The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-05-13

pane o: genius, virtue, freedom ana
truth; makes slaves CT men and of the
human frame a mechanical automa.
sublimated creatures whose rule OF lite
was to do as he pleased, to follow his
own swee, will What a miserable life
he lived, and was drowned when only
thirty years old. He alarmed his
schoolmates by his storms of passion.
Was expelled from Oxford when nine
teen. The same year he eloped with
a hotel keepers daughter and married
her at Gretna Green. Three years
later he abandoned her and she drown
ed herself from grief. Soon after this
he married another woman, with whom
he had been living previous to his first
wife's death. He was the intimate
friend Of Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt,
and they witnessed the cremation Of
his body and deposited the ashes near
the grave of Keats, in the Protestant
cemetery at Rome.
No, cannot tell anybody how to
raise their children. 1t is fearful
responsibility. have known preach
ers to undertake the task and fail, and
the congregation smiled inwardly at
the preachers failure to raise his own
in an exemplary and orthodox man
ner
said something about the laws Of
heredty coming in as factor in the
rearing of children. knew two good
men in Rome before the war who had
like number of boys growing up,
and these two families were close
neighbors, and their boys mingled to-
gether and went to the same school
and Sunday-school and church. One
set of these boys was good, manly, in
dustrious and comfort and an honor
to their parents. The other set was
bad, mischievious and untruthful. In
fact they were several times caught
stealing or with stolen goods in their
possession. And yet the parents in
both families were always exemplary
in their conduct and conversation. l
asked DR.. Miller how he accounted
for that. "Heredity," said he. "One
set of these boys have bred after their
grandfather, who was very bad man.
l knew him we'll, and he was a terror
to the community. These grandsons
have started out on his line. Bad
blood in horses will sometimes skip a
generation and then crop out. Just
so it is with human blood" Can it
not be eradicated1 ="Oh, yes" he re-
piled. These boys should have had
more restraint in infancy and youth.
1t takes more for that sort. The whip
pings they are getting now come too
late, and l fear will not reform them.
But most any disposition to vice can
be reformed if begun in time. 1t is
the same in animal and vegetable
creations. You can cut off a kittens
tail from one litter to anothe: until
they will ultimately be born without
tails. You can dwarf a peach,ree or
enlarge tomato
Now, while have my settled con-
viclions on these things, do not wish
anybody to suspect that there has
been any brutality at our house. Some
of our boys received corporal punish
ment at rare intervals. Others had
none hot a stroke, except a spank or
two from their mother. Like most
parents, we thought that other peo-
ple's children needed more than ours.
But even the punishment received by
them they have not forgotten and still
talk of it as big thing.
Now, a; 10 the girls, of course they
should not suffer corporal punishment
in the schools. In the first place, they
do not need it. Secondly, if they did,
the school house is no natural and
suitable place to receive it, and lfthere
was, it cannot be found with propriety.
Bill ARP, in Atlanta Constitution.