Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-02

dren to school she replied: mo, sir, ]
never did send 'em to school. I know 1t.
they ought to learn, but / couldn't.
try to shame him sometimes Gt is my
husband, sir), but he drinks and then
beats me--look at that bruise on my
face-and tell him to see what is comm
to his children. There's Peggy goes
sellin fruit every night in those cellars
in Water street, and they're bells, sir.
She's learnin all sorts of bad words
there and don't get back till 10 o'clock
at night. If it wasn't for her earnin a
shilhn or two in them places, should
starve. Oh, wish they was out of the
city. Yes, it is the truth I would
rather have all my children dead than
on the street, but l can't help it,
Another one of those poor women
found by q reformatory association, re
cited her story of want and woe and
looked up and said, Il felt SO hard To
lose the children when they died, but
now Tn glad they're gone" Ask any
one of a thousand such children on the
streets, ''Where do you liver and they
will answer, t.I don't live nowhere. %
They will sleep tonight in ash barrels, or
Under outdoor stairs, or on the wharf,
kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
cares for them? Once in awhile city
missionary, or a tract distributor, or ii
teacher Of ragged schools will rescue one
of them, but for most people they are
only weeds.
Yet Jonah did not more completely
misrepresent the red alga about his
head in the Mediterranean than most
people misjudge these poor and forlorn
and dying children Of the street. They
are not weeds. They are immortal flow
ers. Down in the deep sea of woe, but
flowers. When society and the church
of God come to appreciate their eternal
value, there will be more G. L. Braces
and more Van Meters and more angels
of mercy spending their fortunes and
their lives in the rescue.
Hear it, 0 We philanthropic and
Christian and merciful souls-not weeds,
but flowers. Iabjure you as the friends
Of all newsboys' lodging houses, of Il
industrial schools, Of all homes for
friendless girls and for the many re-
formatories and humane associations
now on foot. How much they have al
ready accomplished! Out of what
Wretchedness, into what good homes!
Of 81 900 of these picked up out of the
streets and sent into country homes
only 12 children turned out badly.
In the last so years number that no
man can number of the Migrants have
been lifted into responsibility and
usefulness and Christian life. Many
of them have homes of their own.
Though ragged boys once and street
girls, now at the head of prosperous
families, honored on earth and to be
glorious in heaven. Some of them have
been governors of states. Some Of them
are ministers of the gospel. In all de-
partments of life those who were
thought to be weeds have turned out to
be flowers. One of those rescued lads
from the streets of our cities wrote to
another, saying: II have heard you are
studying for the ministry. So am [.
My hearers, I implead you for the
newsboys of the streets, many of them
the brightest children of the city, but
with 10 chance. Do not step on th> r
bare feet. Do not, when they steal a rij. :,
cut behind. When the paper is 3 cents,
once in awhile give them cent piece
and tell them to keep the change. [ Ike
the ring of the letter the newsboy set
back from Indiana, where he had been
sent to a good home, to a New York
newsboys' lodging house: "Boys, we
should show ourselves that we are no
foo, that we can become as respectful .
as any cf the countrymen, for Franklin
and Webster and Clay were poor boys
once, and even George Law and Van
derbilt and Astor. And now, boys,
got the real stuff in you. Come out
here and make respectable and honor
able men, SO they can say, There; that
boy was once a newsboy.'" My hear
ers, join the Christian philanthropists
who are changing organ grinders and
bootblacks and newsboys and street
arabs and cigar girls into those who sht,l
be kings and queens unto God forever.
It is high time that Jonah finds out that
that which is about him is not weeds,
but flowers.
CORONALS OF BEAUTY.
As I examine this red alga which was
about the Iecreant prophet down in the
Mediterranean depths, when, in the words
of my text. he cried out, "The weeds
were wrapped about my head and 1 am
led thereby to further examine this sub
marine world, [ am compelled to exclai-n,
What wonderful God we have! am
glad that, by diving bell, and Brooks
deep sea sounding apparatus and ever
improving machinery, we are permitted
to walk the floor of the ocean and report
the wonders wrought by the great God
Study these gardens of the sea. Easier
and easier shall the profounds of tie
ocean become to US, and more and more
its opulence OF color and plant unroll,
especially as ssVilleroy's submarine
boat" has been constructed, making it
possible to navigate under the sea al
most az well as on the surface of the
sea. and unless God in his mercy ban