The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-01-03
From Life Illustrated.
Don't Depend on Iather.S

! stand up here, young man, and let Us
talk to you. You have trusted alone to the
contents Of "fathcr's purse" on his fail
fame for your influence or success in bus
mss. Think you that "fsther" has attained
to eminencs IN his profession but by un
wearied industry? or that he has amassed a
fortune honestly without energy and actlvi
ty: You should know that the faculty re-,
quislte for the acquiring Of fame or fortune
Is essential TO, nay, inseparable from, the
retaining of either of these, Suppose " fa-
ther" has the "rocks" in abundance if you
never earned anythi q for him, you have
10 more business with these "rocks" than
gosing has with tortoise! and if he al
/ lows you to meddle with them, he perpe-
trates unto'd mischief And if the old gen
tleman is lavish OF his cash toward you,
while he allows you to while away your
! time, you d better leave him !; yes, run away,
sooner than be an imbecie, or something
worse, through so corrupting an influence.
sooner or later you must learn TO rely on
your own resources, or you will not he any
body. II you have become idle; if you
have eaten fathers" bread and butter, and
smoked fathers" cigars; cut a swell in
fathers buggy, and tried to put ON ''fa.
ther'sn influence ard rcputation-you might
son Of chimney sweep, or boot-blacii
and, indeed, we would not swap with you
the situation of poor, half-starvcd mother
less cafl Miserable objects you are, that
depend entirely on parents, playing gentle
men (dandy loalers) What, in tic name Of
common sense. are you thinking of: Wake
up there, Go TO work with either your
bands or your brains, or both, and be some
thing, Don't merely have it to boast Of,
that you have grown in " fathers house
that you have Vegctated as other grecuhorns
but let folks know that you count one
Come, off with your coat, c!inch the saw,
tn. piew handles, the scythe, the axe, the
picAaXe, the spade-any thing that will ena-
Die YOU 10 stir your L!ood Fly around nd
tear your Jacket, rather than be ;Ac passive
recipient Of the Old cCuil,maa's county
Sooner than play the dandy at dads ex-
pensc, hire yourself out to some potato
patch, let yourself TO Stop hog-hOlcs, or
watch the bars, and when you think your
sell entitled 10 resting spell. do 1t on your
own hook. II you have TO other means Of
having fun Of your own, buy with your
earnings an empty barred, and pat your head
into it ard holler, or get into X and roll
Gorrn hill; don't for PHYS sake, make the
Cd gentleman furnish every thing, and you
live a. your case.
Look about goa, you wcll-drcsscd, smooth
faced, dop0,hiug drours. Who are they
that have worth and influence in society :
Are they those that have depended alone on
the Cd gonticlEan's purse: or are they those
that have climbed their way to their position
by their own industry and energy: True,
iho oi gcn;lefuan's funds, or persona! intiu-
oncc. may secure YOU the forms OF respect,
but let hIn lose bis property OF die, and what
are yCuI : miserable tiedgliug-A bunch
Of flesh and bones that needs 10 be taken
care Of,
Again we say, Wake up-get up in the
HoTnipg-tGrn round at least twice before
breakiast-hclP the Cd n.sn--give him now
and then generous lit in business-iearn
how to take the lead, and not dcreRd for
ever Oh being led, and you have no idea how
the discipline wi benefit you. DO this, and,
our word T it, you VIII secui TO breathe a
fovr stT110-Tf1cre, posses. new frame, tread
a new eartn, wake 10 new G-stiny-aud
then you may boS.H 10 aspire 10 manhood.
lake oil. then, taat ring f on your lily fin
g-r, break your cane, shave your upper lip.
wipe your nose, ho.d up your head, and, by
all means, never again "a, the bread Of idle
ness, S0K DEPESo On FATHER