The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-09-27
YOUNG MAN, BRACE UP.
A WESTERN EDITOR,s ADvIOE TO
HIS KIDS.
The Young bIan Who Sits Down In idle
moss, and What Becomes Of Him.
From the Milwaukee Sun.1

From the Milwaukee sun.1 ~e'N
A lazy man is too contemplate to live,
and has no rights his fellow men are
as well understand, first as last, that
this world. You may not always get
world too mean and contemplate 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 1t,
To be sure there is q great difference in
men. Some are endowed with greater
intellectual powers than others, while
some are greater physically. Some men
are born low down in the scale Of intel
lectua]ism, but mark you the physical
Of such man. There is way provided,
however, for every man to better him
self. You won't find it in the gin mill.
neither is it to be found at the gaming
table. Remember one thing, and that
is, you have not the capacity to take
into yourself all the strong drink made
In this world, and you had better let the
contract out before you attempt to work
on it, Don't bet all you have on bob
tail flush, or before you know it the
other man will either raise you out of
the game or come in on straight flush.
Nine hundred and ninety young men
out Of thousand, who started with an
idea Of becoming suddenly rich by bet
ting on sure thing, get left, and are
worse off than when they came into the
game. The bay horse is more liable to
get beat If you hold pool check on him
than he was before you put up your
money. Such certainties are uncertain
ties, and never give mp certainty for an
uncertainty. Don't fool with the tiger;
you can't most always tell which way the
beast will Jump.
When young man sits down in idle
ness, with an idea that the world owes
him living, it's high time his body was
committed to the dust from whence it
came. AS for his soul, nothing will ever
be known of it. 1t is so small that it
would rattle round in the shell OF mus
tard seed, and when it leaves his lazy
carcass, is for ever lost on account of its
infinite proportions.
A record of the young men who have
been unfortunate enough to have for
tune left them shows that eight in ten
never amount to single atom in the
world, and seven out of the eight die
bankrupts, financially, morally, and
otherwise.
When q father brings up his son in
idleness, never teaching him the first
principle Of economy or the value Of
dollar, he commits terrible blunder.
The father guilty of such crime gener-
ally has to saw wood for living in his
old age. Nine out Of ten of the boys
with fathers who bring them up in idle
luxury, ere they reach the meridian Of
life are total wrecks. Wrecked on the
rocks of total depravity which lie be-
meath the stream Of life and on whose
sharp and ragged edges thousands Of
lives have been wrecked and ruined.
Money bags may, like bladders, keep you
above the waters of distress for time,
but puncture them, let their contents
escape, and you sink.
Young man, you have undoubtedly
mnaut to do we'll. No young man ever
goes astray Intentionally, but in sorne
idle thoughtless moment he graduates
from soda water and lemonade to some
thing stronger, and before he is fairly
aware of it he has not only lost caste,
but has whole menagerie on his hands
and is employing doctor to help dis
pose of his immense elephants and the
snakes that laughingly cuddle in his
boots. Yes, the world presents too many
temptations for tho minds of oil to with
stand, and the only safe way for young
man is 20 keep away from the tempta-
ton. If you see man at wheel of
fortune win ten times running by betting
on the red, you just keep your hands
out Of your pocket and see him lose all
he made at the next turn Of the wheel
, and on the very color or number you
knew would win.
Boys, tho recklessness of youth is
: what has caused 80 many mothers hair
/ to turn as white as the driven snow. It's
this that has caused so many fathers and
mothers to give up by the wayside and
be laid in premature graves. The follies
of our youth hang heavier upon the
hearts of our fathers and mothers than
the milestone that grinds the kernel into
tho finest -four. It's pity that some of
our young men Of to-day didn't fall III
between the millstones before they have
caused tho trouble they have.