Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-01-05

tinualy finding fault 1t is at times neces
sary to censure aud to punish. But very
much may be done by encouraging children
when they do well. Be ever more careful
TO express your appreciation of good con-
duct than dis appreciation of bad. Nothing
eau more discourage a child than a spirit oil
incessani fault finding on the part of its pa.
rents. And hardly any thing can exert a
more injurious influence upon the DISPOSE
ton both of the parent and child
There are two motives influencing human
action hope and fear. But who would not
prefer to have her child influenced to good
conduct by the desire Of pleasing, rather
than by the fear of offending If mother
never express her qualification when her
children do well, and is always censuring
when she sees any thing amiss, they are dis
Outraged and unhappy. They feel that
there is no use in trying to please. Their
dispositions become hardened and soured
by this ceaseless fretting. At last finding
that, whether they do well or i'll, they are
equally found fault with, they reinquish all
efforts to please, and become needless of re-
proaches.
But let mother approve of child's con-
duct whenever she can. Let her show that
his good behavior makes her sincerely hap
py Let her reward him for his effort to
please by smiles and affection In this way
she will cherish in her child's heart some of
the noblest and most desirable feeling of our
nature. She will cultivate in him an anna
Bile disposition and cheerful spirit.
Your child has been during the day very
good and obedient Just before putting
him to sleep for the night you take his
hand and say, My son, you have been 4
good boy to-day. 1t makes me very happy
to see you so kind and obedient. God
loves little children who are duiiiu TO their
parents, aud he promises to make them hap
py." This appreciation from his mother is
TO HIM a great reward. And when with
more than ordinary afTectiouate tones you
say, Good night my dear SON." he leaves
the room with his little heart full of
feeling, and when he closes his eyes for
sleep, he is happy, and resolves that he will
try to do his duty.-Notho at Home
Horrible Case of Poisoning sis
tiers, named Fanny Weir, Mary Weir, and
Mrs Diana Lander, were yesterday brought
before the Police Court, charged with adj
ministerng a portion of the oil Of tansy to
a child four weeks old, with the intent 10
kill it. The prisoners are all young, and
appear like any thing but such as the grave
charge, proved, would show them to be-
The facts as they came out i'll the examina-
ton of the witnesses for the prosecution,
and as we gather from other sources, APP
pears to be as follows The child is said
TO belong to the husband Of the last named
prisoner. Its mother, young girl, testi-
fed that on Monday, the prisoner came to
her boarding house, and she carried her
child to the room where they we're. She
left it with Fanny while she went out TO
get some milk for it, and was gone not more
than two minutes. When she returned,
3 Fanny offered to feed it, and was loath to
give it up to her But the mother took it,
and soon perceived that it appeared sick.
She asked Fanny if she had given il any
thing. She repled-"Nothing but little
peppermint" aud one of them produced
phial, which she put in her pocket 1t APP
peared that the child was Immediately sci
zed with violent commissions aud spasms,
and vomiled and frothed at the mouth
Others came into the room, and one witness
told prisoners that she believed they had
given it tanzy to poison it. 70 which Fan [
ny replied that "it was none of her deyilish /
business" and said that what she had Civ
ell it would not hurt it, as she took it her |
self every day. And when she was arrested, /
Fanny produced a phial containing what /
she said was the stuff she had given the I
child. 1t appeared TO be preparation hav-
ing the smell of Tansey. She told the Off
Ger that she did not think the child would
live, and she hoped it would not. The |
child remains in very critical state, and |
its recovery is doubtful as the physician tes-
tilted These facts were all admitted by
the prisoners counsel.
The examination was not closed yester-
day.-Lo,oeH Adpertiscr.
Shocking Deprdrity- human ma
ture is indeed fallen The Rev. ii. c. Tay-
Tor, editor of the Oberlin Evangelist, was
on Friday last committed in the Jail Of 10
rain county on charge of stealing money
at different times and in various sums ia
all supposed to amount to large sum-
lie stole it from the Evangelist Office, and
the Oberlin Post office, in both of which
he has been Clerk He is also charged
with seducing girl in his family.
We learn that since his arrest he fully
confessed all the crimes and enormities
charged, and was required by Justice Birch,
of Elyra, TO give bail for trial in the sum of
1000, in default of which he is now in Jail
1t is stated that the sanctimonious hyp- ,
ocrite preached "A moral reform sermon on {
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