American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-08-11
LANcAsTER. OHIO THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST II, $50


nroofs and o,mmeudaiiops arc given. re.
wards and punisbmsnts awarded, Some
times the Boys are called upon to pass
judgment on one or their number, and
though thew are incliped to lean TO Mer-
ov's side. there is evident touching effort
10 ba lust and traeg.e $50 .ssaV
q Eash boy.is fsapkIy conyeised with. in
regard 10 his feelings and conduct during
the day and advised to leave in his diary, /
a record of some fact learned. or tempta.
tion resisted.
After the moral examination. an Elder
Brother reads 10 the boys something sp
propriate to the day's employmepls, OF the
season. explaining wb.teyer may need e8-
PLANTATION, ,-or encourages them to read
aloud stories or poems Of their own seIsc
ton.
i Atninc O'Clock thetei family worship
and then with kindly rood nights aud
cheerful faces, that assembly Of human
waits disnersa to tbs;t bed,
am clad to sen bv Tho Renort that
eorporeal nubisbment has never vet been
resorted to. Solitary confinement for the
worst offences, has tlus far proved a sal.
utary and sufficient corrective. The cul.
prit in confinement ia not lelt to lonely de-
spair or un;nterrunted suIlep broodipcs.
his Elder Rrofbar vis;,s hin, d,;lv and
bv kindlv talk and ranta traa,r,ant str;vas
to convince him that the punishment is not
| an angry return for his evil doing. bu, is
/. Inflicted Reluctantly for his benefit and the
GOOD. order Of the Scboali boss
81 Notwithstanding The consciettious yiei-
: lance of the oficers,escspe from the Farm
is comnaratiyslv eosv and soma foolish
q bows have availe ed thems, Ives of tbe op.
\ nnortunitv 10 steal back ;n,o ,la na4;, and
novartr from which tbev have been rescu.
!. led. An of these have been rstakeh or
/, tb.vs vo,un,.r;,v ,s,ornod ewcon, ona
e On a late visi, 10 ob;o met Mr.
n Charles Psemelin tbe Acting Commits.
' sioner ef the Institution and truly the
II brave. earnest. pbilantbropic. soul of;,be
;. enterprise. Among many interesting an.
ecdotes II the pupils he related one Of a
}. bow. who at one tims thew were about to
,r give up as utterly hopeless and unredeem.
10 ablss' AS near as + can recollec, il WA,
10 as folloSs: utaaa. ,"e
4. The lad was a desperate character who
le had been sent to the Farm # m the Pen
!. ;tent;arv and who nroved sullen obst;na,.
" and uutbankful; On the first obportupi.
M ty, he ran away--was retaken, returned
,e and ran away tbs second time. Again he
=, was caught and brought back, and on at
N t.hntihg to eseape third time Mr. Rsem
an. elm had is nea, Retorm Farm clothes ia
ye ken off him and his old zebraio priso,
of suit put on. Then bringing HIM befor
no. the whole scboo,. ba talked To Him will
IN all the seysrity ofsvbioh Kid, kindly natur
ht is cabable4showed 10 him his epreeiou
ID folly n'thus persisting in running ava,
from comfortable home and friends, t
ID plunge again into want, crime and dan
eylcef. Then pointing to the door, he said.
te I "Go. howayOu are free-we do not wan
nd You any more than you wish TO stay:4 w
" can do nothing with So had a bovl' i,
eit i need hardly shv that the lad not opl
de did not 90. but erptreated 10 be- allowed /
he stay-promiyipp amendment obedience an,
Of contentmept. s.s ,ls
,at ,iWbat shall ws do. tbovsP,, said NJ,
u- Reemelin, appealing to the ether pupils.
lst Now the Young gentleman from III
= Penitentiary, was not fayorite in III
be school he had rendered bihself,no NOR
ps ponular with his fellows than with his 81
of per;ors. yet II was tobobing % see how IN
ais stihot;veIy their hearts softened towar
him in his ,humiliation and distress The
of beleved in his pepitenes md as with on
asa Sn;e. er;oa 5o3 aasa
nd "Trv him araip sirl Giya him ano,r