Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-03
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FTLGEr U~OSORIEUS.

Now YOU boys who study the classics
can translate that for the benefit of your
sisters and your cousins and-nO, not your
~auntS-whO are less literate than yau are.
But, Ofall the little workers, tn. ~iOllicSt,
| believe, are the neWSboys, and they GER
tainly must be counted among the neccs-
Saries of life. Some people call them a
necessary evil but they are carpers who
would find fault with paradise. Not that
there is anything paradisiac about a news
boy. There is a great deal Of human nature
in all humanity, and when they were lad
ling it out the newSboy got his full share.
! would by no means set up the average
~youngster of that class rs an example in
either dress, morals or manners; but be has
his good points, and among them are his
uniailing good spirits. You rich boys look
down on newsbOys, very likely; but a great
many of them have a better time than You
do. They are possibly. in the main, a
rough, dirty dirty set, " as You say, not
over-psrticular in their language or their
habits; but they are a rOllicking, Jolly lot
of fellows, and get rs much out of life as
anybody going. The world Is their oyster,
and they are bound to extract all the juice
there is in it.
They have their faults, and bad ones.
They do swear, for nething, but that vice.
| am sorry To say, is not confined TO them
THEN elders and betters should set them
u different example. And they Use slang.
Indeed, their speech is mostly made up of
words You won't find in the schOOl-bOOks.
Sometimes, too, they quarrel and fight
among themselves, and the big boys bully
the little ones. But then have seen other
big boys do the same thing, haven't you?
OF course. you never did-at least | hope
not. And | have seen some very touching
instances of genuine chivalry among them.
You laugh at the idea of chivalry among
newSboyS, but that's the word. | rcmem-
Der one bitter cold night last winter, when
it was mailing and sleeting, and even a
newSboy must have been glad to get under
shelter. | had to be out, and | wanted a
Globe. Three boys eagerly proffered their
papers. They were all little fellows, but
one looked q mere baby, such a mite he
was. | was about to buy from him, when
one of the larger boys i~nterpOSed his paper,
and tried to push the little midget to the
wall. But the other boy pushed him in
TURN, ullu WIN ~, SlNC lHC hlu q NutlOC.
He's hitler than us" he took my pennies
and gave them to the baby for that's about
all he was, who was almost crying by this
time with cold and disappointment. The
tone was rough, and the English not i'm
maculate, but it was genuine chivalry that
prompted it, all the same.
OF course there is a great difference in
n~ewsboyS. rs in other boys. Some are
rough and some are gentle mot many,
though. Some look like animated rag
bags, and others, though poorly clad, show
the loving hand off careful mother in their
neatly-patched garments. Some are sturdy
and strong, and others are wizened and
wan; some are t~ine-cut, handsome little
men, and others as ugly as sin One
little imp, who used to go by the name of
Beauty was about the most perfect
specimen of human ugliness that childhood
ever produced. But he was las smart as
chain lightning, with q cunning in his
eve that BODIED no good as he grew up.
Some of our best men, high up in poll
teal and business life, have graduated
from the ranks of the newsboys. EX-Gov-
ernor Waller, for instance, of the neigh
boring State of Connecticut, used to sell
papers when he was q boy, and is by ne
means ashamed of the fact. Many a man
who runs a paper of his own to-day began
at the bottom of the ladder by selling
somebody else's papers.
Did you ever go through Williams court:
Well, its an old, out-ofthe-way little alley,
though it is right in the heart of the city,
and, if you ever want to see newsbOys, just
look it up. At certain hours ofthe day, when
the daily journals are delivered, the place
is alive with them. They make a most
dibOlical din, and wouldn't be considered
a desirable addition to a neighborhood, but
they are an interesting study, and will be
''heard from" one of these days in politics,
in business, in journalism, and, alas! alas!
in the annals of crime. The boys who
bully and curse and smoke won't be heard
from in a pleasant way, I'm afraid, and
though its very hard to say it, some, even
ofthe smallest among them, do all these
dreadful things
Still, as we said before, they have their
good points, and we shouldn't know what
to do without them, 50 here's long life and
success to the noble army Of newsboys!
There's one thing to remember of all
these little workers. 'Great oaks from lit
tie acorns grow"; and, though some Of
them are poor and lowly enough now, they