Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1875 — Be Your Own Right Hand Man. [ARTICLE]

Be Your Own Right Hand Man.

People who have been bolstered up and levered along all their lives are seldom good for anything in a crisis. When misfortunes come they look around for somebody to cling or to lean upon. If the prop is not there down they go. Once down, they are helpless as capsized turtles or unhorsed men in armor, and cannot find their feet 1 - again without assistance. Such silken fellows no more ■resemble self-made men who have fought their way to position, making difficulties their stepping-sfones, and deriving determination from defeat, than vines resemble oaks, or sputtering rush-lights the stars of heaven. Effort persisted into achievement trains a man to self-reliance, and when he has proved to the world that he can trust himself, the world will trust him. We say, therefore, that it is unwise to deprive young men of the advantages which result.'from energetic xiction by “boosting” them over obstacles which they ought to be able to surmount. / No one ever swam well who placed his whole confidence in a cork-jacket, and if, when breasting the sea of life, we cannot buoy ourselves up and try to force ourselves almad by dint of our own energies we are not worih Salvage, and it is of little consequence whether we “ sink or swim, survive or perish.” One of the best lessons a man can give to his son is this: Work—strengthen your moral and mental faculties as you would strengthen your muscles, by vigorous exertion. Learn to conquer circumstances; vou are tliea independent of fortune.” The men of athletic minds who have left their marks on the eras in which they lived were trained in a rough school. They did not mount their high position by the help of leverage; they leaped into chasms, grappled with the opposing rocks, avoided the avalanche, and when the goal was reached felt that but for the toil that had strengthened them as theystrove it could never have been attained. — California Farmer. At an auction of household goods on Harrison avenue yesterday, when a woman had made a bid on an old bureau worth about $2, a boy slipped around to another woman and whispered: “ You see that woman over there with a blue bow on?” “ Yes.” ” Well, she says that no woman with a red nose can buy anything at this sale!” The woman with a red nose pushed her way into the crowd, qnd ran the price of the bureau up to sl2, and, as it was knocked down to her, she remarked: “ I may have a red nose, but no cross-eved woman with a blue bow on can bluff the V'—Detroit Free Press., - • A wag of a gourmand who had made himself ill by feasting on fish said he embodied the trio of the fiery furnace, thus—-shad-rack, me-sick, and abed-we-go.