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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
Laws That Convert Criminals.

Careful observation by experts and
the unquestionable statistics produced
seem to settle the moral value of what
is known as the indeterminate sem
tence law. The same is equally true
as to the first offense probation law,
administered at the discretion of the
trial Judge.
Under the latter law first offenders.
unless their crimes are peculiarly will
full or amount to felOnieS, may be re-
leased upon probation with the re-
quirement of reporting for stated pc
Rod their places of residence and occu~
patton to the court. This law has been
found very practicable i'll cities, espe-
cially as to juvenile offenders. Wher-
ever it is in force abundant testimony
IS given that but small proportion
of the offenders return under charges,
but become Industrious, law-abiding
persons.
The indeterminate sentence law al
lows a minimum and maximum limit
to the Imprisonment imposed upon Of
tenders A person convicted may
for instance, be sentenced for
from one TO three years. The
convict, by good behavior and in
dIstry can be released by the pris-
on authorities at the end of the first
year; but il he is unruly, troublesome
in conduct and shows no signs of de-
sire to lead a correct life, he can be
held for the maximum of the sentence
The best statistics at hand, combining
those of Europe and those from our
own cour try, show that the number
Of returns of criminals under this law
have been reduced from an annual
average of 60 per cent to 40 per cent.
Considering that these sentences are
imposed upon the first offense class Of
felony criminals the beneficial signifi-
canoe of the reduction can be readily
appreciated.
Such laws would have. doubtless, a
very desirable effect here in the south,
both in the cities, where Juvenile of
tenders are mostly found and In the
country, where the majority Of the
criminals are first offenders. These
laws put a state premium upon the
self-reformation of offenders and con-
verts many persons from repeating
crimes uLder the false notion that
penitentiary sentence is an inSupera-
Bile barrier to a future life of honesty
and industry.
These laws commend themselves to
a fair trial by reason of the uniform
good results that have followed their
adCs)tion in American and foreign COM
munities.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
Vermont in the Pillorv.

The Constitution certainly poured
hot water into I. rat hole when it got
after the VermOnters about their pecu-
liar suffrage system. The Rutland
Herald, which last year was convinced
that the law was bad. now tries vainly
to justify it in the face of attacks from
many sources, north as we'll as south.
The best thing it can say for the re-
Quirement that every voter in that
state must have "the appreciation of
the board of civil authority" of his
town is that the provision has never
been used to exclude any Of the $50
negro voters in that state.
But what about the disfranchise-
ment of from 40 to 60 per cent of
the white voters of the state at every
election that is contested at all? How
fairly does it work as between republi-
cans and democrats? What effect has
it in cutting down the voting popula-
ton from a normal 100000 to less
than $4,000 in 1896 and little more
than 81 600 in 1900? And those were
the landslide and walk-over Mckinley
campaigns.
The plain fact Is that the whole
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03

of our Sunny South magazine In the
north and the orders we are getting
for The Constitution issues that con-
tain Watcon's History of the Life and
Times of Thomas Jefferson" that there
are numberless candid men In the
north who are now as anxious as this
Indiana editor to get at the truth OF
the causes of the civil war and the
subsequent policies of southern states
manship.
There has not been year In the
period since the civil war when earn
est writer's were more engaged than in
this year in searching for and assem-
bling southern historic records and
We may confidently look in the near
future for books that will enlighten
the country substantially upon many
subjects of southern polity now wholly
unknown or just as wholly msunder-
stood
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
The Man with the Hoe.

This year the man with the hoe has
got long lead on the man who de-
ponds on manual arts and the opera
lions Of commerce in barter and trans
portation. The farms of the west are
teeming with crops that are record
breakers or very near to that point.
Anyhow, the railroads already have
more calls for cars than they can sup
ply, although since last season they
have largely increased their carriage
equipment In the south the prospects
are Frightening every day for crop
of cotton fully up to the average and
for prices in the fall that will make
smiling faces from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande.
All these favorable things for the
farmer and planter are due to causes
that make weight on the other side OF
the national ledger and against the
men who have to live by other arts
and buy their living, clothing and raw
stuffs from the men who draw on the
reservoirs of Mother Nature. Aside
from the natural increase OF our own
population we have this year more
than million new mouths to feed that
have come to us from Europe. only a
small percentage of the owners OF
those mouths are going to the land IN
order to raise their own food. They
come mostly from the congested manu-
featuring and city districts of Europe
and are stopping in our cities to look
for the sort Of work they performed IN
the old countries.
Consumption of foodstuffs and cotton
goods is bound to increase every
wear, not only in this country. but
abroad. The lands in the Orient and
the increasing demands from overpop-
ulated districts in Europe are calling
for all the surplus supplies that we
can send them.
The system built UP IN this nation by
the Dingley form of protective tarlt is
responsible for the condition now and
the worse conditions that will follow
unless there is found a way to keep
an equilibrium between the producing
mower Of the country and the purchas-
ing mower of those who are essentially
consumers. This is the problem which
the labor mon of America have to race
and which cannot be settled by how
ever many and however successful
strikes for shorter hours and higher
wages
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
The American Soldier,

