Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-03-02
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ROOM At THE TOP.

To the young men annually making
their entrance upon active life, with great
ambitions, conscious capacities and high
hopes, the prospects is, IN ninety-nine cas-
es in a hundred, most perplexing. They
see every avenue to prosperity thronged
with their superiors in experience, in so,
cal advantages, and in the possession of
all the elements and conditions of success
Every post is occupied, every office filed,
every path crowded Where shall they
find room 1t is related of Mr.. Webster
that when a young lawyer suggested to
him that the profession to which he had
devoted himself was overcrowdcd, the
great man replied :--"Young 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 lived. Mr.. Webster was
not troubled for lack of room-Mr. Clay
and Mr.. Calhoun were never crowded.
Mr.. Eyarts, Mr.. Cushing, and Mr.. O'Con-
or have plenty of space around item. Mr..
Beechcr DR.. Storrs DIR. Hall, Mr.. Phillips
Brooks would never know in their per-
sonal experience, that it was hard to OBJ
tain desirable ministerial charge. The
profession is not crowded where they are.
N bio"i hrCIutlt, IL. w liidIu L al hCl
DR.. Hammond, are not troubled for space
Tor their elbows Nelaton died in Paris,
he died like Moses on mountain. When
Won Graefe died Berlin, he had no neigh
Dor ut his altitude
Ii is well, at first, that ali young men
remember that nothing will do them so
and that nothing will do them so much
npO1 ~ cir nla w bt,.h
actly what there is in them, educates them
gradually to its use instructs them in per-
sonal economy, drills them into patient
and persistent habit of work, and keeps
them at the foot OF the ladder until they
become strong enough to hold every step
they are enabled to gain. The first years
of every mans business or professional
life are years Of education. They are in
tended to be, in the order of nature and
Providence. Doors do not open to a man
until he is prepared to enter them.-The
man without II wedding garment may get
surrepttiously, but he Immediately go
out with flea in his ear We think it is
the experience OF most successful men
who have watched the course OF their lives
in retrospect, that whenever they have
arrived at point where they were
thoroughly prepared to go up to higher
place, the door to higher place has swung
back of itself and they have heard the call
to enter. The Old die. or voluntarily re.
tire for rest. The best men who stand
ready to take their places will succeed to
their position and its honors and emolu-
ments.
The young men will say that only few
can reach the top. That is true, but it is
also true that the further from the bottom
one goes, the more scattering the neigh
borhood One can fancy, for Illustration
that every profession and every calling is
pyramidical in its living constituency, and
that while only one man is at the top, there
are several tiers of men below him who
have plenty of elbow room, and that it is
only at the base that men are so thick that
they pick the meat out of one another's
teeth to get out of the rabble at the hot
tom, then he is self-convicted of having
chosen a calling or profession to whose
duties he has no adaptation.
The grand mistake that Young men
make during the first ten Years OF their
business and professional life, is in idly
waiting for their chance They seem to
forget, 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 thing of things, they
will be absorbingly busy There will be
no time for reading, culture and study.
If they do not become thoroughly ground.
ed in the principles and practical details
of their profession during those years if
they do not store their minds with useful
knowledge if they do not pursue habits of
reading and observation and social inter-
CONCLUDED ON FOURTH rAGE.l