Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-04

experts recently in our city went to
this extreme, and even in the neither
world there must have been some clam
destine POPULARITY over this ultra solicit
tude for the wrongdoer
That some practical progress has
been made was evidenced in the dis
cussions. Less stress was laid upon
heredity than upon environment For
one, permit me to give preference to
environment, 1 believe that were fifty
babies-no, that's too many, say twen-
ty babies-taken from as many differ
ent lands and kindergartened in Hol-
land, they would each and every one
grow up as Dutch as a tulip. If you
ana l were nurtured under the palm
trees on a South sea island we might
have developed taste for broiled mis-
slonary, no matter what the predilec-
tons of our torbears
Now this country, as we have been
told over and over again, is the mixing
pot of nations. Out of the infants of
perhaps hundred different peoples we
ere called upon to make good Ameri-
cans. Let us furnish the right kind of
environment. All our weed and thistle
seeds are not blown to these shores
from abroad. Many of them are native.
child is like vine. Some of us can
remember little of the old-fa shioned
child culture when the mother would
say to father concerning a recalcitrant
KID, take him out, Henry, and give
him q good trimming. Trim up child
in the way he should CO.
Were this system of homo-culture
applied to the minor offenders in this
country, even when past childhood's
years there would doubtless be fewer
felonies and some severe back-smarts;
from twenty to forty lashes we'll laid
on would save much of the board bills
that the county now pays to the sher-
if.
1.-THE little state of Delaware has
good reason to believe in the efficacy
of flogging. Lying though she does on
the highways that lead to the great
coast cities, the wayfaring marauders
shun her inhospitable shore and lightly
walk around her. There are some queer
things in this country regarding the
treatment of criminals There are Cit
les to which they repair for sanctuary.
One such city is said to be on the
south side of Lake Erie, to which the
evildoers run and remain undisturbed
until the hue and cry against them has
abaited. While there they are on their
good behavior and will not be disturb
ed as hong as they remain good. A
logging law might better things some
what In Indiana, especially in Indian
opolis, though it would run counter to
the mawkish sentimentality of the day.
of course, something is to be said
on the score of heredity. Were a setting
of eggs to be placed under staid and
Gemure hen one might count upon
chicks of a like fashion. But not from
duck eggs. The downy ducklings would
greatly to the distress of the mother
get their feet wet at the neighboring
pond.
Indiana, to my mind furnishes one
Of the most romantic and interesting
illustrations of the strength of environ
ment in contrast with herealty-ano
that the call of civilization can not pre-
vail against the call of the wild 1t Is
the story of Ma-con-a-quah, the W mite
Rose. In the year ITS in the month Oh
July, during the revolutionary war
tribe of Delaware Indians, lncited py
the British, swooped down upon the
wyoming valley, near Wilkes Barre,
Pa.
MANY OF the white settlers were
killed In one house u five-year-eld Slrl
had crawied under a stairway to hlde
from the savages. Her little feet were
sticking out One of the Indians pulled
her from her hiding place, swung ner
over his shoulders and carried her
away She was taken to New YORK
state, near the falls of Niagara, ana
was adopted by the chief. Dressed as
4 savage she grew up one. The Indi-
ans were good to her. They gave her
the name of White Rose. She married
twice, first to a Delaware Indian ana
later to a Miami chief, She-buck-o-nah,
who was deaf She removed to lndi-
ana. In 1899, George Winters, an In
diana artist, went to Deaf-Man's vii
lage, on the Mississinewa river, near
Peru, and painted a portrait from life
of this woman. (Winters, it is recall
ed, painted a picture of the Battle OF
Tippecanoe. This picture, large can
vas. hung upon the wall of the supreme
court room when that court was held
in a building at the southwest corner
of washington street and Capitol ave-
nue.. 1t was afterward removed to the
city library, when that building stood
on the site of the Newton Claypool
building. The picture has since disap-
peared.)
TT was in September 1887 fifty-nine
years after the abduction that the SIS
ters and brothers of Frances Siocum'
for such was her name, reached the
Indian village on the MississineWa- She
had entirely lost her mother tongue.
Her older brother identified her by the
nail being gone from her left fore ing
or as it had been when she was iost.
She recalled the name of Frances ~hen
II was spoken to her. They begged her
to return with them for sight OF the
old home No. she said, I am an oIu
tree and can not be transplanted.' by
long habit she had become an lnalan
with their manners and course OF me-
She looked entirely like an lndlan' I
talked, slept, ate, and reasoned like one
and was as Unconditional and reserved,
She had three daughters and numoerl
of her descendants are yet living III
this state.
1.-THE moral of this story may be that
the indian did better with those whoh
aa,.od i,,tr his environment imam