Show I 1 t s 3 g 0 qc Z J i 1 give give the boys a muce chance I 1 I 1 do you y bu know kitow arty anybody body that wants want to hire a boy wi we confess that we never hear this ania the common on of inquiries without a feeling of sadness and never say no without a hearty wish hat amt we had iome something thing for a boy todo to do toor poor little fellows illy illi kept and ana poorly clad turn their anxious faces cpr to yours in the hope to find it favorable answer and thus to end a long lone and painful quest for the means to earn a mouth mouthful fal of hos honest iest bread they move on with drooping heads to repeat for a thousand times the inquiry andio and to receive the same response in tones ot of every variety of indifference 1 A boy is learning his first sad lessons in id the coldness of the world and the harshness of life we will not go beyond him to see what aching wort heart there is in in some poor home that mingled with hope and fear has sent him forth 0 on U his thankless mission for that the boy himself should be obliged to go and ask again and be refused the opportunity to be useful is sid sd enough ofil of self itself in this fast age this struggling crowding world there is little room for the hoys boys and there iff far too little thought taken of the obligation that rests upon men to make places for them these materials of which men are made I 1 I 1 and we are too prone to forget how 19 important an element we ourselves are in settling the question whether they are to be good or bad we have a plea to make for the boys words of kindness and encouragement gement to those who are first launching heir theia frail flail barks upon the voyage of life are worth thousands of dollars spent in in processes to reform such as through neglect and deppt despair have forgotten their theia good impulses and suffered ored themselves veer to be led into bourdes bourses courses of transgression blittle word may stimulate a hope that glimmers on the verge of extinction into a motive strong and unerring to im impel pel its owner forward in the lne paths piths of useful usefulness nei and honor be kind to the boys I 1 and to the boys we would say aay never despair if one man does not went want a boy try another you have the right to make the inquiry the world was made for you as well as for the men and god has determined that you shall have a place anit in it the lopes hopes of the world are in the boys the poor boys and insignificant and placeless as you feel yours yourselves lve s your mission is important and if you are worthy your day will surely come there is another thing go to the country chances for useful employment are numerous and various in the agricultural districts avoid the town with its places of low amusements and lower dissipation determine De Lermine to be men and honest men and the time will come when you will be disposed to thank ever the ha hardships yo you u have suffered for their effect in developing your energies and fixing your character |