The Bossier banner., 1883-08-16
The Failure Of Nnenaaa.

80, SSicl4c -, "a AAnasa stone, ,inwhicA liza
light OF what was in every worldly -
successful life was put out n r,1ass -
lana friday afternoon, inforces 80
more moral that it is to be hopad VIII
not have TO be told too often tofA hn,s
ness-men OF this country. An Er.ls,s
Traveller who was lately in Chicapn sai5
TO an American friend that notRine s
struck him in this country as the ces,s.
less energy with which our sipsaasse,1
men, after they had won great prizas 3
fortune, continued to toll when fhs-
should rest In England a man vvI,5J
has amassed q competency. larga -
sarger, hastens to enjoy it while 9ksss
is still some eapabiityof enjoyment leit,
lie buys an estate. and goes irta
boards Of trustees and the local nagis.
tracy, joins u social club, and basks ;n
the warm sun OF public interest and ~
gard that is almost certain 10 aftend !
successful man. Bnt in this countrv
work seems to become a vice. Ttean <
be thrown aside. 1t clings to IFS yiefi,ns
like the morphine habit It grows nno,,
them like an incurable affection n tha
nerves, until the unhappy sol Of inelnss
try drops out of the world before III.
time.
Merchants used to retire from bus;.
ness when they had done we'll. and hal
reached fifty years of age or so. Eus
nowadays after q man he's built mrs
fortune at trading or manufacturing.
and has made what in the old dsSs
would have been. considered sometime
handsome, he thinks he has only bealIn,
lie has now obtained not nest-egg. hut
q whole basketful, which. if put into
Railroad building, banking, sfock-iob-
blng, or int some Of the other VIDE
fields opened to energy, and associated
capital and executive ability. will mako
him really rich.iffH He is not content with
the success he has achieved in his own
| field. The huge fortunes that surround
him lid him with envy and nervous
restlessness to Ego them one better
His business experience has been but an
| apprenticeship to the grander trade Of
corporation management and stock ax-
change opportunities.
1t results from this narrow intensity
of the thirst for gold and power, snd
| this indulgence of the appetite for in
temperate exertion, that the men who
| work the hardest work without pav.
They get board wages from the world.
and that is about about all They
work for the sake OF the work. In
the hot rivalry TO sell more calicOes,
build more railroads, lend more money.
put up more houses or stores than their
competitors, they strain their nerves
| to the swapping point. They founder.
| They run their mad race in the delusion
| that they are working for themselves
| They wake up in the next world TO SEQ
that it was the community that got the
benefit of the railroads. the houses, the
banks, the manufactures, the vast
warehouses IN which they embo6ied
| their energies. Their overreaching
selfishness has failed because it has given
/ the fruits of their lab0rs to others,
/ They can not claim that theirs wis q
success in working for Others. for they
1 did not mean to work for anybody but
| themselves.
1t was Bulwer who epitomized human
life in the bitter phrases Youth fois
", manhood struggle, old age r..
greet A kinder aud wiser saying comes
/ from Emerson; I'VE should prize our
youth. = The fIood-iide of yorng energy
/ is the tide on which to embark for fort-
une. But the cooler days that follow
| are those which the wise, successful man
viii give to better work than fofttlne-
I seeking. Few of us can be what the
world calls successful. Those who
reach that goal should not forget 1hat
/ in getting to it, human toes were the
least sensitive things they crushed.
| Whether or not the world owes every
man a living, every man owes the world
something out of his living. Insomnia.
nervous prostrations paralysis, prema-
ture death are poor finishing touches
to use for the apexes of what we want
the world to look at as successful ca.
reers. 1t is better to stop short of sue
cess that is so complete that it ends
in complete collapse of the successful
man. when / was young, Greek
epitaph says, and could enjoy life, !
had nothing, Now that I am old and
can not enjoy it | have more money
than know what to do with. Our
successful men would not fail as they
/ do from the surfeit of success il they
would learn the wisdom Of making less
of their business and more Of themselves.
| Chicago Tribune. n