Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-03
DAILY RECORD junior
Young Man, Brace Up.

MALL OPs
A lazy man is too contemplate to live,
and has no rights his fellow-men are bound
to respect. Young man, you may as well
understand, first as last, that you have got
to work for all you get in this world. You
may not always get what you earn, but if
you would keep out of the poorhouse and
have competency in your old age you
will have to work for it. To be sure, there
is great difference in men. Some are en-
dowed with greater intellectual powers
than Others, while some are greater phys
ically. Some men are born low down in
the social scale of intellectualism, but
mark You well the physique of such man.
There is a way provided, however, for
every man to better himself. You won't
find it in the gin mill, neither is it to be
found at the gaming table. Remember one
thing, and that is, you have not the capac-
ity to take into yourself all the strong
drink made IN the world, and you had
better let the contract out before you at
tempt to work on it. Don't bet all you
have on bob-tail flush, or before you know
it the other man will either raise you out
OF come in on a straight flush. Nine hun
dred and ninety young men out of thou
sand, who started with an idea of becom-
ing suddenly rich by betting on a 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 a
pool check or him than he was before you
put up your money. Such certainties are
uncertainties, and never give up certainty
for an uncertainty. Don't fool with the
tiger; you can't always tell which way the
beast Will Jump.
When a Young man sits down in idle
ness, with the idea the world owes him a
living, it's high time his body was COM
mitted to the dust from whence it came
As for his soul, nothing will ever be
known of it.
A record Of the young men who have
been unfortunate enough to have fortune
left them shows that eight in ten never
amount to single atom in the world and
seven out Of the eight die bankrupts tnan-
cially, morally and otherwise
When father brings up his son in idle
ness, never teaching him the first principle
Of economy OF the value of dollar, he
commits a terrible blunder. The father
guilty of such crime generally has to saw
VOID for a living in his old age. Nine out
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
beneath the stream of life, and on whose
sharp and ragged edges thousands of lives
have been wrecked and ruined. Money
bags may, ike bladders, keep you above
the waters OF distress for time, but pune
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you sink.
Young man, you have undoubtedly
meant to dc well. No young man ever
goes astray Intentionally, but in some idle
thoughtless moment he graduates from
soda water and lemonade to something
stronger, and before he is fairly aware of it
he has not only lost caste, but has a whole
menagerie on his hands and is employing
a doctor to help dispose of his immense
elephants and snakes that laughingly cud-
die in his boots. Yes, the world presents
too many temptations for the minds of all
to withstand and the only safe way for Il
young man Is to keep away from the
temptation. If you see a man at the wheel
of fortune VIII ten times running by bet
ting on the red, you just keep your hands
out of your pocket and see him lose all he
has made Al the next turn of the wheel
and on the very color or number you knew
would win.
Boys, the recklessness of youth is what
has caused 50 many mothers hair to turn
rs white as the driven snow. It's this that
has caused SO many fathers and mothers to
give up by the wayside and be laid in pre-
mature graves. The follies of our youth
hang heavier upon the hearts of our IA
theirs and mothers than the milestone that
grinds the kernel into the finest -four It's
pity that some of our young men of to-
day didn't fall between the millstones be-
fore they had caused the trouble they
have Exchange.