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acknowledgements. punishment and
protection to society. The first two have
had their day. The third holds. Society
must be protected against the criminal
But when you have shut the criminal up
that duty is done. What remains is the
man himself. Shall we go on making
penitentiaries schools of crime or make
an effort to build Up the mans character
restore his sef-respect. strengthen his
weakness and cultivate in him a proper
appreciation OF his relation to others and
to society in general?
You can never do these things by con-
tinually reminding him that he is a GRIM
nal, by submitting him to small humili-
ations or to cruel ties. Accordingly. the
first thing we did was to exchange his
stripes for neat gray uniform-but go
down to Florence and see for yourself.
Ii is only fifty miles away and you can
stop with the warden.
Florence is a little adobe Mexican town
the ella river. 1t is reached by the
Arizona and Eastern railway a sub
sidiary of the Southern Pacific. and GER
tainly for discomfort has not its rival in
the states. Thirty years ago Florence
lad all the distinction of frontier town
but ii is now demure and uneventful
The prison is two miles and a half from
the station. For what reason only the
exigencies of politics knows, on its re-
moval from Yuma IL was set down in a
treeless desert near the ruins of some
prehistoric race, whose broken pottery
ones feet losses I'D from the sand. The
prison is a walled Enclosure of steel and
cement, and is the latest thing in hos
telries of this sort. 1t has nothing of
the frowning exterior one is accustomed
TO see. 1t might be taken for walled
army post, whose sentinels pace the ram
parts to defend it from foes
trim runabout driven by young
man IN a blue shirt and gray trousers,
met me at the station. / commented on
the horse. of which he seemed fond
Yes. / drove him over a hundred miles
last week hunting a stray horse. I have
charge of the stables. I am prisoner
The statement seemed absurd, and |
laughed.
YOU What are you in for?"
oh. ] got drunk at Tucson and got
into trouble"
Through his initiative We got on to
prison topics. He knew of the opposition
Gov Hunt was meeting, and was eager
to defend him. He said
Very few men are criminals by ma
tnre Take 300 men at random on the
street. and the same number over there"
pointing to the ream-tinted walls We
were approaching. and they are very
much the same. only the 300 here have
had the bad luck to be ensnared by cir
cumstances. They are weak, not vicious
The governor thinks We are worth
saving. and he is willing to let us try to
come back. He has taken away all our
useless humliations that kept before us
Our condition. There is no lock step, we
can talk freely together. We get daily
mail; We may read a daily paper. Before
we had mail once a week, and never saw
a paper You don't know what it means
to one to be able to keep in touch with
the world"
The mans speech. nicely grammatical
in land where grammar is not insisted
on, was puzzling. 1t was without surprise
I found him to have been a newspaper
reporter. He continued:
You won't hear the clank of a chain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

