Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-03-28

D0N'T DEPEND on 'FATmER.-Stand up here
young man, and let us talk to you. You have
trusted alone to the contents Of fathers purse
or his fair fame. for your success in business
Think you that father has attained emiGence in
his profession but by unwcared industry? or that
he has amassed fortune honestly without energy
or activity? You should know that the faculty
requisite for the acquiring of fame or fortune is
essential to, nay inseparable from the retaining Of
either of these. Suppose father has the rocks
in abundance, if you never earned anything for
him, you have no more business with these rocks
than gosling has with tortoise and if he al
lows you to lneddle with them, he perpetrates un-
told mischief. And if the old gentleman is lavish
Of the cash towards you, to while away your time
you d better leave him; yes, run away rather than
be an imbccile, or something worse, through so
cOrruptng an influence. Sooner or later you
must learn to rely on your own resources, or you
will never be anybody, If you have become idle;
if you have eaten fathers bread and butter,
and smoked fathers cigars cut a swell in fa-
ther's' buggy, and tried to put on fathers n-
1uence-you might far better have been poor
canal boy. the son of chimney-Sweep, or a boot
black; aud, indeed, we would not swap with you
the situation OF poor, halt-starvcd motheress
calf Miserable objects you are, that depend en-
tirely on parents; playing gentlemen dandy loaf
ers) What III the name OF common sense are you
thinking of I? Wake up there Go to work either
with your hands or brains or both. and do some
thing Don't merely have ii to boast of that you
have grown ia fathers hOuse-that you have
vegctated as other grcenhons but let folks
know that you count one! Come. off with your
coat. clnch the saw, the plow handle, the scythe,
the axe, the pickaXe. the spade--any thing that
will enable you to stir your blood Fly around
and tear y0nr jacket, rather than be the passive
recipient OF the old gentleman bounty Sooner
than play the dandy at dads expense, hire your
self out to some potato patch let yourself to stop
hog holes. or watch the bars, aud when you think
yourself entitled to Il resting spell, do it on your
own book. If you have no other means Of buying
fun of your own buy with your earnings an emp
ty barrel, and put your head into it and boiler, or
get into it and roll down hill don't, for pity S
sake make the old gentleman furnish every thing,
and you live at your ease.
Look about you, you well dressed, smooth
faced, do-nothing drones. Who are they who have
worth and influence in society Are they those
that have depended on the old gent eman's purse?
or are they those that have climbed their way to
their position by their own industry and energy ?
True, the old gentlemans funds, or personal in
huence, may secure you the forms of respect, but
let him lose his property or die, aud where are
you a miserable hedgling-a bunch of bones and
flesh that needs TO be taken care Of
Again we say, Wake up-get up In the morn
ing turn round at least twice before breakfast
help the old man-give him now and then gen
erOus lift IN business-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, and our word for it, you will seem to
breathe new atmosphere, possess new frame.
tread a new earth wake TO a new destiny-and
then you may begin to aspire to manhood. Take
off, then, that ring from your lily finger, break
your cane, shave your upper lip, wipe your nose,
hold up your head, and by all means, never again
eat the bread Of idleness, nor DEPEND ON FA-
THER.'-Life Illustrated.
In one county alone of Massachusetts, Essex
the annual product of boots and shoes, in 1885,
according TO the ceIsk. sas over $l2 900 900.