Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-13
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BOYS AND ssBOYS.0


It is Charles Dudley Warner, 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
regarding boys as blessing in disguise, and
so we'll disguised as to be mistaken for some
thing quite the contrary, almost everybody will
agree with the eulOgy he pronounces upon the
boy "After ALL" he says, "there is some
thing 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 a mother
would scarcely know what life really is If she
was freed from the constant anxiety she feels
about her boys. What unruffed but ,inprott-
able hours of lazy enjoyment would fall tc the
lot of elder sisters, were it not for their
Younger brothers. Sloth and ease and a mis-
| taken 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 simply to enjoy ourselves,
but to develop our characters. So with teach
ers. What a monotonous existence would be
theirs were it not for boys! A teacher OF
girls alone would mistake earth for paradise,
and so not having any use for Heaven and not
believing in any such place as a refuge from
earthly miseries would never strive to get
there. But teacher of boys, every week
| looks forward to a better and brighter world,
makes good use of Sunday in fitting himself
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 snow
ball down his back; the rag peddler 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 !;
the passerby who did not get a baseball in
| = ,hl in,
girl and her baby who were not scared out of
their wits by the sudden rush of velocipede
upon their heels, would not enjoy their tran
uuil intervals of existence nor fully know the
value of peace and quietneSs. SO that after
all boys ara of very great use-especially as
discipline and 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
eighteenth year.
But there are "boys" and boys, "boys" with
a quotation mark and boys without. 1t is the
ssboys'' with these marks that do not deserve
much charity, and do get but precious little
liking and admiration. It is the ''boys" with
these marks that frequent drinking saloons,
stand on the street corners, become rowdies at
all early age, are rotous foul-mouthed, vio-
lent and even bloodthirsty before they are
twenty-one This is the kind of ''boys" that
are not entitled to the name. They become
street roughs, if not burglars and highway
robbers or are dissipated, vicious, lewd and
going to perdition in droves 1t is gangs OF
this sort in large cities and on the frontiers,
who are known as "boys," but who belle the
name: A mean but true specimen OF tliem
are the Malley "boys"-young men well ad-
vanced in manhood, but covering up their de-
bauchery, dissoluteness, and even graver Of
fcnses, by pretending to the giddiness and
thoughtfulness of boyhOod. They have no
claim to any such excuse or any such eXemp-
tion. They are men mature in wickedness and
crime, and cannot hide their sins under cover
of boyish folly.
The same may be said of the "James boys,'
who long since arrived ut mature life, and in
stead of being pushed into crime by the frolic-
some impulsiveness suggested by the word
''boy," long since resorted to robbery and MUIR
der as the business of life, not as the sport of
irrepressible and hot-headed youth.
The politicians, too, love to hide their tricks
and their games with the public service by
pretending in jocose and lightsome way that
it is the ''boys'' who are really responsible for
the evil deeds of caucuses and conventions, of
wire-pullng and political deviltry generally.
They imagine it softens the offense if they as
sumo that it is the ''boys" who must be looked
after and looked to for the wrong doing in
politics, whereas the majority of these ''boys"
are gray with the many years they have given
to learning and practicing their contemplate
political frauds and maneuvres. No; in JUS
tice to the real boys, whose youth excuses
much because it is '.their nature to- the
''boys' of the street-corners, the frontier, and
the political managers ought to have the name
taken from them.-Detroit Free Press.
THE CRIMEA.-Many officers, and above all.
General Scarlett himself were conspicuous for
their skillful and intrepid conduct during this
| Unmatched struggle, and if only one or two
brilliant instances of gallantry are here de-
scribed, it is because it would be needless to
repeat the whole of the oft told tales of Brit
ish bravery in the Crimea. 1t is surely excus-
able to single out the incidents connected with
those whose dangers, tolls, hardships and pri-
vations one has witnessed more frequently.
With that apology may relate how, at the
first onset, Lieutenant Elliott, of the Fifth
Dragon Guards, saved the life of General
Scarlet by his admirable devotedneSS. n tall
Russian officer, perceiving that the officer
leading the charge must be Of high rank, placed
himself so as to cut him down when he should
reach the column. General Scarlet, being eX-
trelnely short-sighted, was not prepared to
| guard his left. Elliott, who was riding close
behind him as his aide-de-camp, gave his horse
the spur, and dashing past him just as the
| Russian had raised his arm to strike, ran the
latter through the body with such force that
the thrust went home to the hilt. The Rus
sian was turned quite round in his saddle be-
| fore the sabre could be disengaged, and then
| he fell dead to the ground. Elliott had seen
| much active service in one of the East India
company's lancer regiments. Wishing to en-
ter the Queen S army, he purchased cornet's
commission. Though an old officer, he was
| thus still a subaltern. General Scarlet re.
commended him for promotion and for the
| Victoria Cross on account of his distinguished
conduct in this charge of the Heavy Brigade,
but neither of the applications were entertain
| ed by the Horse Guards, for what reason no
mortal man can tell. This beau sabreur, as
he was dubbed by many Of his friends, receiv-
| ed no less than fourteen wounds on that ILL
fated day. After the battle oneof his brother
officers went into his tent and found him stand
ing before looking glass. "Halloa, Elliott.
Beautyfying, are you ?" eyes," was the an
swer, II am sticking on my nose" 1t had
been slashed nearly off his face in the melee.
He was a most agreeable and kind-hearted
companion and very able cavalry officer, but
his modesty never permitted him to talk of his
services When General Scarlett's two re-
concentrations were negatived, Elliott said
that he could not expect to be rewarded for
having done only his duty and nothing more
than any other English officer would have
done.-7enaple Bar.
A BIG BLUFF.-It was pleasant fall night
in Savannah, Ga, when a party of five gentle
men met by agreement in one of the private
parlors of the Screven House, to have little
'!draw," which, by the aforesaid agreement,
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