The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-09-30
DON'T DEFEND ON FATHER.

to the contents OF " father s purse Of
his fame for your influence or success
in business. Think you that " fathers
5 has attained to eminence in his pro.
> fessiop, but by unweried industry, OF
that he has amassed fortune honest
! ", 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 fyou never earned anything
for him, you have no more business
with these rocks than a gosling has
with a tortoise T! and if he allows you
to NEEDLE with them till you acquire
some by your industry, he perpetrates
mischief. And if the old gentleman
is lavish of his cash towards you, while
he 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,
if 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 of a chimney
sweep or boot black and indeed we
swap with YOU the situation of poor
half starved motherless calf? Misera-
BE 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--that you have vege-
tated as other greenhorns but let
folks know that you count one ? Come
off, with your coat, clinch the saw, the
plough handle, the scythe, the axe,
the pickaxe, the spade-anything 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 resting-spell, do it on
your own hook. If youh 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 hill; don't
for pity sake make the old gentle
man furnish everything and you live
at your ease.
Look about you, you well-dressed,
smooth-face, do-nothing droues. Who
are they who have worth and influence
in society? Are they those that have
depended alone on the old gentleman's
purse y? Or are they those that have
climed to their position by their own
energy and industry True, old gen
tleman's funds or personal influence
may secure to you the forms of respect
but let himsSsSsc his property or die and
what are yon? A miserable hedgling
a bunch of flesh and bones, that needs
to be taken care of.
Again we say, wake up-get up in
the morning-turn round at least be-
fore breakfast --help tie old man
give him pow and then generous lift
in busipess-learn how to take the
lead, and not depend forever on being
led, and youanave no idea how the
Sill benefit you. Do this,
and our word for it, you will seem to
breatlSa new atmosphere, passes a new
eart1, wake to a new destiny-and
then you may begin to aspire to man
hood. Take off, that ring from your
lilly finger, brake your cane, shave
your upper lip, wipe your nose, hold
up your head, and by all means never I
again eat the bread of idleness, NOR
DEPEND ON FATHER.
Santa Anna and Family.-A dis {
patch from Louisville states that some ,