The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30
Tie Secret of Success.


New York Letter.
This is the day of regularity and re-
spectability in the trade of art. The
leaders, heutenants and adiutants even
work hard, wear good clothes, have pol
ished manners, and observe the conVon-
tionalities. Our authors aid sonfnal-
lists, of the better sort, have no utilization
with wild convivialists, but look on life
seriously and serenely, as something
they should make the most Of, however
dlseouraging the circumstances,
Business men who arrive at attitudes
forswear dissipation. They who have
grown rich, have adopted q system. ana
steadily followed il. TIE veteran Van
derbilt hts. from youth up, been as
careful of his health as if he had been
an invalid. He owes his vigorous
eighty years to the exactest observation
of hygienic laws. No heavy dinners,
no late eurpefs, no iinseemly hours, no
frequent drinks for him. Without ed
ucation, he has high intelligence, and
wonderful common sense-rarer per-
kaps than genius. Ak
A. L. Stewart has been as regular as
Geneva watch for fifty years. So has
Moses Taylor so has George Law; so
has Royal Phelps. So have all these
who hold big purses and exercise I'm
| seen power.
The Wall street spectators, reckless
as they seem, if they ride long. on the
upper waves, preserve their digestion,
| and keep their heads cool. Daniel
Drew would have been buried years
ago, had he not lived abstemiously,
and taken innumerable bowls of sun
shine. Jay Gould may not have heart,
though he has stomach, and provides
for it wisely. His brain is worth too
much TO him to have it clouded by bill
iousness, dyspepsia, repletion, or shat
tered nerves. 80 .i
They who live free and fast, like
Leonard jerome, John Tobin, Henry
N. Smith, and A. B. stockwell, went
| under in due season. Dissipation
cotnpels it's followers to pay more usuri.
GUS interest than any Shylock of Broad
street. T..
GREAT JOURNALISTS. E
Horace Greeley, founder of the Tri-
bune, was always an avoider of all ex-
cesses save those of work. He never
could have accomplished half that he
did, had he not eschewed tobacco,
LIQUOR, and the common vices. For many
|
twelve hours a day, and never needed
other stimulant than hearty appetite
for labor, which. to his dying hour,
was not appeased. .-r
James Gordon Bennett, who alone
and unaided, created the Herald (mak-
| ing it the best newspaper property in
the western world out of nothing but
brains, energy. and pluck, was, in his
/ r a., n liz
as he was abused and portrayed as a
moral monster, he never owed anybody
. dollar never gambled never drank;
never was guilty of an intrigue. All
his faults were professional, and these
. consisted chiefly in editing his news
, paper in the manner that seemed to him
most effective. he might at times
have been intoxicated with the success
of the Herald, but that was the only
, intoxication he ever knew. |
Henry J. Raymond, the only strong
D man the Times has had, was temperate
4 in habit, not less than in disposition
Few journalists here have done SO much
, work on paper, day after day, weel
1 alter week. month after month, Us Ray
mond did on his. Unless he had beer
attunsd to moderation, and subject tt
| uySI0HlC 1uWSs HC COulO AOs nave BCL
formed the wonderful task of writing
out, as he once did, nine columns anG
i a half of one of Daniel Webster
7 speeches, at single sitting.
It is the same in journalism as in liter
allure, art, business, everything. The
: men who make their mark, who refuse
to be borne down, and who, if borne
down, come up again, and stay I'D, are
3 the men who do not dlssipate There
! are brilliant fellows with many vice!
l who flash like a rocket, but, like it
1 they go out in the darkness, and ar,
z silent forever. Good sense and perse
verance out-rank brilliancy, and these
when sustained, demand freedom fron
dissipation. Ethics have value abov'
, ethics they are the base and build o
, right being. All experience wortl
: having proves that no sort of perma
nent success can be achieved withou
rigid adherence to moral law. ...