| Show Have an Object in Life Young man if you want to succeed you must have an object If you go on through life in a 1 slipshod aimless sort of a way the chances are that you will die as you have lived a 1 mere cipher soon forgotten in this world and if in the merciful province of God you succeed in getting into the next you will have to sit around on the ragged edge unable to to join in the smallest song which tIle celestial celes-tial choir is said to sing There wont be any place for you and nothing for you to busy yourself about You wont even have the satisfaction of being allowed to assist in taking up the collection because YOU would go to sleep before you had got I half way around Have an object What does it matter if you do fail short of it Aim high and blaze away Suppose you dont hit the markyou are no worse off than hundreds hun-dreds of others But let me tell you if you aim well and keep on firing after awhile 1 a-while something is sure to drop Of course if you shut your eyes and pull off both barrels at once you may hit something some-thing but the probabilities are that you wont and if you do it will very likely be some odoriferous turkey buzzard or harmless harm-less little peewee that it would have been much better for your reputation had you left alone Have an object young man and stick to it You may never be President or even a 1 Governor but if you keep some worthy object in view and work hard well wager a 1 lead nickel that some day you will be able to take your best girl to the circus without skulking around on the back streets for fear of meeting your washwoman whom you owe for your last three weeks wash in gCaleb Corkscrew in St Louis Magazine |
