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THE OLD TRAMP’S SERMON.
Subject—“An Idle Brain is the
Devil’s Workshop.”
Text—Six Days Shalt Thou Work.
•—Exodus 20th Chapter, 9th Verse.
When I was a little boy in Sunday
school people have been telling me
to keep the Sabbath day holy—not
to do any work on that day—but few
people ever tell me to be careful to
work six days, which is also one of
God’s commands. “An idle brain is
the devil’s workshop,” and an idle
boy will soon be in the chaingang.
A boy raised in idleness is a worth
less piece of humanity. Do you hap
pen. to know any boy now in jail ?
If he had been busy at something
useful he would have been out of
jail and would not be a rogue. A
good old man once told me it were
better for any boy to dig holes and
fill them up again rather than do
nothing. If your boy is idle he is a
candidate for the chaingang. Idlers
collect in gangs and gangs develop
into criminals.
There used to be a law —a vagrant
law —to sell people who did not work.
But it might be better for the county
or state to have a place to send peo
ple to work—furnish them with a job
before they get to be criminals.
There are enough idlers in Douglas
now to run a good farm, or build a
good piece of road, or do something
useful and get pay for it. But the
best cure for the whole business is
for the parents of these idle boys
and girls on the streets to give them
some sort of work to do at home.
The girls might sew and cook and
keep house and learn how to do these
very necessary things. The boys
could repair the fence, make the gar
den, clean the yardsi and stj.y at
home. No one need be surprised at
a boy going to the bad and acting the
rogue when they go wild on the
streets about town, go in other peo
ple’s fields, get their plums and ber
ries, steal eggs and chickens, and
the like.
A big crop of rogues is sure to
come from such a bunch of boys as
that. And they are on he ground
and about ready to do business.
You can trace many, many bad
things to idleness, hanging about
town, hearing curse words and black
guard on the street corners and the
like. It is idleness, the sure road to
crime, a fast way to ruin, and but
one remedy and one cure, and that is
for every father and mother to keep
their children busy and keep them
off the streets. A good motto is:
“Keep busy at something useful.”
I asked an old man the other day
who is the richest man in town. “Mr.
Relihan,” he said. How do you make
that, I said. “Because he has raised
a big bunch of industrious boys.”
THE OLD TRAMP.
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Frank baker rode
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in the wake of two ■
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exact psychological mo- U
ment, 1 on succeeding >5 J
days in the world’s ser
ies between the Ath- ik
letics and Giants in
. i'here s a peculiar Randolph Rose
circumstance in tnat
connection too. The first day Marquard
was pitching and Matliewson was writ
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game and giving the inside “dope.” At
least he was supposed to he writing
them. They were written over his name
but he didn’t actually write them.
But in the review that came out over
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About the same time the next after
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had criticised Marquard for —namely he
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Baker duly appreciated and showed his
appreciation by sending the ball a sail
ing for another home run. This one won
the game.
Since then, Baker’s first name has
been "Home Run.”
This year he is with a good team, the
Yankees, after having been out for a
year. Some friends of mine who go to
Maryland for the summer, saw him play
ing last summer with the little team
near his home town. Trappe, Maryland,
and say he had a fine time keeping in
condition by playing with the Rubes.
He's a very democratic fellow', they tell
me. not a bit egotistical, but at the same
time insistent on his rights.
The w’ay he held out a year on Connie
Mack, just to gain his point, shows he’s
that kind of a fellow.
This year Baker is expected to put tho
ball over the fence at the New York
field, which is a peculiarly short field.
I'm told that his ability to make long
drives was taken greatly into considera
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