St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-03
Rem Wilde'S Address to his Son
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Ben Wild, the funny-man of the An,
rora News, is publishing series OF
articles to his three year old son. Here
are some of them:
"My boy, don't try to be like every
body else. 1t will not win: Some peo-
pie may like to have their vanity
tickled by being copied, but they never
really respect the copyist.
"When YOU are In Rome, do as you
please. Never mind what the Romans
do. If you find you cannot live Ill
Rome and be true to your own nature
quit Rome. Not spitefully, us IT you
expected Rome to follow you weeping
after and beg your return, for then you
will be disappointed at the utter care;
lessness of your departure she will
evince. But get up quitely and move
on to a more congenial atmosphere.
Don't agree with every body. Have
opinions of your own, and don't be
afraid to express them. IT you think
they are right, cling to them after
every body else has deserted them and
until You have reasonable proof that
they are wrong. Then don't be afraid
to drop them. Never mind what people
may say about you. 1t You have
strong convictions half the world will
call you bigot ; if you have no convic-
tions verybody will call you nobody.
ed. Heed nothing but the testimony,
and hang or acquit on that alone.
There will be times in your life
when, standing out alone for principal
that you think is right, you feel lone
some. That is an evidence OF weak
ness. Fight it off. If you are right
YOU will not long he alone. Hammer
away with your agreements. Appeal
to the reason of your hearers; or, it
YOU can get no hearers, keep appealing
to your own reason. But don't desert
your principal because all others do.
4 block of wood may drift with the
tide, but something better is required
| to push against the current.
| Don't live on the pleasure of your
neiehbors. 1t is an unwholesome diet.
1t means that you are doing only what
they want you to; they applaud only
that which is in their own minds. Live
| rather so that when you get ready to
give up breathing, you rest i'll the con
soline thought that you have done what
you believe to be right.
| MY boy, don't try to pass for what
Won are not. Remember the fable of
the iackass in the lions skin. Your
ears and your bray are very certain to
be recognized.
"When asked for information on
matter of which you have none, say SO.
Don't presume on the questiOner's ig
norance. He may be askeding you to
expose yours. There are just such peo-
ple in the world.
/" It REQUIRES some bravery to say you
don't know, but, if it's the truth, out
with it, my boy. Consider what you
don't know cannot be squeezed in be-
tween this planet and the sun, while
what Won do know rattles around with
to spare in your own little head.
"A man once blew out the gas in a
city hotel rather than confess to the
landlord that he was from the country
where they burn candles. But the land
lord knew him all the time, and for
that reason did not exact pay in advance.
Had the country-man lived until morn
ing, the landlord would have PROPOSE
ti0n to trade his hotel for his farm.
"You see, my boy, when you are try
ing to be something you are not. you
never know where you are. 1t you
knew the inside life of every man
whom you envy, perhaps you would not
trade places with him for single day.
1t was a sagacious old king who said,
he would give his domain for the shirt
of a contented man he had no shirt and
wanted no domain. The king probably
thought of this.
80 my boy, when you look enviously
on the man who fills the place to which
your ambition would carry you, remem-
Der he may be regarding you In the
same light. If you are a wood-saWyer
and he an author, he will be pretty
likely to think wood-sawlng is easier
than writing IL book. If you are poor
and he rich, he will think OF the cares
which Cypress him and from which you
are free. 49,, , ,oo,noa +,.+
you are as we'll off as anybodyelse you
will be contented to assume nothlng
beyond what belongs to your nature;
and when YOU have reached that point
You will begin to initiate only yourself;
That is the originality that this world
likes.
CoTTON FACTORIES IN THE SOUTH
The most serious obstacle to the success
of cotton factories in the South has been
the purchase aud use of inferior ma
chinery by some corporations. Ihs has
been worked off at low prices by North
ern companies who had discarded 1t Tor
improved machinery. There is q great
deal more of the same sort on hand,
and the owners expect to sell it to South
ern men who are not familiar with the
latest devices for saving labor. But
despite all impediments, the progress
of the South in the manufacture OF cot
ton has been almost phenomenal during
the past three or four years, and very
cheerful prospect of large returns is
inducing heavy investments of South
ern capital in this branch Of industry
Washington Post.
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