Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-23

feeling. and woe betide the unfortunate
adyenturer who crosses his path--he will
be sure to be hit with the lightning OF his
eloouence. He commands the pen of
ready writer, and he commands good
price for his literary labor. His name IS
as familiar to the reader as household
word. He has won reputation which Is
national and yet this man is mere child
in the world of commerce and finance.
He has no knowledge ofbusiness, can scar
cely make out bill or write a receipt, or
keep his bank account correctly. de hates
practical business. His wife buys his
clothes for him. She goes with him to
the tailor, and the shoemaker, and to
the butcher and grocer Last year TWEEN
ty per cent. was added to his taxes be-
cause he neglected to report his income
at the proper time. His dislike of busi-
ness has been shadow upon his path all
his life, and has resulted in duns, and law
SUITS and misrepresentation, that would
have overshadowed less brilliant man
Ii the machinery of his brain had been
started right in the nursery, or IN the
school, or in the public duties of life even,
he would have been millionaire to-day,
and he would have escaped the vexatlons
and cares which come, like singing flies
about a man when he has no net under
which he can hide from them.
Much of the domestic discomfort
which is such source ofpain and quarrel
some dispute in families arises from the
want of selfpoise. The wife, perhaps, is
practical, and cannot bear to have BUSH
ness matters neglected, debts ignored,
promises unkept; and the husband, hating
the commonplace duties Of every day life,
puts off the unpleasant task until he is
spurred to it by the sharp admonltions OF
a curtain lecture or the sharper reminder
of summons from the judge-and, as
Nasby would say, an ''onpleasantness" is
sure to grow out Of such state OF things,
Men of genius not unfrequently show
the need of balance wheel to regulate
their conduct. Lord Byron, with all his
advantages of birth, rank, wealth and Gull
ture made himself prematurely old by In
dulging unrestrained appetities and pas
sions and death, the democratic leveller
needed not his patrician notions, but swept
him with common plebians into an untlme-
ly grave. Edgar Allen Poe, a man whose
soul seemed to be ethereal fire, was car
ried to destruction on the current Of hab-
its which he failed to control because he
was not well poised. Rum wasthe raven
on the bust above his study door. 1t
plunged its beak into his heart and killed
him in the noon Of his manhood. The
victims of the cup are found sleeping in
all our church yards. Their graves are
like the pillows of the sea. They not on
ly lacked the equipoise to which | have
referred, but they also lacked the power
to stand erect in the face of temptation.
| could name several prominent men of
this city who are considered men ofgenius.
They write for the leading daily journals
and for our first class magazines, and yet
these men have no control over their APP
petitites. What they earn by the sweat
of the brain one day is expended for rum
the next day, and in this way they live
from hand to mouth---the hand going too
frequently to the mouth.-Pachards
Monthly.