Show lay out a plan flan and pursue it A the 1 terin of of a majority of the eold irs of the california volunteers will ex pite this it is id to he be hoped that a few words or of counsel and certain other remains which we wish here briefly to make may be attended to and recci received ed in the same saine spirit iu in which u aich they are arc intended viz for forthe the benefit of thoo hoso to ii whom hom they are addressed it seems to be now tacitly admitted on all hands that the soldiers will be discharged hero here and taking this for granted it is evidently necessary for every man to have b his arrangements so made asat as at once and promptly un lib iiii to go at something definite und mid tangible with a view to his bia future benefit this is true of all in whether bother of those who wb D wish to go to the rist east mayhap to rejoin oin a N w ire ife and children from whom they have long been absent of those who wish to revisit califor jila ali the state of their adoption or f finally of those who have made to up tip their minds mind to cast their future lot with utah or the gold mines of idaho in every case it if is necessary to lay out a fixed and a definite nito course and rigidly and uti unbendingly puisne it if the individual expects success in en life and be it remembered that our fellow soldiers on their discharge will find themselves very much in the same position in which they were when they fust fist blunted out lit in life excepting that the sanguine hopes and buoyant spirits of early youth are not to be recalled now wo ino have all had some borne experience of the false steps which the 3 auth on fust lem leading ing the paternal roof is so lamentably apt to male make and we know that a mafoi majority ity of such mista mistakes hes in life and errors in conduct aro are primarily attributable to the want of a fixed and deri definite nito plan prescribed pi described bed to oneself onel leff in the first place or to the fact that after laying oitt exit a certain course we fall fail to keep the goal gaal constantly before our eyes no aiani eveT yet succeeded in anything worth chile lit in life who nho followed the theory of waiting for something to turn up 11 wo must malo make the circumstances ourselves and not bo be the meic incie creatures of them thiro there is no its use in maling making a long treatise upon the subject it when hen the whole matter may simply ic imply summed up ill in a few words anti and the argument on the subject 13 is best seen by the contrast i which will appear in the respect respective 0 of two men who going out under the bamo circumstances as nearly a as s may bo be shall have the one a plan which lie ho means to and does pui puisne and the other no plan or fixed ao course pi described bed but merely a nonchalant leadin i cad iness to become tho the football foot ball of whatever or circumstances may arac now mow tho the former by bending his whole enet agles to ther the attainment of his purpose and ly voilla boiking with an eye singla to the attainment of ti alo object in i pursuit of winch which he set ait out will not only be likely to gain that purpose po o a result which will nerver nerve him for the 7 le to compass other and more difficult ends in in auturo futuro but what bof even en far gi eater hopoi tance will i while hile thus working out his own oin ends have the satir satisfaction action of knowing that lie he is building up tip for bim himself self character rd repute lit in the community where lie he may locate and finally attain a position in th e and couri confidence dence of his follow citi drw eow compared pared with alth which money is of little avail and is chich aich I 1 will ill enable him to attain anything he may wah to accomplish amid the people chero tw ho is known character and credit ate aio or of far nun moto 0 avail than mere money or temporary position and no man attains them w about show ing himself a steady consistent and ill hi lit in of cx a course that has been first prudently calculated calculate d and II rigidly idly avam mcd on the ot other berhand hand he who starts oat in the impress ion that iv by going elso else he be will find filid soul something ething turn up tip for liim lain is exceedingly apt to discover dib cover himself at the end ot of his ia journey bourney quite as badly it the beginning A day older and a day evoi worse e 1 is iipp to bu be the result with him trion though gal lie he may not admit it as his motto his course is observed as belof w bof feces ity observe aut and goner general flom tho the collise of all with whom we abc thrown m in contact an impression gels abroad that ho be is unsteady liable and in short that lie he has no plan no lie fritters frit teis away the little money which ho he had bad in the beginning lie he attains nothing and in fine sinks sinis in in n character and lastly in his own self esteem than which no worse f fate ate can berall any man for those who may prefer to stay mel care eare abundant openings opening sin in theoines the mines nonbeing now being everyn everywhere bere opened in our own vicinity but bear in reind that neither hero here nor elsewhere can any man succeed without N a fixed and well defined plan laid out for his own conduct and guidance and let us all conduct ourselves in accordance with this fact |