The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-08-23
Henry wa rG BeecEaer oRa Dainty
Young MeE.

Henry wa rGs BeecEaer OLA Dainty
Young Men.
In cities and in business the pro
portion Of men who have mistaken theiI
calling is larger than anywhere else
| see men every day that are in situa
tons for which they are not at all cal
culated. There are multitudes ofyouns
men that want to be rich in mercnan
die. They will not put their lily hands
where the sun can brown them. They
were born, they say, for better things
Many of them were born for the poor
house, and they will be there in the end
They may meet with a measure of sue.
cess for a time, till the sap of youtt
is gone out Of them, and then they vii
be fit only to be cast out, and to be
trodden under foot ofmen.
If you transplant tree in the spring
the sap in it will carry it halt through
the summer, though its roots may be
dead. 1t will throw out leaves, and APP
pear like sound tree for good part Of
the first year. But the next year il
will die. And every man, when he
starts in life, has enough of the sap Of
youth to carry him q certain way, though
he may have mistaken his calling; but
IN the course OF ten years, when that
sap is expended, and he is rootless and
branches, where will he be? There
is a whole dtIuge of white-faced, white
livered, imbecile, lily-handed men in the
city, seeking wealth without tOiling for
it seeking honor without achieving it
seeking place without deserving it.
They are utterly useless to society, and
yet of all men they are most extrava.
giant in their demands upon society.
DO you suppose they will go unwhip~
ped? God laughs at them and so do
angels, and everybody but themselves.
They think that they are MAJ tyrs. They
think that there is righteousness in
the providences Of life, because such
t.,ir- haired, beautiful young men, who
desired so much, and meant to have SC
much, got so little. And even what
they did get was bitter.
Did not they get what the deserved
Was their experience anything but the
inevitable result Of the violation of q
law Of their being? Nowhere were
cause and effect better vindicated than
i'll the perishing of ten thousand whose
ill-starred ambition leads them into
things for which they are unfit, and in.
duces them to seek results which they
can never attain. Do you ask what
you shall do? Go to sea!-we need
sailors. Go out TO work I'VE need
farm hands. Go into the shop I'VE
need mechanics. Do not congregate
and house in the city, where, when hav-
ing made few abortive attempts to be
honest and succeed, and having failed,
you will take the gimlet of craft and
cunning and bore your way through
life, until, your conscience being gone,
you will resort to more positively dis
honest ways, which will bring you at
last to utter disgrace and ruin.
It is out of this class that men come
who are so often found saying, 'The
world owes me living, and l will have
it." Who are these men? A man that
IS yet man uses no such language as
that. A man that is yet man is CRATE
full for the powers bestowed upon him,
and only asks an opportunity, that with
industry, be may achieve all proper sue
cess. it is not until man has ceased
to be man that he falls back upon him
self, and says, 6 the world owes me a
living, and l will have it." Yes, you
acjU haveit! The world has made pro-
vision for just such men as you are.
1t lets them go for little while, and
then it begins to gather them up in in
situations prepared expressly for them
There is one at Sing Sing, and another
at Auburn Benevolent institutions they
are. in which the state undertakes to
provide for men whom the world owes
living. There is also one at Flatbush,
which is called poor house! This is
for the accommodation of those men
whom the world owes living, who do
not get into the other institutions men
toned There is one other place for
them. We call it the grace! A thick
population awaits them there, of worms
and | pity the worms Miserable,
contemplate miscreants you are, that
stand in your dishonest expectations,
and internal vauntings, to defy the law
Of God, the law of nature, and the laws
of your own manhood to claim feloni-
ousIy what you have never achieved ;
and to say the world owes you living
1t owes you aohipping :! and you may
be sure that you will not escape con-
dign punishment.
Young men, turn from such, and
have nothing to do with them. They
are foolish or corrupt-and fools in such
cases are very apt to end in corruption,
as pimples end in ulcers. Avoid them.
Have better conception of manhood.
Do not suppose that your life is to be
external good alone. When God pays
you, he pays not altogether in bills, OF
silver, or gold but partly in bills, part
ly in silver, partly in gold that is, he
pays you in external good he pays you
in joys and comforts; he pays you il
the solace Off noble thougts; he pays you
in the remuneration of manly con
science; he pays you in promises thai
all your orders shall be cashed wher
they are presented in the exchequel
above. The life that now is but little
compared to the life that is to come
The things that are in man, are bette
than all the robes that can be put upol
him. The paying Of the future worlc