The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-02-11
The First Thousand Dollars.


The first thousand dollars that young
man after going out into the world to act
for himself, earns and saDes viii generally
settle the question of business life with
him There may be exceptions to this
statement; yet, for rule, we think that
4 it viii hold true.
The first condition is that the man ac-
tually earns the thousand dollars in ques-
ton. He does not inherit this sum. 1t
does not come to him by streak of good
luck, as the result of fortunate venture
In the purchase and sale of hundred
shares Of stock. 1t is the fruit of personal
industry. He gives his time and his labor
for it. While he Is thus earning and saw
ing it, he must earn two or three, or per
haps four times as much to pay his cur
rent expenses. He is consequently held
sternly to the task of industry for a con
siderable period. The direct consequence
to him is steady, continuous and solid dis
cipline in the habits Of industry-in
patient persistent, forecasting and self
denying effort, breaking up all the tenden-
cies to Incidence and friyolity, and max
ing him an earnest and watchful econo-
mist of time. He not only learnsshow to
work. but he also acquires the love of work;
and, moreover he learns the Ualue of the
sum which he has thus saved out of his
earnings He has toiled for it; he has OBJ
served its slow increase from time to time;
and In his estimate it represents so many
months or years of practical labor. His
ideas of life are shaped by his own ex-
perience. These natural effects Of earning
the first thousand dollars we hold to be
very large benefits They are Just the
qualities of mind and body which are
most likely to secure business success in
after years They constitute the best
practical education which man can have
as yorker in this working world. They
are gained in season for life's purposes,
at the opening period, Just when they are
wanted, when foolish notions are most
likely to mislead an inexperienced brain,
and when, too, there is a full opportunity
for expansion and development in later
years. Men have but one life to live; and
hence, they start from opening manhood
but once. And the manner in which they
start, the purposes they have in view, and
the habits they form, Will ordinarily deter
mine the entire sequel of their career on
earth. To succeed, men must have the
clements of success IN Themselves. One great
reason why there are so many useless, in
efficient, and poverty stricken men on
earth-or. rather. boys. seeming to be
men-consists in the simple fact that they
did not start right A prominent reason
why the children of the rich so frequently
amount to nothing may be found in the
luxury, ease and Incidence which marked
the commencement of their lives. Its the
law of God that we should be aoolkers on
earth; and no one so well consults the
best development of his being as when
he conforms his practice to this law. The
workers in some suitable sphere are the
only really strong men in this world.-Er-
change.
For centuries the isthmus of Corinth, separ-
ating the Gulf of Corinth, which is about in
the center of Greece, from the Gulf of Egina,
has attracted particular attention because OF
the barrier it presented to navigation between
the Black and Adristic Seas and the interme-
diate ports. A canal cutting the isthmGs at
Its nafrowest part was commenced by the Ro-
man Emperor Nero, and the canal now being
excavated is on line nearly identical with
the one adopted at that time. Three attempts
previous TO Nero, had been made to build the
canal, and at the Rgian end there is depres-
sion about $50 feet wide at the bottom and
about 5000 feet long, while at the west side
the work can be traced for $500 feet from the
shore. The route extends in a perfectly
straight line, is 20,6O0 feet long, and the most
formidable ridge encountered is 256 feet high
Ihe canal will have the same width as that al
Suez, as feet and viii shorten the voyage
from the Adriatic Sea to Turkey and Asia Mi
nor by ls5 miles, Work was begun in May,
1851, under a contract with firm for the to-
tai sum of s., 2s0,000. Two 300 horse power
marine dredges are now at work upon the
canal. The normal running speed of the buck
cts Is fourteen a minute, or during a day 81
ten hours $500 bucket loads will be raised
this being equivalent to 1850 cubic yards
The total population now connected with The
work is 1890. According the present pro.
gress, it is expected that it will be completed
IN 1856. The total expenditure up to June q
last was 81 ZOO, OOO--ScieatUfc AMERICAN.
One Of our religious monthlies, whicl
has large free list" lately sent tn,
names of its subscribers in certain tow
to one of the number asking hiIa to repor
whether all of them were still living in tn
place and regularly receiving the copie
mailed to them. He replied: "All her
except Brother s.. He went to heay
en- last summer. His widow and childrel
remain here permanently"