News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-31

| the Imagination which result from your
habits of study. Your life has been diff
! ferent from the lives of any other young
man l ever knew. 1t is my love for
you that has made it so. l have kept
you near me and away from the world
which l have repudiated. have
taught you differently, trained you diff
| ferently, led you to think differently.
Your manner of living. your methods
of study, your isolation from strangers,
have, combined, created the differences
that you discover. Your imagination
has emphasized and magnified them,
! That is ALL"
Lisle sighed and shook his head neg.
atively.
"You do not or you will not under.
stand" he said. "Your reply does not
comprehend the question. 1t is like
building a house without windows.
am your son. You are my father,
Should not father and son be alikeY
| Sometimes they are very much
alike; sometimes they are very differ.
ent. There is no rule which governs
such a condition. Step with me to the
mirror. Have you forgotten how great.
ly we resemble each other, eliminating
the difference in age?"
mo; it is true that our features are
! alike. Our forms are different. Ere
| quently l see you at work without
: your coat. You never permit me to re-
move mine except here in the house
| The men remove theirs and place them
across their saddles. Their figures
thus disclosed, are not the same as
mine. Yours is not the same as mine
l have studied myself before my own
mirror. / know that / am cast in a
different mold from other men. know
that you are cast in the same mold as
other men. am as different from you
as the day is different from the night
! Tell me truly, am like womanW
Yes, you have the best qualities Of
woman and the best qualities of man
| Strangers see and recognize both; hence
such remarks"
again you fall short Of a complete
response to my question:" sighed Lisle,
eve will pass it for the present You
mentioned my parents. Who are OF
were they? You are one; who was che
other?"
"Your mother"
"You have always refused to speak
of her to me. VIII you not do so nowY
mo"
"Was not my mother-a being whom
va "a 70 mr. RI 1pcnicn-o
an?"
Eyes"
Does my mother liveY
1--WE will not discuss your mother"
81 will not urge you, father. | have
learned to know that the subject is
painful to you, although you will not
tell me why it is so. May a child dur
ing it's growth change from woman tc
man or from man to womanY
Human beings come into the world
by the will of God. They live out the
period of existence allotted to each Of
them. and pass away in order to make
room for others. God appoints that
they shall be men or women. Human
ity has no power in the selection-a
newcomer is not permitted to choose
between the two entities. They grow
up like the sagebTush some of them
others like the trees which l planted
around this house when you were very
small. You have been in our orchard
with me when you have seen me prune
and graft among the trees. You have
seen me take tender shoot from one
that is the chld-and affiX 1t to anoth
err of different species; you have seen
that shoot grow to maturity, Just as
you are growing; you have seen it bear
fruit different in quality and texture
in size and in shape from the Other
fruit produced by that same tree"
Eyes, but what is that tree to which
you attach the shoot? Is it the father
or is it the mother?"
ut is both; it is the father and the
mother"
you are replying now to the third
question I would have asked, for il
concerned creation. Children are not
grated upon their fathers and moth
ers as you graft the shoots upon the
trees in our orchard"
"The principle is the same, Lisle
throughout all nature. The law of ere
alton is the same in all things, from
the alfalfa growing on the river bot
, toms to the sagebrush on the hills
: from the trees in our orchard through
| the animal kingdom to humanity. You
know what evolution is. ] have taught
! you that. The younger and weaker
: plants, whether they are vegetable oil
! animal, are the result Of laws which
, are controlled by the Supreme Father
] of all and which are and forever will
; remain a mystery to all mankind
! They evolve into the older and stron
! ger product. Let us end this discus
= sion now. On the day when you are
e Il we will resume these subjects. Come
] to me then"
y "ls q the crucial age of MANI Arr
all things revealed to him then? VII
u | experience a change when ! arrive
= at that age? VIII all things be mad
clear to me then?"
b "All things which puzzle you nov
/ will be made clear to you then, my son
u dread the day"
n "Why"
n at can bring no joy to you-nothhf
e but misery to me-"