The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-18
Young Man, Brace Up.

a lazy man is too contemplate
to live, and has no rights his fellow
men are bound to respect. Young
man, you may as well understand
first as last, that you have got to
work for all you get in this world.
You may not always get what you
earn,a as there men in this world too
mean and contembtible to give to
others what really belongs to them,
but If you would keep out of the
pOor-house and have a competency
in your old age, you will have to
work for it. There is way pro
vided, however, for every pan to
better himself. You will not find it
at the gin mill, neither is it to be
found at the gaming table. Nine
hundred and ninety niue young
men who started out with the idea
Of suddenly becoming rich by bet
ting on q sure thing,get left,and are
worse off than when they came into
the game. The bay horse is more
likely to get beat If you hold pool
check on him, than he was before
you put up your money. Such GER
tainties are uncertainties, and
never give up a certainty for an
uncertainty. Don't fool with the
tiger; for you can't always tel
which way the beast will jump.
When a young man sits down IL
idlcness, with the idea that the world
owes him living, it is high tins
that his body was committed to the
dust from whence it came. As foi
his soul nothing will ever be known
of it. It is so small that it would
rattle around in the shell of mus
tard seed, and when it leaves hi:
lazy carcass is lost forever on &C
count of its infnitesimal proper
tions.
A record Of young men who have
been unfortunate enough to have :
fortune left them, shows that elgh
to ten never amount TO single atom
in the world, and seven out of eigh
die bankrupts, morally, financ all.
and otherwise.
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in idleness, never teaching them th
first principles of economy, or Tia
value of dollar, he commits ter
rible blunder. The father guilty 0
such a crime generally has to say
wood for a living in his old age
Nine out of ten of the boy
with fathers, who bring them up il
idle luxury, ere they resch the me
ridian of life are total wrecks
Wrecked on the rocks of total de
pravity which lie beneath tn
stream of life, and on whose shar.
and ragged edges, thousands o
lives have been wrecked aud ruined
Money bags may, like bladders
keep you above the waters of dis
tress for time, but puncture them
let their contents escape, and you
sink.
Young man, you have undoubt
edly meant to do well. No youns
man ever goes astray intentention
ally, but in some idle, thoughtlesi
moment he graduates from sods
water and lemonade to something
stronger, and before he is fairly
aware of il be has not only caste
but has q whole menagerie on his
hands and is employing a doctor tC
help dispose of his immense ele
plants and snakes that laughingly
cuddle in his boots. Yes, the
world presents too many tempta-
tions for the minds of all 10 with
stand; and the only safe way for a
young man is to keep away fro m
temptation.
Boys, the recklessness of youth is
what has caused so many q moth
er's hair to turn as white as the
driven snow. 1t is this that has
caused so many fathers and moth
ei's to give up by the wayside and
lie down to rest in premature
graves. The follies of youth hang
heavier upon the hearts our fathers
and mothers than the milestone
that grinds the kernel into the fin
est of flour. 1t is a pity that some
of our young men of to-day didn't
fall in between the mill-stones be-
fore they have caused the trouble
theyShave. Young man, brace up!
You never saw a man go TO ruin
whose mind was occupied in legiti-
matework. You never saw an in
dustrious, frugal man in want. 1t
is the smart alick young man who
knows more than his father and
mother that generally brings up at
the end of his rope in a terrible
cholera-morbus state, morally, phys
ically, mentally and otherwise. 1t
is the same young man that invests
his money in mining stocks and
writes from the west to his friends
that he is coming back and would
like for them to meet him on the
outskirts of town with a new suit of
had q hat. Don't
treat with contempt the advice of
older and experienced men even if
you don't do exactly rs they advise,
but remember you must work for
all you get in this world.
--sS
The Future Of the South.
In letter to the Boston Adver-
tiser, Wendell Phillips says of the
south:
The handwriting is so plain on
the wall that none but a fool need
it. New England is