The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-02-01 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

PROSPER IN EUSINESS.—I* the first place, make up your mind to accomplish whatever you undertake ; decide upon some particular employment ; persevere in it. All difficulties are overcome by diligence and assiduity. Be not afraid to work with your own hands, and diligently too. "A cat in gloves catches no mice." "He who remains in the mill grinds, not he who goes and comes." "'Attend to your business and never trust it to ariother." "A pot that belmsgs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled." Be frugal. "That which will not make a pot will make a pot lid." "Save the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." Be abstemious. "Who dainties love, shall beggars prove." Rise early. "The sleeping fox catches no poultry." "Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep." Treat everyone with respect and civility. "Everything is gained, and nothing lost, by courtesy." "Good manners insure success." Never anticipate wealth from any other course than labour ; especially never place dependence upon becoming the possessor of an inheritance. "He who runs after a shadow has a wearisome race." Above all things never despair. "God is where He was." "Heaven helps those who help themselves." Follow implicitly these precepts, and nothing can binder you from prospering.—From the "Book of Good Devic&," published by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. HOMICIDES IN AMERlCA.—Speakina of the homicides in America, and the great delay which has of late taken place in carrying out executions in that country, the New York Herald says :—" We have Stokes condemned to be hanged; we have Foster condemned to be hanged, and half a dozen more. We have awaiting trial Sharkey, who slew Dunne; Scannell, who blew out the brains of Donohue; King, who shot O'Neill dead; Simmons, who slashed his victim•Duryea into slivers almost with a knife. Are we to wait years and years to see the sentence carried out on those convicted? Are we to wait in shame and grief at the law's delay a twelvemonth for the trial and conviction of the others if they are guilty? We want speedy trials. The new District "Attorney is pledged against pigeon-holeing cases, whether of murder or theft, whether the criminals be rich or poor, whether they be 'influential,' as the 'word has been understood, or whether they are as naked of ' influence 'as Jack Reynolds. We call on him to do his duty, and speedily. If crime will have its carnival, let justice in New York, so long defied, have its carnival too. Give us, then, at an early day, a broad scaffold, with the throats of all our murderers in stout ropes beneath it. Let them all swing together. And then let us see afterwards whether terror is a better curative than encouragement. With murders we say, leave mercy to the other world, on which nine out of ten of them in their last moments are ready to rely."  FASTING COMMUNIoN.—We must protest energetically against the stigma which Mr. Oxenham endeavours to cast upon those who do not communicate fasting, as if they— were, when xaot invalids, necessarily indolent, irreverent, or ignorant or reckless ,of ancient ecclesiastical Tub. Mr. Oxenham's own authorities, St. Augustine and Jeremy Taylor, would have shown him,,he.d he consulted them thoroughly, that while fasting communion is a pious and laudable custom, much more common in our grandfathers' age than perhaps even now, yet it was not •in the early centuries universal, and was never by any formal net of the Church Catholic elevated to the rank which he assigns to it —the rank of an observance like that' of infant baptim, as authoritatively ruled, as to which we must "hear the -Church." Modern hours and habits are different- in many *aye from those of old And primitive times • and the divergence has in various ways been recognised .by the indulgence ofl the Church. To baptise by immersion (e.v.). is undoubtedly the more Catholii3land correct way, and was the old rule. It is so recognised by the words of the rubric. But if. Mr. Oxenham carries out his principles, as he logically ought to do, into this quarter, and immerses every infant 'brought to hifutor baptism unless heis expressly certified that the child is weak, his next appearance before the public ma,,lr pbrhaps be in a caurb off justice on a charge. of manslaughter.--Guardian.