Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1882-08-31
MEMS PEDIGREE.
Bill Arp Discourses OF the Fam
lily Tree.

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Pride OF aLcasry is good thihl
A yonng man has light to be pron
OF a noble father, bnt the danger
he generally leans on him too stron
ami don't do anything for him.
is very seldom indeed that gres
man has great son; old John Adam
did and so did John Quincy Adams
but Henry Clay didn't, hor Calhoun
|. nor Webster, nor Tom Jefferson, mol
Patrick Henry, nor any of our nota
bles. wonder why it is? Thorough
bred horses keep on getting better
and better and faster aud faster, anG
they hold up their heads and look
proud, and step with 'lisdainiul
spring, like the ground wasn't good
enough for 'em, but the aon OF II great
man amt much account and Just lays
around and talks, about pap. l al.
ways feel sorry ior ayoung man who
has bank on his daddy's fame. He
gets attention and is considered bon
ton and all that, but everybody talks
pitlful about him and says, well, he
Is clever boy but he will never
make the man his father is" There
is too much contrast to be comforta
bic. A great mans son is in deli
cats position, but he can get along
very we'll if he amt biggoty.
Great men g children are very much
like rich mems children-there IS
nothing Tor EN- to do-nothing be
hind EN- to spur EN- np, no motive,
no ambition, no fear OF want. But
Of all the fools in the world, deliver
me from these suck ups who claim to
be blooded stock, defendants OF the
+. F V's or the F. F's OF any other
.otate, and who put Oh airs Of conde-
ceLsion when they mix with comm II
people. They are not the sort to rely
on when WAT or trouble comes.
They will run from danger on the
first alarm. Pedigreeis is good thing
q anong horses, bnta man had better
not investigate his own ancestry with
too much confidence. He will run ny
a 5ainst scrub On one side or the
0 her. I've got nothing agin scrubs
soIns OF the best people know are
mighty common stock, but they are
honest, tine and humble. The war
Tried men, aud the scrubs held on,
and held out as good AZ Anybody
The scrubs are not always huIliI e.
round Tor oflice and an easy
i've without work. These
.ilice hunters talk mighty sweet and
get around lively when they are lee
io,eeling, bnt they are not the best
people in community. One time the
iing took journey with all his atien
iauts, and 4 boy, who was sitting Oh
he fence, told him he had better stop
awhile and get under the wagon
hade, ior 1t was going to rain Ike
,lezea before he could get to the next
,ouse. The king didn't believe him
md went on, and shore enough
hunder storm came up in IL hurry
md it rained tremendous, and the
ting went back to find out how the
10Y knew it was commin.' Why"
aid he, "daddy's old jack was
'rayia. and he always brays just be
ore rain" So the king bought tLe
4ck and took him to his royal stables
nd set him up as weather prophet,
md had him fed high. and now, they
Ay, that ever since then every jack
as in the country wants en- office
-esso!
1t amt one man in thousand
hat knows his pedigree for thre-
back, Tor he has got ionl
grandparents, and eight great grand.
and sixteen at-great. grand
'arents, and so on doubling every,im
nd sumo Of EN- We're mean stock,
.ad meanness will crop ont away
Iown the line in spite of prayers sn''
'rearhin and abundance oi punish.
nent. Scrubs come from great men
nd great men come from scrubs, and
here's nothing for man to he rrou.l
/ but bis own conduct. LIT every
ub stand on its own hottom. There
re two pitiful sights in human na
IRE, one is proud old ariatocratir
slnily, broken down in purse and
osition and the other is to see the
hildren Of scrnh who has got rich.
nttine on aristocratic airs, and
trntling around like they We BET
er than anybody. The first set hack /,
90 much on breeding and the Iast !
90 much on money. Tom Perry was
he best specimen OF scrnb ! EVER
4w. Tom was bound ont, wheI
ov, and worked bare footed ali the ,
inter, and ne was pigson-toed. ami .
ongne tie'l and bashy | re;l, an | ,
bat he la / Il big h-ars in J
i'm, and powerful will, an he nev ,
+ got tired OF work. Tom Perry
'as always doing something for some .