The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-27

emoyed all there was of the bad to

emoved all there was Of the bad to
make room for the good. So, too,
would we build for manhood.
Could we but live our life over again,
starting from boyhood, how many an
error-how many mistakes would we
try to avoid. Men and boys make
mistakes. We wonder they do not COM
NIT more. Many spot in the road OF
life would be avoided. We should try
to be more brave-more earnest in the
defense Of the right, and to protect the
weak. There is not boy but can do
better than we have done. There is
not a man but who can, by beginning
at once, build himself up to glorious
position.
First, clear out from the heart all the
dirty rubbish. Leave off the slang,
the vulgarity, the words which blackcn
and soil the mind till it throws out
malaria, and fever, and poison, as DO
pools OF StaSnant water.
Keep the heart pure and the brain
active. Study for the best, and When
YOU have found it, work and study for
something still better. Never be salts
fed with one good act--nor hundred
nor !; thousand. But add them to-
gether, one after the other, till at last
YOU will have string Of pearls to lift
you higher, instead Of pebbles to sink
YOU lower. Hearts, like houses, can
be built out. Minds, like homes, can be
beautifed. 1t is as easy to plant
a noble ambition as to plant sordld
desires and all those trees which
bear but bitter fruit. Remember that
it is little by little, inch by inch, but
steadily upward. This is the way the
work of the man becomes the man-
sion. This is the way the poor
boy becomes the great man. This
is the way the apprentice becomes
the master-the pupil becomes the
master, and the intelligence of mortals
the power and unknown greatness Of
those who are immortal. Build your
walls of good material and they will
last. Keep out the rotten sticks and
that rubbish which has been thrown
away by those who have passed along
before you. Be kind to the poor, for
every good act is a plant that will bear
blossoms to our credit in the beautiful
beyond.
By the hearth and Tenders Of many
homes in the country tonight are rest
ing boys, who in few years will be
the smartest men in the land. They
will be the workers builders
the ones who will be greatand pow
erful in proportion as they take care
of themselves. Then let all the boys
who read this, clear away the rubbish
and begin building for the glorious
manhood of the future. That better
future when it will not be sin for man
to have ideas or to express them. That
future which will be better when men
make it 50. That future which is bet
ter open to the poor than to the rich,
as work is better than play when men
are to be made.
If ell the boys in the country would
build themselves into men in the most
glorious acceptation of the term, what
country ours would be! Then there
would be no more prisons, or need for
them. No poor-houses, for bad habits
would not make paupers. No poverty,
for all would je thrifty. No armies of
orphans; no multitudes of drunkards
who make wives miserable, children
wretched, and mankind disgrace to
humanity. We want every boy IN the
land to become rich, good, useful
man, and will do our best to help
them along on the road that leads to
peace, to prosperity, and to the man
sion there will be for every brave,
truthful, deserving man in that more
beautiful land where are the Gardens
Of the Leal in the new life and the bet
ter home for al. of Us who would be
remembered for the good we have done
before there comes to US on earth the
final Saturday Night.