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8 New System Peeary Their Honor


ment depends largely ON the political sit
nation in Arizona. There Was "A deter
mined effort during the recent session ~
the Legislature to wreSt the control OF the
prison from the governors hands. Tn"
penitentiary has always been a depcS
for political leccheS The writer was
amused ~ hear some OF the conNictS
laughing At the number OF deputies IL re-
quired To bring I'm a bunch OF newly SEN
fenced prisoners, which they seemed to
regard a sort Of political junket. There
are also others who object honestly To
what they consider the sentimental view
OF crime. II GOV. Hunt succeeds himself
the work will go on. This viii include
effort 10 secure the indeterminate sem
tence which has worked SO we'll else
whore. 1t is the belief OF the governor
as OF others that the large number OF
conVicts returned second time 20 prison
is not due only 10 penitentiaries being
schools for crime. but 10 the economic
conditions OF the men. who. with a shah
10y suit of clothes and Slo. are turned out
on the world
Wet be paid for his labor. and after
the state has been paid the cost OF main
tanning him that the residue accrue Ia
the prison authorities. For example. a
man who serves five years by steady
days labor. after the state has paid it
self, will have saved 81 80. ON this ac-
count. after he has left prison he NAV
draw a certain sum monthly for his sup
port until he has secured work IL on
the other hand. he again commits crime
and is sent back, this sum viii revert to
the state,
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or see pair of handouts. The governor
trusts to our honor to obey the prison
laws and there is not an EInglish-speak
ing prisoner, at least, here who would
do anything to bring discredit on the gov
ernor's policy, or on the warden who car
ries it out. You have no idea already of
the difference in the men among them
selves. We used to have nights every
day Now. although are restless. and
every man longs for liberty, we are at
peace.
Warden Sims. with his wife and boy,
lives outside in modern adobe house,
made agreeable by stucco. with cement
floors. cool in summer, warm in winter
and ideal for the climate and surround
ings. The cook is a Pima Indian, grave,
taciturn and much interested in learning
about pies and buildings. The gardener
for the prison. also a convict, lives
outside and nearby. On the other side
is the pumping station, with it's convict
attaches. the scene Of Roy Meyers eX-
periments. for he. too. lives outside
1t seems significant of the change of
status that in the incidental talk of the
family one never heard the words con
Wet and prison 1t was the boys"
outside and inside" This was not a
pose but the expression Of a state of
mind. observed even in the boy of ten,
who had his chums inside
The administration buildings have a
fine approach and are outside, but open
ing above on the battlements. where
sentinels on the four sides of the quad
rangle are the only guardians Of both
inside and out In the connecting space
are the quarters prepared for the women.
But Arizona has woman prisoners.
and these are occupied by two old hens.
who lay eggs and raise broods for the
officers mess.
Within the quadrangle is a green lawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

point. But he hasn't The wonder is
that poetry marketed that way i'm this
age OF advertising sells as we'll as il does.
Suppose the best selling" novel were
placed on the stands without press
agentry. without publicity. without dis
play, without any blare of trumpets or
attempt to awaken interest on the part
of the buyers. Would it pay? Scarcely.
And poetry will never pay the publishers
until he takes the trouble 90 push il as
he does his other lines. Poetry doesn't
pay is a fetch at which the publishers
have groveled for a good many years.
and il will hold them in thrall until a
number Of really daring publishers
You won't find Riley's publishers wailing
that poetry doesn't pay, nor do they al
low one of his books to be issued I'M
heralded and unknown.
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The Religious Sheik.

