The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-07
HOW BOYS PAN OUT.

give promise I'm youth to become the
most pious, God-fearing, intelligent
business men, often turn out to be
the worst whelps that ever scuttled
schooner of beer, while As often the
wild, reckless, devil-may-care critter
whom you may expect TO find robbing
stage coaches and punching heads i'm
the prize ring, tumble to themselves
and become deacons in the church.
There are so many ways of bringing
upa boy that there is no wonder,
when We look at the results of the diff
ferent styles of training, that people
get tangled
AND DON'T KNOW EXACTLY
what course is best. Our attention
has been called to the career of two
boys that were brought up in the
same neighborhood, on different prin-
ciples. One boy was a pious little
fellow, whose father was the same
kind of a hair pin. The boy went to
church and Sunday school regularly,
and could repeat more verses of scrip
ture than seemed necessary. When
other boys were whooping it up nights
the good boy would be at prayer meet
ing or mite society. The other boy
had father that had seen q good
deal Of the world, and he gave his
boy what was considered too much
license. The old man would 90 boat
riding with his boy on Sunday, for
exercise. They would drop hook
and line overheard just for fun. The
boy would ask his father if it was
not wrong to fish on Sum-
day, and the old man would say
he didn't know, as he couldn't find |
anything in the bible that treated on |
the subject. He said they would put
on tine bait just for flyer, and
IF GODS FISH WANTED TO LEARN
any new game, they could have a !
chance. The result was the old man
and boy would get nice string Of
fish. The old man would tell his
boy to look around while he was
young and take in all the fun he
could find lying around loose, but
not to do anything mean. Sometimes
the boy overdid the thing; for in
stance when he got lot Of boys to-
gether and told them all to bring
cat to place appointed the next
night at nine o'clock. They visited
a good natured German who liked fun,
and after he and his wife were asleep,
the boys dropped eighteen cats down
the chimney, into the room where
the German and his wife were sleep
ing. The good boy would have
thought he was going directly to
;lell if had been mixed up in that
scrape, but the bad boys had heap
O" fun, and so did the German, for he
was telling it to the bad boys father.
AID he said, "Vell, ven dem cats walk
Offer de bed. and squawl like they was
sick, think it vas yoOst raining cats,
und my wife tink it vas ped pugs.
o, Desc PoYs DEY MAXI ME- LAUGH"
The bad boy grew up hearty, and hi.
laugh could be heard two blocks. and
his heart was ready to respond to any
appeal for charity. The old man
told him that he didn', want to hear
that he had ever doue wrong to a
girl. He wanted him to look upon
girls as the nOblest affairs that ever
lived, but he added, "If 4 girl ever
" nts to have her ear bit. and you
could do the subject justice, and !
ear of your going around a block,
70 get away from her 5
| will fan YOU with boot /
eg." The bad boy had lots of fun a
With girls, and could tell the differ n
nee between a good one and bad i,
me block Of, while the good boy 1
would blush and tremble in the knees Il
t the sight of piece of calico. The bad
,oy's father told the boy that there
vas such a thing as whisky, which I
WAS GOOD ENOUGH IN IT'S PLACE, n
ut mighty poor thing to tie to, and "
old him not to feel as though he was
able to become drunkard if he
melted of a bottle, but to let it alone :;
n general principles. The bad boy Il
asted of whisky and it burned :
awards, SO he said he guessed he
idn't want any more of that. The
God boy never looked at bottle
7ithOut apOlogizing.
Finally, at eighteen years of age, tt
he two boys went to Chicago to ac p
ept positions in business houses. The k
al boy was met boy ropers-in for a n
unko game, and he told them to go
nd soak their heads. The good boy m
ook the ropers-in for nice christian p
entlemen, and he laid down sixty