Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-16

feel that their lOt IS naru one tAey Y
see city bred youngsters on their trav- b
els and their sprees at the age of four !
teen! veritable young gentlemen with
finished exterior, a cigar and cane.
The young farmer at the same age, (
finds himself with hoe in his hand
and cheap straw hat on his head, sweat
ing among the hills Of corn. He is
frequently envious Of his city brother,
whisking past him in the cars with kid
gloves, delicate ringlets, and plenty of
money in his pocket. IL
Mind yeu r corn, boy-hoe it out clean;
keep steadily to the labor you have in
hand, do it we'll, and in time your good
days will come too. If you find farm
ing not suited to your taste, or your
strength, or to your circumstances IT
you like mechanism better, or have a
capacity for business, whatever even
taally you may engage in, it is all the
same, you have begun right. The city
blades have begun wrong, and in due
time you will see it. Their fathers and
mothers will in the end see it too. Do
not feel envious Of the pleasure that
dollhouse man enjoys but remember,
not malicious, but sober spirit, that
such plants wither early. By the time
you have SECURED fixed habits of in
dustry, and acquired corresponding
perfection of mind and body, your
delicately reared contemporary of the
town begins to feel tie facilitating eff
fects Of idleness and Of dissipation.
He is not al ne to blame for weak
body and a proftless mind +; it is the
} result Of q system f; but lie cannot es-
!, cape from its effects-these he must en-
dure for himself, in his own person.
) His father may be a professional man,
5 or merchant, or may be merely rich ;
!, the chances are 6ftj against one that
! the son will not replace his father.
Such is the result of we'll settle ! exps-
, rierce business falls into the hands
s Of those who are m st competent, it
does not descend to heirs. 1t is the
: country boys, after all, who do the city
! business. Observing men have often
stated this fact and one who will take
). directory and enquire into the origin
: . of the business men Of Muscatine, or
: Boston, or New York, Will find it to
g be so. Allexternal circumstances are
d in favor of the son or the clerk sue
: ceeding to the trade of the old firm, but
the son seldom, almost never dies in
l. the position of a partner Of the house.
d Why is it =? Simply because habitua]
o industry is wanting and habitual indul-
: gence is not wanting. With all the ex-
= ternal odds against it, the country fur
y nishes the cities their principal bust
Il ness men. II intelligent, faithful, and
q persevering, and above all, cheerful anc
- contented, the chances are that the lac
}. with the hoe will eventually do the bus
e mess of the father Of the lad in gloves
y who is now luxuriating in his travels
u GENIUS OF ENERaY.-There is nc
o genius in life, like the genius Of ener-
. gy and industry. You will learn that
). all the traditions so current among very
young men-that certain great charac.
< ters have wrought their greatness by on
u inspirat o., as it were, grows out of q
sad mistake. And you will further
# find, when you come to measure your
It self with men, that there are no rivals
u 50 formidable as those earnest, deter
> mined minds, which reckon the value
of every hour, and which achieve emf
1e ice by persistent application. Lit
. erary ambition may inaamo you at GER
tain periods : and the thought of some
great name will flash like spark into
e the mine Of your purposes you dream
until midnight over your books you
set up shadows, and chase them down
other shadows, and they fly. Dream
, ing will never catch them. Nothing
makes the "scent lie well'' in the hunt
after distinction, but labor. And it is
o gltr.ous thing, when once you are
!; very Of the dissiI a.ion and the ennui
Of your own aimless thoughts, to take
: u2 some glowing page Of an earnest
thinker, and read deep and long, until
you feel the metal Of his thoughts tink-
ling on your brain, and striking out
from your Ainty lethargy, flashes of
ideas, that give the mind light and heat.
And away you 60, in the chase Of what
the soul within is creating on the in
slant, and you wonder at the fecundity
Of what seemed so crude. The glow
Of toll wakes you to the consciousness
of your real capacities you feel sure
that they have taken new step toward
final development. In such mood it is,
that one feels grateful to the musty
tones, which at other hours, stand like
curiosity making mummies, with no
warmth and no vitality. Now they
grow into the affections like found
friends aud gain hold upon the
heart, and light fire in the brain, that
the years and the mould cannot cover
nor quench. Marvel.
IDLENEss.-A large proportion of
the miseries and vices ofmankind pro.
ceeds from idleness. With persons of
quick minds, to whom it is especially
pernicious, this habit is commonly the
fruit of many disappointments and
schemes often bafhed. Men fail in
their schemes not so much from want
Of strength as from the i'll direction of
it. The weakest living creature, by
concentrating its powers, and using
them steadily on single object, can
accomplish something the strongest,
BY dispensing his efforts or intermitting
them often, may fail to accomplish