The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-20
Fathers, Be Kind.

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with eyes of startling wonder and
Ring eyelashes, which started like his
Ike eyes with quick apprehension and
|; a boy who played with all intensity,
linz something all day long without
Ter to rest, walked off alone, and eve
loue spoke with himself, chased the
nth little legs as lean and swift, and
|able eating bis meals could not sit
h nor bear to sit all the morning in
the sermo,., because his heart
Ia rapid in his narrow little chest,
livery rib could be counted against his
hesh and skin. In the morning he
like at the earliest light ; at the eve
\, tired nature yielded to the deep
! exhaustion. His mother feared she
aver raise him to be a man. His
thought he was o long b-co,nng a
gravity, sobriety and formal obedi-
i ais my SOM" the father sternly
HE is rattle headed and without
!. fear for him. DO you chastise
Ingh? Spare not the 10 lest he grows
YOU and you rule'
r. exclaimed the mother, ale has his
|orld we cannot see. perhaps. He is
] and sensitive. The doctor says we
N push him at his studies, but let him
he can, Till his frame is equal to his
Aa,llel shook his head and spoke stern
II boy, and feared he was going to
I'm all trouble growing up so seldom
d and restrained.
sy the little boy was doing something,
! The cat by the tail, carrying the dog
his arm, making pictures on the paper
mes and steamboats, aud Indians and
will be an artist" said his mother,
by. .....u 49,
will spoil the library" exclaimed the
uspici
gonism grew up between the father
born, on the boys part, OF fear; on
er's, OF criticism and severity. The
to his mother and asked her protec-
In his fathers s%uspecting eyes. The
eared his wife was spoillug The o
issken generosity and allo' ance. At
he fathers habitual suspicion broke
Ike clouds above hard, humid Britain,
laid his rigorous books of theology
take lis boy walking, and they grew
bearer. Then again the father OBJ
Fome voluptuous tendency in the son
tqrted his fears anew; some taste for
passing modes and Joys.
b." said he, ''lo you ever give our
uey?:".
ttle,' she said; "a few pennies to buy
i VI terials and %colors; he will be an
thinh.'
Iey," exclaimed the size, sis the root
Nil. You had better give him fire or
He will become a wild, ruined
f."
idea that his wife gave the Child
operated in the fathers head like
or revenge it tinted everything
lis sons conduct, and he believed his
d deliberately set to work to indulge
d at the expense OF his soul.
morning, thinking of such things, the
lay awake in bed and a gentle noise
Jed him. The sun was nearly up,
t was scarcely 5 o'clock, and the
striking through the chamber cur
loweQ a little boy in his night gown
along the floor toward the foot Of his
bed. Lying perfectly still, with his
HOst closed, the father saw that small
child. unable perhaps to sleep, yet
pot to awake his parents, turn an eye
tousness upon his fathers trousers
hanging upon a nail. He glanced
toward his father 10 see if he was
leep, and then swiftly, like "a little
ped upon a chair and ran his lean
pgers into his fathers pocket.
thought the father, ''my son in my
by stealth, before | am awake, and
& the bad example Of my Wife, who
perhaps, searches unauthorizedly
said this a dreadful idea crossed his
That son, spoiled by his mothers i'll
f. already corrupted by spending
was a thiei-a thief whitley yet achild.
in bed and spoke in a voice Of thuu-
ri, you are stealing by MOI el.'
troze the boy; he dropped from The
e a cat, and was into his W bed IN
room and covered b is face with the
Anguish and stern resolve possessed
Nhc fathers stricken heart. He had
TOO long to chastise his wayWard son,
ing into ruin. IL must be done,
pugh the thought should he. H.
pis wife, and suppressed her replies
non will, related the story OF her
child. "hencetorth,] he Said. Il
magistrate and mother instead Of