Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-30
For the Guardian.
A tho Boy-So the Man.


ent, is almost sure to prove itself
definitely in after life. "Habit is
second nature therefore the trite
but true maxim, strain up a child
in the way he should go, and when
he is old he will not depart from it,
Unless boy cultivates his heart
and applies himself assiduously to
moral training, he will accomplish
bnt little or no good in the world.
He may be so learned that he can e.
lectrify an audience with his brilliant
metaphorical language, and emilia.
zon volubly on metaphysics, vet his
influence will either be transient
or else detrimental. Intellect bereft
of the accompaniment of morals
and religion prepares one against
the detection of their crimes, in.
stead of being fortified against it.
1t Is possible in all youth, no mat
ter how mean naturally the DISPOSE.
ton and nature, to advance in
nobleness and purity. OF course
the bad blood will have q harder
struggle against the stream, than
the gentle blood, but the greater
the victory, the greater the triumph.
1t they are not trained to cultivate
a spirit of Misunderstanding
meanness, selfishness, and deceit
far better then never to see The in.
side of schoolroom and devote
time and talent to industrial and
technical training. II a boy is
launched forth with taste for in.
dustry and knowledge of trade,
he is better prepared for victory
over temptations than noue of those
accomplished ones who have
smattering of half dozen different
branches and no one direct path of
labor to follow. Any one can sue.
coed at some one thing, therefore
should follow in the channel the tai
ent directs, and not shirk out of it
because it involves manual labor.
Skilled labor is ever in demand, and
to know how to work is no disad.
vantage to the rich boys, for money
often changes hands.
We have personally known boys
who thought it looked manish to
chew tobacco and drink whisky,
and in the course of time could take
It as though invuincrabie to its
fiery effects as the eucalyptus to
combustion. In lieu of becoming
the human saiamander, this slow
poison consumes the fibres, and the
mental powers sympathize with the
physical system, and vice versa-
the principles of this are explained
IN the Electricall Physiological Psy-
,ology. They find themselves at
last incxtricable from the mael.
strOm, and must have the stimulants
At any hazard, the articles are
i'll as necessary items in
ont their bills Tor market
whilst unable to provide
comfortably for their children.
Whilst boys are sitting around
ike Micawber, "waiting for some
thing to turn up" thinking then
they will "maketh haste to be rich-
in some Office or profession, they
find the adage realized: ''The Devil
finds work enough for idle hands to
1o.' All work is honorable that is
honest and upon which the blessing
Of God can be invoked. We never
knew really good man to be lazy
man, for vice is the natural fruits of
idleness. If man has not proven
as one of stamina and
worth at the age OF thirty-the
time his habits have formed for
life-it is not probable he ever will.
The mind is endowed naturally
restless and active from infancy.
Thoughts are never still, and unless
innocent amusements aud profita-
BILE employment are provided and
INDUCED in, it turns to mischief as