Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-11-03

DON'T Deptnd on futher.
Stand up here. young man. and let
vs. talk to you. You have trusted
alone to the contents OF fathers purse.
or 70 his fair fame for your influence
OF success in business. Think Won
that father has attained To eminence
in his profession but by unwearied in
dustry? or that he has amassed for
tune honestly Will on. energy aud ac-
tivity? You should know that the
faculty requisite for the acquiring OF
fame and fortune is essential to. nav,
inseparable from. the retaining OF
either of these? Suppose father has
the rocks In abundance, ii you never
earned anything for him. you have no
more business with those rocks than
a gosling has with tortoise. and If
he allows yoa to meddle with them
till you have learned their value by
your own industry, he perpetuatcs I'M
told mischief. And if the old gentle
man is lavish of his cash towards you,
while he allows you to idle away your
time. you hal better leave him; yes,
run away, sooner than be lrale an rn-
beetle or scoundrel through SO cor
ruptinc an influence. Sooner or La
ter you must learn to rely on your own
resources, or you will not be any body
II you have ever helped yourself at all,
If YOU have become idle, it YOU have
eaten fathers bread and butter and
smoked fathers cigars. cut a swell in
fathers buggy, and tried to put on
fathers influence and reputation. You
might better have been poor canal
boy, the son OF chimney sweep, or a
boot black-and indeed we would not
swap with you the situation of poor.
half-starved motherless calf Misera-
bic objects You are. that depend entire
~ upon your parents. playing gentle
man oltas dandy loafer. W hat in the
name of common sense are YOU think
ing Oh Wake up therel Go to work
with either your hands or brains, or
both. and do something. Don't mere
Nv have 1t to boast that you have
grown in fathers house-that You
have vegetated as other Sreenhorns.
but lei folks know that you count one.
Come. off with your coat. clinch the
saw, the pillow handles. the scythe, the
axe, the pickaxe, the spa'le-anything
that will enable you to stir your blood
Fly round and tear your Jacket.
rather than be the recipient of the old
gentleman's bounty. Sooner than play
the dandy at dads expense, hire your
self out to some potato patch. let your
self out to stop hog holes, or watch
the bars; and when you think yourself
entitled to a resting spell, do 1t 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,
snd roll down hill. Don't. for PHYS
sake. make the old gentleman do eve
rything. and you live at your ease.
Look about you. you addressed.
smooth-faced. do-nothing drOnesl-
Who a-e they that have worth and in
iluence in society? Are they those
that have depended alone on the old
gentleman's purse? or are they those
that have climed their way to their
position by their industry and energy?
True. the old gentleman's funds, or
personal influence. may secure you the
forms of respect, but let him lose his
property, or die, and what are you?-
\ miserable tlcdgling-a bunch of
flesh and bones that needs to be taken
care OIL
Again We say. wake up-get up in
the morning-turn round, at least
twice before breakfast-help the old
inan-give him now and then a gener-
GUS lift in business--learn how. take
the lead. and not depend forever on
being led: and you have no idea how
the discipline viii benefit You. DO this,
and our word for it. you will seem to
breathe a new atmosphere, possess a
new frame, tread on new earth, wake
ID a new destiny-and YOU NAV then
begin to aspire 10 manhood. Take off.
then. that ring from your lilly 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
father,