Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

health, yet there 10 nothing Of which people
are 80 careless and so prodigal. constantly vio-
lating in the most reckless manner the plainest,
simplest laws of life.
As to myself. I came Of a strong stock NV
ancestors. all Of them, paternal and maternal
rs far back as know anything of them, were
farmers and Quakers, leading a frugal, indus
trious, active. temperate life, the blood of not
even one of them poisoned by strong drink
The Friends, from the origin of the denomi-
nation, were careful to avoid the universal
habit Of their time-the use of alcoholic liquors,
This abstinence, together with that other rule
of life of theirs-to keep themselves ''unspotted
from the world"-no doubt had much to do
with the fact that. body Of men and women.
they were more free from disease than other
Re- saaA' NUMBERS and attained to longer
Ihave led an active life from early youth.
always sbstaining as matter Of health and
Christian duty from strong drink and tobacco;
always avoiding any article Of food from
which / had once experienced any trouble;
always careful not to eat too much as many
people when hungry are liable to do, without
thought Many years ago / suspected that
coffee did not agree with me. Though fond of
II i took no more. have never had
reason to think tea in any way in
furious and / take that, one cup
Of it morning, noon and night Generally an
early riser, in summer o'clock, in winter $50,
with two hours before breakfast FOR mornip 2
papers and books; rarely keeping late hours,
never engaged in any form Of dissipation. In
early life an athlete and good swimmer, but
never indulging in these exercises to excess:
never but once to such an extent as to occasion
abnormal action Of the heart
Never suffering from anticipated evil; re-
membering that sufficient unto the day are the
evils thereof, that people suffer a great deal
more from misfortunes that never come than
from those which actually befall them. Trust
in God is not only Christian duty but it tenSs
TO temper the ills of life and makes even the
sharpest of them easier to bear. The thought
comes to such q man: Who knows bat this Il
bess2 And so he comes TO accept il as best be-
cause Of his belief that God rules and God
Knows
have been always busy in some way; have
always had some leading object in life which
Kept and Keeps me occupied in body aud mind
% that time has never been heavy upon my
hands A love OF books began with me very
early in life, so that my pocket money. even in
boyhood, almost all Of it. went in that diree-
tion, never 10 the expenditure even of a pennv
In sowing wild oats or in the payment OF har-
vest expenses, oiten very heavy, and in later
life the buying Of books was my only extray,-
gancst
ADVICE TO YOUNG Mrx
I I'm not sure that advice to young men. a..
psciAlly II unssked, will be much yalued- but
10 10 very cheap, and since you wish il. / will
say; Avoid strong drink in any form, as rigor-
eQsly o. Jews and MohAmmedans avoid pork
Never any good can possibly come from il to
any one, while il has been the direct and indi-
rect cause Of the failure in life Of millions OF
men who had no fear Of it. Avoid tobacco as A
matter very important 10 health and q clear,
sweet life. The young man does not know
that he who has the tobacco habit is
not . free man; he is like the gale v
slave chained to the bench upon which he sits
st his forced labor. Let the young man re-
member that it 10 not impossible for him who
has the tobacco habit to be at some time, per-
haps often, an insufferable nuisance to man y
persons who are 80 unfortunate as to be in his
company casually or otherwise. Let him re-
member that TO such Q man il is also impossi-
bic, always and everywhere, to be an honest,
uprlghS polished gentleman Somewhere, and
perhaps often he WILL without thought, poison
the AIR that others must breathe; which he has
NO more right 10 than to poison the water and
food which they must drink and eat, or on the
sy to take the purse from their pocket.
Ones purse Is no more his right than IL
his share OF the pure atmosphere for respira-
ton The man with the tobacco habit has the
neral ssnss 90 blunted and stupsfsd that hs