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thrashing from two older and bigger boys because he would not go to & 

 neighbor and tell him a false story which the bigger boys told him to 

 tell. He afterwards found out that if he had told that false story he 

 would have received two whippings one from the neighbor and one 

 from his father when he found it out. It always pays to tell the truth. 



IIOW TO CHOOSE VOCATION AND LOCATION. 



One of the most important things for a young man about to start in 

 life is his choice of a trade or a profession or a line of work that he 

 intends to make distinctly his own. The thousands of wrecks and fail- 

 ures in life are mostly, if not altogether, due to neglect upon this matter 

 in youth. They simply drifted along, taking up whatever presented 

 itself, and consequently soon found themselves in a business that they 

 were not fitted for and disaster followed as a matter of course. 



Every one is best fitted for some special sphere in life. Early inclina- 

 tion or aptitude is usually the best guide, and that parents should look 

 for in their children and cultivate. Above all they should not go con- 

 trary to the apparent wishes of the child in order to have the child take 

 up some pet vocation which the parents have set their hearts upon his 

 following. Nature points the way in almost all cases, perhaps in all 

 cases if we give heed to her still, small voice. 



The same thing may be said regarding location. One thrives best 

 where he is best pleased. If the location is distasteful it is usually 

 better to seek one more in accordance with one's natural preference. 



EVIL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE AND PROFANITY. 



Fun and hilarity are as natural as life. And it is right and proper 

 to seek and enjoy them. But no one puts a greater stumbling block in 

 his path than he who begins to form a habit of swearing or of drinking 

 liquors. To see a drunkard or to hear a profane man for the first time 

 is enough to fill any one with disgust. What sense then is there in any 

 hoy or young man beginning to do the things that after awhile will 

 cause those who see them to feel disgust for them ? And worse yet, it 

 is not long before you begin to feel disgust for yourself, and you can't 

 get away from your own company. 



Swearing don't help anything. It neither makes "one hair white nor 

 black." It weakens every expression to which it is added. It is sim- 

 ply and purely a habit caught by contagion, like small-pox, and culti- 

 vated by practice till it deforms the person habituated to it and injures 

 his chances in every career in life from the humblest to the highest. Do 

 not begin to swear, or if you have already begun, quit. That shows 

 sense and ability. It is only very weak persons who can't or won't 

 quit. So, too, with drinking and all other forms of intemperance. 

 Young man, do not take the first step to intemperance in speech, or 

 deed, or thought. Or if you have already done so, stop now now, 

 when the call comes to you. Now is always the best time. 



TOBACCO HABIT. 



Do you know of anything more filthy and more useless than the 

 chewing and the smoking of tobacco? Just think of making chimneys 



