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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-01-03

Hardy II. Smith.
Successor Ia J. T.. Smith l. Son
CONVICTION. LA.
DeALIk IN
General Merchandise.
Consisting Of oil the great staple articles.
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,.
HARDWARE AND CROCKkRY.
Aad indeed every article in demand ~
suited 70 tins market.
~The Highest Price paid for
Country Produce
| CHARLES HEINTZ.
(Aysst,)
Merchant.
Resolves cootinual supplies Of veil
selected Dry Goods and choice Family
Groceries, which vill ~ cold q Low xg-
urcs.
~Country produce tAksa in q.
change for goods. Il market price.
N6Io connection with the Rooeeal
mercantile business Of this house, the
proprietor has established . neat BAR
Room. whore he will keep the dnsst Of
Wines, Liquors. Lager Beer. Cigars. etc.
constantly on hsad. and At prices 70 suit
the times.
Covimgtoa. -.
II. J. SMITHS
RETAIL GROCERY STORE.
DRY GOODS.
HATS.
SHOES.
CROCKERY
Aud 0snseal Assortment for City and
Country use. At the lowest
cash prices.
Covington. La.
Highest prices paid for Wool Hides.
Chiekens. etc It,. &a.
EUGENE f. SMITH,
-DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries
DRY GOODS. BOOTS
AND SHOES. ETC.
CONVICTION. LA.
Highest prices paid for country pro-
ducs.
Wool Buying q Specially
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-01-03

DR.. Ernest Young.
Ofice and residence. at vineyard
Springs. % the Columbia road. II
,nil-s from COvingtoa.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-01-03

DIR. J. j. MEYLOR,
formerly Of New DREAMY
Has returasd to Covinetoo. Odscs.
IN Columbia street, adjoining Nn.
RrikTs' store.
d.. Msylor will visi: Nsdisonville
every Saturday.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-01-03
| KNOWN REMkDi
saeseasl ApPlicatioa.

For sa's -; Heinix' Drug Store.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
$1.OO PER YEAR.

tlon of q couple Of lines Of railroad
through the county. If this was an at
tempt at robbing, then similar charge
could be brought against every county in
the state, or nearly so. This preacher Of
the gospel of mendacity says nothing
about an attempt upon the part Of the
Hugoton ring to bond the county to the
extent Of 100000, one year before the
above named proposition was brought
before the people Of Stevens county, In
order TO secure the building Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific to Hugoton. If one was an
attempt to steal, the other was also, and
Bill O'ConnOr was very blatant advo-
cate of the last named attempt to bond
the county for railroad purposes. Your
correspondent being farmer and real
izing that the farmers would have the
debt to pay il the propositions should
carry, took the stump and assisted In de-
festing both Of them. The $4,000 Woods
dale bonds were voted by the people Of
that town for the purpose Of sinking an
artesian well and making other improv-
ments. The bonds were never sold, and
have been destroyed. The charge OF
stealing which this man 0'Connor throws
at the long suffering farmers of Stevens
county comes with bad grace from q man
who was arralgned before the courts
some time ago and convicted of having
defrauded the government, while acting
as revenue collector at Mcpherson, In
this state. He was fined $500 and sem
fenced to thirty days imprisonment in
the county jail. We are informed that
the $500 was never paid, but the sheriff
Of this county, a little over a year ago,
threw him into the jail at Hugoton,
where he remained for one month In ex-
plation of crime as great as the one he
80 falsely charges upon the people OF this
county.
In his interview, he states that the loan
companies who now own nearly all the
land in this county, are cultivating the
same and making IL do that which the
original owners would not do. This ls
probably one Of the biggest lies that was
ever dumped upon that common old
dumping ground for mendaclty, the To-
peks Capital. We have made inquiries
In regard to this matter, and we learn
that no loan company has ever cultivated
one acre Of land In this county to any
kind Of crop, except that Of usury.
"FARMRR."
Stevens county, Kan, Sept. 20, 1891.
- ~ ~ q
The advocate., 1891-10-07

that you come to this kind Of argument.
/ therefore, send you this communica-
ton as a challenge toargue the question:
you to commence with fair examina-
tion of the paper you have so far en-
deaYored merely to befoul, (or l will
write o new article for your paper and
the argument to continue until at least
the community learns where we both
stand.
II you will meet me upon this ground,
Mr.. Editor, the Capital viii fulfil Its
true mission as a city newspaper; IL you
will not, then il stands before the world
as that kind of a party organ which deals
in the falsifed statements of those who
advocate questions from q moral plane
that it cannot appreciate. Truly yours,
! W. G.. ToDD.
Topeka, Kan, October /, 1891.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
A PROTEST.


