BUSINESS LIFE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 15 February 1913, Page 8

BUSINESS LIFE

HOW TO RISK. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting'that anybody wishes to hinder him. -Allow .me to assure yeu that suspicion and jealousy never did help any mar) in a situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young fellow down ; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast abo'ut, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you liave ever know n to fall into it.—Abraham Lincoln.

REAL GRIT.

'lLere are varying degrees of persistency. Some men start out with great zeal, but turn back at their first defeat, " while failures only enhearten others, call out their reserves, and. make them "all the more resolute, determined to win. For some men every defeat is a 'Waterloo, but there is no Waterloo for the "man who has clear grit, for the m4n who persists, who' never knows when .he is beaten. Those who are bound to win never think of defeat as final.! They look upen it as a mere slip: They get up after each failure with -hew resolution, more determination ever. to go on until they win.—o. S. Marden.~

. GETTING WHAT WE GiVE.

t . Man is the artificer of his own happiness.. Let him beware how he ''Complains of the disposition of circumstances, for it is his own dispositfqn he blames. If. this is sour, or that rough, or-the othet-steep, let-him think if, it be not his oivn work. If his looks curdle all" hearts," let him not complain of a sour reception; if he hobble in his gait, let him not grumble at the roughness of the way; if he is weak in the knees, let hiin not call the hill steep. This was the- pith- of the inscription on the walls of'"the. Swedish, inn : "You will .find at Trochate excellent bread, meat, and . wine, - provided - you bring -them.' 'with you."—H. D. Thcreau. f

V.:.- * : ; , . .INDUSTRY.

;Tjldustry. is the motive po"wer qf the so-called. ""Wheel of Fortune," and its seli-etad'eijt .value, and,/ accompi isjjments are sufficiently conspicuous in themselves to satisfactorily .rival other influences', which may arise . from the superficial pleasures of indolence, for such pleasures are" mostly physical and c£ only temporary duration, whereas the mental gratification of having- achieved something through one's own- personal effort is of ipcalculable joy; :The "Fortune of Birth" is purely accidental, and may prove a blessing or not. according to tine's standard of appreciation—a blessing insomuch as it ' may smooth ioff - certain of life's rough edges and- corners- —a misfortune, when it leads one to over-estimate its powers. True success lies within ourselves and according! to, the cultivation of our possibilitieSj.vbut. its germ cannot, like material thingsj be bequeathed. Each day is theJbesfc day, to subdue our lazy impulses,; and success almost always awaits the industrious man who thinks of his goal rather than-dwells upon the petty disappointments w r ith which , every path of- life -is necessarily strewn.—Landon Carter.