Show item to the effect that- A news al students were expelled fr one of the minor col of Ohio for pranks on night is of more than passing interest to all who are struggling with the great problem of that these students had not done anything or The is not agitated over the details of their They possibly broke the college rules and were in disgrace with the faculty be so arbitrarily ejected hut there is a confession of weakness in the government of the college dictators could not enforce their own Men of experience and authority who send boy culprits for discipline which was lacking within the college walls are exploiting the inadequacy of their own educational Where were the professors on witches' when spirits of mischief are abroad and license is for Why were not larking with the renewing their own youth and keeping the father of the man within The revivalist's method of salvation in for the be good for some of our educational the minto hazing and football goad them through their classics with whip and but have pity on them when they over- flow the bounds prescribed by ethical and think-twice before you cast a boy loose on the History Here vis a story that fits this It happened a dozen years ago r The family of Hiram President of the Home National Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Natural Gas Co sat at breakfast waiting for the ad of to ask a blessing on food before they ventured to His domestic like those of tho Medea and were observed by ls as a mat ter of could make it uncomfortable f fJ them if they Therefore the fee grew Cold waiting and tb newspaper folded at his patt was Lenox his morning paper at first hani On this morning his selfish was a kindness them they could not know the that awaited The family consisted of and Uri a fretful-loo ing who had learned the lessons of life from a harS There was a boy was at who had 1 distinction of being son of I Much expected of him as sole heir to I the honors of his Hs had seen his mother bullied aoS his sisters browbeaten all his and he had his on of and j was father last that he should be so late asked one of the j attended a meeting oj the Club and ga a talk on It last and naturally is tired this said the fretfully wish he would he f say and let us I shall be ferocious- ly all if I have to wait another tin's the youngest merry maiden of He came in at that with a churlish and the vigor with pulled out his chair aw dumped himself into it j strongly of ill 1 what we are about to was delivered in the same ua and was followed complaint the breakfast was incident being disposed by f new supply of hot food th was the usual breakfast of rattling dishes and spoons and as Lenox fed with one hand he turned his I per- with the he gave a savage pushing the table nearly overset front door opened quickly af a tall youth entered hastily outing carrying a lise in his He did not look at the women of the fam-j. but directly to J j 1 1 he spoke in a y but with a harsh have been It wasn't anything 1 bad only some foolish tricks we played on the There were five others I was not the only I asked their ill and it will just be sus-tai but I am as sorry as I al can but it was not meant for harm nothing but a little i His mother had risen quickly 's with the single word el One of his sisters took his lise from his trembling t The father alone relaxed not a a this comes of all we have lis done for A disgrace that will follow you to the end of your days It is written here V here where all may read and all know what my son has The human document before the angry man seemed to shrivel as the W tones and the scathing words A fell on the M me this fa-lj I am not a thief or a ei I have hurt any one only played a foolish er trick that night I helped to hoist a calf to the lecture room K of the We did not hurt the dumb brute we tied the dinner bell to its I dare say the professors them- i selves cut up such capers when 31 they were young and home- i sick tired of being men when they were only Forget and forgive menial I'll 1 will The ct cutting tones struck like a knife to the boy's have this A to and then I am done with bf the whole disgraceful I shall not forgive you if I live a hundred It is not the first of your and it will not be the But you shall not drag me From I now on you can have no home under this You can make your own way in the but expect no help from Go Let me never see your face y m But the mother in Len nox-was awakened She sprang to her How dare you disown your own flesh and If David then you cast us out for I go with plead for me I am not worth He can never take back what he has He is I am not his flesh and blood any longer I am like him iron and steel Let me go nAd may God deal with him when his time comes for asking mercy as he has dealt with The door closed after without a word a good-bye- he was leaving a stern and upright judge and those weeping This was the boy who had been named David because was a man after God's Did they never remember that King of sinned and went Far off in the Indian Territory lives an of He is a fearless a train a leader of holdup He is known as Daredevil Dick Fargo it is he but his real name has never been He stops short of murder in his criminal and has the reputation of being to women and And he never was known to oppress the The human document is marred now with hard Sin has indented that once plastic surface where God's message of love should have been And it dated from the boyish pranks of one M. 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