The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-10

talk as oxen do; likewise when witn farmers.
 As one boy who was cured put it: Say, did you'se ever swear ike. weii you know what I mean, at euy TOT half an hour and then find youse was wasting langwidge on dummy say. youse might just as we'll try to get Dummy Taylor rattled from the bleach, CTS. Who's Dummy Tayior7 An. wotyer givin' us? Dummys der dear an dumb one wid the Giants.
 After field work comes dinner. And the way those boys eat, so busy "feedin' food ter the face" that they can't ''hot air none!'
 Lunch Is followed by games In the living room-ch eckers, authors. domi- noes, for It si part of farmers edu- cation to know how to while away those long winter evenings. Then more farm work. But at o'clock there Is a sudden OK odus to the ball field, where probably you will find opposed to each other the star batteries of teams mat play on tho broad water front streets near the steamship piers, and play good ball. too. in spite of the fact that each boy has to keep one eye open Tor the "cop.'
 The experience of playing ball with out an occasional yell of cheese It IS also a novelty. Incidentally, this ball playing proficiency is great accom- plishment for the boy who is to farm 1t near a village. He Is sure to be- come pitcher, captain. manager and coach of the Spring Valley Crescents and a social and political power.
 One of the boys wrote that he had actually introduced the game In an out of the way place. For ability to play the national game. like the boys stories of life in the great city are very welcome to people in far away land. And for weeks after boys ar rival, the farmer folk will gather to hear his tales of New York.
 The boy is much like a six-months- old newspaper arriving at some far away naval station. He is the wireless means of communication with the great, strange life in New York. He has seen the forty-story sky-scraper go up from foundation to roof tree, and what boots 1t. If he chances to make 1t some dozen stories higher than 1t IS?
 Supper follows the evening care of the stock, and at night there are more quiet games or discussions about the great dime novel country to which they are to be sent. But they are ready for bed by o'clock and soon the rows of white beds in the airy dormitories are filled with boys dreaming of prairies.
 The little boys from to IF do not work the farm, but go to school to learn to read. Sometimes in the low est classes are great hulking fellows who are not ashamed to read that the cat caught the mouse. Oddly enough, these chaps who find such difnculty with a reader have no trouble making olt the sporting news in newspaper.
 The little fellows are boys rescued from undesirable parents or taken from some protectorate to which they had been sent so that they might escape cruel treatment They are being fat tened up. as 1t were, for the child mar ket. made up of those wh ose arms hum ger to give a mother cIasp either for the first time, or else in memory of some other baby, gone before.
 A few weeks of this air and sum- shine, and kindly treatment soon bring tan and roses to pallid cheeks, and then these little folks are sent to foster parents who are pledged to do for them as they would for children Of their own.
 And the Society's agents. by frequent visits all over the United States, see that this pledge Is kept. How well it Is kept is evidenced by the fact that two boys have gone out on this route to become Governors of Western Con- monwealths. Four others returned to the East as members of the House of Representatives, and at least two more, who in their youth were un- wanted "brats" in New York, have represented great States in the Uni ted States Senate.
 It costs the Society, or rather those who contribute to Its funds for this work, just $50 to find a real home or a good job for boy. Girls also are sent from the city industrial schools, but so far. none has become a political power, though many are wives and mothers in prosperous and influential Western families.
 The older boys at tho farm general " show what Is in them after four weeks. If they are the right material, they are immediately placed in posi- lions where they will be paid good wagse as soon as they really learn earming-for the school does not pre- tend to turn out finished farmers.
 For those that fail to show a liking or aptitude for farm work, other em- ploy Is found. If. after a hoy is sent out. he does not make good" the farmer Is under no obligation to keep him. and the society brings him back. This frees the farmer from the danger Of having an unsuitable boy on his hands, and guarantees the community from any risk of having one of the so- ciety's boys become a charge on the poor funds.
 Very few of the 102.00o people for whom the Society has found out of town homes. however. have becn re- turned. In all, more than 90.Oo0 have thus found permanent homes.
 Of the remaining, many have eneered the army or navy. or found independ- ent work ot their own. The reason for this. Mir. Brace explains. is that the Society never sends out a child until it Is convinced that that child Is en- tirely suitable.
 The hundreds of cases in which peo pie hav. adopted these little sent outs" Is. he believes. an indication of the care with which the Society eX bends the $50 given to 1t to use in