New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-01
THE BILIOUS BARNACLE.
From The Detroit Free Press.

The boy who cannot summon the moral courage
some day TO uncv the tendrs OF his heart from the
custering idols of the household TO grappie Win
outrageous fortune, ought to be taken by the ear
and led away out into the great untred realm Oh
space. =, u I, ,,,
refuses TO throb While other young men put Oh
their seaI-brown overas and wrench the laure-
wreath and other vegetables from cruel fate the
youth who bangles near the old nest, and eats
the hard-earned groceries OF HE father shivers on
the brink of LIES great current and shecs the
scalding tear . A..
human being with the unlaundered spinal column
The only vital question that may be salo 10 agtate
his pseudo-brain is whether no sna nia.rrS an, anu
loose from his parents to live with his fathei-,
law. Finally he settles II and compromises ny
Uow the old folks yearn to see him. How their
aged ewes light up whom he comes with his growing
family to devour everything IN sg' anu tu lawn
day of his life the high noon OF the boy who never
ventured to ride the yearng cclt. or to be yanked
through the shimmeriug sunlight al tue tai OF
two yeal-oId lie never dared to have any fun be-
cause he might bump his nose and make " pleed on
his clean clothes. He never surrepritiously cut the
copper wire off the lightning rod to snaie suckers
with and he never went in swimming because me
great rude buys might duck him or paint hum with
mud. lie Stunned the green apple of boyhood and
did not slide down hill because he would nave 10
pull his sled back to the top again.
Now ho borr0ws other peoples newspapers, eats
the provisions of others, aud sits on the counter OF
irritant.
Thsre can be nothing moro un-A American than this
fabby pcyp this one horse tadpole that never be-
comes q frog. The a, erage American would rather
l,urst ND In business six times in four years, and
sette for nine cents the dollar than TO lead such
a life He would rather be an active bankrupt
than weak and bilious barnacle on the clam-siell
of home
The true American would rather work himself
into luxury or the unatic asylum than 10 hang
like a great wart upon the face Of nature. This
Young man 10 not la accordance with the Yankee
schedule, and yet / do not want to say that ne
belongs to any other nation. Foreign powers may
nave beer wrong transatlantic nations may have
erred and the system of European government
NAV have been erroneous bat would no. come
ont and charge them with this horrible response
billty They never harmed me, and will not
tarnsh their fair fame with this grave indictment.
He will breathe certain amount OF atmosphere
and absorb given amount OF feed for lew years.
and then tho full grown biped will leave the home
nest at last. he undertaken will como and get
him and take what there Is left OF him out TO tho
cemetery That win be all. There can be no deep
abiding sorrow for him hero; public buildings VIII
not be drapei III mourning, end yon can ges your
mail at tho usual hours when be dies Inc bsnd
will not play sadder strain because tho iag-end OF
q human failure has tapered down to dosth and the
soft and shapeless features are still. You viii
have no trouble getting draft cashed on that day
and the giddy throng will join tho picnic ~ they
had made arrangements TO 40. f