The Russellville Democrat., 1882-07-13
Don't Depend on Father.


 Stand up here, young man, and let me talk with you. You have trusted alone to the contents of fathers purse,' or to his fair fame for your influence or success in business. Think you that father" has attain ed to eminence in his profession but by unwearied industry, or that he has amasscd fortune honestly with out energy and activity? You should know that the faculty requisite for the acquiring of fame and fortune is essential to, nay inseparable from the attaining of either of these. Sup pose father has the "rocks" in abundance, if you never earned any thing for him you have no more busi- ness with those ''rock" than q gosling has with a tortolse And if he allows you to meddle with them before you have learned their value by your own industry, he perpetuates untold mis- chief. And if 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 an imbccile or q scoundrel through so corrupting an influence. Sooner or later you must learn to rely on your own resources, or you will not be anybody. Ii you have never helped yourself at all, if you have become idle, if you have eaten fathers" bread and butter, and smoked his cigars, cut q swell in "father's" buggy, and tried to put on fathers influence and reputa- tion, you might better have been a poor errand boy, the son of chim- ney sweep, or boot black--and. in deed, l would not swap with you the situation of q poor half starved, motherless calf! Miserable objects are you that depend entirely upon your parents, playing gentleman, alias dandy loaier. What in the name of common sense are you think ing about? Wake up, there! Go work with either your hands or brains, or both, and do something! Don't mere ly have it to boast that you have grown in "father's' house--that you have yegetated as othe- greenhorns 1! but let folks know that you count one.
 Come, of with your coat, clinch tho saw, the blow handles, the scythe, the axe, the spade, the pickaxe-any- thing to enable you to stir your blood Ely round and tear your jacket rather than be the recipient of the old gentleman's bounty. Sooner than play the dandy at dads expense, hire yourself out to some potato patch, let yourself out to stop hog holes or watch the bars; and when you think yourself entitled to q resting spell, do it on your own hook. If you have no other means of having fun fyour own, buy with your earnings an empty barrel, and put your head into it and hallo, and roll down hill. Don't, for pity's sake, make the old gentleman do every. thing, and you live at your ease.
 Look about you, you well-dressed, smothed faced, do nothing drones Who are they that have worth and influence in society? Are they those that have depended alone on the old gentleman's purse, or arc they those that have climbed their way 10 their position by thclr industry and ener. gJ? True, the old gentleman's $ funds, or personal influence, may SC. 'ure you the forms of respect, but let him lose his property, die, and what are you2 A miserable hedge ing--a bunch Of flesh and bones that Iccds to be taken care of
 Again we say, wake up--get up in | he nOrning-turn round, at least wee before brcaktast--help the old | nau-gjve him now and then gener. | JUS lift in business learn how Co take | he lead, and not depend forever on ,elng led, and you have no idea how he discipline will benefit you. Do hs, and our word for it, you will seem o breathe new atmosphere, possess
 new frame, tread on new earth. 'akc new dcstiny--and you may hen beguh to aspire to manhood. | 'ake of, then, that ring from your y finger, break your cane, shave our upper lip, hold up your head, ad by all means, never again eat tho read of idlencss, nor depend on sthcr.' (