[The following addressed to the editor OF the
Capital is in reply to criticism of the article
published In THE ADVOCATE last week. The
discussion promises to be somewhat interesting
If it continues s.-EDITOR.
Editor Topeka Daily Capital:
DEAR SIR:-I protest against such
Misrepresentation of my views on the
temperance question as appears in this
mornings Capital, and request space In
your next issue for an exact insertion Of
tins protest.
advocated In THE ADVOCATE Of this
city, the only efficient means Of success
fully enforcing prohibitOry laws-meanS
acknowledged to be thus efficient by
leading prohibitionists- make me,
without any qualification whatever, to
oppose prohibition. I advocate the com
plete control of the present acourSed
liquor traffic, from its roots to all its
branches: you make me to recommend
what you call "whiskey doggery." !
thank you, Mr.. Editor, for the term.
This name by which you intend TO an
rich holy and righteous cause Is other
wise significant 1t Strikingly char
scterizes just the thing that you have
seen arise out of the "element of profit"
in the business that oppose, and just
that aspect of the liquor traffic with
which our party papers are most familiar.
/ always accept terms from others that
arise out of their habits Of thought and
associations and / accept yours from
your standpoint, but do object to hav-
ing all that is implied by it attached to
the theory of an opposite character that l
am advocating.
You know, Mr.. Editor, very well, that
is if you have really read them-that my
article In THE ADVOCATE Of this week
together with the temperance plank Of
the natlonalists, the temperance plank Of
the Peoples party in Massachusetts, and
the eighth plank of the Prohibitionists,
platform of Massachusetts of which l
cited, contain not one word against pro-
hibition.
But will not waste time in trying to
reply to misrepresentation which deal
in insinuatioDs In place of facts. Twill
meet you elsewhere than skulking be-
hind "party catch words" and "csnt
phrases" The business of the Capital
Is to enlighten the community, and /
have this final word to say to you: 1 will
meet you In the columns of your paper
and argue the temperance question fairly,
root and branch-not as a mere party
question, but as a moral and social ques-
tion of momentuous interest. ! will meet
you "a one honorable minded man should
meet another-not indulging in mlsrep-
resentations or abuse or the calling Of
hard names, but in arguing the case on
the facts of the case, and / win insist
The advocate., 1891-10-07

side over the trial in order that the muir
derer might escape condign punishment.
Otherwise, what hope could Brennan
have entertained of escaping the penalty
Of the law for numbering In cold blood q
man with whom he had never had any
dealings Of any kind, and consequently
would be destitute of any grounds upon
which to base justification for his foul
deedY This same Bill O'Connor, while
leaving the court house, was seen talking
to Brennan, who was standing at the
door. The conversation was short and
conducted in an inaudible tone. A few
minutes after this Colonel Wood passed
out Of the door and was fred upon by
Brennan. With this statement OF the
facts, we leave it with the fair minded
people Of this state to form their own
conclusions in regard to the probability
of previous understanding existing be-
tween Brennan and certain parties, that
as q part Of the plan through which he
was to escape. the penalty Of the law was
that Botklu should preside at the trial.
Court opened at Hugoton few days
ago with Botkin on the bench. The case
of Brennan came up for trial but was
postponed. We have heard Of no arrange
ment5 having previously been made for
Judge Botkln to vacate in favor Of any
other judge, in case the trial should have
passed off. The prosecution (?) failed to
have Mrs. Wood, the main witness in
the case, subppned, and the excuse they
offer for such neglect is that it was for
gotten.
Again, In this interview, we find the
following statements in relation to petit
ton that majority Of the honest, hard
toiling farmers Of Stevens county sent
up to Governor Humprey asking him to
appoint some one TO examine the records
of the treasury Of Stevens county.
"The honest people Of our county have
fought to keep the very men who got up
that petition, and large majority Of
the men who signed 1t, from robbing the
county. Every man who voted for the
attempted steal of $4,000 railroad bonds
to a company composed Of Van Voorhis,
Wood, and one Kirby, signed that peti-
ton. The name Of every man who voted
for the steal of $1,000 in Woodsdale bonds,
nOU 0utstandin0, is on that petition, and
the city clerk who for three years swore
that there were no outstanding bonds
against WoOdsdale, presented that peti-
ton to the governor" In this section Of
the interview, the farmers Of Stevens
county are charged with having at
tempted, at some time or other, TO rob
the county. Henames as one ofsthe efforts
to rob the county the attempt upon the
part of n portion Of our people to vote
$4,000 Of bonds to secure the cOnstTuc-
The advocate., 1891-10-07

