Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-04-03

ulu II
There are friends and friends in this
world, young man, and it behooves
you to select with care those whom
you are to make your intimates and
those whom you are to merely con-
slider in a friendly light. 1t
is no easy matter for you to do this.
You will certainly meet with disap-
pointment in your selections, but it is
far better to have made the cndeavor,
as by it you will gain valuable expert
ence. Young man, there are people
in this world. who knowingy your weak
ness for some pleasure or some failing
in appetite, will cater to that failing
and weakness simply to have your
company, being as you certainly are
when such is the case, so far above
them intellectually and morally that
your company gives to them IN AIR Of
responsibility which they could not,
under other circumstances, possess;
yet while it does this for them it
lowers you. You will not perceive il
at first, but continuance in their So
cicty will have its effect on the COM
munity at large, and, before you are
fairly aware of it. you will find your
prestige gone and your influential
friends hesitating to give you that sup
port which speeds Il young man on to
success in life You cannot expect to
20 into good society or hold an honor
able position in business if You are in
the habit of asSociating with those who
frequent low dance houses, gambling
rooms, and othcrplaccs of questionable
reputation. You cannot expect to
hold the confidence and esteem Of
your employer, if you associate with
those who make Il practice Of visiting
such places as mentioned above. You
will also find, when you have fallen,
that those whose company you used to
seek and with whom You used to Join
in their questionable pleasures, will be
the very first to desert YOU in your
trouble, They are fair-wcathcr
friends. You can tell them easily
enough by their conversation. They
never have Il positive opinion and
while they never neglect to talk about
apcrson who is absent, yet when they
meet that person they are cordial and
fricndly-in fact, they are too much
so.
Young man, you have gained the
friendship of one who is positive in
his opinions; who will go out Of his
way to give you u boost; who is ever
ready to assist you by word, deed or
in financial way; who dcSpiScs the
society of the low, though polite to
those beneath his moral or intellectual
dignity; who makes few intimate
friends and but one confidential friend
and that you, YOU have found Il true
friend, and one on whom You can de
pend in time Of trouble even better. if
that could be, than when prosperity
smiles upon you. \ genuine, true
sincere friend is one who "wccpS with
you when You weep and laughs with
you when you laugh You are 4 part
of his very being and an injury done to
YOU is felt to be an injury to himself
There is no halfway business with him
1t is the whole or nothing. He will
not hesitate to tell you your failings in
Il frank straightforward manner and
will thank you for doing the same by
him. This kind Of a friend is rare and
if You have such stick to him.
Young man, just sit down and look
over the list of your so-callcd friends.
How many actually fill the require
mcntS of . true friend as described
above? Have you one on the list? If
you have, stick to him even if it is
necessary to discard all the others.
They must be satisfied with u polite
treatment and should never be con-
sidcrCd more than passing ac-
quaintanccs. 1t may be hard to do
this in some eases, but it is for your
own interest and success in life that
you do it, for if by their association You
are not made the better it would be
nothing more or less than suicide to
your future. There are friends and
friends. Friends by poltencss, - fair
weather friends and true friends
friends who are a help to you and who
strive with You to final success. --PGck'S
Sun.