The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-09-06
CARLiS WAGES.
! ,Arp's Boy Earns His First Money.

CARL;S WAGES.
Arp's Boy Earns His First Money.
Atlanta Constitution.
The FIRST money that a boy earns is the
best. Most every man hss pleasant
memories of the first reward he got for
his own labor. I remember how proud
I was when I felt of and handled the
first silver dollar that man gave me for
two loads OF wood-wood thatSI cut aud
hauled myself Mysfather was having 8
new ground cleared. and told me I might
have all the wood I would cut. So I
worked on the little sapliugs every even
ing after I came from school, and by
Saturday noon had two good loads. I
mitchell up the team that evening and
loaded the wagon and drove to town as
proud, as a king: Ny school teacher,
Mr.. Anderson. saw me and bought the
wood and gave me some kind encourag-
ing words that / have never forgotten.
Ny good mother watched me from the
window as I went and as I came, aud she
Was proud too-proud of her boy. !
remember the love that was in her face
andthe watery glisten that was in her
eyes as she looked at my silver dollar,
and how she kissed my ruddy cheek and
,stroked my hair, and told me that it was
honest money and would last. What q
world Of fond aud innocent'pride there is
in mothers heart; pride in her chill.
:dren, their looks, their conduct, their
success. kept -. cutting wood in that
new ground, and made more money, but
the first was the best. It is q good plan.
toilet q boy earn some money for himself.
He feels his consequence, and be works
with more spirit than when be is work.
ing for his father. Carl earned his first
money last week by dragging a chain for
the surveyors, and he struts around like
q Capitalist as Cobe says. he has
three dollars in a leather purse, and
takes it out of the drawer every night
and looks at it and handles it and shows
it to Jessie. It is not the same kind of
money that Ishaye been giving him. He
will get some more this week and will
soon3be bothered what to do With it. By
and by he vii lend it to his mother, I
reckon, and it willslide into carpet or
something that is wanted about the
house, and when Carl wants his money /
will have to pay it, that's all. never.
have any trouble about buying things
my folks are mighty kind to me about
that. IfI pay for them they say have
done my share. Carl is now in the hey
day Of his youth the consequential stage,
and feels like he can do anything. He
flies around like young cyclone and
makes as much fuss as little dog in.
high grass. He is the butt end of all
complaints. Everything that is lost or
broken is laid on him. But he don't
care. His voice has almost quitsplitting
in two in the middle aud has settled
down to q regular. tenor. He stands
before the glass and ties his cravat a long
time and he shines his shoes and brushes
his clothes and parts his glossy bair and
tips his soft hat a;little on one side. He
is going to sing in the choir very sooD,
and thatiis all right. I Iaiways have hope
ofa boy who sings in the choir, for music
aud love run mighty we'll together, espe-
cially In the church. These associations
refine the manners as; we'll as the
thoughts They create self respect, and
q boy will not degrade himself as long as
he respects himself When be has
behaved badly it is good sign if he
wants somebody to take him behind the
house and kick him.
A:teacher asked me not long ago what
was my opinion Of corporal punishment
in public schools. That depends more
upon the teacher than the boy. Some
teachers command neither the fear nor
the respect of:the boys, and, Of course, are
not 1T for their calling. Some are pas.
sionate aud intemperate and whip when
they are mad. Some have no more con-.
for a,dull, stupid boy than for
q bright, smart one, who learns his les
sons without an effort or strain. A
successful teacher is no ordinary man.
.Hs has rare combination of superior
faculties. Every college boy knows this,
for they have had opportunity to com.
pare one professor with another. A boy
who would learn willingly and gladly
under P Professor. Mckay would be rebell.
.ious and snllen under another professor /
could name. "Old Mack" as we called
him, impressed US with the idea that he
felta a personal pride in our advancement,
as we'll as our good behavior, and that he
attached but little Importance to our
!transgression of college rules provided
there vas no malicious meauness in it.
If the boys had 'possum summer about
midnight. or disguised themselves and
vent to q circus he never wanted to know
anything about it, A school boy is just
likes a horse-conyince him that you are
his friend and you can manage him. The
teacher must have some dignity of char.
acter as veil as will, power. Iknuw "ne
who went to sleep every day in his chair
and boy would slip out and throw
rock up and run back to his seat before