The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-24
GOOD ADVICE
Given the Younger Members of
the Prsss Gang
BY COL. JAS. 7. BACON

"Go and, Wrestle With the Angel Un-
til the Breaking of the Day." Says
Hem Article That Should Be
Read by All the Young Men of
the State.
The following is from the pen of
that knightly gentleman and ripe
scholar, Col. Jas. T. Bacon, Editor
of the Edgefield Chronicle. Every
young man and young woman should
read it.:
Dear Sunday News: At the very
recent meeting of our Press Asso-
citation in Greenville, we picked US
out an Olympus of very young gods.
We have old gods. And now we are
going to utter a discourse to our
youthful Olympus. We do not say
preach, because we regard preach as
very unpleasant word. Stand up,
Rutledge McGhee, lie Rousseau, of the
Daily Piedmont, and hearken unto
the words of wisdom. Stand up, Ell
more Boney, of the Laurens Adyertis-
er. Stand up, Archie Willie, OF the
Woodruff News and Herald. Stand up,
Herbert Sass, of The Charleston News
and Courier. Stand up, McDavid Hor-
ton, of the Columbia Record. Stand
up, Edward Mcdowell, of the Camden
Chronicle. Stand up, Perry Cleaton,
of the Greenville Daily News. Stand
liup, Junius Bailey, Of the Johnson
lNews-Monitor. Stand$up, young Cald-
I'well, of the Chester Lantern. Stand
up, R. Boyd Cole, Of the Barnwell
Sentinel. Stand up, Neil Christensen,
of the Beaufort Gazette. Stand up
young Gardner, of the Greenwood
journal. Stand up, young Bailey, Of
the Greenwood Index. Stand up, Jas.
.zlar Sims, of the Orangeburg Times
and Democrat. Stand up, Alva Lor-
enz, of the Aiken Journal and Re-
view. Stand up, Louis Wigfall Cheat
ham, of the Edgefeld Chronicle. And
stand up-last, but oh! so far from
Ileast!-Estella Smoak of the Branch
vile Journal.
Rutledge McGhee, on account of
your vivid piety, we appoint you to
| be priest of all the oracles. Elmore
Boney, you will be the young and
graceful Apollo Of the Mount. Archie
| Willis, you will be Mercury, the mes
senger, and e to it that your wings
are safely attached to your heels. Ed
ward Mcdowell, on account of your
tender youth and your white skin,
you shall be the blind god Cupid. rs
tella Smoak, remember that you
sprang from the brain Of Jove, and do
not forget your heavenly birth and
the compulsory education" of the
lesser little gods.
Now draw near, in line, and hear
the words of wisdom from old Sa-
turn; or from an older deity still, If
| tlere was any SUCH.
To the young men and young wo-
men annually making their entrance
upon active life, with great ambi-
tions, conscious capacities and high
hopes, the prospect is, in ninety-nine
cases in a hundred, most perpleXing.
They see every avenue to prosperity
thronged with their superiors, In eX-
perience, in social advantages, and
in the possession of all the elements
and condition Of success. Every Of
flee is filled, every path crowded.
Where shall they find room? 1t is
related of Mr.. Webster that when a
young lawyer suggested to him that
the profession to which he and
devoted himself was overcrowded,
the great man replied: Young man,
/ there is always room enough at the
top" Never was wiser or more
suggestive word said. There un-
doubtedly is always room where
excellence lives. Mr.. Webster was
not troubled for lack of room. MIR.
Clay and Mr. Calhoun were neve
crowded. Mr.. Evarts, Mr.. Cushing
and Mr.. O'Connor had plenty of space
around them. Mr.. Becker, DR..
Storrs, DR.. Hall, Bishop Phillips
Brooks never knew, in their personal
experience, that it was hard to obtain
a desirable ministerial charge. The
profession was not crowded where
they were. DR.. Brown-SeQuard. DR..
Willard Parker, DR.. Hammond were
not troubled for space for their cl.
bows. Henry Watterson, and John
Temple Graves, and James Calvin
Hemphill, and Tom Waring, and VIM.
e. Gonzales, and James A. Hoyt, and
August Kohn have room to kick and
splash in. When Nelaton died IL
Paris, he died like Moses on noun
tain. When Won Graefe died in 3er-
! lin. he had no neighbor at his alti-
tude.
It is well first, that all young men
remember that nothing will do them
so much injury as quick and easy