| Show J bl T H f fL L r With His Own Hand He Paints a Word Picture of Other And Ami Better Days IJas HE TELLS OF HIS DOWNFALL Disobedience to Parents ami the Asso Aso Association elation nf If lad Had Made Him n a Robber ami Much has hall been beell the past cou couple couIlle Ille of lC we kH of oC J M I Shockley the youthful of the two to Roll Fait Lak who lIe leu he h so 10 wanton wantonly I ly Iy took luok while to tu roll rob them of the money mOlle In heir Many picture awful R of ot lila his and the In hu his career cur er that ltd I thereto have been drawn Jut but not nol onu ani Is III ns or 01 an 1111 vivid as II the one Oil he himself drawn in III a U aletter letter written In III his prison Irl on cell a II Kv IV after Ills dreadful IH he nys ns li t plan Illan every eer that place In IH such lIuch a an U IJ may wiy I no 11 I wiy tillY 1 lIon dun t in III t l y tu III II u I 11 certaIn Is such u 1 ana thoro h n II umi JI I x OUI emili Lite It K t H 1 nothing tuil hUl a U For FOI i for tor omi ant Mt rul or 10 III I of oC human In mii 1 It In u Ous In III Hi end will PUSH will in loth InK lett of ur us but our and vc WC only what M 1 are ur J 1 am 10 llio to be he 1 h iy he of God Gud at the last and n l ly IJ lIch each The other nigh I as 1 Uy In III my III i 11 my paused back huck lo to a 1 of 0 o yearn l In III thu hu At AI tho far tur end of tm th 1111 i could hear heur thu tho low murmur of lie Iho voices uJ Cs of ut tho In III tho next cell to mine lOin Is u a condemned and ns all 1 I lilY Kiy there thinking for tor a 1 few short moments 1 J ct o absorbed ab In III my III that thai tho Iho sound the condemned manri continued trump trum tramp wait II out from my III hearing 1 I closed my In eyes lCt und this was thi th vision 1 that seemed 1 before me Ill A n II family a II comfortable sit It tIt tl near the of a beautiful val vIII ley Ic by picturesque hills bills large stately oaks Of that thai family there thero wai a n father I could this father clearly In my 10 mint mind im fill he Iw Ml at reading hili newspaper hili hair ly Iy with Krny InI a 1 man nearly six III tall with a II forehead a n drooping brown mustache a II noble of ot man hood and intelligence and honesty written In III every ever lineament of oC hla hili face and The mother was wall what would bo termed a Il wo woo with her hel hair dark eyes and pearly teeth m not t In III the least proud as to tu vanity only a I na Ill I pride the pride that good mother In III her family A close flono ull looking at her would tee cc love 10 affection patience within the of dark vy 11 A noble nobl woman one who willi was continually Hying to help wrong of ot no 1111 one and wati loved 1011 and cled by h nil all who know knol her A devout Christian an humble follower of ut God Clod Another ono aile of tho Iho group n IL rony rOil cheeked just budding Into womanhood The Iho eyes of tho father thu hair fart face and feature of oC the mother Very YOI distinctly dot h n thin menu of the como before fore my 11 vision 1 lon an nil she he sat at there thoro studying hii hll upon th Hoor two children ono one n 1 with 1111 very black bluck Pos eyes and a II growth nf of black curls down to 10 hr lorn On her lap u 1 In h r sho ho held n Ing In writing her name The other wa n f boy bo not nol yet et S 6 years old at lit I imo lele of If the tho Ire place pinel building block douses fretting noisily the Ilia block house would happen to full down This boy ho the tho youngest the th only lx hW y and tho pride of or the whole hOlls This Thill constituted a happy horno Hut rould that father and have lifted the veil ell which FO PO hutH out tin th future U It was best they could not P In III your minds another CHIP A prison Within of oC the parow lies n nun a II young man not lIot M It t M tJ yearn old ohl with an 1111 awful Hut u l 1111 i k what has tills this to do with tho The fw bov IHlY building Ic hous housen en e and lh th man In the prison Nil ate one un and tho I Again w f IlIn ask lI k How did it hap pen n 7 First ti tJ second Woys 1 dlf warning Obey your our Your par 00 JI I J uro rc your mother Is I J the best befit you will uv r have ha Al Although j though IM lit by 11 J M IT Shook I ley 11 iu III who has disgraced the tho very cry it t Af numo nf of Shockley all good will J hear mt m out In the I II statement there If ii I IJ li J no better advice could b L I i than thun the aboe I J I In my to tho f t awful of Jan C G many many t h l 1 woul l Minder My L nature my lilY HI R JUI U und l would Yo II lei li I I Ill cry ll out xui li but I r would f allow tempter templer to l net Het thi th upper hand ot oC me nil One thing 1 urn glad tu to know Id III that 1 r MII to do 1111 i iI 1 I wan doing Anti And If It the nun l would mate the Ihl truth he will ay IllY that I J I I told him hilll I dimply such t hu and Jut just UH 1114 soon tI JOlI 19 IS I I 1 would i mt wiy wy of o mak making I I ing IlIg a I King Hut thi help hell the Iho pree nt rno any 1111 only 1 will nay lUll that I am glad that lOll God li I eventually to bo lit our ami am ani fully of ot till the act that He lIe at t all known the feelings of our Jur all our thoughts Con ihlo thill 1 am to know that If It I r have to r the pen nIl 1 I will BO n to my III doom knowing In my own heart healt that Ho knows that nev never er ar limp on this fatal night lilt did didI I have murder In my In heart My M tiN were to the men that I t might HUM UI my life und the desire to toH H tn is only Itself Yours J M t Y |
