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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
Personal BreefS

Rev. Moore our beloved paster of the
Binpvi11e church while co-nmuning with
Nachure back OF his house had a wasp
to sting him, and next Sunday Rev.
Moore will preach from the text, 20
Deth Where Is Thy Vicktry' Rev.
Moore says he s1eercely ever walks
out that he don't git some inspirashion
or other.
Miss Molly Tucker our quire organist
in the church punskshuated the services
last Sunday morning with turrible
screech. 1t seems that mice had made
a nest in the organ and during the ser
vice one of EN- run outen the organ rite
under Miss Mo11ys feet
Andy Tewksbury a former resident
of Bingville who about FIVE yrs ago
moved over to Pottowassie Co., was
visitor in our midst last wk shaking
hands with old friends. Andy says that
Bingville has improved turrible sinst
he left town. Well, as we said in these
columns when Andy left without payin
up his subscripshion that it was "a good
radiance OF bad rubbish.
Jaspar Hawkins while cutting across
lots in the dark to go to the P. O..
tother night fell into a excavashion
which Cy Hoskins was digging back
of his house confusing his head and
skinning his shin-bone which caused
Jasp to swear considerable but other
wise he was uninj ured.
Mrs. Martha Tucker done big
warshing last Monday morning and
Martha had to git up and go to work
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tooth and lit the lamp to see by and
then when she had hxt her tooth she
carried the lamp back up to the bed
room. When she went into the room
she happend to take a look at Lem and
she diddent know him as he layd there
asleep from a side of sole leather be-
ing as she haddent newer saw him
without whiskers SO she nacner1y thort
he was some strange man or tramp or
other in the bed who haddent no right
to be there so she set down the lamp
and wonderd what shed do.
Mirandy diddent boiler & yell as
menny woman would of didd but then
there's a reason for that-Mirandy
weighs nearly 800 lbs and is as strong
as OK & amt afeard of nothin in
cloodin her husband nor no other man.
1t diddent take Mirandy long to make
up her mind. She grabd holt of Lem
by the scruff of his undershirt and puld
him outen the bed with one yank. Then
she swung him round her head cupple
of times and crackt his heels agin the
walls and slamd him down on the floor
with a dull silzkening thud. Then she
set rite down on top of him and begin
to skratch his Ease with her hands
Poor Lem woke up outen a sound
sleep and diddent know what had hap
pend to him but he thort he was being
murderd so he hollerd "Help!" and
Murder =" as loud as he could boiler
but Mirandy diddent pay no attenshion
to him but jest KEEP on scratchin his
Ease and screechin, "Ile show you how
to try and play joke like that on ne
no matter who you be-you m1sable
retchl" When she said this Lem real
ised that Mirandy diddent recognize
him and he hollerd to her as loud as
he could boiler, Fer goodness sakes
femme up, Mirandy, dearl line nobud-
dy but your luvving husband p
Then the truth dawnd on Mirandy
and she realised that it was Lem with
his whiskers off, so she helpt him to his
feet and told him she was sorry she
had .nisused him so but let this be a les
son to him never agin to git his
whiskers shaved off without her mol
edge or consent.
Mirandy stayd up till near morning
oathin LENS woonds where she had
aserated him. No bones was broke
and Lem was out on crutches in two
laws and will soon be walkin with a
,ane.
Harve Hines says he never cut stitch
!, mess of whiskers offens a mans Ease
for the stingy sum of 3 cts and wont
newer agin. Lem says even if the
shave diddent cost him only 5 cts it was
he most turrible expensive shave he |
yer had in his life. E. A. LOCKE. |
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L0kaI SquibS

Yves Woodruff our expert hunter &
trapper perdicks that squirrels is go
ing to be turrible plenty this fall. Yves
bases this perdickshion on the fackt
that it looks to him like as if there was
a going to be big crop of nuts on the
trees In other words, no nuts, no
squirrels.
Jed Peters our intelligent school
teacher has been dressing hisself up
within a intch of his life and driving
down Snake Bend way every Saturday
evg for several Saturday evks past.
