St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-12-12
Burdette's Advice
TO YOUNG MEN WHO ARE AFRAID OF
WORKING THEMSELVES TO DEATH.
burlington Hawkeyel

TO YOUNG MEN WHO ARE AFRAID OF
WORKING THEMSELVES TO DEATH.
burlington Hawkeye.l
And then remember, my son, you
have to work. Whether you handle a
pick or pen, a whelbarrow or a set of
books, digging bitches or editing a pa
per, ringing an auction bell or writing
funny things, you must work. If you
will look around you, you will see that
the men who are most able to work are
the men who work the hardest. Don't
be afraid of killing yourself with over
work, son. 1t is beyond your power to
do that. Men cannot do that on the
sunny side of thirty. They die some
times, but it's because they quit work
at 6 p. NJ, and don't get home till 2 a..
m. It's the intervals that kill, my son.
The work gives you an appetite for
your meals, it lends solidity to your
slumber, it gives you perfect and
grateful appreciation of a holiday.
There are young men who do not work
my son young men who make a living
by sucking the end of a cane; whose
entire mental development is INSULT
cient to tell them which side of post
age stamp to lick young men who can
tie necktie in eleven different knots,
and never lay wrinkle in it, and then
would get into West Hill street car to
go to Chicago; who can spend more
money in day than you can earn in a
month, son, and who will go to the sher-
ifs to buy postal card, and then APP
ply at the Office of the street commits
siOner for marriage license. But the
world is not proud of them, my son. 1t
does not know their name, even it
simply speaks of them as old So-and-
SOS boys. Nobody likes them the great
busy world don't even know they are
there, and at the great day of resurec-
ton if they do not appear at the sound
of the trumpet, and they certainly will
not, unless some one tells them what ii
is for and what to do, don't think
Gabriel will miss them, or notice theil
absence, and they will not be sent fol
or disturbed. Things will go on just as
well without them. So find out what
you want to be and to do, son, and take
off your coat and make dust in the
world. The buster you are the less
deviltry you will be apt to get into, the
sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter
and happier your holidays, and the bet
ter satisfied you will be with yourself.
No, my son, the world does not owe
you living. The world don't need vol
yet-yOu need the world. If you car
convince the world that you are neces
sary to its well-being, its happiness, it,
pleasure, its moral existence, then the
world will begin to claim you and make
room for you in the body pews, will
the softest cushions and the easies
footstOOl. But don't fall into the com
mon error of suppOsing the world owel
you living. 1t doesn't owe you any
thing of the kind. The world isn't re-
sponsible for your being. 1t didn't sent
for you, it never asked you to com,
here, and in no sense is it obliged t,
support you now that you are here
Your living is here-a good, comforta
BILE living. Plenty to eat, plenty t,
wear, an abundance of good, healthful
hard work, nipples Of laughter an,
J sprinkles of tears, hours of happines
and moments of heartache, days of la
Dor and nights of rest, duties to be per
J formed and rewards to be won it is al
: here. son-disappointments, struggles
successes and honOrs, but the wOrl
/. doesn't owe you one of them not one
+ You can't collect your living as 70
would a debt, by simply presentin
b. your bill, or giving your lawyer the ac
counttO sue. You have to work for i
n son, and work like Trojan, too. Whe
: lyOu hear a man say the world owes hiI