| IL, joint houses of
the Legislature of
Arizona at Phoe-
nix assembled one
day last spring to
listen TO Miss Kate
Barnard. commits
sioner of charities
of Oklahoma. She
is a little wisp of a
woman, all fire and
spirit. and she
talked To these
fA~tNN1 Tor
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men on prison and otHer reloTiio A'i
two hours and a half They listened
without fidgetinG-
Just coming from the Arizona penlteh-
tiary. Miss Barnard told the legislators
of the experiment she had just witnessed
In the prison. in which convict, Roy
Meyers. had run his pumping engine by
an electric spark caught from the air:
She asked the lawmakers to sanction the
governor in permitting Meyers to go to
Washington 10 file his patent She
pledged $50 on her own part to help bear
the expense Her impetuosity swept the
legislators off their feet, and they not
only gave a ringing assent, but surged
about her to add to the sum.
Afterward. at the more formal legis-
lative action. as If ashamed of their en-
thusiasm. and relapsing toward their
policy of opposing Gov. Hunts policy of
prison reform. some of the legislators
withdrew their assent. Nevertheless. the
proposal carried, Meyers went to Wash
ington filed his patent, visited his family
on his way back, and then returned to
the prison He is at his pumping station
once more.
This was not the first time that Gov.
Hunt had shown mis- trust in members
of his prison family. a short time be-
fore he had allowed a long-sentence man
to go to New Mexico and spend Easter
with his family. The man was gone
the allotted period and returned on
schedule time Although Gov. Hunt has
been in office only a few months. his
prison policy has attracted much atten-
ton. He is a banker and has large in
terests. He sees men and events from
practical aspect, and seems altogether
disentangled from precedent. AS to prison
reform, his views are matured. He talks
this way about it:
There are only three reasons for a
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which furnishes the only relief from the
proud of her prison equipment. The sleep
ing cells are finely ventilated, and in ad-
dition are supplied by hot air in winter
and by cold air in summer. The snake
house" and the refractory cells are shown
as might be some medieval torture cham
bers. The 'snakehouse' is an under
ground dungeon, windOwless, with a small
ventilating pipe at the top, where heavy
chains held the prisoner by the leg. so
that he could sleep only by falling over
on his face. Here men were confined in
darkness for months, and one with
tuberculous patient contracted the dis
ease. But it is not worth while reWving
the horrors Of prison life. The door OF
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and by the time ! was a senior | was
producing most of the verse in the col
lege magazines, and taking all the prizes
that happened to be offered for that sort
of material.
l graduated. went west. where | whote
a poem a day for a newspaper, did po-
lice courts and dozen other runs and
worked-worked for four years-On the
technical side of the trade which was
still nearest my heart-verse. Other men
said i was fool to be a poet, and
rather thought so myself, but 1 couldn't
seem to stop. During the years of col
lege and college journalism / kept many
argosies of verse afioat, and now and
then one of them returned to me bear
ing spoils in place of rejected manu-
script. These occasions were few and
correspOndingly glorious. The thrill
which a thin magazine letter and the
check inclosed brought TO the heart is
that success renders forever impOs-
sible, but i am glad ] could and did once
experience that thrill Even now the
mail is thing of mystery and prom
Use, and the postmans whistle signal
for nervous anticipation, but the tremors
of Amusement and wonder and delight
at receiving a check an acceptance
have vanished. save in rare cases.
should like to keep the thrills but not
at the price of frequency of acceptance.
While ] was plugging away at the
newspaper game, when college was done,
| never failed to keep manuscripts of
verse going from one possible editorial
haven to another. Usually l had out
eight or ten at once, and as the years
drove by the percentage OF acceptance
increased, though never to an extent
where the checks assured more than
brief period of affiuence-meanng many
cigars and much theater. Yet all this
practice and these sallies into the big
magazine world proved profitable in point
of experience. and in the year before l
took the leap east my magazine work
made the leap possible.
So that 1 was not quite an amateur
when 1 packed my typewriter and suit
case into that roaring mecca Of all lit
erary aspirants-New York. And when
I found myself in the traditional hall
bedroom. facing the "cruel city
which isn't much crueler than any
other city or town or village. if you
take it right proceeded to pound out
verse and peddle il about you would
potatoes. And here I want to say that
j found magazine editors kindly. cour-
teous and considerable. 1t is true they
told me ] couldn't make good on verse.
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way. The state furnishes the prisoners
with punches of white and black horses
hair. In the shadow of the walls one
sees Indians and Mexicans braiding this
into strands and sewing them into hat
bands and belts, while others are beating
Mexican money for their ornamentation.
These hat bands and belts are bought by
this man, who has taken large contracts
border. where they are in great vogue.
The profits of these transactions are
spent on the men and largely in printing
documents on prison reform circulation
in Arizona.
One on the Proposed Solution of Prison
Problems for Arizona" was written by
him out of his varied prison experiences,
for he has been an expert forger Another
/ saw was a reprint of Mr.. Molinex's pa
per on 1.-The Court of Rehabilitation
which is one of the ideals he has set for
himself. While this man. who belongs to
a Well known eastern family, is in prison
for having poisoned companion. he per-
sists that he is a victim to circumstantiai
evidence "A forger does not have to kill
to get money" he says.
tuberculosis as cause of crime was
a new view Of the white plague. There
were two such outcasts. Arizona has
many such who have gone there for its
magical air and sunshine. They cannot
get work. and without money or work
they cannot live. In time they become
desperate. reckless and forge, steal or
commit whatever crime they are inclined
to. The state recognizes this state of af-
fairs. and one hears frequently the hope
that the United States government will
establish on its lands in Arizona a re-
serve on which those of tuberculosis tend
encies may live, and thus come to the
rescue of the cities and towns of the
state that are now alert for their own
protection.
Thus differed by the prisoners of edu-
cation and experience, the convicts have
rallied, and subscribed to the rules of
the Mutual Improvement League. These
are:
ITO try each day to do some good deed.
ITO assist each other in all matters of
grievance.
ITO assist the officers in the discharge
of their daily duties.
ITO avoid and prevent disorderly con-
duct.
ITO refrain from profane language"
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At little banquet of poets in New
York not long ago l met one of the best
known verse writer's in the country. We
talked shop" and he told me that out of
verse alone in the last six or seven years
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that it was impossible even to exist
on it, but they admitted me to their
offces-a young man without reputa-
ton or introduction-talked' to me, and
occasionally bought my verses. At least
they bought enough to support me
quite comfortably until l landed q
newspaper job: after 1 lost it, and until
! was berthed in the magazine office
mentioned earlier in this sketch.
During the six months or more I
from selling verses in the open market
was nearly half as much as my salary,
so that l really had a flying start to-
ward making good as a free lance when
the matter OF making good was one or
considerable Importance.
That long college and newspaper ex-
perience was my equipment. 1t had
taught me the habit of daily work-the
folly of waiting for the muse and the
mechanical skill and facility which
makes possible my product. For max
ing a living as a poet C'versifier" is
more correct. but I'm going to use
poet" nevertheless), means prolific
ness. You can't hack and hew and
sweat and stew at one poem for a week
and then clip and jigsaw and plane
and sandpaper and polish it for another
week If you're going to make a living
out of it. You've got to learn to toss
off poems as a cigarette machine does
cigarettes. swiftly and steadily. You've
got to slap out some ten or twelve
pieces OF verse week, or series
which represents an equal amount of
work.
Being mercenary l scorn no decent OPP
portunity to make money out OF verse.
Advertising verse competitions, limerick
contests-any and every such Offering
finds me entered. and wherever can see
a fair chance to drag down a little money
by doing honest verse for an honest dol
lar, whether it comes from a magazine
editor or a delicatessen store. l take that
chance. Such little odds and ends of in
come help lot to pad out a purse. But
come to have a certain value ] naturally
do not attach 1t to the cheaper forms of
effort, not because l am ashamed of
them, but because 1t would not, in the
long run. prove wise from a financial
standpoint.
l keep many verses on the road at a
time Often as high as sixty separate
poems are in the mails from my type
writer and they are kept going until they
sell or until l decide they are unfit for
sale. The moment they come in from one
magazine they go out to another, their
journeys being mapped out a handy
card index upon my desk. OF late my
syndicate work has proven so important
that the number of purely free lance
verses on the trail has decreased but !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