Whats up Jed? 1t is Ruth or Tidy
this ti:neo
Dad Henderson while chopin down
tree in his lot tother day chopped into
a nail which somebuddy had drove into
the tree and nicked his axe to stitch
extent that it took him three hours
solid work to grind out the nick on the
grindstone Dad says if he could jest
git hold of the hend in hunling form
who druv that nail into that tree he
would shake EN- till their teeth ratified.
Cy LOOMS tried to bid fire in the
kitchen stove for his wife tother morn
ing and being as the fire peard to be
turrible slow Cy thort he would hurry
it along so he poured about at OF
kerosene on it which was follerd by
turrible EXPOSITION which blowd the
lids often the stove and blowd Cy flat
on his back not to say nothink OF
scorchin his whiskers and skeerin him
nearly to deth. Cy says hereafter he'll
endeavor to bid the fire without kero-
sene.
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at it afore 2 o'clock in the morning.
Hows this for having big warsh ous
on the line by a. m?
Eph Higgins our accommodating +.
NJ says some blamed fool dropped
letter in the P. o. tother night without
putting no stamp on same. Eph warns
whoever done this that he wont pay the
postage on this letter outen his own
pocket and that if it amt cald for by
the time this notis apears in print he'll
open it to see whats in it.
Miss Phoebe Hildebrand says shes
been so bizzy in the fashionable dress
maxim bizness lately that she amt had
time to make emmy clothes for herself
and as a result she Amt got nothink fit
to wear Well that Jest the way with
dressmakers & cobblers.
Abe Witherow purchased a pr of
boots at Hen Weathersbys store last
wk only to discover after he had wore
EN- a few days that one boot was a No.
8 and tother was No. IL. Abe asked
Hen to- exchange one boot or tother so
they would be both the same size but
Hen refused. Hen says that Abe ort
to of discovered that they wassent mates
when he bought EN- and sinst he did
dent now Abe has made his bed and
he kin lay in it.
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TELEPHONE EDDYTORIIJL

Jest as We go to press with this
1shue Of the Boogle all is exsite-
ment in Bingvi11e over the rooner
that tellyfone company from the
co seat is a going to bid telly-
fone line from the CO seat to Hard
scrabble and that this line will go
through Bingvile.
There was a rooner to this same
efeckt circulated about 2 yrs ago
or SIGH a matter, but it never come
to head and we persoom that this
roomer will do the same. Be that
as it may however there has been
considerable discusshion among
some of our most respected cit
items down to Hen Weathersbys
store & elsewhere concerning this
recent roomer.
Some of our citizens is big in
for a tellyfone line and some amt.
Them as is says that a tellyfone
line would be a great boon to Bing-
vile, being as a person could go to
the te1lyfone when it was rainin or
bad wether and talk to his naber
about sonethink important instid
of havin to go out and walk ali the
way to wherever his naber lived in
bad wether and git all soakin wet
and like as not ketch newmovna
and die. In other words, some of
our citizens thinks that a te1lyfone
line would be a great convenience
being as then we would be in tuch
with each other at all times even
though we staid in the house. They
also argy that in case a person was
sick they could te1lyfone to Doc
Livermore in minnit and thus
save the life of whoever was sick
like as not, instid of hikin all the
way to Docs house or offs, by
which time the pashient would be
dead like as not. Same way in the
case of .fre-the cheef of the
Bingville Fire Dept could be telly-
Toned to and the fire department
could respond prompt instid of
takin it hour or two to git to the
scene of the conflagrashion after
whatever it was that was a fire was
burnt to the ground and a total loss
and likely no inshurants.
Personally we are agin a te11y-
fone and we don't care who knows
it. The tellyfone is new tangled
idee and we have a idee that it don't
amount to mulch. We ort to be
awful turrible careful about takin
Iup new tangled idees in Bingville
too soon. A town cant be too eau
shious in this respeckt.
AS for tellyfoning to Doc Liver
lmore and gittin him at the suffering
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Get
Married
and.
DO
1T NOW

I notised in last wks Bugle there was
eddytoriul advising the young folks of
Bingville & vicinity to get jined in the
holy bonds OF wedIock aud urgin them
to do so this month, being as June 10
the month of Brides 6 Roses.
