The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-07-17
BAccALAUREaTE. as IT wssE.
4 Fond Parents Advice to HIS Hopeful
Son


son
alexander Philologus,N said
the parent in voice sad yet stern,
you arc about to go forth into
the wide world to carve out your
fortune. No doubt you have
beautiful dreams of what you will
achieve. In your minds eye you
SEQ yourself coming home years
from now clad in velvet and fine
linen. l trust that you may come
that way, but / fear that your
garments may be composed of bur,
lap. You confidently expect to
drive homeward down the sunlit
road IN a gorgeous equipage with
servants and retainers. trust that
you will not be obliged to walk
home on the ties and get turnips
from hired men to keep soul AMI
body together. You scof at the
idea, and you may scott until
the clangor of brazen bells announ-
ces that the COWS are coming home
have heard young men scott bee
tore at words that were spiced
with wisdom, and / have seen
them in after years driving street
cars and saving wood. The fac
Of the matter is, Alexander, that
you hare Iashly exaggerated idea
OF yolr own importance in this
dreary world. You foolishly ems
terrain the idea that if you were to
die Tonight the earth would shud>
der and wheel backward. But it
wouldn't. The sun would rise
just the same: the stars would
CLEAN as brightly DIS ever, the creek
would gurgle merriiy on its way;
there would still be marriage and
giving in marriage. You would
be laid carefully away in your nice
ly fitting grave, my boy, and the
grass would grow over you, and
the brunette COW would eat the
grass, and there wouldn't he a sin,
pie jolt in the whole world because
of your death. /. is unfortunate
that you have made up your mind
that you know it all. When you
have been jostled about a little
while you will want to 60 to some
secluded graveyard and weep. You
viii lie convinced that instead of
known g it al you don't suspect
anything. Man is like "a grounds
hog in the path of a landslide.
Alexander, if t. e grounding has
sense enough to get out of the way
it is all right, but il it cocks itself
W IN the hind legs and looks wise
IL Sill be everlastingly squeIched.
Man is also like boulder by the
seashore: the boulder may be a
great deal bigger than the pebbles
about it, but when an idle stranger
fires it into the water it doesn't
take any more to cover it forever
that it would one of the pebbles.
| knew a man once who could con.
verse fusntly in more languages
than you couldshdke cord of wood
at; what he didn't know about
astronomy WASH worth knowing;
there wasn't a science or an art on
which he was not an authority; his
knowled1e was simply sublime.
He forgot more every day than
you can CIV hope to know. Yet
this remarkable man persisted mis-.
erably in q creek ten feet wide
because he had never learned to
swim. Go forth into the world
Alexander, but not with the idea
that you know it all. Try to con-
vince yourself that other people
may have heard thing or two
themselves, and don't expect that
they will herald you as the Com.
ing Man. The pr,digal son WIS
rather fly when he left home, and
you have heard how he returned.
He went back on his uppers, with
out enough wealth to buy bowl
OF syrup at fourth. rate chop.hcuse
and hundreds bave ba d a similar
experience. Go forth unostens
tatiously and without any drum
major business. Ii you are not
Immediately offered situation as
president of bank go to work hoe.
ing corn, digging wells, or feeding
threshing machines. The world
is full Of golden opportunities. but
the young man who is so mashed
on his dignity that he will not grasp
them is liable to be left in a most
deplorable and emphatic manner. .
-LimcOln { Neb) Journal.