1t looks as though the Ohio Republic
cans sized up Humphrey so accurately
that they omitted to invite him to speak
In the canvass In progress in that state.
As the speech he had prepared would be
liable 10 sour If kept on hand, he gave
three newspaper columns Of ID to news
paper reporter -Ldwrence Record.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
ANOTHER LETTER FROM STEVENS COUNTY

ANOTHER LETTER FROM STEVENS COUNTY.
EITHER our correspondent has been misin-
formed az to the cause Of the non-appearance Of
Mrs. Wood, or we have. We understand that
Mrs. Wood was very sick at the time the trial
was called and that this was the reason why she
was not present. EDITOR.
To the Editor of The ADVOCATE.
The Topeka Capital of September 2nd,
contains an interview had by reporter
of that paper with William O'Connor,
who is now acting as county attorney in
Stevens county. That interview en-
bodies certain statements that desire to
reply TO in this article, in order that the
minds Of the people Of Kansas may not
become poisoned by the venomous spout
ings of this roaring blatherskite. Before
we begin quoting from said interview, 1t
may be proper to say that this man
O'Connor has but few friends either at
home or abroad, where his real character
Is fully known. We have been told re-
peatedly by some of the citizens Of Hugo
ton, where he lives, that even the corrupt
old ring that has so long afflicted that
unfortunate town retains him there more
for his services as q plant tool in the
execution Of their nefarious schemes for
bringing the county under their corrupt
domination than for the love that they
have for his society and the esteem they
hold him in as q man who would be
likely to deal fairly with them even in
the division Of the spoils.
In reply to a question from the re-
porter as to whether or not Judge Bot
kin would preside during Brennan's trial,
he said: II do not know, know of no
reason why he should not, other than
that Of good TASTE" We venture to say
that there is not a man In Stevens county,
be he friend or foe of Colonel Wood, but
what believes that there was an express
understanding before the murder was
committed, between Brennan and certain
officials, that Judge Botldn should pre-
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03
The Prison Evangelist.

elizabeth Rider Wheaton, prison evan
gelist. Chicago, Ill. Meet me in heaven.
No home but heaven" This is what is
printed on the card of remarkable woman
who visited the penitentiary and talked to
the convicts at II o'clock on Sunday. This
woman has been engaged in this work for
about nine years, and she has visited nearly
every prison and Jail in the United States,
Canada and Mexico. and the principal
prisons of Europe. She is the Moody of the
convict world. She asks for no money.
She gives her services free. and trusts to
Providence for her support. 1.-The Lord
provides" she says. The writer remarked
that he would think this would be slender
substitute for railroad fare. whereupOn she
showed him a basket full of railroad passes.
over nearly every line in this country.
Transportation is freely extended to her
from one end of the country to the other
Oregon Statesman.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub
lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published in its columns is contributed by the
inmates, except that properly credited. It's sup
port must come from the outside as every inmate
Is given paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest of the prison library after paying
for the printing outfit, contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects are to en-
courage individual intellectual effort, provide a
healthy journal for the inmates of this and other
prisons, and. above ALL to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the cause of moral ad-
vancement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03

