Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-09-15

It is q good sign when a man is proud OF
his business, or his calling Yet nothing Is
more common than to hear men finding
fault, with their particular business, and
deemng themselves unfortunate because
fastened to it by the necessity Of gaining a
livelihood In this spirit, men fret aud lab.
Oriously destroy all their comfort ia work.
Or they change their business. and go on
miserably shifting from one thing to another,
Iil the poor.house gives them fast grip
But willie occasionally, man fails in life
because he is not in the place fitted for his
peculiar talent it happens ten times oftener
that failure results from neglect aud even
contempt Of an honest business. A man
should put his heart to everything that he
does. There is not profession in the world
that has not its peculiar cares and vexations.
No man will escape annoyance by changing
business. No mechanical business is alto.
gether agreeable. Commerce in its endless
| varieties. is affected like all other pursuits,
with trials, unwelcome duties, and spirit.stirr.
ing necessities. 1t is the very wantonness
of folly for a man to search out the frets
aud burdens of bis calling, aud give his
mind every day to o consideration Of them.
They belong to human iic They are incv.
table. Brooding then, only gives them
new strength.
On the other hand, man has power given
10 shed beauty aud pleasure upon the hOmeli-
est toll, if he is wise. Let man adopt his
business, identify it with his life, and cover
it with pleasant associations. For God has
given US imagination not alone to make
some men poets, but to enable all men to
beautify homely things. Accept your lot
as man does piece Of rugged ground, and
begin to get ont the rocks and roots, to
deepen aud mellow the soil, to enrich and
plant it, There is something in the most
turbiddng ayOcation around which q man
twiues pleasant fancies, out of which he may
develop an honest pride.
We met not long since o lne specimen Of
just the thing we mean.
He began life blacksmith II never
wanted to be anything but a mechanic y
said he. He determined to make himself
respectable not in spite Of his business, but
10y means Of it. He entered with heart and
soul and ambition into it. Little by little
he improved it. Selecting n single line oi
articles, be began manufacturing them.
when first entered the market" !" said lie,
81 found every body trying to sell faster
than hisneighbor, and SO making poorer and
poorer articles, and so running down the
trade. ] determined at once that would
: not UndcrSeH but erc5
, In this spirit he entered heartily into his
5 work, was proud of it, nourShed it, and now
f he is, in his own department, almost without
, competitor in the market. H has gath.
cred riches, which he employs beueyoenlly
+ aud is respected and honored by all bis
tOwnsmcn. The good which the honest
mechanic las done will not stop with him.
self He will have made his business hon
orable to others. A man can iDpatt, to a
business favor Of honor by his own con
f duct which shall make it thereafter more
credItable 10 any who enters it, Frankil
, left upon the printing Office an impress which
has benefited the profession Of printers eveI
, since. Blucksmlhs love to speak of the
yet uncanonZed name of ST. Elihu Burrit
Mr.. Doves, by tanning and currying
amassed fortune and bequeathed it and il!
= literary predict to the pubic in Boston anC
Cambridge, and we venture 10 say thai
t hereafter that business will be easier anC
more encouraging TO every lad that is bouuC
apprentice to the trade
Once let man convert bis business into
: an instrument of honor, benevolence anC
f patriotism, and from that moment IL is trans
$ figured and men judge its dignity and meri
not by what it externally is, but by what il
has done and can do. 1t is better to stitch
to yoar business, and 10y patient industry
and honorable enterprise crown it with hon
t or, than to ruu away from it, and seek pros
! perity ready.made to your hands. 1t is moi
what man fads that does him good, but
4. what lie does Beecher.
WALKER's EXPEDITION FAILCRE.-Thii
great Glbuster has again busted. He has
been forced TO abandon Truxilo, and with
force reduced to but rs Piratical followers be