Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
HINTS TO THE YOUNG.
BY ROBERT F. DoTY.

BY ROBERT F. DOTY.
Young man, young woman, you are
entering the threshold of an eventful
life. Improvement is the demand of
the age. To this one thing the mind
should be directed for unless we have
the spirit of the age we will most as
suredly be left in the background. An
appreciative public is living to-day and
it will live tomorrow, hence all should
be spurred till action is completed in the
rounding up of brilliant, polished edu-
cation. Too many of our young men
and women idle way their sunny days in
dreams Of pleasure, ignorance and the
unfr11itful generalities of common life.
[ know hundreds of young men and
women, endowed with the five great
senses, yet they are living purposeless
lives having no aspirations in any par
ticular direction, hence they do no good
for themselves, nor to the few friends
they may happen to have. Theirs is
not the life of ambition. They recol at
the idea of wading through algebraic
requisites or the modern classics. They
do not think such men as Webster,
Franklin, Lincoln, Agassiz and thou
sands Of others were once boys and be-
gan Life at the bottom round. Argument
will prove of no avail to many, while
some will, by kind word of encourage
ment, be benefited q great deal. Any
young man and lady with an aspiration
Will most assuredly succeed. They will
rise, for obstacles are not strong enough
to bar them from the beauties for which
they are working. But with their lives
there must be tenacity answering, a
pluck that is undaunted, and aOiU of
iron strength.
There are many who say they are too
poor to gain an education. Let them
read biography and compare their wealth
to those who have struggled. Nine out
of ten will be recorded as starting out
with poverty gripping them on their way.
They do not recollect that Franklin was
the son of poor tallow chandler, Lin
coin q rail-splitter, Virgil the son of a
porter, Bob Burns plow-boy; that Gin
cinnatus was called from the pillow to
serve as dictator for Rome; that our
learned Elihu Burritt, the master of
fourteen different languages, was a
blacksmith /; and that Henry Clay was
"the Mill-boy Of the Slashes."
Oh, what evidences are against you
Why grumble because God has placed
you here in condition which you now
are in? People are not born great !;
greatness must be attained by persistent
and hard study. Come out of this, my
young friends, and the world will respect
you. If you are not rich you will have
the world as a school, and the school Of
experience is the greatest Of schools. I
know few who are making home a
school, and again I know some who are
being sent away by parents in good cir
cumstances to schools of great reputa-
ton. But what good do they do? They
loaf, all the time, out of school hours,
and do not study while in school, hence
they do but little good.
Young men and women, our space is
limited You know well enough what
you ought to do, and, knowing what
ought to be done, 60 and do as the age
demands-neve stop till few rounds,
at least, Of the great ladder is reached
and name is yours !
You can never reach distinction
By your idling life away;
ALI great men have bravely struggled
Struggled on for many day!
RTEToN TIL