The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-14

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ing sEa. he Sozsd not afford 70 make
E1zs1ess Of par. The result Is
saas these nth boys ot b-iliaa.
natural parts are only rs1el5ers1 - ese-
rzat t-issrs q local celebrity, While
Dsy<E has established solid fame - N
are and versatile manager q vast rail-
war corporation Il Is . melancholy
sight TO see man converse - brilliantly
u the opening h- o. his manhood IN I.
street b-sEI. IL: i . still szide- so=c..-
&c 20 think of z nan beginning life Ike .
brilliant. -oysss-ing Nere1-io and playing
10 Z7ore sersozs part than Me-cutso from
twenty 20 three sore and ten - dit sazn
genial jerome Wit - fine gift, bz. .
life that has 10 ao5Ier record than that
Of professional jester, pleaszrs-seeker
and reznei ep5czrs is wasted life.
illustrated By the bucket constantly
dropping into empty wells and fetching
nothing up; By The Dead Sea apple tha. IS
but painted nlockery without. holding
shs pzlp Of i1subsszntizl air and worth
les ashes within.
II the unlzcky boy with the silver spoon
is born with more delicate constitution
and a more poetic and spiritual teEnpeEa-
Enent than his s:ardier brothers. then We
get sq1ezking dude OF sentimental cad If
he is Of mediocre brains, OF charming,
elegant, captivating. scholastic dreamer
and sauntsrer all his days; such fellow
20 Hamlet was a. Wittenberg before he
became morbid through the Sudden re-
sponsihility and stress Of his ghost-in-
sp.zed mission Of pate.naI vengeance.
Out Of the r1ch born dude or dreamer
nothing can Be made; they may not do
any positive harm; the chances are that
they never will Do anything that il posi-
tiveiy worth doing. IL the boy Is born
rich and is naturally generous. kind
hearted fellow, the chances are that he
viii become spendthrift; Il the rich boy
is close and parsimonio1s from youth Up,
you are cure 70 have a xretched miser a.
the last, ike old Hetty Green, who, heir 70
millions, has always lived and behaved as
If she saw the shadow of the aInshouse q.
the end Of Iife's journey.
Il Is clear, therefore. that /. is not mis-
fortune, bat good fortune for boy to be
born expectant heir 70 nothing but good
health, good sense, good heart, to robust
vigor Of mind and body. Given q fair
chance at the common school, and habits
Of sobriety ard industry, and no ener-
getic. bright boy In this land need curse
his luck that he did not inherit wealth:
he did better, he inherited all the tools By
which wealth has been successfully mined
in all clines and all times. The spur Of
necessity and ambition that aogs his
flank is what ma es the poor boys pace
outsun the rich boys lazy, sauntering
stride. Nowhere in the world do 50 many
men start from the bottom Of intelligent
poverty with only sturdy body and
strong brain and hew their way to the top
ss in America. and nowhere in the world
does rich BOBBY fall to the bottom 30
quick after his bullion is all gone and
there is nothing but a BOBBY left, Of an
excellent family quite likely, but thrift
less BOBBY nevertheless. Here poor boy
can always find free school with an open
door, and after that there is no limit to
what he can conquer if he can use the
tools, for capacity in America is always
capital when joined to industry. sobriety,
energy, push and pertinacity.
The superior boy who starts out with an
az soon finds cut that he can handle
number Of better tools than his az, and
SO. like Lincoln, he drops it. out he never
drops the self-denial. the selt-control. the
tireless industry and energy with which
he swung his ak when ne began to slash
his way through the world. Poverty can
wrest the tools from the richest hand. if
poverty proves the best title to the tools
by discovering the superior capacity to use
them. So let no boy who is not born poor
in spirit. feeble in body or mind.
or crippled by gross ignorance, call
himself poor; he is not poor; he is rich in
that health of mind and body that wins
wealth and keeps it when it is won. Never
envy the boy born with "the silver spoon
in his mouth" for when the time comes
round. as it generally does. when that boy
has 10 feed himself and cut his own fod-
der, he finds out that his "silyer spoon" is
not tool that feeds him or wins wealth
for him; it is only the tool of fool. or
rather the badge Of a gilded childhood. an
inefficient manhood and barren old age.