The Lincoln County herald., 1873-04-30
ind Of Cain had not vet given way.

taiuiy was preparing 10 n0iuNnat positiOn
Adam, his father, was created for Q pur.
pose. Like Minerva, he sprang into life
full grown; therefore We may safely con-
slider him as the 6rst human creature. he
certainly vas not the frst man. For
how can one ke q man who never was q
child?
Here we have smother argument in
favor Of Cain. Besides having no bad
boys to pattern after, he vas under the
constant direction of his parents, who
certainly, if only from an instinct Of
self.preservatiou, would have trained him
never to be passionate or cruel, when 10
his right mind. To be sure they labored
under peculiar disadvantage. Herbert
Spencer himself, coming into the world
booted aud spurred, with no childhood to
look back upon, might have been at loss
how to manage the 6,st boy. We must
never forget that there vas time when
instinct and reflex action had the start of
the doctrine Of precedent and law Of con.
sequences when the original II told
you sol" had yet to be uttered. Even
the warning example of Cain was denied
to the moral advancing OF this FIRST boy.
Still the situation had its advantages.
There we're no fond uncles and aunts, no
doting grand parents to spoil the child
and confound the best endeavors Of Adam
and Eve. Fortunately for the boy, poor
Richards Almanac was yet unwrittcn {;
George Washington's little Ratchet was
never brandt. he'd before his infant mind /;
and Casabianca had net yet struck bis
attitude on the burning deck. So young
Cain was spared host Of discourag.
ing influences. In short there is every
reason to believe that, 10 spite of depress.
ing conditions and surroundings, be
grew up to be at least better man than
his father, who never had any bringing up
at all. That be did not kill Abel IN his
boy hood is proof enough Of this. There
was discipline somewhere.
And in the name Of developed science
and Christian charity why not, in con
siderlng subsequent events, make due
allowance for whatever phreuo' 'ogicul ex
cesses the Uranium Of young Cain may
have possessed? An intelligent father Of
to day, fgurstively speaking, can take his
child's head by the forelock. He can
detect what is within it, aud counteract
proclivites. If an ominous bump rise
near his baby's ear, he is ready TO check
CON bativeness with "Mary had . little
lamb" "Children, you should never let,
and other tender ditties. In word, he
may take observations from the little
mounts Of character on his childs head
and so, if he be wise, direct the youue
life into safe snd pleasant places. Bu
; Adam knew nothing Of pbrenology
Nor have we great reason to believe that
if he had known of it, he would have
discreetly followed its inclinations. Ch,l
dren are not always cherubs. We al
know how the dearest Of our little oue'
sometimes become SO "aggravating as
E to upset our highest PHILOSOPHERS. Was
Adam more than human? Say, rather
he was the fountain head and source o
T human passion.
Again both children were the victims
of abiding privatiou. They had the nat
ural propensities of childhood. They
had teeth, stomach, AQpe,ite-all thu
conditions, we will say, Of cholera infan
tum-except the one thing for which
they secretly granddaughter apples
. These of course we're not to be had il
J that house. They we're not even allowed
10 mentioned in the family. Not once il
ALI their lonely childhood were those
children comforted with apples. Thnl
r Of the possibilities OF inherited appetite
and then conceive of the effect OF thes'
/ years of unnatural privation !
, Again, Who shall question that at time
i the deepest aud most mysterious gloon
pervaded that household? Even If Adam
1 and Eve did not con6de iu their chill
' dren, their Oldest boy must have sus
/ pec,ed that something vas wrong
. What ,cus IL the terrible something +
be read, end yet not read, iu the averte
4 faces Of that doomed pair2 They ev1
8 IDENTIFY had seen bettev days. Where
Why? HowY What had become q
some vague inheritance that Cain fel
was bic by sighs2 Morning, noon, an
a night, misty and terrible suspicion
4 haunted his young mind. Night an
q noon aud morning, the mystery revosve
a and pesolved within him. Was this COZ
y ducivc to sanity?
Conceive Of the effect OF the animal
o seen 10 the children's daily walks
There we're no we'll ordered menageri
z specimens, then, with BasnNm Or Va
!. A Anburgh IN the background a. fo
Q against terror. Savage beasts glared an
!. growled end roared Al every tusr
!. Whateses geoiogists may say ~ the con
2 wary, we must insist that the Antedisuvia
|. animals cid not necessarily anaeda'
d Adam. Eating the mildest possible vie
d Of the case, the plssiossurus ptesodacsy
). mastodos end megatbesium, 10 ahs
o native state, souid noe have been sooshiO
}. objects u contemplation 70 che irfss
. minau
o We'll. che boys grew up. But ho'
Is bleak theiv young manhood ! No Pateu
y leather boots, no swallow tailed coats. q
J. stan uding- collars. no billiards, 80 gl'is
4 w,o m fellovs 10 Houtl Nothiua to d