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Show A Wood Word for Hie Train Boy. Ill nat-irc teems to be at the bot-tcmofasmall bot-tcmofasmall crusade which has LH-cn begun by certain persons and newspapers against tlieboyin ho tell papers and a variety of otiter tilings ou railroad trains. It lias often been said, in a Joking way, that tbe trai n boy la a nuisance, but scarcely any. one who rides frequently on the railways Is seriously disposed to regard him as such. Indeed.tlieniis a j.eneral good feeling toward him, aud the irasclblo people who sometimes some-times Tent their spleen upon him are looked upon with contempt by their fellow-poaengers. Especially oa Jong journeys one rather welcomes the bustling, energetic boy, and very lew men tide three or four hours without purchasing a copy of some publication, and belutrglad. ol the oportunIty to do so. The train boy, theu, follows an honest calling, supplies a common demand, is industrious, in-dustrious, enterprising and accommodating, accom-modating, and hef would be sadly missed it his business were discontinued. discon-tinued. We can not atrr.t to him abolUhed. Aexark Adcertuer. |