The Placer herald., 1870-01-01
BOYS RIGHTS-BY A BOY.

Talk about the women and the darkies and the
-the--oll the rest OF 'em, none of 'em all are
half as badly used as boys are l know q lot,
and can give you all their names. Ask 'cm all.
They'll tell you that to be a boy is to be some
body without right in the world, You're to
take all the sas that's given to you, and to give
none back cause you're a boy. You are to pay
full fare in the cars and omnbusses, cause you re
boy and not child; and never have a seat,
cause you're boy and not a man. Fat lady
gets in after it's all full, and looks about her
Everybody looks at you. Old gentleman says,
my sou," reproving Conductor says, "Come,
now, you boy" You've paid your sixpencc
No matter that's nothing. You've been on
your legs with bundles all day, Who cares =
you're a boy Now horse has such load given
him as he can carry, and man won't carry an
more than he can walk under. ASK boys what
grown folks think they can carry. There's no
limit to it.
Who doesn't know boy that does mans
work, and does it we'll, for 4 tenth of what a
man would get for it? Who hasn't read an ad-
vertisement for boy who "wri'cs good hand, i,
understands accounts, is willing to make him self
useful, boards with his parents, is trustw orthy,
no mpudence about him? The best recomm en-
datons required AID two dollars week wages"
Ask boy whether old folks dou make as M uch
fuss about such a place as it they were doing
you favor that would set you up for lite.
Who wants a boy anywhere? Your sisters
don't in the parlor. Your father don't; ho al
ways asks il you are not wanted to do something
ewhcre. You make your mothers head ache
Whenever you come near her Old ladies snap
you off. Young ladies' ''hatc you Young men
tease you, and give it to you if you tease back.
so, l know-always want to fight if they don t
know you, and when you get black eye or
torn jacket. you hear Of it at home.
lou look back and wonder il you ever were
that pretty little fellow in petticoats that every
body stuffs with candy, and you wonder wheth
er you'll ever be man to be liked by thcsgrls
and treated politely by the other fellows, aud
paid for your work. and allowed to do as you
choose. Aud you make up your mind every day
not to be a boy any longer than you can help it,
and hear your grandfather or somebody com
planning that there "are no boys now, and won
der if he remembers the life they led, that he
don't consider it a subject Of rejoicing. There $
only one comfort in it ALI boys will grow up,
and then they generally forget all they went
through in their youth, and make the boys OF
their day suffer just as they suffered
A CANADIAN didn't believe II keg of powder
which he had jast received was good, so he threw
coal of fire into it, Several of the shingles of
the roof were found, smugged across the river
into America 1t is also believed the man has
emigrated, as he has not been seen at home since
the occurrence, although one of his legs was
found in Lower Can ada.
AT dance in San Francisco, q young lad y
who particularly accommodating in the
drcssing-room about assisting ther good-look-
ing girls in fixing up. putting on slippers and
lacing corsets. turns out to be young man. AS
soon as the girls found it out they interviewed"
him, and he now uses hair restoratives and court
plaster, besides carrying his nose in sling.
TEXAS CATTLE DIsEAsz-Ws notice that
many Of our exchangss both i, California
and The EasteTn States are discussing the
question OF the Texas cattle plague, and
the remedies sgain.t il. Two years ago
the mongreI pref" of this State waxsd warm
on ths subject, fearing more, We think, the
men that would come with the cattle than
the cattle or plague. The Supreme court
of Illinois has decided, in case involving
this Texas cattle plague that States have no
control over it, that i. is commerce between
The States, and that Cougrs. only, under
the Constitution Of the United States, ha.
control Of the subject. This decision is
prsdicatsd on the 8,h Section OF Article On 9
to the Constitution Of the UDtsd Slatss
which reads: "Congress shall have power to
regulate commerce with foreign nations and
among the several States and with the Indian
tribes" This, in our visw, ssttlss the whole
question, and the decision in Illinois is un,
doubtsdy 'ustaited by the letter OF the Con.
sli.uion, above quoted.