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H# II.
’ terser Humming up of
■ law of natural pun*
nls than in the trite old prov-
_ inhout '‘burnt children.” They
dp“dtvud firo;”aiul until they have
Seen “burnt” they don't know any
’hiug about “fire.’' How should
they? The eye teaches them noth
ing about it except that it is beau
tiftil to look at; the ear, that it
crackles and roars like a great wind
. . »iu a forest,or, in its going out,sigh'
! ogicu outcome an j whispers like the breath of a
. „ " e * a ’ Tu 8** r conc - ,t > lover. To (lie chiled frame it is cotn-
ipreme selfishness and an utter
; of principle. Of Davis we
pxpeoted better things. We
I not think be would sell out so
Jheaply, or in fact that he would
pll at any price. For this very
son,and also because we thought
vould testify the sinoere desire
,'i.ys - ,y>-vemocrats to abandon, so far as
’ f ^.-y^y were oooaerned, the bitterness
X vgj *hst has for many years past
‘ ^‘charaterised party confiiote, we
oped that the Democrats
"“a elect Senator Davis to pre-
over the Senate; and notwith-
.uding the fact that he has sold
, we still think good policy
ould have dictated his election
: by the Democrats; for we believe
Hj; '' his honest inclination was with the
' Democrats, and that they could
have secured his vote simply by
electing him to the positioi he
now holds; whereas we are con
fident that the Republicans had to
pay him for acting contra y to his
real sentiments, and hmeo there
was an undontandixg that he
should heaoefbrth visa with them,
and that they wxnM provide for
his friends and elect him to preside
over the Semte. Events have de
monstrated that he is prepared to
carry on.' the bargain; as for in
i’ 1 .’ starve when Republican Senators
were voting to turn out an honest
Republican postmaster in Virginia
to put in his place a henchman of
Mahone, “Your Uncle David” re
fused to vote and thus gave the
Republicans a majority in the Sen
ate—, that is, his refusal to vote
auiounted to the same thing as
voting for Mahone and his repudi
ating gang.
We regret exceedingly that Mr.
Bayard in ins extreme desire to
obtain the place of presiding officer
of the Senate, was willing to sacri
fice Democratic supremacy in the
Senate. We say we regret his ac
tion, for until recently, we in com-
^ mon with the whole country had
^ the utmost confidence in his unsel
fish patriotism; but by his course
in the matter we are discussing, he
has in a large measure destroyed
tiiis belief, and with it, his chan
ces—if he ever had any—of the
Presidency. The only way in which
he and his friends can regain the
full confidence of the country will
he to show that Senator Davis re
fused to accept at Democratic hands
the place he holds by Republican
rotes. For his own sake, we trust
he will be able to do this, bnt we
fear the truth is otherwise.
We here repeat what we have
heretofore said, let Democrats for
the future act for the welfare of the
party, and, therefore, of the ooun-
try, and not for the pleasure oi ag-
W \ grandixement of any man, however
exalted his position unless the
^ pleasure or aggrandizement of that
,\i man shall also be lor the welfare
and success of the party.
Exposition Excursions.
We learn upon good authority
that there is a strong probability,
that the Central Railroad will, dm
ring the present month run one or
mors excursion trains from Colum
bus and Mason to Atlanta, at the
rate of one cent per. mile, or three
dollar* and six cents for the round
trip from Butler. If such u train
should be run, we unhesitatingly
advise every man, woman and
child who oan raise the amount
necessary to pay the expenses of
the trip—say ten dollars eaoh—to
visit the great show. They will
perhaps never have another oppor
tunity to see so much for so little
money.
Neakly am. the ills that
A itliqt Mankind can be prevent-
J nd cured by keeping the atom-
liver and kidneys in perfect
There is no medi-
that will do this as
as surely, without ra
il your duties as Par-
iTonio. 8e > advertise-
fort, restoration, strengthjina myriad
ways we must use it perpetually or
the machinery of living would oonie
to a stop, and endless miseries set
in at once. Nevertheless, if we for
a single moment use it wrongly, let
it come too close, leave it without
check, guard, control,it destroys us
and our labor in an hour; having
once been “burnt,” we “dread* it
the rest of our lives, and if we are
burnt twice it is not unless we are
foolish, by our own fault.
The analogy holds good through
everything in lile. It is nature’s
grand law of discipline and reform.
If ever we grow wise at all it is by
this method, it ever we are safe it
is by this form of education. The
only drawback on its working is
that nature is too patient a creditor;
lets ns run up too long bills; and
then, cruel usurer, exacts a more
than compouud interest at lost. If
in every other form of transgression
we got os quick punishment as we
do when we transgress the laws of
using and approacking fire we
should grow wise—forewarned and
torearned—very early in life. Es
pecially if moral transgressions were
thus speedily followed by their in
evitable puuiehments should we
grow spiritually wise-in much bet
ter time than we do now.
But soon or late this is the way
we learn all the practical wisdom
we ever get, that stays by us and
becomes a working principle in oar
lives. All else is more or less arbi
trary, extrinsic, and likely to fail
us in an emergency.
