The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-09-01

n lu2N man IL 100 tbut'HipIlDic W
live, and has no rights his fellow men
are bound TO respect. Young man, you
NAV us well understand. first rs last,
that YOU have got to work for all you
get in this world. You may not always
get what you earn. Is there are men IN
this world too mean and contemplate
to rive TO others what really be-
longs to them, but if YOU would keep
out of the poor house, and have n COM
potency in your old age, you will have
to work for it. To be sure there is n
great difference in men. Some are en-
dowed with greater intellectual powers
than others, while some are greater
physically. Some men are born low down
in the scale of inlelectuaiSm, but mark
YOU the physical strength OF such man.
There is way provided, however, for
every man to better himself You
won't find it in the gin mill. neither
is it to be found ut the gaming table.
Remember one thing, and that is, you
have not the capacity TO take into your
self all the strong drink made in this
world, and YOU had better let the con-
tract out before you attempt to work
on it. Don't bet all you have on bob
tail flush, or before you know it the
other man will raise You out OF the
game or come in on Il straight flush.
Nine hundred and ninety young men
out of thousand, who started in with
an idea of becoming suddenly rich by
betting on sure thing, get left, and
are worse off than when they came into
the game The bay horse is more liable
to get beat if you hold Il pool check on
your money. Such certainties are I'M
certanties. Don't fool with the tiger;
you cant most always tell which way
the beast will jump.
| When Il young man sits down IN idle
ness, with an idea that the world owes
him living, its high time his body was
committed to the dust from whence 1t
came. As for his soul nothing will
ever he known of it. 1t is so small that
it would rattle around in the shell of n
mustard seed and when it leaves his
lazy carcass, is forever lost on account
of its infinite proportions.
A record of the young men who have
been unfortunate enough to have for
tune left them shows that eight in ten
never amount to Il single atom in the
world, and seven out of eight die bank
rupts. financially morally, and otherwise
When father brings up his son in
idleness, never teaching him the first
principle of economy or the value OF n
dollar, he commits terrible blunder.
The father guilty of such a crime gener-
IL, 10 ,,nn1 fpr Twin biS
old age Nine ouf of ten of the boys
with fathers, who bring them up in idle
luxury, ere they reach the meridian OF
life are total wrecks. Wrecked on the
rocks of total depravity which lie be-
meath the stream of life and on whose
sharp and ragged edges, thousands OF
lives have been wrecked and ruined.
Money bags may, like bladders, keep
YOU above the waters of distress for a
time but puncture them, let their con-
tents escape, and you sink.
Young man you have undoubtedly
meant to do well. No young man ever
goes astray Intentionally, but in some
idle thoughtless moment he graduates
from soda water and lemonade to some
thing stronger, and before he is fairly
aware of it he has not only lost caste,
but has II whole menagerie on his hands
and is employing u doctor to help dis
pose of his immense elephants and the
snakes that laughingly cuddle in
his boots Yes, the world presents toe
many temptations for the minds of all
to withstand and the only safe way for
q young man is to keep away from temp
talon.
i Bows. the recklessneSS of youth Is
what has caused SO many mother han
i to turn as white rs the driven snow.
It's that has caused so many fathers ano
mothers to give up on the waysldc ano
be laid to rest in premature graves
The follies of our youth hang heavier
upon the hearts of our fathers anC
mothers than the milestone which grinds
the kernel into the finest of flour. 1t,
a pity some OF our young men OF to-day
didn't fall in between the millstOncS be-
fore they have caused the trouble they
have.
You never saw n man 90 to ruiz
whose mind is occupied in legitimate
work. You never saw an Industrious
frugal man, in want It's the smart
alick Young man who knows more thar
his father and mother, that generally
brings up at the end of his rope in ;
terrible cholera-morbuS state morally
5 physically, mentally and otherwise
It's the same young man who invests
his money in mining stocks and write
i from the west to his friends that he Is
r coming back and would like them t.
d meet him en- the outskirts of town will
: suit of clothes He had hat. Don
treat with contempt the advice of olde1
, and experienced men even if You don
do exactly rs they advise, but re
member you must work for all you ge
in this world. You can't be 4 dude ant