New Orleans Republican., 1873-07-27

dcnkeys do. And I nourish my own pr
vate resentment for one little scamp, whe
many years ago sold me a three days old
Philadelphia Ledger, with full account OF
the fall of Sebastopol, many a month before
| the Russians knew anything about it. But l
| admire the little fellows with an endless ad-
miration for their pluck, their perseverance,.
| their hope and courage, their dett ways At
getting you to buy paper you 90 noe
| want; their CHEEKY temper their sturdy en-
| durance, their splendid impudence which
| never trenches on good manners, their great
| faculty for taking care of numDer oEe and
NAV God and ali good men and women
bless them for it, for taking care Of half-a.
dozen more when the sad need is laid On
| them.
Rising long before the lark. eating tho
bread of caretulness, working like little he.
roe., the ten year old fathers Of families.
and minding all night long the promise.
He giveth His beloved sleep" l know
this is in some measure an ideal picture, but
have in my mind little CHEEKY Irish boy
on the north side who can 81: for that pic.
ture, and fill it out to the last line.
wanted especially to say that these boys.
as a class, challenge our admiration before
they challenge our pity. They appeal TO us
for their noble qualities before they appea!
to us to help them up another step towarI
better life. They are already IN como
sense out Of the woods. and that must 10
vhy they .'hoiler" l do not look down.
but up, when want to see them. can
not rise as early, or 80 about my work ~
ithfully, or deny myself as constantly, OF
keep up as bright carriage, or shoot OUT
with as keen a wit, or hold my own with
NV weapous as they do. The little fellows
can teach me many lesson need to learn.
Now home which will be a safeguard to
these qualities. which will insure their per-
manence as the boys grow up, must needs
be a blessing We can not 0verrate. But
home that will take these things out OF
the III, and put others in OF poorer type,
a great misfortune.
/ have sometimes divided the poor inte
three kinds: the Lords poor, our own poor.
and the devils poor; those who can not yet
take care of themselves by their nature, Oe
by circumstances over which they have NO
control; those who TAI! in the battle OF lite
because Of our injustice or neglect. but try
all the time to get on their feet again and
take their true place. and those who, from
overmastering vice, !aziness, drunkenness.
or what we call general cussedness, drift
ont beyond all hope, and win never try to
do any better.
think these boys belong, some of them.
to the first and second class; very few, I
hope. belong to the third, and it is simply
our business to supplement their endeavor.
never to prevent it. If we lay dollar Ous
on them over and above this line. we trans.
fer that dollar to the devils books, and
give him chance he would not have had
but for us. To give them cheerful rooms,
bright fires, clean beds and whole some food.
at such q very moderate price a. they can
pay; to give them their freedom, and vet tn
win them away from evil places. through q
close personal friendship with all that is
best in their nature; to teach the worth as
well as the use of money, and how to lay up
for the rainy day. which comes to them 50
often, and which compelled one of them
on miserable morning, when Long John
was an editor. TO yell at him in despair:
Here. l cav. buy some Of your internal
old papers," only the word was not Internal;
and ~ show il all sweet. natural, manly
ways, what joy there is in goodness, and
what sorrow and shame in sin; 70 teach
them to sing ballads as we'll as psalms. and
to read Scott and Dickens, May ne Reid,
and Tom Brown, of Rugby, healthy books
by healthy men. and so draw them away
from the Days Do,1gs and Police Gd-s's by
creating nObler taste, and to teach them
to realize, if we can, in the very marrow Of
their bones, that God and devil. and heaven
and hell, and the fallen and unfallen angels,
and the tender, loving Chris: are right hero
this side OF death. as surely as they are on
the other. All. fellow citizens and friends,
if thi. is what we mean by a nevsboys'
home, as l hope and trust and believe il il.
then we may we'll be glad of this nob!est
institution Of our city. and give for i With
a great gladness. and work Tor il. and watch
for it as we work and watch foc on, own
dear homes.