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Show SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN A SAINT'S NAME Adam Croaker writes to the Holton tCOruer: "Reading a news item the other day about John Wesley Smith J be'ng found incorrigible and sent to ; reform school, reminded me of the Parents take in giving their male Progeny the names of the sainted good I wen of a past age. I once knew a ' y who was loaded down with the a"ie of John Calvin, who persisted in Eng to the bad and finally landed in i i I i the penitentiary. Another boy named nam-ed Matthew Simpson grew up such a reprobate that neither his parents nor teachers could do anything with him and he finally ran off and became be-came a tramp of the worst hobo brand. I had a schoolmate once named Alexander Campbell Jones, who was an all around scalawag, and who, when grown to manhood, became be-came a scoffer at all kinds of re- ligious sentiment and put In most of his time abusing and opposing Christianity. Chris-tianity. The safest way is to name your boy Bill or Tom or Jake or Jeff or something that don't mean much." Kansas City Star. |