DR. l.. q. HOWARD. the specialist
at whose suggestion the houseny
has been rechristened the typhoid fly.
said the other day to a Washington re-
porter:
There's one type of person who
especially annoys me That is the
over-religious person who objects to
the determination OF the flea and mos
quito and fly and other disease breed.
ing creatures on the ground that
Providence put them here, and hence
they must serve some hidden purpose,
and it is irreverent to destroy them
These people remind me OF u
sheik in Egypt A medical mission
airy was trying To persuade this
sheik to adopt certain sanitary pre-
sheik was such good Mohammedan
that the missionary could do nothing,
with him.
Now. my dear sheik.' the man
the clothes of everybody who dies OF
cholera. for the clothes communicate
disease
Docs Allah need to work through
clothes?' the sheik asked incredulously.
Now. sheik.' said the missionary,
remember that stranger last month.
He was taken down with cholera, and.
as his clothes We're handsome. two OF
your villagers watched beside him, SO
that they could seize them when all
should be over.
Ives. l remember
But man appeared, and said he
was the sick strangers brother. and
claimed the clothes The two viii
layers, however. beat the man With
sticks out of the village as an impos-
tor
Il remember.
And the stranger died. and the
two villagers divided his clothes. They
wore them. and 10, in "A few days they
were themselves dead-they, and forty
of your villagers
Yes said the sheik: Allah pun
ished those two men for beating and
cheating the brother. They were SIM
ners and Allah slew them.
But what about the forty others
who died?' cried the missionary; and
he added to himself: I've got him
now, s..
But the sheik just shrugged his
shoulders.
LAS to the forty Others he said
calmly. who but Allah knows their
crimes?
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UnWearied Patriotism.

