Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-11
VOLUME XIV. No. q.

AN ENERGETIC MAN.-The Bible pre-.
cept, "Whatever thy hand findeth to do.
do it with thy might. is the key-no.e OF
the march Of progress. Bernard PalIisssy.
the French potter, to whom we owe ,he
discovery of enamel, believed in aud acted
upon it. For many years-upwards OF
t"enty-he experimental, regardless Of
poverty and reproaoh, on the substances
from which he expected to derive the Gov,
eted article. He burned his: tables. cha;ra
and floors in hisIfurnaces as fuel. Sicknes.
smote his family, and all his children, six
in number, died. Still he perssyered. Hh
neighbors declared that 'it was fit the old
fool should die Of want, since he had torss. tiu,t
ken his trade to run after chiuiera!' But
Pallissy: continued to ply his furnace.
where hesweatsd till the .garters slid tom
his attenaated legs. In few, simple aud
pathetic sentences he described his own for.
lorn and persecuted condition: Ny credit
was taken away from me and I was rssar-
ded asa madman. Under these scandals I
pined away and stepped with bowed head
through the streets like man put to shans.
Men said, 1T is right for him to die Of hun.
ger, seeing he left off following his tsads.s
But when 1 had dwelt with my regrets .
little said to my soul, Wherefore art
thou saddeneda Labor now and the de-
famers will live to be ashamed. b. The spir-
itof the man was as indomitabIe IA that
of Columbus: Who shall say that he hsd
not premonitions of triumph from above
for energy finds favor with Him who has
said, "Whatever thy hand fndeth to do.
do it with thy might Pallissy at last saw
his long years Of determined toll crowned
With complete success. and Iii. .defamer. ~.
hamed. 1t seemed perhaps to the eossips
of his neighborhood that the game, 10 e.
as he was concerned, was not worth the
CANDLE: But could 4, their vulgar minds
Judge of that2 The. hour Sin Which Z
great man discovers that the grand objsc4 Of
his life has been achieved, is worth the
whole monotonous existence of common
fpfaoe driveller.:' But for its earnest man
the world would stand.stilI. Every branch
of human knowledge has its martys as we'll
as religion, and if the weaker sort cannot
follow their example, they should at least
have the grace to crown them. -, s''''
How TO MAKE MoNEY.-Do Won COM
plain that you have nothing to begin with?
"Tom," you say, "has a farm, and Harry;
has one thousand dollars, but I have moth
ing" We say to you. look: at your: hands.
and tell us what they are worth..,. Would:
you take one thousand dollars for, them, or
for the use of them through life 2 :, II you
can make half dollar day with them, it
would no be a. bad bargain, for that sum il
the interest offmore than. two thousand
dollars: so that if you are industrious iain1.
Harry. is lazy, you are more than twice 10
rich as he, and when You can do msiIs
work and make "a dollarsa day, you ssls
four times as rich, land are fairly worth
four thousand dollars. Money and land,
therefore, is: not the only capital With
wnloa young man eau begin IN he
world II 6e has good health and ia indus
ftrious. Even. the-poorest boy.in oar ooun-
try has something to tread upon; and ii ha
be we'll educated and: have. skill in any
kind of.-work, add to this moral habits and
religious principles, so. that his. employer
NAV trust: him and place eonadanosin bin
bo NAV then he s.;s * sa.. o,,t.; fsv;th
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