The Red Cloud chief., 1881-07-14
Advice 10 Young Men.

Young man. what are you living for?
Have YOU an object dear 10 YOU As life,
and without the attainment Of which
You feel tina. your life will have been \
wide, shoreless wasie OF shadow pcO-
pied b. the specters of dead ambitions?
Is it your consuming ambition TO pad
die quietly but firmly up the ST. ea Of
time with many strokes against the
current of public opinion. or to linger
along the seductive banks. going in
swimming. or, careless of the future,
gathering shells and tadpoles along the
shore? Have you a distinct idea of a
certain position in life which you wish
to attain? Have you decided whether
you will be 4 great man and die in the
~poorhouse, and have a nice. comforts
bic monument after you are dead for
your destitute family 10 look at. or
will you content. yourself TO plug
along through life rs a bank president?
These, young man. are questions OF
moment. They are questions Of two
moments. They come home to our
hearts to-day with terrible earnestness.
You can take your choice in the great
battle Of life, whether you will bristle
up and win a deathless name and
almost everybody, or be satisfied with
scabs and mediOcrity. Why do you
linger and fritter away the heyday of
life when you might skirmish around
and win some laurels? MANY of those
who now stand al the head of the Ma
ton As statesmen and logicians were
once unknown. unhonored and unsung.
Now they saw the air in the halls os
Congress, and their names are plasiereG
OH the temple OF fame.
They were 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, if you
will brace up and secure them when
they are ripe. Daniel Webster and
President Garfield and DIR. 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 bravely on till they won a name
in the annals of history, and secured To
their loved one palatial homes. with
III ~louS bii' Nv '-hZCo oi tif'ii'
SO may you, if you will make the effort.
All these things are within your reach.
Live temperatcly on nine dollars q
month. That's the way We got our
start. Burn the midnight oil il neces-
sary. Get some true, undetermined
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 I'M
less YOU want TO. She, too, will tell
YOU when Won have made 4 mistake. She
will come 20 You frankly and acknowl-
edge that you have made a jackass Of
yourself. As she gets % acquainted
with you, she will be more candid with
you, and. in her unstudied, girlish way she
will point out your errors, and gradual
ly convince you, with an old chairleg
and other arguments, that you were
wrong, and after she has chOked you a
little while. your past life will come up
before you like n panorama, and you
will tell her so, and she will let You up
! again. Life is indeed a 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 a princely
salary. Some one must do the work
and drudgery of life, or it won't be
done.-BN Nyc.