Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1881 — Don’t Whine. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Whine.

Don’t be whiniug about not having a fair chance. Throw a sensible man out of the window, he’ll light on his feel and ask the nearest way to work. The more you have to begin with, the less you will have at the end. Money you earn yourself is much brighter and sweeter than any you get out of dead men’s bags. A scant breakfast in the morning of life w hets the Appetite for a feast later in the day. He who has tasted the sour apple will have the more relish for,a sweet one. Your present wants will make future prosperity all the sweeter. Eighteen pence has set up many a peddler in business, and he has turned tt over until he has kept his carriage. As for the place you are cast in, don’t find fault with that; you need not be a horse because you were born in a stable. If a bull tossed a man of metal sky-high, he would drop down in a good place. A hard-working young man, with his wits about him. will make money while others do nothing but lose it.

Who love* his work and knows to spare, May Uve and Sourish anywhere. As to a little trouble who expects to find cherries without stones, or roses without thorns? Who would- win must learn to bear. Idleness lies in bed sick of the mulligrubs, where industry finds health and wealth. The dog in the kennel barks at fleas; the hunting dog does not even know that they are there. Laziness waits till the river is dry. and never gets to market. “Try.” swims it and makes all the trade. “Can’t-do-it” wouldn’t eat the breed cut for him, ut “Try” made meat out ofmushroo ms.—John Ploughman’s Talks.