The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-20
ally papers and answer.

| ""AA ooJo' Nuat ROOu results can
come from expulsion of bad boy
from schoolP lie is not wanted any,
where by decent people, and SO no
associates with his kind and becomes
worse and soon comes to grief and
brings sorrow ohis kindred.
| Obedience to law, to government,
to parents is absolutely necessary for
the peace and welfare of society.
This obedience is enforced among bad
men by the fear of the law. 1t can
not be enforced among bad boys ex-
cept by fear of corporal punishment.
Their honor or their shame is too
feeble "A factor to be considered.
Obedience. must begin early, even in
infancy, My little two year old grand
child oves to play in the dirty coal
boz "Caroline, you must not do
THAT" her mother says, and enforces
her command by slapping her little
hauds and then washing thom. That
is corporal punishment, and is just
as severe to the little child as the rod
is to q boy of ten, and both are right
and both effectual. The enforce
ment of obedience in early childhood
saves all necessity for punishment in
later years, and it saves sight of
scolding. What world of worry
bad children are to other people!
What comfort aro good ones at
home and abroad. Some mistaken
parents say that their boys are too
high strung to be whipped. Yes,
and those boys are in danger of be.
ing still higher strung whom in q fit
of passion they kill somebody. The
poet Shelley said "Obedience is the
bane of genuis, virtue, freedom and
truth; makes slaves of men and of
the human frame a mechanical au-
tomaton". He was ono Of these high
strung sublimated creatures whose
rule of life was to do as he pleased,
to follow his own sweet will. What
q miserable life lie 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 a hotel
keepers daughter and married her at
Gretna Green. Three years later he
abandoned her and she drowned her
} self 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 near Rome.
No, I cannot tell anybody how to
raise their children. It is fearful
responsibility. 1 have known preach
ers to undertake the task and fail,
and the congregation smiled inward
ly at the preachers failure to raise
his own in an exemplary and orthodox
way.
7 said something about the laws
of heredity coming in as a factor in
the rearing of children. I knew two
good men in Rome before the war,
who had a like number Of boys grow
ing up, and these two families were
close neighbors and their boys min
gled together and went to the same
day school and Sunday School and
church. Ono set of these boys was
good, manly, industrious and a COM
fort and an honor to their parents.
The other set was bad, mischievous
and untruthful. In fact, they we're
several times caught stealing or with
stolen goods in their possession.
And yet the parents in both families
were always exemplary in their con-
duct and conversation. I asked Dr.
Miller how he accounted for that.
"Herodity' said he Zone sot of
these boys have bred after their
grandfather, who was very bad
man. knew him we'll, and he was
q terror to the community. These
grandsons have started out on this
line. Bad blood in horses will some
times skip q generation and then
crop out. Just so it is with human
blood" "Can it not be eradicated9"
said T. "Oh YES" he replied. These