EARNEST THOUGHTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3209, 11 October 1881, Page 4

EARNEST THOUGHTS.

" 811/ Ii NYE" TALKS TO YOTTNG MEN IN BKaABD TO A OABBEB. Young man, what are you living for? Have you an object dear to you as life, and without thf attainment of which you feel your life will have been a wide, shoreless waste of shadow, peopled by the spectres of dead ambitions ? You can take your choice in the great battle of life, whether you will bristle up and win a deathless name and owe almost everybody, or be satisfied with scabs and mediocrity. Many of those who now stand at the head of the nation as statesmen and logicians were once unknown, unhonored, and unsung. Now they saw the air in the halls of Congress, and their names are plas tei'prl in the temple of fame. You ran win some laurels, too, if you will h'-ncp nn nnd them when tl«ey arf> ripe ii'.icl WcSs'it nnd Pre«i'lf>nt. Gu-r field an ' Or nnncr and (ieorjre Hob were all, at. on • time. po"r boys. They had to start at th" foot of the ladder and toil upward. They struggled against poverty and public opinion, bravely on until they won a name in the annals of history, and secured to their loved ones palatial homes, with lightning rods and mortgages on them. So may you,» if you will make the effort. All these things are within your reach. Live temperately on 9dol per month. That's the way we got our start. Burn midnight oil if necessary. Get flome true, noble-minded lady of your acquaintance to assist you. Tell her of your troubles and she will gladly advise you. Then you can marry her, and she will advise you some more. After that sin will lay aside her work at any time to advise you. You needn't be out of advice at all unless you want to. She, too, will tell you when you have made a mistake. She will come to you frankly and acknowledge that you have made a jackass of yourself. As she gets more acquainted with you she will be more candid with you, and in her unstudied girlish way, she will point out your errors, and gradually convince you, with an old chair leg and other arguments, that you were wrong, and your past life will come up before you like a panorama, and you will tell her so, and she will let you up again. Life is indeed a mighty struggle. It is business. Wβ can'b all be editors and lounge around all the time, and wear good clothes, and bare our names in the papers, and draw a princely salary. Some one must do the work ana drudgery of life, or ifc won't be done, —Detroit-Eree Presf.