I wish to state that I indorse this
eddytoriul very hearty, and in order to
make a inducement for them in our
midst as contemplate matrimony to take
this grave step at onct 1 hereby q
nounce that during the month of June
| will marry yung folks at the rate
of 81 per cuppIe, whereas my reglar
rate is 81 and up. This offer is good
for this munth only-after the LIST of
July I'll raise my marriage rates
agin.
Where can you git yourself mar.
ried to the partner of your joys & sor-
rers for the ridicklus sum of ST | ask.
If its worth ennythink a tall to be mar
ried it ort to be worth 81 or S.. and
probably this chanst will newer come
to you agin. Take ADVANTAGE of n
now.
Please understand that in maxim th;s
offer don't garryntee that you wont
make a mistake in gittin married
That's your own lookout, and if you've
went and pickt out mate with who
you will fife like cats & dogs ana
make a mess of the sackred marriage
tie, its your own fault All / do is -
marry you, that's ALL Get married nov
if your ever going to take this f.f.i
step. Yours for marriages.
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posed the rhymes which the children
Of than two centuries have been
chanting.
The uncertainty Of the exact ,oca-
ton Of the grave of either Of the
spouses Of the late Isaac Goose arose
from the unfortunate circumstance
that many years ago a cemetery SUI
~perintendent with a fatal eye for sym
metry ruthlessly shifted from the
graves TO which they belonged n score
or more of slabs, making them serve
as edge stones along the paths. This
act Of unintcntional vandalism brought
from Oliver Wendell Holmes the in
diSnant comment:
"Epitaphs were eve famous for
truth, hut the old reproach of Here
Lies never had such "A wholesale illus
tration as in these outraged burial
places. where the stone does lie above
and the bones do not lie beneath"
But, after all. these are mere
details, compared with the ou,stand-
ing fact-ir fact ii is--that Mother
Goose really lived and moved and had
her being, And the story Of her life
and work as old by the old guide
in the Granary Burying Ground is
confirmed by at least wv authorities
represented in the Boston Public Lii
brary and attested by scores Of blue
blooded Back BAY families.
The Goose family emigratcd from
England at n date long since forgot
ten and were wealthy, according to
the standards 4 the times. They are
known TO have been in Boston az early
as 1859. IN ofricia! documents of the
seventeenth century appear the
names Goose, Nergoose and Nerti-
goose. "Neraoose" was probably Of
Anglo Norman origin. The "ver" was
Norman and was related Ia the French
adjective vert" ,green). Whether in
desperation at being dubbed a green
goose or merely for the sake If brey-
ity, one of the Vergooses tor V%ergecse)
eliminated the prefix and %henceforth
the family was called simply Goose.
To this day me may read In the
records in the Boston city Registrars
office the marriage memorandum:
Thomas Fleet and Elizabeth Goose.
by the Rev, DIR, Cotton Mather, June
s. l715."
The officiating clergyman was the
veritable Cotton Mather who was the
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Children Seldom Inherently Bad, He Asserts, and Most
Cases That Come Before Court Have Origin
in Evil Home Environments

tors have almost eliminated yellow
fever from the earth because they
know and can reach the genesis. The
law. on the contrary. treats only the
sick man; 1t has yet no power to
reach beyond into the source. 1t would
he n poor corps of physicians who
met a typhoid epidemic only by haul
ing the sufferers to the hospital, n
yet that Is what the law Is doing
every day.
The experience Of many thousand
juvenile cases teaches that the Ju-
venile delinquent is the offspring OF
the delinquent parent. Bad home en-
vironment may be difficult to over
come. but the child's public environ
ment can and should be kept pure and
wholesome.
w speak Of the delinquent child,
hut my experience has shown that in
the very great majority Of cases. the
child is not morally delinquent; he
suffers because II Is his parents who
are delinquent. When a child IL
brought to me and the officer tells
me his offence my first question Is,
What about his parents and his
home?" If the officer is not certain,
| have our agents find out about 1t
for me. Proper action cannot be
taken without this knowledge. And
as | stated. in the very great majority
Of cases the actual truth OF the mat
ter ia that the unfortunate chlld's
parents are delinquent.
Children are seldom inherently bad
excluding detectives, the child's de-
faults are commonly due to environ
ment. | place small stock IN heredi-
tary wickedncss. Home environment
cests with the parents and when the
State steps in to take the child in
charge Il il only doing that which the
parent should have done.