MFRS. o. H. p. BELMONT. at din
IVA ner at Newport. was congratulated
on her interchangeable work for the suffra-
gist cause. recently evidenced by the
suffragist hotel that she will open in New
York in the autumn.
Love for cause makes one indefat-
igable in it, said Mrs Belmont. You We
heard about the patriotic soldier in Cuba :?
This soldier. burning with patriotism,
always did about three mems work One
scorching day, when his comrades were
nearly Frustrated, he was seen carrying
his own gun and another mans. two
cartridge belts, two knapsacks and a dog.
THE colonel stopped him.
" Look here, you marched all yester-
day and you fought all last night" the
colonel said.
Yes. SIR said the young soldier, re-
spectfully.
Well, then. what are you carrying
that dog for?'
- Because. colonel, said the soldier.
the dogs tired.
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ceased TO represent a very big income to
me. In fact, there were only two months
IN the two years that / haven't made
more than that. and have several times
passed the hve-hundred- dollar mark. /
was literally kicked into prosperity,
though j do not love the man who did
II any better for the circumstance, be-
cause he wasn't "A bit sporting about it.
Poetry Is good business. if followed
as a business. Not all of nv income
comes from 1t; write stories, sketches.
jokes and epigrams. but the bulk Of my
earnings still accrues from my verse,
and for the same amount of energy ex-
pended my verse pays twice and three
most of my prose.
In the two years ! have been a straight
free lance l have made pretty close to
5000 Ny first year netted me about
$500 and this year. almost concluded,
will surely reach the five-thousand-dollar
mark. If the present pace keeps up.
haven't earned all that money from verse,
but ] should say that four-tifths of it
came from that source-leaving me some
thing like $66OO as the net proceeds of
two years as free lance poet Not il is
true. an enormous income but a very
comfortable living-honestly earned by do
!
for the best and easiest boss l ever had
myself.
Naturally. l knew my trade before |
began to depend upon II wholly
didn't step into the literary arena I'M
armed for the conflict. or the SCRAP
Uhe high brow calls II the former
the low brow the latter. / had spent
twelve good, hard years learning how to
write verse. and the way | learned was
by writing it. When ] was eighteen, one
OF my friends had some verses published
in local paper. i was jealous | be-
lieved I could do the same thing, and I
did. That was in high school. en-
joyed the task of scribbling lines. and I
kept at it. | wrote verse for the high
school paper, and then / grew ambitious
and sent some away. IL came back /
was surprised. and not little indignant,
but i kept plugging along until finally
the editor of a weekly actually sent me
s.; for bit of my verse 1t was very
bad verse. and the editor must have
had an OFF day when he purchased that
poem; but he did, and he published il.
too. That sealed my fate. II is true |
didn't sell anything else for two years,
but l knew i was destined to be a writer,
and when l entered college l proceeded to
get myself on all the college periodicals
possible. and to write all the verse
could turn out. / read poetry. l dreamed
poetry. i studied ii: wrote verse"
pored over volumes on versfication and
wrote more verse. Eagerly ] attempted
every new form of rhyming / heard Of,
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he had made $4,000 And he has been
practically a free lance all that time. BY
dint of natural cleverness and really
enormous industry he has built up a
great reputation for his Work-a deserved
reputatiOn-sO that he commands prices
no one else could ask. He, too, writes
series, ballads. gay, glad. serious and sad
verse, but always clean, wholesome stuff
that is good to read. Also he has gone
into lyric writing for musical comedy
the verse writer may follow.
At the banquet were some fifteen or
twenty poets" Five of them came and
left in taxicabs. two in their own cars.
them was complaining Of financial embar-
rassment. These are not. however. the
sort Of poets you meet at a really
'high-brow" function. They do not carol
of celestial harmonies" and the wiz
ardry Of wanton worlds" They do not
shrek loud gatherings of passion and
purple pain: they merely write verse
meant to amuSe, to please, sometimes to
thrill but always to SELL
Poetry pays. James Whitcomb Riley
never wrote anything else, or mighty lit
tie else, and his recent gift of 100000 to
a local institution proves that his life has
not been financially a failure. A great
deal of Riley's money was made by lee
turing-lectures which consisted of read
ings of his own poems. A dozen other
cotemporaneous verse writer's are doing
supremacy we'll in the same way.
OF the older generation OF poets who
have proven the financial possibilities Of
verse there are several. One woman is
probably the most notable success of the
last generation, and she is still writing.
Since she was seventeen her stuff has
been appearing in magazines and in book
form, and she has always earned more
than enough for her own needs. if she
had had to support herself. though she
was fortunate enough to acquire a hus-
band at an early age Her earnings have
been sufficient to perform an astonishing
wide range of charities.
I venture to say that 1 could name, al
most offhand, fifty men and women who
are making better than an average living
out of verse. You will find them in every
city about the country, earnest. hard
working. journeymen poets. dressed like
everybody else, with no pose or artistic
temperament about them. plain everyday
folks who pound out the catchy verse
which you clip out of your newspaper, or
the filler for the agricultural paper,
the occasional homely, sensible heart
throb'' verse that gets into the magazines,
or the very rare good lyric for popular
song. (The men who write most of the
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the "snakehouse" is now open and an
elderly prisoner was using 1t as an office.
Nor have the refractory cells any oc-
cupant. ] think the present system would
be regarded as having broken down IL
one were used. The only problem pre-
scented at present is a man who declines
to do his eight hours service His case
has been turned over to the Mutual I'M
prov ement League, which decided to dress
him in red flannel, and was busy prepar-
ing the costume if he persisted In his
refusal to work. Dress has its 1mpor-
lance and it was believed that he would
give in before he would give up his gray
uniform, whose only prison badge is the
number just below the collar on the back.
With the TRUSTEES this is left off. Some
of these men are official assistants. hold.
ing places formerly occupied by political
hangers-on. thus reducing the salary Ist
$4,000 a year. They are competent Tor
the service. for here are bankers, en-
gineers and one man who owns mine
bonded for 100000.
1t is these men who have organized the
Mutual Improvement League alluded to,
in order to support from inside the gov
errors policy. It's president is mining
engineer now in charge Of the power
house. It's executive officer is a 'lifer,
who but for what was deemed speedy
tuberculosis would have been hanged. In
stead of dying he has grown brown and
husky.
II can thank the penitentiaary for that
much at least I have got back my
health" he said, even as Roy Meyers can
thank his fault for securing him the OPP
portunity for experiment. The activities
and enthusiasm Of this man for prison
reform inside" make him an interesting
figure. 1t is he who has organized the
prison band Of Mexicans. He is getting
the library into shape for the new build
ing now under way. This is now at one
end of the dining room, very full in public
and mining reports. for the men interest
ed in technical matters, not lacking in
women's magazines sent by we'll mean
ing but indiscriminate friends. Here |
may make a plea for this library farther
af1eld, and beg for it books and maya
zines. for Arizona, potentially rich, is a
poor state just setting up in business. and
has not money for a prison library.
1t is this same man who is organizing
the prison school, for which the convicts
are eager, many of whom. being Mexi-
cans, do not speak English. For this rea-
son they are scarcely aware of why they
are inside From within this convict
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

