Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-10-19
Vagabondage.


more fatal than to bottle it up. If boy
wants to be sailor or stage driver, it is
the vagabond in him moving to get out
You may shut the yagabond in, cork him
up like the Old Man of the Sea, put King
Solomon's seal upon him, and write King
Solomon's proverbs all over him, but that
vagabond will come out some dav. That
is, unless you succeed in smotbering him
entirely, in which case your boy is of no
more account than stale ginger pop.
When Henry Ward Beecher wanted to
go to sea, the patriarch of the Beechers,
with Beecher shrewdness, coaxed the fel.
low to go to Amherst to learn enough
mathematics 10 become a midshipman.
and by sending him to college where
there was revival, swindled him into
piety and preaching. But the sailor is in
his bones yet; he treads the pulpit as il
1t We're quarterback he breaches under
great strength of canvas, md even with
whitening hairs every now and then shakes
out the top-gallant sail of some bold ut
terance. lie has been hunting and fish
ing, and lecturing and ediiing; he has
dabbled in all these vigabond pursuits, in
order TO get that sailor out Of him; but
the irresponsible sailor Beecher is entirely
too much for the preacher Beecher. Now,
If Dr.. Lyman had undertaken to break the
vagabond spirit, if he had sent him to a
farm as penal colony, if he had tried to
beat ii out of him, We might have had a
DIR. Dryasdust in Plymouth pulpit But
if he had tried one voyage. it might have
saved him much trouble on doctrinal
points since.
Nagabond;sm is, next to conscience, the
most valuable element in the human com
position, if it is rightly managed. But
there's the rub! To manage it. To give
the boy, or to give yourself, just rope
enough, SO that the animal spirits will be
satisfied with their play, and yet to be
able in the end to rein the vagabond in to
steady work, is the great problem. For
II a man or horse is allowed to run too
much, it is as destructive to his tractabi]i-
ty as to be allowed to run too little. II
is an old observation that if man once
becomes trapper, sailor, regular sol
dier, a stage driver, or a Bohemian. it is
hard for him TO quit either. There is the
dash of vagabondage in all these employ
ments that fascinates him; but man NAV
venture on the confines of these cnchant-
ed lands without danger if he does not
allow his higher purposes to be dissipa-
ted. When the vagabond does not OBJ
literate moral distinctions, he can be CON
trolled
Several young men, students in a lead
ing Western university, came to New
York to enjoy their vacation few years
ago. They were sons of rich men. They
dld not want TO go to the st. Nicholas or
the 81. Astor to use finger glasses and
napkins, and live over again the conyen-
tional life they endured at home. The
unqualified yagabolds in them, the vaga-
bonds that had ached to ring the collepe
bells at night, that had wanted to play
countless tricks on countrymen-.hese
pent-up vagabonds under good clothes
must get out. They did not go to the
prairie, but to the greater wilderness of
New York, for their sport They did not
seek the poor qualification of a debauch.
knowing that such vagabondage costs
more than it comes to. But they were
guilty OF singular breach of the public
peace. They hired hand organ and a
monkey, and from one end of Manhattan
to the other they ground out dolorous
music, showed their sorry monkey in a
red jacket, sang discordantly, gathered
their pennies, saw the city, had thei
laugh, collected enough to pay expenses,
had some money over. and went back to
Ovid, and Homer, and Euclid, content.
Vagabondage has literature. Books OF
travel, stories of adventure-w hat are all
these but books written to enable stay at
home yasabenls to enjoy the wild life
they dare not seek? \ bad sort Of vaga
bondage is the intellectual type, where IL
man runs tilt against everything rever
ed, and expends the animal life which
should have found vent in shooting griz-
zleys, in attacking the foundations of ali
settled oeiief Many man dresses well.
behaves in polish way, and outwal6lS
conforms to conventional life, who is none
the less rowing, lawless vagabond in hi.
intellectual life. And the worst sort OF
all is that in " bich the fresh animal life
has putrefied, ard the man who is fair t.
look upon is vagabond in morals.
The clio sn in he play said that genius
was the worst horse in the stable. And
1t Is just becalse what we commonly cali
genius is a combination of the highest in
tellectual gifts with that flow of animal
spirits which gives fire and force and
sparkle to intellectual action. Great wit
needs as much more to take care of it.
says an old proverb, and the difference be-
tween the vagabond element subject and
the vagabond element dominant is often
the difference between the highest success
and the saddest shl. wreck
- A-
How SUGAR is MADE WuITE.-The
way in which sugar is made perfectly
white was found in curious way. A
hen that had gone through a clay mud
puddle, went with her muddy feet into a
sugar house. 1t was observed by some
one that wherever the tracks were, the
sugar Vas whitened. This led to some
experiments. The result was, clay came
to be used in refining sugar. 1t is in this
way The sugar is put in, earthen jars,
shaped as you see the sugar is. The large
ends are upward. The jar is filed with
sugar, the clay put over the top and kept
wet. The moisture goes through the su-
gar, and drops from the hole in the small
end of the jar. This makes the sugar
perfectly white. es
II The mayor of Lynchburg, Va, had a
case before him in which seven negroes
ole dor The poauar f<,