The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-04-28

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Doubtless after duo practice and dis.
comfort, j: no fatal result attended The
first experiment, almost any hen might
succeed in becoming bad swimmer
but would tho game bo worth the can-
die IN no event could she swim o.
web as the duck while IN laying eggs
and scratching gravel, she would have
all the advantage no duck could com.
pete with her on ber own ground.
Because a man is emulous Of a neighbor
who happens to be jldge, it by no
means follows that he can attain emf
nence as a iurist Zach has his
mission in life, but al missions do not
he in the same direction. And II, after
reading law for two or three years, he
makes a hopeless muddle oft before a
jury with his FIRST case would IL not be
well to pause and sift his qualifications
for the legal profession, carefully weigh
the probabilities Of his attaining success
in it, and enquire if there be not some
other walk in life which he is moro cal
culated to adorn, rather than to try
again and again TO the end Of the chap
ter, turning ont a bad pottlfogger after
ALP Fortunately, there are many chan
nels those who cannot learn TO swim
in one, may make an excellent headway
in another All the while that our
friend was trying to be a lawyer he
might have sat in q high place, per
4 haps as an eminent shoemaker, re-
markable tailor, great and good hotel
keeper, or a successful tillor of the soil
Each to his own. il is better to be
a good compositor than a poor editor
a good farmer than disqualified Judge
good machinist than a poor preacher.
Let it be discovered to each man his
sphere, and confne him to it, and be
will walk therein easily and successful
/ ly but to founder awkwardly on, in an
unnatural one, can neither result to his
own advantage nor that Of his fellows.
If man desires to reach certain
point, and discovers after setting out
that he is in the wrong road, let him
turn back and start anew Perseyer-
ance in the path will not help him the
further he journeys the further he is
from the goal it is necessary to con-
fess to mistake and undo what he has
done, before success can reasonably be
hoped for Eminence, which is but
another name for fortune, is what all
desire to attain. If man start for il
by way Of the bar or the pulpit, in a
doctors gig, or Oh an editro's stool,
and stumble at the outset, it is better
to deliberate while down to go blum
dering on Immediately after he gets up
is not the wisest thing to do. There
are other roads to the goal the one
he has taken may be one which his feet
are not adapted to tread Why, then,
should he torture himself and others
A man may be ambitious to become
musician If his first essay with a
brass or stringed instrument prove that
he has no ear for music, that his tym-
panum is not sensitive to sweet sounds,
and cannot distinguish between one
note and another is not that enough :
shall he still 60 on beating the kettle
drum, and desfening his neighbors, un-
til death merceifully arrest his arms Z
Better by Jar be pounding a lapstone ;
that were noise to purpose
Some men and women arc commit
ting slow suicide from the cradle tothe
grave. Mentally and morally, | mean,
striving to do that which they cannot,
and leaving undone that which they
can do Talk Of sins Of omission and
commission is there anything worse
than this in the whole black list.
A young person recently made her
debut as a public singer, and failed
miserably, wretchedly. As a natural
consequence, she was deeply mortified,
and highly DESTROYS Of establishing her
claims as vocalist Her friends ed
yised her to Try again, and she came to
ask me what ! thought about it. Ny
advice was no, einphatically no. Il
seemed cruel, perhaps but kindness
sometimes comes in that guise. She
had no voice. II was a mistake 10 app
pear, in the first place, The result
demonstrated that most conclusiyeiy.
TRY again I" shouted some And 50
il ever is never was a crowning act Of
folly contemplated, that some friend
was not found TO encourage and cheer
il on.
Why try again in any instance. after
one attempt shows incapaeity, il not ut
tor Incompetence Does the perpetra-
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