, 1870-05-01
The Story Of sh1 Good 1.ittt- gSoy
who did not Prosper.

CThe following has been written at The ;.s.,,.
Ii Ssiory of The Bad It:e Roy van % , i nat ia.
70 Grief" "a moral sketch which pullls...-i av.
or str years nRol was worthy Of preservation ~.
ctpl weeks In print, fair md unpre tuilce4l r,m
panion-plece to it would deserve atin,la1 laav,.
tallty.-Editor utmoTdnda.l
Once there Was good little boz .y .s,s
name OF Jacob Biyens. He always ,ksyr,l
unreasonable their demands we=e: al
lie always learned his book. aul ns.4
was late at Sabbath School. lie woulI
not play hockey, evan when his sober juis-
1nent told him il was the best thing hs co,YI
do. Meme Of tho other boys could ever mako
wouldn't lie, no matter how convenient ii waa
He Just said it was wrong to lie, and tha. ~.
sufficient for him. And he was 90 honest tn:
he vas simply ridiculous The curious way.
that Jacob had surpassed everything. lic
wouldn't play marbles on Sunday be wouldn't
to organ grinders monkeys; he didn't seem
to take any interest in any kind Of sat:on.l
amusement. So tho other boys used to try +,
reasou it out and come TO an understanding Of
him, but they couldn't arrive 1t any sat-
isfactory conclusion; as said before.
idea that be WIS afflicted" and 50 they to,k
him under their protection, and never alloveL
any harm to come to i.lm*
This good little boy read al the Sunday
School books they were his greatest delight
This was the whele secret Of it. He believed
in the good little boys they put in tho Sunday
School books; he had every confidence III
them. He longel to come across one OF theil
alive, once but he never did They all died
before his time, maybe. Whenever Le read
quickly to the end to sec wha t became Of him.
because he wanted to travel thousands
OF miles and gaze on him; but it wasn't any
Nse; that good little boy always died IN the
last chapter, and there was = picture OF the
funeral with MI his relations and the Sunday
pantaloons that were too short, and 6onnets
that were too large, and everybody crying iuto
h4ndkerchiefs that had as much Is ynrd AMI
y half OF stuff in them He Was always headed
off in this Way, He never could see ons of
those good ittlo boys, on account Of his a.
wsve dying in the last chapter.
Jacob had q noble ambition to be put IN
Sunday School book. He wanted tu r..
put in, with pictures representing him
glosiously. declining to Ie 70 his mother, AMI
representing him standing on the doorsten
giving = penny to 4 poor beggar-wou.aa
with six children, and telling her to spe,lI il
freely, but not to be e1trayasant, BECAUSE s,-
travngance is sin; md pictures Of him n,,-;-
nsnimoualy refusing to tel1 on the bad boy vi,
always lay in wait for him around the corner,
as he came from school, and welted him oyrr
the head with lsth, and then chased lin
home, Barring iii! lii" A. he proceeded.
That was the ambition Of young Jacob Bi7ens.
Il made him feel little uncomfortable aon,,-
times when he reflected that the gooilitte boys
Al1aysdied. BE loved to live, YOU know. ani
tins wss the most unpleasant feature about being
Sunday School book bog. Heknew it wa not
heatthy to be good. He knew it was more fstal
as the boys in the books were; 10 know tuat
none Of them hsd cser been able to stand il
long, and it panied him to think that il thew
put him IN book he wouldn't ever see it. Of
even it they did get the book out before b.
died, it wouldn't bo popular without any picture
cou!dnt he much OF SuEday-School book thai
couldn't tell about the advice he gave to thu
community when be was DYING. So at last, It
courre he bad to make up his mind to do the
best he could under the circumstanccs-to 1iys
right. and hang on ~ long a. he could, and
have his dying speech al ready when lis tims
came.
:, Hut somehow. nothing ever went right with
this good little boy nothing ever turned ou,
With him the way it turned ont with the COOL
little boys in the books. They always hala
good time, and the bad boys had tho broken
egs, but in his case there was screw looe..
somewhere, and it all happened just the osier
way. When he found Jim Blake stealing at-
pies, and went under the tree to read to him
about the bad little boy who fell out Of
uclSAUN2 apple Tree, dNu DECKc ItS arm. inn
fell ont Of the tree too but he fell on him, aud
broke his arm, and Jim wasn't hurt At aI-
Jacob couldn't understand that There wasn't
anything in the books like it.
