The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-04-16

science and lower the moral standard
darken your meats, vision, lead 4
Irregular hours and irregular habits
and to evil associations .a
| A candidate for successful business
life will guard against these banefuI in
| fuences with care, for once in their
| snare, the men Of thousands will no:
| consider their savings secure in your
keeping.
4 74a INrELLEcTUAL EDrcATEoN.
A liberal education, embracing gener-
al knowledge. History. Mathematics,
| Natural Science and Engiish Compost
ton. the general requirements Of Law,
as web as a correct acquaintance with
an accurate system Of Book keeping.
Many are compelled to commence life
under great Disadvantages. Whatever
may be the circumstances attending YOU
now, you have much to hope. Libra
ries are at your command, books can be
readily purchased, and willing friends
will lend their knowledge. You must
live with AZ ideal life before you, and
let every hour be employed in making
full enjoyments- God meant that his
creatures should be happy. Animated
creation is happy around us-why not
we? ....--..x~--. .,,-=.-..,.
Our true ideal being before us; frag-
ments of time will be used in learning
some lessons that, like stone and brick,
continually adds to the superstructure,
until the fabric is finished.
You must talk, write, think, calculate,
correspond with employers and factors.
and plan designs. You know not what
life may ask of you. Try now to be
ready for the future. Your utmost Ca
pacities will be called into service. and
afterward you may have the mortifica-
ton to know that you have to stand
aside for more efficient men - = g {
Bad spelling may expose you. Bad
language may teach the firm you would
serve, that their reputation will suffer
by you. A deficient acquaintance with
business law and legal forms may in
volve you and others in inextricable
trouble. Ignorance in Geography may
embarrass you in reading reports of the
markets, and in judging correctly Of
their import.
1 need not tell you that it is indispen-
sable that you be good and accurate &C.
coutants. Mistakes in business soon
bear bad fruit. To reach this you must
have good and ready memory, based
on philosophic associations. By this 1
mean the art Of having place for every
thing and everything in its place.
When good lumberman receives his
stock, he asserts and piles it with care,
keeping each kind accessible by wagon
ways, and easy to examine by purchas-
ers. In like manner you should have at
books, papers, goods, stock
when demand is made for them.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.
But YOU need to be more than bust
ness men. The mechanic, merchant,
farmer and professional man must also
be citizen, and ought to be prtriot,
a philanthropist and and Christian
As a citizen, he must act, positively or
negatively, to build up or destroy his
county He must exert an influence to
secure efficient and faithful men to make
and administer law, or he will, by neg
lect, become the means of promoting
the unworthy. Every man in free
Government has power in his hands.
1t is according to his choice whether he
will promote the good or injury of his
country. II he be true patriot, he
will not love his country with selfish
love. He will expand his heart and
mind to discover the rights of all men,
and work for that true national great
ness and glory which recognizes the
nations of the globe as families of one
common fraternity, and seek so to per-
feet our national character that it may
radiate an influence and power for good
around the globe, which will hasten the
dav when all nations will be civilized,
enfranchised and evangelical.
The Sabbath school, the Mission, the
Book and the Tract viii be the great
moral levers by which We will move the
world.
May God bless you in the work of life.
May you do your part like men, and
when you can realize the work before
you, there viii be no time for trifiine
with unworthy books, or spending time
or money in unworthy pursuits Life
! is ever onward, and in the end flows In
to eternity. AS the tree falls, whether
! to the North or to the South, as 20,
shape your own destiny, as death find
you, SO will you be.
+ SuIcrpE.-On Monday last, GEO. NosLE. ESQ.,
of the late Thos. g. Noble, and brother q
Gen. Laz Noble of Indianapolis,l deputy clerk q
/ th;s connty shot himself through the heA