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

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out sooner or later, and much sooner than
he suppoSes. Indeed, your true character
is sure TO be known, and sure to be justly
appreciated.
pray You, my son, never trouble your
self about popularity. Do right, the best
you can, deserve respect, and you will be
certain to have it.
II 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 1t with the most jaded idler at Christ
church. Oxford has never graduated O
man who was an indolent failure at the col
lege who ever became an iminent success
a~tterward, and she never will
Attend to the duties and obey the laws
of the university. 1t sometimes enters the
shallow heads of young men that it is cley-
er and spirited to transgress the rules. 1t
Is supremacy silly. 1t requires neither
brains nor courage to break the laws, and
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
of arrears accumulate it will discourage
you. If you have five things to do each
day, they are easily done; but if You put
them off 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 al
ford; NOR. likely, however, they will fail.
Many in Christ Church do not expect to
make any ti2ures in the world, and have no
ambition but to pass through; and many
affect to despise the diligent.
If you have not a determined purpose to
take a stand as a scholar, and to lead an
earnest, manly life after YOU leave Oxford,
then leave ii now, and save me the mOrti-
hcatlon and expense, and yourself the re-
proach aud 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
a failure, through your own Incidence,
weakness and indulgence, and though YOU
are my only son | should feel that | had
one too many.
Success comes not of spasmOdic effort,
but on continued everyday work.
Read the fable of the hare and the tor
tpise and profit by its teachings, and re-
member that success, with honor, is one of
the HIGHEST pleasures of lite. | haye 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 t. any
other greatness here: he VINO gets it must
achieve it, and he who can not achieve it
in some form IS Of small consideration. We
have no idle class. aud | trust that we may
never have, An idle life is a worthless and
unhupuy life,
Never go to balls or parties in Term time,
and avoid late wines and suppers at all
times: they ALWAYS iniure the health, and
without health life has scarce Il pleasure.
From his birth. Samson drank neither
wine nor strony drink, and those who are
trained for the ring initiate his example.
During our late war il was conclusivplv
prrvnd that those who drank water ONLY
escaped disease aud endured fatigue far
hry0Id the others.
If Won drink wine at all, he very moder.
ate: there Is much IN habit; a single glass
is lust as satisfactory as a dozen, if YOU so
train Yourself.
can mt ton STRONGLY urye unon Won the
imuortanre of early retiring to rest, In
yr,ti,atjous into the causes of longevity
havn shown that early slepp and parly
rising ar. among the rbiefpSt reasons of
I,n-s life. and science has revealed the fact
that the mapnrtjc rays nf the SIM ora
widely different in the moruinr from those
of the drcIiuiny day. Az the sun rnas
down. mu,t Of the Leasts md birds Seek
their plarp Of rest. w9uy Of thp nnvers
and plants and trees fold their leaves; and
the sIIufIOwpr. 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
turA, from bird t. flower. seems animated
with iuvig0rateI life. Then the mind of
HIM who has had refreshing sleep
awak's with its best thoughts, its wisest
plans. It's largest capabilities. But tins
ran come only to him who has spent The
midnight hours in sleep. Sleep restores
the nervous forces of the exhausted brain,
and the hest constitution will soon be shat
tered and the hest mind will become un-
strung if sleep is neglected. 1t was justly
called:
So,o 1ono,,s hath
nllrp af buij minis, urrul natures second
course
chief nuuri>her al llfr's feast.
The memory of mischief is no desirable
fame.
TnIrl-That economy is n virtue and That
extravaganza lisa vice, never forget.
You never see IA man of FORTY who re-
ret d mis- economy; YOU will see plenty
who mourn their carly ex~travagance. Lay
jsh ~eyD4niiture never wins rnspert. II
NAV win temporary tia,terers. who despise
the fool they ~tatter. Paw every debt Won
owe. but
Ne ther borrower nor a lender he
For loan OF loses bothitsrIf ana friend.
Iot mot vour vanity eyer tamnt Won tn
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awake. inv lnurh ot the fonlish Ameri.
cans who are so lavish. Remember that
your hone, your pride, your life is to be in
America, 4 county who's. future is nm.
imagined and whose greatness and power
will survass any empire in the world, You
are to be part Of it.; and if you do not one
dav 20 rs m ambassador from the great
est Repuhlic that has ever been to the most
poweriul and advanced kingdom in Eu-
rope YOU will fail in your possibilities and
of nv hopes.