Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1875 — SURE TO WIN. [ARTICLE]

SURE TO WIN.

This busy world i 3 full «of ways and means whereby generous talent and strength are each sufficient capital to enable people to earn an honest livelihood, and by economy and industry to lay up something for the future. The young man who says he cannot find anything to do, and sits down to idle away the precious hours of his youth in constantly looking on the dark side because he was not born rich, had better come out into the sunlight of energy and firmly resolve to find work, and he will soon wonder where his eyes have been. Looking up into the clouds and wishing for capital to ' start in business before you are your own master is not the way to succeed. First, learn to serve others well, if the necessity is upon you, and then you can serve yourself well. If you are poor and too proud to own it, even to yourself, heaven help you, for you will be poor all your life. It is a miserable semblance of pride which deceives people into ignoring any unhappy condition, howeve humiliating, when by an honest examination of facts, and a realization of the case, one might work his way out of all trouble. A yong man who has no great expectation in the death of .a rich relative need not try to live without work, and expect to find life at all enjoyable. He must earn his living or be known as a dead beat, and after awhile be avoided, even by his relatives; except, perhaps, his mother; she will feed and clothe a wayward son when all others have forsaken him. Often, if she would do less to pamper her son in idleness he would work with greater energy and determination, because he would know he must depend upon himself. It takes courage and a willing heart for a young man to hewhis own way through years of poverty and hard labor, with his mind fixed on the accomplishment of some object that shall satisfy a noble, if humble ambition. To do this the back must bend to many a distasteful day’s work, and a proud spirit must fret under a load of small annoyances, not the least of which is the care for the meagre necessities which from day to day sustain life. But if with all this hard experience, a man resists the temptations, great and small, which beckon him to turn this way and that way, from his work aud from his manhood; if he saves his money instead of giving it away little by little for things injurious to the appet te, he will succeed ; and not until then will he have learned, in the true sense of the word, to be his own master.

CARPE DIEM.