The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-28

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expensive habits aud an unhealthy bust
ness tone. The war ended, and business
has been gradually settling down. Mcr.
chauts compare the profit OF 1873 with
the profits Of S6i, forgetting that 1864
was not fair criterion.
Again, during the war there was a sue.
cession Of good business years, caused by
the wants growing out Of the war, These
years were exceptional. Now business
men who shake their heads aud talk about
dull times do not really mean to say that
they are not making money They
merely intend to say that they are not
making as much as they did during ex.
ceptlonal business years Is not this
true2 1t is not only true, but the custom
Of comparing the present with the past
has become so much habit with some
business men that it is doubtful if the
volume Of trade vii! ever come up to their
expectations Business should not BE-
forced beyond a point where it pays, be.
cause the merchant desires to swell his
profits, but business can be prompted by
judicious application of energy and brain
Money will never again be made so easily
as it was during the war. and to accumu.
late wealth will be II more difficult task
in the future than it has been for the
reason that each year there is greater
competition Young merchants who are
willing to work for small profit have
come upon the stage since the war
There are business men to-day who do
not rccolect when specie WAS in ciFcula.
ton. They have Il certain advantage
over men with war memories, and they
enter the race without those disadvantages
which arise from uniuIflled expectations
They are more hopeful and more pushing.
because they have no prejudice to over
come and no inflated ideas to subdue.
We cannot see why business should not
be good, why investment o. money in any
legitimate trade should not bring reason.
able remuneration but fortunes will not
for many years, perhaps never, be accu.
INFLATED as rapidly as they have been.
1t is the personal expense account which
business men who are wise will consult,
and they will graduate their aspirations
by knowledge that it is not, after all,
what amount Of money man accumulatcs
that contributes to his happiness, but
what sum OF happiness can he obtain by
expenditures which are within his means
10 provide - Boston .Iou8oi.
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Douche and accompanied with DR.. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery as constitu.
tionaI treatment, DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem.
edy produces perfect cures Of the worst
cases Of Catarrh and O2Tna OF many
years standing This scientific, rational
safe and successful manner OF treating
this odious disease that has ever been offer
cd to the afflicted So successful has it pro
ven that the proprietor has long offered /
standing reward of $500 for case O
Catarrh which he can not cure.
TyprprTAn1E EviprNCr
Tnos. J. Bi,nor. Of South brooklyn
y. Y, writes that his wife had suffered
since child with CAtalrh until it haG
resulted in what eminent PHYSICIANS pro-
nounced Consumption that she ha. used
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy with DR.
Pierces Colder Medical Discovery anc
they have worked wonders with her case
DG. BAKERS pAlN pANA,fA, fur Rheumatic iii
neuralgia, cramps. collie, diarrhoa cholera NOR
bus cholera iuiantum. -lrlin. burns, scalds