The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-06
DEACON WHITES
!, nu,in,,, Natter waii,s STREET op,r.tor

n n Uusiness Ilhtttts-N All strfet
who ha, Failed Four, rimes and Repaid
Every Debt III Fail -Tsik, OF success
and Advsr,lty.
New York World: within the past
rcek the city OF New York has wit
iessed q remarkable example and OBJ
Get lesson In commercial integrity. The
reteran. s. v. White. for many years
me OF tho most familiar figures on Wall
ltrcct. celebrated Christmas, 1891. by
presenting himself. for the fourth time,
slth the records OF a great debt paid.
Four t!mes Mr. White has failed in
.uslness. three times for large amounts,
IN every case he has quickly recovered
ne lost ground and made for himself q
Unique reputation By paying every cent
y. his indebtedness.
To give human nature full credit, this
Is often done. But 1t is not often done
four times by one mon when the
amount requires seven figures TO ex.
press II
In other ways, Mr.. White Is rather an
unusual man. lie has become an au-
lho.i,y en- astronomy. He has taken an
interest In scientific subjects and is
master OF a good literary style. His In
lerest has always been readily enlisted
In the serious undertakings which are
the pride OF Brooklyn, and his promi-
ncnce as a member and officer OF Henry
Ward Beccher's church was known for
nhny years.
In spite OF his manifold. activities and
tho dlsappolntments he has met Mr..
white, with his alert manner, keen eye,
and hair and beard but lightly touched
by time. Is one OF the livcllest men
downtown.
To a reporter OF the Sunday World
ar. White consented to give, the other
day, some New Year thoughts OF a
practical nature for the consideration
Of young men in business.
WELL" said AFR. White. "that Is a big
field for an interview. but I will not en-
ter in any attempt to occupy the entire
territory.
"what would you consider. Mr.. white,
shc most necessary or useful quality in
the conduct OF llte?"
"Inasmuch as all men must have
their periods OF adversely. and most
men have much to discourage them In a
business career, I think I would say
that fortitude and patience under dis
couragements are among the most nee
essary.
",Havlng done all. stnnd!' Is, !, be-
.Iisve. a Scripture text. And without SER
mon!zlng, I may say that every man at
some time In his life is sure to come to
a point where the clouds are SO thick
and the discouragement5 are so great
that he cannot see his way clear and is
in deep doubt as 70 what he ought to
Go. Tint is the time for the exercise OF
patience and OF sound philosophy"
'By what philosophy car a man forth
" his soul under the butfeting Of adj
perslty?"
.He must get the broader View. He
should remember that the vexations and
besctments which seem to him SO severe
and so ha-ass!nS. are, In fact. no more
80 than those which fall to the lot OF
many: and that while to each in the
hour Of his trial such vexat!ops seemed
/ unusually acute. the great world was
moving on.
THE men in the mex: office or the
rext house were not conscious that
anything unusual was occurring.
There is q sort OF grin satisfaction
In thinking how little difference It will
make a generation hence whether ones
venture is a failure or q success"
you must have seen many periods OF
business depression in your long ca
rec-?"
The panic OF 1897 was the thing
talked about when I entered business,
but a few years later we had the panic
OF 1857, which In time was succeeded by
That OF 1875. Each one OF them vas full
O: distress for manV men In business as
s; passed into history; but who knows
or remembers the incidents OF 1897 now?
One can gain f%ortitudc to stand up un-
der trials which seem almost TOO severe
10 be borne, by tho remembrance that
others have been equally beset and have
lived through the adversely and after
ward been a~bundantly crowned with
success"
..yo,,r ov-, axrnrtnrnn boe bunda ntl-
proved that" said the reporter. But
when a man is hard hit he sometimes
El-ds at philosophy"
Eat such a time q man should try not
TO struggle in the tolls. He should re-
member that time heals wounds which
cannot, be hurried In their treatment.
"of course these statements are made
upon the theory that the man Involved
in these troubles is firmly fixed In his
determination TO do right. A man under
n great stress should guard himself SO
that lie is not tempted to get out OF his
troubles by anything other than the
most honorable business methods.
"such a man will find very often that
his troubles have been m~ugnIfied by
nervous strain and that things are not
nearly so bad as they seem. But, how
ever bad they may be, Having done all.
let him stand"
FRUSTRATED BY THE NEPHEW.
DENVER. Col. Jan. "a bold at
tempt was made to rob the home OF Pc
ter Mognes, nj Hoscdale, two miles