The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-11-20


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Z uf my elders and social supenors, and
was a.Wats ready Is laugh at joknprus
1ided { WIS proper and harmless And
when uH aet aud position became saeh
as 90 Gallon mc 60 lead thc conversation
could umusg the Young fellows t@a
with harmless tale and auecdnte What
| have always avoided, both as junior
aud stuior, Was The delivery of Siuvs
mi opinions never. ia my iocollcc-
ton 5d awufl which could hurt tho
feeling or bee oi amy respectable
member 81 aegN MY aim was always
20 impress tYose whom met with n
feeling That was 4 sound, cautiou,
gooltomp,rcd man q business and oi
business aims
II have a taste for anything besides
business, ii is what | believe no man
eyer suspected am fond Of horses,
and What IS moro, ] am good Judge of
q horse. But no one ever hoard mo
talk Of horses Even since my success
IN business became decided ! have not
INDUCED myself in keeping horse
The young man who wants 20 succeed,
win 30 woll to follow my example II
lac allows himself even to talk about
any amusement for which he may have
a tas' 1t Is astonishing how soon he
moy have reputation fix q upon him,
for being knowing in It He viii have
plenty Of rivals, eager to talk Of him as
a good shot q good fisher, knowing in.
hmsos being we'll aware that such n
reputation is certain TO be most iniuIi-
GUS probably iaiat TO his business pros
poets When young man, was n
member Of IA debating society in our
town. ! never spoke except when the
bl,sinesss Of the society was concerned.
My reason for being q member was that
a good many men of influence belong
cd to il, with whom | had thus an OPP
Iportunity Of becoming acquainted -
My flond sam was distinguished
member and ] recollcct gong to his
lodgings one night out Of curiosity,
when he had q meeting OF his choicest
friends. They were drinking toddy
a composition wllieh hate; indeed
hate al spirits; aud as to smoking, IL
is method Of employing time which
has always seemed to mo suitable only
for those ofweak intellect ] was pre-
vailed on, ] remember, TO try pipe
fauh II was the first time and the last
They iiied-to encourage me TO "porse-
we're, by holding out the prospect that
by SO doing / should become smoker
in time Dare say / might have sue
cccded in making myself slave TO nn
expensive and idiotic habit had ehos-
Ell; but that | should, by learning to
smoke be putting down the smallest
item to the credit Of my account with
Fortune, was what ! could not sec;
much less did | zee that any balance
was thereby likely TO accrue to Profit
/ thought II rs wei to reserve my per-
seyGancefOr somewhat different objects,
So much, suppose, for not being cloy-
en- But the talk was tho wonderful
thing "What was love did men
net from free will or from necessity n
aud fancy that they drank whisky-nnd-
water, smoked their vile tobacco. and
muddlcd the small modicum Of b ans
which God had given them, two or
three nights n week IN this way. II
there is anything for which, FROM my
boyhood have found ii difficult to
hide my cor tempt Il is a man occupy
ing himself with poetry metaphysics,
aud such stuff, instead Of giving himself
TO the honest and obvious work Of life,
and pocketing the honest payment for
IT, ! Vel remember how my clothes
smelt Of tobacco next morning, and
what fright was ia lest our master
should notice this | was however, at
the office rs usual half-an-hour before
regulation time, and | can remember
that | got job to do which would
have fallen TO Sam had be been there
il time 1t put half sovereign IN my
pocket a sum not TO be despiScd in
those days
Now do not mean TO say, IN giving
the above sketch Of my own animus,
that men have not arrived at fortune
whose mental machinery would, II dis.
sected, show a very different arrange
ment Of wheels aud piyots Sheer au-
dacity will sometimes do wonders, es-
pecially III public life Yet / think nv
own plan has been about as sure and na
easy Il one az can BE- followed II /
were to name one advantage u mind
which have had over other men, !
should say it is this ! was u sensible
fellow az yotug man. by reason of
pride, coneeit, OI bong over aHbiiioasy
sou vii often sec i nan between bis
twentieth aud iWouty year commit
All error which a. never las chance
Of retrieving Opportunity gone ie'
gone forever he is thrown OF the
hfc ahuuted 20 70 1eak, and tho
rest of lifc Is enbiiiored, not only by
The coDsciouanc 81 fgi!ure, In. BY tlnf