Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-09-13
MANS PEDIGREE.
The Georgia Philosopher DIscourses
Of the Family Tree
And Tells How Little Ne Who Boasts The
Most Knows Of His Family
Before Him.
A Satire on the Follies and Pompous Claims
Of wouid-be 6reat People.

honhr ahd Shame from no condition rus.
Act we'll your part there all the houorlies.
Pride of ancestry is a good thing
\ Young man has a right to ~,
proud of a noble father, but th,
danger is he generally leans Oh hin
too etrong aud don't do anNthin.
for himself. II is very seldom in
deed that great man has n great
son; old John Adams did and 81
did John Quincy Adams, but Henri,
Clay didu'i, nor Calhoun, nor Web
strr, nor Tom Jefferson. nor Patrick
Henry, nor any of onr notahles.
wonder Why it isl Thoroughbred
hors rp on getting better aud
better aud faster and faster, aud
they hold mp their heads aud hook
proud, aud step with disdainfnl
spring, like the ground wasn't good
enough for 'em, but the sou of q
great man amt much account and
just lays around aud talks about
pap. always feel sorry for a
Young man who has to bank on his
daddN's fame. Gets attention and
is considered "bon tom and all
that, but everybody talks pitiiully
about him and says, "wrll. he is u
clever boy. but he will never make
the man his father is There is
too much contrast TO he comfort
able. A great mans son is in Il
delicate position, but he can get
along very well if he amt biggoty.
Great mems children are very
much like rich mems children -
there Is nothing for em To do--nOih.
Ing behind 'em 10 spur 'em up, no
motive, no ambition, no fear of
want. But of all the fools in the
world, d,livrr me from these "Stuck
ups" who claim To he bloodrl stock,
descendants of the +. +. VS., oT the
+. rs of any other State, aud who
put on airs of condrcrnsion when
they mix with common people.
They aIe not the sort to rely on
when war ar trouble comes. They
will run from danger on the first
alarm. Pedigree Is good thing
Il nung nurses, bui man had better
not investigate his own ancestry
with too much confidence. He will
run up against a "scrnb on one
side or the other. Eve got nothing
a.in "scrubS." some of the best
people | know are mighty common
stock, but lhry are honest, trnr and
humble. The war tried men, and
the "scruhs held on and held out
as good as any body. The scrubs"
are not always hunting round for
office aud an easy way To live with.
ont work. The chronic office hunters
talk mighty sweet and get around
lively when they are 'leclioneeriRg.
but they are not the best people in
community. One time the king
took "A journey with all his attend
ants. and "A boy. who was sitting Oh
the fence. told him he had better
stop awhile and get under the
wagon shed, for it was going TO
rain like blazrs before he could get
to the next house. The king didn't
believe him aud went on, aud shore
enough thunder storm came up
in u hurry and it rained treinen'
dious. and the king went back 10
lind out how the boy knew IL was
comm. why" said he, "daddys
old jack was bray in, and he al
WAYS bra,s just before a rain" So
the king longht the jack aud took
him to royal stables and set him mp
rs a weather prophet, and had him
fed high, aud groomed, and made
much Of him. and now, they say,
that ever since then every jackass
in the country wants AL Office.
Jesse!
Ii ain't one man in q thousand
that knows his own pedigree for
three generations back, tor he has
d.. - ,~~.,,,t M rapfa aud oiUht