Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-03

The following article, addressed chiefly
to young men, we take from TIE Adu0nce

The following article, addressed chiefly
to young men, we take from THE Adu0nct
(Chicago): e 7a ',s
In mercantile life ninety.five out O
}every hundred fail In other pursuits sue
cess is not easily won. Incomes not fol
being apostrophised, or sentimentally
yearned after. No conjurer's wand evokes
it, no tales of the Arabian Nights chroni.
Gle it. tits hard fact, gained inch by
inch, after a toilsome ascent 80 gradual
that when man fully gains it he needs the
acclaim of his neighbors to make him
sure of the fact The sooner, then, you
can rid yourself of the day dream, SO COM
mon to young men, that you are suddenly
to become rich by some stroke of luck,
and settle down to the conviction that
success in business can only be won by
persistent, hard work, integrity, economy,
pluck and prudence, the sooner are you
prepared to begin the work of laying the
| foundation for a solid structure. Until
that. conviction is gained you are frittering
away the best years of your life and con-
| tracing habits that will .counteract the
| best efforts of after years. You are more
likely to be struck by lightning than by
any luck that viii be of permanent bene-
fit to you. If you have forever parted
company with the hope of becoming sud.
denly rich--the lg1ais .fatusts that has led
many a gifted man to ruin--you are pre-
pare,l to consider the stepping stones to
success already enumerated.
PERSISTENT HARD WORK.--Men who
use only their muscles imagine that men
who depend upon their brains are stran-
gers to hard work. Never was there a
greater mistake. Every successful mer-
a. y ,.1
ten years of his business career than any
farmer or blacksmith ever dreamed of
Make up your minds to work early or late
if necessary to thoroughly master the de-
tails of the business upon which you pur-
pose to enter. The habit of persistent, rap.
id work once formed, and you have gained
torily tt rough many pinch in business
where less persistent worker would find
it vastly easier to lie down and fail
INTEGRITY. Whether it be the result
of business policy, or Christian princi-
pies, or both, integrity is that quality
that makes man do exactly as he agrees,
even in the smallest things. A we'll known
business man of this city, when in college
years ago, was SO poor that he sometimes
had to borrow money to take letter out
of the postofice. Letters in those days
were not prepaid, and one from distance
cost twenty-five cents.) When he Dor
roWed small sum in this way, he always
fixed the time when he was to pay it back,
and when that time came he always did it,
even If he had to borrow it elsewhere for
that very purpose. 1t is needless to say
that even while thug confessedly poor, he
laid the right foundation for good credit
Nobody was afraid to trust him, for he
paid exactly when he agreed to, and in do
ing 80 became as regal as a millionaire.
But integrity includes more than mere
punctuality, it includes such an honest re-
gard for the rights of others that your GUS
toners can always rely on your giving
them the worth Of their money. A. Z.
Stewart, when a small retailer, insisted
that bis clerks should be more particular
to point out defects than to recommend
goods. There is a world of wisdom in
downright honesty. ahe 81
ECoNoDIY.-The bootblack who earns
$500 week and lives on $40, has al
ready began to succeed. The man who
hiss not backbone enough to keep
his expenses within his income is
too pusiilanimous to merit success
He is bankrupt before he starts in bust
ness. If you cannot save some
thing out of small salary, you cannot,
out of large one. The habit of saving
must be formed before any increase of sal
airy can do you any good, If you cannot
live within your means on small salary,
q large one will only prove curse to you.
You think, perhaps, if you do not
dine at the Maison Doree, if you
refrain from cigars, billiards, thea
tres and operas, you are pat
for., cP anarn,,,u Vn,7 NAV ho rarxy
far from it. You may be a spendthrift
small, true economy will lop off many
things that seem necessaries AS nation
we spend too much money. 1t is time for
us ali to get back TO the simpler habits of
twenty years ago. Then two men that
we now have in mind, rich and successful,
began as errand boys at $2,50a week for
the first year, with small annual increase
that after seven years of faithful appren-
ticeship barely brought their wages up to
81 a week. A millionaire of Chicago, and
not long since the great dry goods mer-
chant of Lake st., began by loaning to his
employer small sums saved from just such
pittance as this. at that time white
beaver hats were in vogue among gentle
men. He and his brother managed to
make one such aldo for both. OF course,
when one went to church, or an evening
party, the other did not. Two other sue
cessful business men of this city were about
the sauna time preparing for college. They
roomed together and in order to live with
in their means boarded themselves. They
bought milk, butter, meat, cOrn-meal and
vegetables at low prices in those days and
cooked them in their room to suit their
taste, and lived we'll How much do you
think it cost them? Just thirty, seven and
half cents week each. Think of
that, you young men who feel that
you have cheated your epigastrium
If you dine once or twice on that
sum! "No young man of spirit would
pinch himself in that way" you exclaim.
It's unmanly." Not a bit of it. tits un-
manly to live beyond your means, If bare
floors and the simplest necessities are all
your means will allow, to accept the situa-
ton cheerfully is evidence of the highest
type of manliness, and to do otherwise is
to be either beggar or scoundrel. We
advocate no stingy, narrow, sordid or
misery views, but, if you wish to succeed
in business, and maintain your selfrespect,
then we say first, last, and all the time,
| lice 8oitlt5n yo,tr means.
PLUoK.-A certain amount of dash,
| boldness, courage in the prosecution OF
difficult undertakings is necessary to the
successful business man. Without this
quality he is forever shivering in uncer-
tainties, and forever allowing to go by, un-
improved, the best opportunities. There
is no enterprise without pluck, but it
must always be attended and held in
check by
PRUDENoE.-By this we mean that good
judgment which looks well ON all sides and
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