Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-30
Just a Word, Boys.

[ want to talk to you for five minutes
in a straightforward, practical way, and
1t will pay you to listen and remem-
Der.
Living in college town, one has rare
opportunities for studying boys. In
watching the after-life of many stude nts,
tits surprising to note the ups and downs,
the reversing Of positions, in their lives.
1t is certain that lasting success comes
only to those who work hard for it, and
so deserve it.
Only eight years ago, used to see a
good looking. manly fellow working
daily round our house. He had charge
of the house, and chopped the wood,
and was glad and thankful to
do any honest job, however
mental, that would help him to get an
education.
He is now successful lawyer in Boston
with an income last year of five thousand
dollars.
think OF another, red-haired, rather
diminut1ve young fellow, whom 1 used to
notice as one of my earnest boys, who
are sure to be heard from. He was a
genuine Jackat-all- trades-would 20
down on his knees wedding the flower
beds in lady's ont-yard, ring the
chapel bell, was commissary of an econo-
mical club and took care of our goofi
doctors stables.
He Is now very popular physician, at
present abroad for a study Of foreign
hospitals. He can never be handsome, or
of impressive presence but it Is energy
and character that tells. He commands
respect and confidence everywhere, and
has fine reputation, though still young.
A celebrated English lawyer once said !:
"The longer live, the more I am certain
that the great difference between men,
the feeble and the powerful, the great
and the insignificant, is energy, invincible
determination: and he aids, ''No two
legged animal can be a man without it!'
Now look with me at some other young
men of different makeup whom l have
known. I recall an exquisite ssfellah."
who graduated when was so young as
to regard him as something very fine. He
roomed at our house, and his father, rich
and indulgent, saw that he had plenty of
easy chairs, and all the elegant furniture
that he had been accustomed to.
Meerschaums adorned the mante), and
bottles usually EN- pty) his closet. He
was always riding for his health, smoked
expensive cigars, and was sought by jolly
companions that real study was quiet a
secondary matter. His sisters came to
see him graduate; affected, patronizing
creatures, elegantly dressed, who famed
languidly through dinner, toying indiffer-
emily with our comparatively simple fare.
Poor Ciarence!'' they said, sswhat a
slow time he must have bad in this dull
village! No theater nor opera-only bor-
rid books, and dig, dig!''
"Well, the wheel turned round, and his
fathers fortune disappeared, like many
another fortuue. He was trying. few
years since, to get place to teach in a
school for negroes in the South, and when
last heard from was conductor
on Brooklyn harse-car.
All, this being a swell is poor business!
| can see before me IN memory slender,
rather long-haired youth, with handsome,
though somewhat shallow eyes, passing
my window with an easy, nonchalant air,
swinging a light rattan. and humming
popular air
He effected the romantic style, and al
ways was engrossed in several Airtations,
which seriously interfered with his les
sons. His father was plain well-to-do
farmer, but his son, James Moore, parted
his black locks in the middle, played on
the guitar, which, On moonlight nights,
was swung from his neck by red rib
bon, troubadour fashion-and he did
sing charmingly. He also added Al
phonso to his short and sensible name,
and signed his notes on pink sheets, j.
Alphonso Moore
BY the way, that's a bad sign. If you
happen to have name you dislike, be it
John jones or Tom Tack, keep it and
make it honored. If your father be
Shocks, and unkindly imposes on you at
baptism such name as Jedediah E., OF
Ichabod H., don't change it to J. Everett,
or I. Hamilton Shocks, but make the
best of it, and sail under true colors.
know of an eccentric old gentleman
who absolutely changed his mind and re-
fused to give scholarship to an other
wise unobjectionable young fellow who
needed and deserved help, because the
young man signed his name E. Wellman
so-and-so, when he should not have been
ashamed of Ebeneeer.
To return to our sentimental friend