Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-12
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NJ. OUAD,S TALK WITH THE BOYS.
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NOW, luy UOy, you "auI w sup ueau Dull
They call this fast age and we are term
ed a fast nation, but in spite of that we
have plenty of time. Take time to eat.
Take time to dress. Take time to do what
ever task you are engaged in to your COM
plete satisfaction. I always feel like kick
| ing lazy man, and if l set out on jour-
ney, / can't 60 fast enough, but this impa-
tience has lost me days of time and good
many dollars. If I want to make a 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 I have a shelf which won't fit
by lug full, or bench which rests on three
legs and holds up the other oneas if it had
sore foot. I 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 num-
ber of boots, offended dozens of good men,
and all because wanted to save time.
Don't rush. The older l grow the less l
believe in the 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 pet
ulent, impatient boy makes man who
can't keep friend. He will be obstinate,
unreasonable, unforgiving and thoroughly
despised. Do not argue that it is born in
you and you can't help it. A boy can help
anything if he has any sand in his nature.
He can exercise patience or give way to hts
of anger which ought to be boot-jacked
out of his nature to save him from the gal
| lows.
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 five o'clock supper. Our stores might
open in the morning or wait until after
| noon. Our mills and factories would be run
| to suit the convenience Of teamsters and en-
gineers instead of owners. Our trains and
| boats would leave to suit captains and con-
ductors, 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
and bring men to you with fat offers.
Don't imagine that you are doing any body.
a great favor by calling upon them and hint
ing 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 dol
lars per week will never get four. If he is
determined to be worth four he will soon be
receiving five.
I sat down with a half dozen of you the
other day, and the opinion of the majority
was that employers didn't make any
distinction between smart energetic boy
and a drone. Don't be foolish, my lad.
Nine employers out of ten had much rather
advance a boy than to discharge him. A
boy may not be watchedas closely as man,
because we make allowances for his ineXpe-
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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 re-
ward him is no man to work for.
Now let's talk a little further about the
flash literature I referred to a few weeks
ago. I went the other day and bought
stack of the stuff in order to see just what
it was. When one comes to see the wretch
ed stuff written and published in order to
catch the attention of the boys of America
he must wonder if we have any fathers
among our law makers. There is fellow
in New York publishing a weekly sheet
called the Young Men Of Anaerica. He
must think them set of rascals or idiots.
In one story he has hunter who catches in
his hand the bullets fired at him by a 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 boy whip
seven or eight mountain outlaws. The boy
has probably died since. If this stuff was
held out to you as pure fiction you would be
completely disgusted. These flash publish
ers know this, and so they have these sto-
ries founded upon well-known facts and
events which are matters of history.
In the paper / have mentioned is story
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the adventures of. General Marion and his
scouts. The injury here consists in historic
lying. You are asked to accept everything
as fact, when not one single fact is stated.
AS specimen of what one of the scouts did
when he wasn't trying his best I will men
tion 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 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 was to draw that
same terrible toad-sticker and cut off two
heads. The other four fired at him, but his
brass turned the bullets aside, and he Topped
off the head of the third. The remaining
three thereupon rushed into the woods, and
the scout was kind enough not to pursue.
Having cut off three heads and two arms
inside of half an hour he felt tired. Think
of such bosh We all like a brave man,
but even boy of insn't green enough to
believe in such statements.
In detective story in which a 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 disguise almost
as often. She always entered robbers dens
by sewer without being bitten by rats or
getting her feet wet, and if any one fired
revolver within foot of her head the Weap-
on always missed fire and she calmly knock
ed the fellow down and went on chewing
her quid of gum as if nothing had happen
ed. Boys who beg and steal and sleep un-
der the Wharves are made heroes, and bur-
glars and outlaws are held up as shining
examples of brave nation.
Drop 'em, my lad There's more moral
poison in one such story than you will get at
the circus or theatre in five years. Better
be unable to read at all than to imbibe such
stuff You hate boy who lies to you:
Then why pay these men in money. and
time to deceive and poison you? If you
were told that a boy of Is had captured six
lieve it, Then why believe in these wretch
ed exaggerations ? Shut right down on that
class of men and their publications, and in
three years they'll have to earn their dollars
In an honest manner or you'll hear of 'em
behind the bars.
LIFE AND WORK.-We hear good deal
about the rapid decay of human faculties in
tb;c oo,ptr1- aC If thnrn waS SOmpthinp in