The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1848-02-19
Read This, BOYS!

"This is the effect of shoe making,'
said a young mechanic to US yesterday.
shaking a well filled purse in our face.
1t was not said boastingIy, but with hon.
est pride. W. wish 10 refer our read.
ers to a few particulars in the history
Of this young man. He is the fourth
son ofan industrious mechanic, who has
known the heights o afluence and the
depths of poverty. His eldest son is
reared for the ministry, and is, we
believe, a talented and useful member
Of society. A second, was a mechan.
lc, hard working fellow. The third has
acquired an excellent education, after
much labor and hard work, through his
W means. The youngest SON, him
to whom we introduce the reader, was
brought up in the conviction that labor
was derogatory to respectability-that
wealth was the highest good that could
be enjoyed by mortals. He was early
sent to school, then to an academy, pre-.
paratory to a course of professional
studies. Meanwhile, his old father
was toiling on, striving 10 attain the
distinctions which are attendant upon
wealth, merely for the sake Of his chill
dren; but still willing to forego all the
pleasures and emolunents of the world
if his son could be useful and lauded
IN the community. The young man
entered upon his studies, that
he was the son OF a rich mar compare.
and that consequently he was
entitled 10 a "fulI swing" in all the frol.
les and sprees which are prevalent in a
high school. Books, and duty itself,
made subservient to the love OF
fun. So when his six months were COM
he came home to his disappoini-
I'd p%arents,a wiIdreckless, incident boy, :
instead of the sedate. fixed, and ambi- :
ious young man. He loitered about a
lome some lime, but his fathers con. o
titu!ion was broken, and his business ! !
e%tarded, his sales low and his returns il
.othing. Starvation was before the r.
Fruitless and constant were 81
many applications which the young =
ian made at the trading esta bIishmen,s
the city for occupation. There were
lore clerks than merchants and more in
'aders than buyers. Worn out &C
'ith fatigue and with the stings of con. CO
:ience for his former misspent time. N
it'll his spirits humbled, and his mind fiji
'rved to undergo any privation rather III
return without employment to his tn,
theirs house, the shop of every me- ne
anic, from the blacksmith's TO the lew tn.
,r's vas b%esieged; but it was a time SOL
general depression in business, and his
cry man looked out for his own good.
without blame, conscious that he Ro
d done his best to Obtain an occupa. co,
n, the young man went home. The c H,S
ii spread table, the carpeted foor.& to
refinement which was visible in tn. thai
lsehold, but seemed TO aggravate the t Hhey
,ery of its tenants. Lower and low. PSI
the cruise went down till the oil was Cor
Il nigh exhausted therein. One day ,ha
young man was in the shop of a for
n blind shoemaker who had amassed of Il
his wi Industry a reputable for w
while he haG built up a reputation =
ich can never die from the memory
he community in which he lived.-A AT
by don't YOU go to workw asked -.
old man, 81 can't get any thing to Nv w
was the response. "Come and coun
n my trade," said the old man. 1t Al
q bargain. The pampered son of VIII na
lne forgot his pride, and bowed his De