Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-06-28
GENUINELY BAD BOYS.
To Cure Them Requires Heroic Treat
ment al the Right Time.

Ihefn Requires Heroic Treat
ment al the Right Time.
There are some genuinely bad boys.
they are almost hopelessly bad; otonly
boisterous and rude, but vicious, exas-
pcrating. desperate. They devote their
energies TO levising ways and means OF
tormenting not other mean boys-a
mean boy /. exempt from their arts
but the innocent IL they find an ami
NAL that Is powerless to harm them,
they delight in tormenting 1t. The
more piteous its cry, the greater their
enjoyment They are never quite so
happy as when they find way TO make
a good boy miserable, unless II be some
device for making . good woman
wretched. they focus all their wit
upon making the good and the innocent
of this world suffer through their acts.
1t requires the highest human in
genuity and the greatest skill 10 do any
thing for them, or through them for tho
good OF the world. II is about as much
as the average philanthTopist can hope
for, to protect the innocent from their
malice; and yet the fact remains that.
II properly dealt with. they often make
the grandest men in the world. They
have the energy, intensity and grit TO
make mighty men, II only they can be
rescued from themselves. 1t Is of little
use to lay down any rules for dealing
with them; il requires an expert, q
genius in the art OF training. to accom-
plish any thing with them or for them.
Whoever has such hoy to deal with in
the home, school, shnrch or society
should witness the training OF a
vicious horse by the genius. There
was never a hor e so vicious that he
was not susceptible to the arts OF an
artist A horse tlat has bitten. kicked
and stamped his keepers TO death is
turned loose in tie presence OF a man,
who does not leave him till it is safe for
I a child TO come into his presence. There
, was never a sane boy SO mean, so base.
/ so cruel, so fierce, that in the hands of
an expert he could not be made as gen.
, tie, as serviceable to humanity. as the
. horse that came from tho hands OF
4 Rarey.
r Experts are not numerous, and the
5 bad boy has a rare genius for keeping
( out Of their way. There are. however.
\ few principles that may be laid down
, safely regarding his treatment lie
|. must be respected. We must never lie
impatient with him. Never irritated
4 by him. There is no possibility Of con.
: trolling or bcnefiting such u boy II we
Q allow ourselves TO get ratified" just
n as he continues to torment the kitten
' in proportion 10 the intensity OF her cry.
ing, will he invent devices for ouI
y vexation 50 long as our irritability II
q apparent There must be no weakness
no vacillation, no hesitancy 10 apply
A heroic treatment at the right time In
l, the right way. No one on earth so re
a spects authority, so bows before a mas
|, ter, as a wild, fierce. desperate boy.
have seen a wild Mexican horse tha
! had never been touched by the hand o
I, man, with every fiber OF his being thrill
: ing with strength. and every impulse
= vicious, so conquered in five minutes a
Z 20 be led quietly by the bit The treat
ment seemed SO cruel that my blooS
almost chilled; but saw that IL was tn,
greatest possible kindness to do prompt
~. vigorously, all that would ever nee'
to be done 10 show him that he was II
!, the hands OF a master. Rev. A. L. Win
ship, in Golden Rule.