The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-07-20
BOYS AND "BOYS."

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; we believe, who urges that boys
should be caught young, put in a
barrel and fed through the bung-
hole until they have arrived at
years of discretion. And yet after
many and forcible reasons for re-
gardiug boys as blessings in dis
guise, and so we'll disguised as to
be mistaken for something quite
the contrary, most everybody will
agree with the eulogy he pro.
nounces upon the boy. "After all,
he says, "there is something I
like about boy"
Boys are the terror of cats,
their mothers and their elder Sis
ters, but the cats would lead but a
dull career without them; while
mother ould scarcely know what
life really is if she was freed from
the constant anxiety she feels
about her boys. What unruf1ed
but Improbable hours Of lazy en-.
joyment would fall to the lot Of
elder sisters, were it not for their
younger brothers. Sloth and ease
and a mistaken belief that this
world is not world of annoyances
and discomforts would enervate
their characters. Boys make them
feel that we are not put here sim
ply to enjoy ourselves, but to deve-
lop our characters. So with teach
ers. What a monotonous exist
euce would be theirs were it not
for boys! A teacher Of girls alone
would mistake earth for paradise,
and 80 not having any use for
Heaven and not believing in any
such place as a refuge from earth
ly miseries would never strive to
get there. But a teacher Of boys,
every week looks forward to a
better and brighter world, makes
good use of Sunday in fitting him
self for it, and in hoping that he
will get there sometime, to make
up for his trials here.
The ash man who should not
get SNOWFALL down his back; the
rag peddler who never found the
wheel Of his cart suddenly coming
of; the street car conductor who
did not have to drive the boys
from the rear platform; the passer-
by who did not get a base ball in
his abdomen or a bean IN his ear;
the nurse girl and her baby who
were not scared out Of their wits
by the sudden rush Of a velocipede
upon their heels, would not enjoy
their tranquil intervals of exist
ence nor fully know the value OF
peace and quietness. So that after
all boys are Of very great use
especially as a discipline and a
means of moral improvement; and
they are not to be despised, but
rather to be cherished and loved
as they are very apt to be as soon
as they have passed their elgh'
teenth year.
But there are "boys' and boys
"boys" with quotation mark
and boys without. 1t is the "boys'
with these marks that do not de-
serve much. charity, and do gel
but precious little liking and cd
miratioD. 1t is the "Doys" with
these marks that frequent drink
ing saloons, stands on the street
corners, become rowdies at ar
early age, are riotous, foul-mouth
ed, violent and even bloodtbirsty
before they are twenty-one. This
| is the kind of "boys" that are moi
entitled to the name. They be
come street rougbs, if not burg
lars and highway robbers; or are
dissipated, vicious, lewd and goin&
to perdition in idroves. 1t is gang
ofthis sort in large cities and or
the frontiers, who are known a!
"boys," but who belle the name
A mean but true specimen of then
are the Malley "boys"-younE
men we'll advanced in manhood
but covering up their debauchery
dissoluteness, riotous living, ant
even graver offenses, by pretend
ingto the giddiness and thoughtful
ness of boyhood. They have NJ
claim to any such excuse or any
such exemption. They are mel
mature in wickedncss and crime
and cannot hide their sins unde
cover Of boyish folly.
The same may be said of th
james boys" who long sine
arrived at mature life, and instea'
of being pushed into crime by th
! frolicsome impulsi7eness suggest
ed bv the word "boy," long sine