The country produces, perhaps, no
more unique and typical growth than
the American private soldier. He is in
a class all to himself. He has no peer,
no equal and no rival. No human in
tellect could have conceived him for
a romantic figure and no painter could
have put him on canvas without the
original for a model.
The American enlists in the army
either from stress Of need or as lark.
If husky boy nnds all the jobs occu-
pied and nothing doing on credit at his
boarding house he HES to a recruiting
station. sells out to Uncle Sam for
three years bedding, clothes and "a
tions. with S13 per for recreations on
the side Or. II he tires Of the dull
iteration of mis- local environment and
wants to see the country and it's pos
sessions near and far, he stuffs into
uniform and
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
The Negro in the South.
(From Leslle's Weekly.)


who shall DENY that truth and Justice
were on the side OF our friend Clark
Howell of The Atlanta Constitution, the
manning factory near Chicago with ne
groes. on the ground that the prospects
for colored men having skill In the trades
were less favorable in the north than IN
the south. and also that the negroes, on
the whole, were sure of more protection
and farer treatment where the most Of
them now are "Southerners think too
much" said Mr.. Howell "of colored
workers to urge them on to the north
only to have them return defeated and
dispirited or in collins, or not returned at
all because they shall have persisted in
pursuit or life, liberty, and happiness
by honest toll in some of the cities and
towns in the east, north, and west" If
this is satrical it is also Just and true,
and we of the north may well take the
utterance to heart
In the discussion of the negro and his
rights and wrongs, We seem strangely
to overlook the fact that the vast ma
iority of the negroes are in the south,
and that in proportion to their numbers
and their ratio to the white population
around them the cases of outrage and
abuse peroetrated upon the negro are
much fewer in the south than in the
north Mr. Howell is able to cite num-
Der of localities in Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois where a negro is not permitted
to live, or even to get off a train, at his
town railway station" If there are To-
calities like this in the south we have
never heard of them The north should
cease its criticisms of southern lynchings
and turn its batteries upon the sinners
at home.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03

country has, by the initiative Of The
Constitution. obtained clear view of
the most outrageous and brutal suf-
frage scheme now in vogue in any
state of the union. 1t hurts the Yer
monters to have their political rotten
ness shown up and it hurts their CO.
partners in the other states by taking
the edge off the suffrage axes they had
prepared to use on the necks of south
nrn states
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
co,tberu History in Demand

The editor of an important INDIANA
new eucnrning some recent historical pub
CONF .;ans in the south relating to the
hca .:nns which governed and yet gov
nlo mo- o'7r neople in political affairs be-
eih ou nd since the civil war. He says:
The reaains Confederate States" opened
tory c% %e to to the fact that We people +6 Of
s noh are as aSa to %,:"a sS 5a3
south &c history of the civil war and
truth tn OF an ,xi to read more books by
sou Iun uronld be very pleased to respond
VI. WE 70 more inquiries of this sort
e e. om tbe north 1t is evident to us
f r the extension OF the circulation
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03

Wilmington, Del, July 30.-Judge George
Gray decided today to accept his APP
pointment as fifth member of the Ala
bama coal strike commission and so tel
egraphed to the other members OF the
committee at Atlantic City. He made his
acceptance conditional, however. upon the
commissions work being done during Au-
gust as he viii have to preside over a
session of the United States court of
appeals beginning the second week in
September. In order to attend to the
committee work he Will have to forego
bis usual August vacation.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
Are There Heathens in Heavenp

