Show THE TILE LIMIT Or OP nUT DUTY Some weeks ago a sad and curious case was reported from an adjoining state In which a man who had formerly for for- merly been wealthy but who ha had re resided resided resided re- re sided for years cars In the county count poor poorhouse poorhouse poorhouse house died and was burled buried at county count i c expense The Tho man had a number of lIV living sons SOIlS and daughters and It Is clear the they attended the funeral for a daughter took occasion to say some very vcr sharp things to her brothers for having left their father to die In an ana a alms house lie He had been a prominent and wealthy man but his fortune fortuno had all aU gone from Crom him and In his later days ho he had not possessed the ability either cither to accumulate or to take care of the little that was vas left The point of the case was that his children left him homeless while thc they had plenty and that they defended themselves In what seems an unnatural course by b pointing out that the old gentleman I was not fit lit to come Into one of oC their houses Maybe Maybo he was not They The should be bo better judges of that than any anyone one at this distance can possibly be But It does not dispose of ot the question Is the child chil under obligation to condone all offenses of ot a a. perverse parent Is Isit it ft possible for him to so deport himself himself himself him him- self as to absolve his own children from the tho duty of caring for him bun If Jf the they theP are financially able to do so Granted that he may sin awa away his day of or grace with his children then the action of the thc sons in the case mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- is probably quite excusable If IfS S not then no refusal of children to provide for tor his comfort In his declining ing lug years ears can be regarded as right There was one argument in that t case c that appeals to the minded fair It r reader and that was the thc presence of t. r-t. i children in In inthe the homes of the sons They had some rights It should not be bo required that any anyone one be brought r within the circle of or their Influencing who would have a n bad Influence upon them But the sons were rich and they the would not give anything for the support of their thell father That seems to to togo go rather beyond the limit of warrant war rant to exceed I the self sel defensive prerogatives of the sons There Thele Is an obligation that can not well be overlooked A inan man should do right I If he docs does not not the world may punish him The world may set him out of the way But may his own flesh and blood do so May the children children chil chil- dren whom he ho has cared for Cor In their Infancy exer exercise lse the rigid rule of the unrelated world worM and film Attn from the threshold which his own hand made possible for tor them theta to se secure se- se cure from the board which he so short a time before provided for them then from the bed In which he has laid them to sl sleep cp In their childish health and unconscious unconscious uno un un- un- un o conscious innocence If It the tho case were that of oC the mother one would woul have havo no difficulty difficult In ing No Xo matter what she might be or 01 ordo ordo do no matter what higher standards tho the children might have than the old S. S mother might retain she should never be exposed to one wind that the thc care and tlC UC fortune of the child could deS deI defend de de- de- de S I lend fend her from But Dut it Is not so certain certain tam tain about the thc father The case created a scandal an and a very er interesting lawsuit may grow out of it For the daughter is inclined to think that the brothers who dealt harshly with her father dl did S unfairly by h her r. r But the tho lawsuit will not riot settle that other question Were thc they under any circumstances warranted warranted warranted war war- ranted in abandoning their father Cather to toS S the rigors of oC a paupers pauper's life and the I sadness of oC an outcasts outcast's deathbed Thanks to the boundless charity of children as to t the e usual record of or men it is Js a questiOn n that does not often for an answer S |