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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24
REFORMA ALTON WITH PUNISH
MENT

Violations of law must be punished,
else there would be no protection for
person and property. There is. in
truth, a large part of our people
who are opposed to capital punish
ment, but outside of a small class Of
fanatics there is no one who raises
objection to imprisonment for crimes
committed. Z
But there is something more due
the State and society thar the mere
punishment of a convicted criminal
by imprisonment, and it is that cues
ton which is bearing upon the on
science Of the people of this country.
Have We performed our whole duty
to a criminal when he has been SEN
fenced to a term in prison or to serve
in the building of our roads? 1t
does not seem that we have, in fact
we have not. The reason is that
some day the criminal is to be turned
loose again, and if it is as a more
desperate criminal then we have not
performed our parts, for then We in
this matter are the people who are
responsible for the laws, and for the
81 ~ iS hASh oiiN Liz WV
men whom our courts sent to our
prisons.
There should be a system Of refor-
nation that goes with imprisonment.
Not alone should our plans be for
the punishment Of criminals, but they
should look towards the reformation
Of these, SO that when they are at
large again they may lead lives that
will square with the world, and not
be simply vehicles for the carrying
of more crimes. If convicts are sent
out as more determined criminals
then imprisonment is merely a school
for crime. 1t should be a school Of
reclamation and to this end the wise
men Of the State should set their
minds. This age demands that there
be such treatment of prisoners that
when prison doors open they should
go forth better men.
In the Fedora prison in Atlanta
steps have been taken in this direc-
ton by the Punishment of the badge
Of infamy,' the stripes of he convicts,
and henceforth all are to be clad in
plain blue suits. For some time past
only such prisoners as have Broken
the prison rules, or were at work on
the neW prison walls and might
escape more easily if not clothed in
the stripes. have been compelled TO
wear these. But under the new
rules 40 prisoners will be put in
stripes. And other improvements in
that prison are being planned. A
prison band and a prison orchestra
are to be established, concerts to be
given each Sunday. A baseball
league has been organized and it is
declared that there is intense in
terest in it. These steps are taken
in h interest Of the reformation Of
the men and while with present and
past ideas they may seem far fetch
ed, yet who can say but what they
may prove beneficial to. society at
large. The prison doors will open
some day to the great majority Of
those sent behind them, and society
Will be the gamer if they are sent
forth after efforts to make of them
better men n better We
should punish. but We should also
attempt reformation.
The display Of farm products OF
North Carolina at the Great State
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24
UNCLE WALT
The Poet PHILOSOPHER

This truth is sound as virgin ore.
SO salt it down as such: The man
who tlaks f~OreverInOrc
TALKING is bound to talk too
TOO MUCH much. The silent man
has many friends, who
think him smooth as grease, and if in
in season he unbehds. and starts to
speak a piece. they listen to his every
word, as though he were a sage, and
say: HE is a Iooloo-bird, the wonder
of this aSe!" The talkSmith has no
friends at all: folks hate to e him
come; they say to him: q hire a
halI-address the deaf and dumb" 1
know a hundred idle men who once
were drawing pay; they limbered up
their Jaws and then talked their jobs
away. I've known some danes. In
other days. who talked their hus-
bands blind, until they sought more
pleasant ways, and jumped the beast
the stones that dot the windswept
heath are piled above the crumbling
bones of fellows talked to death. If
all the time we waste in talk were
used In cutting ice. no homeless men
the streets would Walk-all men
would have the price!
Oanme.m
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24

The display Of farm products OF
North Carolina at the Great State
Fair shows that in North Carolina
there is opportunity for every farmer
who believes in diversified farming.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24

The campaign Of the Judges against
the use of cigarettes by minors IN
North Carolina goes forward. The
day should come when the deadly
cigarette is forbidden in North Caro-
lima.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24
ALL FOR $1.7O

There has never been offered in
North Carolina % much good eadln
for 80 little money as we are Offering
lde the following proposition: Eor
$40 we will send the following fof
ono year:
The Weekly News and Observer, a.
e1gllt-page weekly, newspaper.
The CommOner, an able weekly
journal. published by William Jcil'
nings Bryan.
The Farmer and Mechanic. sixteen
page North CarOlina home and farm
weekly journal.
Thus for Ono Dollar and Seventy
Cents you can get all these pa pers
one year.
y. C. MOORE. Manager.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23
COTTON MARKET
At AMERICUS

