The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-30

could not tell who he was he didn't
know any more about himself than the
wild man OF BOrneo knows of the
aurora borealiS, or if he did he couldn't
tell it. The young man had never seen
the helpless individual before and as he
could not tell who he was or where he
lived he finally gave up in despair and
thought he would call for the patrol
wagon as it would never do to leave the
man and the whisky out all night. He
remembered that there was a telephone
in the grocery store across the street
and so he left the loose jOinted inebriate
in the grass While he went over and
pounded on the door to awaken the
groceryman who lived near the store.
After great deal of pounding and loud
talking ne succeeded in getting the
grOceryman to let him in. He told the
story of the drunken man and then tele-
Phoned for the patrol wagon. He and
the grOceryman stood around and talk
ed about people who would get intoXi-
Gated ana make other people trouble.
| They philosophical little and said some
things that would not look Well in
print.
BY and by the hurry up wagon
came and they went over to help load
the drunken man. 1t was then that the
groceryman discovered that the man
was his son. The informer who had
sent for the patrol wagon almost faint
ed. He had aroused a man from his
| peaceful sIumber in order that he might
help put his own son in jail.
They see all varieties of human
nature at the Jail and a day OF two ago
the keepers We're given a sample of its
weakness. The boy had been very bad.
He would not obey his parents, who
| loved him as good honest parents do
! love an erring son; he would not go to
| school and he would no nothing that
| was right and did other things that
! were wrong. They reasoned with him
and pleaded and prayed with him, but
Df n q wa OF
to be bad and bad he was. They threat
ened to take him to the probate judge
and have him sent to the reform school,
/ ard this scared a little goodness into
/ his corrupt make up for a time, but he
/ was soon back at his wicked ways and
| played truant with remarkable regular
/ ity. They frightened him into being
| decent several times with the probate
| they were obliged to take the final step.
| They took him before the judge and he
| was sentenced to the reform school.
After his parents had gone the deputy
sheriff took him to the jail and locked
| him up in a nice light room with a
/ cot in it and iron bars on the doors and
| windows. The boy laid down on the
| cot and did some thinking. Finally he
! decided that he did not like the place
and that he was sick. The more he
| thought of it the more he was con-
WINGED that some frightful disease germ
| had seized his intestineS and was yank-
ing them around and tearing them
apart. He concluded that the only per-
son on earth who could make the terri
BILE pain take flight was his mother SO
he said: please, Mr.. JaIler, L am sick
and I want to see my mother" The
| jailer is a kind man and he sent word
to the boys mother. Before she came
| he was in agony. 1t may have been the
| pain that caused him to groan and it
| may have been the thought that maybe
| she wouldn't come. l suppose he
thought of a great number of mean
things he had done that had almost