The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-29

Cartersville, Ca, Mar. Is, 1905.
Scarcely day passes but what We
read of boys andsyoupg men running
away fsom home, aud no tidiugs Of
their whereabouts come back to par
entslana loved ones. The great trou-
bic with boys ie the fact they don't
think. In the arat place, the closers
boy can be and the closer he lives
under the shadow Of good mother
the better it is for him. The home
roof is the best covering and shield
that boy can knew "a this world.
The literature os The day ID largely re-
sponsible for this craze on the part Of
boys and young men TO leave home and
wander up and down through che.
earth. / suppose no boy has left q
good home, and good mother and.
father, but what thoughts Of hoae
aud friends occur ever and anon TO
him. AZ night time, wherever no
pillows his head he must think Of
mother at home; but he doesn't realize
how mother and father suffer because
Of the. absent boy. / hope these lines
mry fall under che eyea Of many wan.
deripg boys, aud that il they refuse
to come back to their homes, they
will sit down and write to mother and
father, or brother and sister. They
need not say where thev'a but let
their loved ones know they are we'll
and how they are getting along. How
many thousand mothers have been.
made TO utter the sad spa.hetio words:
where is my wandering boy tonight2
Go search for him where you will and
tell him that / love. him still. q
mothers love and q fs.her's devotion
are as long as all eternity. Broader
than this world, and there is no land
80 distant, no pathway SO cold but
what q mothers feet would tread that
way, a fathers weary efforts would
lead that way until they come in the
presence OF the one who had wander.
ed of. "A good boy can do better al
his own home and in the community
where he was raised than be can do
anywhere else on earth. "A bad boy
can do well nowhere. Latitude and
longitude and geographical position.
does not determine the well-doing Of q
fellow. Character alone settles the
question With him. e
III The indge ee our, circuit court re-.
lated the following incident TO me a
feW$daye ago. Eight Or ten boys were
indicted in his court asrailroad tramps
for riding trains, every one eee y lhom
were strangers 70 him nnd from different
towns and States in the union. They
were convicted and he sentenced them
Simply to pay the cost orss to three.
months impriso onment. None Of them
could pay their fines and all WentStoi
ths ehaingang. Some Of: them have
hsnkes5;; j il their prison life and.
have written TO their parents at home
pf their condition and their parents
sent the none 90 pay their zines and
bring them home. One of them, 81
Sson Of . oor widow, who earned the.
money 60 nay her boy q enc 4 at tho
wash tub. One ofathose boys lived in
the State 4ofs b T. ZEN see, /, one in the5
city Of Aslanta, Of resp pectabie family, 8
another oneSs Ssinn N crsh Carroll ThsE
Others afe still Id the schaingang, some.
ofthems perhaps We NO parents to-
whom they can Wsii ori friend s who,
viii come to- sheie relief and others.
perhaps ars too stub born ant proud TO
let sondition be known sat home.
ThisssissonIy one of tho many instances.
where conrts ars con pelied TO puniahj
thessan aefing boz S5s;5
noticed shat th q police 81 Atlants5
took up sa3 young As kanaaa boy the,
other day nod the little fellow broke.
down aud told his history and the
family to who he sbefon gsd and his
parsnts we're notified of his where
abouts. lers is no more u commend
able S5fkS citiss by del estives and
poliosnien ssi5iha arrsat and eEeasi
tion of strange bpy .. aud they onghb
co givs themselves moro dj djligentl ly I'd
the Nofk of finding oas sths name and
the hunis sofS every boy inl everys