Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — Bill Nye’s Advice to Young Men. [ARTICLE]

Bill Nye’s Advice to Young Men.

Young man, what are you living for ? Have you an object dear to you as life, and without the attainment of which you feel that your life will have been a wide, shoreiesß -Waste of shadow, peopled by the specters of dead ambitions ? You can take your choice in the great battle of life, whether you will bristle up and win a deathless name and owe almost everybody, or be satisfied with scabs and mediocrity. Many of those who now stand at the head of the nation as statesmen and logicians were on e unknown, unhonorfifl and unsung. Now they saw the air in the halls of Congress, and their names are plastered on the temple of fame. You can win some laurels, too, if you will brace up fttid Secure thbmwhen they are ripe. Daniel Webster and President Garfield and Dr. Tanner and George Eliot were all, at one time, poor boys. Thev had to start at the foot of the ladder and toil upward. They struggled against -poverty and public opinion bravely on till they won a name in the annals of history, and secured to their loved fines palatial homes, with light ning rods and mortgages on them. B.' may you, if. you will make the effort. All these things ard within your reach. Live temperately on $9 per month. That’s the way we got our start. Burn the midnight oil if necessary. Get some true, noble-minded young lady of your acquaintance to assist you. Tell her of ■your troubles and she will tell you what to do. She will gladly advise you. Then you can marry her, and she will advise you some more. After that she will lay aside het Work any time to advise you. You needn’t be out of advice at all unless you want to. She, too, will tell you when you have made a mistake. She will come to you frankly aud acknowledge that you have made a jackass of yourself. As she gets more acquainted -with you she will be more candid with you, and, in her Unstudied, girlish way, she will point out your errors, and gradually convince you, with an old chair-leg aud. other arguments, that you were wrong, and your past life will come up before you like a panorama, and you will tell her so, and she will let you up again. Life is indeed a mighty struggle. It is business. We cau’t all be editors, and lounge around all the time and wear good clothes and have our names in the papers and draw a princely salary. Some one must do the work and drudgery of life or it won’t be done.