The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1885-09-12

with a face wrinkled all over with grim
ming delight.
The courteous can express pleasure and
welcome with idiotic contortions, aud when
these appear, whether in the son of a duke
or a drayman, they are intensely vulgar.
You cannot have good manners in the
drawing room If your babitual manners
are bad; the habit will betray you; let the
habit be always good.
Far better that you look frigid even, than
that you degrade your c~ountenance with
silly hilarity.
Be a gentleman, feel like u gentleman,
and you will look and act like N
Sometimes you will be neglected, and
you vanity may feel wounded. Never let
this annoy you: be absolutely sure that in
due time all will come right, and that you
will have all the consideration which you
merit. No one can do you any permanent
injury but yourself. The world is so con-
stituted that it is not III mems power to
withhold respect from lofty character, real
ability and good conduct.
You mag te invited t3 d ball OF d dinner
because you dance or tell n good story; but
no one since the time of Queen Elizabeth
has been made a Cabinet Minister or a Lord
Chancellor Tor such reasons,
The years of youth are short, and the
pleasures of youth perish in manly life.
Reputation, power and the consideration
which cone of ability, attachments and
good character are what the man from
thirty to seventy covets. Nothing but the
well-spent years of early life can secure
these.
| would keep you from no enjoyments
suited to your age which are not injurious
to your real happiness and future success.
You have health and a good constitution,
aud you have no inherited tendencies to
any vice. It is easy for you to do right,
and it will be objectionable If you go
astray.
rejoice to find that profanity is consid-
cred vulgar in England. During the two
years that | resided in England never
heard a profane word from a gentleman,
Among the young men, slang seemed to be
abundant. Hope that it does not prevail
at the University.
Remember that when you are twenty
five you will desire what others value at
that age, and so at every stage of life. l
mean what the higher order of men value.
Live each year in the way which will
best fit you for the next year, and thus
you will lead a happy life; a life which
will secure to you the happier life to come.
You start with every advantage, but tor.
get not that yours are advantages suited
to America, not suited to England. NO
one has superior rank or higher social po-
sition thar you in America. In England
their ancient system of prim0geniture and
title gives precedence and outward re-
Spect, in a large degree, irrespective OF
merit. 1t is not so with us, and | am very
glad. Quarrel not at all with their sys-
they seem to like it. But never
covet it, and never commit the silly snOb-
berry of pretending to prefer it to the sys-
TEN of your own cOlntry.
The social life of England is very charm
ing, and their plan of leaving all land to
the eldest son has built up vast estates,
adorned and dignitied with castles and
halls filed with art and luxury and refined
taste; tut all this is at the sacrifice of
human rights which We value.
Nothing like this is possible in America,
and it will not always last in England.
The suhstratum of the English character
IS solid. honest. truthful, and, in the main,
just. Our best traits are a heritage from
race; but feel quite sure that, with
al our faults, W. are rapidly improving
our English slres. and that we may
)ec0me quite the superior people as a
whole.
Feel always a manly pride that you are
III American, and hat your future is here.
There is not in all historic time, q
grander record than hat Of the United
Before the nation was a hundred
ears old civil war broke out, and the
North alone had at one time more than a
million of armed men in the field, and the
South had vast armies also. After four
ears of terrihl" war, more than l,2oO,OOO
We're dishanded almost in a day.
rIn,r p,trr,,al h tln n o1f,l ri . ri rf
'ivil life without a murmur. without dis
order and without crime. Under our sys-
of government they had learned to
govern themselves. Even in the madness
If the conflict, when the President was as
,assinated, the Government moved on
without even a ripple of disturbance. More
han three thousand million Of debt was
'reated, and the paper money was in such
liscredit that one gold dollar would buy
lwo dollars and seventy cents Of the paper.
50 soon as the war ended we went
Oravely to work, paid OFF one-third Of our
debt, and now a paper dollar will buy
gold dollar i'll any part of the country,
and our national credit is of the highest
grade. Wehave finished more than seventy
five thousand miles of railway, revived
our industries, increased in population, and
our prosperity is such that our annual in
rome is greater thar that of any nation on
the earth.
! have a letter from the Dean to-day. in
which ne says: "Iour sons Improvement
really astouislIel nlt.n Continue to
a~stOnish the Dean and delight me-.
This shows that you have the ability, and
that there will be no excuse and no pardon
if you are not faithful in the future. From
time to time | shall near from the Dean,
and also from your tutor, and they will tell
ma all and only the truth. They will re-
veal our shortcomings, if vOu have them,
as well as your merits. You accept too
many invitations from your fellow STU
This will weaken your energies and
prevent your success; besides, you will be-
come a bore, which avoid as you would ''the
plague" Short visits do not bore.
When we last met, you did not carry
yourself erect. You seemed TO think that
YOU were awkwardly tall, and you tried to
look shorter; this is a mistake; you are
nineteen years old and scarce more than
feet high; that is not too tall: but if
you grow to any height, carry yourself
erect.
When you have done the duties of the
day, and don them well, take your pleas
ures, which will be all the more keen; and
when you have well finished the Iabors of
the term, you will enjoy the vacation a
thousand times the more by reason of your
successful toll.
! do not need, in this letter, to repeat the
warnings against those petty vices, temp
tations and follies of which | have so often
| will print this because ] wish you to
read it more than once.
God bless and keep and guide my boy.
Your ever devoted FATHER.
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