Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-05-09

the twilight. The admiralS who COM
manded the navieJ Of the world started |
as cabin boys.
The merchant princes whose nessen-
gers are ships and whose servants the
nations custom houses once swept the |
store and kindled the fires. The orator
who lifts up the gate CT the soul, as
Samson carried off the gates Of GAIA,
once stammered and blushed ON the
stage Of a country school house. The
Young painter, under whose pencil skies
blossom and waters CLEAN, understands
his subject SO well because he has but
little 70 shelter him from the one and is
obliged to find his only beverage in the
other
Out Ct tie dark, deep mines Of want
and suffering has been dug the marble
for the worlds greatest temples of wis
dom and palaces of power. Vanderlyn,
the artist must first content himself
with q charcoal sketch. Franklin. be
fore becoming the renowned philoso-
| pher must be journeyman printer
Columbus must weave carpets before he
can weave he1nispheres. David must
take care of his fathers sheep before he
rules Israel. Amos must be a herdslnan
before he becomes a prophet. Daniel
must be the humble student before he
rises to be the prime minister of Baby
lon.
IF a young man starts in life with
large notions Of what he must imme-
diately have, willing to consider no
economy, but expecting with a small
ship to unfurl as much sail as an ocean
| frigate, he will find himself capsized by
| the first northeastern 1t is the small
spIig that you can carry III one hand
which will thrive best when planted.
But If, by levers and huge lumber wag-
ons. you bring down from the mountain
a century oak, though you may plant it,
you cannot make it live. So he who be-
gins life on such grand scale and with
such exorbitant notions, will never
succeed, while some young man who
went to town without means, but hav-
ing a right spirit, through his self de-
NAL, planted a tree which has reached
above Wall street and flung its shadow
In one direction over the granite palaces
on the avenues and in the other far out
over merchant vessels anchored in the
bay.
Men say success in life is all a matter
of good luck, but industry and economy
and self denial put together always
make good luck There are young
men who failed twice and are getting
notes shaved the third time before they
are as old as their father when he first
began business for himself. They started
with the idea that their wit would do as
well as capital For awhile it did. but
when creditors sent their duns and
banks their protests they found that
mere shrewdness was greatly below par.
You cannot cross the ocean in a yawl.
THE FOLLY OF AMBITIOUS IGNORANCE.
A young eaglet, far up in the noun
tain eyrie, saws to its winged mother,
Il will fly no longer from tree to tree
as you tell me, but like you. mother,
will swing from this Chimborazo peak
to yonder Chimborazo peak" Like an
arrow it shot into the heavens, but when
over the awful chasns its head was
dizzy and its wing weak, and it began
to whirl downward, and with wild
scream, until it struck on the rocks. A
traveller passing through the gorge saw
, the mangled remains of the eaglet.
, GLOW came you to have this fall?' said
the traveller .sAh, me-" says the eaglet,
f sit was because | would not fly from
tree to tree until | was old enough, but
no1USJfOQS L SJdIl0Q from ADliHDOIdZO
{ peak toward Chimborazo peak.
If young men would seize the advan-
, tages Of intelligence it will be by great
: economy of time and the refusing of
t many forms of qualification. Show me
| man who, refusing many of the frivol-
l tiles Of gossiping youths, can see more
/ to attract his attention IN the pages OF a
treatise or a history than in the flash OF
' bright eyes or the airy step Of those who
! find more skill in their heels than their
4 heads, and will show you man who will
yet master languages and sway very
Q scepter over his fellows. Many an edu-
s cation which is now considered COM
plete is made up of asmattering of news
I papers and the last page OF fashion
: magazine.
o The parlor and the drawing room
cannot educate Us. They may give us
8 outward adornments of manner, but get
: ting valuable knowledge is like swelter-
S ing at forge, bellows in one hand and
+ hammer in the other-like digging in
e mines with crowbars, prying under the
O ledge and the constant bang of blasted
e rocks Especially is it true that no
S growth in grace is possible unless, like
Daniel, we are willing to take up the
) cross, however heavy it may be and
t rough with nails. Moses chose aff1lc-
h ton with the people of God rather than
8 the pleasures of sin, and if we would be
). anything like him we must be willing
v sometimes to choose the hard bread OF
v self denial rather than the imperial clus
# tiers from royal vineyards.
y To get strength and depth enough IL
@ rivers for turning mill wheels and man
,e ufactOr1es, dams are quilt across 1heAI
d and then through the mill race the quicl
y, aoodc loo,, m, tho wafer wheel To t11rn i