Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-11
Brilliant Lecture on Boys, by Rev. Will
liam Alvin Bartlett.

Rev. Mr.. Bartlett gave lectur,
last evening, at Plymouth Church
corner of Wabash avenue and Ed
ridge court, on the subject of "Boy g.
i The attendance was both large an(
the attention rapt.
| The lecturer said he would as 500,
try to handle a crooked streak q
lighting, with ungloved hands, as tc
define q boy by words. There are
1900, 900 boys in the world. Boys
are knots, into which are tied all the
schemes that are concocted in human
heads, all the activities that employ
the hands OF man, and all the love
that emanates from human hearts.
La this utillitarian age boys are USE
tul Buds are as useful as fullblown
roses, and boys have their usefulness
ss well as mon. Boys are not neces,
sarily mischief only, for boys cons
prise one>tourth the muscle and pow
err OF the world; they gather tea in
China, weave silk in France, climb
rigging at sea and set typo every
where. Tie boy must bo riotously
active and only occasionally useful
at first. Girls represent the assimi-
latiDg force she blends, is the chemi,
cal, the boy the mechanical, force. -
Girls are destructive, but by slower
process than boys.
The boy is succinct hieroglyphic
of progressions. He thinks the tail
of cat tho natural handle; snatches
away his grandfather's wig, and calls
his father "old gent, "and his mother
''old lady" The speaker dwelt briefly
upon the destructive force of nature,
the fact that out of chaos comes
cosmos, and then added that in this
sense the boy acts in strict conform
lty with Diety, in following the dieta
tes OF his Young mad nature.
instances of precocious boys were
ad1uced. Chatterton had astonish-
scientific men at 49, Mozart compos-
ed at 5; Pascal proved his genius at
II, and an English boy committed
murder and was hunged alto These
are not average boys, but old msn
young men. The average boy and
girl of destructive and assimilating
powers respectively have made the
world progress The boy cares not
what his parents were James Cooke
sailed around tho world, although his
parents were servants Sir James
Lawrence was apprenticed to pastry
cook, and Benjamin West became q
great painter, although he stoie hairs
| oui OF the cats tail to make his first
brush. This boy power is invinciOle
beiiigerency, and nothing can destroy
| the power hut the delhronement of
reason.
Everything that tends to repress
the boy nature, or destroy his in>
dividualily by tho CONNECTIONS of
effeminacy, is unwlse. How, then,
should We educate and train this bum
die oflnconsistencies Do mot drown
him in the mysteries of pathological
themes; give him fact. The boy is
now plnnged into a morass, and il
takes him long time to get back to
the road again. OF dead languages,
he wants the roots that refer to Eng
lish derivation, and be need not be
impressed wish the piety of Eneas or
with the fact that Achilles had soft
spot in his heel. 4 boy who can
whistle Yandle Doodle now, would
think little Of himself if he did not
know more than Homer. Education
is now false, and fashionable schools
places of fine feasting; dancing
schools and a la Bt3de parlors instead
of intellectual stills and calisthenic
courts. Schools should not be
sausage machines to stuff boys
| They want to be Taught to think
We must kick ourselves free from
the formulas of the schools. A boy
does not want an ice-cream and
sugar>plum education let him learn
selfreliance and impart it to girls,
while he learns contemplation from
! her. 6fn5 ag
Break anything but a boys spirit.
They are now pampered, carressed,
and dressed into graves. They want
to be rescued from all this. The road
to manhood is shorter and surer to
the gamin in the gutter than TO Fifth
avenue pets. Let boys show spirit
The runaway apprentice is to day
President of the Northwestern Rail-
road.
Boys are chastised too severely
| Not long ago a man, called a clergy
man, in the State of New York
whipped his son until the soul left
the body in disgust, as much as to
say, that is all you are father of, ]
am going to find another parent" =
Cruelty to children is far more com
mon than is imagined. ~
Some boys are heroes. Knud Iver
son, who suffered death in this city
because he would not lie, is one o
the few grand souls that preferred
truth to life. How many men are
there that would do it2 If every
man who told lie died before ths
nexs census there woald be grea
decrease in the population of ;ht
world. It is splendid to see the
juiciness aud benfgnity Of boyhooC
penetrate manhood. The boy may
in sense be the father Of the man
but who 10 father OF the boy 2 Boy.
hood is life in itself Who wer,
the fathers of Shakespeare, Sheridan
and Milton? The ELtrick shepherC
could not read az twenty Boys ar
all good under the Manipulation o
wise and sympathetic natures. Cos
makes the boy, man the bad boy. :
We must begin our work for the mill
iennlum nearer The cradle. fgf 8.
sfss- A project is on foot for turn,
ing the waters of the great lakes in
to the Mississippi river by means 0
a mammoth ship canal, of con
) templated width of one thousand feet
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