When u juvenile offender to
the bar II the court an Investigation
usually disCloses lack Of attention 70
the child by one or both of the parents.
The parent w.'fully neglects the child
or is ignorant, Indifferent, careless,
0~verludulgeut or weak In discipline.
- course in a few cases both parents
are dead or so infrm that they cam
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end Of the week we And that she has
clean and she shows herself able and
willing to give the proper care, then
the children will be restored. .
Usually the woman comes back
sober and the agent reports that the
home has been put in order. Then I
give her the children for a month on
parole under supervision with the
strict instruction that the house and
the children must be kept clean. that
they must have the best food she can
provide, that they must go to school
and the older children to Sunday
school-and above all that she must
stay away from liquor. The agent
Keeps in touch with the home. az the
end OF the month. IL the report is
favorable. the children are paroled for
a longer period. W. sometimes keen
up the parole for several years.
In a great majority of cases the
treatment works out well and many a
home II reformed. When the habit OF
drink is too strong and the mother
lapsos we commi. the children to an
institution for an indefinite term. al
ways holding out TO the mother tina,
she may have them back when her
conduct Is good for a long period
Even after commitment the mother
often reforms and the home Is recon.
struCted.
The drinking father is not so amen
able TO the discipline of the court
! ~ nnnst hn r.n,at,F,. rod ,l,. ,t. ..f.
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A court building devoted to the juvenile delinquen,

We have reports from time 10 time
from the probation officer. | am glad
To say that more often than not the
parents will awaken to their duty
and the boy never reaches court again.
II the parents continue indifferent
or too indulgent we have nothing left
but 10 substitute the care of the State
10y a commitment to an Institution.
An institution controlled by persons
Of the same religious faith a. The
parents is always selected, but chil-
dren are committed only as = last
resort.
The case of the girls is much like
that Of h boys excepting thai the
delinquency IL practically always trace
able 10 the mother. The charges are
mostly those Of immortality and II Is
beyond reason how mothers can he
so blind 10 the doings Of their chill
dren, The girl does not join "A gang.
but h does have IA girl .ompan'on
or two who will do as much as the
gang Ia corrupt morals.
She is permitted tn 60 20 public
dance halls. moving picture OF cheap
vaudeville shows in the coinp1ny of
people unknown TO the mother. she
may reach home late at night. she
is given every o~pportunit" 10 find
the wickedness of the worli, and the
inevitable happens. In these Distress
ing cases We recognize that the fault
is not so much with The child as with
her environment and We seek To put
the parents on their mettl.. When
ever possible the family is Instructed
to move Ia "A new neiChborhood. SO
that the girl may have n frcs'l start
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MARY GOOSE.
Said - be Mother Goose
Com poser NJ Nursery Rhy mes,
WOODEN slab at the head OF q
\ grave in the Granary Burying

A WOODEN slab at the head OF q
n grave in the Granary Burying
Ground In Boston bears the
above inscription,
Tourists linger long near the little
mound. with its modest sign, display
ing as much interest, II less ever
cnce. in the supposed resting place OF
the poetess laureate Of the nursery as
in hat Of Samuel Adams. "the father
81 the Revolution" OF John Hancock.
the first signer OF the Declaration OF
Independence, or OF Pau Revere, hero
of a remarkable ride, all Of which are
near by.
\ stone at the side of the wooden
slab records the year Of death-1IS7-
hut makes no reference 10 the woman's
literary work.
The Identity OF the author Of the
Mother Goose tales has never been
settled to the entire satisfaction Of
quite everybody in the Hub, however.
Indeed, that the little slab marks the
identical mound for which IL was in
tended is not certain, These questions
have long been debated IN Boston. with
AS much fervor as might he aroused in
a dispute over a problem of %theolog-
zeal dogma or of syntaX. But all, or
nearly all, of Boston Is In agree
ment that Mother Goo was not an
imaginary character, as most folks
have believed. hut a veritable person.
ape-uuitc as real as Santa Claus
himself.
