Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-27

consinued success In any thing, or lasting
respect from anybody. Every one Is found
out sooner or later, and much sooner than
he supposes. Indeed, your true character
issure to be known, and sure to be Justly
appreciated.
self about popularity. Do right, the best
you can, deserve respect and you will be
certain TO have IL.
IL you SEQ fellow student who Is always
manly, honorable, brave and just and who
devotes himself to the duties before him
every day, who resists temptations to
pleasures which interfere with his health,
and hence with his success, you cannot
help admiring and respecting him; and so
IL It with the mos. jaded idler at Christ
Church. Oxford has never graduated a
man who was an indolent failure at the COL
lego who ever became an iminent success
afterward, and she never will.
Attend to the duties ard obey the laws
OF the university. Itsometimcs enters the
shallow heads of young mon that 1t Is ,lev.
or ana spirited TO transgrcss the rules. 1t
Is supremely silly. 1t requires neither
brains n1r courage TO break the laws, and
comes o. desire TO get cheap notoriety Y
through cowardice or vice, and the aspir.
Ing. idiot always falls In tho end. Thieves
and burglars break laws; true men keep
them; they are made for good.
The great secret of making the labors
OF university life or other life easy Is TO do
each duty every day. II you let a burden
of arrears accumulate il will discourage
you. II you have five things to do each
day, they are elslly done; but II you put
them OIL with the Idea that you can do fifty
on the tenth day you will surely fail.
Mini not what others do; they may be
able 10 waste more time Than you can af-
ford; more likely, however, they \, n fail,
Many In Christ Church do not exrect to
make any figures in the world, and hs ve no
ambition but TO pass through; and many
aiect to despise the diligent.
II you have nota determined purpose to
take stand as scholar, and to lead an
earnest, manly life after you leave Oxford,
then leave 1t now, and save me the morti-
hcation ana expense, and yourself the re-
proach and scorn which your countrymen
bostow upon wasted opportunities. Do
well, and there Is nothing in my power
VIII ch woull not do 10 advance YOU. Be
failure, through your own Incidence,
weakness and indulgence, aud though you
are my only son, / should feel that had
one too many. 'fNI
Success comes not OF spasmodic effort,
but on continued every day work. i. >
Read the kblc OF the hare and the tor
member that success, with honor, Is one of
the highest pleasures Of life. have many
Tears lest in companionship with so many
young men OF easy fortune, and no ambi-
ton beyond that OF the easy life Of an
English gentleman, you lose the sturdy
purpose which should animate you daily,
Relnember that America is not England.
No one is born 10 titled greatness or 10 any
other greatness here; he who gets it must
achieve II, and he who can not achieve it
in some form is OF small consideration. We
nave no idle class, aud trust that we may
never have. An idle life Is worthless and
unhappy life.
Never go to balls or parties in term time,
and avoid late wines and suppers at all
times; they always injure the health, and
without health life has scarce pleasure.
From his birth, Samson drank neither
wine nor strong drink, and those who are
trained for the ring initiate his example.
During our late war It was conclusiyely
proved that those who drank water only
escaped disease aud endured fatigue far
beyond the others.
II you drink wine at all, be very moder-
ate; there is much In habit; single glass
Is just as satisfactory as a dozen, II you SO
train yourself.
can not too strongly urge upon you the
Importance Of early retiring TO rest. ln-
vestigations into the causes of longevity
have shown that early sleep and early
rising nre among the chiefest reasons OF
long life, and science has revealed the fact
that the magnetic rays of the sun are
widely different in the morning from those
OF tho declining day. AS the sun goes
down, most Of the beasts and birds seek
their place OF rest; many of the flowers
and plants and trees fold their leaves; aud
oNNn ..rl,s L
sinking sun in the West, is turned TO greet
him In the morning toward the East. As
he approaches to usher in the day, all ma
ture, from bird TO flower, seems animated
with invigorated life. Then the mind OF
him who has had refreshing sleep
awakts with its best thoughts, its wisejt
plans, its largest capabilities. But this
can come only to him who has spent the
midnight hours In sleep. Sleep restores
the nervous forces of the exhausted brain,
and the best constitution will soon be shat
tered and the best mind will become un-
strung II sleep Ia neglected. 1t was Justly
called: |Fll77
Sore labor's bath,
Balm OF hprt minds, great natures second
Chief nourishsr at life's feast.
The memory Of mischief is no desirable
fame. rtI fHatlfl +
Third-That economy Is q virtue and that
extravaganza is q vice, never forget.
You never see a man Of forty who re-
greted his economy; you will see plenty
who mourn their early extravaganza. Law
ish expenditure never wins respect. It
may win temporary fatterers, who despise
the fool they flatter. Pay every debt you
owe, but Itf ].
Neither borrower nor lender be,
D.N,sln afA l.xaa l..AA. IA IA l.
Let not your vanity ever tempt you to
spend money. English young men are
awake; they laugh at the foolish Ameri-
cans who are so lavish. Remember that
your hope, your pride, your life is to be in
America. A county whose future Is Lun-
imagined and whose greatness and power
Will surpass any empire In the world. You
are to be part Of 1t; and il you do not one
day go as an ambassador from the great
est Republic that has ever been to the most
powerful and advanced kingdom in Eu-
rope you will fail In your possibilities and
of my hopes.
Dono listen to the twaddle about the
decadence Of England, she is not in decay,
but In the full vigor of robust manhood
Great nations do not commence their fall
until their morals are corrupted. AS vet.
England has sturdy moral sense, courage
and capacity for self-denial and for brave
deeds; she believes In God and truth and
justice. She has many faults and weak
nesses. She Is not moving forward with
the colossal power of this younger, bolder,
more rash and fearless America; her civil.
ization is In advance Of ours, but she has
inherited many prejudices coming down
from old centuries which retard her pro.
gress and from which we arc free.
would deprive you of no innocent pleas.
ures; that is not pleasure which Injuries the
health, jades the mind, and makes you feel
meanly and weak and unequal to the labor
which Is to lt you for manly life.
Study well whatever the college course
requires, and never say that this or that
win be Of no use. All is of use which dis
ciplines and strengthens the mind. When
training for boxer you strike the sand
bag; you would not tell the trainer that
you do not expect to fight sand bags In
your life, and hence you will not strike
them now. You lift weights to strengthen
your hands; you do dry work to strengthen
the head; and remember that you must do
IT.; no one else can do IL for you; as well
might you get some one else to strike the
sand bag or lift the weight which was to
strengthen your muscle.
Duties well done every day, and difficult
ties surmounted as they arise, grow easier
continually, and finally become lasting en-
joyments. Fg
Never play cards for money. 1t is no
pleasure to win a fellow students money,
and IL IL pain to lose your own. The habit
is always bad, and oftentimes fatal; never
acquire It. r
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