Show why so nany many yli rall fall lu in R business failures in business buBi bubl nebb nesb are by the unfortunate attributed generally to every cause but the true one we all prove ourselves the sons and daughters of adam and eve by endeavoring to at tribu tribute tee as the cause of our misfortunes some indiscretion of some incautious friend or wily enemy very goodness of heart and anxiety to please others are often the cause of embarrassment in trade and the final unfortunate cause of the winding up of a career auspicious at its opening the extravagance in dress drees and equip age agee and beeping keeping up princely establishments meo men ta is the cause causa of a majority of american failures americans are seldom miserly nearly all of that class among us have been importations the ancient asters and girards were not natives of the united states americans love money as well as the natives of other countries and their efforts to accumulate wealth are as great but their anxiety to enjoy it and to make as large a display as aa possible forbid that they should ever become misers they worship wealth not for its intrinsic value but because it furnishes all the requisite mater materials las lab to gratify the luss juss of the flesh and the lusts of the eye and the pride of life and when thus self to is to be gratified the devotee has launched upon a stormy ocean but young and inexperienced merchants are not willing to admit that their style of living dress and equipage age is extravagant they argue that the their 1 r position posit lon ion the tho nature of their bus enesa and surroundings demand that they should keep up the appearance of wealth and the display of pecuniary independence they sa s we are compelled to mingle e with merchants engaged in the same line of business with ourselves we meet with them not only on change abut but in the social literary and business circles and our families are on terms of intimacy and it is absolutely sol necea necessary sary bary for us ua to live in as good a house and to keep up as fine au ab establishment as aa those with whom we associate we would be ostracized ostracised and lose caste in community were we to fall below their stand of mercantile gentility in dreas dress and equipage our establishments and style of living must be characteristic of our circle the youthful trader has but a vague idea of the self denial practiced for many years by his hib senior the wife and daughters of hie prosperous neighbor over the w way ay once dressed in cheap calico and did their own housework the young man has but a remote conception of the careful watching and laborious tolling toiling by which his seniors ascended the ladder of wealth and affluence fluence tf in a word to descend to plain matters of faer fact young and ambitious men enter eutera a mercantile career with all the extravagance of a long iong established house in the vain hope that by show and display they dball ishall command a business that nov nol one in a thousand ever realized but by sleepless vigilance untiring industry great energy strict economy and a good capital every young man ente eute entering ring the great commercial circle on hib bib own account should dhave have bave before him in letters lettera of light the fact that in our great eastern cities more than ninety per cent of all who engage in trade fail some learn wisdom by what they suffer and lose and try try agaid again fand and finally succeed the fact that so few succeed should be a lesson to the most sanguine to move cautiously it should milu mila ence them not only to be industrious but to start with the determination to spend nothing unnecessarily business before pleasure should be their motto we would urge all to recognize the claims of them the poor the needy and the distressed but while doing so always to bear in mind that men should not act actual always ways from mere impulse even in striving to be good be just before you are generous 11 ddlly daily self that you may have to give to the widow and the orphan be humble that you may be 1 and reflect how much alees anter ante enteritis it is to be always ascending the ladder of wealth and prosperity than to be placed on the highest round and then to be compelled to come down step by step painfully I 1 or be ba hurled i from the top without a word of warning n fealds college journal A sly old deacon wishing to give his pastor a bint hint to put more juice in his sermons baid said to him one day 1 I must get a seat nearer the pulpit for by the tile time your words reich my ears the people lu in front of me have so taken the P pith ith out of them that they are as dry as dishwater |