Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1901-02-28
Young Man, Are You Going TO Pay the
Debit
Cold Breeze.

Published by request.
Young man. nave you ever seriously
asked Yourself "Whatis my am in lie?
What do owe the world9' If NOT d,
so now. TO to the solitude OF your
room, hold yourself up TO view, see
what you are and what you have before
you.
Life in battlefield. Every man is
brave soldier, an idle camp follower or
coward. Which are you going to be?
VIII you follow or win you lead?
There is much for you TODD. There are
battles for every day. Look around
you. What seems to be the desire of
most of our young men? To wear tall
or-made clothes, smoke cigarettes, tell
smutty yarns, boast of their silly con-
quests with members of the other sex
still sillier, and fritter their lives away
in idleness, till by and by the gay
young idler wakes up one morning and
/ finds himself a grayheaded old man,
the future dread unknown, the past
barren waste. My God. what picture
Life past, opportunity gone, life fail
ure.
Omit trying to be a terrapin, carrying
everything on your back and nothing in
in your mind and heart Don't try to
be pretty. Leave that to the fair sex.
BE man. Be a worker. No matter
what sphere you are in, high or low,
work. Work to elevate yourself and
your race Every morning, make up
your mind that you will do something
good, something useful, to-day, make
yourself little better, someone else
i little happ er, the world little nobier
and truer. You can do this. Win you?
Don't spend hours before the glass,
smoothing your hair or teaching your
moustache TO stand Il Kaiser. There
are nobler things to do. Study! Think!
Throw yourself into the ranks of the
workers. the uplfters, the benefactors
of our race. Help some fallen and dis
couraged brother to a better life
Fight the evils that octopus-like threat
en- to destroy our race and country with
their poisonous grasp. Fulfill the des-
tiny for which you were created pay
the debt you owe the world-make a
man.
J Stand for the right, oppose wrong
Respect yourself too much to do or sane
tion little thing. Shun every place
and com pany, no matter how alluring,
that is not fit for your sister or sweet
{ heart to attend, Such associations lead
| you downward, ever downward, never
upward. you enjoy them and yield
to them, you are feeding The brute with
in you. Keep on, and sooner or later
you will sink lower than the brute you
, dispise.
This is not all. You have robbed the
= world of man, you have betrayed and
J. murdered that grand, good useful man
you might have been and given che
, world brute in human form. Though
no earthly court, save your conscience,
. can punish you, you are criminal, for
!. you have robbed yourself and the wor d
: of that which you might have been, a
noble, true citizen and brother
> Don't imagine that the little you my
: be able to do will not count ID the great
sum total Of the worlds good or bad.
, Nothing is ever lost. Every emot on.
every thought, every word, every act
. ion goes on influencing the world for
good or evil, till the scroll of time is
=. rolled back, Be careful then be wise,
be useful, be noble, be good. Help up
lift your race. No matter how high OF
low your position may be, you can give
J. the world what you are due it, a gentle
man. man. Then, when the shadows
of life are frightening into twilight
you can look back ON a life OF useful
E. ness and goodness, while with the eye
3 of faith you may penetrate the gloon
-. and see the crimson blush of dawn light
ing up the heights of the Great Beyond
Il the Eternal.
Young man, pay the debt
~ ONE OF You.