The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-25
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS
By MEMO.

CCOpyrighted)
rpsrned by a layman in the spare mo-
--s n a busy career. and dedicated TO
,-..s- understanding Of life and its va
81 5nportunitiesJ
---.-- anne 10 my hands during the past
-. one Of the new. silver certificates
--,-,1zsd inspection Of this beautiful
linen Of engraving resulted in some
-.,s-srions that may not be lacking
--.,,s for the young men who read this
paper. .-,,,r. ,,,,or,
,,1..,ry renderly lays her arm. has ceased
l-,r his play. So have you; your days OF
--.s,,,sn- amusement are at an end,
.r. .nroblems Of life begin to press
,-,u You are now beckoned onward
-, ,rresponsible childhood toward re-
s,onsible manhood.
psf,re the interested eyes OF the little
-.-..,z,sr. a panorama Of the distant city
vyszbineton. with it's cloud-piercing
,--,-,n,sut. is stretched out. For you
~ is even d wider vista, the broad mile
of a vast continent challenging con-
--,.s, and urging.you through its myriad
-,-r,,nities 10 be something and to do
soma soma above and in front of him are
,-.l he enwreathed names OF those OF
- l,uutrvmen who, in spite Of dlInculty
- s+rain have earned by toll and aDso-
~ concentration of purpose, lasting
icb7 in our temple of fame. Ihese sa ne
--,ri,,,s deed-workers in every field are
ss,..,,lr inspiration too, from LongfeAoW'
- o5at TO Emerson, the philosopher with
al the intervening names OF warriors
1,-rfrar-. inventors, statesmen, anu pa
tri0ts /. J. t,oi,s turned
-, s,,nsenent to ambition, from play 10
,--oes from Indifference to intensity by
Pt5,r,9 A woman. Whether the same
,.r,,5 snuobling influence is by your slde,
know not If so, then Is 1t WeH' out Vi
this more anon. ,..... ,,.,. ~
some in,folent ones will scan these ilnes.
7 a+ me blow a trumpet blast into theF
---i,,e ears so that the deadened eyes
nav 1ieshr I'D. even If that light be Dut the
eIa5n of malevolence towards unattrac-
rive truth / would a hundred 1old rain
ar talk with a man who had life enough
10 grow angry. than with an uhrespOh-
sivs corpse-like creature that raises
neither the voice of protest nor OF acqul-
essence. To the lazy and worthless one
then would talk awhile. To you say
The cattle that lie ruminant in your barn
are better after their kind than the young
corner-loafers of our villages ana towns
and cities. The former have no archives
TO thrill their hearts, no past treasury OF
noble deeds to help in the present, no
prescience Of the end to which time Is
leading them; the latter have all OF theSe
and vet to listen to the idle talk of many
a group of young men, one might almost
doubt the existence of history
of our race, the records OF glorious
men and women, of religion, truth
goodness, purity of women, and all the
things that ought to set gulf between US
and the patient, misunderstanding, duty
doing, hopeless animals. If passing girl
is discussed, the remarks are too often
interlarded with lewd jests which, instead
Of humiliating every mothers son, raise
that peculiar hyena laugh, that laugh
without honest mirth in 1t; you know the
laugh, so do I. In such a gang, goodness
in a man is sneered at as hypocrisy; truth
is labelled as a lie; religion is dubbed buff
foonery; greatness not worth the trouble;
history, of less account than the pedigree
of a pig.
Are you tied in with such group, you
in whom there is the strength and vigor
of youth you in whom Turk portentous
powers over the destinies of our race? For
the sake of all that makes US the head of
and let into your brain some
faint idea of the glory of being
a human creature. If you can find moth
ing better to do than you are now doing,
you are a sheep in your vacuity and
tumble-bug in your tastes.
What sort of a country would you have
for the exercise yof our interminable lack
Of purpose, if all who preceded you had
been content to kick their heels on empty
HIVES In ba
trifiing things that exhaust the knowledge
of your gang, and to stop the emitting of
tobacco-juice just long enough to permit
the passage of an equally dirty joke or
story? Where would now be the subiuga-
ton of a continent by our restless cosmo-
politan nation? If echo could repeat the
first word of the question instead of the
last, she would cry aloud, "Where?"
Great nations are not built of such as you.
neither are they sustained. You are worse
then useless; you are a positive detriment
TO us. A nation is not like a monument
OF enduring stone. 1t is a living thing
made up Of living things. By them it rises
TO dignity, by them again it is enfeebled
and torn to pieces, just as in your body
health is maintained by moving particles
mat attack and destroy the evil, multiply
ing creatures of disease; or are themselves
destroyed and your own death follows
historians in the past twenty-five years
nave grown to an understanding that it is
lHe daily lives and thoughts of the great
common people that make history far more
eHectually than the master stroke of an
occasional military hero. You then; YOU
n all your meanness, are a history maker.
because OF your narrowed and low life
tne unwilling contribution you are maxi
ing TO our national history must also be
narrow and low. Oh, for the power to
teaeh right into your heart and stir YOU
from your sloth and your indifference.
next week l will ask you to follow me
iuIther will tell you of your power and
.Our opportunities. Then follow some
thoughts regarding the great ones who
1a'e preceded us. And finally, If this pen
..oy ne dipped in might and in eloouence.
t .Ie Iast article will attempt to describe
' me power of noble woman in energizing
40 ~ Ior good. Thus possibly the new de-
.sn on our silver certificate may come
~ mean more to us than a handsome en-
eng 9oa.g with just so much purchasing
power back of it.
me ShOeburyness Targets
ar 90 Gus at the new range, Shoeburyness.
rah IL.