Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-10-15


Wherefore, for viIiue's cake,
can be well content,
Tde sweetest time of all nv lie
10 deem IN thinking spent.
Sterling Advice.
ROBERT COLLYER To YOUNG ME-.
II YOU want to do well, keep well, If
You possibly can. Do not let even your
education rob You of your health. 1t is
about the worst thing you can do under
the whip and spur of u noble purpose,
and il is what vast numbers do to their
lifelong regret When a fine painter
took the butcher to see one of his pic
lures, he said AVE, Master Hayden, it's
grand picture, but l doubt whether you
could have done it if you had not eaten
nv beef" And think there was a grain
of truth in the remark. They say base
ball Is getting into the hands Of the
gamblers, and that young men are shy of
il Of good breeding. / should be very
sorry to thinl. 50. 1t Is the handsomest
game that Was ever played, and one of
the healtliest Play baseball, and pull
4 boat and get YOUR chance in vacation at
long tramps and hard beds and rough,
wholesome fare est well and sleep well
be as clean all through and all over as
YOU are IN a drawing room, and then you
viii not only be able to do your days
work in tins world like man, but when
the years bring their inevitable burden
Won viii be able to say with Adam III the
play
Though look old, vel an strong and lu=ts,
Toy IN Iny youth never did apply
Hpi and rebellions liquors 10 my blood
Nor did not with unbashful forehead wop
The means of weakness and debility;
IN & my 1sr -a n lH II ri HTaf.
Frosty. but siniy.
Remember this, too, that with health
and strength to back you. life means hard
work, and hard work on long lines with
native ability and good conduct means
success. viii venture to say that this,
as 4 rule we can trust, is always the story
Of the young man who begins life with
no advantage Of position or patronage
and makes his way to a good place He
gives his heart to what he has to do, not
half the time but all the time, not grudg-
ingl- bat gladly, and not IAarely fos tho
sake Of salary, but because he loves to
be at i and makes the work in good
measure its own reward 1t shall come
t. pass. if YOU take hold like this, that
men will say you have genius for what
you take i'll hand. But you will know
that one of the fine qualities IL genius
for anything Is an absorbing love for it,
and the power of intense application by
which every other power is set to its
finest edge aud directed to the one great
purpose the man holds in his heart
and brain. You may set this truth in
whatever light You viii, of business, or
work on the common levels or work on
the loftiest heights, TO give your heart to
oua If the frrupl.st eaeratx nf sup.
cess. 1t might seem to you that great
many men 60 from the bottom to the top
Of the ladder at one Jump. 1t is not true
1t is never true. All the men know who
have made real success of their life are
hard climbers. The other way is like the
monkey toy Of the children You go up
swiftly over tho top and come down head
first to begin again
From the day ] left the little cottage 10
the day / came to New York my life di-
vides its-lf into two sections Of steady
atriking On long lines. Twenty-one years
at the anvil and twenty-one years ut the
West, ana IN these there is no break cx-
cept that made to get from the Old
World to the New. And now | see that
these forty-two years all belong together,
end in every year something WIS done for
the latter years in the shop / could not
but feel that i was the equal as preach
CT of a good many men who did nothing
else, and would wonder whether ! should
die Gs my father did Mt the anvil But
then We had Eouscful of children. and
ny hammer was a capital weapon TO keep
the wolf from the door and keep things
far and trae, so not one step would go
Il .st4 fg,l. ii .la 4 I'm
was on a sure adventure.
There Is one more word. When YOU
get through with tie college, and take
hold Of yuGr lifc's work, do not think of
making a fortune as the one grand aim of
your life, but of carving ont home, find
ing good, true woman for your wife,
and raising, please God, good family |
do not cry down money 1 think ii is a
good servant and a good friend, but it is
about rs cruel 4 master as ever used a
-l'' 'lrovI i4:luer said to me once,
-,...f ..arry for money, iay lad, many
for !.ge but if thou finds nice giIl
tLUt has money, tiy tp love her. ! would
not say that 10 sou, but tits If YOU
find the nice girl, some such match fol
You as any mother was for my father, and
if you love her, marry her, If she will
have you, though she has not dollar ia
her name. This is n sore evil under oul
American sun, that there should be such
mishap and disaster in the welded life
Il lies in tins, that in the most moment
Gus thing We can do, We SO often use the
least judgment. Hear Story- descrip
ton Of the Girl Of the Period:
she Is perfect to rnI in a waltz And L,
"a ft4TsA tttN ala nss
bracelets, and firis her ian. But IS this the tim!
for mother and w!fe2 can love cHcr GROW OF
such barren rocks: i This the companion 10 tak
Tor lIfe2 You might as well marry mnac-boN ~
We who have had our turn want ia,
young men Of your birth and breeding t.
raise Il generation Of a nObler and bette
type, boys and girls strong Of arm an,
sure OF foot deep-ehcsted, sunny hearted
fall Of faculty, and wholesome to the in
nermost nerve, and 10 do this you mus
do two things give them noble mothers
and don't Finger shiyering on the brinl
and fear to launch away bat when yol
know you can take care Of home IN
simple, wholesome fashion, 90 right T.
work and do IT,
Shall ] close with this little poem
pclA thou 'ae truth. lei oiEera fentr.
Au1 t'lm Tl.,lr Words Tor pay
Let OF lnra uiSk 70. ir dIg.
Guard thau tine fat, though clouds uf might
DpTu Oh luF watch tower Siogp,
1hOugh thou ,npUllat See iug hearts delight
Borne from thee by their swOOp.
Face thou the wind Though slier seem
IN shelter 10 abide.
We T.gre not made 10 sli lad dream,
Tae safe must nfgj be tTlel.
SHOW ti0u ihc light. II conscience CLEAN.
81 not iby hushcl down,
tue smallest =rist may send team
Ger hamlet, tDwrrand town.
WOE unto him on safely bent,
VINO creeps from age 10 youln
Failing 'p grasp his HE intent
Pee tAgsc ue fears tAc truih.
BE True 10 every inm0-t thought,
And ~ fh, Thought Inv spccCA,
VIA. ihuu Ea-j nor by sltivug bought
Presume Eo' thou 10 teach.
flen rarh Viii gus The mist shall clear
Nenbw sec daftiy through,
And Justified al llst appear
Tue urs- iu HIM HAT : true