The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-02-01

over his shoulder. wheeling bis back
to his foe rs he did so. Valentine
could bend sharply forward and throw
his assailant helplcssly over his head
and on TO the floor in heap with the
dlsconcertlng flying mare"
But midway In his rush the warden
stopped short. lie had caught him
self Just In time. About to throw
himself bindly at his intended victim,
thought tan inspiration he after
ward considered IL TO bel flashed
| through his brain. The warden halt
ed. much 20 the amazement Of his
secretary. Smith. who had been watch
ing the proceedings with uncoucern
born Of experience i'm like happenings.
Then Handler turned away. rested one
hand on his desk and with the other
stroked his heavy. square chin re1ec-
lively.
"God!" he pondered. Suppose the
lieutenant governor should get on to
those deals in the contracts for sup
plies? He might. and then I'd need
| him 10 be NV friond
Handler reached out. picked up a box
from the desk and extended it to the
now thoroughly thunderstruck convict,
who was slowly recovering from the
mental strain of the last few moments.
"Have a cigar" smiled the warden gra-
ciously, with a sweeping bow. also
permit me to offer you a chair, Mr..
Valentine.
"By the way" he went on easily,
"are you perfectly comfortable in your
cell? If not, want to know what
can do for you. I'm going to have
Smith go to see you every day to do
for you anything that you want. pro-
vided the rules of the prison permit.
and maybe some things they don't"
Valentine, hardly believing what his
eyes and ears told him actually to be
occurring, dropped bewilderedly into
the proffered chair and, taking a gilt
banded Havana from the box, stuck 1t
eagerly between his lips.
"Have q light" said the warden,
striking a match and extending 1t to
the end of Valentines cigar.
The secretary stood across the room
near door, eyes staring in his wonder
as No. 1899 leaned back luxuriously in
his chair, crossed one striped leg over
the other and sent fragrant clouds of
blue smoke toward the ceiling.
"This'll be a regular Y. NJ. c. A. be-
fore we get through" he gasped. II
think I'll apply for a job as worsted
holder for some old maids sewing so
ciety. This prison is getting altogether
too genteel to suit me-"
When a young lad Of good parentage
and of sound training and education
begins to chafe under the restraint of
parental discipline it is time for the
parents to exercise the wisdom got
only from the lessons taught in the
great school Of the wide, wide world.
Theories and principles expounded
ever so convincingly will not keep the
growing boy at home after o'clock
in the evening when there is a chance
to escape into the streets to meet the
"bunch," the alluring, versatile bunch
whose plans so often include the ami
hilation of the Sioux warriors of the
Dakota plains who have laid down the
tomahawk to take up the agency clay
pipe and store clothes.
That is to say, theories and princi-
pies merely will not suffice to restrain
the impulsive, imaginative, action
craving youths unless the parent COM
bines with them enough knowledge of
the world to convince the half formed,
half trained youthful mind that the
mentor has the best interests of the
lad in mind, that he has been through
it all himself and knows full well the
! joys and disappointments, the fears
and hopes of early days.
And it is the habitually stern, Opt-
mistic. unyielding and academic par
ent who convinces the young lad that
he knows nothing of the fascinating
temptations of boyhood. The spirit
of compromise is allowed to perish by
such a parent; the spirit of rebellion
grows in the sons heart; a spirit nour-
ished on the decay of the respect and
love thrust aside by the father who
would not understand.
A certain lad of sixteen years found
| life in his New England home far
more circumscribed than was that of
his companions of the same age and
same comfortable position. He was
not allowed to go swimming in the
lake because his young friend Tommy
Clark had narrowly escaped drowning.
The fact that Tommy Clark could not
swim and was taking dare" on that
memorable occasion when he verged