Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-10-18
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ana Otnef devices.
"He had tendency at ore time to run to
| the papers good deal and got too fond of
our coarse American yOumOr, thought, and
| so punished him so severely that didn't
! know but he would get mad and leave the
home nest, but he controlled himself and is
| still with US. He Is large, strong man
now and ort to rustic for his daily bread,
but he shudders when mention his going
| away from the old roof-tree, as he calls it.
He quit re ading the course American you
| NOR in the pipers when punished him, but
| broke out IL a new spot, l find, for two weeks
| ago dropped on his game. He has been
| doing good deal of job work of and on all
| winter, and sending off a lot of mail and
| getting good deal, too, I thought, but till
| last week did not know what he was at.
| now find that he has compiled a little book
of two hundred pages and printed it him
self, and he is sending it allover the. country
broadcast for fifty cents and postage. It is
| a book which is made up Of the broadcast
! youmor and anedotes from the Old Tesla
| ment, and he has had the gall to dedicate it
| to A. Comstock, Of your town.
at honestly would make your hair stand
| up on end to read it, for it has been put to-
| gether with dyabollykle skill and yet the
| law can't touch him. He is reaplng rich
harvest and taking his meals in the homo
nest. What shall do! He threatens to
buy two more jop presses and get his
| mother and me to jerk 'em on this book
What would be your advIce!"
You must refuse to accede to his demands.
| Both of you must be firm and tell him that
you will not kick jobber under these cir
| cumstances. You have made several mis-
| takes, perhaps, but it is not yet too late.
You have come at last to the place where
you should have come at first. Tell him
| that rather than submit to his demands you
would run away and leave him. Do not say
| it in saucy or impudent way, but tell him
| firmly that you can not do so and then await
the result. Probably your first error was
| in believing that God is irritated when He
finds that parents are too fond Of their chill
dren, and that He thereupon takes case Of
Group to that house and chOkes those chill
dren to death, so that He can have con-
| trolling interest in the whole affection bust
ness.
Humor is luxury and yet it is a necessi-
| ty. Every body is permitted to use his own
taste and discretion in selecting his style Of
humor, but you can rest assured he is going
to have it in some form or other. Humor,
like religion, needs publication, and all is
not humor that calls itself so; but whether
it be in music, in art, in literature, ON the
stage or in the pulpit, it is doing more in q
good-natured way toward disfiguring the
features Of error and fraud than many
more rpretentious agencies. In the first
place, it has a bigger audience. In the Sec
ond place, it has good-natured audience.
in the third place, you can laugh stub
born man out Of folly when you can not
knock him out of it.
You can ridicule him out of it when you
can not preach him out OF it or pray him out
of it, Therefore let purified and exalted
humor keep the sinner good-natured while
it makes folly appear foolish and paves the
way for what is more profound. In the
meantime. P. g., be firm with your son.
Tell him firmly that rather than to give up
to him, you and your wife will run away
from the old rOOf-tree and never, never
come back again. Try at the same time to
avoid fixing your affections so firmly on
your sou that it may be thrown up to you
through all eternity.
The book you alluded to is q singular pub.
LEGATION, indeed, and shows that your son
has certain kind Of genius. 1t is sort
of genius, however, which, finding itself
hemmed in by your harsh and inflexible
rules, has taken such materials as it found
ana mas SOuSnt W ueilZo tucm. =" naI yVu
call the broad humor and anecdote of the
Old Testament are matters which I would
rather not criticise. Having published sew
eral books myself, have made it rule
never to criticise other authors.
Your son has not gone into this work in
the right spirit. evidently, but the con-
summate genius with which he has evaded
the law and the payment of royalty to the
author is worthy of General Jaw Gould or
Colonel Satan.-Biu Nys, ia. ". y World.