is a man who writes anything
which rhymes-from sdvertis-
ing verses to sonnets.
Under that definition / can
qualify as a poet, and call my stun
poetry. thereby causing acute distress
to all the high-brow cut. AS matter Of
fact, l actually call myself ''versifier'
and my product verse" But I'm going
TO write of it as poetry" here, because
want 10 remark that poetry pays.
The layman's conception of a poet S
condition is one OF persistent poverty
and starveling want. ! can't meet it
and mighty few poets can. / have never
fed on crust in my life-from necessity,
i nrean-and the only time l ever starved
was in pursuance of fast cure.
OF course, I'm not rolling in gold, and
my income Is nothing to get excited
about. but / have garnered a good Hv-
ing in the field of literature by the help
Of the lyric muse. and unless the vigor
Of my inspiration falls, which IL gives no
present Indications of doing. there is rea-
son 10 believe that / can continue to
make poetry pay.
Two years ago | was an editor, get
ting $50 d week, and thinking myself
mighty fortunate. There was a shake
/ was a supernumerary-and l found
myself out in the cold. cold world. with
d family of one-beside mysef-to sup
port, with total assets of forty dollar
board bill, a bad state of health, and with
no job.
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Simply because didn't know what else
10 do. and was very miserable in body.
i left my family at the boarding house
and betook me TO a sanitarium, with
enough left out of my last weeks salary
to pay for one week of food, bed and
treatment. What was going TO happen
after that l didn't know. But i didn't
worry. because l had troubles enough TO
occupy me without that.
Though il was rest cure i worked
hard every day. explaining to the doctor
that otherwise i could not pay my bill
or ever return to New York.
That week L received SO from various
manuscripts l had out The next week
settled my bill and left used my re-
naming money 10 pay one months rent
on a fiat, and though still sick and only
aDout half efficient, began my career as
free lance 4 made 500 that first
month, 500 the second and. concluding
that poetry was better business than
editing, / have been practicing that trade
ever since And $40 week has long ago
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YHE, layman's definition of a. poet
is man who writes anything
which rhymes-from advertis-
ing verses to sonnets.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-07
PARTY Suicide Is Primary,-Wha

