment, it was regarded on all hands as a
most mortifying failure His friends
urged him ID abandon parliamentary
career, and enter upon some field better
suited to his ability. "No," said Sher-
idan--"no, it is in me and it shall come
out - And it did, and he became one
of the mos. splendid debaters in Eng.
land. Loyola, the founder Of the order
of Jesults, the courtler, the man Of ral-
lantry aud dissl patton, obtained such mas
terry over himself by labor and cndur-
ance, that, to illustrate the fact, he stood
several hours, apparently anmoved, in a
| pond of ice and muddy water, up to his
chin. Perhaps no other naticn in Eu-
| rope, at that time, could have won the
battle of Waterloo except the British, be-
cause no other could have brought to
that conflict that amount of endurance
needed to win, For many hours that
army stood manfuly before the murder
GUS fire of the French column after col
umn fell, while not gun was discharged
on their part. One sullen word of com.
mand ran along the line as thousands fell
--"File up! file up "Not yet--not
yet p was the Iron Dukes reply to earn.