The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-04-23
Union Zines, Union, S. c.

said "Obedience is the bane of genius,
virtue, freedom and truth; makes
slavesOf men and of the human frame
mechanical automaton." He was one
of these highstrung sublimated Great
ures whose rule of life was to do az he
pleased, to follow his own sweet will.
What q 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 nineteen. The same year
he eloped with hotel keepers daugh-
ter and married her at Gretna Green.
Three years later he abandoned her
and she drowned herself from grief.
Soon after this he married another wo-
man, with whom he had been living
previous to his first wife's death. He
was the intimate friend of Lord Byron
aud Leigh Hunt, and they Witnessed
he cremation of his body and depos-
tied the ashes near the grave OF Keats,
IN the Protestant cemetery at Rome.
No, cannot tell anybody how to
raise their children. 1t is q 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 way.
| l said something about the laws OF
| heredity coming in as factor in the
earring of children. knew two good
men in Rome before the war who had
u 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,
industrious and a comfort and an
honor ro their parents. The other set
was =. mischievous and untruthful.
In I. hey were several times caught
stea.i.g or with stolen goods In
their possession. And yet the
parents in both families were
always exemplary in their conduct
and conversation; asked DR.. Mile,
how he accounted for that. "Heredi.
ty," said he. zone set of these boys
have bred after their grandfather, who
was q very bad man. I knew him
well, and he was terror to the com
munity. these grandson have started
out on his line. Bad blood in horse,
will some times skip q generation ant
then crop out. Just so it is with hu
man blood" "Can it not be eradi
cated?" said I. ooh, yes," he replied
These boys should have had more re
straint in infancy and youth. 1t takes
more for that sort. The whipping
they are getting now come too late
and 1 fear will not reform them. Blu
most any disposition to vice can b.
reformed if begun in time. 1t is th'
same in animal and vegetable crea
, ! tions. You can cut off kittens tai
, from one litter to another until the.
, will ultimately be born without tails
You can dwarf a peachtree or enlarg
, ~ tomato"
Il rr~, while / have my settled con
ahyooiy 10 suspect InuJ tnen nas urcI
any brutality at our house. Some O
9 our boys received corporal punishmen
ut rare intervals. Others had none
: not a stroke, except a spank or tw,
from their mother. Like most parents
we thought that other peoples chill
dren needed more than ours. Blu
: even the punishment they did get the,
have not forgotten and still talk of 4
as big thing.
Now, as to the girls, of course they
should not suffer corporal punishment
in the schools. In the first place, the,
do not need it. Secondly, if they did,
there is no natural and suitable place
to receive it, and if there was, it canno,
be found with propriety ARP,
in Atlanta Constitution.