And in the truing of children all
effective and truly reformatory
punishments must be devised and
dealt with on this plan. It takes
much more time than the empircal
method of simply making use that
if a child is naughty he ‘suffers for
it’ by means of blows or other cheap
and hasty methods of infiiotiog
short-lived pain. If a child breaks
a law—either a natural law or a law
made and founded on natural rea
sons by a parent—be should be
caused to sutler in the precise way
which is the natural sequence of til-
particulur type of offense he has
committed, and would be alwuy
found by him to the end ot life to
be the natural scqucnco of that
type of offense.
This mei hod not only takes more
time than the old empiracl method
but it takes much more thought.
It requires no little ingenuity to de
vise and carry out such careful ap
portionment discriminated and dis
criminating punishments. But it
can be done; aud its doing has this
recommendation, that ouoe done it
is done onoe for all.
A child taught on tbiB plan is
taught; not trained. With patient
and persistent use ot arbitrary re
wards and penalties any young an
imal can be trained to do and not
to don surprisingly large number
of things; to obey commands in
stantaneously and to recognise his
master and trainer as master on all
occasions. The instant and tech
nical obedience to commands, which
seem to be with many parents the
sole thing they desire to seonre and
receive from their children, seems
to me to be very mnch on a level
with the training above described,
and of comparatively little more
worth. Tlie analogy coaid be car
ried still farther, with still farther
discredit to the “training" system.
If one of these little technically
trained animals, a dog for instance,
say the best trained one ever known
—and some of them have been train
ed to perform a great number of
marvelous tricks and to render a
marvelous obedience—were to 'be
turned loose in the world, deprived
of his master's eye,voice sugar and
whip, ho would be the most help
less and worthless of dogs Not a
our in the streets that would not
get the better of him and know
more about looking out forhimrelf.
It seems to me that to train a child
solely on the theory of instant and
blind obedience only tends tq make
him helpless and incapable,like the
(ruined dog.
A bit of sugar and the words
“Good dog, goid dog,” for jump
ing at command over the stiuk,uud
a blow for not doing it, that is the
enlightenmcut of the dog’s con
science, A metaphorical bit of
sugar and the words, “Good boy,
good boy,” for some jequally me-
chnnical act, at command, and
blows for refusing to perform it,that
is, on the empirical plan, the en
lightenment of thechild’s conscience
How shall we learn the deep dif
ference between right and wrong
the gnlf between g <od and bad, and
the practical odds to him, now and
forever, between doing and being
the one, and doing and being the
other, when everything, so far as
he sees, turns on a point of obedi
ence or disobedienoe to orders; and
he gets punished for all disobedi
ence alike by blows, or their equiv-
olent?
1 know a child to whom the mor
al sense, the peroeptioh ot moral
measures, was, in my opinion,hope
lessly blunted, ir not destroyed,
before he was twelve years old, just
in this way. He was whipped
when be refused to pick np his
blocks; and he was whipped when
he told a lie; do more surely and
no harder for the lie than for the
refusal to pick np the block. How
should he over oeme of a sadden to
see that the lie was any worse
thing than the not picking np the
blockB?
Lace-workers working on thin,
delicate fabrics in cellars go blind
in a few years from seeing all thinks
so unnaturally in half darkneso.
Why may not a human being’s
spiritual vision be permanently
hurt and dimmed by growing up in
such a moral fog as this?
There are many simple and nat
ural puni.hmeuts which it is eaay
to explain to a child—even to
very yoirag child; and, so doing, to
so enforce the natural law on which
they are based that he will before
long understand it as well a* he
understands that water will make
him wet. For instance, if he is dis
orderly, and persists in leaving his
playthings in great confusion about
the house, leaves his knife, slate,
pencil, carelessly where they are
oxposed to being Inst, take things
so left away from him and hide
them. Deprive him of them at first
for a short interval ol time; if this
does not answer, then for a longer
one; and if he still persists in the
bad habit, warn him that they will
be taken away and given to some
other child for good and all. This
is wbat happen* to grown-up peo
ple if they are careless and disor
derly, Their things are destroyed
or lost, and they have to go with
out them, often at great disconven-
lence. This is the natural, uni
versal, inevitable punishment of
disorderiesness, lack of system and
care-takiDg. Ifit should so hap
ped that a child, persistently die-
ordetly, were to some day lose n
much desired trip, or excursion,SDd
be obliged to stay in-doors ail day,
beratise hd could not find his boots,
or cap, or coat, it would be a les
son worth a hundred sermons,and
all other sortB of punishments put
together,
If a child is ill-natured, fretful,
cross, few things work so well
leaving him alone; not carrying him
off, or shutting him up, which at
first sight might up|iear to be the
same thing, and mean as mnch to
him. Not at all. That is not what
happens to grown people who are
ill-tiHiiired ami fretful. We go
away from them, we avoid their
houses, we let them alone. When
a mother gathers up her work and
says, “Weil, dear, I’m going into
another room! 1 can’t it»t in the
room with suoh a cross boy any
longer. Dome, children,come away.
Let’s go where it is pleasanter,’’that
strikes home instantly to the child's
love of companionship, leve ol ap.
probation, sense of shame. In nine
cases out of ten he will beg them
Dot to go, and becomes pleasanter
on the insta t. If she takes him
by the arm, under arrest,
were, leads him off and shots him
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