The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-11
THE WILD MAN FROM ARKANSAS.

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THE WILD MAN FROM ARKANSAS.
The New York Morning Advertiser
has the following concerning a very fresh
subject From Benton, Ark, comes the
story of the discovery of an 'undoubted
wild boy and at last accounts search
parties were being made up to capture
him. The discovery was made BY Mr..
DAVID WILLIAMS. While driving to
| Benton he saw three wolves running
through the brush, and with them was a
strengthening animal which he could
not see very we'll
an impression upon the mind of MIR.
WILLIAMS that he hitched his team to a
sapling and made a still hunt through the
woods in the hope of catching another
glimpse of it. This effort was finally re-
warded, and Mr.. WILLIAMS was able to
report that it was a boy about ID or Is
years Of age, IN terms Of familiarity with
the wolves, running with them when they
ran stopping when they stopped. At
times he would stand erect, to the evil
dent surprise of his four-footed compan-
ions, but always travelling on all-fours, by
which method of locomOtion he was able
to get over the ground as rapidly as the
wolves. The boy was naked, of course,
and by no sign gave any indication that
he had any mental superiority over the
wild animals with which he roamed.
"The old resident is on hand to recall
the fact that fifteen or sixteen years ago
a baby was carried off by wolves, and the
theory is that, instead of devouring the
infant, as wolves usually do, they had
concluded to real the child, and here we
have it.
mo doubt the wild bov will be cap
tured, and then the interesting expert
ment will be begun of restoring him to
civilization and making a man of him.
1t will be this experiment which will be
watched with interest the world over.
If this Arkansas wild boy can be nursed
back from his acquired savagery and
humanized there will be hope for the
wild boys who fill the city streets, and
seem to be slowly but surely overrun-
ming the country at large"
THE FARMER AND OTHER DEBTORS.
1t is a false impression, although largely
entertained, that the farmers constitute
the particular debtor class in this country,
This idea has been created by the reckless
assertions of men who took no trouble to
ascertain facts where facts were ~accessi-
BILE. II has been persistently dwelt upon
until a majority of farmers and many
other people have come to believe that
nearly the whole burden of individual in
debtedness is saddled on the backs of those
who are engaged in agriculture. This
assumption, which indisputable facts
show to be unwarranted, is largely re-
sponsible for the widespread discomfort
among the farmers of the country. 1t is
not denied that the Indebtedness repre-
sented by farm mortgages is very large,
but it is not materially, if at all, greater
than the Indebtedness in other property
than that of farms, nor is it, on the whole,
more oppressive. The fact is that a large
portion Of the business Of the country is
done on credit and in proportion to its
relative importance and extent the farm
ing interest does no more than its share
of borrowing.
Statistics recently obtained from the
bureau at Washington conclusively
prove this. The figures showing the
loans on real estate and other securities
by the banks of the principal cities make
an enormous total. Thus in a single
day forty, seven banks in New York City
loaned in this way 1927 GOO, 900 and
twenty-one banks in Chicago $S7 ,O00, 900.
The loans of banks in the cities, run
ming up into thousands of millions of
dollars, sre largely made to the manufac-
turers and merchants, so that these
classes are never far behind the agricul-
tural class in the aggregate of their in
debtedness. The older the communities
the greater are the debts in towns and
cities as compared with the indebted
ness on farm property.