The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-13
BOB BURDErrE.


Hettves GOOD ADVICE To young Mens
II is more blessed to give than re-
ceive advice. The only man ever
knew who felt that he was too young to
advise other people was 9S years Old
and had just begun 10 .earn that he
didn't know anything. You always
pay for the best advice. Really good
advice is never free. Did you ever ask
your lawyer q question, my soas And
what did the lawyer say? Fifty doll
lars Ii you want to be somebody in
this world you must begin yourself.
Your great great grandfather can't help
you, because he is dead, ard this Is a
live world that wants living men.
When / hear q man talking too much
about his ancestors, say, There Is
man who needs them" / have known
some men who were very proud OF their
ancestors, whose ancestors would have
been most dismally ashamed CT them.
We care more Tor the pedigree OF the
hor>e we buy than that OF the man who
sells him. After all, hard work Is the
great secret OF success. IL acccmp.lshes
more than genius. There are white
crows. bat they are no more useful
than black ones Hard work dosn't
kill men. Fun kills men. The good
times" the boys have lay them out.
The hard workers have no time for dis
spation, so they live long. Mans work
goes on forever. but every MAI doesn't
go on forever to do il. De doesn't do
it al while he does stay here. 4 young
man must do his best and hardest
work now. When you can get $50 a
line for your poetry, my boy, as Mr..
Tennyson does, then YOU can afford TO
write as poor poetry as Mr.. Tennyson
does. Wearing Burnside hat doesn't
give man war record. Twenty-e.Sht
inches of coat padded across Is inches
of shoulders doesn't make you gym
mast. Men do not value turkey for
its plumage. Don't go into debt II
you't can get along without more than
you have, don't borrow; steal. Itwould
not worry you half so much, and if you
steal enough you can go TO Canada and
become a shining light in society.
"Does it pay" you ask, "to be honest?"
No, my son, not ii you're honest for
pay, il doesn't. Not if you are honest
merely because you think it will pay;
not if you are honest because you are
afraid TO be rogue; not if you are
honest because you believe IN that mean
old saying that honesty is the best
policy" Honesty isn't policy, it's a
principle, and if you can't be honest
because your soul hates lie and de-
spises mean action, if you can't be
honest for the sake of the dear, white
Truth herself, don't try to be honest;
be rascal, that's what you're intended
for.
Get married, my son? Look me in
the eye, II you never do anything else
In the world, get married Don't be
in too big hurry about it, but don't
be too deliberate. It IS your duty.
Don't think the girls all butterflies of
fashion. II you want TO marry laun-
dress, DO yo1r counting in the laundry,
but if you want wife, marry the girl
you love. Be honest with the world.
Don't sail under false co.ors. Don't
repine over your poverty; it is good for
you. We get most Of our Presidents
from Illinois tan-Yards aad farms and
Ohio towpaths. Don't envy any great
man, my boy. The great man. With
his weight of years and care eavies you
every time he passes you by. And if
you can't be leader, double-leaded, a
column long, on the second page. you
can be something just as useful. You
can be little paying four-line solid
nonpareil lad" on the inside. down I'M
der picture of Lydia Pinkham, and
that will help the makeup, and ill its
place in the paper Be anything in the
world, my boy, that is alive and useful.
Be anything but dead al