The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-12-17
as his son was about to retire.

there is any God, anyhow Z all seems
like guess-york, and / can't find any
spot 10 begin on :" III
"My dear boy, /" mildly responded the
father, shave you already come to thisl
| had hoped such Affections would be
spared you. But | suppose we must
all 90 through them. Mine came later
in life than yours have come, and it took
me twenty-five years to fight my way
out of them
"WHY, PA" exclaimed the astouish-
ed boy, "did yOe ever have any such
doubts as have7"
"Yes, my son; and had to tread
the tborny path Of unbelief alone, often
with torn and bleeding feet, and with
none to help me- But you shall tread
it with your hand elasped in mine, and
shall have my arm to lean upon when
you are ready to faint, and my sympa.
thy to cheer you when you are tempted
to despair"
The boy sat silent for few moments,
then bowed his face upon bis fathers
knee, and said his evening prayer with
bis fathers hand resting caressingly
upon his head and when he arose and
softly said "Good night, pa, [" the father
knew that that battle had been forever
won.
The unthinking cruelty of parents to
their children is something to excite
amazement as well as indignation. We
have heard parents tell, as though it
were something to be proud of, that
whenever their children got whipped
at school they gave them another whip.
ping at home One dear old deacon of
our acquaintance used to say to his chill
dren's teachers, and chuckle in the
saying of it, fwav7 aEr.ra
d 'Pn find backs if you'll find whips!D
Why, even Solomon would not trust
a rod with such monsters Of parental
cruelty. sa
Another pernicious mistake which
certain class of parents make, is that of
never giving their children any spend
money This mistake is not only
always pernicious but frequently fatal
1t sometimes eats into the very soul of
child and poisons the very issues Of
life, turning sons into thieves and
daughters into worse than thieves. And
this pitable error is also frequently ex-
tended to wives. The chances are that
the heart ofmany a wife is at this very
hour ranking with sense of degrade
tion, because she never has dollar
which she can call her own. Husbands
and parents--unreasoning, unsympa-
thetic, selfish husbands and parents
may think this is small matter; but
they may rest assured that it is a great
matter. and a fundamental one, and
that it in many cases hes right At the
root of their domestic happiness and
the welfare Of their children.
Tie exigencies of space render it
impossible for US to illustrate, or even
to discuss ere,y species OF parental mis-
take which has come under our notice.
Thus far our illustrations have been
drawn from such occurrences as are
common to all. We will now give an
uncommon case, which was communi-
Gated to us by Mr., Kennedy, the Super
intendent of the Metropolitan police
As Mr.. Kennedy was sitting in bis
office at Police Headquartere one day,
at about 1 O'Clock P, M, an elderly
gentleman came in, and in state of
great excitement exclaimed,
GIVE lost my chiId7 want you to
find my child Ny childis gonet She's
fed from her home She's lost !"
Mr.. Kennedy, who knows exactly how
TO manage any case that may come be-
fore him, took the excited gentlemen in
hand, and learned from him the follow
ing facts:
Three years before the gentleman bad
been boarding, with his wife and two
daughters, in fashionable house up
town. At that time the ''child," now
lost, was sixteen years old, and her
sister was twenty-six. Among the
boarders were two Spanish -fsmilies.
These Spanish families had Spanish
visitors The male portion of the Span
ish visitors tooka a great fancy to the
gentlemap's youngest daughter, and
one Of them evidently wanted to marry
her. This filled the girls parents with
horror. "I'd as soon she'd married a
negro" said the father.
Finally, in order to get rid of the
Spaniards, the gentleman wentto house.
keeping; but he had. constantly been
haunted with the fear and the belief
that some of the Spaniards had kept up
communication with his youngest
daughter, and now he knew they had
for his daughter had that very day fed
to Cuba. On pretence that she wanted
some ribbons and collars to wear to a
matinee, at 9 o'clock that afternoon, she
had got her mother to 60 shopping for
her; she had then got her sister into
front chamber, and when a carriage
drove up to the door, at halfpast l / A.
NJ, she had rushed out and locked the
chamber door, run down and had a
man come up and get her trunk, which
was packed, had put on her hat and
mantilla, and as her sister (who had
crawled through window into closet
adjoining the chamber, and thence
made her way down stairs,) appeared
at the front door the girl had exclaimed,
as she entered the carriage, which was
Immediately droveeaway, .t II