The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-10-08

Courier Journal.

=. "u' cnc iililv-llan or the Aurora
NeNs, Is publishing q series of article tn
ms three year old son. Here are some Of
them: VI
My boy, don't try to he like everybody
else. IT will not win. Some peonlc NAV
IKE 10 have their vanity ticklcd by being
eoplcd, Dnf they never really respect the
When you are in Rome. do as Won
p.ease. Never mind what the Romans do,
IL yon find you can not live in Rome and I've
.rae 10 your own nature, quit Rome. Not
Sp'telully, as II yOu expected Rome to fol-
low you weeping after and beg your re-
turn, for then you will he disappointed at
tue utter carelessness Of your departure she
Will ev'nce. But get up quitely and move
Oh to more cOngenial atmosphere.
"DOntagree with everybody. Have on.
mons Of your own, and don't he afraid to
express them. Ii you think they are right.
cins TO them after everybody else has de.
serted them and until yon have reasonable
proof that they are wrong. Then don't be
afraid to drop them. Never mind what
people may say about you. II Won have
strong convictions half the world will cali
you blgot; it you have no convictions
everybody will call you rol,o.ly. See to
1t only that they are not warranted. Heed
nothing but the testimony, and hang or
acquit on that alone.
There will be times in your life when.
standing out alone for a PRINCIPAL that
you think is right, you feel lonesome. That
Is an evidence Of weakness. Fight it of.
II you are right you will not long Ike alone
Hammer away with your arguments. Ar
peal to the reason o your hearers: or. If
you can get no hearers, keep appealing to
your own reason. But don't desert vour
principal because all Others do. A block
Of wood may drift with the tide. but some
thing better is required to push against
the current.
Don't live on the pleasure of your
ne'ghbors. 1t is an unwholesOme diet. 1t
means that You are doing only what they
want you to; they applaud only that which
~ IN their own minds. Live rather 40 that
when you! get ready to give up breathing,
you rest in the consoling thought that you
nave done what you believe to BIZ right.
my boy, don't try to pass for what you
are not. Remember the fable of the Jack
ass in the lions skin. Your ears and your
bray are very certain to Ike recognized.
"Wllen asked for information on a mat.
ter Of which you have none; say SO. Don't
presume on the questioncr's ignorance. He
may Ike asketling you to expose yours.
There are just such people in the world.
1T 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 between this
planet and the sun, while what you do
know rattles around with to spare in your
own little head.
"A man once blew out the gas in city
hotel rather thar confess to the landlord
that he was from the country where they
burn candles. But the landlord knew him
all the time, and for that reason did not
exact pay in advance. Had the country
man lived until morning, the landlord
would have proposition to trade his no.
tel for his farm.
"Yeu seq, my hoy, when you are trying
to I've something yOu are not, you never
know where you are. Ifyou knew the in
"s"C 1He VI cscsy "H8s WffoM you envy,
perhaps you would not trade places with
him for u single day. 1t was sagacious
old king who said, be- would give his do
main for the shirt Of contented man he
had no shirt and wanted no domain. The
king probably thought of this.
$50 my boy, when you lcok enviously
on the man who fills the place to which
your ambition would carry you, remember
he may be regarding yon in the same light.
II you are wood-sawyer and he an au-
thor, he will he pretty likely to think
wOOd.sawiDg is easier than writing book.
II yOn arr poor and he rich, he will think
Of the cares which Cypress him aud from
which you are free.
"When you shall have learned that you
are as well off as anybodyelse you will be
cOntented to assume nothing beyond what
belongs to your nature; and when Won
have reached that point you will begin to
initiate only yourself. That is the origin.
atty that this world likes"
The long drOuth that we have had here