they approve my efforts, to lend their aid in attracting toward these
admonitions such consideration as their merit shall warrant, and I have
so endeavored to dispose the bitterness of practical advice as to both
somewhat cover its presence and gratify a youthful and adventurous
literary taste.




PRUDENCE IN SPEECH.

Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar;

Do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatched unfledged comrade

Give every man thine ear but few thy voice;
Take each man's counsel but reserve thy judgment.
--Shakspeare.


You live. To live is costly. Who will pay for it? Your
soul cries out "I." But how will you get the money? "Oh! I'll get
it!"--that is the confident cry of youth. The confidence oozes out as
life lengthens--and yet there are certain lines of action which, if
followed, in this bright land of liberty, are sure to result in the
accumulation of something for our old age.