Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-30
p-ERs1srENoE IN rRY1Na

PERSISTENCE IN TRYING.
| "u a, frs, you lon'l succeed, Wy,
try again you will sonqusr, Sesin-
deed, try, try agains' we think this is
about what the poet used to toll US in
the school books when we were a little
shaver, and we have heard that good
old motto Of try again" so often re-
peated since them that it has become
incorporated among h%ousehould words.
In order to stimulate the young and
tender mind to more pertinacious exer-
tious, they used to tell US about how
Robert Bruce once when lying despond-
-ent on the fat of dis back, was aroused
70 new and triumphant euergy by obs
serving a big spider overhead at the end
OF a long web string, trying to swing
across aud mako fast to a ncighboring
beam. The final success Of that spider,
after sweating away several hours OF
futile attempts, immedi,tely aroused
the aforesaid Bruce to . degree Of Won
derfal energy, resulting in Scotland att
tsining to a moro important position
than she formerly occupied; and we
were led to infer that il that old spider
had not succeeded in his gymnastie
attempt, the quiescent Bruce might yet
have boon lying on the fiat OF his back.
Untiring energy and perseverance are
very c~ommendable qualities to possess,
and oftenest lead TO success in fact,
without these, or what is commonly
known as " niger luck" a man stands
rather of a poor show in the world, yet
it is a mistaken fallacy to persist where
persistence is plainly useless.
| Never try to DO what you are not
really fitted for. 1t does not follow that
he who excels rs q blacksmith is also
Inherently a ftst-class jcweller, or that
airst.class steamboat captain could run
a newspaper with equal facility. The
problem Of how to induce water TO nat
urally run up hill instead Of down, has
never yet boon solved, neither has tri-
umphant success attended tho man who
tried to LIT himself up BY the waist
band Of his breechos. Henry Clay Mt
tributes his success rs n orator to long
continued practice and constant attempts
in private when young, yet VIC knew an
aspiring fellow in San Jose, California,
who always acted on that proposition,
and on all eligible occasions, Whenever
no could get a chance to "chip i'm" he
was eternally trying to make n speech
aud invariably showing the pscpte what
q big noodle ho a A man with no
musical eur or talent should never dis
tract his nc:ghbors with his diabolical
attempts to play the violin, neither
should the oystor-braincd ninny, who
can merely string rhymes together, fond
" imagine himself another Moore, or q
Byron. There is no moro real, true
poesy in some Of the poetical aspirnnts
of the present day, than there is music
in q trombone or a jackass. The frog
in the fable, who tried to swell himself
up to tho size Of tho OF he saw feed
ing beside the brook, bursted in tho
attempt.
Political aspirauts may strive year af-
ter year for some coveted position, and
ultimately, perhaps, succeed, yet as a
general rule, il they get beaten once
they had better philosophically with
draw from the contest, and concentrate
their giant energies in some other and
moro worthy direction. The would-be
politician who is always q standing can
didate, willing to accept any office from
| Sheriff down to deputy constable, ready
to take tho last if he cannot get the FIRST,
reminds US of that old botch Of a black
smith who undertook to make an TX.
| He hammered away a whiic, but failing
in it, he concluded to make it into a
wedge. Even on this proposition he
made such on awkward, shapless job Of
i. that he at length became Disguised
with his W bungling. "Dou't care q
dern," says be, "T know what tell
make. Itll make a f~zzle." SO he
showed the red-hot iron into his water
trough, aud it did end in a "6zzle."