Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-01-23
Dangers to Young Men.

DR.. John Hall delivered, some time
ago, lecture on "The Perils of the
Times" Among other things he treats
of dangers that threaten young men as
young men. He mentions four. First,
the danger of shallowness, which arises
from the hurry and hustle and state of
activity in which we live. Individual
capacities are not trained to their high
est perfection. The advice is given to
young men that it would be we'll for
them to be masters OF some one thing.
The second danger arises from mis-
taken conception of what success really
is. Money has come to be considered
the ideal OF success. And allied to this
mistake is false notion OF gentility.
It is said to be the fact that throughout
New England it is extremely difficult
to persuade young men to become me-
chanics, farmers, or laborers. The
young men are filed with the idea that
they must go to the large cities. This
is an unhealthy condition of things.
All honest work is honorable if done in
a right spirit. Another peril is caused
by o certain unsettledness in life. It
is extremely easy in this country to
pass from one line of life to another.
The very thought in the minds of young
men that they can easily pass to an
other line OF work, if they become dis
satisfied with their present employment,
disinclines them to direct their whole
energies upon the work in hand. DIR.
Hall 8 advice is: Choose slowly, DELHI
erately, with the best advice, and per-
haps later than young men are ordina-
rily accustomed to do, and then, when
the occupation has been decided upon,
stick to it. Another danger comes from
the enervating influences that surround
young men. DR.. Hall said lie had not
word to say against true pleasures;
but he spoke of those pleasures that
weaken and unfit men for stern, hard
work. 1t is said sometimes that the
reins are drawn too tight. But no one
who had stood by as many death-beds
as he had seen would say the reins
could be drawn too tight.
ANDERsoNvILLE HEROEs.-Two he
roes, who had met, suffered and nearly
died in the Andersonville prison pen,
encountered each other in o street Car
in Peoria, ILL.,. one day last week. "Is
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who had just mounted the platform,
Selling the driver by the arm. Eyes"
said the driver. II thought SO !" ex.
claimed Veteran January. ~ knew
you at Andersonville. AS the two men
stood and looked at each other after
fifteen years. there were tears in their
eyes. No wonder ! When they we're
in the prison pen they suffered all the
agonies of the damned. January had
no clothing save thin cotton shirt and
his feet were fostering with gangrene.
He begged the surgeon to amputate
them, but no attention was paid to his
appeals. The wretched prisoner finally
performed the surgical operation him
self with pair of old scissors, hack
ing of both feet at the ankles, binding
up the wounds with his cotton shirt
and exposing his body to the sun.
Jones wardrobe consisted of pair of
ragged pantaloons, and when his wrist
was attacked with gangrene he was sent
to the hospital, where he met January.
The two men lay at deaths door togeth-
er for weeks, but finally recovered.
One OF them broke away and aided by
q Southern woman escaped to the Union
lines. The other made his way North
ut the close of the war,
Cutie bone is not bone at all, but a
structure of pure chalk, once embod-
led loosely in the substance of certain
extinct species of cuttletish. 1t is in
closed in membranous sac, within the
body of the fish, and drops out when
the sac is opened, but it has no con.
nection whatever with the sac or the
cuttleish.