MAYOR SAMUEL L: SHANK of In--
AVA dianapolis was talking about Eng
lands interference with the question OF
Panama canal tolls. -
England" he said. seems to me to
be as meddlesome. i'm this instance, as
the Irishman who was watching the tight.
This Irshman watched two chaps
pummeling each other for three or four
minutes, and the sight made him more
and more uneasy. -
FINALLY. turning to the crowd, he safi:
g Excuse me, friends but is this a
private scrap, or moight We all take
hand in it?'
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Their Worst Fault.

at INCLE JOE CANNON, seated on
the piazza of a seaside hotel, con-
demned a certain improvident type of So
cial reformer.
They're great borrowers" he said.
these chaps who are going to make the
world all over again.
With a chuckle he added:
The worst thing about your Ctopians
is that they're all I-O-C-topians."
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lyrics for popular songs are not poets or
versfiers, they are butchers and sausage
makers.l
Poetry pays, and it would pay a lot
better if it Were not for the bull-necked
obstinacy of the average publisher. There
is a tradition in the book business that
poetry doesn't pay, that it is always a
dead loss. that there is no demand for
it, and when, by some queer combina-
ton of circumstances, an established
verse writer does get a book published
without having to issue il at his own
expense the publisher lays back and
says. Now you watch. This won't sell.
tn rot on the bookstands. 1t can't go.
poetry doesn't pay" He doesn't adver-
tise 1t, he doesn't push it. he doesn't put
it in any really attractive form, and
then when it fails to sell like a novel
the publisher thinks he has proved his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
An Unusual Occurrence.

n ICHARD HARDING DAVIS. during
IN his Atlantic City honeymoon, said at
a fish luncheon:
Il confess that / am not pleased with
the modern trend of fiction. The newest
fiction leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
1t is full of double-entendre-li the par
Tor maids remark.
"A gentleman came down TO breakfast
one morning with bloodshot eyes. He
drank eight glasses of ice water hurriedly,
then he muttered hoarsely to the pretty
parlor maid
. Tell me. Adele, did I reach home last
night very much under the weather.
" Indeed you did, SIR. the maid replied.
why, sir, You kissed the missis,''
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Having protected society by shutting up
these offenders, there is no disposition to
prevent them from exercising freedom of
movement or Of companionship after the
daily toll of work We came upon a
negro in the noon hour entertaining a
group of MeXicans by playing on a guitar
with small glass bottle, and making
such lovely quality of tone and such
weird minor strains that after his term
has expired he may be commended to
some enterprising vaudeville manager.
Another man. called the attorney gen.
eral. had been studying law by corre-
spondence and had accumulated a small
library of law books. Even the con-
demned men. of whom there are six. are
not denied companionship. We found the
three in one cell playing dominoes, which
they had made from cardboard. one,
who was negro said:
Il don't want to die in that little room.
/ want to die a natural DEATH
One of the features of the penitentiary
is its convict base ball team. which the
Sunday before had beaten the Florence
team. 1t is needless to say that there are
those who deprecate the relaxation of re-
straint, and who still feel that prisoners
should be made continually to recognize
the heavy hand of authority in addition
to confinement. A rather amusing situa-
ton has developed in consequence. The
convicts We're building a sewer for the
town of Florence. Work of this kind is
eagerly sought for by the men since for
every two days work one day is taken
from his term. Seventy-five men are thus
engaged building bridge for the town
of Tempe These men had already made
the sections of drainpipe for the sewer
and had begun the ditch. when it was
rumored that the women and children OF
Florence were imperiled by the presence
of these unguarded convcts The news
reached the prison. and, indignant that
their honorable intent should be aspersed
and the new regime discredited. the con-
victs have refused to go on with the
sewer until the citizens of Florence make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
The Country Weeker.

