The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-06-23

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And then he lies down to slumocrs light,
He dreams OF boat with sails so white,
And he sails in dreams far over the sea
And who so happy and KAY as hes
All, the day be distant when from the shore
more!
When he turns to the COTTAGE with weary tread
And the mother weeps for the father dead!
-Harpers Young People
What Is Cowardr
"You are q coward"
''Am ~"
1t was one of the crowd of boys who
were pouring out Of the pu blic school
who made the statement, another
who asked the question. Then a
closely cropped red head and curly
blond head, gray jacket and a
black one, four fists, four knicker-
bockered legs and two bookbags
seemed to mix themselves up in the
center of the street, and q crowd of
other boys closed in about them.
Not being acquainted with the rules
of "the ring,"I cannot toll you of the
fight, but believe that whatever the
little blond fellow who had been
called coward could do with his
fists to prove that he was not one, he
did In the interim between the first
blow and the arrival of a very large
policeman, who lifted the pair apart
as q giant Of the fairy tales might a
pair Of Tom Thumbs and inquired
sternly:
'Say, what's the matter with yous?"
There was 30 much the matter in
the shape Of bruised foreheads, black
eyes and bloody noses and pulled lips
that imagine motherly tears were
shed over both red and blond heads,
and am sure that both these boys
were told never to fight again, be-
cause it was both wicked and ungen-
tlemanly.
But what can boy do when he is
called a coward? And II he will not
fight he is coward; and worst of all
things is to be that, argued Johnny.
And he is right A boy who is that is
worthless. And II 1t is necessary to
fight in defense of honor, of country
or weaker folks, let him be ready to
do it.
But there are other things neces-
sary, too, and a great many fighting
characters are arrant towards at
heart; men who, when you como to
get at the root Of the matte r, are only
braggarts who delight in terrifying
peaceful people.
In many Western country places are
men known rs Jim the Terror" or
"Sam the Shooter who are spoken
of as having painted the town red
one day last week" and being danger
Gus to the community. I've no doubt
that some boys fancy that, however
bad these fellows are, they must be
brave men. On the contrary they are
the most contemplate of cowards-a
record of their exploits will prove it.
Two of them will rush through the
town armed to the teeth, raid the
saloon and drink some mild old Ger
mans beer without paying him for it,
smash tho sashes of the candy store,
roar hideous oaths at the window of
the parsonage, overset an old man
with basket of eggs, devour the
poor fruit woman's apples and Or
angcs, threaten to shoot the polite,
respectable elderly tailor on his way
home with new suit of clothes, de-
molish things in the Chinese laundry
and cut of Chung Foo's precious pig
tail despite his mild petitions for
mercy, and insult country ladies who
have driven in, to shop, but wilt like
spinach in boiling water when faced
by three stout townsmen with good
rcvolvcrs.
remember seeing one of these men
who had been supposed to threaten
certain village with destruction at
noon. hanging out of the clock up"
window at dusk, weeping and beg
ging ''some good Christian" for
heavens sake to give him "chaw of
tobacker." He was coward of course.
There is another person you think
very brave, perhaps. Your cousin
John who is at college. He looks
such fine fellow as he sits telling
you little boys of tho fun they have
shazing the freshmen" and You
think that when you are old as he
you will "hazc freshmen" also.
Now there are few more cowardly
deeds done in this world than much
of that same college hazing, and the
fact that boys have been at It here
and in England for 200 years makes
It no better. To heap insult and in
jury on some unoffending young
stranger, to cover him with mortiflca-
ton when he naturally wishes TO ap-
pear his best, TO pain his heart and
harm him physically, can be fun to
no one bat coward. Now and then