The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-04

parison with that of the boy who OBJ
stinately refuses to leaye the home.
nest.
The boy who cannot summon the
moral courage some day to uncoil the
tendrills of his heart from the cluster
ing idols of the household to grapple
with outrageous fortune ought to be
taken by the ear and led away out in
the great untried realm of space. q.
While the great world throbs on,
he Sighs and refuses to thrOb. While
other young men put on their seal
brown overalls and wrench the laurel
wreath and other vegetables from
cruel fate, the youth who dangle,
near the old nest, and eats the hard
earned groceries of his father, shivers
on the brink of life's great current
and sheds the scaIding tears.
lie is the Observation-Disclosures
SaW-buck, the human being with the
unlaundried spinal column. The only
vital question that may be said to
agitate his pseudo brain is whether
he shall marry and bring his wife to
the home nest, or marry and tear
loose from his parents to live with
his father-in-laW. Finally he settles
it and compromises by living alter
nately with each.
How the Old folks yearn to see him.
How their aged eyes light up when
he comes with his growing family to
devOur everything in sight and yawn
through the space between meals.
This is the hey-day of his life; the
high noon Of the boy who never ven
tured to ride the yearling colt, or to
be yanked through the shimmering
sunlight at the tail of two year-OId.
He never dared to have any fun, be-
cause he might bump his nose and
make it bleed on his clean clothes.
1AO lCNCl SUI ullSplItlOuoIy cut lHG COE-
per wire off the lightning rod to snare
suckers with, and he never went in
swimming, because the great, rude
boys might duck him or paint him
with mud. He stunned the green
apples of boyhood, and did not slide
down hill. because he would have to
pull his sled back to the top again.
Now he bOrroWs other peoples
newspapers, eats the provisions of
others, and sits on the counter of the
grocery till the proprietor calls him a
counter irritant.
There can be nothing more un-
American than this flahby poIyp, this
one-hOrset pole that never becomes
a frog. The average American would
rather burst up in business six times
in four years, and settle for nine cents
on the dollar. than to lead such a life
He would rather be an active bank
rupt than weak and bilious barnacle
on the calm shell of home.
The true American would rather
work himselfintO luxury or the lun9.
tic aysIum than hang like a great
wart upon the face of nature. This
young man is not in accordance with
the Yankee schedule, and yet | do
not want to say that he belongs to
any other nation. Foreign powers
may have been wrong trans Allan
tic nations may have erred, and the
system of European government may
have been erroneous, but | would not
come out and charge them with this
horrible responsibility. They never
harmed me, and | will not tarnish
their fair fame with this grave,indict-
ment.
He will breath a certain amount
Of atmosphere, and absorb a given
amount of food for a few years, and
then the full-grOwn biped 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 here public buildings will not
be draped in mourning, and you can
get your mail at the usual hours
when he dies. The band will not
play a sadder strain because the fag
end of human failure has tapered
down to death, and the soft and shape
less features are still. You will have
no trouble getting a draft cashed on
that day, and the giddy throng will
join the picnics as they had made ar
rangements to do.--DetrOH Free Press