St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-05-20

man, 1.-The governor" "the SQUIRE
'the old chap" or their mother as 1.-The
old woman?" They are those who in
youth, in childhood, never learned to
respect authority. Eli. having heard
that mis- sons had died in their wicked
ness, fell over backward and broke his
neck and died. Well lie might! What
is life to a father whose sons arc de-
bauched? The dust of tho valley is
pleasant to his taste, and tho driving
rains that drip through the roof OF the
sepulcher are sweetcr than the wines OF
ielbon.
There must be harmony between the
fathers government and the mother S
government. The father will he Tempt
Ell to too great rigor. The mother will
be tempted to too great lcniency. Her
tenderness will overcome her. Her voice
is little softer; her hand seems better
fitted 10 pull out n thorn and scothc a
pang. Children wanting any ything from
the mother cry for it. They hope to
dissolve her with tears. Bu, the mother
must not interfere, must not coax off,
must not beg for the child when the
hour comes for the assertion of parental
supremacy and the subiugation of
q chiid's temper. There comes in the
history of every child an hour when it
is tested whether the parents shall rule
or the child shall rule. That is the
crucial hour. If the child triumphs in
that hour, then he will some day make
YOU crouch. 1t is a horrible scene-I
have witnessed it-a mother come to old
age. slivering with terror in the pres
ence of a son who cursed her gray hairs
and Knocked her wrinkled face and be-
with her toothless gums!
low sharper than scrpent's tooth 1t ID
To have a thankless child!
But, on the other hand, too great
rigor must be avoided. 1t is sad thing
when domestic government becomes
cold military despotism. Trappers on
the prairie fight fire with fire, but you
cannot successfully fight your child's
bad temper with your 0wn bad temper.
We must not bc too minute in our in
spection. We cannot expect our cl.ildren
to be perfect. We must not see every.
thing. Since we have two or three faults
Of our own,wc ought not to be too rough
have as many. If tradition lie true,
when we were children we were not all
little Samuels. and our parents were
not fearful lest they could not raise US
because ofour premature goodness. You
cannot scold or pound your children in
to nobility of character. The bloom OF
n child's heart can never be seen under
a cold drizzle. Above all. frctting and
and stoleliny in the household. Better
than ten years of frctting at your chill
drcn is one good, round, old-fashioned
application of the slipper! That minis
ter of the gospel of whom we read in
the newspapers that he whipped his
child to death because he would not say
his prayers will never come to canon
ization. The arithmetics cannot calcu-
late how many thousands of children
have been ruined forever either
through too great rigor or too great len
iency. The heavens and the earth are
filed with the groan OF the sacrificed.
In this important matter, seek Divine
direction, o father, . mother.
Someone asked the mother of Lord
Chief Justice Mansfield if she was not
proud to have three such eminent sons.
and all of them so good. NO." she
said: 1t is nothing to be proud of. but
something for which to be very CRATE
full
Further on, thousands and tens of
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artiiicialities of society. They are i'm
ducted into all the hollowness of what
is called fashionable life. They are
taught to believe that history is dry,
but that so cent stories of adventurous
love are delicious. With capacity that
might have rivaled Florence Night
ingalc in heavenly ministries or made
the fathers house glad with filial and
sisterly demeanor, their life is waste,
their beauty a curse, their eternity a
In the siege of Charleston. during
our civil war. a lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state of South
Carolina. They were taking the VOWS
of marriage. A bombshell struck the
roof. dropped into the group, and nine
were wounded and slain, among the
to death the bride. While the
bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying
to stanch the wounds the bride de-
manded that the ceremony be conl-
pleted. that she might take the vows
before her departure. and when the
minister said: .Nilt thou be faithful
unto death?" with her dying lips she
said. Il will" and in two hours she lad
departed. That was the slaughter and
the sacrifice of the body. but at thou
sands of marriage affairs the:e are
slain for time and slain for
massacre. Aflianced to some one who is
only waiting until his father dies 50 he
can get the property; then little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles; then the property is gone.
and, having no power 10 earn = liveli-
hood. the twain sink into some corner
of society. the husband an idlcr and u
sot. the wife a drudge. a slave and Il
sacriGe. All, spare your denunciations
from JephthaL's head and eSrend them
all on this wholesale modern martyr
dom! itFff Et
/ lift up my voice against the sacri-
flee of children. i look out of my win
dow on Sabbath, and / see q group OF
children unwashed, uncombed. un-
Who cares for thcm2
Who prays for them? Who utters to
them one kind word? When the city
passing along the park in
New York. saw n ragged lad and heard
him swearing, he said to him: My
son, stop swearing! You ought to go to
the house of God to-day. You ought to
be good. You ought to be Christian"
The lad looked in his face and said:
"Ah! 1t is easy for You to talk, well
clothed as you are ard well fed. But
we chaps hain't got no chance" Who
lifts them TO the altar for baptism?
Who goes forth to snatch them up from
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