The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-06-11
IIouor Your Business.

rs good sign when a man Is proud Of his calling: Yet
stsuty with their particular business, and de,miug themselves
unfortunate because fastened 10 il by the necessity n gaining a
livelihood. In this spirit men fret, and Iaboriousiy destroy all
their comfort IN work. Or they change their business, aud 90
On missrabIy shifting from one thing 70 another, till the grave
Or the poDr-iOuse gives them a permanent situation.
But while, occasionally, a man fails in life because he i not
in the place fitted for his peculiar talent, It happens ten times
ofteHer that results from neglect and even contempt u an hon
et bu'iness- a man should put his heart into everything that
peculiar cares and yexations. No man will escape annoy auce
by changing business Commerce, in its endless varieties, IS
81 GHy Tor a man man To- ZACH out the fre;s and burdens Of lis cal
Ling and give his mind every day to a consideration OF them.
They belong to human lie The are inevitable. Brocding,
then, only gives them strength.
On the G'hsr hand, a man has a power given him to shed
O~aUy ~ pressure upon te h"meH=-t t'I' u ne y wise
Let p man adopt his business, and identify it with his life.
and cover it with pleasant associations. For God has given "a
men to beauufy homeIy things Heart-varnish viii cover up
innumeTabie evils aud defects. Look at the good things, accept
sJsnt Il Tbe,s I, soHetsing ~ tTe w.. s,-I5j1iD y ~
around which a man may twine pleasant sancies, out VI which
he may develop an honest pride.
We met, not long since, a fine specimen OF just the thing we
mean. He began life a blacksmith. ~ never wanted to be
anything else than a mechanic" said he. He determined to
make himself respectable and honorable, not in spite Of his
business. but by means Of it. He entered with heart and soul
single line Of articles he began manufacturing them. " When
1 -rst entered the market" said he, - found everybody trying
AMI running down the trade determined l would not under
ssH, but erect" In this spirit he entered heartily in hs work,
He hi. rsth@rei rirbrs xSicb :. cmpI"ys bc"ernenfIr anJ !.
honored by all his towu-men. The good which this honest me-
chanie has done will not stop with himself lie will have male
hts business honorable 10 others 4 man can impart 20 a busi-
ness a flavor Of homer By his own conduct, which ~uall make it
therefore more creiitabIe to any one VIII" enters It. Franklin
left upon the printng-ofce an impress which has bCuhted the
profession u printers ever since. BlCNsmitis love to speak Of
the yet UncaunOnizsi -. EHhu Burrit.
Mr- Dosse. by tanning aud currying, amused a fortune, and
it, and its literary products, to the public in Boston
and Cambridge and y = venture TO say that, hereafter, that
business will be easier and more encouraging To every lad that
bound apprentice 10 a nasty rrale. Once let a man convert
MS business into an instrument nf honor, beuevOleHce and pat
riotism, AMI from the moment it is TRANSPORTED, and men judge
~ dignity and merit, not by what II externally i. but by what
has done. AMI a do. IL i fastlr Il stick ~ rpur tu-fu.-
by patient industry and honorable enterprise, crown Il with
honor, than To run away from it, and seek. prosperity ready
made 70 your hand Its not what a man yHHfs that does him
good, but what he does Eyes and Ears" By II. ".
BCScheT.