The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-11

nor let me read &C. He says Il Is 49,
to minlfy rather than TO magnify the
apprehensions Of his patients But
the young people ought to be told, told
often and earnestly, that they can't
fool with the heart. A boy who smokes
cigarettes on the sly is storing up
trouble that win surely come home
and sap his manhood and shorten his
his life. This Is SO well known now
that good men will not employ boys
dren is their disobedience TO their
parents and It Is most generally the
mothers fault. They will do things
that are forbidden, but she overlooks
their disobedlonce ana so when they
get sick they viii not take the physi-
clans medicines without force or a
struggle, and If the doctor is not there
10 force it the mother lets the time
pass rather than hear the screams or
cries Of the child Not half the pa.
rents enforce obedience from their
children Prompt and wiling obedi-
ence should be the first lesson taught
a child. Their happiness depends up
who smoke. One vice calls for an
other and a news manager told me
the other day that one of his news
boys skipped some Of his patrons
every week so as to have a paper or
two to sell and get money to buy cl-
garettes. OF course he discharged
him.
It is pleasant entertainment to lis.
ten to a doctor tell of his varied expe-
riences and this one uttered a truth
the other day that ought to provoke
serious thought in every parents Boz
som. He says that his greatest foe
in the treatment of diseases Of chill
on it and so does the mothers peace.
We old-fashioned people have but
little patience with a generation that
is trying to reform the world with new
methods-abolishin the ways of their
orefathers-raising children on love
| instead Of discipline and filling a. the
schools in the land with athletic sports
and intercollegiate contests. What
honor, what manliness Is there In
| kicking ball or batting one or wrest-
/ ling or rowing boat? These sports
have gotten to be the most important
part of the curriculum and fill the
daily papers with pictures and thrill.
ing reports of the games. 1t is all
an "lgnis fatuus' that fools the boys
and make them think they have ac-
CURED an education. When they went
to college their parents had fond hopes
of them-when they came out that
hope is gone for they are unfit for
business or the duties of life.
While was half recovering from
the morphine state got to Illuminating
about the value of things and I com,
pared good health and domestic hap,
piness and the love and devotion Of
wife and children with fame and pow
er and wealth and ambition and the
very thought Of them sickened me.
| wouldn't give a good shower of
rain just now for Roosevelt and all he
has got or ever expects to be- But !
love Roosevelt because he hates Miles
and I love Miles because he hates
Roosevelt, and I despise them both
Turn Angelina" pong. And
last Of all came Satan They are for
war. They XIII a thousand negroes to
our one. They make land desoate
and call it peace. They have trampled
the love of liberty in the dust and
all for lust Of power and place. a
woman from Kansas City sends me
a paper with speech of a Grand Ar
my Of the Republic orator on Deco
ration Day, in which he states that he
wishes every Confederate monument
was buried in the bottomless ocean
and other vindictlve things, and she
wants me to answer it. No, it is M
use. That Grand Army of the Repub
lie is full of just such contemplate
creatures, and can't answer them all
1t is a standing curse to the peace
Of the land Let the ball roll on. Turl
ngelina-ping pong, ding dong, dinl
dong bell. We will survive the wrecl
Of matter and the crush of worlds
And so l went off to sleep murmur
ing, there is no Grand Army. 1t is
two for nickel or four to one con
cern. If I couldn't fight better thar
that, I'd apologize and hide out. Som,
OF them down here in Atlanta woult
like to make friends, but they hav,
never apologized and the way they d.
rominds me of the old couplet:
Il know that you say that you love me
But why did you kick me down stairs.
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