The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-25

pleasures aud tolls and EOllleS OF youth.
Save some of it. Save 4 great deal of it.
la tho expressive dialect of Arkansaw,
save up right smart heap of it, and
YOU can use it right peart and still have
Il right considerable left for your old age.
But save il principally from your dissipa-
tons. my boy. Save it by going to bed
at ten, rather than by sitting up TO drink
beer until half-past one. Too much
sleep is injurious, it is true, but then
fifteen hours sleep viii! harm you less
Than six hours OF wine supper. Go slow
on these things, my boy, and at sixty you
will have ten years of forty-tive left in
Drawn and blood and brain.
But don't be so saving of your youth
Fui strength that you will have all of it
left at sixty Because you won't. You
may save Il, but it won't be there. 1t
will waste by disusc. just now is the
tifne when you must work the hardest,
bat as told you a little while ago, hard
work won't hurt you.
Improve your time, my boy. Put in
every minute in honest hard work, or
tranquil meditation. or healthful recrea-
ton That is all | ask you to do. O,
''you believe you'll select meditation as
a profession" then, do you? 1t strikes
you that tits easy work to sit and think
ehF Now. my boy. if you want some
thing easy. you had much better stand
and chop wood 1t isn't easy to think.
We don't think half so much rs we want
to make people believe we do. In fact,
we don't think nearly so much as we
ibiak we do.
BUSY thought and aimless idleness are
often very similar in external appear
ance, Edison, sitting before his tireless
Jorge, with his hands folded listlesSly in
his hap. looking at nothing, may be APP
parcnAy as idle, even idler, than the
man pcrchcd on the end of cottonwood
log. Watching his cork bob lazily in the
yellow water OF sluggish creek. But
she results are in one instance the tele-
phoac and the electric light, and in the
otl,ec the ague and soft-mOuthed
sucker and a catfish four inches long,
The one dreams out marvellous inven-
tious that thrill the world with wonder
and multiply commercial activity, and
gives tbom to the eager, waiting world;
or ST least he sells them to Jay Gould
aud Jay Gould sells them to the world,
and The other contracts a malarial fever
aud gives il to his family. II is not easy
SO think VIC waste more time than we
use. and the hours slip away so noise
Icss!y and easily, we don't know where
they have gone.
thavc sometimes thought, Telemachus,
If q man could only have always present
with him some constant reminder of the
fight of time; if he could have in his
room q great hour glass, laden with just
The equal and exact sands of his life, if
he could every day watch the steadily
dropping grains, and knew that when
they all ran through the last grain would
just complete his grave; if when he
closed his eyes he knew that all night
long the priceless grains ran through;
il in t1,e silent hours of darkness when
he awoke, he could hear them dropping,
steadily as the drip, drip, drip of a
water clock; if when he came in from a
Journey ne could see how much of the
sands of his life had run out while he
iourneycd for pleasure or profit; if,
sometimes, he could stand before il
and watch the swift grains running away
witt, his life; and he could feel that al
way and Away, night and day, sleeping
or waking, fasting or feasting, working
or resting, wherever he went or what
ever he did, no faster, no slower, stead.
lily. pitilessly. the sands run through,
and a1way every hour the life heap above
fell away and the grave below piled up
aud ip; if he could realize that nc
thought or care, or skill or learning
could make them run more slowly by
and by, or add one light grain to the
measure melted out and sealed agains
his ifeby the memorable fates, | wonder
how many of the dropping grains HI
would turn to gold by the alchemy o
his industrye
Pshaw, my son, if you had such
glass the novelty of such q thing woult
wear away in thirty days. Some night
when you came in late from folsom
game of ''draw" so to speak, or
walking match around billiard table
or some popular nightmare known as
brilliant spectacular drama, you woul,
look at your warning hour-glass an
say: "By George, ii seems to me san,
Is getting distressingly scarce in the up
per story. Jc-Too-salem! How thest
boots do hurt my feet I'd like to xii
the man that made 'em.N And yo
would be sound asleep in twenty min
utes. Reminders? Why the world i
full of reminders that our lives are slip
ping away. Every time you hear tn
clock strike ten, il is to remind you tina
you may never hear it strike eleven
When the Egyptians of olden tim
had the CHASTITY skeleton carried
in AZ their feasts, did ID cast
gloom over the community ? Not
shadow. Itmade them merrier. ''Se
what are you coming to- they shouted
and ale and drank like poor relation a
his annual dinner party, to which he
invited to dill up. Fill up the party
mean.
You see, my boy, you cant afford {
waste time just now This is your work
ing time. Itmay not seem fair, know
that the world should Judge you, an
youryouth and ineXpericnce by the higl
est STANDARD OF human success and at
S%inmcnts, but it does, and we can
change The way of the world. Your
now do everything your, best. and kee
on your company behavior all the tim,
Is this the man with only one suit {
clothes and small salary, Telemachu
who at ali times must I've polite an
agreeable and faultess observer of a