Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-04-26
The Wrong Kind of B,v.


notice how some boys make an effort tc
get along in the world. When young
man starts out in life he commences BY
looking for position in which be NAV
earn his daily bread and find clothes to
cover his nakedneSs. If he is one OF
these reckless, yagabond sort of BOYS
whose thoughts don't run rod into the
future, or hardly keep pace with the
things going on around him, or has
grown up about as does a lonely and $50
lated weed in the garden that obtains its
strenth from a rich spot in the ground
and draws nourishment from the better
fed plants and vegetables that from their
value receive care and attention, it is safe
to say that he is one who never thinks
of what the next day, month or year
NAV bring forth. and though nearing
the age of manhood he is about as capa-
bic of filing the position of man as a
muley calf. Still, he makes a pretense
at caring for himself and claims to be
doing all in his power to get along in the
world.
Such boy starts out to obtain a stu
alton He is reckless about his personal
appearance. His hair is uncombed, face
and hands unwashed, and the general
appearance of a tramp is his exterior
Recommendation. If he applies for
position, the man who happens to need
a Young man sizes him up and con
cludes that he had rather employ Dig
ger Indian, if he has got to reform and
make clean the person whom he hires.
And again, he will wander around fol
4 nd nd ftI1
where they have no more use for a boy
than a dog has for two tails. He spends
one day loating about the depot, eX-
pecting some one will come around and
offer him q fine situation at four dollars
per day and board. He win stand
around and talk with the baggage man
at the depot. or help the lunch counter
clerk carry in coal for his dinner. and in
the afternoon he loafs around some
more and scrapes the acquaintance OF
the brakeman in the yard and helps him
couple cars and unload freight. while
the brakeman fills him full of tatfy about
how easy it is TO get soft thing work
ing for a railroad company. The next
day he spends at the police court listen
ing to the cases tried, loafs an hour OF
q
hall and winds up with a visit to a So
loon All the time he is fairly aching to
have some one give him q position and
he curses the country whore a young
man can find nothing to do.
Men don't hire boys from under the
caves of n saloon, and when they are
, looking for young man to DO job OF
work they do not 90 through the crowd
loafng around the depot with a search
warrant, ami pick out the dirtiest young
tramp among the number. No one ever
heard of n man who wanted to hire a
Young, bright, active, stirring boy, with
fire in his eve, energy and yig.r in his
constitution, looking over the loafers al
the police station for such a boy AT
such places all the boys you would find
would only have energy enough to mas
| ticate a chew of tobacco, or hoEt down Il
dry goods box on a street corner all day.
and swear through the evening about
the cursed country where there was
nothing for boy to do
When q farmer comes into town
/ looking for a boy to help at the spring
work. at fifteen dollars per month and
board, he don't look through the corri-
doris Of the postoi1ice and pick out the
slouchiest looking loafer in the crowd,
or hunt up billiard hail. and hire the
boy who can pocket the most balls at
pool, or drink the most beer MANY boy
with holes in his boots and his coat torn,
but whose face and hands were clean.
his eyes bright, and his system full OF
energy, has carried off the persimmons
when others and better dressed boys
have stood around with their hands in
their pockets cursing their luck But
the boys can make up their minds that
while a business man sees them loaiine
around depols, police-courts, the pest
office, or street corner, he would not
hire any one of their number to carry
swill 90 his PIGS That's about the way
business men feel about it, and it is time
the boys knew it. The cleanest, bright
est boy is the one who catches on every
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