The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-05-24


well. Stay well. Read John Todd
Manual and Coombs' "Physiology,
and everything you lay your hands OF
about mastication, and digestion, ant
assimilation. Where you find ont
healty man or woman you find fifty
half dead. From my own experience,
can testify that, being q disciple
of the gymnasium, and many 9
time just before going to the par
allel bars, and punching bags, and
pullies and weights, thought Satar
was about taking possession of society
and the church and the world, but
after one hour of climbing and lifting
and pulling, / felt like Fastening
home, so as to be there when the
millennium set in. Take good, stout
run every day. / find in that habit,
which have kept up since at eighteen
years read the aforesaid Todd's
Manual" more recuperation than in
anything else. Those six men of Ohio
will need all possible nerve, and all
possible eyesight, and all possible mus
cular development before they get
through the terrific struggle Of this
life.
Word the next: Take care Of your
intellect. Here comes the food Of nov
elites, ninety-nine out Of a hundred
belittling to everyone that opens
them. Here comes depraved news
paper, submerging good and elevated
American journalism. Here comes
whole perdition Of printed abomina-
tion, dumped on the breakfast table,
and tea table, and parlor table. Take
at least one good newspaper. with able
editorial and reporters columns most
ly occupied with helpful intelligence,
announcing marriages and deaths and
reformatory and religious assem-
blages, and charities bestowed, and the
doings of good people, and giving
but little place to nasty divorce cases,
and stories of crime, which, like CO.
bras, sting those that touch them. Oh,
for more newspapers that put virtue
in what is called great primer type and
vice in nonpereil or agate! You have
all seen the photographers negative.
He took picture from it ten or twenty
years ago. You ask him now for a
picture from that same negative. He
opens the great chest containing the
black negative of 1885, or 1875, and he
reproduces the picture. Young men,
your memory is made up of the
negatives of an immortal photo
graphy. All that you see or
,oo, GOO, into .yo,,r oo,,1 70 ynoLo
pictures for the future. You will have
with you till the Judgment day the
negatives of all the bad pictures you
have ever looked at, and of all the de-
oauched scenes you have read about. |
Show me the newspapers you take and
,he books you read, and l will tell you
what are your prospects fo- well-being
n this life, and what will be your
'esidence one million years after the
star on which we now live shall have
dropped out of the constellation. /
lever travel on Sunday unless it be a
,ase of necessity or mercy. But
asst autumn 1 was in India in
city plague-struck. By the hun
Ireds the people were down with
earful illness. We went to the
pothecary's to get some preventive of
he fever, and the place was crowded
With invalids, and he had no conf
ence in the preventive we purchased
rom the Hindoos. The mail train was
o start Sabbath evening. I said:
Frank, think the Lord will excuse
s if we get out of this place with the
rst train" and we took it, not feeling
ute comfortable till we were hun
reds of miles away. / felt we were
light in flying from the plaRue-the
lague of corrupt and damnable litera-
ure. Get away from it as soon as pos
ible. 1t has already ruined the bodies,
Kinds and souls of multitude which,
stood in solid column, would reach
rom New York Battery to Golden
orn. The plague! The plagued.
Word the next: Do not rate your
elf too high. Better rate yourself too
DIV. If you rate yourself too low, the
yorld will say: Come up" If you
ate yourself too high, the world will
ay: "Come down" 1t is bad thing
then a man gets so exaggerated an
lea of himself :as did earl of Buchan,
those speech Ballantyne, the .Edin-
urg printer, could not set up for pub
cation because he had not enough
apital rs among his type. Remember
hat the world got along without you
ear six thousand years before you
7ere born, and unless some meteor
ollides with us. or some internal ex-
losion occurs. the world will probably
asst several thousand years after you
re dead.
Word the next: Fill yourself with
of men who did gloriously
q the business, or occupation, or pro-