The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1906-06-30

PROV up stream against the current
They do not let it drift with the tide
30 it is with our lives. IF we wish t,
TRY our strength, we must turn oul
faces to the current and face the tide
XXX
Absence cannot chill mothers love
nor can even vice itself destroy a
mothers kindness. The lowest degra-
datIon of human frailty cannot Who'll
ly blot out the remembrance of the
first fond yearnings of your affection
or the faint memorial of primeval in
nocence; nay, it seems as if the very
consciousness of the abject state of her
erring child more fully developed the
mighty force of that mysterious pas
sion, which can forget and forgive all
things; and though the youth of her
fairest hopes may be as one cast off
from God and man. yet will she not
forsake him, but participate in all
things save his wickedness.
*
A friend of ours lost a fine jersey
cow the other day-tied her too long.
She got tangled up in the rope and
broke her neck-a case of too much |
rope. How many instances there are
in life that are counterparts of the
above! The cherished of our hearts,
our own flesh and blood, are often al
lowed to gradually slip away from us
and out from under our control, all
because we love them so much and
hate to restrict their pleasures or say
"No" to them. They are out little
bit late, but they are our boys and
girls and they will be all right. Per-
haps later on it is the public dance,
case of beer and game of cards with
a, ten cent ante, and the first thing we
know all is lost, and we awake to
realization of the fact, only too late,
that it was just like our friends COW
"a case of too much rope. Be boys
and girls with your boys and girls and f
1t the same time be manly men and q
women, and your boys and |
girls will grow up like you, be proud Y
If you and you of them. d
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Every child has right to such an e
education as will qualify for life's du- s.
les. This is recognized as a patriotic c
luty by the state. The permanence
f our political institutions depends G
N the intelligence of our citizenship. b
The bayonets of foreign soldiers are b
ess to be feared than are the ballots Il
f ign GRANT voters.'' The welfare of ot
he state depends more on the moral
nd religious training of her citizens d;
nan on their intellectual training, yet te
le state makes no provision for this th
loral discipline. In some cases it h,
lakes it difficult or even impossible b,
} secure such training. The training m
the mind is not all. There must be M
training of the moral sensibilities, Isl
Irticularly the will. Not all this is an
e duty Of the public school; part is tn
e duty Of the church, but the largest tet
lrt is the function of home. Every
lid deprived, by whatever means, of
is education and training, is de-
auded out of an inalienable right, as'
ID when he comes into the inherit FOL
zee Of his citizenship, may be depen- II
d upon to avenge himself upon the II
,iety that perpetrated the fraud up Ii
him. In Difference to the views of
idels, atheists and Others, the Bible
EAST out of the public schools, and Se'
school books are stripped bare cf soc
erything that might tend to build
and strengthen the child's moral /,
aracter. 1t is cruelty to withhold Rn
m children this higher and greater tic
lining. Children have rights which hlo