Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-15

erty owners in the suburbs may ripen
their fruit and raise flowers IN peace
with a wire or two strung along the
fence connected with a battery. The
first urchin who dared essay hooking
fruit would have tale to tell which
would make the rest honest. Indeed,
electricity draws my admiration as
great moral agent from the variety OF
crime il will render questionable.
A very saddening letter comes from
western village, sad with its betrayal of
a life, physically wrecked through utter
Ignorance of the laws of bringing up
clever children. The writer was nat
urally child of nervous, exc1table, IN
tellectuaI sort, very quick to learn,
praised by everyone, and being sensitive
and fond of praise, this spurred MIN on
TO greatest efforts. At four ana nVe
wears old he was put up to speak III
church at Sunday school concerts doupt-
less. and always was selected when reel
tations were to be MADE. me
story cannot be better told than
in words of the penciled letter, held
by a hand too nervous to shape the Woros
clearly, Everybody said would make
my mark some day. In early youth
read the lives of Daniel Webster, Henry
CLAW, Abraham Lincoln and Garneld.
These made me wild with ambltlan.
resolved to become a lawyer and great
orator. NV father was farmer, ana
had to work very hard, very early, ana
at night | would stay up late ana read
and study, and dream of the future MY
father promised to send me to college II
l did not want to be farmer; lndeeo'
he himself thought 1 ought to be some
DIT n
work as hard as possibly could.
At sixteen, the face of the boy, over
done bodily and mentally, broke out IN
pimples and sores, he grew languld anu
tired, ''And they all the time told me,
he SAYS ''that was more good when
was Younger. Still and all the rest
thonrbt I was well and paid no atten-
ton to nv health till l was eighteen,
when l used to get pains near the heart
when exercising and very weak spells,
which the doctor said was all my stom-
| ach had an enormous appetite, and
| ALWAYS was great coffee drinker. That
| year doctored with three physl-
c1ans. but they did not do me
| much good. and my health was
RAPIDLY breaking down. became very
| melancholy. The winter l was nineteen
was the time set for me to go to college,
and though 1 was very poorly L was de-
termined to go, hoping my health Woulo
| get better. | went, and my nervous sys-
| tenn broke down completely. L could not
| sleep nor digest, and became so melan-
| choly nearly despaired, and at the END
| Of nv first term the doctor ordered me to
| on home. It is nearly two years
since went to college. Since then have
zone through the greatest spells of melan-
| choly, at times unable to sleep, with all
| sorts of noises in my ears, ana II nave
| the least anxiety or cannot decide at once
which of two things to do, 1t nearly
| throws me off my balance. The biood
rushes to my head, my stomach sinks anC
| fills with gas, and cannot sleep nor dl-
pest The inability to decide on an &C.
| cupatlon in such health has been great
| source of worry. am extremely irrita-
| hle and the noises and din of young
child is very poison to me. am all the
time craving something to eat or drink
-, and follows a recital of the worst
horrors of dyspepsia, when neither milk
fruit or water can be taken without fer
mentation. nausea and acute distress
sleeplessness and restlessness, all. the
Gehenna which poor Carlyle suffered from
the same cause and regimen.
| think no one who has tried to take
intelligent care of youth can read thu
without intense pity. 1t is the story o
hundreds and thousands who are origin
ally the best material of our citizens
The wrong is partly moral and physical
and in both cases wrong as can be
The son of q working farmer obliged Il
toll to hold his homestead and make
living the harm began with the canke
vanity implanted in the child, whlcI
developed into cancerous ambition II
the growing lad. 1t will be year
before the American public can b
persuaded of it, but neither mora
nor mental excellence is possibl
TO the child put forward for public exhi
bition at any age. The whole system
public display for children is a degrade
, ton and a harm beyond description
The few who outgrow the strain do no
begin to balance the many injured 10
life who are feeble in nerves and brar
, after twenty, because they have done
: life work before il, wasting in the effor
. TO do with immature force what woul
, have served for good results until fifty
Was there no one in church or Sunday
! school to teach the morbid boy tina
success in life had 8 different mean
ing from the heated panegyrics c
biography, or to tell him what