The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-09-27
DON'T DEPEND ON FATHER.

to the contents Of" fathers purse" or
his fame for your influence or success
in business. Think you that father"
has attained to eminence iu bis pro-
fession, but by unweried industry. or
that he has amassed u fortune honest
ly, without energy and activity? You
should know that the faculty requisite
for acquiring fame or fortune is es-
sential to, nay inseparable from the
retaining Of either Of these. Suppose
father" has the rocks in abund-
ance if you never earned anything
for him, you have no more business
with these rocks than d gosling has
with 81 tortoise and if be allows you
to NEEDLE with them till you acquire
some by your industry, he pelpetrates
mischief. And if the old gentleman
is lavish of his cash towards you, while
be allows you to while away your time
you'd better leave yes run away soon
or than be an imbecile or something
worse through SO corrupt an influence.
Sooner or later you must learn to rely
on your own resources, or you will not
be anybody. fyou have become idle,
il YOU have eaten fathers bread and but
ter and smoked fathers cigars and tried
to put on fathers influence and repu-
tation, you might far better have been
a poor canal boy, the son ola chimney
sweep or boot black and indeed we
swap with you the situation of a poor
half starved motberless calf! Misera-
bic object You are, that depend entire
ly on your parents, playing gentlemen,
dandy loafers) What in the name of
common sense are you thinking of ?
Wake up there. Go to work with
either your hands or your brains, or
both, and be something! Don't merly
have it to boast ofthat you have grown
in fathers house-tbat you have vege-
tatcd as other greeDborns! but let
folks know that you count one 2 Come
off, with your coat, clinch the saw, the
plough handle, the scythe, the axe,
the pickaxe, the spade-anythiug that
will eneable you to stir yonr blood
Fly around 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 to some potatoe patch, let
yourself to stop hog-holes Or watch the
bars, and when you think yourself
entitled to resling-spcll, do it on
your own hook. Ii you have no other
means of having fun Of your own, buy
with your earnings an empty barrel,
and put your head into it and "holler'
or get into it and roll down bill; don't
for PHYS sake make the old gentle
man furnish everything aud you live
at your ease.
Look about you. you we|l-dresscd,
smooth-face, do-noihing drones. Who
are they who have worth and influence
in society ? Are they those that have
depended alone on the old gept'eman's
purse? Or are they those that have
climed 10 their position by their own
energy and industry? True, old gen
tleman's funds or personal influence
may secure TO you The forms ofrespcct
but let him lose his property or die and
what are you ? A miserable aedgliny
q bunch of flesh and bones, that needs
10 be taken care Of.
Again we say, wake up-get up in
The morning-turn round at least be-
core breakfast--belp the old mon
give him now and then generous lift
in busincss-learn how to take the
lead, and not depend forever on being
led, and you have no idea how the
discipline will benefit you. Do this,
aud our word for it, you will seem TO
breath new atmosphere, passes new
earth, wake to a new destiny-and
then you may begin 10 aspire to man
hood. Take Of. that ring from your
lilly finger, brake your cane, shave
your upper lip, wipe your nose, bold
up your head, and by all means never
again cat The bread Of idlencss, NOR
DEFEND ON FATHER.
~ The London Medicnl Gazette
. ives the result of numerous expert
ments with roasted coffee, proving