Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-07-24
blaze of youthful enthusiasm.

blaze of youthful enthusiasm.
Ny dear childrenl goitwhile you are young,
but be careful how you goit. Lie down and
roll over as much as yoa please upon the per-
fumed beds of indulgence, but mind and not
roll into the brambles of everlasting misery.
Kick up your heels along the gay walks OF
pleasure, but don't crush the tender buds OF
virtue, beneath your careless tread; and, a bove
all don't run so swiftly as TO produce spon-
taneous combustion of morality-for when
that spiritual essence is once destroyed, you
are just as surely done up and burstedas though
you were obliged to borrow shirt to keep up
appearances. Drink deep from the cup of ra-
tional enjoyment, but shun the inebrIating
bowl as you would the small pox or the dou-
bic width measles. Don't meddle with il, my
young friends--for, when you once get your
sucker in, you will find il scortched before you
can get it out--your fine sympathies crisped
to synders-and your reputation blasted for
ever. in spirit of mildness, mercy and mod
esty, | warn you against that worst OF all
vices, gambling. 1t is but trick OF the devil
TO entice you into his slaughter house. II IN
duces you to lie, cheat, and indulge in protane
language; and il moreover offers you an lnvl-
tation to get your living by other means than
those prescribed in the golden decalogue oil
honest industry. Be careful, also. how you
90 il in your approximations towards the Re.
male sex. Let your love be of the purest and
most exalted nature. Instead OF hankerIng
after the flesh, you ought to have your attec-
tons placed on those heavenly virtues with
which it is stuffed for it is the stuffing alone
that contains the true spice of reciprocal love.
Go it young man now in the days of your
youth! Revel in the sweets ofenjoyment while
A.. ell,
while pinions Of hope droop not in the cold
ton still shines upon the far distant summit
of fame. Let your heart abound with cheer
Danish every suicidal thought from your
ries of mental bliss: but while you are partak-
ing of these bounties you must try, young
friend, to lay up a portion of them to least
upon when you become old and no longer "a
bic to 90 il with that looseness with which you
are now privileged. The time will come
when the sweetest soup of life will taste as
insipid as dish water-when every lump of
JOY will loose its seasoning--when your bread
OF hope won't rise for want of leaven-and
when like dried sapling, you will have grown
SO stiff and old that you can't bend without
cracking.
NV dear friends--when you are old you
can't go it any more than broken down
stage horse; and if you don't enjoy yourself
while you feed upon the oats of youthful an
you will find out that you can never
do it when you come to Craze in the barren
pastures of age. If compare you to horses,
my respected hearers. 4 trust You will forgive
the comparison, inasmuch as the mortal part
of man is subject TO the same decay which
horse flesh is heir to. Yes, the juices of our
bodies become dried in the autumnal winds OF
age--our hearts are robbed of all their for.
n1er delights--and the few jewels that remain
in the casket of memory, although, pure and
brilliant, are hardly worth cherishlng, consid-
ering that the little comfort they give is SO
overspread with the mustard of regret. When
our heads grow gley with age a sort of grey
ness comes over the landscape of existence,
and forbidding glooms succeeds Then we
don't care about going it as we did once, lest
we might accidentally bump our noses against
the tomb, and perhaps keel up for all nights
aud if we should like to cut capers and spend
a copper, our wishes could never be gratified
Therefore go it while you are young, in all
that is rational and becoming, before the evil
days draw nigh in which you shall say, have
no pleasure but in the prospect of heaven
and no hope but that which is eternal. Sc
mote it bel Dow, Jr