Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-03
HATH NO MAN" "GREATER LOVE


 Young, has been discharged. For the second time, a jury has failed tc agree as to her guilt or innocence, and she will not be required to undergo another trial. The prosecution has doubtless concluded that it will be impossible to convict the defendant and so the state is to be saved addi- tional expense, while the public is to be spared further recital of the details of this disgraceful affair.
 But there was one satisfactory fes- ture to the long drawn out trials. That was the devotion displayed by the distracted father toward his way ward daughter. When, during her first trial, Nan Patterson stepped from the witness stand after having passed through the ordeal of reient- less cross examination, the old man put his arm affectionately around his child and said: You did splendidly little girl" When the jury returned with the report that it could not agree, the newspaper dispatches say:
 The father of the accused, who has been by her side ever since the trial began and whose tender care and de votion to her has been the most touch ing of the trial, tried to comfort her, but his saddened face and mournful expression robbed the words he ut tered of force and meaning as he said: Don't worry little girl; it will come out all right yet"
 Some one has said that tlIe true test of love is the willingness to endure and suffer for another, that it is the suffering element that measures love, and that characters that are great must of necessity be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. that ito hold our nature in the willing servlce of anotn- CT, is the divine idea of manhood.f .f In occasionally the average parent would successfully meet the test, even as 1t was met by the father of Nan Patterson. Children seldom appre7 ciate the parents love, Doubtless Nan Patterson has learned to appreciate just as many other wayward girls have learned it in the past, just as many other girls will learn it in the future.
 No human pen can accurately de- scribe that love. It is wonderfully elastic, and as chlld aIter child is born into the family. covers them all. giv- ing the same portion to the newborn, while lessening none of that enjoyed by the others. The good mother who when asked which of her children she loved best said the enc who is sick" pointed out in a happy way the only difference a parent can feel in his at titude toward his children. We love best the one who is sick" we love best the one who is crippled in body; we love best the one who has some weakness, for which he is not entire fy responsible; we love best the one who has fallen, even though he fell as Nan Patterson fell, even though the doors of society beclosed against him, even though all but the hope of heaV- en has been denied him.
 Don't worry, little girl, it will come out all right, yet" said Nan Patterson's $ father: and with all of her faults, she was his little girl' then, she is his little girl now, and she will be his little girl" until the end. The faith full father best remembers his daught- CT as she was when indeed a little girl. Although she has grown into womanhood there is always in the fathers mind a portrait of the little girl in frocls; there is always pie ture of the little innocert .nlaying-or praying-at the mothers knee. That little girl may have met the world and been conquered by the world; her friends one by one may have turned From her; she may have fallen even as Nan Patterson fell; but at the criti- cal moment the majesty of parental love asserts itself; 'tne divine idea of manhood" is manifested. At the critical moment the love of the par ent for the child is supreme and arm in arm the devoted father and the way ward daughter face a drowning world and walk together through the dark valley. the one loving as he always loved, the other appreciative of that majestic affection perhaps for the first time in her life.
 All the world loves . lover; t smiles at the sweethearts gathered at the trystlng place; it mods approval