The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-03
The Young Man Of the Period.

rs worth knowing Dul lot an Lllal3 hlAp"
there are certain truths which you can
either learn from me now, or get your
knowledge by sad experience in the
future. In age, stature, in appearance,
you are a boy, but you are trying by all
the arts in your power to make it appear
that YOU are a man. To do this you are
aping the manners Of certain kind Of
men. you are trying to be manly, but
why on earth don't you adopt higher
standard of manhood? Look at yourself
In your dress you have selected as your
model the dandy, the gambler the fash
ionable butterfly; three creations which
almost make us doubt the wisdom OF
Divine Providence when we seek for a
reason for their existence. You are suck
ing poison into your systom through
nasty weed rolled up in the form OF
cigar, and you think this is manly. so it
is. 1t is manly because it isn't beastly.
The better instincts of beasts protect
them from such vile habits. You swing
a fancy cane, not because you need it for
protection or support, but because some
other worthless fellow does it, In fact,
you have taken pains to hunt out the
worst and the weakest attributes Of
| human nature, and you have taken them
as your standard of manliness. Shame
on you! If you have no individuality OF
character and must have amodel-some-
thing to copy after and imitate-why not
select some man in the highest sense,
one who is as far above the brute as the
ones you selected are below? Why not
select as your model the man who has
won high and honored position in life,
by his own talents, with habits Of indus
try, perseverance and application, with
out which no life can be a made sue
cess?
Have you any plans or purposes as to
the part you are to take in this busy,
bustling world? You have OF coulse-in
your way. 1 can read your desires in
that direction. You want somebody to
give you twenty or fifty thousand dollars
to start you in some enterprise. What
do you want Of this capital? You want it
for the advantages it will give you over
others On the same principle if you
were going to engage in pugilistic en-
counter with "a boy Of your own size, you
would like to be supplied with dirk, a
club or revolyer Shame on you! What
a contemplate coward you are You are
) afraid to 90 into the battle OF life single
handed, depending on your own strength
. and skill You want to entrenCh your
, sell behind the breast-works Of capital
which some braver one has built up
, Your own father, no doubt, acquired the
competence he enjoys by lifetime OF
) hard struggles with the world He went
; into the conflict with his sleeves rolled
e. up, with too much courage and manli
ness to ask anybody's help; yet you
would not disdain to take the fruit OF hii
toll, and continue throughout life anc
and get your support through his eNer
? ton, Just as you did when you were {
. HELPLESS babe. Shame on you. Do you
call that manliness? Do you call II
l bravery? Can't you see that the mos
e contemplate coward2 But ifyour father
as I suspect, has to much good sense tc
help you in making your life a nullity b.
To- giving you capital, you are wishing tina
p bv some fortunate chance some persol
, would give you $4,000. Now the who'll
e essence of this wish is that you wan
e money without giving an equivalent 10
= it. You would take S2O 900, which repre-
j sents somebody's hard labor, and no
d give a stroke of your own work in eN
70 change for it.. Shame on you DO yoI
t call this honesty? Perhaps you don't car
d whether it is honest or not. Very vel
/. we will put the case in another light
l. Would you be willing to stand on tn
r, street corner and ask 10000 people t
RI give you dollar apiece No, OF cours
IS not, for that would be begging bu
o where on earth does the difference com
Ii in? If you get $50, 900 without giving an
If equivalent for it, you are getting othe
persons labor, and if there is any differ
- ence in the methods, it is only the differ
ence between begging and craft SUI
II pose by some hook or crook you sucCee
=, in getting your $4,000 without any pa
ticuIar exertion ony your part, just tell m
% in what respect you are better tina
the convict in the penitentiary VIII
n was placed there for enbezzeling tina
d same amount? He wanted to get som,
% thing for nothing So do you.a But TN
convict tried to get the property witt
out the consent of the owners, Io
}r want the owners of twenty thousan
7t dollars to consent to give it TO you fl
{, nothing, or to be compelled to, Sham
on youl Where is your manliness, you
1- pride, your honor? Young man you al
f. commencing life with a stock of wrou
7- ideas, and the worst one is that whic
} leads you to suppose that it is not IL
&C. highest type of manliness which
ID clothed in the garb of honest toi
h There is no material prosperity that
is not the fruit ofwell directed labor. Tai
5r your place among the workers and be
e. man, or cultivate your present proper
~ stiles and be a social leech, an excre
y |caDca which NAV Heaven take Dity q