The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-10-29
THE BOY TAMEEs.

Boys! What 4 world OF badness
is suggested by the world boys" ."
There arc no good boys. Som,
boys are worse than other boys,
bul they arc all. Fad. There are
male wrrstlcrs. EorSe-brcakerS, IL
on ;aHcrS, snakc-cllarmerS, plenty
Of tAcm. The world is full OF
such people. Bat Tic man or wo-
man who can train boy, and
conquer him with kindness, the
only way it can be donc, is first
; class natural curiosity.
! Some have even believed that
Il boy cannot be tanned or trained,
but this is i mistake. There is
an old policeman called "BUah'
IN Detroit who Is an infaIliblc boy
trainer. The old man must have
i good heart. y late tough case
! that came into his hands shows
there is Il heap OF ''human nature
in him. lIc is Il janitor ut the po-
lice station, and Il part Of his
business is TO pacify and entertain
nervous children that are brought
in lost or straycd, or otherwise
abused by this pretty rough world
on children.
They come TO him bowling
with terror or pain, and lie has
i regular system Of pacitication.-
Candy and peanuts generally 60
it but there arc many cases that
these simple remedies will not
reach. Then he tries throwing
them up and catching them il they
arc very small, or riding them on
the foot il they have arrived at e
good jolting age whistIing and
singing will mollify some dispo-
sitions, and so on. "DijaA" had
never been known to fail. But
the other day he got hold Of :. lit
tic chap that taxed all his resources
and WAS very near proving that
some boys would not manage
This is the way he did it:
lie was brought i'll bowling AID
kicking, and he turned from the
sight of Il stick Of pcppermcnt can
dy with whoop and 4 yell. Bi.
j;lh then tried whistlin5 but the
young rcprobalo spit on lin, then
whooped The louder. Offers ofpop
and soda water was responded to
by wcll.aimcd kicks and he wasn't
to be taken in by the display Of a
! hlg iack-knifc or Il bpnch Of keys.
When all these I!tlIo things taiiod,
and the boy continued to dance up
and down, and howl and spit, Bi-
jah kindly put the hose on the
pen. stock, and offered him the
pipe. lie threw it down, and was
so mad that he got white around
the mouth.
Then he was offered the city d.
rectory, an insurance picture Of
Washington crossing the Dele
ware, and q onc-w h c | cd cart
which had been brought in from
the alley, bat he lay flat lowH on
the AooE and his shricks SET every
| body's hair on end. For more
than one straight hour Bijah rack
cd his brains to find means to
make that little imp auut up, and
! by .nd nc hit the thing. Pouring
paiIful Of water into the gultor
he made fsh:ponl. and then he
bent a pin lAEo 4 hook, got a stick
and s. piece Of string, and seated
the boy Oh The curb.stone
The young rat had begun 10
hold in little as he saw the pre-
parations gong forward, and when
he took tho polo and sat down he
was qulot as lamb. For two
long hours he "bobbed" away in
that pond for trout, heaving a sigh
now and thens bat feeling y 'hiittt,
and jcFNi"g up the pile regularly
! every ten seconds, and at last
he fell asleep, Topped over, and
vas carried in and placed on two
chairs, to lie there until called for.
As Bijah remarked when the iob
was ended "IIo who ovcrcomcs
a boy is greater than he who sIays
ZEN thousand men,"