Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-08
Boston Store.
OUR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS.
A QUESTION OF GREATER IMPORT
kNCE THAN STOCK RAISING.

Father Paxton's Story-A Point from Her.
Parents Responsibility to Children-The
Eiases of Children's Minds.
Old Father Paxton used to tell this story
with great glee 1t was in Egypt" and
forty years ago He was then busy estab-
fishing Sunday schools in those sections OF
Illinois and Missouri that were from their
peculiar stage Of CIVILIZATION, famed as
EGYPT" and the Pike Country" 1t was far
from a common desire that schools of any
sort should be founded. o. one settlement
he had been forewarned to expect failure.
The king bee of the town had sworn that
nothing of the kind would be tolerated. lie
lived on a knoll in the only whitewashed log
house in that section. Paxton rode up, and,
seeing his rival sitting straddIe of Il log IN
front of his mansion eating peaches, he
straddled the log on the other side of the
basket and joined in. How do, stranger!
lite in and welcomed was, of course, the
southern style of greeting. conversation
sprung up easily about weather, crops and
the kedntry il general. That's fine lot of
hogs over there" said Paxton. Fine, stran-
CERT You might say it, as fine as this kedn-
try holds" How many mout there be!'
''There mout be sixty there, stranger, and
nary one that isn't a rooster"
COUNTING HIS PROGENY.
Just then little chap ran up and seized
pouch Il say" said Paxton, ''be that chill
der yoursr yes, stranger, it be-" And
how many mout you be after having"
GLOW many? How many childrens Well,
stranger, there's where you be after having
me, but I'll count up and see" Calling his
woman to the door, he ordered her TO count
while he named them off Finding that diff
cult, he changed the plan and did the count
ing himself, while she did the names. IL
turned out that there were sixteen. Now
was PaxtoD'S chance. "An unnaterally fine
lot of EN-, too" he said; 'but, strange, it
seems to me there's something wrong about
it." whats thatW cried the old boss,
"Why, when | axed you how many hogs you
had, you told me right off sixty-three; but
when | axed you how many childer you
had, you couldn't tell without both of We
countin'. Pears to me you reckon more on
your hogs round here than you do on your
children Il swan to Jericho, stranger, eff
that amt square hit; and hold you must
be the Sunday school man Give US your
han. Go ahead; open next Sunday, and my
Sal and her sixteen viii all be there suren
| suppose if this story were told to be ap
piled TO the average citizen of an average or
even cultured community it would be re-
sented. Yet Herbert Spencer does not hest
tate TO say: Without calling in question the
great Importance of horse training and pig
feeding, we would suggest that, as the rear
ing of full grown men and women is also of
some moment, the conclusions indicated by
theory and Endorsed by practice ought to be
acted on in the last case as in the first" 1t
will hardly bear q challenge that there Is no
live thing about the novels of the land that
secures so little directive culture as child
1t comes up by kick and cuff and imitation.
BEGINNING OF EDUCATION.
The fact is the most important end of edu-