The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-04-17
The Republican.
Educational Column.
>. F. LANGESBAUGH.
HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL.


Success rides on every hour. Crap
pie il and you may win. Ambition
and honor are the weapons, and with
out them you will never triumph A
young man must be brave. Being
naturally endowed with superior
parts, a penetrating intillect and firm
ness new OF character, he should school
himself to look fortune in the face
without being intoxicated with her
smiles, or troubled by her frowns; 10
be astonished at nothing that hap
pens in this world, and to make up
his mind to any danger. Never take
advantage OF those who are weaker
than yourself. but stand ready and
willing to assist the person who comes
10 you for all. Lam to say mol
TO those who wish TO lead you from
your honest duty. Always lot k a
man in the face " hen ."n are talking
10 him. Don. be made use Of as
dishrag, but IL you have = will, use
it. Seek good advice. and court well
your own judgement. IL you have
built castles in the air, your work will
not be lost; that is where they should
be. Now ia the time to put everlasting
foundations under them. Never put
confidence in those who have no con-
adence In others. But II you forget
all these, remember that pride is a
stumbling block to success. 1t may
sometimes be o useful spring board
10 the aspiring soul, but it is much
more freqsently destructive snare.
Virtue is held from no one; she is
free to all, and selects the being who
is true to God and man.
YOUTH is SOFT AND MANHOOD HARD.
When the plates are prepared for
steel engravings, the steel is made
soft, and then the engraver works
out the picture and then the plate is
put into the furnace and brought TO
great hardness, so that impressions
can be taken eff by the hundreds
without wearing IT. Now the time TO
sngrave men is youth, when the plate
Is soft and malcable. Manhood is
lard, and cannot be cut easily, any
more than tempered steel. Many
: men waste and trlflo With their youth
and do not seem to think that when
they have thrown away that
period they cannot call il back again.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF LIFE
The great consequences OF life de
ponds upon the little things Of the
moment. Rov do you krow what
the least thing you DO is pregnant
with, and how much IL may produce?
You tell single lie. and how many
lies that may set going. 1t may be
The spark 10 explode whole maya
Zine OF lies In the community. just
that one lie you have told may set
Dire to a whole train OF deceit, the evil
consequences OF which 10 single man
and no community can limit. Speak
/. one kind sord. and You do not know
/. how far it may reach us Influence.
DEATH.
There is but Il breath of air aud n
beat of the heart between this world
and the next. And In the brief inter
val Of painful and awful suspense,
while We feel that death is present
Nith US that we are powerless. and
she faint pulsation here is but the
prelude Of endless life hereafter, we
feel in the midst OF the stunning ca
lamiy about to befall us, that the
= earth has no compromising good to
mitigate the severity OF Oui loss Bat
there il no grief without some bene-
ncient provision to soften its intense
ness. Whea the good and lovely die,
noonbeams on the stormy sea. light
sp our dsrkened hearts, and lends TO
5he surrounding gloom q beauty so
sad, so sweet, that I'VE could not, il
we would. dispel the darkness that
env:rons it,
EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMEN.
The avenues OF employment that
are daily being opened to young
women in the different branches OF
business, renders il imps rative that
they shonld be practically educated
10 properly qualify themselves for
the positions they are called upon 10
Ali. 1t Is now conceded beyond o
: doubt that there are certain clerical
duties connected with every branch
of business that can lie performed by
women equally as sell as by men,
and that there are thousands OF wo-
men 10 day scattered over the coun-
sry that are compelled to exc out a
scanty livelihood with a needle or by
some other equally labolions process
IN which they wear out life before
they are thirty. that il they were
Pia~ticdiiy euucdteu coufu i've ulc
OF conf Jrt and ease. The time has
come when parents recognize the i'm
portance OF giving their daughters
such an education as will ft them for
some position where they can earn a
respectable living il they should be
left without protection. Many poor
girls are going degn to ruin aud an
early grave every day because they
have not been taught habits Ct self
reliance. and received an education
that would enable them 10 earn an