Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-02
About Enisipr Cbi,dren.

Mrs. Harris, of New York, lectured with great success three years ago on "How to Bring up Children" So forcible and practical was she in her remarks that Miss Francis Willard (who knows a great deal about bring ing up children) gave her strong personal endorsement, citing the fact that Mrs. Harris had brought up ga lovely family of her own" and was therefore qualified to speak ex cathedra.
 Now, Carlyle W. Harris, son of the lecturer alluded to, is confined in New York prison under convic- tion of murder ia the first degree. Harris's crime was particularly at rocious and cold-blooded. Having surreptitiously married q ayoung lady at boarding school and left her there to continue her studies, he at one time committed criminal abor- ton upon her and subsequently, poisoned her with morphine. For this last crime he stands convicted. He boasted of numerous feminine conquests. and this case may be only one of several in which his conduct partook of the most heinous disre- gard of human rights. In fact, he Illustrates total deprayity as thor oughly as any criminal who has come before the public of this generation.
 All this may be no fault of the good Mrs. Harris, who knows how to bring up children, and has assumed to tell other people how. She is not the first wise parent who, with the most irreproachable precepts, has failed to produce shining examples,
 Solomon said, Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart there from" And his own son, who was presumably brought up in that way turned out most incorrigible youth
 \ modern rhymster has put the case pretty forcibly in saying:
 "It isn't all in bringing up.
 Let folks say what they will- | 1on sllgcr-wash pewter cup And t Is pewter still.
 And cen the wise old solomon. l Who said Bring up child, If mistake not. had a son
 Prove rattle-brainesi and wild"
 Heredity and prenatal influence: sometimes furnish the cast of char acter for human being which al the training in life will not over come. If moral instincts are totally wanting they cannot be substituted much less cultivated.
 Nothing is truer in the Bible than those words about visiting the sins of the parents upon the children and upon the children's children to the third and fourth generations. Pa rents seldom realize the tremendous responsibility that is upon them-a responsibility which is not always met even by the most careful train ing that they can love their offspring. Furthermore, parents do not and cannot realize how deep-seated and far-reaching may be the consequences of their mistakes and moral lapses. The evil results may be manifested, not in their own children, but in their grandchildren or in the progeny of those grandchildren. The human race is building mot for a day, but for all time"
 The consequences of our present era of greed and unprincipled money getting and sacrifice of principle to ambition do not confront us now they will shine with augmented bril- liancy few generations hence.
 Still, philosophers of an optimistic turn say that there are forces at work which constantly make the human race better. It is probably true. But all races of people do not grow better. Some climb the hill of advancement steadily and surely for hundreds of years, and after halting little while on the summit they go down the other side with a rush. Los Angeles Times.