Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1913 — Prodigal Parent. [ARTICLE]

Prodigal Parent.

Col. Roosevelt, one evening in Mar quette, told a group of newspaper cor respondents a number of stories. “If more of us were materially, bul not mentally, like the Arkansas backwoodsmen, it would be well for the nation,” said the colonel. “Once, while traversing Arkansas, 1 dismounted at a log cabin and asked if I could have dinner. Yes, they said, I could, and while I waited on the bench before the door I noticed a baby playing with a loaded revolver. /"Goodness me!’ I said, ‘you shouldn't let that young infant play with a loaded revolver. What a terrible risk!’ “ ‘Risk?’ said the backwoodsman. ‘Aw, I dunno. I got 'bout fo’teen mo* Chilian round the place somewhere.’ “