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Short Talks With The Boys. My son, I heard you speak of your father the other day as "the old man," and of your mother as "her highness." What's the imatter that you can't refer to then as your father and mother ? Suppose your parents should speak of you as "the kid" or "the fly." You'd soon beoin to think you were born in the wrong family. TLhe son who is ashamed of his pa rents ought to be ashamed of him self. suti)pose their ways are old (ashioned, and their grammar aI little off, and they (lon't feel like keeping uip with the fashions of the day? Not one father or moth er in ten had the advantage you eIijoy. Forty or fifty years ago they walked three or four miles to a country school to pick up a little learning, while now you are talking of going to col lege. Thliey began poor and have toil ed and labored and saved for their childreii. You just remember that things have greatly changed in this country. Years ago a calico dress was seen at church far oft ener than silk. Men went to meet ing clad in homespun. The rule in most houses was for the chil dren to stand up and eat. The biggest pieces of pie went to fath er and mother, and children were not allowed to sit up until 10 o'clock at night, or to argue a queston after the head of the fami ly had decided it. My boy, don,t 1t6' any foolish notions into your hea(d. If your father is old and gray and bent if your mother is trembling and weak anl has no car e for the friv olities of this day, it is toil whieh has brought these, (lays of hard work and nights full of anxiety that their children might be spar ed the same slavish life. Where they wore blue-jeans you have broadcloth. Where they ate jo.hnny cake you have sweet cake and pie. Where their mode of life and forc ed economy preventedI them f'rom enjoying society, amuitsements or b)ooks, julst th ink hiow you make the shillings fly, and( what is offer ed to interest and amuse y u Now let's have a word( to say about economy. I.'ve b~een right among you, and I. know that you want this, that and the other, and '"want it bad." Up) to the time of the war if one of tha~ boys of that (lay had a dime to speCnd for F~ourt~h of July, he thought him self well fixed. The b)oys want about five dollars apice uowadays, and that's all gone b~efor'e nioon. If we got a new book it was con sidered a great piece of extrava ganee. The lad who had cash enough to walk into a panoramic exhibition, buy a pair of skates, or treat himself to sweetmeats was looked upon by the rest of us as Jay Gould. I'm saying that you shouldn't have money andl use it, but right there is a vital point. Be sure that you really need what you b~uy. Ask yourself if it will pay ! Mon ey is the wheels on which the world moves. Acqnunire the habhit of throwing it after every novelty brought out and you'll by and by have a second hand museum and no cash to run it. I dislike a stingy boy, but when I see a lad planking his nickels down at the desk of a savings bank I know that he is one of (he future men who is going to build our railroads and do onr whole sale business. There'sa big differ enco between being stingy and being economical. The richest men of America are liberal in giving to churches, Asylums and to the unfortunate, but they never waste, They don't indulge in tfing or that simply because they haY money to pay for it., Now, if you ure about fifteen years old you've got a sneaking idea into your head that it's a big thing to use an oath occasionally. You never made a greater mistake? It is true many men who use more or less oaths, but I would like to have you find me one who isn't ashamed of it ! It's a mean habit, for it is a habit. I know you can point to the greatest men in the land and prove that they spit out oitths, but that's no rea son why you should follow suit. There isn't a swearer in this coun try who doesn't feel a quiet satis faction in sitting dowfn to converse with a man whose language is clean and pure. There's nothing manly in using an oath. Swear ing is about the first thing vou hear from the lips of a drunkard or fool. 4ven a heathen can an swer. Now, don't get the ilea that I Want you to he too good. Th too good boy is a nuisance. IIe was born to be an ang(el, but they forg-ot, to spike on the win.. (No to the circls? ( ertainly! 1 know t here are people in this worl who look upm a eircis as the n1-- t- t hinlg to :a visit from, old atan him-elf, but they ought to hiave l ivedh forty years' . ago. If you were my byd walk you in, show Volu everv animid anl curi osity, and thien we'd take a reserv ed seat and1( see the circus. When a man haiIi:s trainedl a horse or muln 0or dlog to obey him with amlinost humnu in itelligenect he has prov~xed 'to you the practi cal value of pa tience andb perseverance. E very shiade of mieni will otopj on1 the street to see a inanlh lift, or to watch a jum111p1ing- inatch. Then why dle prive you of t he( sight. of the per formance Ior'( 1 an a thlete, w ho has spentt years to hring1( his strength and agility to perfection. Wouild I take you to the theat tr'e? To a good play--yes ; to a Buf falo Bill b~arn -stormning hurrah -no. Five plays out of seven are healthy in setmn, andl point a moral so plainly that even a child canU Catch on. I want m~y boy to rub against every day lif'e a little while he is a boy. It he has the idea that a huintet's life is full of juicy buffa lo steaks and victories over griz z/les I'rn goinhg to senid himii inlto the woodIs for ai weekc to live on woodchutck meat, cairry a coIld inl is head and he jumi 'd out of his boots the first time an owl hoots. If he asks fr money I'm .oing to give it to him but I want Lo sit down of a Saturday nioht ud see how lie Spent it, andI showj [p- Some of his foolish bargains. [C lie wants to sail the hounding billow I know of a lake captain who will take him on, a trip from Detroit to Saginaw, and itf he can't ure him in jurt one voyage no I)ody else need try. Sit down and talk to your boys as6 Vou would youri' brothier. Don' t' bulldoze because you happen to be his father and have the bulge on him. Argue and reason. Dont ex peCt to make assertions and have hin Iswallow them as gospel truths IInless 4 haV 'backing. 'each him what to avoirl and what to cultivate nd turn him loose for a while. I f lie se(ks the; good he has the riIht illstillets; if" lie rnils after the ha(d, don't walk him into the woodshed for a polndintg until you have asked yourtselft if doesn't come natural by that failing.-M. Quad,in Detroit Free Press. W.T . Gaolny, our Foreinial aii Publisher, is aut horized to receive aii lef*c1ipt for smubs)cription-,s. J(A) work and adveiseenits for Trn~ Mu'>SENGEm.~ A PR IZ E. pj"!:trt a1 receive freea Costly box of go)od. which will help you to motre mener1WY right away thani anwything else ili0 world. Allof eitlher se x,suceed from first houir. The broml 1i l rond 1() to' or t openls hefore the workers, absolut l sure. At onlce dir TRUK &' (:O. Aiigita Ma ie. ma v 23 v Marble and Granits MON NUMI ENTS, Greenville, S. C. Mar 23 1 v Established .1864. No Patent No Pay. IAT ENTS Obtaie fo Meyhnia DiCesCm Alltpre liiy e a iatio - asI 1 IS ortntuiigt.y oftir inetions.L l''rel.Or aid r ObU t in Paet, i et DRS. EA RLE & BRUC, Easley, S. C. O iEr ins Cahi prfeoa Iios rvic t the surrulu ba ouln t r Oct I8-t f Ealey, S. C., by iei thesingle barel at h vry~(' (itizens of Eatsley, S. C. 1AVE_ YOU HEARD of that Cheap Dry Goods Iotse GREVVlI4LL, S. C? F NO T, T1IIS -N0 tiee is to let you know where you can save mionv. 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