The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-27


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ways he would come to some sudden
aud awful end. He would promise her
to become an angel, hut an hour later
he would he found getting up fight
between a dog and goat and betting
two 10 one on the dog.
No boy can keep Oh being bad ana
making his widowed mother weep
tears of sorrow without climax com.
ing. About the time he begins to think
he's the worst boy In town and Is
proud of the fact trap is laid for him.
II was 50 In the case of James Scher-
merhorn. One day after he had taken
two steps out of the cellar stairs. so
| that his uncle Thomas would have q
fall when he went TO carry bag of
potatoes down cellar, he ran out into
the street and hitched Oh TO the back
end Of the wagon. The driver was a
determined man with u wooden leg.
He had fought in the Spanish war and
was afraid OF no boy.
Young man, allow no hitchlng on"
he said as he turned and saw James
climbing over the tailboard of the
wagon.
James Was at Error.
"l am the bad boy who choked n
bear to death with my naked hands,"
replied James as lie put ON a bloody
ana sinister look.
ITS nothing 10 me how bad you
are. Unhltch your hitch and get off
my wagon or you will reap sorrow
II don't have TO-"
Then the man who had fought In the
Spanish war and killed thousands of
Spaniards and buried them in unmark-
ell graves saw that he was defied and
that his reputation rs II brave man was
ut stake. He stopped his horses and
as TO make Il jump for James. and
just ut that moment the sawmill took
fire, and an alarm was sent in. and a
fire engine came gallOping out. The
defiant boy saw that he had gone too
far and all at once he let 20 his
hitch and dropped into the street. The
Spanish veteran cried out to him. but
up face in reply. He did not know
that the engine was close upon him
until he was under the heavy wheels.
James Schcrmerhorn was carried
home and laid Oh the bed. Several doe
tors poked away AT him ana said that
he would never crawl under the can
vas on circus day again He was lln-
conscious for several hours, but lust
before he died he opened his eyes,
smiled ut his weeping mother and
whispered:
VI wish J had been good boy ana
died Of the yellow fever instead of
this"
1t Is hard work to he good boy.
There is no finn in 1t, You cant rob
orchards or melon patches or break
windows or peg the mayor with snow
balls, hut you viii live on and he re,
spocted, and somc day your fellow men.
tired Of seeing You around so much,
viii elect YOU 10 the legislature ana
make your family proud or YOU
Henry Harper was another sad case
of how boy can 20 wrong Ip 10 the
age OF eight he was praised ON all
sides for his goodness, Then II boy
called Terrible Tom lent lin an In,
dian story written by Bunt Nedline. 1t
told how n lad nine years ola ran
away from tDmc and went west to
tight Indians lie killed over $50 anl
burned their villages and Obliged t"elr
squnws 20 weave rel blankets for him.
and then he came home 10 be had
boy, II his mother wcpt over hi' re.
fusal TO go to the grocery for can OF
Kerosene, he drew his scalpng knife
and threatened to fake her scab. II
his father took him by the collar t.
lead him ous into the wood shed. he
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