The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-26
HORSE SENSE.
WHAT TO DO WITH GENIUS
TEACH HIN A CoUPLET OF POETRY
tW aterloo IN. v Observer

to rs abont his son as follows
This boy of mine il very decidedly
a genlus and will make great mark
in the world. The village in which
we 1--we furnishes no proper field for
such brain as bis, and his mother
and | have been thinking of sending
him to Waterloo to study law. That
would you ADVISE?
Well, good folks, pardon as If,
like surgeon, We use the knife. cut
ting deep, but cutting with the hope
Of cure. Your boy is what, "a gen
ine,' is he! Then the Lord have
mercy On you, for great afflict,on
has befallen 5our family. Don't
send him to Waterloo. The suppl,
in this vicinity very far exceeds the
demand. There are scores OF ger
fuses in thio village, and without ex,
ceptlon their trousers bag at the
knees and terminate in a pathetic
fringe that bangs around their shoes.
They are generally characterized by
long hair, soiled liner, intelle tusl
hatulency AID q certain haggard look
as if they hadu'l e, JOY ed q square
meal in three months.
What would we advise? That IL
rather delicate question. If we
had boy ~bo was so phenomenaliy
en:owed tha, lie di-tialned to work
for living, we should try 10 cure
him BY the most heroic treatment.
Low woul3 1t DO to glye hin cord
OF tough OLD hickory, saw horse
anu bran new saw from w. Is
S~arthouts hardware store In OVID
and nall LIP TIKI, le-tnl from Pm
darius on the wooished: "He that
vii! have cake out of the wheat
must tarry at the gtiDdipg,' which
being translate q Means, "No work.
nn dinner9' If be still insisted or
dong nothing, you nigh resort to
The deyice of the Mikado, and boil
hiu1 in OIL.
A genius is almost slways an ass
in l hons skin, or turkey buzzard
with en- eagles beak--a follow whose
head Is simply an eularse enent o
tac bump of self conceit, lie starts
out with the determination to llyx
on bis orains, but the capital in trade
IS so smal! that he nes,r becomes ex-
pert, except III the ait CT starvation
There is..'t very much spare room
ia " aterloo for these second hand
"sod de ini > hties," q no want to get
fortune without hastling for it and
acqa!re fame without deserving it
There Is but one gospel in this world
which has any claim to he regarded
as divine, and that the gospel of
bard wofk.
The young man who begins life
With tie conviction he must roll up
his sleeves ana dig for every dollar.
must draw his bot lutte tlgt ter
and strlke stronger gait If be wants
10 WIN the race, is tie only one, 40
lar our olseivattGn goes, who 1T
fifty, Or later on, ari. cs through Sea
e's equity Ii Ills nmn Carriage. The
seniuses pretty generally take their
alrlngs oD foot, and keep their weatL-
er eye open for some benevolent
stranger who looks as though be had
u spare quarter which II. ht be obs
aimed for the asking. We nay haye
ii hard, cold and unsy npathiz;ng
method of handling the prooler, but
III cur Judgment the only Way to
succeed is to persEire. Indeed, we
might make the statement of fact
still more snccluct. and say that
"persplre or expire, is tie rale of life.
II our Ovid friends labor under
| the delaslon that thei1 gelus is too
| ariatocratlc to become the partner @:
work, he will probably END his career
on marble slab Of morgue o.
the other hand, if they get tue ides
into their cranlnums that Mise tcntts
of genius is simple tard work, their
| ooy will more than likely die under
the care Of an able pEvsisian, with
his fhmiiy around the bedside, lhe
prospects Of q good sized funeral
and tta.terjng obituary notice In
D,li Independent Yoa see, dear
sir, that We haven't much resi- ect for
what you call the genius Of our boy.
Or the contrary we have only Pity
for you, that you should he called
aron u hear so great and perhaps
| unieseIved misfortune, aud oal,
-Iief for the Young man Who thinks
himself gifted above bis fslio VS.,
~nen IN truth he ia merqly lazy
Sky scraping brains dyft have
mach infiuence in bnstling comma
nity constituted, as " Waterloo IL. We
| haven't any use for men who 20 To-
| b'egoDing on TalnloWS.
II is heLter ana inure houGrahle to
| Dig potatoes than to write poor poe
try; nobier to scratch for Ii living, as
the honest hen does, than to ra,t
| your hair In the mlnale and pose as
all aDge! ia disguise, or Il third rate
LAWYER Hammer at that boy up;il
you get the last vestise Of genius out
OF h!m; then BANNER at him again
until yoG get q love OF hard work in
80 his heart. Teach him To uader-
stand the force OF these lines:-
''Henceiorth I'm to battle with banner