Life — November 3, 1898 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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«LIFE - The Fly in Amber. A Chance for Guam. HE looks at mo with glances that are fraught EAL necessity exists of a safe home for With all the love that in her pure soul lies; . young American gentlemen who have the And lo! Tam tho little fly that’s caught g vy misfortune to be utterly worthless, Within the glorious amber of her eyes. where they can be maintained at low —_— cost by their relatives, and where they ONLY A ORINK OF WATER. ‘ will bo less apt to get into mischief than 2 it they stayed about home. Thero is 4 always a largo surplus stock of such iads, who have the misfortune Hi Vy z to bo born incapablo or irresponsible; who, while not criminals, Wf VW é “> are so responsive to all misleadings as to keep their friends always MMA ig ly anxious for fear they may do something which will get them into _ - Jail, Tho disposition of them is very perplexing. If there were s only some safo place to send them to, where they could bo cheaply maintained, and could have plenty of food and sunshine, and from which they could not casily got away, it would -help to solve a problem which is extremely harassing to many couselentious persons, They tell us that the island of Guam in tho Pacifle Ocean, about ten thousand miles, more or less, from San Francisco, is a remarkably nice place, salubrious, calm, and very little frequented by ships. There is very little to do there except to enjoy life. Living is cheap; temptations, apparently, aro few. Our flag at present flutters over Guam, How would it suit the good people of that island to go into the business of boarding young Americans who aro guaranteed to be of no present use to our civilization? There ought to be some places on earth where there is a chanco for lads who are not equal to tho strain and the temptations and competitions of civilized lite to find u safe environment, There should be somo places from which rum can bo excluded, and whoro, while the fittest provailed, tho less fit might live out thoir time less miserably than here. ‘Thero is a considerable future ahead for Guam if it will set itself up, with proper references, as a refugo for the unfit. The Higher Heroism. ASEY: Phat? Yez be’s a hero iv th’ war? Phy, yez niver lift home. Hi essy: Thrae, When Oi sce thim all a rushin’ (’ th’ front, eyther fer glory er fer boodle, sez Oi to mesilf, ‘¢ Hionisy, me boy, thrue heroism consists in self-denial. ’Twill be t’ yer honner t' sthay at home an’ lit th’ other fellys reap th’ rewards.” An’ so I sthayed, Reta,