The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-05-07

man.
You must teach yourself. You must
have double character and double duty.
You must be your own master, aud your
own scholar---a self educator; and the
history Of great celebrities furnishes 80
many encouraging examples Of sclf-made
men that you have nothing to fear. You
may become a great statesman, like Frank
lin; great poet, like Burns; q great in.
ventor, like Stephenson; great discov-
erer, like Livingston a great scholar,
like Burritt--only, take care of the mind
Take care Of your 7ime.-If, as We
have already supposed, you hsve begun
the laborious business Of life, you can
have but little time to spare. Most part
of your day is taken up in your occupa.
tion, whatever that may be. But you
have some time. You must gather up
the fragments of time, that nothing be
lost. Can You manage TO secure half an
hour every day? That would be $50
hours in the year. In al probability you
can Obtain more if you try, but it is only
by reckoning up the minutes and recog-
MIXING the value of each that you can
properly estimate the true worth Of time.
Odd minutes may be turned to good ac-
count, and will be by thrifty boy. Poor
Richard says, Take care of the pence
and the pounds will take care of them
selves" What we say to you is, take
care Of the minutes and the hours will
take care OF themselves, for if you know
the value Of one minute, you are not like
ly to throw sixty recklessly away.
Take care Of your Money Inside
some omnibusses there is written up,
Take care of your pockets - and this is
excellent advice, for there is generally a
pickpoeket of some sort ready to steal all
We have. There is, for instance, 4 dread.
ful pickpocket named Waste, that has
ruined many q man old and young; aad
this is the thief that you boys should be
most careful to shun. He has u way of
whispering in tho ear il is only SO much,
aud away fly the hard earned pence for
something that is not really worth two
stravs. Sometimes he tempts US to spend
by saying 'the others do it," and so be-
cause there are eleven foolish, We make
up the dozen. And sometimes he taunts
US BY saying Nicer" which is very hard
to bear, and to escape which many have
run to foolish excess. Now don, you be
deceived, boys. by any of these taunts.
Wha. you earn hardly, spend carefully
You have not much to spend, Of course
penny TO you is as much as a pound to
some psop'e--thcn take care of is. "a
penny saved j, penny earned"
Lastly, boys, Take care Of your Char
acter.-To great extent, you are de-
pendent on this for success in life
Yoar character is your capital. Indus
try, honesty, civility, are worth their
moncy-thcy will find friends for you
they will bind friends to you-they will
make hard places easy, and will lay the
foundation of your future prosperity
Without them you are worth nothing can
never hope to succeed, nor to be regard
ed with either affection or esteem. Then,
take care Of your character. Don't for.
get the lesson you have learned At the
Sunday school. Don't neglect to look
into the Bible for those instructions
which you 90 much require, nor to look
up to the God Of the Bible for that
s.rengsh without which you can DO moth
ing
Thus, endeavor to become useful mem.
bers Of society. You are boys, now, you
will soon be men, and i. should be the
earnest effort Of your lives, to discharge
every obligation resting on you, so faith
fully and uprightly, that your example
may help to make our world 3 better,
brighter, hsppicr place. .--Nep York