Mistaken Industry

oomo men misearry ucoause tüey have mistaken mere activity lor energy. ConibanciÍDg two thiugs essoutially different, they liave supposoi that if they wero always busy, tlioy ivould be cortain to be advancing tlieir fortune. They havo forgótten that mindirectéd labor is a wasto of activity. The person who would gueceed in Hie, is ]u a tnarksmaii firing at a target ; it liis shots mias the mark, they are a waste oí powder ; to be óf any eervico at all, thoy must teil in the bulla eye or near. So, in the groat gamo oí' life, what a man does must bo made to couot, or it might almo.stas well be lefc undone. Tlie idlo warrior, cut f rom a bhingle, who iighta the air on top of tho weathercock, instoad ef being madu to turn eome machino, commensurate with his strength, is not moru worlhlesa than tho míirely activo mau, who though busy from sunrisü to siinset, dissipates his labors on triflos, when he onght skillfully to concéntrate it on sorae great oud. Everybody knows sonic ono in his circlo of acqnaititauccs, who, though íihvays active, has this want of energy. The distemper, if we tuay cali it such, exhibits itself in various waya Ii ïofne cases, tho man has merely an ex ccutivo faculty when hoshould havo a directivo one ; in other language he mukes a capital clerk, vvhen'he ough to do the thinking of tho business. Ii other cases, what is done is either no dono at tho right ti:ne or in the rigb way. Sometimos there is no distinc tion inado betvvoen the objects oi diíler ent magnitudes, but as nanch labor bo stowed upon a trivial affair as on matter of vast moment. Energy, corroctly uridorstood. ie ac tivoly proportioned tó the end. Napo Icon would olten, when in a cajappaian rerhaih íor days without t:il;ing off hi dlothes, now gallopjng from point t point, now diütiitiug despatobes, nov sludyiug mapa. Büt his pcriod of re pose, when tho crisis was over, wa generally us protractod as his exertion had been. Ho lias been known to sleo for oighteen hours on a streich. Seoon rate mon your shivos üt tap! and rou tine, while they would fall short of th siiperluiinan esortion of the great Ein peror, would have thought theinselve lost, beyoud hope, f thoy iiuiUUod whu they called his iodolence. They ar capita! illustrations of activity, keepino up their monotonoii8 jogtrot forevcr whilo Napoleon, with his gigautic indu6 try, altniiiting with soinc appa rent idleness, is as atriking au esamjil ■ of onergy. Wo do not mean to imply tha chronio indolenoey' ff reTfèvèd ocoasion l.y by spasmodiu fits of induatry, ia to )o recomraended. Muil who have Chis hiiractur run to the opposite extrotne f that we have been ttigmatizing, and 'uil as invariably of winning succes in ile. To oall their coasional perioda f application enorgy, wo:;ld bo a tad i mianorner. Such persons, indeel, are jut civilized savugea, so to gpeak ; vag bonds at lieart in their secret laiu'd f work, and ojnlv rcsorting to labor ccasionally, like the wild Iiulian, who, fter lying for weeks abont his 1: ut, is oueed bv sheor buoffer, and starts oö