The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-06-30

falls irt, strange habiss--nos so vev strange, either-of saying - l won't and Il didn't when 1t IS evident that he will and did. for he. remember. is the boy abou, the place and grown people have a peculiar idea that whatever goes wrong is set righ, if the boy Is whipped or scolded. He comes 10 wonder after awhile that when he ls entrusted with a thousand messages each day he should be So scoided for forgetting one. when hts father has promised a thousand times 70 bring him skates or a ball. and breugh, ,hem-once. His father and mother wonder where he learned. aS most boys do. to smoke and lie and swear a little. They forget that he watches he blue smoke curl from his fathers hps every day tha, he IS in the reom when Mrs. NeighboF Brown came calling on his ma. and lay awake one night when his father had the too,hache He, poor fellow. can't tell ~hy these things are so much worse for him than them. and fl we think about 1t, 1t fs rather hard to tell.
 Bu; though he be abused and pu, upon by all mankind. he IS s,ill the h@ppiest creature m the world. He moves about as though there were no such word as care. Ye, he feels as keenly. I'm sur, as anyone, the little ills that come ,e Us all. Bat he torge,s se easily and crewes 50 much happiness in between spells
 And so growing up in our presence every day we see-a boy. \ bush- faced. ciean-coilared boy Ills beautiful mothers hope: his elegan, fathers pride wl,hou; thing on earth ,o do growing that wa, 10 be man. \ hoy-a brighi- faced. elean-oollared boy his patient mothers hope, his hard-woiking father pride; busy from morning ,lll night hones; and loving and kind. growing ;ha, way ;o be man. 4 boy d.r,y-faced. ragged. neglected boy father and mother God pi,y hiu, how rich he'd bc wI;hoa; them : smoking. drinking. s,eal- ins. swearing. lyins, hating; growing tha, way to be 4 man. tnbounded oceans of elo4uence 10 save criminals anu dtunkards. a Ecagre dearth of words II preNen, them. n;old millions to save heather IT foreign lands noef pennies for heather a, home.
 4 boy there ls ne nab.e'. brA4er ese.., tuse n the universe. tna ne enc so ten deI and so i4ii ot paiieu. lete He see, the sunshine al about h.,a bathing eyev;hng In Is melloV hgh:. and though | k 10: >htning i4aw, he remember Il shone yesterday ard ices sere II W1t, shlne agaln ,o.mottow. lie las to, reached ye,. Tn the book of lite the piaee where any word means teal wrong. Away back in hs memory there ts the ftintes, recollection c; 4 sorrow. winch. l, the tune. he theagh, woaid break his heart. He scarcely remembers |; now l; Was an hout .so It's tears are almes, dry upon his eheek>. He is a hopeful fellow. Ills fresh young mind and temper sway and bend with every passing breeze tha; touches them oihet boys boys that were born thirty. nifty. even seventy years ago. are ,rainng and form ing hm for all the weary yeafs ;o come A thousand roads lead ou, from where he stands. 4 thousand teachers teach him which 10 take.
 Oh, may they teach him well. foi down whichever avenue he goes the iia- ton must go after him. He Is the nation $ hope. He Is the nations pr.de And he. perhaps, is your boy. and am quite sure tha; we are his teachers.