The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-05-23
HONOR YOUR BUSINESS.

prDud of his work. or his Gaining.
Yet nothing is more common than
to hear men finding fault with their
particular business, and deeming them
selves unfortunate because fastened
to it by the necessity of gaining live
lihood.-in this spirit, men fret and
laboriously destroy all their comfort in
work. Or they change their business,
and 90 on miserably shifting from one
thing to another, till the poor-house
gives them a fast grip.
But while, occasionally, a man fails
in life because he is not in the place
fitted for his peculiar talent, it hap
pens ten times oftener that failure re-
suits from neglect and even contempt
of an honest business. a man should
put his heart to everything that he
does. There is not a profession in
the world that has not its peculiar
cares and vexations. No man will es-
cape annoyance by changing business.
No mechanical business is altogether
agreeable. Commerce in its endless
varieties, is affected, like all other pur-
suits, with necessities. 1t is the very
wantoness of folly for man to search
out the frets and burdens of his call
ing, and give his mind every day to a
consideration of them. They belong
to human life. They are inevitable.
Brooding, then, only gives them new
strength.
On the other hand, a man has pow
err given to shed beauty and pleasure
upon the homeliest toll, if he is wise.
Let a man adopt his BUSINESS, identify
it with his life, and cover it with plea
SAINT associations. For God has given
us imagination not alone to make some
men poets, but to enable all men to
beautify homely things. Accept your
lot as man does a piece Of rugged
ground, and begin to get out the rocks
and roots, to deepen and mellow the
soil, to enrich and plant it. There is
something in the most fOrbidding avo-
cation around which man twines
pleasant fancies, out of which he may
develop an honest pride.
We met not long since fine speci-
men of just the thing we mean. He
begun life blacksmith. II never
wanted to be anything but mechanic,
said he. lie determined to make him
self respectable, not in spite Of his
business, but by means Of it. He en-
tered with heart and soul and ambi
ton into it. Selecting single line
of articles, he began manufacturing
them. "When | first entered the
Market" said be. 81 found everybody
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and so making poorer and poorer arti
Giles, and so running down the trade
| determined at once that | would no
underSeU but ercel." In this spirit ht
entered heartily into his work, wa'
proud of it, nourished it, and now h,
is, in department, almost without
competitor in the market. He ha
gathered riches, which he employ
benevolently, and is respected anC
honored by all his townsmen. Th
good which this honest mechanic ha
done willnot stop with himself. He vii
have his business honorable to others
a man can impart to a business,
flavor of honor by his own conduct
which shall make it hereafter NOR
creditable to any who enters it
Franklin left upon the printing ohic
an impress which has benefited th
profession of printers ever SINCE
Blacksmiths love to speak Of the nam
of Elihu Burritt.
Mr.. Doves, by tanning and curry
!, ing, amassed fortune and bequeath
ed it and its literary product to tn
public in Boston and Cambridge, an
we venture to say that hereafter tina
business will be easier and more en-
couraging to every lad that is boun
apprentice to the nasty trade.
Once let man convert his business
, into an instrument of honor, benevc
lence and patriotism, and from tina
moment it is TRANSPORTED, and me
judge its digpit.' and merit not b
what it exte% lis, but by what
has done anor So& do. 1t is better t
stick to your business, and by patier
!. industry and honorable enterpris
: crown it with honor, than to run ava
4 fromit, and seek prosperity read
made to your hands. 1t is not whs
{ a man finds that does him good, br
f what he does.-Henry Ward Beeche1