Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Maxims for a Young Man. [ARTICLE]

Maxims for a Young Man.

Never be idle. If year hands cannot be usefully employed attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Keep good company or none, Hake few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets if you have any. When you apeak to t person look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Good character is above all things else. Never listen to idle or loose conversation. Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your oyn acta If any one speaks evil of you jet your life be so virtuous that none will believe him. i Drink po intoxicating liquors. j Ever live, misfortunes excepted, within your ineome* When you retire to bed thjpk over what yon have dpne during th« day. ' i 1 •• 7 , rr-~ - £v .. •

Neyer speak lightly of religion. Make no baste to be rioh if yoa would prosper. Never play at any kind of game. Never run in debt unless you see a way to get oat again. Never borrow it you can possibly avoid it. Be just before yon are generous. Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy. Save when yon are.young, to spend when yon are old. • Never think that which yon do tor religion is time or money misspent. Read some portioni of the Bible ' every day.