The Harrison times., 1911-09-16

purchase of an additional farm be
for the present abandoned" Sew
eral propositions had been made.
The Board also authorized the
superintendent 10 withdraw from
the contractors enough convicts the
latter part Of this month to pick the
cotton on the state farm Last year
the state picked 1926 bales, but it
is estimated that this years yield,
on account of the army worms and
other pests, will fall short of that
figure.
BY reason of his inability to at
tend to the sick of both institutions.
DR.. B. L. Harrison has been relieved
from duty as physician at the Re-
form School at $50 a month, and
will give his entire time to the pen
itentiary at 1925 month. DR.. S.
B. Richmond, of Salem, who has
been a guard at the Reform School
for the last year at $25 month,
was employed as combination
guard and physician at $40.
FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK.
The farm demonstration campaign
inaugurated in the state nve years
ago by the federal government has
proven successful beyond the most
sanguine expectations of the people
There are now 40 demonstrators
in the state, and it is hoped that an
other twelve months will see one i'll
each county Here to fore the work
in Arkansas has been directed by
general agent for Arkansas and
Louisiana at Shreveport. The work
has grown SO important in this
state, however, that {. w. Watson,
of Mississippi has been assigned to
the Arkansas territory, headquar-
ters in Little Rock, and all the coun-
tv demonstrators and district
agents will report to him.
The government has set apart for
the use of Arkansas in 1912, the
sum of $4,000 which gives each
county $337.50 provided it raise as
much, which the last Legislature
auth orized the quorum courts to do,
In some of the counties, much more
than this is paid the demonstrators,
Sebastian paying salary of $500
a year. Thousands of farms are be-
ing worked in the state on the prln-
ciples laid down by the federal de-
partment of agriculture, and the
results have appeared in the increas-
ed quantity and quality of the yield.
MAuDLIN SENTIMENT RAMPANT.
The most striking evidence of a
maudlin sentiment run rampant was
witnessed last week in the exhibi-
tion given by the humanitarians Of
the north to prevent the hanging Of
the Young negro, Earl Gilchrist. in
Little Rock. Gilchrist had been con-
victed of the killing of another ne
gro, in a premeditated manner.
There was nothing for the court to
do but to sentence him to be hang
ed, and September Sth was fixed as
the date But an appeal was at
once taken to the Supreme Court,
acting as an indefinite stay of. ex-
ecution, and there never was the
remotest chance that he would go
to the gallows. But led by Sena-
tor LaFollette, Eugene Debs and
other well-meaning but missinform-
ed persons, the newspapers of Ohio
Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana took
no the case, and during the last two
weeks so infamed the minds of
their readers against the approach
ing horror, that the governors mail
was flooded with petitions and pro-
tests by the bushel.
They came from all parts of the
country, especially the north, with
few scattering ones from the ne
gro states, by telegram, special de-
livery, registered mail, letter-all
protesting against the murder OF
1.-THE kinky haired babe" and the
hanging of children. Societies,
lodges, mass-meetings, governors,
public officials, joined the clamor,
some of the papers conducted it
like a coupon contest, and monster
petitions signed by hundreds-one
from Cleveland, o., had 5000
names-were received while the agi-
tation was at its height.
AS matter of fact, the "child "
weighs 100 pounds, is about s feet
10 inches and is fully developed.
His mother swore that he is only
fifteen, but he looks more like twen-
tv. and there was evidence that he
had been in the public schools here
| for twelve or thirteen years, and
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