The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1884-08-08

are seen hanging around tnlS OF tldt
place. You may sneak into saloon to
see game of billiards. but you hate
yourself for it. Youmay sit in Smiths
grocery and hear a lot of old bald
headed liars spin their yarns and abuse
religion, but You 90 out feeling thai
YOU could kick anyone OF them who
| dared to bow to yonr mother.
You'd go hoTe and go.to bed If 1t
wasn't for Jim or Tom. He wants u
little 'sfun, and be drags you into it.
| What he calls fun is stringing a rope
across the sidewalk 1t doesn't occur
10 him that some person may break a
limb and be put to several hundred dol
lars expense, or even be killed outright.
He thinks it cute thing to roll of bar
rels Of salt, barricade the bridge, set an
old shed on fire or stop mp the chimneys
on u 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 Michigan State
| Prison a boy whose career l watched
for two years. tirst saw him prowt-
ing around o nights. He had an hon
2s5 face and good heart, but his ia
Their had seemingly never been boy
himself He let this lad go and come
as he willed, and within three months
the police had to canton him. Inside
OF six months be belonged to a gang OF
juvenile thieves. Within two years he
vas a oul "a, s sen , 10 800 sante,ca
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business man 1bI< ~ training
makes him cautions in his dealings.
There are dozens of good boy books 80
be had, aud your father had better buy
YOU two or three per week. than turn
You over. TO the town. There IS no end
of mechanical TOYS and tops and games.
And suppose YOU learn how to draw
or paint? Look ut a watch and you
viii realize that all the wheels and
springs and shafts aud jewels 60 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, out outside OF
that one thing they are all at sea 1t
is the handy man who is helping this
world alOug-the mah who is full OF
wheels and springs. Don't be AFRAID
because You have planned TO study,
law, 10 read up on philosophy ana
science, to learn how TO handle tools,
to snalyze steam, 10 post yourself on
whatever is worth knowing.
You viii discover asyou grownp that
the man who knows the least IS the
greatest bigot to argue wlth' ana the
meanest man with whom TO transaci
business. Not one in twenty OF our
high school pupils know how mason
mixes his mortar, or painter MS col
ors. They never saw tinsmith at work,
ora grainer initiating the various woods.
Now then when YOU find the evenings
duh ask your father to put on his hat
and help you post yourself. Did you
ever see a printing press at work? Did
YOU ever look over the queer machinery
in tin shop which bends the metal in
shape for covers and bottoms and han
dies? Ever visit the gas works, or go
through bio Touring mill. or pass in
hour in foundry There are dozens
OF places to be visited 81 nigns mnele