Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — Don’t Lose a Minute. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Lose a Minute.

Keep busy. Tbe mitn who lias nothing to do ia the most miserable of beings. If you li&vc no regular work, do chores us farmers do when it rains too hard to work in tho Hell. In occupation we forget our troubles, and get a respite from sorrow. The man whoso mind and hands are busy finds no time to weep and wail. If work ii slack, spend Hie lime in reading. No man ever knew too much. The hardest students iu tho world nre the old men who know the most. If you lock books, there are free or very cheap libraries, at least in the cities, at your command. The man who does not acquire some item of useful information between day-break and bedtime must mournfully say, with the Roman Emperor, “I have lost one day."—Exchange.