Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-04-10
ALWAYS BEGIN RIGHT.

ners; it was, "lf theell only begin righ
all will go well " We have often thong
that there was more in the recommends
ton than even the good Quaker saw. fol
there is scarcely anything to be done il
life to which the adage, "begin right
will not apply. Success is but syno
nym for beginning right.
Who, for example, is the healthiest,
the early riser or the sluggard ? 1t is ths
man whe begins the day right, by leav
ing his bed with the sun. and inhaling the
fresh all of morning. not the one who re.
mains till eight or nine o'clock in close
chamber, sleeping dull. stupefying
sleep Who gets through his day.
work the earliest! The earlier riser. The
man of business who is at his store the
soonest, is always best prepared for the
customers of the day, and often, indeed
has sold many a bill before his laggard
neighbors were about. Sir Walter Scott
used to have his days writing half fin.
ished before breakfast. A shrewd observer
has said that late riser consumes the
day in trying to recover the hours he lost
in the morning Mind and body are both
freshest early in the day The lawyer
should think. the minister study. the au-
thor write, the valetudinarian walk or
ride, and the mechanic or farmer be at
work as early as possible.
Nor is this all. The great bulk Of en-
terprises that fail owe their ruin to not
having been begun right. A business is
undertaken without suffi ficient capital
connection, or knowledge. 1t ends un-
favorably. Whyl Because it was not
begun right. A young professional
man, whose probationary period of study
has been spent in pleasure rather than
in hard reading, complain that he cannot
succeed. Why, again? Because he has
not begun right either. A stock compa-
ny blows up. Still why? Ten to one,
the means employed are not adequate to
the end, or else it was started with inef-
ficient officers, and in either case il was
not begun right. Two young house
keepers break up their gay establishment,
the lady going home, perhaps, to her
fathers, taking her husband with her.
Whyl They did not be gin right, for
they commenced on too large scale, for
getting that the expenses of family in-
creases every year. and that in no event
is it safe for a man to live up to his in
come. An inventor starts a manufac-
tory, in which his improvements in ma
chinery are brough into play; but after
while he finds himself insolvent his
factory is sold another reaps where he
has sown. Why? Alas I! like too many
others, he has undertaken more than he
has means to carry through; he did not
begin right, and his ruin was the conse-
quence. 7r
But, above all things. life should be
begun right. Young men rarely know
how much their conduct, during their first
few years, affects their success. 1t is
not only that older persons in the came
business form their opinions Of them at
this time, but that every beginner acquires
during these years; habits for good or i'll
which color his whole future career. We
seen some of the ablest young men, with
every advantage of fortune and friends,
SOW the seed of ruin and early death by
indulging too freely in the first years Of
manhood. We have seen others, with
far less capacity, and without any back
ing but industry and energy, rise gradu-
ally to fortune and influence. Franklin
is familiar illustration of what q man
can do who begins right. If he had been
too proud to eat rolls in the street when
he was poor boy, he would never have
been Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Court of France I.
Always begin right! Survey the
whole ground before you commence any
undertaking, and you will then be pre-
pared to go forward successfully. Neg
lect this, however, and you are almost
sure to fail. In other words. begin right.
A good commencement is half the battle
A false first step is almost certain defeat.
Begin right .
ILL., oorroa oanondnnf of a ondon nanor