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Tacts and Tancies for the Tireside MISTAKES OF YOUNG MEN. We read a short time ago of a young man who had by influential friends been placed in a position of 'trust and honor, where he could have in a short time with proper appli cation to his duty in looking after the interest of his employer been able to command a fine salary and placed himself in the front ranks as a young man of the town, but he was one of that kind of beings who think the world owes them a living without work, and the consequence is that today he is a deadbeat, a loafer around town, no one respects him, he has no prestige, no influence for good with whom he associates. Will his life be a success? Will the world be made better by his having lived in it? Will he ever receive with the consent of the peo ple a high position? Will he when his last milepost is past, be satisfied with the life he has lived? Young man, don’t be a shirk, don’t be afraid to put forth your best ef forts for fear they will not be ap preciated. The world has its eye upon you. Live a life that will be a success. Be a helper to your coun try and let your life be an honor to your name. —Wills Point Chronicle. This world owes no man an easy living, no matter what the individ ual may think in that direction, and the young man who starts out in life with the intention of making his way through the exercise of his wits invariably winds up with a criminal career. When our old friend and forbear Adam transgressed God’s natural laws, according to the reports that have come down to us of his con nection with the garden of Eden, he carried with him in his retirement from this ancient elysium an injunc tion that he and his posterity must hereafter eke out an existence by the sweat of their brow, and honest men have been sweating from that day to this. Honest labor is honorable, and the living that is insured by honest toil is the best that is vouchsafed to mankind. Machinery that is not in operation soon rusts out and goes into decay, and it is the same way with the human mechanism. The man who works and gives honest value for what he receives is of val ue to the community in which he re sides, no matter how humble is his avocation. The man who honestly earns what comes his way is the best type of our citizenship and the main bulwark of this nation. There is a nobility in honest la bor, but it seems to be lost in the case of many of our young men. They prefer anything and all things to the vocation that calls for much physical exertion, and that fact ac counts for the army of grafters and fakirs now preying upon the body politic from one end of the country to the other. But virtue has its reward in the end, and the man, who refuses to work for himself is generally com pelled sq worlc for ..the state. Our pe- nal bear eloquent testi mony to that fact. Thousands of young men who believe it to be beneath their dignity to perform honest la bor are finding that when it comes to making a living through the ex ercise of their wits they are but en tering the broad avenue that leads straight to the iron doors of the state penitentiary. The young men of our country cannot afford to indulge in these mistakes for they are demoralizing in their effect upon the community and upon the nation. They must get above the idea that the world owes them an easy living and real ize that they owe the world the high est form of citizenship. And good citizenship involves the giving of val ue for all things received.—Fort Worth Telegram. WHY HE WAS NOT PROMOTED. He watched the clock. He was always grumbling. He was always behindhand. He has no iron in his blood. He was willing, but unfitted. He didn’t believe in himself. He asked too many questions. He was stung by a bad book. His stock excuse was “I forgot.” He wasn’t ready for the next step. He did not put his heart in his work. He learned nothing from his mis takes. He felt that he was above his po sition. He chose his friends among his inferiors. He was content to be a second rate man. He ruined his ability by half doing things. He never dared to act on his own judgment. He did not think it worth while to learn how. He tried to make bluff take the place of hard work. He thought more of amusements than of getting on in the world. Familiarity with slipshod methods paralyzed his ideal. He thought it was clever to use coarse and profane language. He did not learn that the best part of his salary was not in his pay en velope.—lndiahorfia Union Signal. JEFFERSON’S TEN RULES. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. Never spend your money before you have made it. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. We seldom repent of having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. How much pain the evils that have never happened cost ns. Take things always by the smoolh handle. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. When angry, count ten before you speak; when very angry, count a hundred. '9 SHOULD A POOR MAN MARRY? Some young women in Indiana have organized a unique society, the purpose of which is the protection of its members against impecunious suitors and thus against poverty. Members of the organization will de mand to be convinced with respect to the financial standing of the young fellows who come a-courting them. No young fellow who cannot show $2,000 cash, or that equivalent in property, and a life insurance pol icy of equal amount, will be consid ered available as a husband for one of these progressive young women. Affinity and affection cut no figure in the society’s calculations. It is a sort of insurance concern charg ing no premium save the member’s pledge that she will observe its rule of refusing to entertain any pro posal from any young man who can not “show the goods.” At first blush that seems a rath er cold-blooded sort of proposition to put to Love, who is supposed to laugh at poverty as"well as lock smiths. But, to the minds of these Indiana maids, the time is past for young wives to live on bread and cheese and kisses, and possibly have to hustle hard themselves for the bread and cheese. While a consid erable amount of money, or prop erty, may not be essential to hap piness in marriage, a certain amount of it is absolutely necessary to liv ing. It is an ancient adage that when poverty comes in at the door love flies out of the window. This is not invariably true, but it is oft en the case, leading to a variety of most regrettable circumstances. And where love does not fly out of the window, but remains true, it fre quently occurs that the household is one of crushed spirit and suffering. A movement to prevent this sort of thing certainly deserves considera tion. But there is another viewpoint. Many entirely worthy young men reach the marriageable age lacking $2,000 capital or a life insurance policy of that amount. These young men have in them the making of good husbands, good fathers and good citizens. Shall they be denied the privilege of marriage because they cannot show a certain amount of money? A considerable number of the great men in the history of READ THIS! We will send you Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine for four months at 50c. No commis sion on this offer. Send subscriptions direct to our office. 608 TEMPLE COURT this country have married while they were poor, very poor. Their wives proved an inspiration to them, help ing and encouraging them to repeat ed and finally winning efforts. Abra ham Lincoln would have been denied the privilege of courting one of the Indiana girls to whose society we have referred above. Every commu nity in the country has its prosper ous men who married poor and whose wives helped them up the lad der. After all, it is the personal equa tion that must count. No, young man should marry until he is able to take care of a wife, and no young w T oman should marry until she is sat isfied that her would-be husband can provide for her; yet there should be, and can be, no set rule of owner ship of property fixed below which there should be no marriage. Per sonality is the main thing, after all. —Savannah News. WORK MAKES MEN. Work makes men. Luck usually fails. Pluck nearly always wins. To succeed in anything one must over come obstacles, says an exchange. Force and fibre are built by hard ships. Grit is as necessary in the making of man as gumption. Hard ships are not always handicaps. Often they are help. You will un derstand this better in twenty years. Meanwhile permit one who has lived twenty years and more to advise you in this. Hang onto your job until you are sure of a better one. De pendable boys are in demand. And no boy can be depended upon who does not finish the task he sets his hand to do. However disagreeable your work, do it thoroughly. Do it better than the average boy will do it. In that way you will come to b? known as a dependable boy. And mind you this. Men everywhere are looking for capable, honest, gritty, dependable boys. The sooner you let people know you are that kind of a boy, the sooner you will get a bet ter job. And don’t be in a hurry to give up the work you alreadv have. Be sure something better is offered. Wait awhile. Do your work well. Promotion will come. And do not envy the boy who has an easy time. You would much bet ter pity him. He has a good time now, but some day he must “make good.” With his flabby muscles and his easy habits and many wants, he stands a far poorer chance than you.—Clifton Mirror. PAGE ELEVEN