Are There Heathens in HeavenP
Both the esteemed Washington Post
and the likewise New York Sun are
inclined, on occasions, to say dis
counting or ribald things about the
popularity applauded orthodoxy OF The
Constitution in matters religious. But
recently they descanted with incredul-
ity about our faith in the unificatioI
Of Christian creeds to the end that a
man might be classified as a disciple
of Jesus without having to undergo
some of the traditional and ought-tC be
obsolete mummeries of modern church
ism.
Everybody knows that The Consti-
tuition stands for churches. By no
manner of means do we desire their
disestablishment. But while there
should be differences Of administra-
ton" there should also be lone spirit
and it is for that latter essential that
we have pleaded and do plead.
A Philadelphia preacher-and Phila-
delphia is famous for its good preach
ers and bad pcliticians-has taken up
our demand and. being Methodist,
as injected it with a fire and frank
T ess that we hesitated t. employ.
Rev. Amos Johnson is brave and clo-
quent preacher, known to the Philadel-
phia public for a quarter of a century.
lie is of the straitest Of his sect and a
man of learning and spiritual acumen.
It is worth any ones while TO SO think
and so speak as to secure his indorsc-
ment.
At Chester Heights camp meeting
Dr. Johnson, on Thursday, preached a
notable sermon in which he said:
There will be all denominations and kinds
of people in heaveu-even the heather!
All that Is necessary to be done IS to
follow the true light.
We call the attention Of our eS-
teemed contemporaries TO the fact that
the above is true Pauline doctrine,
readily provable by his epistle to the
Romans. If that was sound doctrine
for the Jews and converts at Rome
it ought to be good, practical doctrine
for US Americans of the present time.
If the heather has within himself a
law of righteousness, revealed from
the Creator, whereby they accuse and
to their truest light are admissible to
heaven, why may not a man Of this
age, living up to the light of the gospel
revealed in the life Of Jesus have an
equal chance for salvation and eternal
life?
1t is all a part to ask if the heather
can reach heaven what use is there
for the gospel? If the ignorant man
has equal rights unGer the laws with
the learned doctor OF the laws, what
need is there for education? And If
another asks what use is there for
missions to the heather the answer
is found IN the new end better way
of the gospels, than me instructive
righteousness of the heather, or the
same instinct In the person born in a
Christian land. Both are weak and
need the enlightenment and direction
of the gospel. which in its purity Of
faith and uniformity Of obligations is
the sufficient Alpha and Omega OF a
salvable Christian creed
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non a government ship
He takes q trip
Ten thousand miles away"

He is "a rookie" which is the sobri-
1uet of a recruit until he has had his
baptism Of fire or done time in %
company" after which he is full
fedged regular" and when he finishes
his three years tour he is "a veteran"
But all the time he is the finest and
most reliable soldier the world knows
today. He would rather fight in blue
shirt open at the neck. bareheaded and
with his breeches torn half-off by the
cactus and the thorns than to eat pie
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03

In a Broadway restaurant. He has the
quick, instructive initiative of his
American forebears who learned Indian
tactics and beat the redskins at their
own tricks. He takes fighting life in
all lands. climates and conditions as
his matter of course and hardly ever
gets left. He knows that his chief
business is to "get there" and nobody
has yet been found to prevent him do
ing so.
Take him up one side and down the
other, the American private is a peach
and with all his foibles the American
people admire him, pet him and are
ready to back him against all corners.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
When Money Talks.

When money TalkS.
Hush good people-not a word.
Not the chirpin' of a bird
Let not even a breath be heard
Moneys talkin'i
Listen-all We rich and poor!
Not the creakin' of q door,
Money-money has the floor
Moneys talkin'.
From the winter to the May
Sure he is to have his way:
To the far-off Judgment Day
Moneys talkin'i
If the Heart Sings.
Sorrow comes III darkness,
And fain would dim the day.
But any time is JOY time
If the heart sings on the way!
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
Sarge PlunAen.

ELIEVE tho loneliness, institute
X good schools and our women will
/ \ be happy, the children cheerful, the
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
In Watermelon Weather

Roses for the lover
Let their thorns bring rue;
Daisies for the dreamer,
Violets for youi
Yet never sweeter dreamer
Reaped daisies in the devil
Star-Ioved fields Of clover
Where the brown bees roam.
Gardens where Loves lilies
FLICK the dust like foam,-
Lead US there. sweet dreamer,
TIL the heart sings "Homel
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-03
Gray Is Coming as Arbitrator

SARGE PLUME EFT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-03
President of the Swift Packing Com.
panY Dead.

