The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-19

them proposed to sing.a song for the purpose of
sea snGir SPlrs % up nave IorgoGeen an
to hear how at the end of all the v rses their
voices came In, Jack Of all trades is master Of
none"
Young man! concentrate all your energies in
one direction. BE not afraid to be called q man
of one idea. Better have one great idea than
five hundred little bits of ones. God has but
one thought, but that Thought is Eternity. Are
you merchants? You will find abundants sweep
for your intellect in business which absorbed
the energy of a LenOX and n Grtnneu Are you
lawyers? You will in your grand profession
find heights and depths of attainments which
taslsed a Marshall, and O Mclean, and Story
and Kent, Are, you physicians? You can
afford to waste but little time outside vocation
which was the pride of Rush, and Harvey,
a Cooper and Sydenham. Helm hard upi
stand by to heave-to on the other taclSl MANY
vessel as full sailed as yours has gone into the
breakers,
Rock the Second-A disposition TO invent. If
the Patent Otice reports could tell the whole
truth, they would describe an amount of dis.
appointment and lunacy positively terrific
AT some time i'm our life we are ali smitten
with the mania for invention. At twelve
years of age l awoke to the stupidity of the
world in never having discovered perpetual
notion You ought to have seen my success.
The machine was a marvel. The wheels were
all right the levers all right. In fact. it was n
complete success, with only one little excep
Now Americans are proverbially inventive.
EVERY Yankee is born with "a machine shop in
ms mead Az nVe years of age he begins to
Whittle. By the manner in which he does this
you may form very correct idea as to what
Will NC HIS lleCuanlCaI aClleVeInenb. III he
keep sharp knife, and whittle the stick down
70 a needles point, you may know that that
Doy VIII be smooth, graceful mechanic, and
that he Will be sharp in his insight into all pos
sibilltles of mechanism. II he gouge the stick.
and the wood fly of, not in thin shavngs, but
IN chuDhs, you may conclude that he Will be a
rough OIkman, and he Will spoil many a door,
and leave The mark of his clumsiness on many
poorly turned banntster. If in whiting he
mack MS nngerS ever and anon, and run long
spllnterS under his nail, you may know that he
VIII be a reckless man. blowing up people with
boilers, and crushing his journeymen under
rafters. Indeed, there is no hope for an Amerl-
can who cannot whittle well,
This disposition to make something has re-
suited IN the ten thousand conveniences of
house ana store, and street. God speed the
wheels! GOD speed the corn-thresher! But
disposition to invent has sometimes absorbed
all the man, and made complete havoc of his
intellect and business. How many prosperous
wheelwTights have ruined their business by
the discovery Of some new carr iage spring that
the world could never appreciate! What estates
have been absorbed in the introduction of reap
and nut.crackerS
Let this be known. The most useful dis
coveries have been those which have sprung
into notice while in the discharge of everyday
duty. Do not make a lifetime business of in
Yentlon, but go into straightforward indus
tries, keeping your eyes open, remembering
that all around the chemists laboratory, and
the mechanics hammer, and the merchants
yardsticlI, there are constantly playing ten
thousand wonders, some of which it may be
your duty to launch upon the worlds attention,
Discoveries and new contriYances fly up as
from the manufacturers water-wheel. All
hail to the worlds inventors, as they Lcome
forth with faces scared in the explosion of
dangerous experiments, and with their hands
bliStered of toll and their garments smutched
with the coal of furnaces, bringing engine, and
looIn and knife, and MILL and factory to attest
their skill-a Fulton, who put fire and water
in one yoke; q Morse, who sends tidings flying
through the midst of heaven with angels of
fire, Nevertheless, it is well enough to know
that newly contrived cot1ee-mll, or plough, or
horse rake. or feed.grinder is often the rock on
which people are wrecked.
ROcb the Third-Bad temper. Good humor
will sell the most goods, plead the best argu-
ment effect the best cure, preach the best SER
mon, build the best wall, weave the best carpet.
The poorest business firm in town is Growl
Spittire e. Brothers. They blow up their Clerks
they insult their customers; they quarrel with
the draymen; they write impudent duns; they
kick the beggars; the children shy Off as they
pass along the street; and the dogs, with wild
tret1ul, eXplosiveIsuddenly the money market
will be astounded by the defalcation Of Growl
Spitfire Brothers.
Merryman & Warm Grasp were poor boys
when they came from the country. They
brought all their possessions IN one little pack
each of the boys two shirts, two pair of stock
ings, two collars one jack-knite, a paper of
pins, and hunk of gingerbread which the
mother gave them when she kissed them good
by, and told them to be good boys, and mind
the boss They smiled, and laughed, and
bowed and worked themselves up higher and
higher in the estimation of their employers.
The young men soon had q store Of their own
on the corner They were obliging men, and
In that store when they came to town. Hence
forth, when the farmers wanted hardware or
clothing, or stoves, or books they went TO buy
them at the place where their carpet bags had
been treated so kindly. These merchants had
q way OF holding up q yard of clothing ana
SHINING upon 1t, so that plain cashmere would
look almost as well as French broadcloth and
an earthen pitcher would glisten like pOrce-
lain. Not by the force of capital, but by having
money drawer and counting. desk, and counter
and Shelves all full of good temper they rose
IN society, till TO DAY Merryman & Warm Grasp
nave one OF the largest Stores and most elegant
show windows, together with the finest car
rlages, and the prettiest wives in all the town
of Shuttleford.
A melancholic musician may compose q
Dead March" and make harp weep and organ
wall, but Will not master a Battle March or
with the grand old instrument, storm the
castles OF the soul as with the flying artillery of
light, and love, and JOY till the organ mines
seem filled with thousand clapplng hosannas
melanchollc poet may write a Dante's "In-
ferno," Till out of his hot brain there come
steaming up barking Cerberus of wan snriIe
but not the chime of Moore's Melodies" or the
Scotts "DOn Roderick," /" or the archangelic blast
of MiltOnS Paradise Lost" A melancholic
painter may, with Salvador, sketch Death and
Gloom, ana Monstrosity, but he cannot reach
the tremor OF slvery leaf. or the SHINING of
sun through mountain pine, or the lipht Of
morning struck through foam-wreaJh, or rising
with banners of flame, or the gorgeous Heart
ofthe Andes" as though all the bright colors of
earth and heaven had fought great fight and
left their blood on The leaves
If you let the dark night of melancholy sWoop
upon your soul, you VIII lose your bearings, and
with no bright star OF hope by which TO steer
you Will go crashing into The breakers.
Rock the Fourth Bad treatment from, Otbars
man, and everyb body considers IL a duty To
give him a kick. some have iormed,the erro.
neous idea that gossip is chiefly a characteristic
OF women. wrong notion. While | would
not always want to be responsible for all that is