The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-30
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN

BY Charles selby in the Wheeling Regis.
ter.
There is much wisdom in the poets
words: "Life's field will yield what We
make ia harvest of roses or thorns.'
II you are poor, remember that poverty
is no crime. Roll up yonr sleeves; go to
work; hew out a fortune. Never be
ashamed of hard fist or a sun-burned
face. Rather be ashamed of idleness and
slo,n.
Poverty, have said, is no crime. The
greatest geniuses the world ever saw
were born poor. Oliver Goldsmith,
whose name is part OF the Eng Ian.
guage forever, left Ireland without
penny and landed in England without
friend. Ten years after he dined with
princes. He was the favored and ac-
knowledged equal of the most dis
tlnguished men OF his day. Richard
Brinsly Sheridan from the obscurity OF
an humble home rose TO the highest pin
nacle OF fsme's temple. He won Tor his
wife the most famous beauty in England,
then challenged glory and wealth. HIS
speech against Warren Hastings Is tHe
grandest grafton ever conceived or heard
in England.
Why need | 60 beyond our own
country? We have Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster, Andrew Jackson (the son OF
poor Irish emigrsnts) Stephen A. Doug
Las, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley
, and James Gordon Bennett. Their only
legacy was poverty.
b How nobly they assailed "tsme's steep
eat heights" how grandly they walked
"ambition's diamond ridge" That your
early life may and will Lave its pains and
its SORROWS, is universally confessed, but
do, not be discouraged. The greatest men
grow slowest. Never falter, never grow
weary; right onward, struggling man
iuLy, earnestly, holly. Do not give way
To sorrow. Sorrow will ripen into de-
spsir. Be always noble minded, and
Won will not be less successful. "9our
own heart" says Goethe, land hot other
mems opinion of you forms your true
honor"
"honor and shame from no condition
Act well your part, there all the honor
lies"
lis not flesh ard blood, position and
riches that make man Gods noblest work.
IFS the heart. The heart uakes the
man.
"Ihe rank is but the ,guinea's stamp
The mans the goal"
Trust not in the friendship Of the
world. A true friend Is pearl of price
less value, but the worlds friendship has
but little CHARITY in it. If you have
genus -one Of Gods precious gitts-cul
tivate it. Genius can always make It's
own road The world will be slow to
applaud you, but quick TO sit in judg-
ment upon your errors. Be not discour-
aged by little adversely.
"a little adversely sweetens the crust"
How many young lives pass away
unadorI ed, how many crest in unvisi'ed
tombs" whose talents might have ele-
waited them to the first rank of eminence.
How many OF the sons OF genius sink
unknown beneath the pressure Of adj
verse circumstances? And yet this
should not be SO. The world is broad
enough TOR us all. While all around US
smiles in beauty and pleasure shall our
lives pass away unadorned? Each OF
Gods creatures has q mission to fulfill
and it he falls below the mark the fault
is his own.
Look impartlally around you and you
will find that every day has lite pleasures
and It's joys, as well rs its Sorrows: In
your struggles for success you mast look
beyond this life. &c.. $50
life Is real, life is earnest,
But the grave is not It's goai.'
There is something beyond.
Above all things, young men, be polite.
Politeness costs n;thing, Yet it will do n
great deal towards making you gen
tlemen. Have not two sets" of mar ers,
one for the high and another for the
lowly. Be always the same-a gentle
msn-Whether in the palace OF the
prince or the cot Of the hus bandman
Good manners cannot be laid aside like
q cloak. If bad mariners in woman is
immortality, why should they be less so
in man2 .- 49,
Education will not make you gentle.
man if you are so rude MS u, pass uH-
noticed 1.-The peasants bow. Riches or
family connection will not make
you gentleman If you forget
that YOU. have mother or 4 sister
i would much rather be = gentlemanly
village blacks NTH than an educated cox
como One is gentleman without edu-
cation, the other is al ungentlemsnly
educated man. God Almighty did not
intend every man to be educated, but he