Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1881 — EARNEST THOUGHT'S. [ARTICLE]

EARNEST THOUGHT'S.

“Bill Nye” Talk to Yena* Mea in Regard . > tea Career. Young man, what are you living for ? Hare you an object dear to you as life, and without an attainment of which you feel that your life will have been a wide, shoreless waste of shadow peopled by the spectres of dead ambitions T You can take your choice in the great battle of life, whether you win 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 once unknown, unhonored and unsuiitg. 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 and secure them when they are ripe. Daniel Webster and President Garfield and Dr. Tanner and George Elliot were all, at one time, poor boys. They had to start at the foot of the ladder and toil upward. They struggled against poverty and public opinion bravely on until they woo amame in the anna's of history, aud secured to their loved ones palatial homes, with lightning rods and mortgages on them. So may you if you will make the effort. All these things are within yonr reach. Live temper ately on $9 per month. That’s the way we got our start. Burn the midnight oil if neoesary. Get some true, noble-minded young lady ot yotfr 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 her work afiy 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 wili come to you frankly and 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 er; ore, and gradually convince you, with an old chairleg and 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 can’t all be editors, and lounge around all the time, and wear good clothes, and hare our names in the newspapers, and draw a princely salary. Some one must do the work and drudgery ol|fe,or it won’t be done.