The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-11-24

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WM@S&EM~NG ~ emit day and gen
NM HSNEN~M&&sSSS Grafton. 1t is
I'm E%SkN@. W@MS@ none of my bu.
WNME%SN#%A&E sinesS In partfc-
NMA@NAMM- W. lar, but from
al can see and hear, ''comin and a
gwine.' it does look to me powerful like
we are now busy raisin up q generation
be the fnatter2 Too burned internal
many towns and cities-too blame many
people that would ruther live in a city
and wear storeeought clothes and eat
dry bread and drink sorry water, than
live In the country and wear plain
clothes and drink spring water and eat
three square meals a day
..The Malnest Thing 1. H.n.iroonanee:''
Now as for me, amt one of the sort
to be forever and eternally cussin and
kfcltin agin the towns and cities. 1t is
town if It suits them and they can stand
it. But l have been bruisin in this
world with both eyes open long enough
to find out that e Is nonstrous tellin
the boys in particlar. In his CROWN
season, whilst the sap is runnfn up, a
boy needs plenty of handroomance.
The mainest thing with a boy born to
lie needs room enough to run and jump
and grow and spread out. Every time
go to the city and see the droves Of
chested boys-honcst to God it gives me
the heartachc to look at them. and
manhuui can hold up and stand the
pace.
Sometimes ! hear people cay that city
folks don't raise many children, but I
go and L reckon the city people will
have to own up to most of them. BY
gollye, / couldn't blame them much for
denyin some children I have seen around
fk1k1 1fy- fhaXy h Ia md
pale and puny and sorry lool<in. And
don't blame city people Tor not raisin
any more children than they do. 1
around my house if I couldn't make
somc improvements on the breed as
have seen them around town.
Every now and occasionally YOU will
see some youngster that was born and
bred and brung up in. the country
tough, as the butt cut from a hickory
tree-svith plenty of speed and stayin
business and buckle down to his knit
tin and presently climb up and run over
the boys that was trained up there and
ought to know n11 the ropes by heart.
It amt that one boy is any better than
another, cause they are all more or less
bad providin they are healthy. 1t is
mostly on account of the difference in
sral surrOundins under which they
have come up from boyhood to man
hood.
The city boy has been 'sreatlin,' -
whilst the country boy was only sorter
'sfotched up The city boy may have
Us much sense as the country hoy if not
more. but in the toll and strife and
trials and struggles Of this vain and
6eetin world Il smart head don't count
for much without a healthy boy to hold
1t up and tote it through. Speed is a
the race OF life, but it amt worth a
dddler's durn without some stickin
qualities and stayin powers.
The Best Place For Boys.
The best place under the sun and in
this wide world to laise boys and grow
men is way out in the country-bacl<
in the woods That is where the
and Henry Clay and Abe Lincoln and
John c. Calhoun and old Hickory Jack
son: 1 have always held to that gen
eral doctrine. and durin the past sum
| mer I had chance to maintain my
| faith with my works.
Two or three years ago John Buck
Galloway got sick and tired of the plain
| country livin around in the Rocky Creek
settlement and give it out that he was
| goin to take his folks and move his
| washin off to the city. So nothin
else would do he sold out and picked ur
and went. His good wife give in her
opinions right square agin the move
| ment. sayin how she had always heard
tell that the city must be the last place
| On top Sl0e the earLh poor 1OlkS
| But John Buck had his mind made uE
| and his head sot. SO there they went
| Now it had SO come to pass that the
Gallo.vays had five children at their
| house two girls and three boys-and
little Speck, as they called him was the
baby of the brood. His right and prop
| er name was jest plain William, but
they always called him Spec< for short
| and he naturally took that pccurious
name on account of his terrible frecl<ly
| face. Speck was jest naturally little
! and ugly to start with. but of course he
didn't mean no harm by that. In his
| general color and the way in which he
was complicated he made a tolerable
| good cross between a clay bank and a
fresh turkey egg. But at the same t'me
he was plum sound in mind and body
and was born with plenty of materials
| in him for the maxim of a man.
| To be certainly of course it was none
of my business, but l stuck my finger
in the dish anyhow and told John Buck
| he was dom the wrong thing to take
his little folks to the city unless he hae
plenty of room. which the same know
, ed he didn't have and couldn't do
''Thc most brightest and promisin care
| in the hand you hold is little Speclx,
| says to John buck. but he amt go
| no more business Twin in "a city than
would with full set of wings and {
PAIR of golden slippers on right now
and naturally full of life and devilmen,
rs he is. and put him down in the cit,
with all of its wild and wicked ways
and YOU needn't to look for nothin els,
but for him to gallop with the gang a
soon as he can aud as long as he cal
know ne will be cussin and drinkiI
~I,iSlxy md Twin md Stealin and n fte1