Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-10-16

Words Of Counsel and Warning to all En-
bro pead-Beats.

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Young man, have watched you with
admiration. The first time
beheld you, saw at glance that the
aim and object Of your existence was to
be a tough boy, and you have since
been my daily study, and each day has
added to my delight in observing the
rapid strides you are making toward
your high and ennobling ideal.
| am pleased at the martyr-like de-
votion with which you struggle with the
cigar at which your face pales, your
head reels and your stomach trembles
hut to which yon adhere, nevertheless,
with more than Spartan firmness.
Again am made happy OF the fine,
manly instinct which leads you to
mingle choice slang and elegant pro-
fanity with your improving converse
tion, and j feel certain that the ladies
whom you are naturally proud TO have
rs auditors, must wish that you were
their own offspring, or at least that
their boys could have the benefit OF
your exemplary companionship
/ presume that you are up to the
hurAC W lQuOt NtoOt III Il OliA ItOt
that one SO Enthusiastically and praise
worthily tough as you appear can have
neglected so important an element Of
toughness as TO take drink now and
then, and possibly OCCASIONAL TO gel
tipsy. OF course you do not like the
taste OF liquor, any more than you de-
light in the flavor Of tobacco. under
stand that perfectly, and honor you |
the more because of your self-denial
No worthy object can be achieved with
out more or less OF discomfort; and
make sure that one day you will be d
great destroyer OF tobacco and a compe
| tent drunkard.
Young man, the path which yor
have marked out for yourself in life IL
perhaps not without its rough and rug
ged places, but it is full OF promise fol
yourself and for others also.
The ruddy glow in yonr cheeks
which betrays your youth of which Al
tough you are naturally ashamed
will shortly turn to the livid hue which
Man, with capital M, and your elasti,
step will after time materialize into
the elegant SLOUGH of the apotheosis in
to the tough bov, the Dead Beat. You
pearly teeth will long ere then have
turned to a beautiful amber, or a more
beautiful jet, if, indeed, YOU have moi
succeeded in casting them from you az
reminders OF childhood, therefore un'
worthy OF 80 transcendental a character
as yourself.
In that happy day you will have riser
above the few weaknesses which adhere
to you. You will have at last overcome
the foolish pride which causes you Il
wash your face every day of your lift
and winch leads you to wear clothes
fashionable in cut and devoid OF tatters
You will also have risen above the sor
did ambition OF securing name and 1
place in the world, or of reaching tina
station OF affluence OF which IN you
childish moments you still dream. Ii
a word, you will have become perfec
being, the butterfly of what you are a
vet beg your pardon from the ugl,
grub.
And then the good you are destined
to accomplish! In few years yol
have so far succeeded in demoralilinj
your stomach, and racking your nerve
and wearing out your heart, and short
knocking out your entire physical sys
tenn, that you will be the making o
the fortunes of half score of doctors
and should you succeed in finding
young woman fool enough to MARI.
you, and should you have children
will be your proud satisfaction to know
that your greatness shall live after you
and that your children, thanks to thei
parents toughness, shall in their tim
greatly aid in making the medical pro
iession profitable one so long-rathe
so short--as they shall live.
Yes, young man, you are a nobl
creature. Keep on in your gloriou
career, and when your epitaph is writ
ten, few years hence, let it consis
only of these simple but proud words
"He was A Tough ."--BOst03, TYunscriD