Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — Homespun Hints. [ARTICLE]

Homespun Hints.

A recent address Rev. Dr. Collyer to some college students has met with praise from the Norfolk Virginian, which says: Dr. Collyer, remarked that he had worked on a farm, carried a hod, shod horses, broke stone on a turnpike, reaped and cradeled grain, dug a well cut wood and preached sermons that nobody wanted to hear. His wonderful success had been achieved by puft grit and honest industry. You must dig down to hard pan, he said, to lay a foundation to fame and fortune. His aphorisms may be gnbuped as follows: Work is a good medicine. man's best friend are his ten fingers Society says one thing, and nature says another. Any kind of an honest job is better than no iob at/all. Take a dollar a day for your work if you can get no more. Have a reserve force that will eome out when you need it. The honest man who dies poor is rich if he only holds his own. Only those who make clean money and do clean things win success. A good day’s work at what you can best do is the hard-pan to which all must come. When country boys come to the" city jf they can only hold on to the old sweet ways, they can defy the world. - Sleep eight hours out of the twentyfour, eat three meals a day and walk on the sunny side of the way. Keep your grip on the hard-pan of principle of good conduct, and you will be men of good name and good fortune.