The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-07-05
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Yes. sir, il is impossible to keen AWAY
| from WELLINGTON Probably we vyould
never have mentioned being there had not
something met our sight worth relating.
and which we hoped to read in the ENTER,
PRISE. as it happened not more than two
rods from the editorial chair. One of the
wise maxims of Josh Billings says "Should
there be only one boy in the world,
there never would be any mischief done /"
| This case is of a how When n how can
carry everything at one load he will NOT
90 twice after it. This was the case with
| This boy. whom. in hardening time. his
mother had sent after some poles We
saw that boy on his return. while trv-
| ing to work his way through not far from
Baldwin, Laundon s. Cos with at least
1 twenty bean poles on his shoulder. Now,
one bean pole is about all an ordinary
mortal can carry conveniently, and nobody
but boy would attempt to carry twenty
of them. He had them tied together at
the middle, leaving the ends loose, and had
q thought, then, that he was a boy of re-
markable promise. Bean poles, as past
experience has proved to us, are naturally
uneasy. When they can't move one way
they can another, but they will move, and
] in spite of all his tender care, these did.
He had them on his shoulder at first, but
some got to dropping down behind, strik-
ing against people, while others falling
down in front, stuck into the sidewalk and
made him stumble, while others lay hori-
Zontally-not but that they preferred to
drop as the others did, but lying horizon
tally while the others were in opposite
| positions gave pleasing variety to the
performance. When the boy stopped, as
he was frequently obliged to do, some one
in the rear would step on the poles or in
among them and swear at him: Finally
| he turned round TO see what the matter
wa, and Knocked out the face OF clock
Mrss-.- - was carrying in his arms. This
SO excited him that he dropped the poles
entirely. The owner OF the clock cuffed
him, took down his fathers name, and
swore he would have damages. The un-
fortunate youth then took the awful things
up in his arms, but they wouldn't lie still.
They kept together at the middle but were
demoral1Zed at the ends, and whlrled about
so rapidly as TO scare him. He looked like
q windmill, and presented such an awful
sight that we precipitately took to the
street ana several horses attempted 10
climb up into their wagons He had TO
drop his load again or be shot down in his
| tracks by the infuriated drivers. Finally
he made two bundles of them and took one
under each arm Some of the ends CON-
menced to tangle with their opposites,
extremes met, and getting in front of his
eyes, shut out his vision. Others dropped
| down in front and behind, and one of those
which went down in front caught so firmly
in the walk as to completely upset the boy,
and he came down on his back, having,
turned a complete somersault, with the
poles under him and over him and on all
sides of him, while lust back of where he
went down stood Mrs. -, picking the
wreck of bonnet out of her hair, and
looking in the pile for the largest pole was
q middle-aged man, with a cut nose, an
/ eve beginning to vie in color with the
shades of Joseph's coat, and a ruptured
shirt-front The boy jumped up and fed.
Still about boys-Two young rowdies
from Rochester took il into their heads to
disturb the peace of some families in
Huntington, and began operations on Fri
| day night about 10 o'clock and kept it up
| till 8 o'clock next morning. Call again
We'll carry you back on a stretcher and
make you believe you came from the In
dian Territory, our word for it. In look
| ing over some heather customs we remem-
bered some former travels in foreign lands,
rand have never forgotten a custom of a
country. There is one custom in the
| Celestial Empire that we should like to
see turned loose here. Boys in China are
not supposed to be responsible until they
reach the age of twenty-one years, and
/ their parents are held accountable for all
their crookedness, Just the same as the
/ owner of any dan ngerous animal is held
responsible for the damages he may do.
/ Suppose a boy walks up and throws a
stone through your bay window that shat
! fers a fine Gala and "busts" the statue of
/ the Sweet Singer of Michigan, or comes
and plays the rowdy in your ward 10 the
| detriment of your rest, YOU do not 90 out
and chase him four blocks with an iron
rake and club him till he gets out of reach,
but you just get an old hoe-handle that
swings easy, and you search out the boys
/ parents and wear them out with that hoe
handle and mix them up with the land.
Then If the boy does not behave himself
YOU can 90 TO the other relatives and pradu-
| ally enlarge the circle of your acouaint-
| ance until Won have mauled the entire re-
| lationship even Including the old Grand
parents of the boy: and If any of these
1 people resist they are subject 10 imprison-
ment. This law. although apparently
stringent, is good one. Itmakes parents
take more interest in their children and
look out for them more accurately. 1t en-.
courages parents to know where their bows
| are and TO keen their ewes ON Them more
| than tbev do in some nsrts of J.orain
4 CDunry Ifthat law was to on into force
here some men we know wou1d bove m
j tale an arnica batb tU ice n dav and would
not have a whole hone in Their bodies We
like 10 see n brioht active bov with oood
lhealtb and sonnd inngs but the tbriyin !
hIossom that will deyelon into n Jesse
! LANES we have no use for IF the C,binese
Iay,, corId ha enforcoJ Lara acainst ,boso
oaran,s xS,hC, orr, hra,.,l;nSr nm sr,,,ad ~
!.to,ji,,r,sS, We ysn',1S ,,t w., 7, r.o,Id
he nrattv active worl. for The oran ryer and