Show TO THE BOYS on gu the street cornetti Cor boys have beve you not mistaken the place lace are you bot in the wrong shop 1 have noticed that for some time past you have faithfully attended this corner from two to six nights amounting to irom four to twelve hours in ia the week sixteen to forty eight in the mortn and from one hundred and twenty cigut to three hii ell eighty clity four in a year leaving out four winter winte I 1 months seldom better employed it at first I 1 thought these are worth worthless leBs s boys lloys having no ambition to become anything but street fet loafers they seek only that chic c they are learning and ancl you who have made a habit of it only know what that 9 is id it if not think over what you b have picked up there during the jast year just reckon aup will you andio and so with a little pang of regret for you I 1 have otten often passed by with only a wish that no boy of mine may ever caboose one of you for a companion lest you take him to tile the same place to seek the same information or at best bast the lack of all useful information but of late a closer observance of your faces and maj manners iners when seen elsewhere at work in the stores in classes at schools etc has led me to moderate my views of your aims in life I 1 see in your countenances and actions at these places a desire to excel celt a slight realization that there is such stich a thing as a future below befoy you yon the admiration you yoi seem to feel for those fiose who excel in the better bette r capabilities bili ties of life leads me to believe you sometimes wish yours yourselves elyes to become lile like them conspicuous lor something in society beside I 1 have thought I 1 may have judged harshly whet I 1 have haira passed you lolling round aund the street corner that you f really atly wish to become useful to yourselves and others in life but through h bonx following others and a lack of bonsra aeration a natural thing in young people you ha have ve formed the baui t of to the wrong place to spend your most precious spare moments you say 11 1 I wish I 1 could recite ree like tom or sing like harry orp Is y upon an instrument like bohu or read i d like james I 1 write a beautiful hand like robert speak or each lile like george or do some of buny many excellent things that some young men are esteemed estelin ed jor for their ability do go and ask tom harry or any of the other boys conspicuous for any accomplishment whatever if any one of them acquired his ability on a street corner or was it rather by avoiding enose places and all those who hung around them of lecourse lc ourse says one we know these things are not learned on the street corners we go there for fun 11 do y you ou think these boys with their a accomplishments are any less happy than you without them or do you not believe that they get more fun and keener enjoyment from these accomplishments ments and their study than you do from your want of both then consider the vast difference between attaining something that one may enjoy through a whole life time making him respected and admired ot his associates and losing from one hundred to f four our hundred precious woking boking hours of oue a life every year resulting in being a nobody among his associates if indeed he ever becomes an associate of people who are worth associating with la Is it so io i o much fun to sit for hours talking about nothing in particular unless it berthat be that which is harmka and that you would not dare or OW to speak of in the home that I 1 it can outweigh even in your estimation your 9 future happiness and benefits derived from the accomplishments you might acquire during dariol i this time let me assure you that if you will f forwe 0 ax months spend your evenings at something which you may have an aptitude and taste for let it be agg singing playing writing drawing or any other useful occupation then go out and add compel yourself lust just for one night ni lit to spend three hours boors at what you now term fun on the corner you will find land those three hours the most dull dreary insipid hours you have ever imagined and you will won cier where the if fun un comes in so much more intense will have become the enjoyments enjoy ments at ho home I 1 know you cannot fully believe me now but you would then but would you deprive the boys of their recreation no rather bather would I 1 deprive myself of every colfort I 1 hilve have than dim the brightness of their fia happy P young faces by trying to make OU old men of them before their time I 1 say saydo do not deprive them of their recreation bunor fun or enjoyment but make these greater more lasting healthy and useful the enjoyment ot a boy lull of vigor is activity physical or mental had I 1 the control of of all boys from the age of f fourteen to nineteen R I 1 should want their work to cease at five iq in the evening supper at dixone at a vigorous game of ball a ride or gymnastic sports of some sort and the rest of the night at borne enjoying whatever he liked most of the many recreations that result in some useful accomplishment unless of course they went elsewhere to enjoy the same to singing classes reading circles association meetings or to study cr practice with a companion at his bis home provided however tho the companion would return the ahe compliment once more let me for a moment return to althe the corner I 1 have said nothing of the evil that ly 11 harmless habit I 1 leads to Is it not tae afie stepping stone tb jtb street rambling and is s rat urt TO eatow visiting and that to utter rain irain jold did ever a boy or young nian man go direct the first time from a home to a saloon led by another under the same circumstances how many have gone there direct from the careless careless street corner lounging think well of it boys you should not leave it all with your parents true your ruin might carry with it the ruin of their happiness but it ia is even more ruinous to you than them besides how much nobler and more pleasant it is to do anything that is good from ones own resolve to do it than when it is crowded upon us to do da by our parents or others think seriously what is best for your ur own welfare and then set to borio work on toe the task of laying up happiness for yourself and be assured you will iward aaby heart that loves you happy to w now the course you are taking remembering mem bering well that home borne and interesting studies lead to 10 all happiness and honorable positions in life while idling away the hours on street carters leads one the opposite way to incapacity misery and ruin choose ye A FRIEND TO THE YOUTH MALAD NOTES this valley talley the home of milk butter and cheese has this year not no the fresh and verdant appearance it is wont to wear owing to grasshopper ranges since early spring they have been constantly constant lv arriving from china or somewhere below us and strange eto to say the moment they have thrown off their winding sheets they whet their teeth and without further ceremony help thera themselves selves to anything ave green reen they the they may take a fancy to I 1 nave succeeded ceded la in turning their line of march to the northwest I 1 do not think it was due to canan my N valor or nor good generals generalship lp to be candid but I 1 think on see seeing ng my half balf starved sickly cheek bo bony y appearance as I 1 rode on t the he mail wagon behind a noble bay horse and a little black mule through the country they attributed attribute ct my thinness to nothing to eat down south As they have never taught music nor indulged in main street sweat baths and balmy city air when in delicate health how could they surmise the real cause so they took the awful warning and fled in another direction the ground is pretty well covered with dead ones who have attempted successfully to breed a little unfriendly to them worm the good people here do not sit an and a cry over their vanished crops but work on manfully just as if nothing had mapp happened ened they they are erecting a fine tabernacle in malad city and I 1 have even heard beard a hope ex expressed presse A that the semiannual semi annual conference this year would be held in it the wheel of persecution is be being I 1 ng somewhat clogged here just now for want of oil from uncle sams treasury in connection with sunday school work X was particularly struck with the idea carried out here respecting the singing bro the leading music teacher has a mission to direct the musical matters of the sumay school throughout the valley the various choir leaders ea ders working under and with him the result must be a general waking up in musical matters and a uniformity uniformity in the singing of all the schools that can be utilized to fine advantage whenever they are brought together for a jabalee lo ja bilee ete it seems tome to me this idea could be adopted with great advantage in more populous counties and in iii salt lake grand results could be attained by adopting some plan that would bring more uniformity into the singing of our schools cool nights and showers of rain occasionally casio nally by day makes it quite quit pleasant here at present WANDERING UTE |