Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
SUCCESS.
OSNEE
Ellsworth Bolt sewell.


Ellsworth Bolt sewen.
Nothing that happens in this world
happens by chance" Peace, happiness
and success and even the smallest of
things are governed by law. Many
forgetting this, expect success to drop
into their Lives without previous pre-
paratory work If man could attain to
success without any proceeding work
the world would be very different from
what it is at the present time. He
would degenerate and gradually sink
lower than the beasts. The greatest
known aid to civilization is success as
it leads to the things that are neces-
sary tor the development of mind or
body. 1t not only builds up man ment-
ally but also physically
When young person arrives at that
stage of life where he must go to work,
he should select the vocation that he
expects to make his lie work. The
choosing of this requires more consid-
Grafton than anything else as it deter
mines whether he is going to make
this life pay or not. The majority of
the people that fail today have not
given enough thought at the start.
They have taken the first thing that
came their way without thinking
whether they had any love for it. It is
the worst mistake they could have
made, as a start in the wrong direction
is much worse than none at all. Fame
or money are great inducements to
the young man or woman at the pres
ant time but one who works for these
and nothing else will meyer succeed.
Nearly all young people have the
idea that they can do anything little
bit better than anybody else, and for
this reason they select something of
which they know nothing at all except
that some man has made fortune out
of it. AS soon as they meet with re-
verses they drop it and try something
else. They go through life this way
trying everything but doing nothing.
They lack one of the necessary things
for success, viz: perseverance. 1t is
one of the essentials that can not be
dispensed with by person desiring to
succeed in any occupation. Some peo-
pie have the impression that success can
be gained in short period of time, and
thinking this they are discouraged be-
cause their work does not progress fast
enough. They think that success can
be gained in a years time, and if they
do not reach it then they begin to
neglect their business and finally drop
it altogether All their labor goes to
some person who will profit by it. In
giving up they may have lost the great
est opportunity of their lives. 1t might
have been the very one of success to
them but they have let it pass.
The late A. T. Stewart started in
New York with a small amount of
money selling insertions" and "scal-
lop trimming" In ten years he had
one of the largest stores in the city.
and little later owned one that en-
ployed nearly twenty five thousand
and frequently did business of sixty
thousand dollars daily. At the time
OF, his death he had $22, 900, OOOinvested
it the concern, including stock, ware
nOuSSS anu Hills liz AdA do 41oAAS
setbacks as anyone, but he conquered
at last by perseverance.
Promptness of action is another de-
sirable qualification for person desir-
ing to succeed. 1t is necessary for one
to have time to do things and to do
them at that time When President
Lincoln ordered General Mcclellan to
attack Richmond he was not prepared.
The result was that the opportunity of
his life was taken away. In theory
perhaps he was as great as Grant,
in practice he WIS failure, and be-
cause he was not ready at the supreme
moment of his life, all his hopes for
rising higher were blighted.
Napoleon, the greatest man of his
class the world ever producted, never
stopped when he found what had to be
done Being always at the right place
at the right time, and appearing when
and where he was least expected, was
all that saved him from defeat many
times. By these methods he held the