The futures market pulled up a
half dozen points yesterday, but there
was a feeling of general dullness N
cotton circles and no immediate i'm
provement is anticipated. January
the active month month in speculation
closed yesterday. barely steady, at 9.Q9
There was no change either way in
in the Americas market though buy
ers are still anxious TO get lines IF
fine cotton at nine cents or above. Re
ceipts yesterday were 165 bales, With
quotations as follows:
1911 1910
Good middling -. -. 9 Is IA
Mlddling. ....8 IL IS 3-4
Lew middling e.. =. -. - IL
Receipts in Amerieus:
1911 1910
Received yesterday. =. ..163 10
Received previously =. $3.50 21,S36
Total receipts to date .36,675 21,S5l
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23

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Wilbur D. Nasbitl
Lord, let me thank Thee for the rains,
And for the sunshine and the dew,
For grass that carpets hills and plains,
For the flowers that make glad the
view,
For snow that hides the naked trees,
For all that in completeness blends:
They have brought comfort, all of
These, and my company of friends.
These are the things that make me
rich,
My heart where faith still holds its
place,
My hands that have no misc~-itch
To grasp the prize before the race.
My soul that waits its day, serene,
A hope that falters not. nor ends
When life seems sordid, crude and
mean
These, and my company of friends.
Lord bless them all, for | am glad
Because today call them mine
I would not give them up to add
Unto my store of corn and wine.
I thank Thee for this year of peace,
But am one who now cOmmends
To Thee for blessings without cease
His goodly company of friends.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23

O, God, the life of the faithful, the
bliss of the righteous, mercifully re-
ceive the prayers of Thy ippuslan. It's
ceive the prayers of Thy suppliants
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23

A man is relieved and gay when he
has put his heart into his work, and
done his best; but what he has said or
done otherwise shall give him no peace
R. w. Emerson.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23
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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. \

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He satisfieth the longing soul, and
the hungry soul He filleth with good.
-Ps. evil, 9.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23

man can always save himself a
lot of trouble by not looking for any.
The man who thinks that he is what
be seldom is.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-11-23

that the souls which thirst for Thy
promises may evermore be filled from
Thy abundance. Amen.
-Gelasian Sacramentary, A. d. 400.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
UNITED CHARITIES.

Pine Bluff should have all organiza- tion of United Charities, composed of izat Ons in the city having in charge the relief work here This would do away with the nuiSances that are ire Quently reported to the authorities Of beggars being about the streets and of suffering among the poor, The deserving cases could be easily refer- Ted to the United Charit 'es and the could either be made to go to work or leave the city.
 The conditions at present give an- pie room for imposters to impose on an unsuspectng public and there s no head to general charities here in the event assistance is really needed for unfortunates who ought to be aid ed
 Why not call a meeting of the rep resentatives of all the local charitable and church orsas cations of the city with "a view to organizing for one good purpose and for the protection of the public as weN If this city had a United Charities, governed by a l board of men and women thoroughly competest to q spense charity, t would accomplish much more in that direction than by permitting it's peo- pie to give here and there. and in many cases to persons who are con- tinually impos ng on the public An l 'nvestigation should be made in each case and then the inquisitorial board would have full power to either aid the worthy ones or refuse he lp for those who do not deserve financal or other ass stance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
ESCAPED WITH HIS LIFE.

"Twenty-one years ago I faced an awful death" writes H. B. Martin, Port Harrelson, S. c. Doctors said I had consumption and the dreadful cough l had looked like t sure enough. tried everything could hear of for my cough. and was under the treatment of the best doctor in Georgetown. s. C., for year, but could get no relief. A friend advised me to try pr. Kings New Discovery. l feel that I owe my l'fe to this grea, throat and lung cure.' It's positive ly guaranteed for coughs, colds and all bronchial affect ons. 50c aud s1.OO Trial bottles free at all druggists.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05

The men who preside oyer the dcs tinies of the Pine Bluff f.nanc al in- stitutions are loyal Pine Bluff citi- zens-men who have the welfare of at all mes. They are men who real ize that Pine Bluff depends upon them and that they and their institutions depend upon Pine Bluff for success.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
R. R. COMM SSION
 HELD MEETING Dismisses Petition for Depot at Sorrells, in Jefferson
 County.
TO MEET AGAIN TODAY
Bellamy and Mcknight New Members Percy Allen New Chairman
 of Commission.

