The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-07

but the temptation was too great, and so
1 had to tell a little story 80 as to get to
race coming home and then race again
going after the grist. Boys have their
temptations just like men, and the men
fall about as often as the boys. The diff
ference is the men cover up ther tracks
better than the boys. The men don't
steal nor tell lies, but they cheat and
trick and plot and scheme and conceal
the truth. Some of them do. Some very
respectable gentlemen. A trading man
can hardly be candid man. Solomon
said: "a lie sticketh in the joints
between the buyer and the SELLER" and,
he said, "It is naught, it is naught, saith
the buyer; but after he buyeth he goeth
his way and rejoiceth." And so, after all,
| I believe had rather risk the boys, even
though they rob the BIRDS nests. If a
boy will just feel mean after he does q
mean thing I have hopes of him. Some
times boys will do bad things just for the
peril of 1.-THE risk-the hazard of
being caught. There is an adventure
about it that they like, just like there is
about smuggling or making moonshins
whisky. The more boys, the more they
plot mischief. One dog won't 60 off by
himself and kill sheep, and 30 one boy
won'trob an apple orchard. Hemust have
company. I have known school boys to
walk two miles to steal apples when they
had apples at home. One dark night
sonne of the boys wentto DR.. Alexander's,
a mile away, and stole bee gum and
carried it to the institute wrapped up in
quilt and robbed it and got stuDg, all
over, though they had honey every day
at the boarding house. You see, the old
devil tells them there is fun in it,
but there is not. He is an old
liar. Jim Linton and Ned Goulding
and. Thad Holt went out on a
lark one night and the three geese stole
eander from old Isam Williams and
they carried him home and shut him up
in the closet. They had no use for him
in the world, and just stole him because
there was nothing else handy. "Old
Pat" the teacher, came round the next
night as usual to see if the boys we're in
their rooms, and sure enough, the old
gander squalled while he was talking to
them, and that let the cat out of the bag
and the gander out of the closet. The
boys had to carry him back to Uncle
Issm's and liked to have been expelled
besides. Ned Goulding was the best bad
boy I ever saw. he was lovable and
kind and We small boys looked upon him
as a friend, for he never would let big
boy impose on US. He was brave colonel
in the war and his soldier boys loved
him. He was brother to Frank, who
wrote the Young Marooners, book that
every boy and girl in the land ought to
have. The last edition is just splendid.
Well, it does look like there is no sure
way-to raise the boys. Boys will be boys.
There is no patent on the business. The
preachers Sons are no better than other
peoples and the other people are pretty
generally glad of it, for it helps to keep
down the equilibrium. Our preacher is
the son of a preacher and the grandson
of a preacher, and not long ago he
preached about turning the left cheek if
a man smote you on the right, but at the
same time he said he didn't know
whether he could do it or not if it came
all of sudden. My opinion is that he
is good deal like Sam Jones about that,
and Sam would pop feller 80 quick it
would make his head swim. Human.
nature is the same the world over and
most of ns have got our share. Some of
the women may Je sanctiied, but the
men are not. I know some who claim
to be but they are not giving away their
cloaks to them fellers who want their
coats. Women have fair chance to be
sancti6ed for they never evolutise. She
wasen't made out of dirt. She never was
frog, nor "a monkey. Whether man
was or not, don't know; but, I suppose
it will be settled soon at Baltimore, in
DR.. Woodrow's case. One thing is GER
tain. Some of those preachers didn't
evolute from the angels, or they would
show more charity. I hear a preacher
say in Arkansas, that they had got DR..
Woodrow out of the seminary, and if be
didn't mind, they would get him out of
the church. Well, ] hope they won't
try to keep him out of heaven.
RTTJ Arp