The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1871-11-23
N. QUAD,s EPIsTL!E.
lAavise where Nome Is keetied

f4ssS55 Advice Where nome lD y eNSSs-s
e,,ans like Horace Greeley and George
Francis Train are continually writing Wiiat
they caH words OF advice TO young men, au- 4
v;sing tl,ei,, TO 90 Vest and buy farms, at-
ter,y regardless of the fact that half OF tue
so-called young men haven't money ehoash
to nav for shave and a box OF collars az a1 ehe
same time. Greeley wants every young man
| to tar,n It: Train wants them TO cultivate the
nolitieal field; Seward thinks they ought 70 .
| 81 themselves for college Professors, and the
| future generation is advised to death.
Young men ought to be let alone. II they
/ don't know what is best for them, no one
l does. when boys Of twelve are capable OF
i running the house, and instructing their pa
rents IN business affairs, no fears need be fele
i for the Young men Of eighteen and twenty.
/ Resides. who wants to have advice hung RI
him all the time? Just that very thing was
& the cause of my wife's uncle dying when ne
4 did. He had habit of smoking just before
h going to bed. Time and again was that ifiai
told that lie would yet set the house or sre;
but each assertion only made him the mere
, determined to smoke. At last he FELL asleep
, one night, the pipe fell on the carr ct, anu iti
i ! few brief moments lie was with the shiaing
ones. and the insurance companies Wo,iidn' :
1say cent on the dollar for the loss OF the
-t house,
II Let the Young men alone. -FThat If it be
/ fashionable to part the hair III the centre, to
sport little canes, to cheat the tailor and dead
: beat the landlord! 1t will all come right iil
/ IL -,,fh haI 1Irof hits tna
: ..old man, - and he has to sell out and sell
: off. a wear at the workbench will put more
S common sense into the heads of the sons than
4 can be again exhausted ii, ten years. What
t does a Young man want Of farm Z VI
i course it would be nice to rise at SIX O'CLOCK !,
g get into pair of white pal.ts, put on SIX
it wrapper, and then 60 out across the gllsteil-
! inc fields to hear the adu,ations Of the lark as
7 lie rise. above the morning mists, but there
t is 10 young man but that can do better. ne
II can lie in bed and let his poor Old faiher GET
r mn and build the fire and warm his boots for
= him. and. if he feels well after breakfast, iie
t, can play a dozen games of billiards before
e dinner.
There was that young Larkey, who gradti-
ated when did. He took Greeley1s ADVICE
and cot himself a farm. The very first tune
he attempted to plow he tore off the wing OF
u the house, unhinged both barn doors, dc-
- stroyed a grape. arbor, and was run away
Is with and dragged one huLdred and thirty
seven times around a twenty acre lot. Il ne
II had minded his own business he might have
% been living to-day, and able to owe evt ~
tailor and hotel in his Town. None OF hls
70 friends have ever taken the New York TT ,
y bune since,. and none of them would ever
70 walk seven miles tc hear Greeley's lecture
10 when he came West. s5 n,
Ia Just let 'em be-. When you see young
:. man with big blue neck-tie, collar Ike To-
J sideboards of wheelbarroW, Milton golc
We chain. an Alaska diamond ring and pin, XII
he boots. green gloves and deary cane--Whei
er YOU see him walking down the avenue hang
oo ine OH to 4 chain to keep ten-ouaee poodl
sfs from being carried off By some horse ny
'il- don't abuse him orally or mentally. He ha
us a mission to fulfill. Ii it wern't for him &c
ell ciety would go out like Il tallow candle IN
we snow storm and the world would return t
OF fie leaves for Sunday suits.
M Nothing will be made by advising yolin
ate men to do this or that Is there single rea
rs. der who cannot readily call to mind som
ha h young man who committed suicide just %
~ cause his parents or friends were continual
- - drumming at him to change his ways !? Ihel
~ is a limit to endurance. A penurous ta.he
~ may complain fifty or sixty times at hayln
W to advance money to his son to get his mou
: tache dyed, but he can't do it more than tw
ION soi1 - se4. 4;,,. ha.ra t,at vonn
- - mans spirit is broken. and he Will new
~ .a' have an ambition to become Presidentof tl
u United States e#Es 5,j Il