Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-03-01
Don't Depend on Father.

Stand up here, young man, and let ia 'alk
To you. You have trusted alone To- the ron.
tents Of your "father's PURSE" or TO his tair
lame Tor your influence or success In hnai.
ness. Think you that "father" has attained
to eminence in his profession but by uu-
wearied industry! or that he has amnssed n
fortune honestly without energy or activity
You should know that the faculty requisite
for the acquiring Of fame and fortune IL
cssrntia! to, nay, inseperable from the re
tanning Of either OF these. Suppose father
has the rocks in abundance; If you never
earned anything from him, you have no
more business with those 'focks' than a
gosling has with n tortoise, and il he allows
you to NEEDLE with them till you have learn
ed their value by your W industry. no per-
petta,es untold mischief. And II the old
gentleman is lavish Of his cash towards you,
while he allows you to idle away your time,
you had better leave him; yes, run away.
sooner than be made an imbecile or n scoun-
drel through so corrupting an influence
Sooner or later you must be thrown upon
your W resources, or you will not be any.
body. II you have ever helped Yourself at
all, If 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 fathers influence and
reputation, you might far better have been
q poor canal boy, the son of q chimney
sweep, or a boot blacb-and indeed we
would not swap with you the situation of a
poor, half.sinrvsd mo,herless calf! Miscr-
able objects you are, that depend entirely
upon your parents, playing gentlemen (alias
dnnde loater.) What in the name Of COM
mon sense are you thinking Of? Wake up
there! Go to work with either your hands
or your brains, or both, and do something!
Don't merely have it to boast that you have
grown in fathers house-thst you veget,,-
ed as other greenhornsl but let folks know
that you count one.
Come. off with your coat, clinch the saw,
the pillow handles, the scythc, the axe, the
pick-axe, the spade--anything that will en-.
able you to stir your blood! Ely round and
tear your icket,' rather than be the recipient
of the old gentleman's bounty Sooner
thnn play the dandy ut dads expense hire
yourself out to 'ome potatoe patch, let your
self to stop hog holes, or watch the bars;
and when you think yourself entitled to u
resting spell, do it on your own hook. IF
you have no other me rs Of having fun of
your own. but with your fathers earnings
get an empty barrel, and put your head into
ii and boiler, or get into ii and roll down
Hill. Don't make the old gentleman do
everything. and you live at your case.
Look about you you well-dres sed, smooth
faced do-nothing drones' Who are they
that have worth and influence in society,"
Are they those that have depended alone on
the old gcnt'eman's purse! or are they those
that have climbed their way to their posi-.
ton by their industry and energy! True,
The old genileman's funds or personal in
f~uente, may secure you the forms Of respect,
but let him lose his property, or die, and
what are you! a miserable fledgling-a
bunch Of flesh and bones that needs to be
taken care of.
Again, we say, wuke up-get up in the
m~orning-turn round at least twice before
breakfast--help the old man--give now and
then u generous lift In business--learn how
to tako the lead, and not depend forever on
hoina lsd, aud you haso MT lido" how the
discipline will benefit you. Do this, aud
our word for it, you will seem TO breathe a
new atmosphere, posses a new d%estiny--and
you may then begin to aspire to manhood.
Take off, then, That ring from your lilly
finger, broak your cane, shave your upper
lip, wipe your nose, hold up your head, and
by all means, never again eat the bread of
id.eness, NOR DEFEND ON FATHER!