Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-17


that a reckless or dissipated son makes 9
heavy hearted parent because it hurts the
family pride. 1t is not the given maine or
the name which you received at the christsn-
ing that is injured by your prodigality. Yor
cannot hurt your name Of John or George or
Henry or Mary or Frances or Rachel, be
cause there have been thousands of people,
good and bad, having those names, and you
cannot improve or depreciats the respecta.
bility of those given names. But it is your
last name, your family name, that is at your
mercy. All who bear that name are bound,
before God and man, not to damage its happy
significance. You are charged, by all the
generations of the past and all the genera,
tions to come to do your share for the pro-
lection and the honor and the integrity OF
that name You have no right, my young
friend, by bad life to blot the old family
Bible containing the story Of the marriages
and births and deaths of the years gone by,
or 10 cast blot upon the family Bibles whose
records are yet to he opened
There are Ia our American city directories
names that always suggest commercial dis
hone ~ OF libertinism or cruelty or mean
ness, just because one man or woman bearing
that name CURSED IL forever by miscreanoy.
Look out how you stab the family naInel It
biespeciSily dear to your mother She was
not born under that name. She was born
nndar another nAas, bat the years passed OF
and she came 10 young womanhood, and she
saw some sns with whom she could trust her
happiness, h9r life and her immortal destiny.
and she took bis name, took it while tbs
orange blossoms were filing the air with
fragrance, took IL with Joined hands, took ii
while the heavens Witnessed. She chose il
cut Of all the family names since ths world
stood, chose it for better or worse, through
sickness and through hsalth, by cradles and by
graves.
Yea, she put Ell hsr old family name TO
taks the family name yea now wear, and
she has dose her part 30 make it an honor
able mama How heavy trouble you put
apon her when, by misdseds, you wrench
that name from It's high signihcancsl Ts
haul it down frsm your mothers forehead
and tranpls it ia the dust would be criminal
Your fathers Aams may not be n distin-
guishsd name, but | hope 1t stands for soma.
thing good II may not be famous, like that
OF Homer, ths fsShsr Of epic poetry, or
Izaak Walton, the father of angling, OF
H,schylus, the father of tragedy, or Ethel,
void, the father Of monks or Herodotus, the
father Of history, or Thomas Aquinas, the
father OF moral philosophy, or Abraham, the
father Of the faithful, but your father has
Rams in a small circle as precious to him as
theirs ia a larger circle. Look cut how you
tarnish itl
Further, the reeklessness and dissipation OF
young man are q cause Of parental distress
at time when the parent is less able to bear
IT, The Vicissitudes Of life have left their i'm.
preston upoA those parents. The eye is not
as clear as once, nor the hearing as acute,
nor the nerves as steady, nor the step as
strong, and with the tide Of incoming years
comes the weight Of unfilial behavior. You
take your parents at a great disadvantage,
for they cannot stand as much as they once
could. They have not the elasticity Of feel
ing with which once they could throw of
trouble. That shoulder, now somewhat bent,
cannot bear as heavy burden as once it
could. At the time when the machinery ID
getting worn out yos put upon IL the most
terrific strain.
At sixty and seventy years the vitality is
not 50 strong as at thirty or forty. Surely
they are descending the down grade of life
swiftly enough without your increasing the
momentum. They will be gone sooR enough
without your pushing them away. Call in all
the doctors whe ever lived since HippoeratSi
raised medicine frem q superstition 80 a sci.
ence, and they oeuld not sure the heartbrsak
of a mother over her ruined boy. There may
be- as some suppose, enough herbs on earth,
If discovered, bs cure all the ailments Of the
body; but notaing save a leaf from the tree
OF the heavenly Paradise can cure a wound
L. L. E. l.. II. l. L., II
his mother.
FURTHER SUFFERING SAVED BY DEATH,
Perhaps II is a good thing that cruel treat
ment by a child abbrsviates a parents life;
for what is tacre desirable In fathers life or
q mothers life ii iN peace is Comet Do you
NOT think death is something benefcent II ii
stops the mothers heart from aching and her
eyes from weeping, and says: "YoH need not
bear the excrusiAtoA any longer. Go and
sleep. will pat the defense Of q marble slah
between you and that boys outragss, &c
now where the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are sh rsstp' Az tho depart
are Of such mstsSrs let the music be an an
them instead Of a dirES While you and
heSr ne sSsnd, yet there are at this msment
bens Of Thousands Of parental hearts breaking,
All care was taken with the boys schooling,
all gsed Qounssis given, and the equipment
for a ssbsr and earnest and useful life was
provided, but IL has ell gone, and the foolish
son has become the heavinsss Of his mother,
Much Of the PSignaRey of thS parental
grief arises from the ingratituSS OF such be-
havior. Whats an undertaking 1t Ia to cen
duet a family Through the ailments and sx.
posures Of early hfel Talk about tbs skill
demanded Of a sea captain commanding
ship across tbs eceanl That requires less skill
than to navigate young soul In safety across
the infantla and beyheod years, The sick
nesses that assault, ths temptations that en-
trap, the auxieties that are excited Young
man, you will never know what your mother
has suffered fer you. You will never know
how ysur father has toilSd fer You. You
have bssR in all thsiF thoughts, in all their
plans, IA all their prayers, from the Tins
your first breath was drawn 10 this moments
respiration. What they sOuld do for your
health, what they could do for your happi-
ness, what they could do for your mind
what they could do fer your soul, have been
absorbing questions To earn a livelihood
for you has net always been an easy
thing for yeHr father. BY what fatiguSs Of
body and what disturbances Of mind, and
long years Of struggle, In whtsh sometimes
the losses were greater than the gains, he COS
bread for ySH, paying for 10 In the sweat OF
HE own brow and the red drops Of his ewn
hearts blSOdI He looks older than he ought
30 hock at his years, fer 10 has been work,
work work Many q time he felt like giving
Hp the battle, but Shen he looked at your
helplessness and the helplsssneSs Of the house.
hold, and then he nervsd himseE eP anew
and said: by the help Of God viii not
stop; my children must have home and
education and advantages, and comfort
able starting in the world, and must get a
little something ahead SO that II am taken
away these helpless ones will not be turned