The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-02-06
SUCCESSFUL MEN.

| All men who have succeeded in life
have been men of high resolve and en-
durance. The famed William Pitt was
in early life fond of gaming the passion
increased with his years; he knew he
must at once master the passion or the
passion would master him. He mad. y
firm resolve that he would never again
play at n game of hazard. He could
m Ike such resolution he could keep
it. His subsequent eminenco was the
fruit of that power. William WILDER
force, in his earlier days. like most young
men Of his rank and age, loved the ex-
element of places Of hazard. He was
| one night persuaded to keep The faro
bank He saw the ruin of the vice OF
gaming as he never saw 1t before; he
was appalled, at what he beheld. Sit
ting amid gaming, ruin, and despair, he
| took the resolution that he would never
again enter gaming house. He changed
his company with the change OF his con-
duct, and subsequently became one ofthe
most distinguished Englishmeu of his
age.
DR.. Samuel Johnson was once request
ed 20 drink wine with friend. The
Doctor proposed tea But drink It,
lie wine" said the host a can not"
was the reply. II krow abstinence, |
know excess; but know no medium.
Long siuce | resolved, as could not
drink tittte wine, | would not drink at
all" A man who could thus support
his resolution by action was II man of en-
durauce, aud tina element is IS we'll dis
played in this incident as in the combi-
nations of his great work.
When r ichard Brinsley Sheridan
made his fire. speech IN Parliament il
was regarded on all hands as mortify>
ing failure. His friends urged him t"
abandon" parliamentary career, and en-
ter u on field better suited TO his abil-
ity. mo I" said Sheridan G. m, it is in
me, ana it shall come out !" Ard it did,
and he became oue of the most splendid
d,b.ters in England
Lryo!a, the founder of the order of
Jesuu s. the courier, the man of gailan-
try and dissipation, obtained such mas
terry over himself oy labor and endur-
ance, that, to illustrate the fact, he stood
several hours, apparently unmoved, in "a
pond of ice and muddy water up to his
chin.
Perhaps no other nation in Europe, at
the time, could have won the battle of
Waterloo, except the British, because no
other could have brought to that con-
hict the amount If endurance necessary
to win For many hours that army
stood manfuIly before, the murderous fire
OF the French columa after column fell,
While not gun was discharged on their
par. One sullen word vi command ran
along the line as thousands fell, File
~! Fl . up!' "N0t yet not yeti" was
be Iron Dukes reply to the earnest re
quests made to charge aud fight the foe.
! Al length the time OF action came. Tie
charge was given. and victory crowned
the standard Of England
Men of genius without endurance can
not succeed. Men who start in one kind
.: business may fad it impossib e to con
tinue therein all their days III health
may demand change. New and wider
fields of enterprise and success may be
opened to them new elements of charac
ter may be developed. Men may have a
positive distaste for some pursuits, and
success may demand a change. None OF
tines, cases fall within the general rule
Men may have rare talents, but if the p
care everything by turns, and nothing
long" they must not expect to prosper
i No form Of business is free from vexa
lions; each man knows the spot or
which his own harness chates but hi
can not know how much his neighbol
Isuffers.