Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-10-07

dren to school she replied: No, sir, l
never did send EN- to school. know it,
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 l 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 hells, sir
She's learnin all sorts of bad words |
there and don't get back till IL O'clock |
at night. If it wasn't for her earnin a
ehillin or two in them places, should
starve. Oh, wish they was out of the
city. Yes, it is the truth. | 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 reformatory association, re
cited her story of want and woe and
looked up and said, II felt SO hard ~
lose the children when they died, but
now I'm glad they're gone" Ask any
one of a thousand such children on the
streets, Where do you liver" and they
will answer, II don't live nowhere.
They will sleep tonight in ash barrels, OF
under outdoor stairs, or on the wharf,
kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
cares for them2 Once in awhile city
, missionary, or a tract distributor, or a
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 misjudgo these poor and forlorn
| and dying children Of the street They
are not weeds. They are immortal flow
T 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.
q Hear it, o ye philanthropic and
!, Christian and merciful souls-not weeds
t but flowers. Iabjure you as the friends
f of all newsboys lodging houses, OF ali
n industrial schools, of all homes fol
0 friendless girls and for the many re
s formatories and humane associations
= | HOW Oh IOOb. I1OW luuOh eAASJ NN~
it ready accomplished Out OF wha'
wretchedness, into what good homes
is Of 81 900 of these picked up out of th'
e streets and sent into country homes
If only 10 children turned out badly.
v In the last 80 years number that M
le man can number of the Migrants hav'
ID been lifted into respectability ant
re usefulness and Christian life. Man!
n of them have homes of their own
e. Though ragged boys once and stree
o. girls, now at the head of prosperou
lr families, honored on earth and to b
r. glorious in heaven. Some of them haV
of been governors of states. Some OF then
are ministers of the gospel. In all de
IN partments of life those who wer
no Thought to be weeds have turned out I
ne be flowers. One of those rescued lad
he from the streets of our cities wrote t
lat another, saying: 81 have heard you an
no studying for the ministry. So am /"
ep NV hearers, l implead you for tn
ed newsboys of the streets, many of thel
lr- the brightest children of the city, br
nd with no chance. Do not step on the
ev bare feet. Do not, when they steal a rld
ri cut behind. When the paper is y cent
en- once in awhile give them cent plet
and tell them to keep the change. Ill
-as the ring of the letter the newsboy sci
G. back from Indiana, where he had De'
bh- sent to good home, to New fol
he newsboys' lodging house: "Boys, Y
Ter should show ourselves that we are
,in fools. that we can become as respectab
lip as any Of the countrymen, for FRANK
yer and Webster and Clay were poor bo
he once. and even George Law and va
,ed derbilt and Astor. And now, boy
ow stand up and let them see you ha
yas got the real stuff in you. Come
ol here and make respectable and hone
IAN able men, so they can say, 'Iherei I'll
of boy was once newsboy.'' MY hei
net ers. ioin the Christian philanthropy
len who are changing organ grinders a
bootblacks aud newsboys and str'
lis arabs and cigar girls into those who sh
of be kings and queens unto God torev'
Q a It is high tiIne that Jonah finds out I'll
isb that which is about him is not wee'
eh, but flowers.
lad CORONALS OF BEAUTY.
nod AsIexamine this red alga which "
is about the recreant prophet down in I
ne. Mediterranean depths, when. in the wol
len of my text, he cried out, "The wee
pat, were wrapped about my head" ana
ON led thereby to further examine this s!
mn. marine world, am compelled to exclai
Of What a wonderful God we hayel u
glad that, by diving bell, and "Broo
rom deep sea sounding apparatus ana g,
or improving machinery, we are Perhlt
tbe 10 walk the floor Of the ocean and rep
.ver @ the wonders wrought by the great "
/, az study these gardensof the sea- Eas
al and easier shall the profounds OF
nite ocean become to US, and more ana III
aye its opulence Of color and plant unr
II especially as "VillerOy's submar
T. is boat" has been constructed, making
avss nosgible 10 navigate under the sea
!, an most as well as on the surface OF
"a. sea and unless God in his mercy b
49, isbes war from the earth whole heetI
= q armed ships will yet far down under
water move on TO blow up the argo
,,v tbat Aoat the surface. May such
marine ships be used for laying open