Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-21

him thorough dressing down, anu sent
him from the room in disgrace. A be-
lated scholar found him sitting by the
roadside bowling at The top Of his voice.
whats the matter, JACKIE"
"Teacher licked me-"
"What for?"
"Cause 1 didn't know how many gods
there WERE"
"Huh! That's easy enough"
"D'know?"
Course"
"How many are there"
"One, you stupid"
zone, Ell? Well you just go in there
with your one little god and you'll catch
it. l lowed there was five and he purity
near killed me'
Another boy who was attending Sun
day school for the first time was asked
by the teacher If he had ever been chris
tened, when he replied proudly: "You
kin bet yer life 1 hev; kin show you
the mark on my arm" He had been
vaccinated.
A Sunday-school teacher asked his
boys to commit to memory scriptural
passages to repeat as they dropped their
pennies into the contribution basket.
The next Sunday the boy at the head OF
com: ~i~sa 1f' i11uef no, OVa''' al ctIUeI tdir
Riyer." The second boys selection was:
s'He that giveth to the poor lendeth 10
the Lord" The third boy spoiled
everything by remarking: "a TOOL ana
his money are soon parted.
A Sunday-school teacher had been
drilling his class in the catechism and
had always asked the same question OF
the same scholar each time. One Sun
day the teacher was absent and so was
the boy at the head OF the class, but
the teacher secured for the occasion re-
viewed the catechism as usual.
"Who made you?" he asked.
81 don't know" answered the boy:
"Don't knowl" explained the sur
prised teacher. "Why, God made you"
"No. you're mistaken; God made the
little boy who usually sits at the head
of the class next to me, but be isn't
here to-day"
The boy in church has also been
talked about in an unjust manner. 1t
NAV be true that boys do not like long
sermons and are more anxious for their
termination than they are for the end
ing Of ball game. But who can blame
them particularly for that. Many
grown-up boys and girls, too, like short
sermons best. And boys not having
learned to practice deceit as have
their elders show their unrest, nor
make much of an effort to disguise 1t.
Grown people would like to do the
same thing. And so boys do wriggle
and twist little uneasilY In their seats
and almost exhibit dissatisfaction with
their surroundings.
But the following is an injustice to
bows. because it is overdone:
How many fishes are there in the seasi
| How many sands on the shore?
| How MANY leaves have there been on the trees?
HOW many grasses have waved on the leas!
How many stars have shone DER!
When YOU have answered these questions Of
| mine
Then will 1 earnestly search
And faithfully strive in some way too divine
In how many angles boy Will incline
As he lists to a sermon at church.
All the world has noticed the fact,
very apparent to all, that our boy is not
near so bad as our neighbours boy. 1t Is
true our boy is mischievous and full Of
innocent pranks. He really does not
intend ANYTHING wrong by them, but
our neighbours boy is downright mean,
and what is very sad, he sometimes in
duces our boy to do things he would not
stoop TO do were he not led on by 9TH
ers. And that is why some Of our neigh
hors. whom one would think were intel
ligent enough TO read character more
correctly are induced to say unjust
things of our boy:
know a little boy
And his sntics ali their being with delight,
But their neighbors have child
Whose doings sre quite wild,
It is such horrid, ugly little fright
Now Of course they must not know
That l ever told you so,
But their child the neighoors really does an
And his cunning deeds they prize
The other folks despise;
They can't endure their neighbours frIghtful
boy.
A lady was visiting neighbor who
had Just moved in next door when,
seeing an urching in the street, remark
ed:'I wonder whose ragged dirty-faced
brat that is?"
"Why, that's my boy, Jimmy, "said
the new neighbor.
sob! Is it?"said the other, smiling;
what q pretty, sweet-faced little cherut
he isl'
But be boys good or bad they have
come to stay, and we must make the
best of them. Every one should be
friends toward them and the paper:
cease to print untruthful bad boy
stories. We have no patience with
cynical men, one of whom said boy:
should be kept In hogshead and fed
through the bunghole' until they were
twelve years Of age, and when asked
what shonld be done then, said, why
cork up the bunghole!' Boys are not 81