Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-03


TAKE CARE, MAN.-Take care-tlat is, be
more careful, is caution that we all need
1t comes to us very often, often unheeded of
ten from a source but little expected to give
forth those useful words. 1t came to us the
other night in this way, and it made deep
impression. we hope lasting one, that will ey-
er remind us to be more careful ald not act as
though there was no one to care for but our
selvesin the world-this busy, busting, go-a-
head steamboat world.
We were crossing the Jersey City Ferry
somewhat late in the evening, and Of course III
hurry everybody connected with morn
ing paper, must be in hurry. else, reader,
how would YOU read with your hurried break
fast of things transporting after midnight, in
distant parts of this great metropolis But we
were no more in hurry than everybody else,
for everybody who crosses our ferries is alwavs
in a hurry, always acts as though his fife de-
pended upon his hurry; sometimes it does, for
he hurries to jump ashore and goes down to
| the bottom of the river. We were IN ahurry,
and we crowded among the crowd, who were
| all pushing close to the forward part, ready for
| jump, when from away down among the
boots, little voice came up, giving us need
| ed word of caution that there were other hui
man beings to be cared for beside ourselves,
| for the voice said, sFTake care man, there's .
! little boy down there" 1t was not whin-
| ing. impatient voice, but IA little, manly one,-
! small to be sure, but large enough to tell us
that another person had rights there; and, al /
| though it was little boy clinging to its moth
| er, men should remember that they once chung
to the same protection, and not forget in a
crowd that there might be ga little boy down
there" That boy, said we, as we looked
down searchingly after the 'slittle man, !" who,
though he only stood up three feet above his
own shoes, stood up like man for his own
rights-that boy will make man who will
never forget in a crowd that there may be a
little boy do wn there" who should not be
trampled on by the ix-footers above him..
"Take care, man. as you crowd through
life, or you may step on somebody's toes
Remember that there is always " little boy
down there" or some fellow mortal a little be-
low you Of whom you should take eare-at
least care not to trample upon them because
they are down.
The words Of caution will not always come
up in such pleasant tones as they did from
that slittle boy down here but they will
come to your ears i'll tones which you cannot
mistake should not neglect to heed. What
pity we do not heed them. Go through this
city from dark till midnight; look down into
a thousand rum-selling cellars, or if you are
man with half an ear, or have soul within
to listen to still small voice, you shall hear
O1C tOullilH up Jul Vi tl1dC DAOdl IOdU W liz
struction, bidding you to take care, for there
is little boy down there, and that boy is
drinking rum, smoking cigars, and uttering
oaths, every one Of which sends him down,
down, to level SO low that be never win rise
to manhood, for he is down among the brufes.
aTake care, man. that that boy is not your
boy, or one for whom you might care-per-
haps, one for whom if you had properly cared,
would never have gone down there.
Take care 1nah-if you ares man-take care
if you are woman, and mother of a little boy,
while you have him by the hand that he re-
ceives such lessons as viii save you in after
years from the heart killing sorrow and mis-
cry of looking down into some of our licensed
dens Of despair, as the sound Of the voice Of
that little boy comes up and enters your heart
like d spear Of rusty iron, telling you that
while pressing through the crowd. Of lie
while hurrying to cross the ferry of death
that you did not take care of the little boy
down there.
& Reader! take care, hstensto every little voice
coming up-be careful of the little boys; if
not trampled down in the crowd, they viii
soon be men. Look in the street-there is q
little boy down there. Lift him up.