For publishing the fact that an officer
was tough and loafer, drunk and brutal
in his actions while arresting young boy
on Sunday. endeavoring to make show of
the young offender and to get him into a
saloon. the editor of the Rhinebeck. N. Y,
Gazette was found guilty of libel by the
jury, with recommendation to mercy. The
judge in giving sentence said: This officer
came to Rhinebeck and made the arrest in
a censurable manner; you printed the story.
You did nothing wrong, but the jury has
found you guilty. and l must punish you.
1 fine you cents National Journalist.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03

before the joint prison committee of the
last Minnesota legislature. Mr.. Seward
speaks from personal observation of prisons
and prison affairs. He earnestly advocates
the paroling of prisoners. He says ''the
convict should be released whenever there
is reason to believe that the object of his
Imprisonment, to wit. his reformation, has
been accomplished, and that society will
not suffer by reason of his liberation" He
brings oIt in a forcible manner the great
inequality of punishments. A case in point
was that of a man receiving seven years
for the stealing of 1925. 900, while a sixteen
year old boy was given five years by the
same court for $40 forgery. He says: eff
the cashier had been punished by imprisOn-
ment in proportion to the boys sentence he
would have to serve g.. 500 years. If the
boy had been punished in the same proper
ton as was the bank cashier his imprison-
ment would have terminated in one hour
and twenty-five minutes" He regards the
Minnesota criminal code as too severe, and
thinks it could be modified without danger
to the state and without increasing crime in
the slightest degree. 1t is strongly advo-
Gated that judges be given power to sus-
pend sentence upon persons convicted of
felony during the good behavior Of the &C.
cused. He thinks there is no danger of such
discretionary power being too freely exer-
cised, because 1.-The public press and the
natural desire of the injured parties for
vengeance will cause courts to exercise this
discretion very sparingly." There are sew
eral suggestions in Mr.. Stewards paper that
might be adopted to the great good of the
prisoner and the state.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03

Score credit mark for the st. Paul pO-
lice force. A poor young woman lost all
her money (S2O) on the street the other day.
She told of her misfortune at police head
quarters thinking that perhaps the officers
might chance to find the money. The Of
fcers began searching their pockets and
found the amount lost and sent the girl
away rejoicing. A policeman isn't bad
fellow all the time.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03
The worse enemies the deserving appli-

The worse enemies the deserving appli-
cants for pensions have are the thousands
of sharks swarming around the pension Of
fee. Many of these are men who either
never saw service in the ranks of the bat
Ting hosts or their military records were
such that they dared not have them looked
into until time had Obiterated the evidence.
If the Grand Army of the Republic would
give its attention to hunting down these
applications would be greatly simplifed and
facilitated.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03
A Decision i'm Penal Law.


Justice Morse of Michigan will have won
himself but small favor in the eyes of lead
ing penologists. if his opinion in the matter
of indeterminate sentences is to be accepted
as final. The decision of the supreme court
of Michigan. delivered by him, amounts to
an unequivocal declaration to the effect
that the law placing the power of abbrevi-
ating sentences in the hands of prison
boards is unconstitutional. because, as he
says, it vests judicial power in other than
the judicial authorities. This decision may
prove a legal stumbling block in the way of
penal reform, although it can hardly out
wear the energy of our modern penolOgists;
but it is shown. in the dissenting opinion of
Justice Grant, to be based on a wrong con-
ception of the spirit of the law and that the
line of precedent out of which the latter
grew is completely ignored by Justice
Morse.
The act of the legislature which is thus
subverted is almost identical with that on
which the conduct of the st. Cloud reform
atory is based. 1t gives the courts the
power and discretion to sentence criminal
for the maximum term. the board of con-
troll of the prison having power to deter
mine whether there may safely be cOndi-
tional modification of that sentence. AS in
our own refOrmatOry, the prisoner on parole
is kept under surveillance, and his release
is always dependent on his own behavior.
Justice Grant points out. too. that not only
is this law the one under which most mod
ern prison refOrmatOries are conducted and
whose constitutionality has not hitherto
been questioned. but that it is also simply
an expansion of and natural sequence
upon that which gives power to the legisla-
ture to shorten sentences. If the law of
indeterminate sentences is unconstitutional.
so must be regarded the shortening of a
term of imprisonment on account of good
behavior; since the latter is obviously the
transfer of judicial power to nonjudicial
hands.
1t is difficult to comprehend the. stand
point from which man of experience and
observation could calmly lay down such an
assertion as that this law is unconstitutional
and reinforce his decision with dismal
prophecy as to the condition of society
providing the law be allowed to work. If
Justice Morse has had his eyes and ears
open to the work of penolOgists for the last
ten years. he must know that the most
thoughtful of them agree as to the wisdom
OF the parole system. 1t has come to be re-
garded as certainly of practical value. and
legislation which tends to it's establishment
no longer meets with the charge of senti-
mentality. At the best, the action of the
Michigan supreme court in this matter is
deplorable. 1t threatens the most success
full prison systems in the country, and 1t
can hardly fail to act as a barrier to ad
vance in institutions which have not yet
adopted any form of parole. -PiOneer Press
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03

