The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

lE1Gu A4O OLOSS pAA@ON3A
world and planted it at last in the
Capital, the most profound of theo-
logians and the bravest of mission
ries, was all his public life an inva-
lid and a martyr of inourable disease.
EXERCISE FOR THE STRONG.
If your body is strong and full of
blood, see that you make it a ser
want, as you would ride q mettle,
some horse. Exercise it freely, lest
il become your master and prove a
curse rather than a blessing. The
church and the gymnasium should
stand side by eide, for the flesh has
often been subdued, not by texts,
but by dumb bells, and the devil cast
out, not at a prayer meeting, but on
the cross-hars. But if your body be
weak, train it the more carefully,
and use it the more wisely, and be en-
Outraged with the thought that a
lofty house may stand securely on
a slender foundation if that founda.
ton happens to be an iron gridler.
Then a young fellow who wishes
to deserve she name of man must
make the most Of himself practically,
and / mean he must be prepared to
carve his way and shape his career
without privilege or favor. The
strong nan is willing to stand on his
own merit and asks nothing Of %.
ciety but an opportunity. He does
not want to creep up a back stair,
but presents himself boldly at the
front door. "Give me-" he cries,
ga level chance with other men, and
let the best man win"
PREPARING FOR LIFE WORK.
Of course we have all to be
equipped at the beginning of life
within the shelter of some harbor
and made ready for the voyage. We
ought, therefore, to be grateful for
a good father, for a heightened
schoolmaster, for the spirit Of a no.
BILE university, for the oversight and
advice and correction of an able
chief, either in our Office or
profession. They build the hull and
rig the sails and store the vessel.
Our vessel may also have to be
tugged out to sea where there is
wind to fill the sails and d free sea-
board. We ought to be grateful to
the friend who gives US q start in
life by his name or by his council,
and we ought never TO forget that
friend or his family after him,
Those are advantages we all need /;
those are favors none need be
ashamed to receive, because they do
not reflect on anyone's manhood.
FIGHTING ONE S OWN BATTLES.
But there comes a time when the
vessel must begin her own voyage,
and then every man worth the name
will thank his friends tor all that
they have done, and declare him
self ready to start on his own &C
count. There is a small percentage
of young men who would prefer to
lie all their days in harbor, on to be
lowed the whole voyage, but if a
ship cannot put her nose outside the
bay she had better be broken up, |
and if she has to be tOwed from |
Liverpool to San Francisco then there |
is no reason for her existence. IF
after proper training and a fair trial,
a young man cannot stand alone
and earn his living, he falls from
the ranks Of manhood, and the wieest
thing that can be done for him is to
him a small annuity to be
paid weekly. Every man should be
determined to count in life by him
self, and should make people know
that he has his own claim upon the
respecs of the world.
A MISFORTUNE TO THE YOUNG
MAN.
Occasionally a young fellow is
tempted to wish that he had a rich
father. But they are not to be en-
We'd who are born with q silver
spoon in their mouths. Riches are
a great trust by means of which a
man a do inoaloulable good they
may also be an entangling snare by
which his manhood will be ruined.
When q minister comes into a for
tune, he usually develops sore throat
and when a doctor becomes rich he is
apt to be more concerned about sport
than about his patients. It is not
the sors of wealthy men who make
the best clerks and whom active |