The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-11-26

Talk With Young Men.

higher" said Webster, and so there
is. It's better to be first class
cobbler than a third-clas lawyer.
There is more pleasure in it, and
more money. 1t is not the"good
trade that makes men rich, but the
good understanding of the trade
Some would be poor all their lives
and yet work at the best trade in the
world; they don't understand it, and
more-they never will. They toll
on, hoping for success, when the
work is in direct antagonism with
their whole being.
do not believe in giving up the
ship until we know it must go do wn
but if we commence a work and find
ourselves wholly untitled for it, and,
after thorough trial, can see no
shadow of success in it, we had bet
ter try some other. All men were
not born with power to perform the
same work. And yet, it is not nee
essary that we spend lifetime in a
fruitless endeavor to find our place.
If we know ourselves we shall kno "
our mission; if we do not, poor
success is inevitably ours. I care
not how much a man may study and
experiment, if mechanism is not in
his head it cannot come out. I tell
you, hoys, it's slow business growing
pumpkins on squash vines.
Again: we cannot we'll be first in
more than one occupation or profes
sion. When a man tells me he has
a dozen trades, 1 know very well he
is master of none. know man was
created but little lower than the
angels, but, up to the evening of the
writing of this, he has not become
SO omnipotent or omniscient as to
do, profitably, more than one thing
at time. (However, at the express
rate of progress of the American
people, I expect he is "almost
Then, boys, study yourselves
choose your work, and if it satisfies
you, move on. Bid defiance to all
obstacles. Don't surrender to the
phantoms-they will ever challenge
you; fight it out on some line, ''it
it takes all summer" and all the next
summer. Independence is the fruit
Of never despairing perseverance.
Our boats are headed up the river,
and just so sure as we drop the oars,
so sure we will float down. Keep
rowing, boys, keep rowing! I know
it's mighty current for some to
stem, and the boat moves slowly,
but sometimes still waters are reach
ed where they can rest.
1 know of no better rule for a
young man, an old man, or woman,
to follow, for success, for happiness,
and for friendship, than the old i'm
perative adage-"Mind your own
business" Keep your own secrets,
and in the end you will have more
and warmer friends. Everywhere
you will meet villains wearing the
livery Of man. There is no better
place for the study of human nature
than on the railroad. There you
meet everything-the wise, the fool
ish, the good and the bad. 1 have
met men there who, at first sight,
seemed to be all civility, all honesty,
and all wisdom; but on closer
study of words and acts, they prove
ed to be two parts humbug, and one
part the conglomerate Of idiot, pat
ent-right peddler and nuisance.
But, boys, this is becoming Won
derful world. Everything is done
by steam, or at steam pressure
When the great Atlantic Cable was
being lowered, it was on all tongues
as the greatest project the world
had ever known, and he who was
the possessor of an inch piece of
the twisted wire was rich in relics
Now we have almost forgotten that
there is such thing. The Pacific
Railroad is the one center of attrac-
ton, now, but in few years that,
too, will move in the shadow of
some mightier scheme. Yankees are
born with "invention on the brain. %