The Arizona sentinel., 1876-04-01
TENACITY.

 subject, and to consider it's appli- cation to the various phases of hu' man life. Tenacity is one of the most valuable traits possessed by man. when directed toward the accomplishment of a good and laudabIe object. The lower ami mals possess it to great degree; as for instance the bulldog and the cat. But whether we cOnsld- CT the object dog-matically or cat egorically, it is full of interest. It means that quality of holding on, and unwillingness to resign, give up, or let go anything or any pur- suit that has been undertaken If we took over the history of the world we will find that as gene ral rule, no great achievement has ever been accomplished without tenacity.
 True, there are some exceptions, as some events of importance to mankind have happened without the exercise of any tenacity. But they belong to the exception and not the rule. They are called Pro- vidential, CT as happening by chance, or luck,
 So in the common affairs of life, it sometimes happens that the most inactive drone, who posses ses neither tenacity or energy, succeeds in some valuable acquisi- tion. But that again, don't be- long to the rule. It is a rare eX ception and is only blind luck. Those Iistless loungers who hang around saloons and other public places, who have no occupation, but are "waiting for something to turn up," know nothing about tenacity, because they have no pursuit. Depend upon it, it is tena' city that wins, whether in love, husiness or war, and this all his tory abundantly proves.
 In love, we all know that very few women who are worth hav- ing are willing to be won without they see a tenacious effort on the part of the lover to secure the prize. They would be won, but they must be wooed with tenacity; and pluck belongs to tenacity. As Josh Billings says, in his natural history, speaking of the tenacity of the rooster, ''it is pluck that wins 6 hen or a wOman." It is so with the student. No girl or boy ever acquired an education with out tenacity. "There is no royal road to Iearning," and the son of king must go through the same training, use the same mental ef- fort and hold on with the same tenacity as the child of the hum- blest clodhopper in the world, if he would succeed. It Is so in business. If a man would prosper and realize the fruitiOn of his hopes he must be tenacious, and after choosing his line of business hold on like a bulldog to the hind leg of a chicken thief. It is so in war. Where would the great universal Yankee Nation, with all its glory. and wealth and power and liberty, be to-day, had it not been for the unfiinching tenacity of the revolutionary pa triots No where i've would have had no national existence and all of us who were born under the Stars and Stripes would not have been born at all, or would have been somebody else. The lack of tenacity is too prevalent in new countries like Arizona. But this sometimes can't be help ed. The tendency of men in all new settlements is to fly from one thing to another in the effort tC find out what will be best for them. This is all right, but it is apt to beget spirit of restlessness which sometimes units man for entering upon any fixed pursuit and following it tenaciOusly. But