The Osceola times., 1886-04-10
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
What Burdette Had to Say 10 the
Young Wen of Boston.

Young Wen OF Boston.
Robert J. Burdette, the famous Bur.
lington Hlwkeye man, lectured at the
Young Mems Christian Association Hall.
There was a large attendance. His sub.
ject was, "Advice to Young Men,
II is more blessed, the lecturer said, to
Give than TO receive advice. The only
man ever knew who fel. that he was
too Young TO advise other peop.e was
ninety.,ieh, years old, and had just be.
gun TO learn that he didn' know any
thing. You always pay ior the best
advice. Really good advice is never
free. Did you ever ask your lawyer
question, my son? And what did the
lawyer sa!2 Fifty dollars.
If YOU want TO be somebody in this
world you must begin by being yourself.
Your great grandfather can't help you,
because he IS dead, and this is a live
world, that wants. living men. When |
hear a man talkini too much about his
anccslcrs, / cay, There is n msn who
needs them" | have known men who
were very proud of their ancestors whose
ancestors would have been most dismaly
ashamed of them. We care more for the
pedigree OF the horse We buy than for
that of the man who sells him.
After all hard work is the great secret
of success. 1t accomp!ishes more than
genius. There are white crows, but they
are DO more useful than black ones.
Hard work doesn't kill men. Fun
kills men. The good tines the boys
have lay them out. The hard workers
have no time for dissipation, 80 they
live long Mans work goes Oh forever.
but every man doesn't go ON f,rever to
do it. He doesn't do il all whiehe does
stay here.
4 Young man must do his best and
hardest work now. When you can get
$50 line for your poetry, my bov, as
/ Mr.. Tcnny son does, the N YOU can .'flord
10 write poor poetry as Mr. Tenn! son
docs. Wearing Burnside hat doesn't
give man a war record. Twenty eight
inches OF coat padded across sixteen
inches of shoulders doesn't make you
gymnast Men do not value a turkey
for its plumage. Don't 20 into debt. If
you can't get along without more than
you have. don't borrow; zeal. il would
not worry you half SO much, and if you
steal enough you can &c to Cauada and
become shining light in society.
Does it lay" you ask, ito he honcsli"
No, my son, not if you're honest for lay
it doesn't Not If you are honest merely
because you think it will pay; not il you
are honest because you are AFRAID to be
rogue, not IL you're honest because you
believe in that mean old saying that
"honesty is the best policy" Honesty
isn't policy, it's principle, and If yon
can't be honest because your soul hates
lie and dcsrises mean action; IT you
can't lie honest for the sake of the dear
white truth herself, don't try TO be hon.
est; be rascal; that's what you're in
tended for.
Get married, my son? Look me in the
eye; if you never do anything else in the
world, get married Don't be in too Zig
A hurry about il, but don be too delib-
crate. 1t is your duty. Don't think the
girls are all butterflies of fashion. II
you want to marry laundress, do your
cOurting in he !aundr, but if you want
a wife, marry the girl you love. BE
honest with the wcrld Don't sail under
false cJlors. Don't repine over your
poverty; it is good for you.
We get most of our Presidents from
Illinois tan-yards and farms and OHIO
tow paths. Don't envy any great man,
my boy. The great man, with his weight
of years and care, cnvies you every time
lie passes you by. And If YOU cau't be a
leader, double-leaded, a column long. on
the second page, you can be something
Just as useful. Gou can he a little pay
ing four-line solid DonpaIeil "ad.," on
the inside, down under picture of
Lydia Pinkham, and that Il help the
makeup, and ill its place in the paper.
!. Be any thing in the world, my boy { at
is alive and useful. Be any thing Dut a
, dead ad' Boston Herald.
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bed clothing, since the paper will pre-
vent the escape of heat about as well as
a WOODEN blanket. Troy Times.
Getting Judgment About u Horsc.
The father Of young amateur horse
doctor, who was clergyman in New
England town, had been made present
OF horse by his parish. The parson
was greatly delighted. The people had
! paid good price for the horse, and the
J old gentleman was anxious to have the
judgment of his son on the animal TAX.
ING him into the stable, he asked the
youth to look him over, which he did
carefully, shaking bis head at every ex-
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