Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-08-09

ceited ignoramus; the worst rake and
the most miserable human wreck can be
formed out of the dotted son of wealthy
and indulgent parents. A good mind,
wealth, friends, can assist you. but they
cannot make you. Your future will de-
pend entirely on the Improvement you
make on your opportunities. If you re-
ly on superior advantages and do not
give body and soul to your labOrs. some
poor boy whom you now despise, will,
by busy application to his books or his
trade, out-strip you in the race, and for
ty years hence will have money enough
to buy you and all your relation . he
will have an honered position that you
would disgrace.
Perseverance, as has already been
suggested, is another requisite for sue
cess. There are great many butter
flies and pleasing phantoms that will
fit about your early pathway. If you
spend your youthful days in pursuing
all these. you will spend your later days
in poverty and obscurity. Choose early
some business or object for life. and be
not particular that it be what some
consider more exalted than others, but
devote your untiring, persevering efforts
to that object alone. Choose an honor
bic, safe occupation. If you have no
bent or leading taste in any particular
direction, you will find the business of
farming healthful, pleasing, remunera-
tive and noble. If you have desire to
use mechanics tools, become a mechan-
ic; if you seek profession, choose that
one most suited to you and make an
honorcd member of that profession. De-
eide on something early, and then stick
to it. Do not try everything for bust
ness or for fortune; if you do, the
whole history of your life can be writ
ten in the one word, failure"
Beside integrity, industry and perse.
verance, add one other cardinal princi.
pie, economy, and you will combine all
the points of success. Without economy,
the earnings of your life are lost, pool
and cramped. you will lack the means o.
advancement or comfort. Make it {
rule that your earnings shall exceed
your expenditures. A few cents saved
daily will give you fortune at fifty
years; few cents spent daily, above
your earnings, will put you into bank
ruptcy or the poor-house in a mucl
briefer time. Many men have ear7aec
fortunes, few men have Saced them.
To the habits of industry and fru
gality, add temperance and sobriety
With Incorporate habits your life vii
be miserable failure. The terrible
wrecks of human character that are seel
about you are produced by intemper
ance and yet in almost every cOmmu
nifty there are young men that are anx
iOus to take initiatory steps in a down
ward career. There is, seemingly,
hallucination in drinking. But. youn!
men, you cannot afford to make drunk
ards of yourselves; you ought to hav
more discretion than to hazard your rep
utatlon, character and lives, by takin
the first steps toward ruin. Intemper
ance progresses rapidly downward Yor
may find pleasure, to day. in the milde
sort of liquors in few years nothin
will satisfy the rawlings of your appe
titles but beastly drunkenness. Hav
you any respect for yourselves 4? Hav
you any regard for the feelings or tn
credit of your family? Have you an
noble aspirations in life? If SO, max
the rule of total abstinence the rule {
your lives. Keep your bodies from tn
: de6lement of filthy habits devote you
: moral and intellectual faculties to tt
e highest purposes make yourselves u.s.
+ full and respected in life. Your rewar
y will be great here and everything her
S after.