The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-03-27
WORK AND BE- HAPPY,
APPS ADVICE TO THE BoYs AND GIRLS,
be Independent BY Earning Your LIVING.
cutting High Figure on a Small
Salary Don't Pay.

man VINO is yet in his teens going
round town hurting tor place in
a store. He locked anxious and
| tlmid and didn't seem to have much
faith i'll finding a place. The bow
belonged to a broken down arist,>
cratic family and suddenly realized
that he had to work for a living.
lie had never plowed or hoed or
dug or chopped wood, or curried a
horse, Or done anything but 90 to
school and visit around and have =
good time, but now he had worn
out his welcome and realized that
the realities of life were upon him.
He must go to work. His hands
were soft and feminine. He had
very good clothes, was handsome
and would have made an attrac>
tive clerk in a dry goods store.
But there was no place and he had
no experience. A few DAYS after-
wards, as Was meandering around,
L saw him making up mortar for
brick mason. He was pulling
away as hard as he could, but |
noticed he had gloves on. / didn't
like that until [ learned that his
hands were blistered so bad he had
to wear gloves or quit. He was
bright and cheerful-said he was
getting seventy-fve cents a day
and was promised a dollar as soon
as he could do as much work as "a
niger" He said he enjoyed his
meals and slept splendid, and had
four dollars in his pocket that he
had earned, the first money he had
ever earned, and he felt richer and
more independent than he had ever
felt before.
There is grit in that boy. He
has met the enemy and the enemy
is bis. He has Whipped poverty
and dependence at the start, and if
he will keep on flat line his fortune
is made-I mean the line of work.
he has begun at the bottom and
will work up. He won't spend
those dolIars-they cost too much
to throw away on foolishness. They
cost sweat and tired muscles and
aching bones and blistered hands
and humility, but he is getting
over that now. 1t nearly killed
him for the society girls to ride by
and see him at work. They know
him, and enc said; 81 thought he
would have to come down." Anoth-
er said. "Poor fellow! | am Just
as sorry for him as l can be. He
is so nice and dances so charm,
iugIy,"
That is what is the matter with
good many of the young men.
They are afraid of what the girls
will say. They had rather loaf
around among their kin or pretend
to be reading law than to 90 to
work work is not exactly respec
table. This false pride is a cons
temptible weakness and disgusts
me so | feel like taking my coat
and driving out to tote mortar or
dig in the bitches for the gas pipe
just rs an example. | counted
twenty.six negroes all in row
digging those bitches and not a
white man among them. A work
Ing boy won't have to 10 that kind
of work long. dc is watched and
talked about and very soon some,
body wants him and he gets bet
ter place. He crawls up. 1t is an
old saying hat if young man
save; his first thousand dollars he
will get rich-that is so in nine
cases out of t1n-ges, if Q will
save his hundred, he will succeed,
aud any y, ulg man can save that
much in a year if he will let whis-
key and tobacco ard the society
girls alone society will keep poor
young man poor, II keeps married
folks poor. l arn thinking now af
a married man who Is bowed dowp
with debt, while his family are
trying to keep on the ragged ed e
| of society. A milliher makes their
clothes, and they are just obliged
to ride in carriage Hhen they go
visiting. Such people are the town
talk and don't know it. There are
nice young men in every town who
have been clerking for years and
haven't laid up a dollar. They
must take a girl toeeyery show that