The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21

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other young men put on their seal
brown 0veFallS and wrench the laurel
wreath and other vegetables ffom
cruel fate, the youth who dangle-
near the OLD nest, and eats the hard
earned groceries of his father. shivero
ON the brink of LIES great current
and sheds the scading tear.
He is the yOung-man afraid of the
saw-huct, the human being with the
unlaundripd spinal column. The
only vital question that may be said
to agitate his pseudO-brain is wheth
er he shall marry and bring his wife
to the hOme-npst, or marry and tear
loose from his parents to live with
his fatner.in.law. Finally he settles
it and compromises by living alter
nately with each.
How the old folks yparn to see
him. How their aged eyes light w
when he comes With his growing
family to devpur everything in sight
and yaWn through the space bet Ween
meals. This is the hey.day of hi
life the high noon Of the boy who
never ventured to ride the yparling
colt, or to be yanked through the
shimmering sunlight at the tai of a
twu-year-old. He never dared to
have any fun because he might bump
his nose and make it bleed on his
clean clothes. He never surrepti-
tIou-ly cut the copper wire off the
lighting rod to snare suckers with
and he never went in swimming be
cause the great ruGe boys might
duck him or paint him with mud
He stunned the green apple of boy.
hood and did not slide down hill be-
cause he would ha Je to pull his sled
back to the top again.
Now he h0rrOWS other peoples
newspapers, eats the provisions Of
! Others, and sits on the counter of the
grocery till the proprietor calls hiln 1t
counter irritant.
There cam be nothing more an
American than this tiabhy pOIyp.
this one-hOrSe tadpoIe that never he
comes frog. The average Ameri.
can would rather burst up in bust
ness ~ix times in four years, and set
tie for nine cents on the dollar, than
10 Head such a life. He would rather
be an active bankrupt than a weak
| and bilious barnacle ON the clamSheI
of home.
The true American would rather
work himself into luxury or the lu-
natic-a-ylum, than to hang like a
great Wart upon the face of nature.
This young man is not in accordance
with the Yankee schedule, anI vt |
ito not want to say that he belongs h.
any other nation. Foreign powers
may hav" been wrong transatlantic
nations may have erred, and the SyS.
''''i VI HA''b'"I S'fV'iIiiiFIt may
have been erroneous, hut / would
not come out AMI charga them with
this horrible responsibility. They
never harmed me, and | will not
tarnish their fair fame with this grave
indictment.
He will breathe certain amount
of atmosphere and absorb IA given
amount of feed for few years, and
then the full grown hippd will leave
the home NEST at last. The under
taker will come and get him and
take what there is left of him out TO
the cemetery. That will be all.
There can be no deep abiding sorrow
for him there public brildingS will
not he draded in mourning, and you
can get your mail at the usual hours
when he dies. The band will not
play q sadder strain because the fag
end of a human failure has tapered
down to death. and the soft and
~hapelesS features are still. You will
have no trouble getting a draft CASH
ed on that day, and the giddy throng
will join the picnic AS they had made
arrangements to do.-DetroH Ere
Press.