The daily gazette., 1879-11-07
.Adpice to q YOssna Nan.


Sometimes, my son, you will want to
whistle. DO not entirely repress this
desire to aspirate your feelings in sibbi-
liant strains of wheezy music; merely
mOdulate and regulate 1t. Go of into
the woods five OF six miles from any
habitation, If the desire comes upon you
during business hours, and whistle there
until the birds make you ashamed of
your poor accomplishment. Do not yield
to the temptation too readily, lest you
become addict ed TO the habit and become
a slave TO it, and go whistling around
even as man who has lost a dog. There
are men, my son, who can whistle mu-
sically; once in awhile you find men
whose whistle is pleasant to the ear and
soothing to the soul, but you only find
one of these men every three or four
thousand years, and the die young, son !;
they die very young. You will observe
md gasps on the lower ones, and
man who whistles at all times and in all
places. Whistle all you will in solitary
places, son if it pleases you, whistle in
the night as you go home, if you will,
for CHEEKY whistle in the dark is a
that the best whistler is he who whistles
least, and practices in solitude. The
poor whistler, who fats on the high notes
pleasant sound unto the listening soul of
beiated passenger, but when you come
/ ito the as ,emblages and the bu iness
haunts Of men, unpucker your musical
lips and shut up your whistle in your
heart. And if ever the temptation comes
to you to whistle iayainst the edge Of a
card, crush 1t out, If the effort Kills you.
Whistling is not lofty nor yet use
ful, although it is a universal, accom-
plishment. Though you practice hun
dred years, and though you whistle
never so whistley, my son, yet the COM
monest switch engine that ever scared a
human being deaf, can beat you at it.
The gr' at and good were never great
whist ers, son. George Washington
never sat IN friends Office, with his
feet on the window sill, whis.ling
"Grandiather's Clock" against the edge
of a card. Strike to emulate George
Washington, and although you may
never be frs. in war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts OF your countrymen,
yet fame will not forget you if they can
write upon your tombstone that you
never whstled your countrymen into
cJnvulsions of iutempera.e but fruitless
profanity.
And then remember, my son, you
have to work. Whether you handle 9
pick or pen, wheel0arroS or a set OF
books, digging bitches or editing paper
ringing an auction bell or writing funny
teings,Yyou must work. If you will
/ lnnk .r,,unI will fh a
the men who are most able to live thu
rest of their days without work are the
men who work the hardest. Don't be
afraid of killing yourself with overwork
son. 1t Is beyond you power to dc
that. Men cannot work so hard as tina
on the sunny side of thirty. They dit
sometimes, but it's because they qui
work at 600 p. m, and don't get hom'
until 200 a. m. It's the interval tha
kills, my son. The work gives you al
appetite for your meals, it lends solidity
to your slumber, it gives you \ perfec
and grateful appreciation of holiday
There are young men who do no
work, my son; young men who make
living by sucking the end of cane
whose entire men al development is III
sufficient to tell which side of a postag
stamp to lick /; young man who can tie
necktie in eleven different knots al
never lay wrinkle In it, and the
would get in.o West Hill street car t
go to Chicago; who can spend nor
money in day than you can earn in
month, son, and who 60 to the sheriff
TO buy postal card, and apply at the o
flee OF the street commissioner for maj
riage license. But the world is nc
proud Of them, son. 1t does not kno'
their names even; it simply peaks c
them as old Soanso's hoys. Nobod
likes them, nobody hates them, the grea
busy world doesn't even know they ar
there, aud at the great day OF the resur
rection, if they do not appear at tn
sound of the trumpet, and they certainl
will not unless somebody tells theI
what it is for and what to do, l don
think Gabriel will miss them or motto
their absence, and they will not be 81
for, or waited for, or disturbed. Thing
will go ON just as well without them. S
find out what you want to be and to d
and take off your coat and make du
in the world. The buster you are u
| IS deviltry you will be apt to get int
th. sweeter will be your days, and Il
| heftar sati sfiad will the world he vii