A good many Of our number will be leav-
ing us before next spring. They will 60
out in the midst of winter when work will
be scarce and living expensive. The ma
jority of those leaving will have no definite
place to go to. so they will stop in st. Paul
or Minneapolis for few days to get their
bearings. They will feel like enjoying
themselves little. and the result will be
that their small amount of money will soon
20 and they will find themselves stranded
among strangers. They will be so heartsick
and disguised that they. will wish them
selves back in prison. Some of you young
fellows will sneer at the idea of such wish
ever rising in your minds, but experience
will make you acknowledge it. A man, old
in the ways of the world and it's crooked
ness. came back here after having been out
few months. We asked him why, if he
wished to do crooked work, he did not leave
the cities where he was so we'll known.
His story was, and it is true. that he had
made up his mind before leaving the prison
that he would in the future avoid all dissi-
patiOns and lead good, straight life such
as his tastes and abilities fitted him for.
The morning he went out. he said. seemed
the brightest and happiest of his whole life.
He had clear head. clear conscience,
and clear road before him. He would
stop in one of the cities until he could
formulate plans for the immediate future.
Ilx,o ho al f,;D +
glad to see familiar face-and for good
cheers sake they had little wine. The
next morning found him sick of stomach
and heart. The greater portion of his
compared with the injury his self-respect had
suffered. All had slipped away from him
like sand through child's hands. 1t was
not the loss of the money that troubled him,
for that could be easily replaced. 1t was
the evidence of his own weakness that
made him heartsick. The result was that
he gave up and returned to his old ways,
was unlucky and soon found himself in
prison again. This man has said that when
he awOke from his debauch the morning fol-
lowing his first night of freedom he wished
in the depths of his heart that he were back
in his prison cell. This was an honest con-
fession of the feelings many an ex convict
has experienced the morning after his re
lease. If man of experience has no better
control of himself under such circum-
stances, it would be we'll for the young fel
low to avoid the danger. Even if you are
bound to be one of ''de gang' it would be
very prudent in you to 60 little farther
away from the prison than either st. Paul
or Minneapolis. Don't imagine that you
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03

Everybody is going to attend the Worlds
Fair in 1913. There is hardly even a con-
vict in all the prisons of the United States
but hopes to be there along with the rest of
the world. There would be no doubt about
the fair being financial success should one
half of the people attend who expect to-
But alas for the hopes of man. the whirli-
gig of time will send ere then many that are
prosperous into poverty, many that are in
the vigor of life will be in their graves,
others that to. day glory in their freedom
and manhood will then be bound and de-
based; and many who are now in prison
will be in prison still.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03
LacOnisms by LacOn.

1t is not always the man who bows
lowest during the benediction that puts
the most in the contribution box.
Small Boy (whose father is a Repub-
ican): Pa. what is the meaning of ''ca-
lamity hOwlsr?"
Paterfamllias: That, my son. is name
the party in Office usually bestows on
those outside, who complain of the big
wages we get and the little work we do.
TAMMANY's ADVICE TO HIS SON.
"Get you riches. my son. If you can't
get riches, get saloon, and if you can't
get either of these, get on the police force"