Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-01-13
GEORGE w. BAIN
leetured to a Large Audience Last Night
 al the Merrill Institute.

lute was lllleQ up iaSt night With the [ flower and fashion of Pine Bluff to hear one of AmeIicas greatest lecturers, Geo. W. Bain. of Kentucky l Previous to the lecture Secretary " W. Locher stated that Col Bain 1 would deliver q lecture sunday after- noon at the Institute at 3 o'clock free toeyerybody, and Rev.J l.. Caldwell | would address an audience at tiesame place atnight After these announce- ments Secretary Locher introduced 1 MT. Bain. The lecturer said his subject, l 'sBoys andGirls. Nnice and Naughty" -snggestedfun and mirth, but that it l was his purpose to instruct, as well as to alnuse, and he hoped he would succeed in teaching some great truths of morality and uprightness during the course of his remarks He said his subject covered ifc's successes, as well as failures. He called attention to the possibilities of life by citing what might be done under proper circumstances with the little Waif or Wharf-rat always found in our large cities and towns, though he may have q drunken father. and dead mother, still under that ragged coat beats manly heart. and through proper training he could be elevated to noble manhood. There is no tell ing what is i'll boy if he only has q chance Hefurther illustrated what is in q boy by two characters.
 Tim and foHgh two little vaga- bonds, standing on q street corner in the city of Philadelphia, when a passer-by listened to their conver- sation. Said Tim to Tough TT: you had E. what would you do with it?N "Ah,a said Tough. as he drew his slender half-bare arms around his shivering little body, .I'd buy me an evercoat." Said Tough to Tim: If you had $5 what would you do with it," ssI would go down to the groeef's and say. Mister. send down to our house q fat turkey, d sack of
 flour and q peck of potatoes, and 1 then the grocer would look down at me and say, Get out, you little rascal, but, said Tim, when I'd show him my S5 he'd come down, and when he would send the goods around wouldn't poor old mother, my hungry little brother and sister and l have d good time This ended their conversation and Tim jumped aboard a passing horse ear and called out, Papers. 21R cents apiece. sir !" In that boy, said Mr. Bain, were great possibilities; all he needed i was chance.
 The lecturer said: .Laziness is a curse: idleness is out of place in this fast day and time when a man can eat his breakfast in New York, dine in Chicago and take his supper on the great rolling plains. A live, active man one day met lazy, good for-nothing fellow dragging himself along the street Said he to this yagabond, Did you ever see q snail?' Oh, yes, was the reply. Then ybu must have met him. for you never overlook him. Some people ill this world are run over and kicked aside simply because they are too lazy to get out of the way. No man or woman who is able to work can afford to be idle. v.
 Mr. Bain said he had lived long enough to know that life is q reality and not at all what the dreams of his young fife had suggested to him. He referred to the poetry he had written his wife during their court ship. and said if she had preserved it all he would have enough to make a good sized volume He encouraged the boys to have d sweetheart if they could pursuade the girls that way. for said he this short-lived
 love makes the boys think more of themselves and try to be somebody
 He discussed dudes and dudism, also dudelets and dtItlines. He said the best illustration he knew of for from the sublime to the ridiculous was from true manhood to dudism.
 X dude thinks all he has to do is to lift his hat and show a Henry Clay
 head Yes. said the lecturer, the Clay without Che Henry
 He paid the Merrill Institute a glowing tribute of great honor. He said 1t was q place where the boys
 and young men of our city could find recreation and amusement; an in stitution that threw check i'll the , destruction of so many boys and young men by "the gilded dens oi
 vice. "Boys, said he, remember ,..st-. x-(