The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-02-12

49, "'a htA' AAAH'At NiNN kAAf AHNNEH NNu
b the ilour and made the windows rat
like an earthquake. win they never
tircdt thought /. No, never. But by
by, when my wife came homoshe settled
q down aud played club list and trimble-
with them and / had peace
y folks have got an idea that 10 suits me
axe care of tho children and the children
an idea that they are 10 do as they
$50 when there's nobody about but me.
SO ! suffer myself imposed on and feel
an injured person. believe / will 20
be missionary society myself next time.
ut after all, there rs no use I'm posing az a
nestle martyr or patrinrchm packhorss
mt these things, for do like 10 have tho
chaps around me, especially little girls.
ldren are a blessing 90 the household
" take away our sellshnoss and purify
feelings. Their joy and glee and spor-
happiness carries the old people back TO
ir early life, when the days were all sum
ae. IL is sad sympathy we feel when
see them so happy now and fOresee the
ublcs that await them. Poor Tom Hood.
" sad he wac when ho pCuned those
ching lines:
81 remember. / ro member
The I'm trees dark and high.
used % think thoir slender tops
Wore close against the sky
u was a childish Ignorance,
But now It's little Joy
To know I'm farther of from heaven
Than whom was a boy"
There is no happiness like a child's. If
Guild / would exchange all that / have
llized since | was sixteen years old for
It / had before Those sixteen years are
out One-third OF the average life, and the
-. ..F.NH a
the rest. If q child is blessed with low
2, indulgent parents those years are an
broken season Of unallOyed enjoyment
metimes ! see my wife looking sad and
eamily into the glowing embers and know
g is thinking about her children or her
ildhood and recalling the JOYS of her youth
len she had mother and could lay her
ad upon her lap and feel the soft caresses
her gentle hand. What a weight OF care
nd anxiety presses continually upon the
art Of a mother. How often do her pray
s ascend to heaven in the dark watches Of
Q night-prayers for their health, their
elfare, their good conduct, their salvation.
But with all the cares, anXieties and fore
)ding, children are our greatest blessing
id the family the greatest bulwark Of good
ciety and good government. It is the law
our being that man and woman should
ate and marry and rear children, and there
no substitute for the marriage relation. /
ardly knew the value of q child until few
eeks ago a dear little grandchild got sick
cry sick-and for days and nights was very
ear the gate of heaven. She suffered and
e watched and suffered with her. Her lit
g lips and throat were swollen and indamed
18th diphtharetic sores. Her lungs ratified
nth pneumonia. How She pleaded with US
Or help-for relief-pleaded with eyes and
ands, and we could do nothing but caress
Ter and weep. | would have given mil
ion dOllars-yes, ten million, If l had had
ito relieve that child and save her from
uffering. Prayers or medicine or good
mrsing or something saved her, and we are
I'll grateful What is the value of a child,
anyhow? If one was up Mt auction what
would the mother give? How insignificant
property or gold or silver when compared
With it. What are we all working for but
children, their happiness and prosperity?
Daniel Webster, the greatest man this cOun-
Try has ever produced, said: "A good father
will shrink from no toll, no sacrifice to raise
his children to better condition than his
own" II was judge and father was
brought before me for stealing or even for
robbing, ! would seek TO know the hidden
motives that prompted him to the crime
Many a man steals or cheats to get some
thing for the children, and the world 10 out
ragged and calls him a thief and the law
sends him to the chaingang
But after all, 1t is the mother who screens
them, protects them and wraps them In her
bosom. / thought my wife was tired and
would like to rest in her old age, but the
maternal instinct still possesses her, and she
seems as much concerned about the grand
children Us she ever did about her own. In
fact, she is less exacting, and more indul-
gent The little boy we have with US Is q
young cyclone and keeps the home in an
uproar. When / get outraged with his tu-
multuous racket and threaten him with pun
ishment my wife takes his part and says he
is nothing but baby.
Yes, four-year-old baby who slams the
door like an athlete forty times an hour
and don't mind anybody and | could regu-
late him In an hour If had my way NV
wife never allowed such liberties from her
own. They were afraid of spanking
or Of being shut up in the parlor when
they got too bOisterous. And now she
pleads for this boy and says he is nothing
but baby. But I'll get him some of these
days when she goes to the missionary
meeting-see If l don't. I've promised him
a licking every day for two months and
he retreats to her and looks defiance at
me. But I'll get him--see If l don't. He
Is nothing but a baby, but he takes the dog
TO the COW lot and sets him on the COW, and
when tell him that the COW will horn him
and that she gives him milk, he says he
don't want any more milk. He lets the
chickens out of the coop, but he is nothing
but baby But I'll get him before the
year is out-see If don't. I'll do like Dick
johnson, who was trying to raise his boy on
love. But the boy got so bad that one day
Dick picked up a Hath and walloped him
good. 1t was a desperate remedy and had Il
fine temporary effect, and Dick walked the