The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-23
The Measure of Success.

One of the chief causes of failure to
prosper in business is dislike of strenu-
Gus exertion, especially when manual la
Dor is entailed. Too many young ren
get the idea that because they are smart
they ought to be able to live by their wits,
and they shift about from pillar to post
in any occupation imposing upon them
what is commonly termed manual labor.
This indeed is II sad mistake; desultory
itinerant occupations are laborious to the
body, and from their vicissitudes and I'M
certainty very exhaustng to the mind.
All men cannot, in the nature of things,
learn to follow trade or till the soil, but
those who fall into those vocations will
fiud their pursuits less onerous and more
remunerative than such occupations as
we consider purely intellectual. If an
operative becomes skilled workman, or
the farmer becomes a thorough master of
agriculture, he is a success, even though
he does not attain riches; and if he per-
mits this latter fact to render him dis
contented, it is not an evidence that his
career has been failure, but rather that
he permits morbid feeling to over
shadow his achievements as an ipdustri-
Gus and painstaking citizen. His fidelity
and skill are in themselves evidences of
success. 1t seems to be IA human pro-
clivity to wish that ones occupation had
been something else, almost anything in
deed but that which it actually is, and we
often hear it said, AT had my life to
pass over again, would be so.and-so."
The old adage, Let the shoemaker stick
TO his last" is justified by experience,
but the wisdom of the proverb remains
the same, when changing two words we
say, "Let the farmer stick to his plough"
The advice, if followed in any vocation,
will lead to success.-Friend.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS Is described as
being at present very stout, very intel
ligent and very amiable looking woman.
Her face is round, she has large and
expressive mouth, and black hair streaked
with gray. She is kind hearted, and is
said by correspondent of the Chicago
Times to be much liked in Memphis, es-
pecially by young people MIR. Davis is
very thin and looks very old and broken.
Their eldest daughter, n gentle and grace
full young woman, is married and lives In
Memphis. They have two other children,
one girl of sixteen, now at school in
Germany, whittier MrsSDavis took her
last summer, and the other a young man
now in Memphis, Jefferson Davis, Jr. He
is about twenty-five years of age. He
has her large, not handsome face, and is
an awkward, loquacious, good-natured
sort of an overgrown boy. The Davis
family is comparatively poor now, and
Mrs. Davis frequently alludes to "our
poverty in a jocular way.
A SINGULAR dream case is reported
from st. Thomas, on the Canada South
ern Railway. A week ago Jesse McCon-
nell, brakeman, was killed at Harwich
while coupling cars. His remains were
brought home to his widowed mother,
and that night she dreamed she saw two
collins, one of Jesse's and one containing
the body of her son James, also brake
man. She was SO disturbed by this that
early in the morning she tolegraphed to
James, asking him to come on at once to
his brothers funeral. He answered that
he was on his way, but he was killed at
Brigden, 90 miles from home, by falling
of the platform of the car. His remains
were conveyed to his mother, and. true to
her dream, her two sons lay dead In the
house together.