Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-06-23
Don't Depend on Father.

DOn.l DCpCEu VII
Stand up here. young man, and l"tus
talk 10 you--vnu have trusted alone 10
the contents OF your fathers purse, or his
fair fame for your Influence or success IN
business. Think YOU that father has at
tanned to eminence in his profession but
bv unweared industry, or that he has
amasSed fortune honestly, without ener-
gv and activity You should know that
the faculty requisite for the acquiring Of
fame or fortune, is essential tC, nay lnsep-
arabic from, the retaining of either of
these Suppose father has the rocks
in abundance if you never earaed any
thing for him, YOU have no more business
with those rocks than gosln has with
a tortoise, and Ifh he allows you TO NEEDLE
with them uIl you have learned their val
ue bv your own industry, he perpetrates
untold mischief. And if the old gentle
man is la:sh OF his cash towards you,
while he allows you TO IDLE away your
time, you'd better leave him yes, run
away, sooner than be made an imbccilc
or something worse through so coTruptlng
an influence. Sooner or later YOU must
learn 10 rely on your own resources, oT
YOU will not be anybody. If you have
never helped yourself AT all, if you have
become idle, If YOU have eaten fathers
bread and butter, aud smoked fathers CT
gars, cut swell in fathers buggy, and
lried to pat on fathers influence and rep
ulalon, you might far better have been a
poor canal bOy-the son OF a chimney
sweep, or a boot black-Indeed we would
not swop with YOU the situation OF poor
hali-s starved mulhcrIess cali Miserable
objects you are, that depend entirely on
you parents, playing gentlemen, (dandy
ioaiers.) What IN the name Ui common
sense are YOU thinking Of! Wake up
your brains, or both, and be something
Don't merely have ii to boast OF that YOU
have grown ia 'Ialher's' house-that YOU
have yegetareI as other green horns ! bat
1t folks know that you count one
Come, off with your coat, cllnch the saw.
lhe plow handles, the scylhe, the axe, the
pick-axc, the spade-anythmg that will
enable you to stir your blood ! Fly round
and tear your Jacket, rather than be the
passive recipient Of the old gentleman's
bounty Sooner than play the dandy at
dads expense, hire yourself out 10 some
poiatoe patch, let yourself 10 stop hog
holes. or watch the bars, and when you
think yourself entitled TO a resting spell,
DO it on your own hook. II you have no
other means Of having any fun Of your
own, 90 aud buy with your own earnings
an empty barrel, and put your head into
it and hoiler, or get into it and roll down
hill; don't, for pity sake, don't make the
old gentleman furnish everything, and you
live at your ease.
Look about you, you well dressed.
smooth Notwithstanding drones Who
are they that have worth and influence IN
society f! Are they those that have &C.
pended alone on the old genllcman's
purse, or are they those that have climbed
.helr way 10 their position by their own
industry and energy True the old gen
leman's funds, or personal influence may
secure you the forms Of respect, but let
nm lose his property or die, aud what are
you a miserable nedgllng--a bunch OF
lesh and bones that needs to be taken care
,f!
Again we say. wake up--get up in tho
nornng--lurn round at least twice before
'reaklast-heIp the old man-give him
low and then generous llft in business
Learn how TO take the lead, and not de-
,end upon forever on being fed and you
'ave no idea how The discipline will bene-
it you. Do this, and our word fur it.you
sill seem TO breathe a new atmosphere,
,Ossess new frame. tread new earth,
wake TO new desllny--and you may
ben begin 10 aspire TO manhood. Take
II, then. that ring from your lily Gnger.
Teak your cane, shave your upper lip.
wipe your nose, hold up your head. and
$ all means, never again eat tie bread of
Ileness, nor dep'nd on Cather.
4 WORD TO BOYs.-Whn is respected
t Is the boy who conducts himself well,
Who Is honest, dLIgenl, and oJedienl IN all