Gustavus Franklin Swift. g.. president
OF the Swift Packing company. died at
his home in Chicago sunday from inter-
nal hemorrhages resulting from a surgi-
cal operation March %. MIR. swift was
born at Sycamore on Cape Cod. He be
gan business with a small butcher shop
in his native town, moved to Boston be
fore he was 80, and in 1873 went to Chi
cago to ship live cattle to the eastern
markets. Two years later he evolved
plans for the first refrigerator car and
shipped dressed meats instead of live an
imdls TO the East. lie was a pioneer in
this kind of business but had many i'm
itators who made large fortunes. The
small plant which he started in 1871 has
developed into q great corporation with
branches TN st. Louis, Kansas City. st.
Joseph. Omaha. ST. Paul and Fort
Worth, with distributing Offices i'm every
large city and town i'm the United States,
ana representatives In the leading cities
of Europe. Asia and Africa. The Swift
company has 22,Gn1 employees ON its pay
roll and its business last year exceeded
$2o0.0oo.000. Mr.. Swift cared nothing for
society. travel or clubs, his interests be-
ing entirely in his home. stock yards. Of
flee ana the Methodist church. He
leaves seven sons and two daughters.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-03
IN OUR OWN STATE.
Celebrations by Vermonters in Boston
and Springfield.

About 500 Sons and Daughters of Yer
mont ate maple sugar on snow at Memo
rial hail in Springfield. Mass. Tuesday
evening. The snow was secured several
weeks ago and Kept in cold storage. y,
the business meeting of tho association
these officers were elected: President,
Flint NJ. Bissell: vice presidents, II. j..
Whitcomb, 5. T.. Walton. Mrs. Geo. D..
Weston; secretary, l.. j. Scott; treas
urcr. Charles Tarbell, executive COM
mittee, Miss Ida 3. Roberts. Mrs. Geo.
Rhoados, Mrs. +. r. I.add. Geo. Graham.
Dr. Clark Hin.
About 1GJ Ncrmouters had a sugaring
of the same evening at the Hotel West
minister i'm Boston. Guests from New
port ana ST. Johnsbury WHO will enter
tain the association during Old Home
Week next summer were present. col
Albert clark presided at To- speech
making. and remarks were made by
Judge i. f.. Alfred and w. II. True of
Newport and f. II. Brooks of st. Johns
bury, who were in Boston to arrange
for the associations summer visit to
Vermont.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-03
F Father o'SulIivan objects to Protes-
tant Monopoly Of State Offices.

Rev. u. j. O'Sulhvan of ST. .Alhans has
created something of a sensation there
by statements made in a sermon deliver
ed Sunday evening. He said that there
were $4,000 to $4,000 Catholics in the state
but they had taken as a matter of course
the fact that since the founding of Yer
mont not once had there been a Catho-
lie appointed to public ofiicc-not an
elective but an a%ppointive officc-not a
superintendent of education. not a chap
lain in the reform school, or the asylum,
or a public institution. He said Prot
estants would complain If the state uni
versity was presided over 10y a Catholic
priest. If the professor of history were a
Catholic priest. who did not own one
Protestant history in his whole library,
If the commencement exercises Were in
Variably held in the cathedral in Bur
hngton; If the haccalaureate sermon was
invariably preached by a Catholic priest
or by a bishop, who often threw ont sly
hints and innuendocs against the Prot
cstant faith. He objected strongly To
the school histories i'm use. claiming that
they dealt in what he termed an unfair
manner with the Catholic church and
Catholic doctrine in general.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-03
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-03
Sale of Land for Taxes.

TNHE nonresident proprietors of the
town of Jamaica in the county of
hereby notified that the taxes assessed
by said town within the three years next
preceding this remain in whole or in part
unpaid on the following described lands
in said town of Jamaica to wit: Certain
pieces or parcels of lands known as the
James Megarr farm, a farm located in
the town of Jamaica and bounded and
described as follows viz: North by land
owned by II. Howard, Hoyt II. Wheeler
and Warren J. Sheldon; east by land
owned by H. ]. Stewart: south by land
owned by Daniel Sherwin; west by Win
han town line. Said land comprises
town of Jamaica Original proprietor of
said land and premises unknown. The
present owner supposed to be &. b.
Williams and Aiferdine Castle. The
and premises and remaining unpaid as
follows to wit:
On list of 1899, grand list $40; town tax
$l4.4O; state tax $40; highway tax $2.16;
$2l.sO. Paid s6's2; balance due SIS Is.
On list of 1900, grand list $720; town tax
S1S; highway tax $2.16; school tax $3,6e;
county tax IA. Total $685..
On list of 1901, grand list S72O; town tax
ga 10; state tax s1.Os; highway tax S2.16;
school tax $3.50; county tax IA. Total
$21.43.
And so much of said lands and prem
ises will be sold at public auction at the
inn of VIM. +. Gleason, a public place in
the town of Jamaica, on the 25th day of
April, A, ID. 1903, at 2 o'clock p. m, as
shall be requisite to discharge and pay
said taxes thereon with cost unless pre-
viously paid.
day of March, A. d. 1903.
Collector of Taxes for the Town of ia
maica- Vermont. 1915