The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-11-20

OBl iay ai1 s. ly aiteaH.h ear
found saytltm tbe HEh r Sil
lcrton with rs rugged saat 81 uN
/ back, anal r0ss loi capital tiWa.
pence ] ala n5. know eul % the
town Half century H el o,el
imy bead suea tba aaE / lave nos q
professional hus mess worth three ,h0us-
and year Mv estate Of GellsWorth
I Han now dglds ug fifteen hundred Il
wear; aud ! have ono ur twp other httlo
/ Investments not altogether toh hudespis-
led | was chief maeslraseoi oi Sllcrton,
Fl town which has upwaidof hiiy thous
and inhabitants lam. ! aE, q pru!cs-
sioua man, and ray success, such as ~
lis has not been achieved BY lucky spec
ulation, like that Of many who succeed
Iin trade. / have run he risks l have
worked my way slowly up the hili, step
+ by step; and nay own success has as
much astonishod nae, as their own want
of il has see. astonished many OF those
who began life ii advance of me As !
have always observed, that % disclose
the secret machinery Of success acts
somehow as an modyne to the sting q.
failure, now purpose to afford tiEs
compensation % those TO whom l can
see that my better fortune has been the
cause Of some jealousy and heart burn
| ing.
The causes Of fame, one Of your lite
rmy men says, are obvious, while those
Of fortune are hidden Hidden, ! sup
pose they are from foolish, impractical
men; but really they are not very diff
cult to discover by a man Of plan com
mon sense, who is not blinded by self
couceit.
When seventeen, j was promoted from
messenger TO clerk ii the Office OF one
Of the leading attorneys IN Sillerton.
My salary for three years was thirty
pounds, and | lived ON fiye-and-twonty.
! ana not, however going to take mp time
With an account Of how fought with
poverty, or Of how made myself sound
lawyer by studying while others were
smoking on sleeping ! have known
many men who were rs dilligent as !
was, but who stuck in the mud, never
theless. You viii hardly make your
way in business without being indust-
Iious and without knowing your busi-
ness and these qualifications, 50 far MS
| have seen, me ordinarily quite sniff
cient to keep a business which has been
made for YOU, but not TO make one.
/ saw this very early IN life; yet I was
not what is called q clcyor fellow, ! ney-
er thought was My fellow clerk, Sam
could write business letter in Il quar-
ter the time it took me. Then, Sans
letter was neat, sharp and to the point,
while mine was hardly rcspectablegran
mar Conceive, then, the astonishnent
Of Sam Of myself, and OF the whole Of
fee, when the situation of correspond
ling clerk the most dignifed and best
paid in the office was given to me. /
could not understand it at the time, but
subsequently the mystery was made
plain to me.
Two of those above me had mark
against them forimmoral conduct, while
the temperament Of my friend Sam was
not business one. He had an irresis-
tible tendency, both in speech and cor
respondence to let men see what he
thought of them. My own letters can
see on looking back, never fell into this
error, and SO never got our masters in
to hot water Solong Us We gained our
point, and did what was fair ourselves,
where was the use Of letting one man
see that you thought INN silly, and
another that thought him dishonest?
[ took precious good care to see as far
as other people; but took, If possible,
greater care that tnobody should see how
much / saw Mycue was always to make
aman, i possible well pleasedwith HIM
self, and, ut the same time, to make him
feel that be could not get the 5ettcr Of
me
Then / was always gUoa-humored. ]
was not going to let a man cut me be-
cause he had done me an injury nor
on the other hand, was going to- cut
him because / saw that lie suspected that
! had done him one. While ! stroy
and / believe with success, to be good
humored and pleasant to every one, !
avoided xcessiyeintimacy Yith any ono
having observed that this is almost
always the prelude to a quarrel first
comes hot weather, then d thunder
storm, aud then cold | never was
confidential, as it Is called, with any
one. Was any body ever 80, without Ie-
peuting Of it?
lad a hard fght, too, and was OH
the other side 81 thirty, before saw my
way to being anything more than aclerk
/ saw a good many men get a step or
two in advance Of me- through lucl, but
Incycr consumed my energy ia jcalOgs
fretting on this account Nature gave
me a good digestion, and ! took the af-
fairs of life coolly and with good temper
Nv chance would come and even if il
did not, though / desired fortune, Twas
frugal and could enjoy lie without it
An uncle of sam 5. 2 remember, whohad
much ID his power passed INN over IN
q good appointment Tie cguso WAS
plain The young i4au to aAom aegale
il was the son Of nan from whom tie
uncle expected something Could aug-
thing have been more reasonable and
natural? Yet wllat did tbe siily oan
do? Hc wrote az angry letter TO his
uncle. full II bosh about conduct to his
own broiheri son tie brother Who lad