The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-25
Gnr he Ghilher.
A Talk with the Boys.
" Hurry up-quick "

Talk with the Boys.
"Hurry up-quick
Now, my boy, you want to stop dead
still They call this fast age, and we
are termed fast nation, but in spite of
that we have plenty of time. Take time
to eat. Take time to dress. Take time
to do whatever task you are engaged in
to your complete satisfaction. always
feel like kicking lazy man, and if set
out on journey 1 can't 60 fast enough;
but this Impotence has lost me days of
time and good many dollars. If want
to make shelf or bench rush for the
first handy board, saw it off hap-hazard,
pound in any sort of nails in any sort of
way, and when the job is complete have
shelf which won't fit by joyful, or
bench which rests on three legs and holds
up the other one as if it had sore foot.
have taken the wrong street car, logged
off other mems hats, left my change on
store counters, bought sugar when 1 was
told to buy butter, spoiled any number Of
boots, offended dozens of good men, and
all because wanted to save time.
Don't rush. The older grow the less
l believe in man who leaves cloud of
dust behind him. He will be wrong half
the time. He will botch his work, upset
the best calculation, and lose dollar for
every seventy-fve cents he makes. A
petulant, impatient boy makes a man
who can't keep friend. He will be OBJ
stinate, unreasonable, unforgiving and
thoroughly despised. Don't argue that it
is born in you and you can't help it. A
boy can help anything if he has any sand
rph iu q r>okta
or give way to fits of anger which ought
save him from the gallows.
But you hate to be bossed, eh d? Well,
my boy, if we could all do as we pleased
this would be fine country to live in.
Our workingmen would get to their labor
at ten o'clock in the morning and quit in
time for five o'clock supper. Our stores
might open in the morning or wait until
afternoon. Our mills and factories would
be run to suit the convenience of team
sters and engineers instead of owners.
Our trains and boats would leave to suit
captains and conductors, and some days
you would get one meal and other days
three. We must have bosses and stand
bossing. Don't start out with the idea
that you can be independent. Don't you
think you can sit with folded arms and
bring men to you with fat offers. Don't
imagine that you are doing people q
great favor by calling upon them and
limiting around that you could be coaxed
to take situation. Do as your employer
directs. If he doesn't know his business,
that's none of your affairs. Make up
your mind that the boy who sets out to
earn only three dollars per week will
never get four. If he is determined to be
worth four he will soon be receiving five.
L sat down with half a dozen OF you
the other day, and the opinion of the ma
jority was that employers didn't make any
distinction between a smart, energetic boy
and drone. Don't be foolish, my lad.
Nine employers out of ten had much
rather advance boy than discharge him.
A boy may not be watched as closely as
man, because we make allowances for
his inexperience and follies and trifling
nature, but don't you forget that he is
soon sized up. If he is respectful and
truthful and honest, the employer who
doesn't realize it and reward him is no
man to work for.
Now let us talk a little about flash lit
erature. / went the other day and
bought stack of the stuff in order to see
just what it was. When one comes to
see the wretched stuff written and pub
lished in order to catch the attention OF
the boys of America, he must wonder il
we have any fathers among our law
makers. There is fellow in New Yorb
publishing weekly sheet called tn.
Young Men of america. He must think
them set of rascals or idiots. In one
ba hos huntar xuhn atnha in hi
hands the bullets fred at him by dozer
enemies, and it is no work at all for him
to put fifty enemies to fight. We wan
such man on the Detroit police force
but the superintendent will have Ions
hunt to find him. In another he has
boy whip seven or eight mountain out
laws. The boy has probably died since
If this stuff was held out to you as pur,
fiction you would be completely Disguised
These flash publishers know this, and 81
they have these stories founded upon well
known facts and events which are matters
of history.
In the paper have mentioned is story
OF the revolutionary war. 1t purports Il
be the adventures of General Marion anC
his scouts. The injury here consists il
historic lying. You are asked to accep
everything as a fact, when not one singl,
fact is stated. As specimen of VIVA
one of the scouts did when he wasn't try
ing his best l will mention that, being
pursued by two British dragons, he lie
them fire four bullets into him at shor
range before it occurred to him that i
was cold day. He then drew his swor'
and cut a right arm from the body o
each. He then rode away in search o
root beer or something else to cool hi
tongue, but hadn't cooled over half of
before six other dragons pitched int