Little Rock, Ark. Jan 1.-The Ark ansas Railroad Comm ss 'on Wednes
 day held rather lengthy session en- deaVoflns to wind up all the business Of the old commission to leave nothing on tho docket for the new commission which will assume control next Week.
 The comm ssion will meet again to
 morrow for the closing up of all bus;- ness not attended to today. This morn ing Mcknight and Beilamy. the two new members, met with COnlmiss ioner Allen, the holdover, and he was elect E ed chairman for the coming year. Will liam F. Floyd was chosen secretary aga Il. At the meeting of fhe com- mission Wednesday the most time was devoted to the question as to whether or not a general order should be .s- sued requiring the railroads to open all doors ci2 vestibuled trains at cer- tam stations. Thss finally wound ID in fequest from the commission that the Ia aIroads prepare a general order to open every second door at towns over 2,500 and see how if works. This VIII be presented at the next meeting Of the commission. The pet ton from Marked Tree ask ng that a poor freight delivery be remedied, was wthdrawn The petition asking for a new Iron Mountain freight depot ill Argenta wss continued month as the railroad has already begun work on the depot.
 The petition from Sorrells on the Cotton Belt, asking for new depot was dismissed. The petition from warren, relative to stock pens. was withdrawn because the relief has been given. The petition for suit against the Iron Mounta n for the failure to put in viaduct at Nineteenth street crossing, Little Rock as ordered by the last legislature, was continued as work will be started The petition fer spur track at Wilmar was dis III ssed on pe tition of the business men who asked it. Iii making his notation ef the dismiss l Chairman w 4. Falcon er who has for years been a promin- ent iurist at Fort Smith, wrote on his docket, d smissed at cost of plain tiff The petition of Conway citizens fer new depot was continued pend ing settlement with the railroad. Capt. W. w. Martin. representing the cit Aens of Conway. met privately with General Manager Sullivan of the Iron Mountain, and offered him his choice of two sites south of the present deDet located, free of charge. ie the railroad company would relinqu:sh it's owner- sh D to property in the public square. where the depot is now ocsted. Gen
 ral Manager Sullivan promised an early reply to the citizens and gave the impression that it would be favor able to Conway As no one appear ed on the petition for the fixing of sliding scale for the minimum weieht on cars of hay, this petition was d 's- missed. The protest to the rough ma teral rate was dismissed as the obiec- tlonahle paragraph in it has been re moved by the railroads. a new tarff being shown to prove it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
PINE BLUFFS BANKS.

The total deposits of the six Pine Bluff banks at the close of business Saturday, December 31, was $4,049,- O59.24.
 The deposits at the close of the year = were divided among the six 'nst :tu- tioss as follows:
 Citizens Bank ,.....-.-......... -$1 .0a2 ,9S7.49 Merchants & Planters 932 2.642.6 Bank of Pine Bluff ....-. sos, .59 Simmons National - 647.299.S9 Cotton Belt S. B. & T. Go 435,o74,09 Peoples s. B. & T. Co., 112265.51
 The remarkable showing made by the six financial institutions of Pine Bluff during the year just past, as well as the year before, indicates their strength, their progressiNeness and their prosperity The figures themselves speak more loudly than any written words.
 The banks of any c.ty give the fin est index to the character of the city itsels. Hustling, progressive. grow ing banks mean a hustling, grow ing progressive, commun ty. No city can prosper and forge ahead unless its bank ng institutions are prepared to finance big propositions as well as small ones every day n the year. Pine Bluff is among the leading cities in Arkansas financially and at the top of the list of progressive cit es and the Pine Bluff banks are largely responsible for it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05

seem poss'bl for fire starting again in this debris, nevertheless the bazes began to pour forth in the burned area az Il. and firemen spent another strenuous night pouring wat CT on the flames b keep them from being blown to adjoining buildings and causing repetition Of the big fire Of Monday night winch cost Little Rock business men over $1 ,0o0, ,S00
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
WHITE MEN CHARGED
 WITH NEGRO MURDER

Houston, Texas, Jan. 4.-Six white men were lodged in jail from Palestine charged with the murder of negroes in the race trouble at Slocum last June There are 12 white men under ind 'ctment but the others have not yet been named. The cases have come venue from Anderson county.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
What is a cold in the head? Nothing

What is a cold in the head? Nothing to worry about if you treat it with Ely's Cream Balm. Neglected, the cold may grow into catarrh, and the air-passages be so inflamed that you have to fight for every breath. It is true that Ely's Cream Balm masters cstarrh, promptly. But you know tbe old saying about the ounce of prevention. Therefore use Cream Balm when the cold in the head shows itself. All druggists, soc, or mailed by Ely Bros., 56 Warren street, New York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05
FIRE BPOKf OUT
 AGAIN LAST NIGHT
Little Rock Fire Department Called ta Scene of Big Conflagration and Spent the Night Battling
 With Flames.

