Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-19
The Boy Trainer.

HOW HE MANAGES BOY
BOYS! what world of badness is suggested
by the word "boys." There are no good BOYS
Some boys are worse than other boys, but they
are all bad. There are mule wrestlers, horse
bIee Sers, Iion-tamers, snake-charmers, plenty
OF them. The world is full of such people. But
the man or woman who can train a boy, and
conquer him with kiDdnesS-The only Way IL
can DC done1is trst-class curiosity. Some
nave even beleyed that boy cannot be tanned
or trained, But this Is a mistake. There is an
OLD policeman called Bijah, :" in Detroit, who
is an iniallible boy trainer. The old man
must have good heart. A late tough case
that came into his hands shows that there is a
neap OF human nature" in him. He is q ian
ltor at the station, and part of his busressi is TO
Pacny and entertain nervous children that are
brought in lost, or strayed, or stolen, or other
wise abused by this pretty tough world on chill
dIen. They come to him bowling with terror or
pain, and he has regular system of pacifca-
ton Candy and peanuts generally do it, but
there are many cases that these simple means
will not reach. Then he tries throwing them
up ard catching them, II they are very small,
or riding them on his foot if they have arrived
at good jolting age. Whistling and singing
VIII reach and modify some dispositions, and so
on. nBttsh" has never been known to fail.
But the other day he got hold OF a little chan
that taxed all his resources, and was very near
proving that ONE boys wouldn't manage. This
Free Press:
He was brought in bowling and kicking, and
be turned from the sight OF a stick of pepper
mint candy with hoop and yell Bijah then
tried whistling, but the young reprobate spit on
him and whooped the louder. Offers of pop and
SOFA water were responded to by well-aimed
KICKS, and he wasn't to be taken in by the dl-
play of big jack knife or a bunch of KEYS
When all these things failed, and the boy CON
tihued TO dance up and down and howl and spit,
BlJah kindly put the hose on the penstOck and
offered him the pipe. He threw it down and
was so mad that he got white around the mouth
Then he was offered the city directory an insur-
ance picture OF Washington crossing the Della
ware, and one wheeled cart which had been
brought in from the alley, but he lay fiat on the
hoor, and his shreks set everybody's hair on end
For more than one hour Bijah racked his brain
TO find means to make that imp shut up and
by and by he bit upon the thing. Pouring
pau full OF water into the gutter, he made
got stick and piece of string, and seated the
boy on the curbstone The young rat begun u
hold In little as he saw preparations going for
wafd, and when he took the pole and sat down
ne was as quiet as lamb. For two long hours
ne "bobbed" away in that pond for trout. heav-
ing sigh now and then, but feeling bite and
Jerking up the pole regularly every ten seconds,
ana last ne Tell asleep, Topped over, and was
carried in and placed on two chairs, to lie there
until called for. As Bijah remarked when the
job was ended: /" He who overcomes a boy Is
greater than he who Kills ten thousand men,"
CATCHING FISH WITH NIrRo-GLYcER1NE.-
river, La, has developed something of interest
to fishermen. We have reference to that great
explosive power, ritro-glycerine, which Is now
Tnylng SO successfully mar pulatcd by Lieut.
woodruff. In making blow, blast, or what
ever you may cell it, one day last eek in the
neighborhood of Kouns' canal, at the least cal
culation $50 fish, weighing from to 100 pounds,
were killed by tue conclusion. The charge was
four pounds of nit.o- glycerine in two Cham
payne bottles, sunk to depth of seven feet
under water. The explosion was feai full to be-
hold. The air was filled with water, FISH, wing
hmbers, logs, etc. Fish enough to do the force
at work day or two were gathered up and the
balance that did not recover from the ss( an,
were Leaf on the field of battle.
nSSeyeraI thonSo nd cool r
SHIRE, England, have struck on account of the
method of weighing