The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-08-09

THE TRUE STUFF FROM WHICH GENU.
INE AMERICANS ARE MADE.

THE TRUE STUFF FROM WHICH GENU.
INE AMERICANS ARE MADE.
(Bill Nye in the Detroit Free Press.]
l am always sorry to see a youth
get irritated and pack up his clothes,
in the heat of debate and leave the
home nest. His future is a little
doubtful, and it is hard to prognosti-
cate whether he will fracture lime
stone for the streets of a great city
or become President of the United
States. but there is q beautiful and
luminous life ahead of him in COM
parison with that of the boy who OBJ
stinately refuses TO leave the home
nest.
The boy who cannot summon the
moral courage some day to uncoil the
tendrils of his heart from the cluster
ing idols of the household to grapple
with outrageous fortune, ought to be
taken by the ear and led out into the
great untried realm Of space
While the great world throbs on, he
sighs and refuses to throb. While
other young men put on seal.brown
overalls and wrench the laurel wreath
and other vegetables from cruel fate.
the youth who bangles near the old
nest and eats the hard-earned grocer
les of his father, shivers on the brink
of life's great current and sheds the
scalding tear.
He is the young-man.afraid -of.the.
sawbuck. the human being with the
unlaundried spinal column. The only
vital question that may be said to agi.
, tate his pseudo brain is whether ne
shall marry and bring his wife to the
home nest, or marry and tear loose
from his parents to live with his faith
er-in.law. Finally he settles it, and
compromises by living alternately
with each.
How the old folks yearn to see
him. How their aged eyes light up
when he comes with growing fami.
ly to devoa- everything in sight and
yawn through the space between
meals. This is they hey-day OF his
life !; the high noon of the boy who
never ventured to rice the yearling
colt, or to be. yanked through the
shimmering sunlight at the tail of {
three.year.old. He never dared tt
have any fun because he might bump
his nose and make it bleed on his
clean clothes. He never surreptitious
ly cut the copper wire off the light
ming rod to snare suckers with, ant
he never went in swimming because
the great rude boys would duck hin
or paint him with mud. He shunne(
the green apple of boyhood, and die
not slide down hill because he wOul(
have to pull the sled back to the tol
again.
Now he borrows other peoples pa
pers, eats the provisions of others
and sits on the counter Of the gr 0cer,
till the proprietor calls him a counte
irritant.
j There can be nothing more un.
American than this f1abbv polyp, TIL
one.horse tad pole that never become
a frog. 4 he average American woul'
rather burst up in business six time
in four years and settle for nine cent
on the dollar than to lead such life
i He would rat .,er be an active bank
rupt than a weak and bilious barns
J Gle on the clam shell of home.
j The true American would rathe
work Himself into luxury or the luns
u tic asylum than to hang like grea
wart on the face of nature. Thl
! young man is not in accordance wit
Yankee schedule. and yet 1 do nc
. say thet he belongs to any other ma
/ ton. Foreign power may have Gee
wrong; transatlantic nations ma
have erred, and the system of Euro
8 pean government may have bee
q erroneous. but could not charg
e them with this horrible responsibilit..
!. Tney never harmed me and III M
r tarnish their fair names with tn
= grave Indictment.
q He will breathe a certain amount
i atmosphere, and absorb a give
!. amount of feed for few years, an
t then the full grown biped will lea1
: the home nest at last. The under
n taker will come and get him and tai
|. what there is left of him o the cen
|. try. That will be all. There can
l. no deep abiding sorrow tor him herr
o public buildings will not be drapt
l. in mourning, and you can get yo
e mail at the usual hour when he die
It The band will not play sadd
it strain because the tag end Of hum'
II failure has tapered down to deaf
and the soft and shapeless feature
are still. You will have no trouble
I.44:,r d,o r. coeho6 On that da