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Show "THE YOUNG FELLER." From the Catholic Citizen. There is the "young feller" and the young fellow. The young fellow is equal to the effort of chinking. He has foresight. The "young teller is nothing but a be-i antal'ioned grusshop-! grusshop-! per, so far as prudence and providence goes. Of course he is eventually his own worst enemy. His punishment comes in time. No toy who has torgotten to Set his lessons at school; no traveler who roes away irom home without a sufficiency of money to pay his way back, has it as hard as the "young tel ler" gets it finally. But ail mis ib m affair or the affair of his relatives. Meanwhile we s:eak of his manners, which are somewhat offensive to so-cietv. so-cietv. We have him in view as a gregarious gre-garious creature at political caucuses. He is there, of course, as the servant of the small fry politician. There is u small thick piece of wood that occasionally occasion-ally comes handy to some kind ot work-ingmen. work-ingmen. It is called a chump. The "young feller" is ordinarily present at the caucus, not to exercise the rivals of a freeborn American citizen, but to come in handy as somebody's "chump, and to get te beer that le wards such capacity. It is this kind of work which frequently makes it impossible for him to do any manual labor. He develops into a ticket peddler or a political bar llv. In addition to supporting him, his ! lamily have to put up with the bad manners which his unsavory associations associa-tions inculcate. The chewing, drinking, drink-ing, irling, ill-behaved "young fellers may be counted by scores in all communities. com-munities. Bue there are certainly milder and less pronounced types who are guiltless of politics, and guiltless, too, of the swagger and drunkenness ot the other. They are susceptible of con- j version. |