The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-15
AT WHAT AGE
is SUCCESS WON?
POINTS FOR YOUNG MEN.
The Opinions Of Eminent Men.

interesting question 1t has interview
ed number Of prom , men cen
cerning the age when ess is likely
| to come, and here me OF the
opinions on the subject:
C. p Huntington thinks that 'suc-
cess may be won by any man, no mat
ter how old, who Is honest, intelligent
industrious and willing to live on less
than he earns. / have known men,
said he, "who began 20 rise in life after
the age of fifty"
Senator Mills, of Texas, says that a
man must make his mark before he is
40, and he must get his hard work
done before he is 55. | do not mean
to be understood that all the world
must know he has made his mark
before lie is 40, but he must have made
it by that time, and in order to do this
he must begin to make it when he is
Young, say by the time he is 23. If
the idea Of success be the accumulation
of money he must by the time he has
reached the latter age have learned
how to lay up something all the time.
DR.. George f. Shrady told the Press
that the wisest men do not try to
achieve success while young, and the
same opinion was entertained by Gen.
James, who thinks good health, deter
mination and ability will bring success
to man at any age. Gen. James
backs up his opinion by making the
following illustrations
Abraham Lincoln was not success
in the ordinary acceptation OF the term
until the memorable debate between
him and Douglas, and that was in 1858,
when Lincoln was 40 years of age.
Before that he was accounted a smart
Western lawyer, a shrewd politician
only, and yet all the world knows that
after that he became the great figure
of the country The man whose name
has gone down in history as that OF the
General who fought more battles and
won more victories than any other
soldier, Ulysses S. Grant, was practically
unheard of until after 1860, when he
was 80 years old, and it was not until
after 1860, when he was 50 years old,
and 1t was not until after he was 40
that he really began to make the wide
and deep mark which he has left on
the records of the civil war.
When Elihu Washburn called upon
Grant to preside at meeting held for
the purpose of raising recruits in Ga
lena, he chose Grant because he was
known as Captain Grant, and in spite
of the fact that Grant was then as con-
spicuous because of failure as he after
ward became because of success. Charles
A. Dana was not successful in the
larger sense of the word until he got
The Sun i'm 1867 or 1868, and in '67
Mr.. Dana was 4S years of age He was
editor Of The Tribune before
the war at 800 week; during the
contest he was Assistant Secretary of
War, and after peace was declared he
essayed journalism unsuccessfully in
Chicago. The secret of his success lay,
of course, in his magnificent mental
primarily, but he has al
WAYS had good health and no failure
ever caused him to lose heart.
Ex-Mayor Grace, of New York, gave
as his opinion that a man has plenty
Of time to be successful after the age of
45. and Judge Noah Davis is Of the
opinion that man must display ability
before he is 40, but his success may
come after that.
Now this is the way Gen. Horace
Porter puts it:
"a vigorous man may win at 70
most men ought to win at 40, if they
are going to win at all, though there
are those who hold that man does not
attain lis full powers until he has lived
two score wears. You know the mill
thry adaee. "Old men for counsel and
young men for fighting" and this is
true of military life, because martial
success depends as much on physical
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