The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-07-27
Boys ami "R0ys."

Boys anu "Boys."
II is Charles Dudley Warner. we be-
lleve, who urges that boys should be
caught young, pnt in barrel and fed
through the hung hole until they have
arrived at years Of discretion. And vet
after many and forci5lc reasons for re.
garding boys rs blessing in disguise
and so we'll disguised as to he taken for
something quite the contrary, almos,
everybody will agree with the culogv he
pronounces upon the boy. "After alp
he says. there is something like about
boy"
Boys are the terror of cats, their mothers
and their elder sisters, but the cats would
lead but dull career without them ;
while mother would scarcely know what
life really is If she was freed from the
constant anxiety she feels about her bows.
what unruiicd hut Improbable hours
OF lazy enjoymer. would fall to the lot
oi elder sisters, were it not for their
younger brothers. Sloth and ease and q
mistaken belief that this world Is not a
world of annoyances and discomforts
would enervate their characters Bows
make them feel that we are not nut here
simply to enjoy ourselves, but to dcvcl-
op our characters. So with tcachcrs
| what monotonous existence would be
theirs were it not for boys! A teacher of
girls alone would mistake earth for para.
disc, hnd so not having amY use for
Heaven and not believing in any such
place rs " refuge from earthly miseries
would never strive to get there. But
-:aciier Vi boys, every week looks for
ward to betterand brighter world, i:,s.e es
goou use of Sunday in fitting himself for
1t, and in hoping that he will get there
sometime, to make up for his trials here.
The ash man who should not get n
snow bn'l down his back; the rag ped.
dlcr who never found the wheel of his
cart suddenly coming off, the street car
conductor who did not have to drive the
boys from the rear platform tho passer-
by who did not get a base. ball in his alb.
domen or beam in his ear; the nurse
girl and her baby who were not scared
out of their wits by the sudden rush Of a
vclocipedc upon their heels, would not
enjoy their tranquil intervals OF cxis.
tence nor fully know the value of peace
and quietness. So that after all boys are
OF very great Use especially as disci-
plinc and means ofmoral Improvement;
anu they are not to be despised, but rath-
er to be cherished and loved, as they are
very apt to be az soon rs they have pass
cd their eightee III year.
But there are "boys" and boys, boys"
with quotation mark and boys without.
1t is tho "boys" with these marks thut do
not deserve much charity, and but prcc.
ious little liking and admiration. It is Tho
| boys with these marks that frequent
| drinking saloons, stand on the street cor.
ners, become rowdies at m early age, ara
riotous, foul -mouthed, violent and even
bloodthirsty before they are twcnty-onc.
| This is the kind Of boys" that are not
entitled to tho name. They become
street roughs, il not burglars and high
way robbers; c. .e dissipatcd, vicious,
iewd ard Eo'"' 'erdition in droves.
| 1t is e. IT in large cities and
| on Z are kno,yn "hov." +"
but who 'lamc a mean but
true spcclmc, hem arc the Mallcy
"boys'-young men we'll advanced in
manhood, but covering up their lebau.
| cherry, dissolutcrcss, and oven grnvcr Of.
fenses.. by pretending to the gd,lncss
ana thoughtfulncss of boyhood. They
have no claim to any such exemption.
| They are men mature in wickedncss and
crime, and cannot hide their sins undcr
cover of boyish folly.
The same may be SAID of the "James
| boys" who long since arrived at mature
life, and instead of being pushed into
crime by tho frolicsome impulsivcncss
suggested By the word "boy," long since
resorted to robbery and murder rs tho
business Of life, not sssthe sport of IRE
pressible aud hot-headed youth.
The politicians, too, love to hide their
tricks and their games with the public
service by pretending in a jocose and
lightsome way that it il the "boys" who
are really responsible for the evil deeds
Of caucuscs and conventions, Of wire
pulling and political deviltry generally.
Ihey imagine it softens the oAsmsa If
they assume that it is the "boys" who
mus: 30 looked after and !ookss. 10 !o-
the wrong doing in politics, whereas the
majority of these boys" are gray with
the many years they have given to learn
ing. aud practicing their contemplate
political frauds and mannuvres. No; in
justic to the real boys, whose youth ex.
cuses much because it is their nature
to-" tue "boys" Of tho street corners, the
frontier, and the political managers
ought to have the name taken from them.
Detroit Free Press.