his thoughts to the pristine quiet of his agrarian domain, and covets not the fame that accumulates around the other professions. Success. TWENTY clerks in a store; twenty hands in a printing office; twenty apprentices in a shipyard; twenty young men in a village-all want to get on in the world, and expect to succeed. One of the clerks will become a partner and make a fortune; one of the com positors will own a newspaper and become an influential citizen; one of the apprentices will become a master builder; one of the young villagers will get a handsome farm and live like a patriarch-but which one is the lucky individual? Lucky! there is no luck about it. The thing is almost as certain as the Rule of Three. The young fellow who will distance his competitors is he who masters his business, who preserves his integ rity, who lives cleanly and purely, who devotes his leisure hours to the acquisition of knowledge, who never gets into debt, who gains friends by deserving them, and who saves his spare money. There are some ways to fortune shorter than this old dusty highway-but the staunch men of the community, the men who achieve something really worth having, good fortune and serene old age, all go on in this road. his thoughts to the pristine quiet of his agrarian domain, and covets not the fame that accumulates around the other professions. Success. TWENTY clerks in a store; twenty hands in a printing office; twenty apprentices in a shipyard; twenty young men in a village-all want to get on in the world, and expect to succeed. One of the clerks will become a partner and make a fortune; one of the compositors will own a newspaper and become an influential citizen; one of the apprentices will become a master builder; one of the young villagers will get a handsome farm and live like a patriarch-but which one is the lucky individual? Lucky! there is no luck about it. The thing is almost as certain as the Rule of Three. The young fellow who will distance his competitors is he who masters his business, who preserves his integ rity, who lives cleanly and purely, who devotes his leisure hours to the acquisition of knowledge, who never gets into debt, who gains friends by deserving them, and who saves his spare money. There are some ways to fortune shorter than this old dusty highway-but the staunch men of the community, the men who achieve something really worth having, good fortune and serene old age, all go on in this road. |