The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-02-18
spirit of volunteer organization and the cor.
tageous preudices Of few of Jackson's old
scholars-Ricirmond Dispoteh.' 49,: :rs-,y~,
Room ut the TOP.

To the young men annually making. their
entrance upon active life, with great ambitions,
conscious capacities, and high hopes, the pros.
pect is, ninety-nine cases in hundred, most
perplexing They see every avenue to pros
perity thronged with their superiots in expe-
rience, in social advantages, and in possession
of all the elements and conditions of success.
Every post is occupied, every Office filled, every
path crowded. Where shall they find roon9
1t is related of Mr.. Webster, that when young
lawyer suggested to him that the profession to
which he had devoted himself was over crowd
ed, the great man replied: "Youhg man, there
is always room enough at the top" Never
was wiser or more suggestive word said.-
There undoubtedly is always room enough
where excellence lives Mr.. Webster was not
Calhoun were never crowded Mr. Evarts,
Mr.. Cushing, and Mr.. O'Conor have plenty of
space aronnd them. Mr. Beecher, DR., Storrs,
DR., Hall, Mr.. Phillips Brooks, would never
know, in their personal experience, that it was
hard to obtain desirable ministerial charge.
The profession is not crowded where they are:
DR.. Brown Sequard, DR.. Willard Parker, DR.:
Hammond, are not troubled fot space at
their elbows. When Nelaton died in Paris,
he died, like Moses, on q mountain. When
Won Graefe died in Berlin, he had no neighb6f
at his altitude 80,
1t is we'll, first, that all young men remember
that nothing will do them so much injury as
quick and easy success, and that nothing viii
do them so much good as struggle which
teaches them exactly what is in them, edueates
them gradually to its use, instructs them in
personal economy, drills them into patient
and persistent habit of work, and keeps them
at the foot of the ladder until they become
strong enouge to hold every step they are en-
abled to gain. The first years Of every mans
business or professional life are years of educas
ton. They are intended to be, in the order Of
nature and Providence. Doors do not open to
man until he is prepared to enter them. The
man without a wedding garment may get
in surreptiously, but he Immediately goes
out with flea in his ear. Ye think it s'the
experience Of most successful men who have
watched the course of their lives in retrospect,
that whenever they have arrived at q point
where they were thoroughly prepared to 60 up
higher, the door to the higher place has swung
back Of itself, aud they have heard the call to
enter. The old die, or voluntarily retire to
rest. The best men, who stand ready to take
their places, will succeed to their position and
its honors and emoluments.
The grand mistake that young men make
during the first ten years of their business or
professional life, is in idly waiting for their
chance. They seem to forget, or they do not
know, that during those ten years they enjoy.
the only leisure they will ever have. After ten
years, in the natural course of things they will
be absorbingly busy. There will then be no
time for reading, culture or study. If they do
not become thoroughly grounded in the princi
piles and practical details of their profession
during those years if they do not store their
minds with useful knowledge; they do not pur-
sue habits of reading and observation, and 80;
cial intercourse, which result in culture, the
question whether they will ever rise to occupy
place where there is room for them will be
decided in the negative. The young physicians
and young lawyers who sit idly in their Offices
and smoke, and lounge away the time waiting
for something to turn up," are by that course
fastening themselves for life to the low.
er stratum, where struggle for bare livelihood
is to be perpetual. The first ten years are
golden years that should be filled with system,
attic reading and observation. Every thing
that tends to professional and personal excel
lence should be an object of daily pursuit. To
such men the doors of success open themselves
at last Work seeks the best hands, as natural,
ly as water runs down hill; and it never seeks
the hands of the trifer or of one whose only
recommendation for work is that he needs it,
Young men do not know very much, any way,
and the time always comes to those who become
worthy, when they look back with wonder up
on their early good opinion of their acquire
ments and emselves.-Scribner's Magazine.