The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-18
THE ROAD TO RUIN.
What Shall We Do with Our Boys.

What Shall We DO with Our Boys.
The New York World has been col.
lating the statisticr of crimes committed
by boys within the last three or four
months, and the story is frightful.
There are Jessie Pomeroy and the
Blanchard boy TO begin with. Two
Kentucky cousins aged IL and IL espoused
their fathers quarrels, and last Decem-
Der one of them stabbed the other with
his jack-knife in the ribs, killing him.
A boy named Sheridan, in San Fran
cisco, having graduated from the Indus
trial School, where he was sent mt the
age of IL for larceny and burglary,
stabbed and killed a playmate in less
than four months after he came out.
Goody" Smith, aged IL, in Missouri,
week or two since, first threatened that
he'd knock the id head off OF his
school teacher, ana then stabbed her
twice with a gimlet, probably causing
her death. Jesse Glass, in Texas, aged
Is, few weeks since shot man dead
from behind fence, who had killed his
father three years before. Frank Rut-
tan, aged II, in New York State, last
month, after trying to smash the skull
of little girl with tack-hammer,
choked her to death. For some days
she was supposed to have died from ac-
cident. Johnny Brady, San Francisco
boy of IL, went around the Chinese
quarter burning the necks of Chinese
women with his cigar He was finally
arrested and pistol, pack of cards and
plug of tobacco found on him. Peter
! Of Ill
offered his companions three cents for
his share of duck they had jointly
stolen. When his companions refused
to give him back the change out of q
nickel Peter cut his friends arm with O
razor. Sammy Cole, Illinois, aged Is, if
now in prison for stealing horse. A
Brooklyn boy, aged II, named
Marshall, has been convicted of a series
of burglaries netting him 81, 500 in cash.
A boy aged years was found drums
in London last month. He had driver
his father and mother from home anC
his grandmother could do nothing with
him. An Ohio boy being weaned went
into a decline and suffered from an ex
cess of saliva, which was relieved by
putting at his fathers cigars, on which
he grew fat. But he reached ten o.
twelve day and lost his health again
Being now 6 years old he consumes
three or four per day, and is healthy
and growing. Another Ohio boy, ageC
16, shot his brothers head off as ht
lay i'll bed, while showing him chow t
shoot on the wing" A Missouri boy
aged -, took his pistol to schoo
and amused himself by swapping it a.
the scholars. In the afternoon he sue
ceeded in lodging ball in the head of {
little girl which ended her life. The
"boy was severely trounced for his fol
ly, by his parents, who deeply regret
the occurrence" says the local paper. A
boy aged 6, in Pennsylvania, took his
brothers pistol and playfully
snapped" it at a boy aged 8 years
who was visiting him. The bullet en-
tered the boys brain
These casses are all represented to be
authenic, names, dates, and places being
given. And we have no doubt they are
Indeed it is difficult to take up paper
without seeing some story of juvenile
wickedness, recklessness Of life or mali
cious killing, precocious bad habits OF
wanton sport, ending in a deplorablC
casualty on the part of boys ranging
from 6 to 16 years of age. The
doctrine of personal liberty has beer
carried to such illogical extremes tina
the retraint of childrens tempers, ca
prices, and passions is looked upon as {
violation OF the Declaration of hide
! pendence