Little Rock, Ark. Jan. 4.-Aga'n to- night the Little Rock fire department ncrked . number eff hours to put out t;e f-s which started again in the a'-
 con in the debris of the Lloy1 Sporting Goods Co. Though it did not
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05

=I haul all kind Of heavy country wood, Pine and Oak. Call on me at any time. Old phone 1547, D. A. Mace, IF Is t..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05

Don't forget the Quit Business Sale at Beiachs, 3l4 Main-That's All.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-05

-Don't forget the Quit Business Sale at BeiaehS, 3l4 Main-That's All.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-24
WHAT IS INFLUENCE
 OF A DYING WISH

London. December 23.-(Special)- far mothers dying wish should inf1u- ence the subsequent life of, her daugh- ter is a problem that besets the Baroness Won Wrede, whose stage name is Mss Ray Beveridge and who is known in the United States as the American Marie Tempest,
 Baroness Won Wrede, who arrived in London about three months ago, made a promise to her dying mother that she would do her utmost to arrange for the production of five plays which her moth CT had written.
 In order to fulfill her promise Baroness von Wrede went on the stage herself, and, although she has no love for the life, nevertheless made a success. All the time, however, she was longing to settle down on a particular ps farm.
 At the present moment this particu- lar pig farm is in the market it has been offered to the Baroness, butcher mothers plays are still unproduced.
 q was a mere girl when my mother died seven years ago." she said, and for the past six years l have been play ing leading parts on the American stage, always hoping that I should eventually be able to produce my mothers plays.
 'The stage life, with all it's excite ments. does not appeal to me. though, of course, to play leading parts in Lon don is something more attractlVe tlaH any other part of the world can offer.
 But I think everybody has two na- tures-I know I am practically two dis tinct people-and what l may call my natural nature is always longing to take me to a beautiful pig farm, just near my old home in Munich.
 .sIt is the most beautiful farm in the world--iust at the foot of the Bavarian Tvrol-wjth a really old peasants cot tage. It is about 400 acres
 If is an ideal home for pigs and chick ens and the commercial side of 1t IS at tractive.
 ..Rut whether should buy 1t now that if is for sale is the problem that vexes me. Perhaphs, whilst am still young, I ought to stick to the stage and saeri- dce my own desires for my mothers last wish. But would she wish it if she knew?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-24
Are Lake Steamers "SlOcums? 2"

from the survey
 The following paragraph from the report of the federal commission which investi- gated tho Slocum disaster, in which over a thousand men, women and children were killed In June, 1904 should be read in gauging the significance of the charges made by the Chicago Federation of Labor with respect to passenger steamers on the Great Lakes;
 "The deckhands are apparently picked up with very little consideration as to knowledge of their duties. have very little discipline, change from year to year (only one of the Slocum's deckhands having been on the vessel before this year), and are unfttcd to meet any such emergency a swas presented by the disaster to the General Slocum, or properly to take care of such peculiarly dangerous traffic as that on excursion boats.'
 The Chicago report is published in full in the Coast Seamau's Journal. It de- scribes crews on A passenger boats sail ing out of Chicago:
 We find,' the report, states, that the average crew of experienced seamen 'ln each steamer, exclusive of the captain and two mates. is five. These five seamen are the two dutiartermasters or wheelsmen, two watchmen on most of the steamers. and one lookoutsman.
 "It will be noticed from this that not one of the 24 passenger steamers ever has on watch at one time sufficient ex- perienced sealnen to launch and man even one lifeboat No experienced seamen could be found on the passenger decks,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-24
.eThe Passing of the Manchus''

Stephen Bonsal, in the December issue of
 The North American Review.
 Much support is furnished to those who have maintained from the first that there is no place for d Manchu dynasty m a constitutional government. From first to last every concession wrung from the Throne has been cancelled or its effect nullifed. In 1910, after many delays and much shufflng of the cards the Senate, or Upper House of the Parliament, thar was not to be perfected until 1917, as sembled in Picking. The conservatives, not to say the reactionaries, expected great things from this august body, which could in no sense be regarded as repre- scnting the people, Half of it's members were selected by the Regent from among that class of tried public men who in Eng land are summoned to the Privy Council. The other half, it is true, were elected, but not by a popular vote. The members were the choice of provincial notables and of the business guilds. They were, one and all, men of property and of sub stance. To gag the assembly in case of need d Manehu Prince was appointed to preside over it's deliberations. But all these precautions were of no avaid To the surprise and dismay of the court, this body from the very moment it was called
 
 sistent upon radical reforms and popular representation than even the provincial diets had been, and its members insisted upon sending repeated petitions to the Throne asking that the more popular branch of the National Assembly be im- mediately convened. ..
 Reluctant concession begat. as usual, more extravagant demands, the Throne shufhed, and the open brake came at a morhent when most of the demands had been acceded to. Today the Revolution is rampant in many provinces and al- powerful in not few. Indeed, its aston ishng successes have. been greater out side than within the area of the military operations now in progress The prac- tical surrender of the Throne, as con- tained in the pathetic edict of November 1st, may stay the hand of the Revolution and should certainly strengthen the posi- ton of Yuan Sh K'ai and of those who are seeking formula with which to save the country from the impending anarchy.