And once. when rome bad boys pushed
blind man oTer in the mud, and Jacob ran Il,
man did not give him sny blessing 1t all, hut
whacked him over the kead with his stick and
said he would like to catch him showing him
again and then pretending 10 help him up.
This was not in accordance with any of tia
books. Jacob looked them al over to Zee.
One thing that jacob wanted to do was to
find lame dog that hadn't any ::place to stay,
and WIS hungry and persecuted, and bring
him home and pet him and have that
dogss imperialable gratitude. And 4.
last last -, ne e., found ON H. one, and vas Happy;
when he MAS going to pet him tie dog flew
at him and tore al the clothes OF him except
those that were in front, and made epecta-
Gle of him that WAS astonishing. He examin-
e e. authorities, but be could not understand
that was in the book. but It acted very difYef-
entity. Whatever this boy did be got into
trouble. The very things the boys in tho
books got rewarded for turned out 10 be about
the most Improbable things he could inveat
Once, when he Was on his way to Sunday
School, be aaw come bad BOYS starting on
pleasuIing in tail-boat. He was filed with
because he knew from his read
ing that boys who vent calling On Sunday m
variably got drowned. SO he ran out on NIT
to marn them, hut a log turned with him and
Slid HIM into the river A man got him out
pretty soon, and tho docter pumped the water
put Of him and gave him = fresh start will,
his bellows, but he caught cold and lay sick
,bed nine weeks: But tho most un.ceount-
sble thing. about it was that the boys in the
ooat had good time Ill dav. and
hen reached home alive and well, in
no most surprising manner Jacob Bhyers
aid there was nothing like these things IN thc
When he got re1l he was little discouraeed
nut he resolved to keep On trying, ANYHOW,
10 knew that 80 far his experiences wuuldu't
10 to 80 IN book, but he hadn't vet reached
he allotted term Of life for good little boys,
y .ha ne hoped 70 be able to make record yet
1 eve1y ything else failed, he had his diving
peech to fali back on.
He examined his authorities, and fou1tl that
was now time for him to go to sea as csbin
10y. :: nls da called o9 ship Captain and mado
or his Recommendations he proudly drew out
tract and pointed to the words; ITO jacob
3lisens, from his anectionate TEACHER" Dut
he captan was coarse, vulgar man, and ie
Au, On that be bloWed that wasn't any
roof that he knew how to wash dishes or
nndle saush-bucket, and he guessed ha
ldnt want him." This was altogether the
'oat extraordinary thing that ever had ha,,
rned 70 jacob in all his Life. 1 compliment
rom teacher, on tract. had never failed to
love the tenderest emotions Of ship Captain.
nj open the WAY to al the offices OF honor
nd profit IN their gift-it never had in apy
ook mat ever he had zead. He could hardly
elleye his senses.
This bo, always hld hard time of it. Moth
e e, EYER came out according to the authorities
1uund hunting up bad little boys to atlmonish,
70 found lot Of them in an old iron foundry,
11ng mp little joke on fourteen or fifteen
oSs, which they had tied together in long
recession, and we're going to ornament with
npty nitro ro-glycerine cans made fast to their
ills Jacobs heart was touched He sat
own On one Of those cans-fo1 he never
llnded grease when dutr uas before him
nd he took bold Of the foremost dog BY sLe
9llsr: and ID turned his rsproving eye upon
asasa ,esnt Ton nispmso 3qns. s%s1 R9t Just At that
rssh, sterped in. Al the bsi
oys ran away; but Jacob Blivens rose in con. mn
'ioEs 9l innocence and began one of those state
little snndaE-school-book spcethea Will,
waya comm enee With :: Oh, ST !" in dead o.
oeon st1,te 70 shs fss' that no boy good or 3D.
lderman neyer waited to hear he rest i lie
ok JACOB B!Eens b. the ear and tuInsd hin,
.o,nnd, and hit him = whack in the 1a.r
IN - .he nat Of his hand; and in IN
stant 1a,,n1 that good little boy shot out
1oueh the roof aud SCARED away toward
e sun. with the fragments Of those A.
en- ooes stInGing after him like the tail Of
.e. and there wasn't sign Of that Alder
"a OF that old iron foundry left on the facc
the earth and as for Young Jaoob Dliveos
never got chance to make his 1sst DING
eech after al his trouble fixing It up. unfesS
made it to the birds :; because, aIthourL
bulk Of him came down ali right in . ted
IN IN adjoining county, the rest OF him
IS arpordoned around among four town
ips, and 30 they had to hold Eve inauesfs ~,
y to find out whether he was dead or nnt
q how Il Qccuuetl You ue4er ass :. LaI