Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-05-29
GRIN AND BEAR IT.
Bob Burdottc Gives Some OF His Good
Advice to u Young Man.

My son, your brow is ciouded; some
thing has happened that didn't and
doesn't agree with you. We're you
neglected in tho invitations? Didn't
you get on any of the committees?
Werc you overlooked in the conven-
ticn? HASN'T tho secretary written
you u personal letter asking your i'd
vice upon tho campaiguF Have you
been coldly passed over for men Of less
ability? DO you feel that an intention
al slight has been put upon you? Can
you see clearly that every thing is
going wrong because you havo not
been consulted? Have you been di-
rectly snubbed by inferior people?
thought Ii much. At your time Of
life such things are very Liable to oc-
cur They used to happen with me now
and then. You will grow wiser as you
gov older, unless You take tho other
caute; then you will grow moro fool
ish, and there is only one cure for an
old fool, my boy-that is, death. Or
binary death won't euro him, eithe"
''Though thou shouldast bray him in
mortar among wheat with u pcstlc
"
from him" See how awfully dead he
has to Eo killed. Smashing him only
makes him worse.
But now, if amy or all of these Sights
have been put upon you, listen to me,
my tender Tclcmachus. Don't show
your sores. Oh. don't show your sores.
They arc not pleasant things to look
at, nobody wants to see them and they
will heal much more rapidly and nat
ur&lly and beautifully, if you don't
expose them. Keep them covered.
Don't show them to any body but your
surgeon, und don't show them to him
unless you have to. And, don't look
at them yourself. Leave them alone
under the healing plasters of time and
the cool congresses of forgctfulness,
and you IL be surprised some day when
you do happen to think of them, to
find that they have healed by the first
intention without a scar. Don't tell
people when you are hurt; don't tell
every body how kecnly you feel
a slight when, perhaps, there
was no slight intended. Don't
get yourself snubbed by people
who never SEQ you, and who
don't know you and never think
OF you. And if you really are hit,
and hit hard, it beliCie your manhood
and it drives away human sympathy
when you lift up your voice and howl
on the streets. Keep quiet about it.
. Don't whine; don't yell. Ono day, at
the investment of Vicksburg-it was
on the memorable 22d of May-duripg
u lu.l in the desultory sllirmishing
that preceded the assault, while l was
lying close to the surface of the great
round globe which wo inhabit. anG
wishing could get n little closer to it,
we heard tremendous bowling and
shrieking, and down tho dusty road
from the front came a uc.jacketcd
skirmisher on the trot, holding
hand up in the other, and the hand he
WAS holding up had no thumb on il.
1t hurt like the mischief, have no
doubt, but 1t was only thumb after all.
and how the fellow was howiing about
1t. He was brave man or he wouldn't
havo been where no could have lost
that thumb. Butyou wou d think it was
the only thumb in the whole United
States army and that no one else on
the skirmish line had been hit that
morning. So tho soldiers saw only
the funny side of the picture, and
perfect chorus of howls, in vociferous
imitation OF the mans own walls,
went shriebing up from tho sarcastic
line of tho men who VIC waiting
their turn to face death. In u minute
another soldier came walking back
from the skirmish limo. He was walk
ing slowly and steadily, never moan
fell from his compressed lips, though
they were whittier than his bronzed
face, and he hold his hand against his
breast, Tho sileuce Of tho death
chamber fell upon tho line in an in
slant, Us the figure of the soldier
moved along thu road with tho Dir o.
n conqueror. Half q dozen mon sprang
TO his side. Tonderly they laid him
a. L., Il.