The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-05-06

now meeting addressed ny the same
speakers will be held.
In the evening, beginning at s O'Clock
President Penrose will give his celebrated
address on CDR. Marcus Whitman"
BOyhocd "Reminiscences.
How often do we revert to experiences
of boyhood and recall with side splitting
mirth incidents of peculiar mischief oc-
casioned by the fresh exhuberance of
youth! How frequently We glory in re.
| lsting to our associates some particularly
villainous deviltry perpietrsted in our
younger days. and how severely we pun
ish our own youthful progeny for at
tempting to emulate the examples of
which we so vainly boast How, when
in such reminiscent mood we perhaps
unintentionally exaggerste our juvenile
accomplishments and paint halo of
romance around some of our most at
trocious moral delinquencies. We recall
with paroxysms of delight the various
times we PLAYED "hookev'' from school !;
when We tied ans to Towser's tail or
turpentined the cat; when we spent
hours on the ice or in the water; when
We wasted but enjoyed days of pure de-
light in the woods, with gun aud dog,
chasing rabbits and squirrels, and when
ambitions flight carried US away at night
hunting "coons" till morning. The
healing hand Of time now causes US to
forget our youthful vicisitudes, and a
glamour of pleasure covers the wythe and
slipper in the hands of our respective
parents. We forget the stone bruise on
the heel, the loss of nail from "stub
bed" toe, the bee-stings, slivers and
| thorns which found connection with var
iOus parts of our anatomies; we only re-
member the ''pies" days of our boyhood.
Did we complain OF chopping few sticks
| Of wood or carrying bucket OF water to
assist the cook in preparing repast at
which we ate twice as much as any of our
elders? Did we think it great hardship
few weeds from the garden for the pigs in
the sty? Did we think ourselves the
orst-abused boys in the world when on
beautiful moonlight evenings we were
compelled to stay in the house and
mind the baby" or give an imitation Of
| studying lessons for next days school,
while the favored children across the
way were allowed to play ''paterole" or
hide-and- go-seek. il not exactly in range
OF our vision, just where their yells of en-
joyment would reach us most effectively q?
Who hasn't been a boy--a rough, harem-
scarem chap, who cared for nothing but
his play? Who thought only of the girls
to tease them until later years changed
his aspirations? Who was always ready
for any daredevil trick that could be
conjured from mind of idleness and I'M
limited originality in line of sinful de-
vice?
| But when We 20 more deeply in the
realms OF recollection we find that it was
not all sunshine then any more than it is
all shadow now. The youthful mind had
its SORROWS then just as hard to bea. as
the trials which come to US after years OF
preparatory and hardening process.
| You remember when you lost pet !;
how your playmates were separated from
you; how you grieved over the bedside OF
an indulgent parent, and refused to be
| comforted when you followed the body
to the tomb; how by one fell stroke Of
the dread monster" you were thrown
upon your own resources and compelled
to begin to fight LIES battles without the
kindly advice and guiding hand of one
upon whom YOU had always relied with
unstinted confidence? How you, step
by step, have overcome obstacles and re-
lying solely upon your own efforts, have
reached the position in life you now oc-
cupy, with new ties to bind and new am
billions to satisfy-perhaps raising fam
lily Of boys whose general experience will
be but reproduction of your own youth.
full history.
Taken all in all, we are not yet ready
to explain, with the pessilnistic character
in Dickens "Pickwick Papers" "Would
to God, that could return to the days of
my childhood or be enabled to forget
them forever" CONTRIBUTOR.