Mohave County miner., 1889-01-05
HINTS FOR BOYS.
REMEMBER YOU HAVE BuT ONE
CHANCE IN LIFE.

aa8e tHe moSt OF your oppOrtunttr-Ane
Need Of Self Knowledge smother Out
Eyii Hsbits with Those Of the opposits
Kind--sen Control.
What boys need Is ten hints IN the art Of
living. Mistakes made early la life go on
with us, either TO be fought with through
valuable years or else to wreck cur chances
You want, or need TO want, first Of oil, TO
SEQ clearly that you have but one chance In
life 10 make the most Of yoursalf--only once
that you can 20 over the ground; and you
must be sure and positive as to what you nro
doing. Then IL will never hurt any boy to
stop and 300 how very few do have fair
sort Of life; and then consider why 30 large
q proportion OF human beings have petty,
low, or even brutal plane 20 live on
The next thing that ! am quite surc a
young chap needs is 70 get good glimpse Of
himself. This is not the hardest task In tho
world, although some make the accomplish
meat very difficult. A good deal Of self
knowledge can be obtained by quiet con-
siheratlon aud moderate estimate Cf vhnt We
like to do, 20 be, astd with whogn yre like 10
associate And enc who realty wishes can
find out hi5 special dangers, and his special
advantages snd powers. He caH know IL he
Is liable 10 hasty outbrcaks Of temper, or 70
Eensuality; or is naturally reyengeful, or
icalc or cnyious Can any one tell us why
person shall not 30 t. work upon himself
as he would at anything else; TO change and
modify, and eradicate the evil aud increase
the goodP There is no property more directly
oEr own than ourselves; gnd ii Ia every hour
reshnpad by our wills But tho best plan
does not seem 10 lie to try To kin out OWL in
our dispositions, but To give cultivation to
the good. Tho evil wiz get siuothered out
Farmers have n way u going through
thsr corn oncc with hoe To cut of weeds.
But when tho corn is well up and strong they
only 60 throngii to stir the SOL and hill up
tho stalks. Taey say tho corn Itself will kill
the weeds. IL depends oa whica gets the
best start. IL you give your weeds tho Lest
chance they viii como out head in tho CHAR.
Icter. Bat ii yol give good willing the bet
ter start very shortly it will oyershadow evil,
and yen VIII have little trouble I have
known people, young and old, work oa the
Other plan, spending great deal Of time In
reEnorse and repentance. All which is nom
sense and time wasted. They only grow
weaker willed and punier in character. No
ono gets hard job done by regrctting that
ae has done something else, So take my ad-
Yico IN this matter aud simply go TO work
aud keep 10 work, cuitivating fine things II
evil habits are formed, don't fight them, but
another them with the opposite. To tell you
sko ruth, what set mo to writing this article
wax q very daieful letter from reader, who
is rli0erably eating up his time and bis force
on remorse Plan something noble, my boy!
Coz at something useful, and always be cheer
fGi about it. The Greeks had name for
hoaorablo men, that is men Of the right sort;
they called them upward lockers" The
finest thing one can be is to be an upward
locker.
Unless one has self control, or control of
self, OF course some ono else has control Of
hira- It is quito study, and a study well
worth tho while, 10 find out who really Is In
control Of us. 1t Is not impossible that, when
you think 1t well over, You will see that 1t Is
a very contemplate lout who is ruling you.
A boy said 70 me not long ago: 81 have made
up my mind that IL cannot rule myself
shall never amount TO anything" To be
sure, lad, you will not amount to anything
unless tho one who rules you is very noble
person, and il he Is that, he will only aim to
teach you TO control yourself There is
something very grand about "A well man
such property in the world.
think very few boys ever have any idea
how much they arc good for. The result Ii
they aim for something quite too cheap and
small What world this would be II all the
millions born into the world each year should
do their best. The worst of all ideas is q bad
or Insignificant notion Of life-a cheap notion.
Ii you get good ideal Of life to aim at you
have at least right purpose. Does this
sound too much like preachingi II it does,
some preaching is just what we all need.
Like u preacher, now make another point.
IL ought 10 be very strongly emphasized; I;
that is, learn to like good company. II
were sure you had been brought up just
right, would put it this way, "Never learn
to like bad company" / do not at all mean
to se.k always TO be with pious people--peo-
pie Of high strung goodness-and generally
Of the goody goodness sort. ! do not know
Clore damaging people than those who are
all the time worried about their neighbors.
There Is, however, law of nature that we
become like those with whom we associate.
1t is fixed law, and sometimes seems great
pity, because weak witted persons find it SO
IiElcult to get away from strong leaders. /
an quito sure / have seen one boy lead
twenty of his mates, and almost take control
Of them. SO far as l can judge, about ono
person in twenty is born leader; the rest
are naturally followers If you have an
ambition TO lead, and are high spirited, take
care not TO be selfish, but to be generous in
leading. II you arc naturally led, then Of
course you must bc careful who leads you.
Some people are made up as boys make
SHOW man--cach boy puts Oh handful of
STOW. 80 have seen person mado up Of
bits OF everybody about him; notion from
Tom Jones, prejudice frola another, a be-
lief from another, habit from another
and, all in Gil, queer hodge podgo.-M
Maurice, ". D., in Globe-De,nocrat.
Time IL Worth Money.