South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-07-01

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W c. n I. COLUMN.
The Louisiana w. q. +. U. kao
ordered tablet. ia Willard Halt
in the Temple. in honor Of Mrs.
Caroline X. Mcrrick, {ts vsll b.
loved president for tea SeArs. Hash
union IN the State, and there NJ
forty of them, will ooatributs %. 90.
Mrs. Merrick resigned the presi-
deacy in April, being NADIA hons
orary president for life, and Mrs..
Mary Reade uoodslc was elected ID
her place.
The Board Of Ycmplo Trustees
were given one year to nav Mar
shall Field 800 GOO for the Tem-
pie Stock held by him. In 6vs
months they have paid t85, 900.
Rooms in the Temple are renting
most satisfactorily. No damage
was done by the recent cyclone be-.
yond breaking Hvc Of the lafRg
plate glass windows behind the
elevators. and s,raining the nerves
OF the inmates to concert pitch.
Lady Henry Somerset did NOT
go to Eastnor Castle, after her ro-
turn from America, till about June
LIST, public and philanthropic du-
ties having pressed tho service OF
this noble woman. On her return
to the Castle she was greet,d at tho
railroad stat on by her ntiro ten
antry and the people OF Led bury.
An illuminated address was prs.
sented her and a procession Of
! children sang songs and strcwod
flowers as her carriage passed.
Mrs. Mary Clement Lcavit has
returned home after almost eight
years In the service Of the w. q. Il.
U. In foreign lands. She has sis-
tied most known lands, the last OF
which was South America whcro
she spent five months. She croxs-
ed the equator eight times and was
In ~ differeat countries; organized
$50 Unions, held 1000 meetings.
making her addresses IN AZ Ian
guages and travelled 100, 900 miles.
on 10 cent collections. She has.
girded the world with the White
Ribbon, and has known both how
"to be abased and how to abound
for she has been mobbed aud
magniffed, and now rests on hor
laurels in Boston, Mass.
A boy II years old was hung the
other day in Wyoming, for q muir
der committed when no was IL
years OF age. That was an official
murder and the worse crime of the
two-because it was done ia cold
blood and with The State and courts
as accomplices. That hey had
none Of the rights Of citizenship. he
could not vote nor will away his
property, nor would any contract
made by him have legal recogni.
ton. But worse than all. the law
was violated in trying and condemn.
ing him wisiiout jury of his
peers-only a jury Of minors ike
himself would have ben his peers.
IL such wero incompetent under
law to serve az jurors q like ineom-
potency existed for the ether how
to die under law. A minor haa no
rights Of citizenship under the
State, neither should he have its
penalties; his privileges and govern
ment inhere in the parent. If the
parent dies without making ether.
provision the State recognises The
minors Incompetence and assumes
the guardianship of his property.
The State is prodigally negligent
OF its child-life. II provides for
education, bat leaycs the weIfara.
of the minor without parental care
10 the benevolent public, tho church
or whoever may or may not chan
pm ~ 1AO bSo VI COn86UE II
provides for the moral and physical
wreck Of it's girl children, and for
the reckless debasement of ;fa.
males; it gives legal right to the
saloons to destroy All the children
1t may outside saloon walls: and
after all this criminal traIning--
takes the boys life when no com
mits criminal act. The only fuak
conduct Of the State would be ~
extend tho same guardianship Ia
the character and life Of the child
that it gives TO his property; II be
has criminal tendencies, commit
him to the reformatory and indus.
trial school for correction and train
ing--and cease 10 shock the publio
sense Of justice and humanity bv
the judicial murder Of q subject not
aniendsble to the lew under which
he dies.
Mfaa Williams erro.eI 81