Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-20


tent, it is this call for more money
that is filling our asylums with 50
many tired mothers and fathers, and
the prisons with their children.
Buried treasure. More buried
than though dead. You say: how
did all the debts Gomez | believe il
is Public Opinion, living from day to
day without keeping strict account of
income and disbursements; not max
ing them balance. That is at the
bottom of them all, both private and
public. l believe the most of us
money we really take in and spend,
if We kept strict account. There is
general standard to which all get
as near as they can, or surpass
it just a little. This standard
today is just out of the
reach of most parents. Yet
their children don't wish to be be-
hind, and the parents ambition is
usually greater than the chfld's. 1t
used to be thought that the children
on the farm should go to school
through the winter months only, and
the rest of the time help their par
ents. And some great substantial
men and women grew from such
homes. If there was a particularly
smart child he in some way found
his way to the front. and appreciated
it, too, when he got there. We once
had a young man IL years old work
ing for us. His father was we'll
to-do Irishman, thrifty and saving.
This boy studied shorthand even
ings, moons, any time, while be was
working for us. yet he did not neg
lect his work. Today he fills IL trusty
official position. You say such boys
are scarce. Yes, they are, and so are
such boys or men even after
their parents have showed them
through college. Today children
must go to school, no matter how
little liking they have for books, or
even if their constitutions are not
strong. Oh, no, We must keep near
the standard even if we bury prec-
ious treasures on the way. Look
where you will and you can see
homes with the parents depending
on hired help, and in debt, and yet
spending money keeping children in
school or in some position; all the
time living on hope, never complain
ing. Parents rejoice in what they do
for their children. until, alas, how
many drop on the way and become
Buried Treasures. Yet, is it wise?
Read the life of Frank Galloway,
who is on trial for killing his wife in
St. Louis. He was a fair, average
student, and if he had no defined
his parents had them for
him and decided to make doctor of |
their son. OF course it cost money, |
but Frank had brilliant career |
ahead, and would be the staff and |
comfort of their old age. 1t was the |
old story. A handsome, petted boy, |
out from under his mothers watchful
eye. All was made easy for him, |
and now see the end, Buried Treas
ure.'
1.-The standard today seems to be to
save the children from cares, making
life hard for the parents and, [ think,
hard on the children, too. They |
don't seem to have time to be young.
Why by fifteen they are young ladies
and gentlemen. Buried Treasure L |
1on't think the coming generation |
will be able to appreciate this mans
onging: Make me child again. / |
ike to be q boy again, without a woe
)r care, with freckles scattered ON my
ACE and hayseed in my hair. I'd
ike to rise at o'clock and
10 the chores, and saw the wood,
md feed the hogs, and herd the
lens, and watch the bees, and take
mules to drink, and teach the tur-
Keys how to swim so that they
sink, and milk the cows,
,ring the wood, and churn, and
,hurn, and churn. and wear my
)rothers cast off clothes, and walk
our miles to school and get a licking
very day for sbreaking some old
'ule. And then get home at night
md do the chores again, and crawl
YEARLY upstairs and see my little
,ed and hear dad say: That worth
ess boy-he isn't worth his bread
I'd like to be a boy again-a boy has
10 much fun. / guess there is moth
ng pleasanter than herding bees and
'hasing bees and doing evening
.hores.'
''But, you say, we are in this stan
lard's power and must keep follow-
ng the rounds. | don't think so, [
ay it is wrong to let public opinion
fleet all we do. Our nation must
lave a new White House, because
We are the equal of any nation and
We must show it by grandeur. Our
tate and county buildings must be
he best. Why? Oh! to show that
We are just as good and well off as
Farmer, farmers wives and chill
lren, to certain extent, buy, build,
md educate with due regard to this
standard of today in spite of their
,etter judgment.
1.-The power the standards of today
nave over us, makes one think of
Uncle Ephriam's mule.
"Is you gwine ter let that mewel
10 as he pleases?" asked Uncle
Ephriam's wife. 'Whar's yoh will
oower?'
"'My will power?' he answerered.
My will powers all right. You
Jest want ter come out hyar an
measure dis 'er mewel's won't pow
er."
II believe if we could throw off
this yoke, and each family solve its
own problems regardless of public
opinions, and have our children more
life could be made profitable, and
ldIlH llle dlluTlIS 10 lHOSU oI our
children. l believe children would
have more work and less tempta-
tions. Parents more rest and fewer
buried treasures You say talk is
easy, but lifting the burden would be
hard. So it would be.
II never saw Taking up the white
mans burden pictured easy and
pleasing to the litter but once. And
that was the picture of a poor
drunken white man on the ground in