Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-10
The Bad Boy Becoming Good,
HE TELLS THE GROCER WHAT HE
THINKS OF THE JEWS

to tho bad boy, as he came
in with his breeches tucked in
his boots, and wanted to borrow a
fish pole IL have noticed you lately
going around good deal with that
"sheeney' boy. Those Jews are no
good. aud if you 90 with that boy you
will be ruined Now keep away from
here until you let that boy alone and
the grocerymGn looked mad, though
he was polite enough when II Jewish
lady, who lived in the same block,
came in and bought some groceries.
"Well, what's the matter with that
boy ?" asked the bad hoy, the blood
coming to his face indignantly. Has
he done anything that wasn't right:
| have never seen boy that was any
straghter than he is.
That don't make any odds jews
are all alike. That boy will cheat
you out of your eye teeth. lie will
pinch a penny until the goddess o lib.
erty will grunl. You ask yourpa what
he thinks about your going with the
jew boys" and the groccryman look.
ed as though, if his advice was taken,
the bad boy would he saved.
90, so way" said the bad boy. Pa
says he had Just As soon borrow money
Of a jew as anybody. Say, that
'sheeny' boy, as you call him, has done
me more good than any boy ever
played with. He has taught me more
about the proper way to treat my par.
ents than anybody. You ought to see
him at home. He never plays any
Jokes on his parents, and just as ten.
der to his ma as though she was his
best girl. His ma isn't very healthy,
and he is always on the lookout for
something he can DO to so save her step
or make her enjoy herself His pa is
close trader in business, but at home
the family has a regular picnic all the
time. There is never anything but
smiles in their house, aud the poor who
come there to beg, always go away
with baskets full, and if the baskets
are too heavy this 'sheeny' boy thai
you abuse. goes and helps carry the
baskets home for them. He will work
all day to put up swing for a poor
neighbor's children, and furnish the
rope. | have seen him unscrew the
top of his little savings bank and
take all the money out to give away
10 those who are destitute. And his
father and mother encouIage him in
doing good. Why, he is the tender.
est hearted boy | ever saw, and am
going to stand by him. | don't care a
darn whether his nose is put on side
ways, or endways. whether he says.
'hds do ksoch' or 'trd-Ld-Ld, as long as
ihis heart is as big as a peck
measure, and as tender as new aspara.
gus, he is friend Of mine aud don't you
forget it.
"Well," said the groceryman, a lit.
tie taken back, "this one may be all
right, but you ought to know that
the Jews crucifed Christ, and you
ought to have some pride about you,
and go back on them like the rest Of
us. It is fashionable to abuse Jews"
30, give US a rest" said the boy,
mad enough to kick somebody. Sup.
pose a few Of them did lynch a man
eighteen hundred years ago. they did
not know what they were about.
Didn't Christ say so, and didn't lie
forgive them? If the one crucifed
could forgive them, what are you
monkeying about at this late day ?
You poor old fraud haven't got any
right to make that old affair a person
al matter, and put on any style over
people better than you are. have
never heard of Jew being in Jail or
in poor house. They don't steal.
They don't put sand 10 their sugar. |
never knew a Jew TO refuse to cou.
tribute to any charitable object, or to
turn a deserving applicant for assist
ance away from his door. Some of
them may be as mean a. some of US
United States fellows, but they have
got to be awful men if they are.