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A Word To Young Men

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
November
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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How often the same oíd storv is repeated, the story that wo heard in o;r childbood, and that every day we see enacted before us, with new figures and under new ciroumstances, it may be, but always with the same results. A yonng man, well born and carefully nurtured, enters upon life with every promise of a bright career. Good inUuences surround him and help him on his way; his genial nature wins many friends, and young and old speak well of him, and rejoiee in his success. He advances, step by step, to public positions of trust and honor, and he seems a favorite of fortune, But success has brought its temptations, while it has not taiight the senso of responsibility, The friends that cluster around the prosperous man make demand upon good-fellowship that cannot be disregarded. Public office, moreover, must be paid for by work for the party, which implies personal assoeiations from which a well-bred man ghould shrink. Little by little the time spent in bar-rooms and club-rooms encroaches upon the hours of labor or of rest. Wine and cards gain a predominant place in the man's life, and the useful citizen by day becomes by night the companion of rovvdies and blacklegs. Then comes the end - in crime and disgrace, it may be, or in violence - the midnight brawl, the assassin's bludgeon, a narrow cot in the hospital, anarrowgrave. The life that was sofull of promise is cut short; the career bcgun in sunshine ends in clouds and darkISAUI. -♦-■ - ■ The area of British India, exclusive of native States, is 899,341 square miles, the number of inhabited houses 37,043,524, and the population 191,096,603. The area of the native States is stated at 675,265 söuare miles, and the population at 49,161,510.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus