Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-18

COIllliluu WucIcs luo late VI cl-
vilization hangs over Marathan. 1t
ought to always abe remembered that
"EIonor and shame from no condition
rise; act well your part, there all the
honor lies," what matters it to us wheth-
er man once split rails or tanned hides,
provided he is able to preside over the
nation in its troubled hour or lead its
armies to victory. Napoleon possessed
much of the wisdom of the world if but
little of its morality. His marshalls
were selected for their merit.
Generally speaking labor is held in
high esteem in this country, specifically
it is not. The native born element
shuns many employments. When a
young man graduates from school and
refuses to 60 back to the farm because he
has persuaded himself that his little
knowledge is too valuable to be lost in
rural obscurity, and chooses the great
and busting city, where life is more in
tense and diversified, he often finds him
self without any honorable means of
living, and at last reaches an unchosen
destination, as if he were piece of
wrcckage among the tides. BY seven
years of war the revolutionary fathers
established our political independence
but were bound fast by the bondage of
debt. And who led us out to that
second bondage? Was it Hamilton with
his scheme of financep No it was Eli
Whitney, the humble and unrequited
benefactor of his race. He turned the
exhausted rice fields of the south into
richer mines of wealth than those of
California and the Klondyke. By his
invention he enabled one man to do as
much in day as five thousand could do
before, gave us not two blades of grass
for one but the cotton plant five thou
sand fold. He crowacd cotton king :;
paid the national debt; gave the nation
lis second birth of freedom; and man
kind more raiment than all the tlocks of
Israel since the Great Deliverance.
The young man vino feels above az
riculture and would rather own box of
cigarettes than bushcl of potatoes has
been dull student of our history. A
hundred years ago the great basin be-
tween the Alleghaney and Rocky Noun
tains was wilderness; today it is the
abode of forty millions Of people. They
have gathered from every quarter of
the earth. Their loadstone has been
the soil their reward the harvest.
Their car is the harvester, once ridicul
ed as a cross between the circus wagon
a wherlbarrow and a flying machine.
There are other occupations us useful
and honorable from which the schoolrd
young American turns away. lis con-
duet should moi perhaps he entirely as
cribed 10 the schools. Other causes are
in operation and show th3T effects un-
der various conditions and ut different
times.
Invention has exempted us from much
of the drudgrry OF former tilues. Steam
alone is estimated to be doing The work
of two millions of men. Thus the vapor
of water that floats idly in the clouds is
doing more work than three times the
population of the United States.
The young men and women who 60
forth from our educational institutions
cannot always chose their employment.
Circumstances are said to determine
what we are to do; our own free will
how we are to do it. But the rcadiest
thing to do is as likely to be the most
advantageous to us and to society. DO
not seek a service in the distance. DO
that which is the nearest at hand if it
is only the digging of a ditch. The roll
ing stone gathers no moss. Opportuni-
ties are everywhere. They are as thick
as field stone, and may seem like them
to he without profit But the trouble is
with us and not the stone. 1t was the
mouse that put immortality into the
verse If Burns a shirt that suggested
TO Hood his famous song: an accident in
coun + store that revt aled to Good year
the secret for which he toiled so long; Il
Il coil of wire. knitting needle, the
skin of German suage, the bung of a
beer barrel and a strip of platinum was
the first real telephone. Out of the
blocks of granite from the old sheep
pastures of Milestone hill angels may
be carved as beautifully us these that
adorn the Cistiue chapel.
Your opportunities repeat are every
where. They are river that flows on
forever. More stars than Newton and
Kepler saw than Lavoiser aud Adams
weighed are in the heavens above YOU
the same colors that Turner and Millet
spread upon their canvass of immortal
fame are still in the landscape and the
vcsper hour; fossilas more numerous
than these that Agozzie and Miller found
are sill sleeping where they have SLEPT
so long in the stratified beds of the
earth, on all sides is something still to
"being back the hour'' "Of splcndol
in the grass, of glory in the flowers.
If these things are beyond your circum'
stances, powers tastes or aspirations, il
matters not. In the ordinary avocation'
is opportunity no less. Drive mule i
YOU have nothing else to do. The TWEEN
tietb president did it. 1t was honorable
in him. 1t will be honorable in you
Nobody should object unless it be the
mule, We occasionally hear of some
duke or count who has not been able tt
marry an American heiress reduced te
the necessity of earning his bread by the
sweat of his brow, and we are calle(
upon to pity him. Yet it may be tho
nobest thing he or his ancestors have
done through all the generations while
his blood has been crawling down "fron
some victor in Il border brawl."
Fond parents often strive to place
their sons and daughters in what seem'
to them to be better position than tina
in which they themselves started life
This is commendable, yet it often hap