The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-05-16
Success.
BY MISS MoLLIE BURKE.

If were asked the one thing, that every per-
son most desires, would answer without hesi-
tation, success.
Does a man embark his all in business and
scheme and work and continue for anything
else? The speculator, the gambler as well as
the business man, the lawyer the doctor the
politician, the farmer all desire the one thing,
success.
1t is the one great world wide perpetual in
centive to all effort. The desire, the longing
for success. What would community be in
which there was no desire to succeed.
Take away from civilization the constant
striving for success, and there is nothing left
but barbariSm. The hum of industry the spur
of invention the activity of commerce, and bu-
sfness, the hope of labor, the bright star to all
is the goal, success. What then is the main
spring of the world ; is it inward principle in
each breast, or is it something without us, or is
it above and beyond us?
A man, by careful management and superior
skill and judgment, has accumulated a fortune
the world says he is a successful man, he
meant to be rich and he is rich.
When an ambitious man has gained the
| highest place of honor, again the world says,
"He is successful man, "He wanted place
and power and he has BOTH"
When warlike King has subd ued other ma
tions and added to his own and enlarged the
| boundary of his kingdom the world again says,
He is successful man, and SO through life
The world takes of all things success the
| best proof of power, ability, honor and SKILL
| And to the world at large perhaps, this rule is
the safest, and not only the safest but it is the
reflection, the shadow of the truth. But again,
| what is success? What results prove that the
highest success was reached? &? The child spends
| years in school, the youth continue the culti-
| walton of his mind, and the first flush of man
| hood or womanhood completes the prescribed
course of study with honor. How near to sue
cess is that? A proper education is one of the
great helps to success, but it is only help, one
of the means and not an end at all.
| 1t is a noble tool for work, but it is not the
work. Another has no education, at least no
school education, but by nature in part and
partly by long observation, is able to under
stand men and control them, that is another
power by which success may be attained, but it
is not success.
Henry Clay had this power and his name
lives is spoken by thousands, and will be for a
few years yet, but when we ask, "what did he
do" we do not know, we can only say he was
a great orator and could sway men by the mag
ic of his tongue. Byron's muscalzworks that
dazzle the Imagination and distort the judg-
ment treasured up, he had the gilt of WELD
| ing the pen, vast power for success. Another
has millions of dollars; A. L. Stewart, his
name is known to the world as one of the
richest men while he lived, has he succeeded ?
Wealth is a power in the world by which sue
| cess may be reached.
| But we can imagine one man who had the
| learning of Newton, the eloquence of an Ad-
ans, and the wealth of an Astor, and when we
have all that in one man, he still might be a
| failure. He then would have all the mighty
| tools to work out the most glorious success, all
but one, the one genius, knowledge, place,
riches, power, eloquence, tact and piety; all
might unite in one man with no greater result
than to make famous their poSsessor
just Egypt's for having the pyramids.
| But add to those qualities and pow
ers the spark of a sincere earnest purpose