The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-02

Do we gather figs of thistles.-IBiblc.l
"Come to the barn with me sir.
I'll learn you to lie to me! I'll tan
your jacket for you sir!
u These words were spoken in my
hearing by an angry father to his boy,
Jim Thorne, who had told him lie.
TIE boy followed his -fatfer: W no,
stopped on the way and cut whip
the size of an ox-goad, and soon the
sound of singing blows was heard
mingled with shrieks and cries which
pierced me like arrows, but which the
mother of the child did not heed, nor
indeed seem to hear.
"Good Heavens!" 1 cried, "Nancy
Thorne,. how can you hear such blows
and such cries, and not stop them or
go mad 2"
He must learn not to lie to his
father" she replied. "He has got to
be such a liar that we can place no de-
pendence on word he says. 1t has
got to be whipped out of him.
Now reader, don't hold up your
hands and say, " Horrible! what cruel
unnatural parents they were!'
They were no such thing; they
were pleasant, agreeable people
enough, honest and upright enough,
as the world goes, and meant to bring
up their children right, and would
have been angry indeed, had any one
said they were harsh or unjust in the
treatment of their children, or that
they taught them to lie.
| When the heating was finished
when Deacon 1horne had demolistra-
/. ted his ispaMcr,-when he as an earth
| ly father had done towards his child
as he imagined his Heavenly Father
Ewould towards him, the law of re-
I, yenge was. satisfied, and he threw
! down the rod and bent his steps home
ward.
tia .Iffelt That il / met him there must
Sitrely. be Il collision, l 1ed to my
chamber, aud threw myself into i
ttiiair ut it!c window that overlooked
itt5e at,oagcli where Jimmys mothei
was Il; ws,iiil.
walci c.l She father as he waIkc7
1 rapidly ,iomn il,e path. There wa,
no s:gn o. !iy o: sorrow on his flushed
a i,tce, i3'ls. Instead. an expression o
81 ii@!!:,j;i = 10, with having done Il good
iced. viH;t.r;Ited his authority. pitE
! she'd ;i:e b,sy for a sin, and set III;
wa,Ward feet in the path OF recti
.tudc,
?En As li.cas:e near his wife he sai;i-
= / guess ] have given him trouncin.
i,that he Wi.l remember one spell
i What in :le world makes tie boy lie
SO? I'm sure / don't know.
| ! listened with strained ears fol-
words Of condemnetion from thu
mother but listened vainly. She oni,
Nv orhcd over her butter tl.e more bus
tiiy.
II i, too, wondered what made tht
boy tell hes he came of good homes
stock as !itr bacl, as could he rcinem
bcretl. iio'ic oi' has race had ever tceE
imprisoned or hanged nouc of th<n
had been remarkable as liars yet jim
would lie !; there. was no question o
that. and was resolved 10 know
r why.
Deacon Thorne shaved, washed All,
combed himself, and heard him asi
his wife fora clean shirt. 1t wa
Saturday, and ! wondered where /.
could be going, and, Yanknq- se
myself to guessing. and, Yankee like
guessed it out. lie belonged 10 til
?, Baptist Chureh, and to-day was .'Coy
enant meeting day. Pretty soon
+, heard him come up Oh the stpop am
say to his wife, " Nancy, it seems +
: me YOU might get your work done II
I $50 as to go to covenant meeting some
times, 1t don't look well for you, an
lplagues me TO have tho brothers an,