The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-29
AS L WAS SAYING.

why, what are those Pawtucket indie.
pendents making such n fuss about!
queried pretty well informed man the
other day. "Dave White made them
every reasonable offer. If neither Tiepke,
Saunders or I would be satisfactory 10
you, said he, name a man who will, and
i III work for him as hard as anybody
And so he would have done. But these
third party men had no candidate and so
White thought he might just as well take
II. And he did"
Providence is peculiar among all the
large cities of the country for its narrow
alleys and streets which are little more
than that These have use, however.
III u man wants To dodge a creditor he can
go from the top of the hill nearly TO the
POST Oihce without meeting many people
at any hour of the day. j wonder If these
alleys are ever used in that way.
The settlement of the Andover case re-
minds me of an incident in 1851 when |
was sent To interview Prof. Egbert {.
Smyth, the leading defendant in the case.
The editor who sent me pronounced the
name with "a broad sound on the ~" like
Sm-eye-th.
I'went to the hotel and asked for him
and was surprised that they did not seem
10 know him until explained who he
was
When met him called him Sm-eye-th.
He looked awkward and then laughed and
said his name was Smith, like anybody
elses. ! found him very pleasant gen
tleman, too.
And by the way, after you have counted
the Smiths, Smythes, Smithes, Smits,
Smitts, Smidts, Schmits, Schmidts,
Shmits, Smids, Smeds, Smits, Shmidts,
Shmitts, Shmits, Sbmids, Smieds,
Schmieds and others all in good usage,
there seems TO be variety in the smith
family, doesn't there.
Parental Indifference TO boys future;
whether or not he should grow up sur
rounded by influences that should make
him manly, honest and relf-respectipg,
was pretty well exemplified at the Central
police station, last night, and can be wit
messed there a dozen times month. A
young man, whose II year-old son had
tramped away from home, Sunday, and
had been picked up by the Woensocket
police, asked whether or not he could pay
the lads board at the Sockanosset asylum
school, for period of three months, as
means of teaching him lesson. To send
such lad, admitted TO be bright pupil
and the leader of his class in school to
such an institution, to be surrounded by
thieves, young house and shop breakers,
would contaminate him and cause his
ruin. A little firmness, fatherly advice
and motherly interest would accomplish
the reform desirese When boy gets to
that point that the school house has no at
fractions for him, then employment at
some trade will save him from a life of
idleness and lead him to feel that just
ahead of him is a position he can fill which
will make him a lawful citizen and
credit TO himself
Scarcely had the complainant referred
TO left the station than another father
came in and wanted his son sent out TO
Sockanosset for the remainder of his min
ority, He had just tried to humiliate the
boy by having him arrested on public
highway The burden of his complaint
was that his son did not give him all the
wages he earned. A warrant is to be
sworn out by the complainant in this case
and the lad is TO be sent where willing tu-
tors of his own age will instill into his
mind all that is vicious and corrupting.