Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-03
EARNEST THOUGHTS.
"Bin Nye" Talks to Young Men
I'm Rexard 70 o Career.


yonno man. what are you living for?
Have you an object dear to you as me,
and without the attainment OF wncn
Won feel that your life will have been q
xide. shoreless waste OF shadow peopled
nv the spectres of dead ambitionsf Is
IL your consuming ambition to paddle
quietly but firmly up the stream OF time
With many strokes against the current
of public opinion, or to finger along the
seductive banks, going in swimming, or,
Careless of the future, gathering shells
and tadpoles along the shoraY nave
Won a distinct idea OF q certain posltion
in lite which you wish to attain? have
YOU decided whether you will be great
man and die in the poor-house, and
have A nice, comfortable monument alter
Won are dead for your destitute family
10 lookIat, or will you content yourself
10 plug along through life as bank presi-
dent? These, young man, are questions
of moment. They come home to our
hearts to-day with terrible earnestness.
You can take your choice in the battle
of life, whether you will bristle up and
win a deathlees name and owe almost
everybody, or be satisfied with scab'
and mediocrity. Why do you linger
and tritter away the heyday OF life when
Won might skirmish around and win
some laurels? Many Of those who new
stand at the head OF the nation as states
men and logicians we're once unknown,
unhonored and unsung. Now they saw
the air in the halls OF congress, and their
names are mastered on the temple OF
fame. :.
They we're not born great. Some OF
them only weighed six pounds to start
with. But they have rustled. They
have peeled their coats and made Rome
howl. You can do the same. You can
win some laurels too il you will brace mp
and secure them when they are ripe.
Daniel Webster and President Garfield
and DR.. Tanner and George Eliot were
all, at one time, poor boys. They had
to start at the foot OF the ladder and
toll upward. They struggled against
poverty and public opinion bravery on
till they won q name in the annals oil
history, and secured to their loved ones
palatial homes, with lightning rods and
mortgages on them. So may you, II you
will make the effort. All these things
are within your reach. Live temper
ately on 50 per month. That's the way
we got our start. Burn the midnight
oil if necessary, Get some true, noble
minded young lady OF your acquaintance
to assist you. Tell her OF your troubles
and she will tell you what to do. She
will gladly advise YOU. Then you can
marry her, and she will advise you some
more. After that she will lay aside her
work any time to advise you. You
needn't be out Of advice at all unless
you want to. She, too, will tell you
when YOU have made a mistake. She
will come to you frankly and acknowl.
edge that you have made jackass OF
Yourself. AS she gets more acquainted
with you, she will be more candid with
you, and, in her unstudied, girlish way,
she will point out your errors, and
gradually convince you, with an old
chairleg and other arguments, that you
were wrong. and after she had choked
you little while, your past life will
come up before you like panorama,
and you will tell her so, and she will let
you up again. Life is indeed mighty
struggle. 1t is business. We can't all
be editors, and lounge around all the
time, and wear good clothes, and have
our names in the papers, and draw
princely salary. Some one must do the
work and drudgery of life, or it won't be
done. Bill Me-.