Party Suicide Is Primary.-What-
ever the full returns may show, pref
eEence primary. as the plan has worked
in Massachusetts this year, Is a first
rate device for splitting a party wide
open and inviting defeat on election
day. 1t Is as If an army before engag-
ing the enemy should divide in two
portions and fight terrific battle. one
half against the other. One does not
need to be a military man to imagine
how that would work in actual war
fare. The preference primary has a
like effect in politics. The hatreds
and passions engendered are too deep
to be soon allayed. In the heat Of such
a conflict as has been waged in Mas
sachusetts things are said and charges
made that would inevitably weaken
any party, and so give aid and COM
fort to the enemy. Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Taft have stood up before the peo-
pie of Massachusetts, and. in effect
called each other liars. each has at
tackled the administration Of the other.
each has sought to persuade the peo-
pie not to favor the other in the pri-
maries, yet both these men are Repub-
licans.-New York Times.
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DID TOM PAINE

Instead Of Thos. Jefferson write
the Declaration Of Independence? Did
Bacon write the plays accredited to
Shakespeare? These questions may be
pertinent-the subjects may be debata-
BILE by scholars-but must be classed as
Of only secondary Importance. Here
are some live questions: What shall !
eat and where shall get it2 What
shall chew and smoke and whore shall
get what ! want. Where can buy all
kinds of good Leather? Listen!
Sound Sweet and Irish Potatoes,
Cabbage, Country Butter on ice; Pink
Beans, Pease, Fish, best Keg Pickles,
Molasses, Syrups, Cottage Hams, Sweet
and Juicy Dried Apples, Tomatoes, Sal
mon, Sweet Corn, Jellies. Pie Peaches.
Fresh Cakes cheaper than you can bake
them; best Coffees, Tea and Sugar,
good Flour and Lard; Quaker Oats.
Specials: Lanterns, Brooms, Lamps,
Curry Combs and Brushes, new lot OF
Buggy Whips, Cobbler's Outfits, Tin
ware, Guano Horns which can be used
interchangeably either for running fer
tilizer through in windy weather or
as a megaphone.
HERNDON & GORDON.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
County Of York.
CITATION.


BY L. r. Williams, Esq, Probate Judge.
WHEREAS. L. M. WOOTAN, male
w suit to me to prove the nuncupa-
tive Will of JAMES BARBER, deceas-
ed, and for Letters Testamentary
thereon.
These are, therefore, to cite and ad-
monish all and singular the kindred
and creditors Of the said JAMES BAR
BER, deceased, that they be and ap-
pear before me in the Court Of Pro-
bate to be held at Yorkville, S. c., on
the 14TH DAY OF JUNE, 1912, next,
after publication hereof. at II o'clock
In the forenoon, to show cause. If any
they have, why the said nuncupative
Will should not be received to be prov
en- and probated according to law, and
why letters testamentary should not
be granted thereon.
Given under my hand and seal. this
7th day of May, A. D., 1912.
L. r. WILLIAMS,
Judge of Probate.
37=47 6t
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The Ladies' Memorial Association

OF BullockS Creek, will meet Friday
afternoon. May 10th at o'clock.
There will be an address by Essie
Inman, ESD, of Greenville. after
which the graves Of the Confederate
dead will be decorated. 1t
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At the Raptist Church.

Rev. II. s. Atkins of Hot Springs,
Va. will conduct services in the York
Vile Baptist church on next Sunday
morning at IL o'clGk and in the even
ing at s o'clock. The entire member
ship is urged TO he present and the
public generally is cordially invited.
81 Pulpit Committee.
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- Senator Earle of Oconee, has an
nounced himself candidate for attor-
ney general. The other candidates sc
far announced are Thos. H. Peoples OF
Rarnwell; Hub Evans of Newberry
and ]. Fraser Lyon, the incumbent.
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Ghe Cotton Market.

