The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-07-01
Variety,
now 10 PROSPER IN BUSINESS.

now TO PROSPER IN BUSINESS.
In the first place, make up your mind to
accomplish whatever you undertake decide
upon some particular employment, ana fer-
severe in il. "All difficulties are overcome
by diligence and assduity."
BE not afraid TO work with your own hands
and diligently TOO. "a cat in gloves catches
no mice" ale who remains IN the mill,
grinds not he who goes and comes"
Attend to your own business, and never
trust it to another. "a pot that belongs to
many is i'll stirred, aud worse boiled"
Be frugal. "That which will not make
pot will make pot lid"
Rise early. "1'he sleeping fox catches no
poultry" "Plougls deep while sluggards
sleep, and you will have corn TO sell and
keep"
Treat every one with respect and civIiIy.
''Every thing is gained and nothing lost by
courtesy"
Good manners ensure success"
Never anticipate wealth from any other
source than labor especially never place de-
pendence upon becoming the posscssor OF
an inheritance. ole who waits for dead
mems shoes may have TO go long time bare
foot" ale WHO runs after n shadow has
wearisome race"
Above all things, never despair. "God is
where he was" "Iieaven helps those who
help themselves"
Follow implicitly these precepts, aud moth
ing can hinder you from accommodating.
A TEXT FOR You've MEN.-A better sub
iect for young men to discourse about and to
mediate upon was never written Than the fol-
sowing by Swift "No man ever made an i'll
figure who understood his own tplents, nor
n good one who mstook them"
Young men do not fail in the pursuits OF
life because they lack ability TO succeed, half
ms often as from II Inisdirection of talents
a right use ofn moderate capacity will nc
complish much more than wrong applIca-
lion of the most brilliant qualifications
Study therefore yourselves. Aim to find out
the actual talents you possess, and then en-
Glcavor to make the best possible use of them
ard you can hardly come short of making
good figure in the world, and, what is more,
being one among those who live not III vain.
THE EXCHANGE OF RELIGION.--Ihe follow
ing is one of the most beautiful and truthful
sentences we have ever raad. 1t Is from the
zen of Sir. humphrey Davy, of whom it is
well observed that if lie had not been the
first of modern philosophers he would have
been the first ofmodern poets:
81 envy 10 quality of the mind or intellect
of others not genius, will or fancy; but i'll
<oulh choose what wonld he the most de-
tirhtijll, and | believe most useful 10 me,
would nrcier firm religious belief 10 any
other blessing; for it makes discipline of good
.---crcates new hopes, when earthly hopes
vanish, and throws over the decay, the des-
,ructon of existence, The most gorgeous of
ali lights; awakens life in death, and from
corruption and decay, calls up beauty and di.
viniy; makes mn instrument of fortune and
of shame, the ladder Of ascent to paradise
and, far above all combination of earthly
hopes, calls up the most delightful visions
of palms and amuranths-the garden of the
blest the security of everlasting Joys, where
the sensuast and skeptic only view gloom
and decay, unnih;la,ion and despair"
In olden time, there was provost of bon
my Dundee, and his tame was Dickson. He
was n right Jolly provost and seemed re-
solved 10 have one good joke, beyond the
grave. lie bequeathed ten pounds,apicce TO
1hree men, remarkable above their fellows,
Cor avarcc and dullness, on condition, that
they should join in the composition of his
rpiaph, in rhyme and metre. They met
gEe task was terribe--hut as Dr. Johnson
would have said, what will rot Scotchman
undertake! 1t need not he long, said one-a
line apiece, said the second--shall begin !?
said the third This was objected to of
course; for whoever commenced was re-
iievcd from the onus of the rhyme. They
drew lots for this vantage ground, and he
who won, after copious perspiralion pro-
duced The following line:
Hero lies Dickson, Provost of Dundee.
This was very much admired-brief and
eententious-hs name, his official station,
his death, aud the place of his burial were
happily compressed in single line. After
severe exer,ion, the second line was produc-
ed:
Here lies Dickson, here lies he.
It was objected, that this was pathological;
and that it did not even go so far as the first,
which set forth the official character of the
deceased 1t was said, in reply, by one ofthe
executors who happened to be present, and
who acted as a7jcTs poetic, that the second
line would have been pathological, fit had
set forth the official station, which it did not;
and that as there had once been female
provost, the last word effectuay established
the sex of Dickson, which was very impor-
tant. The third legatee, though he had
leave of absence for an hour and refreshed
his spirit, by n ramble on the FIRTH ofTay,
was utterly unable to complete the epitaph
At an adjourned meeting, however, he pro
duced the following line,
Hallelujah llalleujee
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ExcUsING JuRoR.-A pretty good joke
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