DOSE PASTOR PHELPS STOKES. in
~ an address on behalf of New York
country-week charity. told a quaint
story.
"A little slum girl she said, "stood
for the first time in her life in barn
yard-a genuine. old-fashioned barnyard
with its ricks, its lazy COWS, its plows
and harrows and what-not.
THE Stun child drank it all in delight
eddy. then gasped, half to herself:
An jest look at the chickens-all
runnin' around raw"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
The American Woman.

THE Countess Szechenyi. nee Gladys
! Vanderbilt. praised the good taste
of American women at a luncheon at
Mrs. II. p. Whitney's in Roslyn.
She ended her praise with an epigram
both striking and true.
THE women of all nationalities" she
said, can make their own clothes, but
only the American woman can make
them so that nobody ever suspects il"
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GOV. HUNT Believes in

COV. HUNT Believes IN
~ Helping the Convict to
Save Himself-Despite OPP
position Has Demonstrated
His "Trusty" Methods-"You
Won't Hear the Clank of a
Chain or See a Pair of Hand
cuffs, Said One Prisoner to
the Writer-Work of Mutual
Improvement League-Base
Ball Popular Diversion for
the Convicts.
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still maintain a goodly flock of them in
continual motion. Thus l am sure of
much action and a fairly steady stream
of checks, for it is surprising how much
money flows in from the sale of a few
poems a week.
For the first year of my labors l had
absolutely no regular work l sent my
stuff out and sold it where l could One
or two of the markets bought a good
deal. but it was the little checks from
here and there and yOn which made up
my incomee. For the past year, how
ever, / have slipped into the newspaper
syndicate business, and for so many
poems per week 1 draw salary. This
turns. though the ratio of that salary to
my entire income is comparatively small.
The summation of my experience
which really goes back over the whole
past six years when have seriously tried
the general markets. that there is
money in verse. The way to get it is to
20 after it in cold. hard business fashion,
One must learn his trade, and then
practice it persistently. There's market
somewhere for every good piece of verse,
and by learning the market and never
letting a piece of work rest until it is
placed, and by showing reasonable bust
ness sense in the negotiations for the
sale, there is no reason for failure to
make good.
I'm not writing this story of making
poetry pay from my own experience
alone, because that is. after all, limited
one. But l know personally or profess
sionally a number Of other men and
women who are making verse their busi-
ness, and who live mighty we'll on the
proceeds. Some of them are dependent
only upon the verse. others lecture or
old newspapers jobs. but in all the cases
the lectures draw and the newspaper jobs
are held because of the verse.
There are two versifiers / have in mind
who are drawing $4,000 year from
newspapers for the columns they conduct.
These columns are not all or cmeny
verse. but it is the supreme skill of the
two poets at verse writing which secured ,
and holds them their places. These TWO
are doubtless the best paid men or the
sort in the world, but there are twenty
others who are making from 5000 to
5000 a year in similar way. In prleI,
/ do not know one really capable verslner
who tends to business who is in any I'M
mediate danger of starvation.
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AS this work is voluntary. the warden
does not compel the men to resume it,
Gangs of men are sent out daily to cut
mesquite, which is the prison fuel. We
met on returning, in charge OF ''lifer."
a man who three months ago was con-
sidered so dangerous that he was not al
lowed within a prescribed distance of the
prison gates, and whose life within was a
continual battle. No doubt now is felt of
his faithfulness.
Inevitably the success Of this expert