The Forrest City times., 1890-03-22

| years gone by or to cast blot upon the family Bibles whose records are yet to be 1 opened. There ara in our American city | directories names that always suggest
 commercial dishonesty or libertinism or | cruelty or mcanness, just because one | man or woman bearing that name l cursed it forever by miscreancy. Look
 out how you stab the family namcl It is especially dear to your mother. She was | not born under that name. She was born under another name, but tho years passed
 on and she came to young womanhood, and | she saw some one with whom she could | trust her happiness, her life, and her i'm ! mortal destiny; and sho took his name, l took it while the orange blossoms were | filling the air with fragrance, took it with | Joined hands, took it while tte heavens | witnessel She chose it out of all the fam. l fly names since the world stood, chose it l for better or worse, through sickness and through health, by cradles and by graves. 1 Nea she put of her old family | name 10 take che family namc ! you now wear, and sho has l done her part to mako 1t an honorable
 name How heavy trouble you put upon
 her when, by misdeeds, you wrench that | name from it's high significance To haul | it down from your mothers forehead and l trample it in the dust would Do criminal. 1 Your fathers name may not b. distn- | guished name, but 1 hope it stands for | something good. It may not be famous, 1 like that of Homer, the father of epiS poetry, 1 or lzaak Walton, the father Of angling, or l .Eschylus, the father of tragedy, O. Ethel
 wold, the father Of monks or Herodutus the father of history, or Thomas Aquinas, tho father Of moral philosophy, or Abra- ham, the father of the faithful, but your father has name in small circle as precious to him as theirs in larger circle, Look out how you tarnish itl
 Further, tne recklessness and dissipa tion of young mAn are a canss of paren-
 tai distress at tima when the parent Is less able to bear it. The vicissitudes Of life have left their impression upon those parents The eye is not as clear as onc,,
 nor the hearing us acute, nor the nerves as steady, nor the step as strong. and with the tide of incoming years comss the weight of uutilal behavior. You take
 your parents at great disadvaotag for
 they cannot stand as much as they once could. They havc not the elasticity or feeling with which once they could throw of trouble, That shoulder, now somewhat bent, cannot bear as heavy burden as once 1t could. At tho
 time when the machinery is getting worn out you put upon 1t the most terrific strain. At sixty and seventy years the vitality is not so strong as at thirty or forty Surely they nrc descending the down grade Of lie swiftly enolgh witholt yonr increasing the momentum They will
 be gone soon enough without y our pushing them away, Call in all the doctors who ever lived since IIippocrates raised medi- elne from a supersiitution to science, and they could not cure the heartbreak of Il mother over her ruined boy There may be, as some suppose, enough herbs on earth if discovered, to euro all the ailments Of the body; but nothing save a leaf From the tree of the heavenly Paradise can euro
 wound made by foolish son who is the heayiness of his mother
 Perhaps it is n good thing that cruel treat ment by child abbrevates a parents life; for what is there desirable in a fathers life or mothers life if its peace is gonei Do you not think death s heuefeent if 1t stops the mothers heart from aching and her eyes from weeping, and says; ''Sou need not bear tho eScrueiation any longer Go and sleep l will put tho defence Of Il marble slab between you and that boys outrages Go now where the weary are at restt" At the departure of such mothers let the music be an anthem instead of dirgc. While you and hear no sound, yet there are at thls moment tens of thousands ol parental hearts breaking
 All care was taken with the boys school. iny all good ceansels given, and the eauip ment for sober and earnest and useful life was provided, but 1t has all gone, ana the foolish son has become the heavlness of his mother
 Much or tho poignancy Of tn, parental grief arises from the lngratitudc of such oehavoir What m undertaking 1t is to conduct tamliy through the ailments and exposures Of early lifo Talk about the skill demanded of a sea-captaiu command. ing ship across tho ocean That requires less skill than to navigate young soul in safety across the iufantile and boyhood years The sieknesses that ass 4ult, the temptations that cnirdp, the anxieties tha, are excitedl Young man you will never know what your mother has suffered fer you. You will never kuow how yoar fathes has toilcd fOe you You have been n Hll their thoughts, in all their piaus, in all their prayers, from
 tue time your first breath was drawn to this. moments respiration N hat they could ds for sear health, what they
 could do for your happiness, what they could do for your mind, what they could do for your soul. hayo been absorbing qncs- ttons, To earn livelihood for you
 has not always been an easy thing for your father Ky what fatigues of body and what disturbances of mind. and long years of struggle, in which some times Inc losses were greater than the gains. he got hreaa for you, paving for 1t in the swoa, of hls owa brow and the red drops Of h.s own hoarts blood. lie looks older than he ought to lock at his years, for it has been work. work, work Many a timc he felt like giving up the battle, bu, then he looked at Sour helplcssness and the
 helplessness ol the household and then he nerved himseiI up anew anu said
 "Hy the help of God will not stop, my children must have home and education and advantages, and a com. iortabe sfarins in he world, and must get little something aheAd, so that If am taken away these helpless ores vii! not be
 turned out on tLe cod charities ot tho world. Yes your tathsr has been n good
 friend to you fe has ncver sola anyone,
 and he neycr wi,l tell anyone, of the sal ri.
 fees he has made for you Ani he is ready so keep right on until unto that hand that has been tciilng iof you all these years shall come the very numbness ot death.
 You canuo. afford to break his heart But yon are doins is Yes. you are. You have drivea tho dagger eloar in up to the hiit
 And your motner--l warrant she has never told Sou much about tho nights when a00 were dqsvn with scarlet fever or diph.
 theria, and she s.cpt not d wink, or falling Into drows ,uess, Sonr first cry awakened her, and hFought thu words "W hat is 1t. my dears Oh If tho rocging chalr could speak Oh, Il the cradle could only tell is story of years And whom \ ou got bet. ter, and Herr gretful and bard to please, as is usual in copvslossence, she kept her pa. i.aRce sn we'll and was as kind as you wore unreasonable aud otass Oh mdnivhts os motherly watching, how can you keep sileneel Speak out ani tell that wander ing yoang man the story that hs so much needs to hear
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