The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-11
Making Things Go.
&Y REV. 7. DE WITT TALMACE.

lawful fraud committed than unlawful
Penitentaries and the Court of ''Oycr and
Terminer are for those clumsy rogues
who do net know how to steal. The purloin-
ing of one cabbage ends in the "Tombs,'
but the absconding with one hundred thou
sand dollars wins a castle on the Rhine
So you see that men get into jail not be
cause they steal but because they do not
steal enough. There are estates gathering
that have not within them one honest dol
lar.
But the general rule is that moral success
is worldly success. 1t is easier to make a
permanent fortune in honorable ways than
by dishonerable conduct. The devil is Il
poor financier. When the gold and the
were sworn to serve the cause Of righteous
ness, and they never go into the Golfers Of
the dishonest without committing perjury.
Lawful enterprise in the long run will de-
clare larger dividends than dishonest schem-
ing. The oil company Of which Hon.
Bogus Greaseback is President, and Hocus
Pocus, Esq, is Secretary, at first declares
twenty per cent, then ten per cent, aftes
ward three per cent, and, last of all, moth
ing, leaving the widows and orphans to
play the beautiful game of Money! money!
who has the money ?'
But fraudulent estates do not average a
continuance of more than five years. DC
casionally, an old man, having gathered
large property by ignoble means, may die
in it's possession, bequeathing it to his
heirs; but when the boys get it, what with
their wine, and what with their fast horses
-ha! how they will make it fly!
| There is an honest work for every one to
do. When a child is born, his work is al
ready prepared for him. There is some
thing in his nature which says: {. Yondcr
is the field, the shop, the store. Come, my
little man! Be busy!' No doubt Samson,
when he was boy, sometimes gave premo-
milton of what he was going to be, amusing
himself by carrying off gates, and in chas-
ing his playmates with the .jawbone of
bleached carcase, and, long before he fired
off the three hundred fex-tails among the
corn shocks of the Philistines, had tried the
same extreme measures Oh the cats of his
fathers house. Cowley evinced the poet
when in very early life he was wrought into
enchantment by the reading of Sponsors
Fairy Queen" Joshua Reynolds, in boy
hood, prephesied the painter by hanging
sketches around his fathers house, although
the disguised father wrote under one Of
them: "Done by Joshua out Of pure idle
ness!' Our own Van Derlyn began his
career in boyhood by chalk sketches on the
side of the blacksmithshop.
Nature invariably hints for what she has
made child Here is a boy cunning at Il
bargain. At school he is cxtravagantly
fond of trading. He will not como home
twice with the same knife, Or hoop, or kite.
Tomorrow morning he will leave the house
with an ignominious yarn ball-a great
trial to boy on the playground at
night will come back with one of India
rubber, which, under the stroke of the bat,
will soar almost out of sight, and then come
down with long continued bounce, bounce.
Some morning, calculating on the lowness
of the apple-market, he will take a satchel
full to school. Immediately there is a rush
in the market. He monopolizes the bust
ness. He sells at just the right time. Tho
vigilant schoolmaster, finding him barter
ing in what are not considered lawful bust
ness hours, brings him into port, and he is
compelled by this government officer to
discharge his cargo in the presence of his
fellows, who cape upon him like company
of stevedores. Can you doubt for mo-
ment for what occupation he was designed?
He must be a merchant
Here is a boy of a different liking.
Across the brook he has thrown dam, and
whirling around is a water-whec. He can
construct any thing he chooscs-sleds for
the winter, wagons for the summer, and
boats for the river. His knife is most of
the time out on whiting excursion
Down on your best carpets he plants his
tools. You are SO pestered on the Satur-
days when there is no school, itrequires all
of Sunday, and sharp sermons at that, to
get your patience unwrinkled. Pigeon
coops on the barn and hird-houscs in the
UlCcS, dttCoC WV Jim a.
trade. He must be a mechanic.
Here is another boy. You do not know
what to do with him. lie is always start
ing an argument. He meets your reproof
with a syllogism, He is always, at the
most inconvenient time, asking " Why?'
lie is on the opposite side Of what you be-
lieve, but anything for an argument If
you promised him a hogging, he would file
a caveat to stop proceedings, and dissatis-
fed with your decisions, he gets out
certiorxri, carrying matters up to the
Supreme Court Of his own reason. With
all this, he has glib tongue, AMI when
fairly started, it rattles like hail on a tin
roof. His destiny is plain: he must be
lawyer.
But if you should happen to have under
your charge, as guardian OF parent, Il child
not sharp enough to strike 4 bargain, and
not ingenious enough to make Sled and
not loquaci0us enough to start an argu-
ment, not inquisitiye as to the origin of
things, always behind in the school, and
slow on the play ground-there is then only
this alternative: If he be fat and chubby,
of uncomfortable appetite and enormous
digestion, and lazy withai, then send him
to the city, pull the wires, and make him
an alderman. But if he be long and lean,
sallow checked, with nerves ever on the
twitch, and digestion that will not go, l
know not what you will do with him unless
You make him minister. Alas, for the
absurdity rampant among families, that
when, because Of physical incompetenoy. Il
man is tit for nothing else, he is fit to be
"legate of the skies" Religion will never
make up for lack of liver and backbone.
Never get another to do for you what
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