The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-03-15

thatnot oneof his family oaa .bccallod
q drope, The third aud larger family
is known AZ the Ga Sahoga Family,
pQder care Of Eldcr Brother ]. G.
Cofee -this family report for the past
year as follows:
Whole numleI iniianhy during lle Ns.-......us
Number receivod..... o.
Disohstsse -,.- 2t
Transielrel.to other hinlp y
Eses PED ..... ~ . -. '''...''''.''
Nufnoef now '-'' - ;'-.O 70
10 speaking Of the desire manifested
By the boysto loarn, lie says their cry
is, II want To learn towrite and cy-
pher" The fourth family, called tho
Union Family, is in charge Of Elder
Brother Q. Willard Ainsworth. TDis
family numbers IS boys, ranging in
years from eight to eighteen. 2 "a e
In illustrating the high senscof hons
or and truthfulncss prevailing in his
family hc gives me the ,iollOwing:-t
One evening after the family bad ro-
tired to rest, and | had retired to my
room, / was aroused from my writing
by gentle tap, but could not discover
the source. Again Lsheard it, and on
taking the light and going 70 the dor
mitory ! found little fellow sitting
tupin his bed weeping As r ap.
preached him he took mo by the band,
saying: Brother Ainsworth, 1 told
you lie to-day, and cannot sleep
without asking your forgigeness.,'---
Connected with each Of these families
large Sabbath school classes have been
instituted, and bayc been productive
of the best results. phese four, may
I say happy famiIics, forithey surely
deserve such.a a title, are all 5presided
over by a Chief Elder, Brother Q. j.
Shumpay, whose duty it is to attend to
the general indoor and outdoor man
agement of these families especially
the farming intcrests of the school q.
The head of the school isycstcd in
an Acting Commissioner, appointed by
the Governor, with the advice and
consent Of the Senate, who, with two
advisory Commissioners, assisted in
the same manner. direct the general
management. Mr., Howe, OF Lancaster,
Is now, and has been for u number OF
years, tho Acting Commissioners. l
1but repeat u general opinion, one con!
Cured in by all late Iegislatures,
when say that Howe IS the right man
in the right place, He undoubtedly
knows .hOwto. manage the institution.
To his mild but persistent efforts the
State Of Ohio is mainly indebtedfor a.
model Reform School So much 50
that two other States have patterned
after his planSof operation. After an
acquaintance with bin and his estima-
bic lady--or mother Howe, as the boys
teall her-together with an, explana.
ton of his system Of control, the COM
mit.ees were enabled to see how the
school was conducted without guards,
walls, &c. 20 x n !; 0l*s - Il -.
i Mother Howe is the matron, and. is
indeed a mother to these almost friend
less boys. Many of them have never
known what it was to receive a moth
: er's caresses or attentions: Few Of
your city ladies arc aware of the i'm
mense good that many of their sisters
are accomplishing in the Christ-like
work Of making humanity better. 1t
is comparatively easy to do good to
the needy in the city, where many la
! dies can meet together and have mu-
tual assistance, and the enjoyment of
, each others society. But here Mother
> Howe lives almost separated from fe
i male society, with scarcely q moments
time in which TO have any of the
r worlds so. called pleasures-engaged
in assisting he- husband and his as
, sistants in engraving truth and
righteousness on the hearts Of these
crring boys. Some may think a lib.
eral salary may be the animus of all
, this. Not at all. Commissioner Howe
t and his lady receive only twelve hum
dred year. 1t is. labor OF love,
hence productive of SO much good.