Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-01
RICH YOUNG MEN.
A Lesson for the Reads OF Families
to Study.


to Study.
A few years ago, says an exchange,
there was exhibited in foreign art
gallery a picture which attracted an
extraordinary amount of attention, less
on the ground of its artistic excellence
than from the interest of the subject.
On one side of the canvas was depicted
boy in the full bloom of infantile
beauty; on the other q haggard, bot
tle-nesed, slouching man. Beneath
were the words which told sad story
of real life, "Can they he the same ?"
A paragraph has been in all the papers
relative to the career of young man
whose exploits have long been the talk
of Baltimore, and who must presently
stand in a criminal dock on capital
charge. Readers of "The Autocrat of
the Breakfast Table," will remember
DR.. Holmes description of the young
Marylander. AS type of manly
beauty, Samuel Mcdonald might have
sat for the portrait. Six years ago he
was a splendid youth, and when on
coming of age, and into possession of
his patrimony, he gave fete of unpre-
cedented expense to celebrate that event,
there were probably few of his guests
who failed to regard him with some
thing of envy. "The world was all
before him, where to choose" He
choose a career of wild excess, such as
the Regent Orleans could scarcely have
surpassed, and which has eliminated
in assassination. 'a
The scandals created by his conduct
in Baltimore at length drove him from
that, his native city, and he took up
his abode in Indiana. with which be
had become familiar in hunting expedi-
tions, and where no doubt he reioiced
at being free from that annoyance
which the averted looks of kith and kin
cause to even the most abandoned.
Thence tidings reached Maryland of
his orgies in the West. Surrounded by
the most abandoned his time was
passed in hunting expeditions in the
wild country within reach of his shoot
ing lodge near Terre Haute, exercises
which seemed designed merely to whet
his appetite for plunging, on his re.
turn, into excesses recalling those com.
mitted in the last century at their re-
treat on the banks of the Thames by
"the Monks of Medenham," over whose
portal hung the motto which they SC
faithfully followed-Do anything you
fancy"
Never before, probably, were such
scenes of riotous and profuse profigacy
enacted on this soil as those in Mac
Donald's lodge, near Terre Haute, and
it has been calculated that in one veal
they absorbed $150,000. The career o.
this young reprobate will come home
painfully to many parents. Ricf
youths are in this country much
greater difficulty to their friends thar
those less literally provided for. Satan
the old hymn says, find work for idle
hands to do, and the richer those hands
are the worse is the work.
Fortunate, indeed, may wealth,
families deem themselves who are with
out one of these black sheep. The
social conditions here are not what the.
were when every man had to get !
living. The class of rich young men i
rapidly increasing. Every year ther
grow up those who know from the be
ginning that at most they need onl.
play at working. Where is the safe
guard for such men? Wholesom
family influences may do much, but i
is chiefly to be found in liberal educa
ton. Only the educated know how t.
properly enjoy wealth and leisure, AM
have no need of debauchery and th
bottle to stife the demon enraui.
There is ample work for an educate,
af1uent class in this country worl
which they would achieve position ant
renown by doing.