The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-12

surrounding the words, 'In token of the alb
horrence and shame cast on the character of
our nation for manliness and hospitality by the
assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish
under Secretary Burke
The paper has an article saying: Despair
is hardly the word to describe the first sensa-
ton with which we saw the prize won by
years of suffering shipwrecked in moment of
victory by mad and desperate hand.''
FOR FEAR OF SUSPECTS.
Dublin, May II.-At meeting Of the Par
nell reception committee at Cork, last even
ing two ex-suspects being among those pres
ent, abandonment of illumination to celebrate
the release OF the imprisoned members of
parliament was voted without a dissenting
voice.
A CHIEF JUSTICE THREATENED.
Dublin, May II.-It is stated that Hon.
Michael Morris, lord chief justice of the court
OF common pleas, and right Honorable
Charles Barre, fourth clerk of the court of the
queens bench, were walking in Phoenix park
on Saturday, few minutes after the murders
were committed, and before they knew of
them, when rough looking man said to the
lord Chief justice ''The clerk and under
SECRETARY have been murdered, and you are
the next man spotted" Justice Morris be-
lieved at the time that the man was a lunatc,
but he has since been absent from the court,
and t is thought he has gone to England.
An Ex-Teacher on Corporal Punishment.
Editor EVENING LIGHT, San Antonio:
We have watched with interest the contro-
versy in the LIGHT on the subject of corporal
punishment in the public schools, and are glad
Of the triumph of what we consider the right.
Besides the evil feelings that such system
always engenders, it is not just that one man
or woman should whip another's child, and
its advocates always select other peoples chill
dren as the ones who need the lashing. The
loose parental rule, or rather the absence of
any parental rule at all, seems to make it an
absolute necessity in many cases, yet the ju-
dicious and conscientious teacher will exhaust
| every other means to bring an insubordinate
| to submission before he will resort to the
lash, and even then he should appeal to
| the parent. Should the parent refuse or fail
| to bring the unruly child to submission to
| rules of school, he should be summarily dis
| missed.
Many teachers q had better say lesson
hearers), often adopt system of manage
ment contrary to their own best judgment,
merely to satisfy the within of some fogy pa
iron or community. Such teacher Qesson-
hearer) had better be engaged in the tending
| of kline and the tossing Of clover" than max
| ing himself the foot ball 10 be kicked about
| by set of clowns and ignoramuses. In the
country we often hear such as this:
THAT man whips 'em big and little
alike; he's the man for US. l tell you he
makes m walk chalk line. He's the teacher
for US" And, to our shame let it be said,
we have communities in Texas whose beau
| ideal of teacher is the one who ''makes IN
walk chalk lne" whether he is able to
analyze an English sentence or solve an equa-
| ton. Often times having to be both parent
and instructor, necessitates action on his part
that is repugnant to his higher nature. Some
do not pay half the attention to the culture of
| their children that they do to their stock, and,
yet, if those children receive correction in
| school it raises war cry Immediately, at the
same time they could point out somebody
else's who needed it. Notwithstanding Solo
mons "spare the rod and spoil the child"
we believe the rule Of the rod to be malad-
ministration in the family as well as the
school. The wise man evidently meant COR
rechon, Or if literally the lash, it only applies
to those cases where all gentle means fail.
Children are sentient, reasoning beings as
others, and the application of the lash for
| every childish error. instead of refining their
natures, only develops the brutal instincts.
Continue the crusade against this relic of bar
barty, till the gospel of peace shall supercede
the gospel of hate throughout our whole Sun
| set land. EX-TEACHER.
Devine, Texas.