Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-05-21
sE-Las. Saturday evening, we met .

with fine little boy, whose upper lip
and checks were frightfully swollen, and
bandaged almost from ear to ear. Or In
quiry, We learned that another boy, while
throwing q stone in anger at playfellow,
had accidentally hit this innocent sufferer,
cutting his lip through to the teeth, and
giving him an unsightly scar for life. The
-ame evening, while shivering before the
wind creeping thro' four scores of broken
panes in the caricature of the Lewisburg
Town Hall, we learned that its windows
are faverite mark for the lads of the
vicinity. The conclusion was pretty
strong, that there was need of public atten-
ton to this mode of evil by boys. and that
it was time stern punishment was meted
out to them. Let a reward be offered by
the Council for the conviction Of these
offenders, and the offences would soon
cease.
There is another evil which forces itself
before the public, and that is the abuse Of
the Town Hall. That building was not
Intended to accommodate the strolling
ragabonds who corrupt the morals and
pick the pockets of the youth and the
thoughtless Of our land, nor for private
associations. 1t was designed for the
transaction Of town business, and other
matters of interest to the public. 1t is
now occupied by negro shows and petty
jugglers of every detestable description
dancing parties, and weekly assemblagcs
IF secret societics-and in its multifarious
uses and abuses, is constant tax upon
the Borough, and yet is never ft for a
decent assemblage of white men. 1t was
thought when the last Burgess and Coun-
cilmen were elected, there would be a
reform in this matter, and we know many
besides ourselves who voted for them under
this expectation. Who can tell how
many nights that Hall has been used for
purposes Of no interest or benefit to the
public {? and yet we are told-for the Coun-
Gil seem not to consider the Chronicles S
readers of enough importance to give them
their account, and we have not examined
tive are told that last year but So or
$40 we're received from all these sources
a sum not half sufficient to keep up need
ed repairs!
We wish also to refer, in this con-
nection, to the pernicious custom of trust
ing minors, Especially students and Of
selling them articles which are not essen
tial to their comfort, or consistent with
their means, or approved by their parents
or friends. 1t would be considered dis
honest to take the money Of a child four
years old, for gilded bubbles, or poisonous
.wec,meats. But is it more honest to en-
,ice or permit larger boys to commit SINH
lar follies? Yet if we are not grossly
n,isinformed, men in Lewisburg have 1--WE
hope thoughtlessly) done this very thing.
The habit of spending money to crafty
every whim, or desire, or taste, and to
pamper the appetite, is bad enough for
grown men, but is double destructive to
the character, the true enjoyment, and the
happy progress Of the young. In many
cases where the more able are thus in
dulged, those who are less able are sub-
jected to temptations and to trials, dan
ger,us to theis morals, and disagreeable to
their sensibilities. An abundance of
money, ruins far more young men than
scarcity of it. Any one who will observe
and reflect, will bear evidence Of the truth
Of these remarks. And We know that
young men have been kept away from the
University at this place, solely from oon-
viction by their friends that they had been
persuaded to squander their money by men
whose better judgment and professions Of
honorable dealing, should have prevented
them from gratifying or yielding to the
caprice of the youth placed here to receive
an education in the midst of what claims
to be virtuous and friendly community.
Some useless debts thus made have been
very properly left unpaid-and we'll would
it be for the Students and Schools-well
for the best interests of the whole commu-
nifty, in the long run-if all such debts
we're repudiated, and those who encouraged
or allowed them to be contracted, were
made known for the public to avoid.
If any Of our readers can conscien-
tiously appropriate any Of these structures
to themselves,we hope they will do so,and
repent and reform, for that is our object
in writing them. These boys will soon
be men, and the right kind of boys make
the right kind Of men.
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