A REMONSTRANCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 245, 6 October 1876, Page 2

A REMONSTRANCE.

IO THE EpjTOR OF THB .'EVENING MAIL.', Sir— A paragraph appears in this; morn-, ing's Times regarding my son, who Vas' yesterday ordered to be sent to the Training School. Your contemporary says the lad is "not nearly so ; black as painted by 'his' father." I sincerely wish he" wa&'not.; .. I, .have no desire to hold my own children up to public Maine, but the fact was that fce*had got altogether beyond my control or that of his mother, and was utterly unmanageable. He has dri /more than one occasion absented himself from home for four days and nights together, and was constantly frightening people by getting under houses aud lighting matches there.. :-. I am ; neither lazy nor intto--. lent, ahd would spare neither -.trouble^noa I expense in the endeavor to make my boy conduct: himself, respectably, but, having M.led.iney.ery-attempt I had made, I was driven to take the extreme step of calling in the assistance of the law. The writer of the paragraph in question can entertain but a light idea of the feelings of a parent towards his son, or he would not have accused me of "chuckling over the success that has" attended my endeavors in placing my boy for the time being in a prison cell." All of us, I suppose, have at c-ne time or another in our lifetime to make some great sacrifice or to take some step which causes us pain. None that I have ever taken previously has. given me more grief than thafc- to which I was, driven yesterday.— l am, &c, •B. Rosanowski. October 6, 1876. . ■ ■ .-