Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1868 — ADVICE. [ARTICLE]

ADVICE.

“first class.” ... “There is room up-stairs.”— Webster. It is not the good trade that makes men rich, but a good knowledge of that trade. It is better to be a firstclass cobler than a third-class lawyer. There is more honor, pleasure and money in it. The professor must be fitted by nature and art for his profession. Man is a little lower than the angels, and to this present time has not learned to do profitably more than one thing at a time. ‘‘l tell you, Boys,” said a quaint old farmer, “its slow work growing pumpkins on squash vines.” Be sure you choose the right avocation. Then fight it out on that line “if it takes all summer. Keep the life-boat headed up the river and use the oars. This is fast becoming a wonderful world. Every thing is done by steam, and soon the sun's coloric will do that for art which it now does for nature; furnish light, heat and motion. Our people have invention ou the brain. We must be up and ready for mighty enterprises. Bustle about and you will meet with the veriest luck in the market Physicians get real patients by riding to see fanciful ones. A file of papers tied with red tape carried under a lawyer’s arm oft secures a client. To him that hath shall be given. Quit dreaming and look about you—mind your chances and keep busy and you can get up stairs and be of the first class and the first in the class. X. “Time may sear and blanch your brow,” but it cannot silver your hair, if you use that excellent renew er known as “Barrett’s Vegetable Hair Restorative” to the absolute exclusion of all the vile compounds with which the market is flooded. —Portsmouth Journal.