Research in comps ratively recent
years has revealed that the good
DANES Christian name was moi Mary,
but Elizabeth. The error appears to
have arisen from the fact that Isaac
Goose, Mother Goose's husband, mar
ried twice, The first wife. Mary. died.
according tn Boston historians. with
out leaving u single contribution to
nursery or other literature. and 1t was
the second wife, Elizabeth, who COM
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not provide for the child: these are
clear subjects for State guardianship
or aid and are Withdrawn from the
general classification.
Drink is at the bottom Of a great
many cases OF neglect which are
brought into court under the general
head OF improper guardianship. These
are Instances in which the parents so
pitifully neglect the children that
state interference becomes necessary.
The child Is not a delinquent in the
committed and Is in court not for pun
ishment but for protection. It is a strik
ing instance OF the devious working
Of the law that we must bring In a
child for the direct fault OF the parent.
The drinking mother brings about
the most unwholesome home life, and
Yet there the court can do far more
than with the father. The result is
gained through hat love for the child
which even the most sodden woman
seldom loses; the love is present. al
though drink may have destroyed it's
every evidence.
The cases are all very sad II one
differs only in degree from the others
a foul, dirty home, the clothing sold
or pawned, food money dissipated in
the rum shop and the children left TO
live or die as God may will. Women
come before me in WHOM the last
vestige Of that which We rever as
motherhood seems to have vanished
their children have lived on nelghbor-
hood bounty or on lucky finds amid
the garbage. And yet the mere inter
vention of the court often brings
about a change.
The scottish mother and the tattered,
unkempt children are brought before
me. ! remand the children To the care
NJ a society for n week. The mother
pleads and begs to keep them prob.
ably q IL the first time hat she has
ever been separated from them. |
tell her that she has a choice between
the children and drink-that the chill
dren may he hers If she deserves them
! tell her hat the agents of the court
viii visit her homo. Will iuuuir" in
the neighborhood and that II n the
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n, Justice MORGAN VI. l.. RYAN.

4 THOROUGHLY frightened boy
"A of IL stands before the desk
"A which takes the place of the
old time bench and bar in the
Children's Court. lie has Just
promised t%earfully that never again
will he thieve. ] ask him:
why will you steal again,
Jimmy"
cause" sobba,s 'iolently. you'll
put me away II | do"
. The reply may be varied TO cause
the cops II get me" or "I'll he locked
up" But the essential reason for
abandoning pilferinS, as given by
three-quarters of the boys who come
before me. is the fear of punishment.
These children are more often un-
moral than bad are immoral because
they have never been taught the diff
ference between right and wrong:
wrong Is defined by them as that
which brings punishment.
And how can boys grow into ado
taScence in any civilized community
"ithouN a real knowledge OF elemen-
tary ethics? Because their parents
not only neglect even this primary
teaching. but fail to insist that the
child attend the school, tho church
and the Sunday school they simply
let the child grow amid the weeds of
temptation and be morally Choked.
II is only n matter OF time until the
younGster so far invades the rights
OF property that he comes in contact
with the law in the person of "A police
officer. and IL under the age of l6
he is brought before the Childrcn's
Court as a juvenile delinquent. Time
was when this child would be taken
before a criminal court and treated
exactly rs any other offender. we
have now recognized hat the first
object OF the law in dealing with chill
drcn il reformation and not punish
ment and confirmation in crime:
therefore children are segregated in
"A separate court. Certainly II is
desirable to reform the lives of chill
dren to the end that they may be.
come good citizens: but the means
ut hand are pitifu'ly weak TO effect
the real purpose.
The glazing deficiency Of criminal
court IL that they are only for the
treatment of symptoms. Crime is an
abnormal condition; It is a disease.
Medical science now tries 10 get at
the cause of disease. and finding the
cause. prevent future disease. doc
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witness the epj;aph ON OIL, father,
lumhstoN" at Dorchester:
.
MI. mad T, som r-.,, - ' 81,
And 'kc = eraud~.u greater nan oi'hcr.
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IN 1855
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third aud most eminent II a Inc of
DISTINGUISHED literary ancestors, a.
witness the epI;aph on his fathers
luinhstoN" at Dorchester:
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A THOROUGHLY frightened boy
n of IL stands before the desk
n which takes the place of the
ALI aI.AA Io.AA-.AI L. L. 49,