The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-20

:. s. c., JUNE 20, 1906
THE SAD STORY
OF YOUNG MAN WHO DIED A
CONVICT.
and The Moral to Be rraWn From
the Story Of His Sad
Fate.
Seldom In every day life does one
run across . mora tragic life story
than tnat Ct tha gentle Kentucky lac
who died the other day at High Point.
N. c., a rosd convict with a bcle
through bis body to mark tie path OF
yengeful bullet from the guards
ren,orseless Winchester. he Is spoken
Of as gentle, because, though clearly
lacking in high moral purpose, ne
seems to have been brought up polite.
| IL; md, besides, biz dying breath was
ole for better treatment for his
fel conVicts On the road. Hs was
cons 4srate Of his companions in sui,
fering, ana all the recorded utterances
OF the dying boy stamp him as p2s.
sessirg more OF the finer Instincts OF
his race than sone Of his felloW-uen
who have been lucky enough to stay
OF OF toe chain. gang.
he was convicted OF forgery IN q
N1rth Carolina court under an as
su6aed pa me, ana sent to the chain
gang. he refused 70 diVulge lis real
name, saying his parents wsre we'll to
do people in K.ntucky and that he
did lot want them to know OF his
Wsywardness aid disgrace. BE wa
zn intelligent, bright young nan ard
vas no doubt, as re claimed, reared in
well to-do home. After serEine
sometime or the chain-eang be made
an attempt to escape, ard was SHOT
by one Of the guards snd nortally
wounded. he was told that he Wa*
going to die and urged to tell Whist
his real name was aud where bis fllk2
lived IN KENTUCKY, but be declined.
He said he vas reared ia gentis>
Kenlucky hGme by inoolgent parent,
but would not reveal the name of MS
parents or where thsy lived. BE disc
AMI carried his secret With him to tbs
grave.
Taxing it as true, says the Caste.
MIA G2zatte, that be was bred In
gentle Ksntucky home, one wonders
ahat is the secret Of his downfall
Was it heredity? Vas it lack OF 2
mothers nursirg and a mothers pray
eIl? DID this nau sin or his parents
saat he vas born to temptation Ike
tie +; 81 Of Us ard at last died con
vic,? Perhaps these things will neve:
bs known until every thirg else l..
opened TO the ken Ct msn ard the an
qels, bu5 tasre is one sen:eoce Of bis
las5 words that may serve to base a
guess upon. II YVES reared to every
5uing I wanted, - he said, and theseit
may have been the opsn door TO al
the i'll scat he could not conquer Il.
his life's little way.
There are few OF US who do lot neec
toe swing virtues which come to oui
characssrs from dtscioline-hard, aus
sere discipline. Enlurs hardness ss >;
good soldisr, was une Apostles I'M INC
ton. Hardness Is good when enduret
Tor the good it brings, and scns hard.
ness must be endured by every moth
er's son Of us who would be more thai
q piece Of G1itt- wood On sea Of sin
TGere is training in it. And training
always locks to 5he future, is Away.
directed TO an hcur OF trial, OF peril,
CT triumph or dsfeat. TIE ,fair-facac
little boy with merry eyes and loving
ways and ever cheering laughter over
flowing with good fellowship, tempt
iond parents and a5mirlrg neighbors
to crafty his every want.
Bstter not 90 that. Be- good to hin
and deny hin sone things. TIE lad
sbe guards rids killed had everything
ae wanted when he was growing up.
And when the choice was presented
80 1in OF denying his pride or forging
q check, be vas weak on self Geu:a:
snd s,roSg in 5he opposite direction.
He had no5 been trained for the tess
sId the whip rings Of evil won the
conflict. Temptations, trials, many
psrilous hours will come; wee to hin
ano goes 10 meet them in bis cru6e
unframed strength; more woe to him
who goes with his powers already
dominated by evil influences! Tee
hebrew lsd IN the cour5s Of B1bylon
was disciplined before the houi-he
Tad thought Of It, be had 'purpossd
in bis hesr5 that he would not, ano
be didn'rl
Our people are accumulating at a
rate they have never before kno3n
the material things OF life. Parents
are better able than ever before to
crafty evsrY want Of their children.
But 1t Is good idea not to do It.
Teach them to work. Occupied with
aheir work, they forget many foolish
wants, and that brain which, when
idle, is the devils workshop, becomes
at once 8 tryStine place for all OF life's
goud angels. Tesch the boy thrift,
That is all right; thrift is good woru
aad the word represents 6 thing that
Is filed vita self discipline, seli'deni
al. Teach him turift, with honor 20
balance 1t, and one OF these days come
CODY is going to be proud OF the boy.
Mothers, don't fear 10 see your darling
boys get their garbs mussed up at
work.
Don't be afraid to have then come
hoEs at night hungry and maybe
tired, 700. An honsst days work has
never yet nucu a boy, and If it takes
enough Of the snap out Of him to kesp
niu IF the street al night and send
hiE 20 bed early, you ought net to
say, Poor little tsl!oH!" The rather
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