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Show Ose by one the special teachings and adviainga of our respected ancts-lors ancts-lors are shown to be unwise, and oven dangerous. The latent instance of this kind is in the me-ttor of "keeping "keep-ing a diary." Ever Bince the art of writing became universal, every boy has been parentally instructed to keep a diary, and jot down the hap-ponings hap-ponings of every day, elaborating upon thum at his pleasure and convenience. conve-nience. He haa been told how valuable valu-able it would be in the future, and how it would develop him as a literary liter-ary "cusa." Authors, statesmen, and all great men, he wos told, owed their success in life to tho fact that they never neglected their personal journals. jour-nals. A St. Louis youth followed this advice, and like many others whohave done likewise, has come to grief, as hia diary has men up against im aa an accuser, and lurnished convicting evidence of his perfiiy. He was a party to a law Buit, and it bscamo necessary to put his diary upon the witness stand, when it made revelations revela-tions tbatatariled the youth. He was engaged to a wealthy young heiress, and his history told that since his betrothal he had been rejected by two other young ladiea, that he was in the habit of keeping bad company, and that he bad borrowed considerable flumB of money "to be repaid when he got hold of the purse of his intended." This exposure came out incidentally, but the young man will have to resort to other means for paying bis debts. The moral of all of which is, if you keep a diary, be careful not to write the truth in it. |