Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1877 — The Man of Business and. the Business Man. [ARTICLE]

The Man of Business and. the Business Man.

The man of business and the business man both have business to do; but the business man is one who does it. The business man thinks, moves, acts and makes himself felt in the world. If a thought comes into his head; it is pne of breadth and compass—it does not center on self and its narrow world. It reaches away and embraces others. It has a wide range, and does not' stop till it touches and affects for gnod the interests of all. Nor are the thoughts of such men immobile. They become acting, living realities in the wide busy world. The authors oi them make of these businees thoughts actualities, give them “local habitation and name,” and steamboats are built, and ocean is navigated, and distant climes and nations brought together; an electric telegraph springs into being as by enchantment, ana lightning becomes garrulous and voluble, and thought outtravels the winged winds; and in a twinkling the bands and shackles of trade are loosened. Buch are the workings produced by the business man. He awakens the drowsy and helpless multitudes, puts life and thought, energy and action, into them, and makes the world leap rejoicing along the path of ages. Where its step before was but a single year, now it strides by scores and fifties. “ Meq of thought, men of action, Clear the way.” And they do clear the way—their thoughts become tangible, moving, demolishing forces, that break down and crush all op£ posing barriers, opening a pathway of progress, into which the more sluggish and timid portion of humanity may secure.y travel. But the man of business is emphatically what the name indicates. His business is always on his hands. He does not do it. He does not know how to go to work in the right way. Hrs thoughts are all measured and slow. He weigns selfmade doubts and supposed contingencies, and before he moves the business man gets up and runs away from him and wins the race. The man of business won’t go ahead, he only eddies round and round—he does not progress—his path is a circle. He does not find himself at night many miles on his journey’s way, but, like the hour-hand of a clock, just where he started. He is not clear and decided in what he does, nut often stands hesitating and puzzled. He ventur js and falls back; has a stout heart in fancy, but none in fact.— Scientific American.