Everybody's Friend. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 1, 1913 Page: 2 of 12
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~ h.s ar.- That
i a>»jch of th*? use u.« owsfor
®bk*. I'. to hive carried us ata o rjn
from the middle A into Sate satca n
bd •*. o.*j (mr ?oy»,u thfct this .*> r-o tv is
a pretty tnkcowii quantity? You n ay j^rr, to
a lather aud'a mother well. yet find ft dif-
ficult to even goes* what their children are like
ceforejrou see them or I earasx>at them. And
th-n, too, they are not all alike. Children of the
same parents, brought up together. may be a>
unlike as night and day -one may be a g *.d.
honest man, and another a rascal.
1 he Fenne>see senate r.»« in<? . a .
.n-a w ua» ju.>i passed a Sd w
making a Miovj or any place where iiqaor
a nuisance, and prescribed a fitting penal-
ty. W ♦-have ail long known that such places
are the worst of nuisances, but are gud one
St.de has now legally branded them as tuev
desen e. One Of their senators and one con-
gressmen left their post of duty at Washington,
and went home toopjiosethis law, but found they
had as little influence as such men should have.
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Our friends who have gone to Montana did
not find the first p.a^ jilM ajj tb(jy u<.n. j,H,king
f«»r. and s ion went over one hundred mi es far
th^r west They are very much pleased w ith
the country and the crops. One thing they do
not like is the many saloons they find in the
towns, as they have not been used to them of
late, paradise had its serpent, and the best
places have their drawbacks-but the open sale
•d liquor is worse than a serpent -it is. mjinv
One theory is that heredity is about ah th*-; «-
- in ‘ e bringing up and developing of ch..-;
—that if they are not of g<xxl parents there s
no v-*-try mg to make mjf.ii out of the:/. 7-
trn> be true the parents need do litt e mor-
tLari educate themselves and live r?ght. and
their children will be all right without care,
t railing or education. Not many of either the
oe>f >r the worst people would want to n>s
tb» r own children this way.
F i‘>ui tae fierce effort New York .?*. making to
g-t crazy Harry Thaw back one would gather
the idea that lunatics were in great demand, or
; j«- they thought him a criminal too dangerous
to g*» at large, and that their other criminals
w'-re well caged. Neither of thesp are the facts.
and no doubt many villains as dange .u>a>
Harry Tha w walk the streets of New York City
unafraid. Big pay. or an insane desire for re-
venge, must bo back nf this great effort to get
him again.
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The influence of the Friend may boa little
>.OV. ;n reaching some people, but it is >ure
Of all the friends of olden time who have been
reading it regularly, every one has become in-
D-i'-sted in the work and sooner or later dona-
ted to its support. The last of these is a widow
in a faraway State, who has plenty of places for
i.er money, but has just now promised us ten
a-uars. Not one of these has ever been asked
for help. The spirit of such giving is as enc »ur
aging as the donation.
!>.: made a sad mistake when lie pitched his
tent- toward Sodom. The plains were well
watered and fruitful »S the garden of God. but
th- >ocietj-~the environment was bad. Per-
haps I»t thought his children were strong and
could resist such evil influences, but they failed
F V S and herds and great riches wore pom-
pay for the children ho lost in the vortex of sin
and its accompanying tire and brimstone, for the
loss Of his wife, and the demoralizing of his
remaining daughters. Nothing can ever repay
the loss that may result from "Pitching out
font towards Sodom *’
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Cripe, D. E. Everybody's Friend. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 1, 1913, periodical, October 1, 1913; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1598648/m1/2/: accessed June 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.