St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-12-22
Faithfulness to Employers.

There was very suggestive and val
liable paragraph floating through the
press, Il few Years ago, telling how on,
clerk out of twenty rose to the head OF
Il firm; one apprentice i'll Il shop be-
came Il master; one printer-lad out of Il
score developed into an editor. And
the principle it mentioned holds good in
farming, or any other occupation where
work is wanted and promotion is posi-
Bile. Given capacity for receiving
diSciplinc-which, when possessed in IA
marked measure, is George Eliot's deti-
milton of genius and the condition of
success i'll life. so far as it may he stat
ed i'll IA single word, is fdithfuiness.
with all that includes.
The Young man who, when he goes
into a store. makes his employers in
tereSts his own: who is as active
watchful and useful when there is no
eye of supervision on him us when he.
knows he is being tested who performs
his duty for three hundred dollars =
year as conscicntiou>ly as though he
were working for Il money interest in
the business, that is the lad who will
succeed.
The apprentice boy whose first am
bitioE is To know his trade thoroughly.
and To do all that can reasonably be
expected of him. has the stuff for a mas
ter workman i'll him. 1t is the boNs :
who jump to piece work and larger pay
III year or two, and whose motto is
wages first and service as We are
obliged to-" that have filled America
with Slop-work, and would leave us
behind the world i'll mechanics were il
not for the universally and exactneSs
of our machine work. Many boys and
young men are now turning from our
over-crowded and idle cities. To learn
various parts of farm work. Where
there WAS one lad learning the practical
science of horse breeding, or stock rails
ing. or fruit culture, or kindred branch
cs of agriculture, five years ago, we are
glad to believe there are three so en-
ployed now. Let all such remember
that falthtulnesS is not only their first
duty, but their best investment. Every
new fact learned, or theory established.
Is at once part of your permanent
capital and il recommendation to your
employer. The man who knows IL
thing. and knOTs that he knows it. is
the valuable man. If to this he adds ii
quickneSS of application, and il willing
disposition, he becomes invaluable.
Study, therefore, to be useful to your
employer, and earn his confidence by
deserving it.
''Men," said one of Theodore Win
thrOp's characters, ''are divided into
three classes them as grabs their chan
ces, them hs chucks away their chances.
and them as lets their chances slide :"
and he might have added that each of
the last two classes largely Out-number
the first. Boys are throwing away
their chances in life every day by slirk
ing, and lazing, and dawdling, and de-
ceiving; and they are "letting them
slide" through heedlessness, inatten-
tiOn, and fatal dOn't-care- -ativeness.
II don't care" is one of the worst mot
toes boy, or man either, can have
1t is the boys and men who do care.
and care rightly, who win. In every
day. practical, material affairs, as truly |
as in spiritual things, it is they who are
faithful over few that ale made rulers |
over many.-GOlden Rule.
HUMOR OF NEW ENGLAND PARSONS. |
The following specimens of the humor
of New England parsons are from Il
batch in the Christian Union:
Parson d., of Biddeford, prayed for
rain, and against his own pei snasion and
pleasure, it would appear. He con-
his prayer thus: "We have
prayed for rain, o Lord, because the
people have desired it. But, o Lord.
thou knOwest that what Biddeford
need is not rain but manure"
a request for prayers for rain was
most infelicitOusly handed up to the
Rev. DIR. X. during service. to his great
disgust. "The fOol.r he said. "who
wants me to pray for rain ought to
know there will be no rain till the moon
changes" The Doctor held missionary
service that very evening in Il school
house some miles away from home
There came on Tremendous thunder
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