Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25

skeptics wish to talk to you about it, don't
argue; arguments on these subjects never
do any good, you might as well argue that
you loved your mother. Practice what I
suggest, and you will know from conscious
experience that what 1 tell you is true, and
you will be mad much happier and Sc
rener day by day, and far more pros
porous in this world. When in the family
of Rev. Henry Seymour, at Holme Pierre
pont, you saw how cheerful and serenely
happy they all were Under the influence of
q religious life.
Second-That truth, unfaltering integ-
rlty, justice and honor are never to be de.
parted from under any circumstances.
Lies come from meauness, low vanity,
cowardice, and of a depraved nature, ard
they always fail of their object and bring
the liar into contempt. Without strict in
tegrity, justice and honor, no one can have
continued success in anything, or lasting
respect from anybody. Every one is found
out sooner or later, and much sooner than
he supposes. Indeed, YOU true character
is sure to be known, and sure to be justly
appreciated.
l pray you my son, never trouble your
self about popularity. Do right, the best
you can, deserve respect, Il you will be
certain to have it.
If you see a 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
is it with the most jaded idler at Christ
Church. Oxford has never graduated a
man who was an INDECENT failure at the COL
lege who ever became an iminent success
afterward, and she never will.
Attend to the duties and obey thel laws
of the university. 1t sometimes enters the
swallow heads OF young men that it is clev-
er and spirited to transgress the rules. 1t
is supremacy silly. 1t requires neither
comes of a desire to get cheap notoriety
through cowardice or vice, and the aspir-
ing idiot always fails in the 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., If you let a burden
you. Ii you have five things to do each
day, they are easily done; but if you put
them OH with the idea that you can do fifty
on the tenth day you will surely fail.
Mind not what others do; they may be
able to waste more time than you can af-
ford; more likely, however, they will fail.
Many in Christ Church do not expect to
make any figures in the world, and have no
ambition but to pass through; and many
affect to despise the diligent.
If you have not determined purpose to
take a stand as a scholar, and to lead an
earnest, manly life after you leave Oxford,
then leave it now, and save me the morti-
%tication and expense, and yourself the re-
proach and scorn which your countrymen
bestow upon wasted opportunities. Do
well, and there is nothing in my power
which would not do to advance you. Be
q failure, through your own Incidence,
weakness and indulgence, and though you
arc INV 0n1v cnr1 T cll,1I gDo1 %L.< Id
one too many.
Success comes not of s~pasmodic effort,
but on continued everyday work.
Read the fable of the hare and the tor
tolse and profit by its teachings, and re-
member that success, with honor, is one of
the highest pleasures of life. Ihave many
fears 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.
Remember that America is not England.
No one is born to titled greatness or to any
other greatness here; he who gets it must
achieve it, and he who can not achieve it
in some form is of small consideration. We
have no idle class, and [ trust that we may
never have. An idle life is q worthless and
unhappy life. =.
Never go to balls or parties in term time,
and avoid late wines and suppers at all
iiSo oASy IVA IuJuIe UuG ucdlUu, anu
without health life has scarce a pleasure.
From his birth, Samson drank neither
win nor strong drink. and those who are
trained for the ring initiate his example.
During our late war it was conclusively
proved that those who drank water only
escaped dlsease n endured fatigue far
beyond the others.
Ii you drink wine at all, be very moder-
ate; there is much in habit; a single glass
is just as satisfactory as a dozen, if you so
train yourself.
l can not too strongly urge upon you the
Importance of early retiring to rest. In
designations into the causes of longevity
nave shown that early sleep and early
rising are among the chiefest reasons Of
long life, and science has revealed the fact
that the magnetic a of the sun are
widely different in the morning from those
of the declining day. AS the sun goes
down, most of the beasts and birds seek
and plants and trees fold their leaves; and
the s%unt1ower, which looks toward the
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
turee, from bird to flower, seems animated
him who has had refreshing sleep
awakes with it's best thoughts, its wisest
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.
md the best constitution will soon be shat
tered and the best mind will become un-
strung if sleep is neglected. 1t was Justly
called: ~
Sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great natures second
course.
Chief pourisher at life's feast.
The memory Of mischief is no desirable
fame.
Third-That economy is a virtue and that
extravaganza is a vice, never forget.
You never see a man of forty who re-
GREETED his economy; you will see plenty
who mourn their early extravaganza. Law
ish expenditure never wins respect. 1t
may viii temporary fatterers, who despise
the fool they t1atter. Pay every debt you
owe, but
Neither a borrower nor q lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
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 I'M
imagined and whose greatness and power
will surpass any empire in the world. You
are to be part of it; and if you do not one
day go as an ambassador from the great
est Republic that has ever been to the most
powerful n advanced kingdom in Eu-
rope you will fail in your possibilities and
of my hopes.
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