The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-10

Carlyle says: lilies and the burden
of evil they bring are shifted from back
to back, and from rank to rank, until
they fall at last on the dumb, lowest
rank. who, with mattOck and spade,
with sore heart and empty wallet, come
daily in contact with reality, and can
pass the cheat no further"
We ask every young man whether he
thinks there is any danger of his becom-
ing one of this .sdumb, lowest rank,
that can pass the cheat no further?'
That rank is rapidly increasing in this
country. All of them were young men
once, and, like you, they were full of
hope and self-assurance, and as much
neglcctful of the experience of others
as you may be. That rank is recruited
from your class. Some, yea, many of
you, will fall into that dismal line of
life, unless you at once begin to live
wisely. Nearly all of you are poor.
Some of your fathers can give you a
start in the world;'' but those of the
majority can do nothing for you except
to feed, clothe and educate you at the
common school until you are old
enough to look out for yourselves. AS
to these we say again with Carlyle,
"Better shake yourselves awake in
Gods name, and see if there be not in
the eternal sky monitions as to what it
were wise to do and wise not to do"
1. 1t is wise for you while at home to
make the best possible use of your edu-
cational advantages, however slim they
may be. Persevere in cultivating a
taste for reading. Waste no leisure
time as loafers about town. Your
wasted change would supply you with
good books. Little by little your time
IS running away. That little by little
would make you wise if properly i'm
proved. Plato calls the ignorant "the
manikins of EARTH" and some one else
calls them "human Holsters" Be not
of this "dumb, lowest rank that is
doomed to carry all the heavy burdens,
and toll like slaves for the enrichment
of others. You surely will be of this
rank unless you ''look OUT in time.
Intelligence is the supreme power over
all human destinies. 1t is mightier
than money.
2. Be Industrious. AS things are,
many of you must seek employment as
hired laborers. Do good service and
you will be sure of situation with
good pay. If you can't get work on
the farm more than seven or eight
months of the year, seek to, at least,
pay your expenses during the balance
of the time. Strive to do as well in
service as your employer would do.
This will insure his confidence and es-
TEEN, and he will continue to employ
you, even at extra wages. Some men
are as we'll worth $50 per month as
others are worth $40. The best way to
get all you earn is to begin by earning
more than you get.
3. Economy. You are poor. Ex-
pend not dime that can be saved un.
til you have made your foothold GER
tain. You cannot afford nickel for
beer until you have a clear deed in fee.
simple of some spot of ground. You
are not a free man SO long as you have
no right anywhere to set one foot be.
fore the other except on the public
highway, or by the permission of others.
Get your own little domain, over which,
as kingdom, you can reign supreme.
Then get your house upon it, well.
built and paid for. This, in the Ian
guage of one of the legal fathers, is
your castle. "The winds of heaven
may whistle around it, the rains may
enter it, but the King cannot" because
in it and over it you are king greater
than the throned monarch. After this
is secured, you can begin to be a little
open-handed; but be cautious both al
to expenditure and penuriousness
While you are poor, if the -" human
Holsters call you ''stingy," because
you will not waste your money, lei
them howl, and go your own way
knowing well what you are about. Aft.
err few years, when you are estab.
lished in your own kingdom, and can
employ yourself, while they remain as
poor as ever, their former sneers will
change to envy, and their old proud
spirit will be broken into humble ser.
vitude at your feet.
4. Marriage. AS you value forty
years of happiness, do not enter into
the marriage relation until your home.
stead, free of debt, is secured. 1t is
not safe to rely upon woman as help
mate to poor man. She is not as
much so as she was forty years ago.
The falsities of the fashionable and in
dolent world have nearly spoiled the
majority of the young women, espe-
cially in the vicinity of cities and towns.
In the interior and on the farm they are
more reliable. But even with the best
of young wives, the family, speedily in
creased, allows the wife and mother to
do nothing beside keeping up her house
hold. If you have rented household
your situation is deplorable. 1t will re.
quire more than your labor will bring
to pay rent and live. Get your own
house before you get wife. A young
man should scorn the thought of at
taching young woman to himself SO
long as he has no roof to shelter her
head. A married couple can feel no
sense of security under a rented roof,
unless the husband is fortunate enough
to command large salary-which can
not be had on a farm. Own your own
little farm, and you and yours will be
free and happy; otherwise you will be
servile and miserable. To this end prac-
tice the most rigid economy while sin
gle. Some of the greatest men of the
world have lived on little in order to
have time for study. Spinoza studied:
most of his time, and worked at his
trade just enough to pay his expenses;
and he lived on five cents per day,
equivalent to, perhaps, twenty cents at
the present time. He was married to
his books, and would have no other
family until his object was accom-
plished. DR.. johnson, another one of
the worlds immortal men, lived in a
garnet until he became famous, on q
few cents per day, and, to save wash
ing, made his calls on " clean-shirt'
day. We don't ask you to contract
into quite SO small q compass, but we
do say that if you would be somebody
in the world you must save while sim
gle. A common farm laborer should
save at least $50 yer year. If he inn
prove his leisure in getting knowledge
he can double the savings of seven
years in q reliable Building Association
or by judicious investment. In that