The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-23

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to him that some person may break 3
limb and be put to several hundred dol
lars expense, or even be killed outright.
He thinks it cute thing to roll off bar
rels OF salt, barricade the bridges, set
an oil-shed on fire or stop up the Chin
neys on a widows house. When you
have played such tricks it comes very
easy to play others which the law won't
look at in the funny light.
There is to-day in the Michigan State
Prison boy whose career l watched
for two years. | first saw him proving
around o. nights. He had an honest
face and good heart, but his father
had seemingly never been a boy him
self. He let this lad go and come as he
willed, and within three months the DO
lice had to caution him. Inside of six
months he belonged to a gang of iuve-
nile thieves. Within two years he was a
burglar. When he stood up in court to
receive his five years sentence women
wept to see that one 50 young had
drifted so rapidly to the bad.
What can you do o. nights if you re-
main at home?
Scores of things, my boy. In the first
place, there's the checker-board, and in
the next place, your father wants to sit
right down and teach you all he knows
about it. Outside of the interest in o
chance game your wits are made the
sharper by such struggles. A good
checker-player viii never be a rash
| business man. This very training
makes him cautious in his dealings.
There are dozens of good boy-books to
be had, and your father had better buy
| you two or three per week than turn
you over to the town. There's no end
of mechanical tops and toys and
games.
And suppose you learn how to draw
or paint? Look at watch and you
will realize that all the wheels and
springs and shafts and Jewels go to
make up perfect time-piece. Just so
with man. There are lots of one
wheeled men in this world. They can
sell goods, make boots. run an engine
or keep butcher shop, but outside of
that one thing they are all at sea. 1t is
the handy man who is helping this
world along-the man who is full of
wheels and springs. Don't be afraid
because you have planned to study law,
to read up on philosophy and science,
to learn how to handle tools, to analyze;
steam, to post yourself on whatever is
worth knowing.
You will discover as you grow up that
the man who knows the least is the
greatest bigot to argue with and the
meanest man with whom to transact
business. Not one in twenty of our
high-school pupils knows how mason
mixes his mortar or painter his COLI
ors. They never saw tinsmith at
work OF a grainer initiating the various
woods. Now, then, when you find the
evenings dull ask your father to put on
his hat and help you post yourself. Did
you ever look over the queer ma=
chinery in tin-shop which bends
the metal in shape for covers and bot
toms and handlesP Ever visit the gas
works, or go through big Touring mill
or pass an hour in foundry? There
are dozens of places to be visited at
night where you can learn something
useful. Each point you seize upon
helps to broaden and enlighten your
mind and make well-posted man 'of
y <1hSl3 1holOceA VI
gun on Saturdays, or tramping off after
a good time in q swamp, 90 down to
the round-house and look over the
mechanism of locomotive-go into q
wheat elevator and see how curiously
everything is arranged-go into ma
chine shop and see how iron can be
turned as easily as pine--go into a
planning midtown where they saw
blocks of stone by steam--go some
where and see something to post your
self.
All! boy, if you only realized how
much this country will depend upon
you twenty years hence you weuldn' t
waste your time! You will sooner or
later have to take hold as the rest of US
did. There will be the same strife for
place and fame and riches as you see
to-day, and the boy who has wasted his
time will be the man who is pushed
here and jostled there and driven to the
back seats because he is in the way of
the busy, money-making world.-'tM
quad, p" IN Detroit Free Press.