Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-02-10
Take Your Hands Out OF Your
Pockets.

when young man crooks his arms and
thrust, his hands into his pockets, max
ing a figure eight of himself, and then
stand up against the sunny side of
house like a rooster in December.
How would the girls look all turned
into eights, and leaning against the wall?
How, would your mother look in that
posture? You don't find her hands in
her pockets. Your mothers hands,
while you are loafing-they are hands
that sew, and bake, and stew, and fry,
and sweep, and darn and nurse but
she does not sink her handsin her peck
cts and loll against the building
Are your hands cold? Warm them
up at the end of hoe handle and the
plcw. Swing the hammer; drive the
plane; flourish the ak. There is UNI
told caloric about a spade. trowel and
wrench.
Besides, pocket heat is not profitable.
Have you money there? Are your
pockets the safe in which you have
hidden treasure, and are your hands
the bolts that secure the safe door !?
Money may be there to-day, butt won't
be Il guest over tomorrow night. An
oilers money is apt to leap out of his
pocket, 1t is likely to 60 for pipe, a
cigar, tobacco plug, mug of ale.
There is no money in pocket warming.
Take your hands out ofyour pockets,
young man. You are losing time.
fine is valuable. People feel it at the
other end Of the line, when death Is
uear aud eternity is pressing them into
,uch close quarters, for the work OF
this life graves, hours, days, weeks,
wears. II those at the end of the line,
if youth with its abundance of resources,
would only feel that time was precious!
Time is IA quarry. Every hour may
he nugget Of gold, 1t is time in
whose invaluable moments we build
our bridges, spike the iron rails to the
sleepers, launch our ships, dig our Gil
mails, run our factories. You might
have dug twelve hills of potatoes while
| have been talking to you, young man.
Take your hands out of your pockets.
The world wants those hands. The
world is not dead, asleep under the
pyramids, a mummy by the Nile. The
world is active, wide-awake, pushing
struggling, going ahead. The worlc
wants those hands. You need not take
them out of America. They can fine
market here at home. The country
wants those hands levelng the forests
5 grading the wheat in Minnesota, rails
ing cotton in Alabama, weaving clotl
in Lowell, picking oranges in Florida
digging gold in California, catching
mackerel from the deck Of a down-eas
fishing smack. Take your hands on
of your pockets
You are willing to work, you say
but can't 6ud anything to do.
Nothing to do? Do the first thing
that comes along. Saw wood, get il
coal, go on errands. In short, do any
thing honest with your hands, but don
let them loaf in your pockets.
A good example of what can b
done by young man who takes an,
keeps his hands out of bis pockets, wa
u set by one who graduated few year
ago at Harvard University. He de
termined to become cotton madufaC
rurer. Instead of relying on his gel
eral education, and waiting for an oper
!. ing, as many of his classmates did, h
v began at once to prepare especially fc
y the business he had chosen by enterin
machine shop as workman-mal
IS ing full hours and acquainting himse
If with every part of the machinery of
cotton mill. From the machine sh0I
. he went into the cotton mill, and h
+. hard work and close attention, rapid
is acquired thorough knowledge of a
n the processes of cotton manufacture
TO While some of his classmates we
waiting and looking for an opening
business, and Others were with difficult
filling subordinate positions, he vi
rapidly rising step by step, until he
to-day in charge Of one Of the large
. cotton mills in New England, with al
D Pile salary, and, what is better, dischar
ing the duties of his position with gre
y satisfaction to the company he serve
10. The Baltimore Sun notes the dea
of John Raymond, aged SO years,
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, who in Is.