Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-08-18

"A conquered individual, like conquer
ed nation, will become weak, ,pusillanimous
cruel and cowardly. Many parents think
if they have proud spirited child, that
their duty is to conquer it. But they might
as well kill it at once. 1t is the soul
within that makes man great or small.
If the spirit is cowed and humbled to the
dust, the man is ruined. "He is q good
child when he has his own way, but he
is so hesdstrong," the good mother will
say, and she uncon sciously pays the great
est possible compliment to the child. But
the child will be of no use, to her way of
thinking, unless it is eonquered-until its
proud spirit is crushed. Fatal error Its
that conquerable spirit in properly train
ed and educated child that fits it to go out
into the world and battle with the giants
of vice and wrong. 1t is that spirit which
gives him strength to resist temptation,
and to look upon dishonor with lofty
scorn. No man can be truly proud unless
he is serenely conscious of a clean heart
and an integrity that is fncorruptible. A
child with broken spirit is like Damas-
Gus blade with the temper drawn out. In
spire your children with exalted notions OF
right-teach that death is always to be
preferred to dishonor, that the soul of man
was made to walk erect and look upon the
stars, and do not think that because your
boy is not meek and tractable that he is
therefore vicious.
There is no better evidence of con-
scious inferiority than disposition to dis
parage others. The man who amounts to
nothing himself, and knows it, sometimes
tries to minify others so that he will not
look so small by comparison. But he only
succeeds in making matters worse for him,
self ffo. besides being known as an insignit-
cant cuss, he also becomes known as an
envious and contemplate back bitter.
The man who habitually reads good lit
erature is usually honorable and conscien-
tious in his dealings with men. Ignorance
andIcrime are SO nearly related that is..often
difficult to distinguish them. Imagine
man reading appreciatiyely Paradise Lost,
Hamlet" or Emerson's essay on Com
pensation," and then going out and robbing
a hen-roOst.
Hanging scenes in Austria are not par
ticularly edifyirg. The condemned man
has rope placed around his neck, and is
drawn up to post, at the top of which is
hook to hold the rope. At recent exc
cution in Vienna the arrangement would
not work properly, and the executioneer
ended the mans agonies by climbing up
a ladder and choking him to death.
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A western editor apologies to his
readers after tits fashion: ave expected
to have death and a marriage to publish
this week, but violent storm prevented
the wedding and the doctor being sick him
self the patient recovered, accordingly we
were cheated out of both.
-'eWhere are those Columbus cara
mels 2" asked Mrs. Partington of Co.
lumbian Exposition guard. "Never heard
of them madam" "What, never heard of
them three boats what Columbus came
in 7" "Oh,' said the guard, brightning up.
Madam the caravels are over there"