National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-06
THE NEW EXODUS.
ANOTHER MOVEMENT WESTWARD.
Leaf From the Records OF New York Charity
Center-NeW and Young Blood for the
Western Country-Our Future
Great Statesmen.

II is not very new exodus after all. 1t has been
going on, under the auspices OF tho Childrens Aid
Society, Of New York for o good many years. There
is steady tranaplnnting and removal ofchildren
esqueness ofhumaniylur In the briefbiographies
from the streets Of New York to the praries Of the
West, where It is TO be hoped they take kindly to
the new soil, and grow up 10 be good citizens OF
the Republic. There is something pathetic rs well
as hopeful in these departures The very plctur-
which. under n mild pressure of questions, these
little people hand in before they take the train.
The person who said he was O man, and nothing
human was foreign to him, would like to read
these tiny vest t-pockot editions Of Roughng II"
TAKE, FOR INSTANCE. THE PARTY
Of thirty hvo who not long since were gathered up
Ston ns 70 tbn iowa uhey were & Sery r
in age from four years TO thirteen. After the gospel
Of good gowns had been read to the girls, aud the
boys put Into new thick SUITS II was very pros
perous-looking crowd. They were not sorry to go
they We're pretty sure they conld encounter moth
ing worse than they left behind. They looked to
had happy visions of horses TO ride aud chickens
to feed. They were not nffaid of hard work, they
"seq Was wa
rostlessnesS, which no child Is too young to take
and no man or woman old enough 10 escape.
THEY WERE ALL AMERICANS
more or less. One follows them with curious
wonder. What viii become Of tho boy with the
"iuquiring urn (see personal descripion), who
came to the lodging, last winter, bnrefooted, and
the dog .catchers2 Who knows against whose
name Senator or Judge, or President is written
in invisible ink2 Against some of them, doubt
less, for these are the ranks from which self
made " men are recruited. One would like 20 be
| wise enough TO toll their fortune, In all their
lives to come. nerhsps these children will not not
been crowded Into tGoir first decade. The drunken
father and the drunken mother are almost newt
able In each story.
SOMETIMES THERE IS A VARIATION.
There was the boy who had New Jersey step.
mother, who turned him adrift because he could
not learn to weave perfectly in week: Though
he Is only hfteen he has been TO sea four times
and lived IN half q dozen lnrge cities. After that
| will not life on an Iowa farm bo monotonousf
| An occasional Bible was part Of the personal
| tered books that he packed away carefully his
library" There was the boy who worked in an
umbrella factory, but saw 50 many boys get theiI
camdrdderie Of the street gamn comes ont strongly
in these brief and simple annals
az WAS CRYING IN THE STREET
"because / had no homo to go. to, and another lit
street with him. lived there long time. Aftel
a while got afraid that the woman would no
lodging house was q good place for boys, so wen
| around there" There was one boy, lttle faint.
heart, whose courage feied him; Ho took 9
in Brooklyn" and did not come back. There was
| the German boy whose father was a tailor in era.
COW, and who, growing tired Of that town, started
| for Hamburg with one thaler in his pocket. Then
n man who had q son going to London, and did
not want him to go alone, paid his fare TO London
When the board OF guardians got him passage tc
HE PAID Sc, ALL HE HAD,
for ticket, and landed ut Castle Garden without
a cent. He can never bo President, but there isn't
| reason why he should not be Secretary of the In
| terror some day. Tho boy whose stepfather diet
from " something on the lungs" slept in wagons
| afler that event, and picked up a living as h,
could until he heard about the going West 1t die
not take him long to mako UP his mind. Their,
| was such row Mt the house he could not sleep
aud thcy gave him nothing to eat. He had goh'
| West 10 get " q home and square meals"
THERE WERE ONLY EIGHT GIRLS
in this party OF fthirty.fve. One OF them had beer
| taking caro- OF children. She hoped sho SHOULD
not get into family where there were children
her, for she at once took under her wing lfltl,
waif of a boy, declaring her intention. OF taking
care of him all the way. Tho most pathetic para
those In Which, hidden away under non coinmitta
| initials were the waits ana strays who had com,
through the courts, and whose parents might, !
TO iniamy.
WELL, THE BELL RANG
the engine took u long breath; New York sli,
away from them like a slide in a magic lantern
| they are safe in country homes long ere this. ]
is only one leaf torn out Of the calendar. Nor
than hundred carloads OF such human flotsan
Se new exods 1SSe Is nohns
| tionnry about It. 1t has no political tendencies
But people who watch the social drift will look OF
the round Of heroic cure that Alfonso Of Casil
| suggests when-
Earth, crowded, cries, "too many men,"
My counsel Is, kill nine In ten;
| Stuff their nine brains In his hut;
Give their nine lives 10 this cat.
80 shalt thou have man of the sphere,
Fit grace the solar year.
-CdliSta Haley Pdichfn in Lbe Boston Courier.