NEVER DESPAIR.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1880, 12 January 1875, Page 2

NEVER DESPAIR.

An American contemporary encourages men and youths to fight manfully the battle of life by giving the following examples from American'history :— Peter Cooper failed in making hats, failed as a cabinet-maker, locomotive builder, and grocer, but a 8 often as. he failed he " tried again," until he could stand upon his feet alone, then crowned his victory by giving a million dollars to help the poor boys in times to come. Horace Gree'ey tried three or four lines of business before he founded the Tribune, and made it worth a million dollars.

Patrick Henry failed at everything he undertook until he made himself the ornament of his age and nation. The founder of the New York Herald kept on failing and sinking money for ten years, and then made one of the most profitable newspapers on earth. Stephtn A. Douglas made dinner-tables and bedsteads and bureaus many a long year before he made himself a giant on the floor of Congress. . General Grant failed at everything except smoking cigars; he* learned to tan hides, but could not sell leather enough to purchase a pair of breeches. A dozen years ago "he brought up "on the top of a wood-pile "teaming it" to town for dOdols. a month, and yet he is at the head of a great nation.