The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-06-29

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scheme and conceal tile truth
Some Of them do-some very re
spectacle gentlemen. A tradini
man can hardly be candid man
Solomon said: "a lie sticketh il
the joints between the buyer ant
the seller" and, he said, at i
naught, it is naught, saith The buy
er; but alter he buyeth he goeIl
his way and rejolcelh." And 81
after all, | believe had rathe
risk the boys, even though they dt
rob the birds nests. If a boy vii
just feel mean after he does a mear
thing | have hopes of him. Some
times boys will do bad things JUS
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 SNUG.
CLING Or making moonshine whisky
The more boys the more they plot
mischief. One dog won't go off by
himself and kill sheep, and so one
boy won't rob an apple orchard
He must have company. | have
known school boys TO walk two
miles to steal apples when they
had apples at home. One dark
night some OF the boys went to Dir.
Alexander's, a mile away, and
stole a bee gum and carried it to
the institute wrapped up in a quilt
and robbed it and got stung all
over, though they had honey every
day at the clearinghouse. You
see, the old devil tells them there
is fun in it, but there is not. He is
an old liar. Sim Linton and Ned
Goulding AID Thad Holt went out
on a lark one night, and the three
geese stole a gander from old Isam
Williams and they carried him
home and shut him up III 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
around the next night as usual TO
see if the boys wereIn their rooms.
and sure enough, the old gander
squalled willie 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 Isam's and liked to
have been expelled besides. Ned
Gouldling was the best bad boy /
ever saw. He was lovable and
kind and we small boys looked up
on him as a friend, for he never
would let big boy impose on us.
He was a brave colonel IN the war
and his soldier boys loved him. He
was a brother to Frank, who wrote
the young MaroOners, a 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 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
t helps to keep down the equilib- |
'ium. Our preacher is the son of a
preacher and the grandson of a
preacher, and not long ago he
preached about turning the left
heck if a man smOte you on the
light, but at the same time he said
e didn't know whether he could
o it or not if it came all of a sud-
en-. My opinion is that he is a
ood deal like Sam Jones about
nat, and Sam would pop Il teller
} quick it would make his head ]
vim. Human-nature is the same ,
ie world over and most of us have !
Dt our share. Some of the women y
lay be sanctifed, but the men are +
Dt. | know some who claim TO :,
2, but they are not giving away =
leir clOaks to them fellers who Z
ant their coats. Women have :
ir chance TO be sanctified for :
ey never evolutize. She never !
as a frog hor a monkey. Wheth- !,
a man was or not, l don't know; !
It, l suppose it will be settled "
on at Baltimore, in Woodrow's
Sc. One thing is certain. Some h
these preachers didn't evolute =
I'm the angels, or they would y
ow more charity. l heard a
eacher say in Arkansas, that d
ey had got DIR. Woodrow out of 81
e Seminary, and if he didn't s.
ind. they would get him out OF S,
g Church. Well, | hope they u
)n'Lry to keep him out of heaven. q
BILL ARP. '