The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-04-04
Our Young People
ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS.
LESSON EIGHTH.


Another element of success is
economy. Extravaganza is a char
acteristic of our times. The credit
system has drawn thousands into
wild and foolish speculations, which
have ended in financial ruin. The
daily papers abound with dispatches
containing sad accounts of failures
entailiug widespread suffering.
Great mercantile firms often fail for
hundreds of thousands, and drag
with them to the dust helpless wild
ows and orphans. Lack OF ecouO-
my, reckless running in debt, wild
speculations and gambling in stocks
have brought untold calamities up
on an already suffering people. A
daughter who is devoted to fashion
demands of over-indulgent parents
dresses of the finest texture and 1T
the highest price. A fine hat costs
twenty dollars, and then she must
glitter in diamonds. Thus debts
are incurred and ruin follows. The
great and good Bishop Marvin in
one of his last charges to young
men. urged them not to go in debt.
Rather" said he, ''wear plain APP
parei and let it be thread bare or
covered with patches, than go III
debt for costly clothing" Econ
omy pays. A penny saved is a
penny gained. Extravaganza wastes.
Debt is an eating canker. Ruin
follows on the heels of wild specu-
lation. Nor is it economy to pur-
chase goods because they are cheap.
Make it rule to buy nothing sim
ply because of its cheapness. Buy
what you need and no moro. Re
member that most of our wants are
imaginary. Man wants but little
here below, nor wants that little
long" Ii all our young people
would learn this great truth and
limit their expenses to their wants,
success would be far more frequent
and in the very near future failures
would simply be matters OF history.
The amount spent in foolish and
costly pleasures, for cigars, tobacco
and liquors, If employed for repro
duction and increasing values, would
do more for the country than silver
bills or resumption acts. Then, to
economy temperance must be add
ed as another very important ele-
ment of success. An Incorporate
man is almost sure to fail in any
business which ne may follow. He
cannot succeed. His mind becomes
bewildered. HIS passions assume
the control OF reason and bid def
ance 10 all efforts at restraint. His
Judgment is lost amid the fumes OF
alcohol. His talent for business is
apnihilated by the fierce passion for
strong drink. The beast usurps the
place of the man, and appetite rules
where reason shoul i'd hold control.
Who can trust man given to in
OF what business is Il
drunken man capableY He is unit
-, 90 either Of the learned professions,
and is equally incapable of being a
thrifty farmer o. : prosperous me-
chanic. All this is well known. and
yet each generation is cursed with
its brood of drunkards. Drunken
ness, though so degrading and so
rulnous, has its destinations and !
still leads on its thousands of rev.
elers To destruction. 1t inhames /
The blood and fires the brain. 1t
wastes the muscles and skaters the /
nerves. 1t beclouds the intellect /
md hardens the heart. 1t DESTROYS
he morals aud scatters the estate.
It poisons the cup of domestic bliss,
md brings woe and sorrow into the
amily circle. 1t degrades the high
st manhood and extinguIshes the
light OF the Hottest genius. 1t
flights the hopes of the heart
'roken wife, and sweeps away the
asst prospect of once happy house
Iold. Its touch is more poisonous
han the bite of the rattle snake and
Is coils more deadly than the folds
# the bOa-cOnstrictor 1t is a soul
eSs robber and a heartiess murder
r. 1t charms TO Stay. and it fasci
ates to destroy. 1t enters the
Apply home of innocence and love
ud leaves nothing but blighted
opes and ruined peace. Wherever ,
goes 1t leaves the serpent's trail,
nd wherever it stays it brings sor- :
Ow and crime and misery and
cath. 1t spares neither age nor \
ex. 1t combines all tue horrors of
ar, pesti.ence and famine. War
oes its bloody work and allows
eace to return. Pestilence sweeps
way its thousands and gives way ,
, returning health. Famine car
es desolation into countless homes
nd departs amid the rejoielngs of
lose to whom plenty has been re-
.ored; but this monster, intemper-