Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-12-08
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physical growth with hives, thrash and
collie and chicken-pox and whooping cough
and in time advances to scarlet fever and
diphtheria and measles and mumps. Just
40 his emotional nature b8gins with some
thing to make noise-a rattle, horn or
| harp, and later on be rises to a drum and
'ecrackers and torpedoes and toy pistol.
BY and by he develops into music and joins
the village band and toOts the trombone or
the cornet. He wants to ride horse and
play baseball and skate on rollers. When
along in his teens his mind begins to
| triumph over matter and he delights in
marvellous staries and thilling adventures.
He becomes am bilious to excel in oratory
and have the good opinion of the girls. He
| brushes his hair very carefully and ties his
cravat before the glass and commits speech
to memory and makes stndied bow and
| stretches forth his arm and says "On Lin
den when the sun was low" But as he
| natures in age bis mind scars to more
solid and serious aspirations, and we find
him in college trying to master logic and
| rhetoric and Greek and Latin and trigonom-
etry and calculus.
But when he comes with his blushing
honors, what then ?-oh, there is the rub!-
what then? The fun is all over, and he
must go to business. hope he will find it
and go at it bravely. This is an easy world
for children-for most children-but hard
one fol young men who have high ambi-
tion-too high generally for their own suc-
cess. l remarked that people were geuer-
ally kind by nature. / read in your paper
paragraph about poor woman with four
little children pleading with tears to Gov
ernor Gordon for the pardon of her husband,
who was convict. who was afar off from
those he loved, and whose crime was steal
ing nabor's hog. 1t was briefly told, but i
know that every one who read it was
touched in tender spot and wished the
Governor would make the poor, tiriendless
creature happy.
John Riley would know what to do with
that case. The war was just over when
Romulus Pass was indicted for stealing a
hog. He, too, had wife and some little
children and not much else. The case was
clearly proven, but Judge Wright made one
OF his fearful, melting speeches for the do
Tense, and John Riley, who was the FORE
man of the jury, brought in the verdict,
"We, the jury, find that the war left many
of our poor people in miserable and desti-
tute condition, some of them without food
to eat or clothes to wear, whereby their lit
tie innocent children suffered; we, there
fore, find the defendant not guilty" But,
still, we are too much inclined to forget the
person that is injured. If man should
steal my good mare, Molly, I think 1 could
see him digging coal in Joe Browns mines
for good long time. 1t makes big diff
ference. Tom Moore, my nsbor, is one of
the kindest-hearted men I ever knew. He
had but one mule. and his crop was depend
ent on that mules work. Some heartless
rascal came along one night and stole him
Al hat tho CT Of L.
day some prisoners broke Jail in our town,
and one Of them ran by Tom Moore with
the Sheriff close at hand. Tom was natu-
rally on the prisoners side, and Was will
ing for him to escape but when the sheriff
cried out, "Catch him, Moore, cate him.
He is a hOrs thief" Moore dropped eve-
rything and made for him and grabbed
him and held on and tussled and strug-
gled until the sheriff came up. Moore
says that when the sheriff said he was a
horse thief all pity was gone and he felt
like he could have held the Stone noun
tain. 1t makes big difference, it does.-
That prison congress was good thing, aud
read all their speeches with deep interest.
They were kind aud full of humanity, but
could not help thinking that perhaps not
one of those men had ever suffered in prop
erty or in person from the crimes of bad
men. Dr tucker MADE the pest speech OF
all. 1t was solid as a rock and founded on
truth an facts, and the time will come when
punishment will be fitted to the offender as
well as to the offense. What is punishment
to one man is not punishment to another.
1t is just so in our families-and in our
schools. A reProof is as effectual to one
child as a whipping is to another The
judge should have latitude-plenty of lati-
tude in awarding sentence upon criminals.
Our little musical soiree had happy end
ing, and after returning thanks, we separa-
ted in peace aud good will We did not
have s.ance, for Solomon says there is
Tina to dance and this was not the time,
but we did have some frgt-rate dancing
music, and as it came forth in lively salta-
tory waves, noticed cur preachers foot
moving up and down with saltatory pat,
and he looked calm and serene.
RITT ARP