Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1882 — Solid Success. [ARTICLE]

Solid Success.

The surest road to success iti life is that of persistent and thorough work. Speculators, who make money rapidly, generally lose it with equal rapidity. It is the patient, steady plodders who gain and keep fortunes. Mr. William H. Webb, the great ship-builder of New York, is a good example for the young men of the United States. Hi 3 father had won a fortune in shipbuilding, and like many loving fathers, wished aii easier life for hfs favorite boy. But the young man preferred his father’s trade, ana determined to master it. , He went into the ship-yard like a common workman, beginning at the foot of the ladder, aud acquired great skill in the use of all the tools. Soon even the experienced hands did not equal him in nicety of work. He was still a young man when his father died, but he oontinued the business and won in it a'high reputation. He was the first man in the yard in the morning, and the last to leave it at night. With his own hand he drew the model of every vessel built therein; wrote in a book every specification of the building, and marked on the frame the place for every stick of timber. No better vessels, either for war or commerce, were built in the world than came from Webb’s yard. Of the hundred and forty built under his own eye not one proved a failure. Sir Titus Salt, the great English mahufaoturer of alpaca, used to boast, when he was a millionaire, that he could at a moment’s notice take the place of any workman in his vast factory. He was master not only of the financial but of the mechanical part of his business. It has been found that sparrows will •at caterpillars. They dislike the hairy covering, and now oarefol experiments have proved that a sparrow will gobble up caterpillars just as fast as a man can akin them.