The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-04-04

,ers. There are larger and larger e1-
penses.
After awhile one day q messenger
rom the bank over the way calls in and
>ays to the father Of the household OF
shich am speaking: "The officers OF
he bank would like to have you step
,ver minute" The father steps over
.nd bank officer says, us that your
.hcck?' No" he says, that IS not
my check. never make an II IN that
say. never put curl to the y IN
hat way. That is not my writing; tha'
IS not my signature; that is q counter,
cit. Send for the police. stop,
,ays the bank officer, your son wrote
hat"
mo for the son to come home at night
Il is y o'clock, it is half past II
,;clock it is o'clock. TIE son comes
trough the hallway. The father says:
My son, what does all this mean? l
gave you every opportunity. l gave you
Ill the money you wanted, and here IN
ny old days l 6nd that you have be-
come a speudthrlft, libcrtine aud
,ot." The son says: Now, father,
what is the use of your talking that
say? You tod me TO 90 It, aud just
ook your suggestion. y And 50 TO
strike tie medium between severity and
TO CREST leRiepcy, 10 s'-ike the happy
medium between he Two aud to train
nur children for God aud for heaven Is
the anxiety of every Intelligent parent.
But for the most part the children
that live sometimes get cross aud pick
up bad words in the street or are dis
DOS, d to quarrel with brother OF sister
sad show that they are wicked. You
zee them in the Sabbath school class
they are so sunshiny and bright you
Seuld think they were always so, but
The mother looking over st them remem
pers wha, an awful time she had to get
them ready Time passes on. They
get considerably older, and the s"n
comes iu from the street from pugl
Iistic encounter, bearing on MS appear
auce the marks Of defeat, or the daugh-
Ter prsc,i,es some little deception In
the household. The mother says,
Il ca,:', always be scoldiug and fretung
aud finding fault, but this must be
stopped So in many household
there is the sign Of siu, the sIsn OF the
,ru,hfuloess cf what the l}lbIe says
when it0declares, "fhey so a>tray a.
soon as they be bora, speaking lies.
Some 20 to work aud try to correct
ali this, and the boy is picked at. That
always is ruinons. There Is more help
IN one good thunderstorm than IN 1--WE
days Of celi drizzle. Better the old
fashioned style of chss.isement if that
be necessary than the frettlng aud the
scoldiug which have destroyed SO many.
The statistic has never been made up
10 these great cities Of how many have
been destroyed and how macy beautiful
homes have been overthrown. 1t the
statistic could be presented, 1t would
freeze your blood in solid cake at
your heart. Our great cities are full OF
temptations, and to vast multitudes Of
parents these temptations become .
matter Of great solicltude.
But nov for the alevistions. First
Of ali, you save yourself great deal Of
trouble. D parent, if you can early
watch the children and educate them
for God and heaven. 'The first Eve
wears of my life made me an in6del, !"
said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out to
sea, and after it has been FIVE days out
there comes "a cyclone. The vessel
springs leak. The helm will not
work. What is the matter? 1t is not
seaSorthy. 1t never was seaworthy.
Can you mend it BOW? 1t is too late.
Down she goes with 250 passengers in
to q atery grave. " hat vas the time
to 6x that vessel? What vas the time
to prepare it for the storm? In the
drydock. All, My friends, do not wait
until your children get out into the
world, beyond the Narrows and out on
the great voyage of life. 1t is too late
then to mend their morals and their
manners. The drydoek Of the Chris
tian home is the place. Correct the
sin no Y, correct the evil now.
Just look at the character Of your
children now and get an insinatlon Of
what they are goiug to be- You can
tell by the way that boy divides the sp.
pie what bis proelivity is and what his
sin will be and what style of discipline
you ought to bring upon him. You see
how he divides that sppleY He takes
nine tenths Of it for himself, aud he
gives one-tenth to his sister. Well, let
that 60, and all his life he will want
the best part Of everything, and he will
be grinding and graspiOg to the day of
his death.
People hurl their scorn at the life Of
Lord Byron. Lord Byron was not half
80 much to blame as his mother. The
historian tells Us that when her child
was !impiug across the Aoor with his
unsouDd foot, instead Of acting like any
other mother, she said, Get out Of nay
way, you lame bra,l' Do not dennunce
his mother. All the scenes in Venice,
all the scenes in Greece, all the scenes
of outrage wherever he went an eeho Of
that bad mothe's heart and that had
mothers life.
Begin early with your children. You
stand op the banks of river and you
try TO change its course. 1t has been
rolling pow for 100 miles. You cannot
change it But just go to the source Of
that river, 80 10 where The water just
drips down on the rocks. Then with
our nife make ehsnael this way and
a channel that way. aud it will take it.
Come on. and stand on the bauks OF
childs life when it was 80 or ~ years
Of age, or even 20 and try to change
the course Of that life. 1t is too late!
1t is 100 la,eI Go father up st The
source Of life aud nearest to the
mother's hesrt Thers the character