The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-12
Short Talks With tile Boys.
BY VI. QUAD.
"Hurry up-quick !"

10 eat. Lake LlUl6 10 QIoSS. 4dke IIult
to do whatever task you are engaged in
to your complete satisfaction. always
feel like kicking lazy mali, and if sci
out on a journey I can't 60 fast enough
but this impatience has lost me days Of
time and good many dollars. If want
to make shelf or bench I rush for the
first handy board, saw it off hap-hazzard
pound in any sort of nails in any sort OF
way, and when the job is complete
have shelf which won't fit by jug
full, or bench which rests on three
legs and holds up the other one as if if
had sore foot. have taken the wrong
street car, lugged off other mems hats,
left my change on store counters, bought
sugar when I was told to buy butter,
spoiled any number of boots, offended
dozens of good men, and all because l
wanted to save time.
Don't rush. The older grow the less
I believe in the man who leaves cloud
of dust behind him. He will be wrong
half the time. He will botah his work,
upset the best calculation, and lose a
dollar for every seventy.fve cents he
makes. A petulant, impatient boy makes
man who can't keep friend. he will
be obstinate, unreasonable, unforgiving
and thoroughly despised. Don't argue
that it is born in you and can't help it..
A boy can help anything if he has any
sand in his nature. Ee can exercise
patience or give way to fits of anger
which ought to be boot.jScked out of his
nature to save him from the gallows.
But you hate to be bossed, eh? 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 10 o'clock in the morning and quit in
time for 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
think you can sit with folded arms aud
bring men to you with fat offers. Don't
imagine that you are doing anybody q
great favor by calling upon them and
limiting around that you could be coaxed
to take situation. Do as your employ
er directs. If he doesn't know his bus
mess 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.
1 sat down with half dozen of you
the other day, and the opinion of the
majority was that employers didn't make
any distinction between smart, energet.
ic boy and a drone. Don't be foolish,
my lad. Nine employers out of ten had
much rather advance boy than to dis.
charge him. A boy may not be watched
as closely as man, because we make
allowances for his inexperience and fol-
lies and triaing nature, but don't you for.
get that he is soon sized up. If he is
respectful and truthful and honest the
employer who doesn't realize it and re-
ward him is no man to work for.
Now let's talk little further about
the flash literature I referred to few
weeks ago. I went the other day and
bought stock 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 if
We have any fathers among our lawma-
kers. There is fellow in New York
publishing a weekly sheet called the
Young Men Of An,erica. He must think
them a set OF rascals or idiots. In one
story he has a hunter who catches in his
hand the bullets fred at him by dozen
enemies, and it is no work at all for him
to put fifty enemies to flight. we want
such man on the Detroit police force,
but the Superintendent will have long
hunt to find him. In another he has a
boy whip seven or eight mountain out
laws. The boy has probably died long
since. If this stuff was held out to you
as pure fiction you would be completely
disgusted. These fash publishers know
this, and so they have these stories
founded upon we'll known facts and events
which are matters of history.
In the paper I have mentioned is a
story of the revolutionary war. 1t pur.
ports to be the adventures of General
Marion and his scouts. The injury here
consists in historic lying. You are asked
to accept everything as a fact, when not
one single fact is stated. As a specimen
of what one of the scouts did when he
wasn't trying his best | will mention that,
being pursued by TWO British dragons,
he let them fire four bullets into him at
close range, before it occurred to him
that it was a cold day. He then drew
his sword and cut right arm from the
body of each. He then rode away in
search of root beer or something else to
cool his tongue, but hadn't cooled over
half of it before six other dragons
pitched into him. The first move he
made wa to draw that same terrible
toad.sticker and cut off two heads. The
other four fred at him, but his brass
turned the bullets aside, and he Topped
off the head of the third. The remain.
ing three thereupon rushed into the
WUUuSs dllO LuC oCOuV Uuo hAuN ShSN6A
not to pursue. Having cut OFT three
heads and two arms inside of half an
hour he felt tired. Think of such bosh
We all like brave man, but even boy
of seven isn't green enough to believe in
such statements.
In detective story, in which ninety.
pound woman is the detective, she is
made to capture robbers whom three men
dared not tackle, and to change her
voice twenty-four times per day and her
disguises almost as often. She always
entered robbers dens by sewer without
being bitten by rats or getting her feet
vet, and if any one fired revolver with
in q foot of her head the weapon always
missed fire and she calmly knocked the
fellow down and went on chewing her
quid of gum asif nothing had happened.
Boys who beg and steal and sleep under
the wharves are made heroes, and burg
lars and outlaws are held up as shining
examples of brave nation.