The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-14

IT az AtaE "a Vi lAt EEAEA OK the 4
chlio and then you can get the truth
out of him"
lie old the story OF the little Girl
who declared she saw q big lion COM
ing down the street, and upon being |
sent upstairs to pray about the mat
ter returned saying. Yes. l asked EOS
to forgive me for telling q story but
he said when~he first saw the de-.
ne thought IL was a lion too Boys
viii often grease the street car track |
Just te hear, as they say. de smotor-
man cuss,"
Ar appeal 10 the child's interest i
greater than an appeal To the club"
he frequently visited his friend. Mr..
Edison, and one morning about 3
o'clock, just when Mr.. Edison usually
gets to talking we'll, he remarked that
IN a few years more the fourteen
year-old child would know more than
n e present college graduate. OF
course. that IS not saying much. per
haps. The interest which can be
by the moving picture and
other modern inventions Will bring
this about.
Kinds of Restraint.
"SeVenty-tive out Of every hundred
children put in Jail are RECALLED for
worse offences. and while jails are
necessary we need something else be
side Jalls. There are two kinds of re
%stralnt; inward and outward. The out
ward is de cop1l git me- or IN git
a llckln, or sometimes, III go 10
hell
Johnny, a bedraggled youth. had
gone to Sunday school for the first
time. When asked wha kind Of a
place it was he replied:
II gives up a penny and don't git
nOthin' back, and learned dat angels
had wings jes like a chicken. but dey
never told me whether dey laid eggs
or not
He had a minister friend who was
delivering a series of lectures in sew
eral different cities. In a strange chy
he was trying to inc the postofice
and incidentally asked q group of
boys. After one of the gang had
told him the way, he said to them
they should come and near him lee
ture on The Way to Heaven" mo,
no." replied a youngster quickly, IF
you cany find your way to the post
office you don't know nuthin' bout
the way to heaven"
Deacon Didn't Arrive.'
AS illustrative of the Chlld'S keen
~observant power he told Of the old
deacon whose example did not ex-
actly square with mis- precept. He
lived in a country village and upon
being taken sick was attended by the
village physicians, who from time &c
time posted bulletins on the deacon's
gate such as sinking rapidly" nc
; improvement" and finally appeared
tiAN iotAGS, SUM- ~ IL "as
not long until another bulletin haC
been secretly tackled beneath the 9th.
ers. It read: "Grea: excitement il
,, heaven. Deacon not arrived"
: He spoke Of the c~ontributory de
I %linquency law which he after grea
: effort had passed, a law which make
every man and woman responsible,
law which meant there should be n,
. cursing before the child, no indecen
things shown or said to him. no drink
r ing before him.
i Little Mickey helped to get tn
: law through. One day he came to tn
Judge and said:
"Jedge, didn't l help you git da
. law through?'
e "'Why, yes, Mickey
e "'Well, where do L come in den?
+ "And at another time Mickey said
r "'You know, ledge, / told you
0 was fifteen, and it's so. But [ under
stand dis law keeps us out beloN
fourteen. ledge, can't We fergit 'bou
n me being fifteen
IS MANY a child needs the docto
e rather than the Jail. He was the frs
d judge who ever sent a trust presiden
to Jail. He also had the honor
send the chairman Of the Republica
: party to Jail, and would nave sent tn
chairman of the Democratic part
e there but he skipped the State"
d Judg Lindsey sat on the benc
e with the High Point city recorde
If Monday morning. OF course he di
% not preside, but he conferred frequent
al ly with the acting judge, DR.. Dire
IS Peacock. There happened to be i
d the morning session one boy culpri
He was found to be guilty beyond an
le doubt. DR.. Peacock asked Judg
y Lindsey to sentence the prisoner. Ate
d a talk with the boy which no Ii VIII
d heard it will ever forget, th
Judge wrote him out an order sen
Of enCing him to so to the Auditorium
l. the evening and hear him lecture. Il
d. left it with the little boy to act (
his own sheriff in the execution
lie the sentence.
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