The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-07-18

There is nothing for nothing in this
world, and he WHO would acquire
knowledge must dig and delve for it.
Money cannot buy it nor can friends
leave it to YOU as legacy.
When we contemplate the inrolling
waves ofthe ocean lashing themselves
! into foam against the rock bound shore
or the wonderful Falls of Niagara
and other great rivers, we are apt to
be led to exclaim, What waste of
forcc and we begin TO wonder and
question in our minds whether much
of this wasted energy throughout the
world will not some day and in some
way be harnessed and made to pro-
duce the motive power, the heat, and
the light that in our day is evolved
by the combustion of coal and other
fuels. 1t is estimated that the steam
motive power throughout the world
al the present time is over 1873, 0O0,-
000 actual horsepower or l,000,-
| coo, 900 meu power. Now, when all
this hard work has been lifted from
| the shoulders of working men, there
must be time for something else.
Does it ever strike you, young
| gentlemen, what wonderful mis-
| direction, waste and dlsuse of men
tai energy there is constantly going
on in the world? The hills AID val
leys Of California were just as rich
in gold thousands of years ago As
they have been found to be in the
early part Of the present century,
but it was latent there, the mines
were not worked and the gold was
not forthcoming. And there are
thousands Of young men in the world
to-day to whom God has given
brains Of the right sort in no stint,
but many of them for want of self
culture and application pass through
life with their latent brain power un-
developed, unapplied, locked up, or,
what is worse, misdirected and
squandered on tiitles light as air, the
outcome Of which can neither he the
honor of God, the good of their fell
lowmen, nor the slightest benefit to
themselves in the present life or in
the life to come when time shall be
no more.
So then, it is not the lack of brains
that retards the progress of men or
the world, it is the lack of self-cul
ture. Dig for knowledge and you
will find that which will be to you of
more value. than GOLD or diamonds.
The poet says:
Full many Il gem of purest ray s.
The dark uniathomed caves of ocean
bear,
Full many flower is born to blush
unseen
And wdstl Is sweetness on the desert
air"
Drag yourselves out Of yourselves,
young men. Whatever latent gems
there may be in The recessts Of your
brain, tail not with his epmatlon,
by seii-cuIlure aud persistent appl-
cation, to dig out and polish to the
brightest luslre. You will thereby
honor God, bless men and wonder
fully increase your own happiness.
Most healthy young men who are
of any use TO this world have but
limited share Of leisure time, and
therefore care must be exercised in
the expanding of 1t. Suppose
young man works at his Legitimate
calling for nine hours day, he
sleeps seven. takes three hours for
his meals. Do not hurry in eating,
young gentlemen; eat properly and
you will do many other things pro-
perry. He takes two hours for re-
creation or amusement and he has
still three hours left for study and
reading for six days in the week and
one whole day in seven for worship,
reelection and rest, God-given
change in the program of liie's du-
ties calculated to be alike beneficial
to soul and body.
Many young men spend much
more Of their time and mental en-
er4y playing cards and other games
than they can afford TO do without
doing themselves and the world an
injustice. Nay, | have known young
men aud women to become SO infatu-
ated that they would deny themselves
time to eat and sleep in order to have
more time for games. Just think
what a crop of philosophers, poets,
historians and inventors the world
would soon have if all this mental
energy or even part of it could he
properly directed and applied. l do
not wish to he understood as con-
demnlng social or intellectual games,
for | TO not think that they are
either wrong in themselves or alto
gelber useless, but as the little
Scotch Girl who had gone out to en-
joy her porridge and milk on the
lawn said to beautiful snake that
came to picnic with her, l would also
say to these games that intrude and
monopoiise the leisure hours of young
men: keep your own side of your
dish, spotty." While l am willing
to admit the unquestonable claim of
games upon the leisure time and
mental funds of young men; that
"all work and no play makes Jack
dull hoy and that "a little folly
now and then is relished by the
wisest men, stoutly maintain that
there is a time and place for every