Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1851-07-03
QUESTIONS FOR EACH YOUNG MAN
TO DECIDE. Oh

ask the young man lh,n who is Just
Turning his habits Of life, or just beginning
to indulge thoye habilual ruins of thought
ou, of which habits grow, to- look around
him, and mark the examples whose fortune
he would c6yel. or whese faIe he would al.
hor. Even as VIC walk the streets we meet
with exhibitions Of each extreme. Here.
behold Patriarch, whose stock of vigor
,hrec.scorc years and lrh seem hardly 10
have impaired. Ills erect form. his firm
s,cp,. his elastic limbs, and undimmcd senses,
are SO many certificates Of good nduc; r
rather so many jewels and orders of nobili.
~ with which nu,ure has honOred him Ior
his fidelity to her laws. His fair complex
ion shows ,ha, his blood has never been cor
rup,ch; his pre- breath, that he has never
Welded his digestive apparatus for winters
ccsspool; his rxacl language and keen at
prrhcnsion, that his brain has never been
drugged or siapGecd by the poisons of dis'iI-
lrr or .olacconist. Enjoying his oppcsiles
10 the highest, he has preserved the power
Of enjoying them. Despite tho moral OF
the S, hoolboy story, be has caicn the cake
and skill kept il.
Ashe drains the cup Of life, there are no
Ices a, the bottom. Ills organs will rrach
the goal OF existence. PaLless as candle
burns down in It's socket, he will expire; and
q Ii ,lo Imagination would convert into an
olhcr Enoch translated from earth 10 a better
world without tho sling Of dealh.
Blu, look al an opposite extreme, where
an opposite history is recorded. Wha
wreck so shocking TO behold as tho wreck
Of JissvluIc man; The vigor Of life cShaus;'
cd. and yet the first steps in on honorabl,
career not taken; in lazar. .housc of dis.
cases; dcnd, but, by hcplhenSh cuslom of
society, no, buried! Rogue' have had the
initial letter Of their title burnt into the
pams of their hands; even for murder, Cain
was only branded on the lorch' nd; bul over
the whoIc person Of the debauchee or the
jnebrOie, The signatures Of inlamy arc writ
ten. Now nature brands him with stigma
aud orpro5rium! How she hangs labels all
over him, 10 testify her disgust at his ex.
is,rnco, aud to admoniSh others TO beware
of his example,! How she looscns all his
joints and sends Iremors along his muscles,
and bends forward his frame as TO bring him
upon all fours with kindred brutes. or 10 de-
grade him 10 tho reptiles crawling! How
shc disfgures his counlenance, as if intent
upon celebrating all traces Of her own i'm.
age. SD thai sho may swear that size never
made him! How she pours rhtum over his
eyes, sends foul spiriIs TO inhubil his breath,
aud shricks as with a trumpe, from every
pore or his body, "BehOM Beast" Such
o man may be seen in tho stects Of our
cities every day; il rich he may be found in
The saloons, and nj The iables oi The upper
Ten;' but surely to every man Of purity and
honor. to cvcry man whose wisdom us well
us whose ht arr is ulblcnish,d, the wretch
who comes cropped and bleeding from the
piIloiy, und rrdolcnl with It's appropriate
perfumes, would be guest far less offensive e
and disgusting.
Nuw let The young man. r, joicing in his
manly proportions, and in his comlncss,
look on This picture aud on that, an then say.
after the likeness Of which model he intends
his own erect stature and sublime counle.
lancc shall be confgured.-Horacc .Maun's
Ihorghis for Young Men.