The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-03-27
FROH THE COUNTRY.
Where the Rising Young Men OF
the City Hail From city Born and
city Bred b Heminaciea-
Joe, Howard in Boston Herald.

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Thank God for the country Blessed
be that rural life which believes in hon
esty of purpose and steady action which
recognizes the existence of things AZ
they are. which believes in sentiment,
which is not ashamed of feeling, where
surcharged thoughts find relief in tears,
where steadfast ewes rest clearly upon
equally steadfast orbs From the coun-
try New York and Boston and Philndel-
phia and Chicago and San Francisco
get their young men. The young gen
tlemen are born in these metropo-
Uses, but the young men with clear
heads and with virile bodies. with
muscles and nerves, with red hot blood,
with ambitions and aspirations and de-
sires and purposes come from the coun-
try. Heaven help the nation which de-
ponds for its guidance, its progress and
its defense upon city born, city bred
efiemlnacies. L am not particularly
familiar with Boston audiences, but [
do not doubt you can find as many
"slims' in your music halls and on your
promenades in proportion to your pop
ulation as we have here. New York is a
city of the very rich and the very poor
There are thousands of men here
who started from nothing who spend
to-day annually from 100000 to 500
600 in their hoI.e expenses Their
children are born on plane of com
fort to which their parents were
strangers; atfiuence has taken the place
of necessity. One would suppose, if he
had not the evidences to the contrary
before his eyes continually, that these
men, having started humbly, having
acquired Il competency with great men
tai effort and physical WEAKNESS. would
find pleasure in seeing their families
reared in comparative comfort and
ease, to be sure, but would take pains
to impress upon the minds OF their
children the necessity of honesty and
industry.
The contrary is the fact. have in
my mind newspaper proprietor-n not
in New York city. and not very far
from it who was born in opscurity and
in excessive poverty. He began life by
selling papers on the streets, and run
ming errands for such benevolent stran-
gers as were willing to trust "A tatterder
malion on the sidewalk. Precisely hy
he started with the purpose of bccom
ing rich | don't know. The fact is suf
ticient. When he was II years old he
went into printing Office and learned
the job branch of that occupation.
Little by little he grew, always frugal,
always industrious, IL soher-mlDaed
proper man. At the age of - he
owned one of the largest job printing
Offices in the section of the country
where he lived, and still resides, and
TO-DAY circumstances have favored him
remarkably He is chief proprietor III
one of the best paving institutions in
the country.
He has children the eldest of whom.
a son of 10 year, of age. is pretty well
along the road to ruin. | ran across
him the other day. Instead of the
vigorous Irish physique possessed by
his father, the lad is small, slender,
pale and dissipated His eyes are weak
and watery. He dresses in the ex-
tremest dude fashion, English pesky
shoulders, wasp waist, nobbv knees,
long cuffs and toothpick shoes, and
lawdy da's through life, miserable,
sickening, simpering simpleton. He
has horse and a coupe, a gold-headed
cane and package OF cigarettes He
drinks champagne between the acts,
occupies proscenium boxes on first
nights. fails i'll love- with every pretty
face he sees, votes life bore and shares
the opinion of the sapient critic, to
whom | alluded in my opening sem
tence, that Lucia is hackneved
opera"
Little Plants