The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-22
A Singular Confession.

Prsf. Schultz has written a confession
OF Ihe burning of the pavilion at Ter.
raceSprings, Napa. After saying he
set TO to the building to obtain the in
suraIce, $3.50, he says:
"low, who could do such deed
sucha wrong deed' one who has al
read reached the evening of life, proba-
bly, pt distant far from the very hour
whe night completely and oever
shrpds the earthly form-one who thus
durlg almost three score years has
nevG been .-,cused OF any act offensive
TO tie lawp How could do such deed
one Fho from the early days Of student
life Readily walked in the paths of sell
encd literature and even art, the itera-
tu,ebf oil nations, ancient and modern,
the ternacual Of which he practically
knots and speaksp How could do such
a dad one with such attainments. such
culttre-one wNo ever since he in the
tog Pf battle had torn from him limb,
rettnable to mother earth, when be-
Longing to medical staff some twenty
six years ago. who ever since, say,
became an able lecturer, a most able in
structOr, and as such active aud success
lul, moro than twenty years in the pri-
vate high schools of this State, such as
the old College of California, (now the
Department Of Letters in the State Uni
verdty,) the defunct Female College Of
the Pacific, the Mills Seminary, etc,
and during his residence in this town,
In the Collegiate Institute, the Ladies
Seminary, and Oak Mound Academy.
(Alas! that instead of myself another
were to state all this as has in the past
been done, when, indeed, not needed;
my seemingly, and under ali other cir
cumstanccs truly immodest self.lauding,
admitting OF no other tpology but my
being confined behind prison bars, lone
and severed from friends and the world
no one having as vet been able TO raj &C
voice in nv beha!f.) How then, in fine,
could do that wrongful deed one who
was always known-latest in this very
town-to be q man exemplary in hi,
habit, religious even, In harmony, how.
ever, with the advanced and enlightened
convictions of the times an ever faithful
husband, good and solictous father
who purest happiness found at home
alpne one punctual in his professional
dn'ies, ever industrious and persevcring
affable and honest in all his dealings.
How thenP How in the name of all
that's good and truep How cou'd such
Gone do such dced' A deed most
wrong and most cc"demnable! What
could make it possible, not axcusable
Despair! Despair Despair unuitcra.
BILE! Despair unknown! Despair not
fully understood even by his own fam.
ily | recoiled, wronglully
recoilcd, and as wrongfuly conceived
that by rich insurance company The
loss of a few hundred dollars would not
be felt can. The condemnable Il ed
was done. Yet when the flames sur
rounded the massive structure. although
unoccupicd and uninhabited, when the
flames chased darkness, illumining ky
and distant horizon all around, pangS
of conscience almost overpowered me.
| fastened from the scene. On the fol
lowing day had to, and did, publicly
diate, not with my usual enthusiasm in.
deed, on "Beaulies of MOdtrh Litera-
ture," English, German, French, Span
ish and Italian. comparatively with these
in the language OF the ancicnts. To-
day, in the solitude Of my barred cell, |
iuwardly dilatc on the prospective hor-
ror and privalons. OF state prison,
with sufferings heightened by the cease.
less pangs of bitlerest romorse. Sic
Semper jus,itia! Yet might not, with
general weighty condcmnalion,onc wee,
light grain OF pity minglcP'-San Ffan
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