The Forrest City times., 1905-02-10
E5s 1a7rtsl Gi1n dimes
ANDY s,I,ir < yADAKIN. EGiLr2s-s asad Publishers
Foresliadowed.

Below is appended a letter from the Chief Justice of Mississippi to Il citizen of Forrest City, in re- Sporse to n history of the school days of one Edward Cannon, who k now under sentence of death and is to be hanged at Water Valley, Miss, next Saturday, Huh inst. Cannon as a school boy was an iHfraetor of the law and order of the school room to tho extent that hc had 10 be subjected to the rod, and as is too often the case, his parents 9id not uphold the teacher in his efforts for the boys ultimate good, but stopped him from school. The result was that Cannon grew into manhood with the idea that there were no rights for him 10 re- speet In the sehoolroom or elsc- where. About one year ago he sought girls heart and hand in marriage. She refused to grant the boon he desired, as her father found him objectionable. Intent upon having bis own way in this as other matters, he killed her father in order to clear his path and went at once 10 her and relat- cd the fact. The girl still refused him; whereupon he killed her. His life is now demanded to expiatc double murder. How horrible!
 Parents, have you boys that are law-breakers in the school roomY Have you boys too good to come under, recognize and respect school discipline? If so, take warning. Gammon's history is their history written in advance; rot the same perhaps Tn detail, but the same in the end.
 Here is the letter referred to:
 Supr mo Court of Mississippi
 Jackson, Miss, Jan. a6, 1905. I
 My Dear George.-I have delayed answering yours of Jan. 4lh, be. cause 1 have been very busy with the work of tue court. Your let ter was like sounds from home--i, brought back the face ofone whom ] have always esteemed amongst the best of my friends, and also as one of the most cstimable of men.
 Gammon's is simply "one the moro" to evidence the truth that tho "way of the transgressor is ha:d," that ,'it IS good for man that he bear the yoke in his youth" and that he "who spares the rod, spells the child" We are all, more or less, put to it, to know just how much of the rod 10 use; but that child, if havo observed aright, is far safer who has got too much of it, rather than that other child who has got too little, or none at all. This unfortunate mans end was foreshadowed in tho refusal of father and mother to uphold the wlse, gentle, and pa tient teacher, in the proper correc. ton of an outbreaking boy. Il sometimes wish that we Baptists, 1 Me'hodists, and Episcopalians could adopt, in sort of general synod, the Presbyterian Shorter Catechism, and enforce it in the spirit in which it was intended 10 be enforced. It is the finest basis upon which to erect young man. hood and young womanhood, cap able of standing the storms and stress of temptations and trials, anywhere extant, in any church, protestant or catholic. My dear George, wish I had time to write a letter whose length might meas ure some portion of my love for you, but in this wretched world, where we glide by one another "llke ships that pass in the night" and have hardly more than time for salutation, We have but little opportunity to have next to us those who really occupy tho inner niches of our heart.
 May God bless and guide and uphold you.
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