The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-01-23
READ 4 BOOK.

/ hook As a happy means OF
banishing anxious thoughts
about something, you know not
what? Well, if you have not
tried it, the sooner you do so
the sooner you viii find a RENE
dy for many of the imaginary
evils that beset your way.
How often have you tried
reading a book to cure that feel |
ing of loneliness? Sometimes |
the boy or the young man feels,
at q time when such yiatifica-
tion is not convenient, that he
needs some association with 9th
ers.
Have a book to read. This
will cure your loneliness. When
you are reading a good book you
are in the very best Of company.
and you are listening to the very
best of language and you are
making the wise thoughts OF
the author Yonr own thoughts,
and, to a degree, you are mould
irg your intellect after the fash
ion of his.
81 have no time to read a
book says the young man or
young woman.
What a delusion! You have
more time than anythin else.
Let's see about it.
How much money have you
None at all, you say. How much
landed property have yon to
look after? Very little, you
say. How much bank stock
have you to claim your atten-
ton? l hardly know what that
is, you say. What great busi'
ness are you experimenting ifat
claims your attention night and
day? | only have to look aftel
my own daily labors, you say
What dazzling reputation OF
craving fame have you 10 nurse
and watch over closely? l an
not known far away from IN!
own door-sill, you say, Yer.
we'll. So you see with a grea
number of the young especial
ly time is about the sam tota
of all POSSESSIONS.
Now we venture another ques
, tion, though quite a delicat
one. How much knowledg
: have you? I know SO little, 20
say, that I am sometimes asham
ed to 20 into intelligent society
y The writer would not put thj
e question and answer it thus di
0 he not feel the very embarras'
: ment here described.
The other questions. Ho'
. much travelling do you expet
i to do i'll your life? Where d
you expect to 20? may neve
r be able to go beyond the boun'
l. ry of my own State, you say.
o You say you have no none
= = no land, no bank stock, no gre'
~ business to look after, no fam
70 or reputation to nurse, no gre
d store Of knowledge, no hope
travel to gain knowledge.
4 Now for the last questio
How much time have you?
q had not thought Of that, "
n say. Suppose we calculate
a. little. Every day has twent
r. four hours. The most sleep
headed needs only eight hou
in the twenty-four to sleep, Ia
o this writer is compelled to ha
rs his.O That leaves sixteen hor
r, for work and other thin,
e, Twelve hours a day is mo
or tran the average man worl
That leaves four hours for
creation. Suppose you just wa:
two of these honrs as you
now, perhaps. Then after slet
yn ing eight hours, working twel
doing nothing at all for t
~ hours, you have two long ho'
. of sixty minutes each and eve
re day for reading. Take Sund
for rest and worship, and
,r- other six days in the week g
ru you two hours each for read
of making twelve hours a we
ed There are fifty-two weeks l
at year, and that gives you
elk hundred and twenty-fonr no
nv in the year spare time for re
lin ing. :.
me- But there has been no Ii
no. given, y u say, i'll this calc'
asst ton for pleasure. Wei, we
ese take off one hundred and tw
do ty-four hours of the extra t:
AN and alloting half as many d
nd for pleasure, it will excuse
i'd from your reading sixty
ed DAYS in the gear and leave
are lust even five hundred hours
so reading.
tho Well, now, the duilest bo.
ar Young man can surely read
clip pages an hour. Then By fol
de- ing this plan, at the end OF
ing year you will have read
the thousand and five hun
the pages! Think of it! On
sem much time you have!
der And it is the cbservatlo
ari- most wise men that those
III. read books are not all their
,ich destitute of money, lands,
end stock, fame and reputation
e to certainly not destitute OF K
eous edge. Think this over. he