Yorkville, May 7.-Cotton, III cents.
New York, May 6.-Spot cotton clos
ed steady, 80 points higher; middling
uplands. 11.S0; middling gulf. 1905:
sales 2,910 bales. Cotton futures closed
steady as follows: Jan. 11.79; Feb
11.79; Mar. 11.S7: May 11.4S; June
11.51; July 11.60; Aug. 1852; Sept.
11.64; Oct. ILL: Nov. 11.72; Dec.
11.S3.
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SPRING SALE

TNDER auspices of Ladies' Aid
u Society of the Methodist church,
in McNeel Building, during Saturday,
May II. Offerings will include
Ready to- wear" Garments. Fancy
Work, Candy. Cakes, Chickens, etc.
Ice Cream will be served. 81 2t
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1, 2, 8, q, S and 8 Quart Sizes.
GROUND TENNESSEE
PHOSPHATE ROCK

IF the greatest study of mankind is
man, the next greatest study is the
soil, for upon the soil depends the pre-
servation of man. If it is true that
American agriculture is the fundamen-
tai support Of the American nation, 1t
is also true that soil fertility Is
the absolute support of American ag-
riculture. If he who makes two blades
of grass grow where but one grew be-
fore, is a public benefactor, then he
who reduces the fertility of the soil so
that but one ear of corn grows where
two have been grown before. is pub
lie curse."-Dr G. G. Hopkins.
We have carload of Ground Ten
nessee Phosphate Rock. We want the
farmers to come in and talk with us
about it. Very highly recommended
to put in COW lots and stalls, also to
put i'm horse stables. 1t preserves and
brings out the fertilZing properties of
the manure.
YORK SUPPLY COMPANY.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
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Preaching At Bethesda.

There will be communion services at
Bethesda next Sunday, after preaching
Saturday at IL a. m, and l p. m, and
Sunday morning at IL by Rev. James
Mcdowell 1t
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FOR SALE

A VERY fine lot of Berkshire, Pc.
n land-China and o. l. c. Pigs
Four weeks old May %, at $3.50
each. One Mich Cow, a good one
All too cheap, but I am going to sell
so come and get yours. Phone, Hick.
ory Grove, 1874. ]. L. WHITES1DES
r. F. ID. 5, Yorkviile, s. c. 35 If
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Banks Closed Friday.

The undersigned Banks of Yorkville
will he closed Friday, May 10th, Me-
mortal Day.
Loan and Savings Bank,
First National Bank.
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Sperial 9utires.

Sweet Potato Sprouts For Sale.
Nancy Hall, Providence and Porto
Rico-$1.75 per 1000: 5000, $1.70; 10,-
900, $1.65, +. O. B. Florida.
At F. f. Hull, Rock Hill, S. c.
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GuTTERING

T AM now prepared to do GUTTER
l. ING. Let me show you how 1t
saves your house to put it on. l also
put on Tin, Iron and Shingle Roofs.
Let me make you an estimate. See
me for all kinds Of Repair Work. All
work CASH. Phone No. Is.
G. w. KUNZ.
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WE are authorized to announce
JAMES E. BEAMGUARD of Clover,
as q candidate for the State Senate.
subject to the choice of the Democrat
ic voters in the primary election.
3h te
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR THE STATE SENATE

I HEREBY announce myself as a
candidate for State Senator, subject
to the rules of the Democratic party.
81 te THOS. F. McDOW.
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Col. r. Q. Donaldson died at his
home in Greenville last Friday, aged
~ years.
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The Titanic
AT THE
STAR THEATRE
NEXT WEDNESDAY EVENING
MAY 18th

On the above date we will show the
only Moving Pictures made Of the ILL
fated transatlantic liner, as she was
leaving Southampton, and incidents of
the voyage up to the time Of the sink
ing Don't fail to see them.
In the meantime we are nightly
showing the best Pictures obtainable.
Come and see them.
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PRESBYTERIAN.

Prayer meeting on Wednesday even
ing at o'clock.
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TRINITY METHODIST.
Prayer meeting on Thursday even
ing at o'clock.