The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-01-26

Miss Edie Hawk, in a recent letter from
Washington City, describes Mrs. Cleve
land as being not only very beautiful, but
excessively lovely, having a pleasant way
that causes those who get to take her by
the hand to remember with pleasure.
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The theatrical troupe that stopped here
last week did a little free advertising in
Portsmouth by one of them, F. L. Adams
knocking another, G. III. Hamilton
through plate glass window, with his
fist. So says the Tribune. And the eye
was somewhat damaged on arrival here
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Among some of the cases open to criti-
cism regarding the drawing of pensions
is one told by Mr.. John L. Jones, the At
torney, concerning soldier whose ac
quaintance he formed during the war
The man was never known to be in but
one fight. When the Johnnies opened on
the Union lines on that day, this soldier
speed and earnestness-but when he got
back, he found q lime of Rebels there too
Then he turned back and dived into the
fight, and at the close of the engagement
the officers conaaozinae7ated him ON his
bracery! But he gets his pension.
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Ben. c. Ridgeway, of Wellston, in COM
pany with his wife, called on this paper
on last Thursday. Among hundreds of
people calling at different times, Ben. is
always welcomed with a little racing of
memory back through the years If
Jackson County has more thorough
ideal of a successful American boy than
Ben. we do not know him. We knew
him as poor boy playing about the
streets of Jackson, amid all the tempta-
tions surrounding young boys. Yet these
could not lay hold upon his character
He rose above his circumstances, and
early took to the path of industry and
true manhood, following it up until to-
day no man stands higher in the estima-
tion of his fellow-citizens. A moral man,
a thoroughly upright man, successful
man, warm-hearted friend, a stalwart
Republican. Could there be d stronger
combination?
The ground has been taken in these col
umns that parents ought not to be held
responsible for the bad lives of their chill
dren after the latter have left the pater-
nal roof, and reference was made to par
ticular case in point. Just now case oc-
ours to mind representing the other side.
1t seems to be a great deal easier for a
boy to fall from good life into bad
one, than to rise from bad life into a
good one. In both cases he has the world
and all its proneness to sin to contend
with, and it certainly is much harder for
boy to overcome evil when started by
his parents in the wrong direction. We
could give many cases where parents who
were noted for being most horrible repro
bates raised boys who proved to be good
religious men-or rather the boys raised
themselves-but this case was one in
which the parents started the child wrong,
deliberately. A quarter of century or
so ago, there was seen toddling about the
streets of Jackson little fellow, in dress
es. Crowds of loafers on the streets
would stop him to hear him try to talk.
The first two or three words taught him
by his parents were terribly obscene and
profane. The parents encouraged him
and the world laughed at him. Unfor-
tunately he was never thrown in the way
of better influences, and to make long
story short. he is now in the State Prison
serving out a term for killing fellow
man. This is given as an indication of
the danger of starting child wrong. 1t
is certainly the duty of parents to teach
rather than vice. Some
times the child raised under righteous
teaching falls, but how much sadder it is
when through the evil dispositions of par
ents, children are never permitted to get
a right start.