The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-05-07
One Road to Success.

ono kOaO 10 success.
The following article, published In
the Jo17,M Of Commerce few
months ago, is one. of the kind that
never grows Old.-This especially In
these days, when employees use funds
entrusted to their care, for fast living,
and when some OF our city papers are
discussing the question. "lIow can a
family of six or seven persons get
along respectfully i'm New York on less
than 5000 q year 2" Some will say
that the singular thing in the case of
the Journals ''lucky' friend was that
his wife was willing to live in the
third story, on seven dollars q week
for the two while her husband was
earning thousand dollars year:
A young man writes us that he has
had ten years Office experience, we
suppose as a clerk or boOk-keeper,
during which time he has saved the
sum total of seventy-five5 dollars,
which Is his all. lie wishes to settle
i'm some growing town and grow up
with It. He Is evidently sincere, and
his letters show that he is not def
cient In ability and has some good
sense. We therefore say to him
plainly, that success does not come to
him i'm that way. No one finds for
tune by chance, nor can he grow into
n state of prosperity by merely plant
ing himself In q fresh virgin soil.
Everything i'm life worth having is
wrestled for and acquired through
severe labor and sclf-denial.
e. -. A.,
that the failure of aspirants In this
line comes from adverse surround
ings. Circumstances have much less
to do with material prosperity than
is generally supposed. FavOring con-
ditiOns may accelerate the acquisition
of an estate, but the same application
and self-denial will guarantee the
final result under any conditions.
There are exceptions, of course; but
this Is the rule. A man without a
family, who has been tOiling in New
York for ten years, and has land up
hut seventy-five dollars, would not
grow up into anything better, even
amid the stimulus OF the wonderful
activity which marks the youth of
u thriving town. The accreatiOn that
comes upon a man who waits to grow
up Ivy outward helps is only the out
out the vitals. True growth IS that
which comes from within, and en-
ployes every faculty In the earnest
effort. Nearly all our young men
make the same mistake they sponge
to large q portion of their earnings for
adornments and unhealthy indul-
gences of baser appetites. Fine
clothes, jewelry, cigars, pleasure
hunting and other costly or vicious
habits, waste no incOnsiderable por-
ton of their annual income.
We heard q man spoken OF the
other day "a one who had been re-
marable lucky In establishing him.
self in a comfortable home, and that
was the only word used to distin-
guish between him and an associate
who had more brilliant talents but
failed of success. There was no luck
in the matter, for we know them
both. They both were married, and
both were without children, and
each entered upon a salary OF one
thousand per annnm, went about the
SAME time to look for board In Brook
Ign. The unfortunate man took
board for himself and wife at twenty
dollars week, which he said was the
cheapest mt which he could get a
room in II first-class house. The
lucky man looked for some time,
until he found clean healthy quarters
in third-stOry at seven dollars Il
week for the pair, his wife to do her
own sweeping and make her own
bed. He lived within his income
and saved money from the start; the
other ran in debt and became cmhar-
rassed from that hour.
There is no secret in such histories ;
he who runs may read them. Ii any
one assumes that tn @ noble part Is "tO
enjoy life" as we go, and that the &c.
qusitiOn of an estate, the foundation
of which is laid in seli-deninl and the
structure built In patient toll with the
same prevalent spirit ever present, Is
ignoble ambition, we shall not argue
the case. But we do say that those
who desire this result can pursue II
safely and surely in no other way,
and if man alter knowing what it
will cost, will not pay the price for it,
he should not grumble ut the fates,
nor murmur against Il discriminating
Providence.