The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-07-24

This is a subject that every young man should
give great deal of thought and attention. II
ne viii bear in mind that some of the greatest
men OF the world have risen from poor, hard
working boys, and then place his mark high and
to reach it. he Is as certain TO rise In life
a balloon is to rise in the air. But he must noe
expect to become q great man by some marvellous
act that he means to perform. He must begin at
nrst 70 form q good character, BY keeping away
from bad company. BY stunning the gambling
table and the wine cup, by holding his tongue.
and by being complete master of himself in every
sense of the word. He must flrst make gentle
man before he can make anything else OF himseif:
But great many young men nowadays do not
seem to know what it taxes to make gentleman
They seem to think that il they can wear fine
SUIT os clothes Eatch and cham, and two sn OF
combed 50 slick fly can't light ON IL. and their
mustache BACKED, cut twenty unnecessary figures
are the gentlemen Who are to carry the dag. But
they are very badly mlstaHe Their tne clothes
may do we'll enough, provided they have sense
the brain and know how. to use it, their fne
clothes are OF more harm than good TO them. To
be gentleman d0es not depend upon the tailor
but not q gentleman. A mans actions will soon
prove to the world what he il. caro- not where
he may 60, il he il true gentleman he will not
Vii ins rsas HIM such L = an easy matter os
every boy to become gentleman II ne will only
try. When be has proven 10 the world that he Is
it is an easy matter for him to find help in max
ing himself q useful and honorable member Of
society. Then, il be will apply himself to his
money for fine clothes and other foohshnass,
spend it in acquiring an education, he will not
only become . man Who rs an honor to his coun<
try but . great helper to Il. But thsre are some
VINO will say, this all we'll enough to talk about
but when they come to try it ninety-nine out Of
hundred viii fail Let me tell you that y the
he does not care whether he makes ans thing or
not. But, you may ask. how do you know fou
are nothing but boy yourself Ell; : linus y vsy
greatest American statesmen were poor haru
working boys. who made themselves what thoy
raised Abraham, Lincoln from poor hack-wocds
boy to the highest Office in the United States
What raised Patrick Henry from a poor hard
heard among he worIds most famous orstorsS
This same ambitious energetic, self -helping dis
position that We are now speaking about. ltnot
viii viii raise every other young man who will Try
and try Alright. Ambition Is what we want and
need. There arc q great mnily young men who
and happy future, but they lack the ambition
and seif-control that they most assn rettly must
have in order to rse to 9 high position IN iife.
hearteued, and the consequence u they gave ny
in despair, saying: That Is my luck. might
have known 1t before started" Let me Say
right here that there is no such thing as luck,
aud the young man who lays his failures to luck
will continue to fail. But whenever you hear
young man say, well, it was my bad .nalase! :.
Taught me q lesson; l will know better how TO
act next time," you may depepd on his MAKING
a man Of himself Nov, some OF you may think
thing as luck; but If you will show me one ln-
stance IN which q mans failure resulted IRON
bad luck, will show you dozen =. IN which, ;,,
resulted from something else; and, II you wiii
show me one instance in which his success re-
suited from good luck, M it IL called will show
you a dozen IN which i resulted from good man-
Yk,rc H. .uUn lTn ne
dustry and self-controL we must know nov 10
manage as to place our brain and money Where
they will work together Tor our a mot ss
at too many things at once: ! remember q cu,
constance which happened last winter that will
serve Tor an 81 ah's wrs waitnx
quietly along down the hank OF creek. when a
very large flock Of ducks few up right ahead Of
u.s. L quick as lightning, threw mp my
gun and fired at the whole flock, while
my companion very quietly aimed at one
single duck, and the consequence was he
killed his duck and missed the whole
flock. Thus it is with two young men
starting in life. One aims at a whole lot
OF things and misses them all, while the
other aims at one certain thing and sue
ceeds in accomplishing it. Then when
he has accomplished his first aim he can
begin on something else, and by this
means become master OF q great many
things. / have already said young man
must have the ambition before lac can
make anything. II he has this, and will
learn to control himself and manage well,
he will continue to press onward IN his
happy and prosperous course regardless
of those who may point the finger OF
scorn at him. Step by step he viii ascend :
the ladder OF fame. until he isas reached
his desired position, and then ne can look
back upon the road be has Travelled and
say, many were the temptations offered
to check me in my course, but thanks be
10 the Advise Father who armed me with
SO much self-cmtrol that ! was enabled
to overcome them III. And when his
closing hours draw nigh he can say, 40
did one Of old, 81 have served my cou1-
try faithfully, 4 now e - seek hettor
world beyoasd tie azores of tine