Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-23
TRIAL AND A LESSON.

There is a pathetic and suggestive
story connected with a recent arrest, in
one of the Eastern States. The crimi-
nal was q young man, but two years
marri.d-his offence was participation
in one Of the recent heavy bond robber-
ies-but the most touching and dis
tressful part of the affair was the pres
ence in Court of his young and devoted
but almost distracted wife. When the
trial was over, and her husband's.gu gull
was proved beyond all question, she
tainted away and was taken to the house
of one of the spectators, for she was
among strangers. 1t was several days
before she recovered sufficiently to be
sen. to her friends, and inthe meantime
her geuerou. protectors feared little by
little, and With great reluctance on her
part, this much Of her story: She was
one of three daughters Of a highly re-
spectacle man in prosperous circum-
stances, her two sisters being much
Younger than herself. Her mother was
| living and was held in considerable es-
TEEN by the people in the village where
they had all lived. While she could
not complain that they treated her with
anything like positive cruelty, they had
| nevertheless made her home unbeara-
BILE to her. They had been fond of her
in her childhood, but when she grew
| up to be a woman their whole treat
ment Of her changed. While they did
not say they were tired Of her, the bear
ing of her father was such as to init
mate that she was a burden on him, al
though he was fully able to support her,
and that he clearly wished her to be
married and off his hands. What no
gave her towards her support was given
grudgingly, SO as to make her feel her
dependence keeuly, and her mother also
fell into the same humors. The poor
girl saw that she no longer possessed
the kind protection and affection Of her
parents, and felt that she was considered
a burden for life. She was therefore
tempted into an %imprudent marriage.
She took up with an acquaintance that
she met-uot At her home, or the home
of her friends. but at u public assembly,
and whose true character she had but
little chance to learn. She only saw
aud felt that he offered her the love and
sympathy and compauiouship she had
lost. The sequel was the scene in court
on the day of her husbands conviction
and the destruction Of her happiness for
life. 50
This is no uncommon occurrence.
| The chief difference between this and
and thousands Of other cases is, that
accident has mado this one public.
Now, the lesson here furnished to pa
rents is, that if theylwould be happy in
the happiness of their children they
must make their homes pleasant aud at
| tractiye. The love and cheerful sup
port that is bestowed 30 heartily in
childhood should be continued through
life without reference to the age of the
child. The father who is able to sup
port a grown-up daughter, and who con-
s,antly gives her cause to feel herself
| to be an unwelcome burden, wounding
her feelings by haunting her with her
dependent condition, violates a most
sacred duty. On the contrary, be should
| mako her understand that it is his pleas
ure 10 him to contribute to her hsppi-
ness in every way; and that her comfort,
her welfare, her interests and her socie-
,y are a delight to him. The forgesful-
ness of this plain duty is a cause Of
much uudutifulness in children and a
source Of many i%mprudent marriages;
vet it is but one Of the scores Of in-
stances in which the fault Of the parent
gives rise to the faults Of the child,
and the subsequent unhappiness ofboth.
Parents should all remember that they
are responsible for their children being
here at all, aud a sense Of this response
bility should iupel Thorn to continue
their sympathy throughout life, and
their cordial support so long as they are
able to extend it or it is needed BY their
children.