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forms for this band such as they de<
serve.
The average age OF the boys I'm the In
stftution, according to Superintendent
Weakley. is II years and the average
length of time they stay at the school
IS 1S months, some staying less and some
longer The school is maintained by an
appropriation of $50 from the state for
every boy when he enters. With this $50
the boy has to be clothed and fed and
the school maintained. Mr.. Weakley esti-
mates that there is probably 100000 in-
vested at the school at present.
Superintendent Weakley's Work
Superintendent Weakley has been con-
nected with the boys industrial school
Alabama institution for eight years. Hs
is a very able man for the position which
he holds He is a close student of human
nature, and this is the only way to sue
cessfully handle many OF the boys who
come under his care. Because the boy
has not been understood is often the reas
son he has been sent TO the school. f&r.
Weakley studies him. reads his natura
and then deals with him accordingly.
Above all, Mr.. Weakley allows no sen.
timent to come into his dealings with the
boys. He is liked by all of them. Thers
is IL remarkable and very noticeable
spirit of cooperation and loyalty amop4
the boys Of the school which Is ofSen
not found in institutions of similar
character. 1t probably is due TO the facn
that there is nothing about the school
which smacSs of a prison. Although
many of the boys are sent to the school
from the courts of the state. there Is no
prison fence about the grounds. none of
the buildings is guarded or locked. there
is no checking system, no Bertillon mea<
surement system. nothing to make the
he il in iS
prisoner. He is not treated as crinis
inal, but as a human twig who has been
bent the wrong way. He is Strengthened,
taken away from the influences which
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them today are men of the highest or
der A large part of them are citizens
and taxpayers of the commonwealth OF
Alabama. What might they have been?
Stop, and think.
There are now $50 boys in the school,
every one of them with the possibilities
before him that are open to every hon
est and intelligent American boy. Twen-
ty years from now they Will be men. no
doubt some of them holding positions
of trust in the affairs of the country,
some of them business men of Birming-
ham or other cities. men of families,
lnen of affairs. How important is the
training the industrial school is Civ
ing these boys today? Judge by the
fruits that will be born then.
A first visit to the school Is revela-
ton. The institution is almost COM
plete miniature model city.
Located in the foothills that settle
along the side of Red mountain, on a
good elevation but on the edge of the
fertile little valley in which is East
Lake, the site of the school is almost
ideal. It's main buildings form group
not unlike the civic center of the model
city, which for the past few years has
been the dream of town builders. With
a little tree bedecked park as a CEN
terpiece, the buildings are grouped
about it's edge. well laid out cement
sidewalks running from one building
to another and connecting the whole
into a great working unit. Viewed
from a small distance a little play of
the imagination gives the resemblance
of an apiary, the beehives sitting
about in orderly manner, the bees
working as only bees work. There Is
but one flaw in the metaphor. At the
Boys Industrial school there are no
drones.
First Building Erected
The first building meeting the gaze
as the institution is approached from
the little byroad that runs down to 1T
from the main road is the Johnston
building, named after the author, found
CT and president of the institution, Mrs.
H. ID. Johnston of birmingham. 1t is
the first building the institution had
1t Is the place of it's birth. 1t stands a
monument to the woman to whom more
than any other person is due the credit
for the Alabama Boys Industrial school.
The school was opened in this building
August l. 1900. Since that time 1t has
had many struggles. There has been no
time since it's birth but What the insti-
tuition has been hampered by lack of
funds. But in spite of adversely, It has
prospered. There have BEEN good times
as well as bad. Now clustered about the
original building are several other mag
nificent structures, each filing an impor-
tant need in the work of the Institution.
There are seven buildings in all, besides
various outbuildings, barns, poultry
houses and so forth. The institution
owns 1856 acres of ground, a good part of
which is cultivated
In the Johnston building is one of the
main sleeping wards of the school, the
one portrayed in the illustration. Here
also is the hospital, the playrooms and
offices of the superintendent
The Alabama Building
Across from the Johnston building and
facing each other with the park between,
is the Alabama building. 1t is a grand
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Across from the Johnston building and
facing each other with the park between
is the Alabama building. 1t is a grand
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Z, T'HlE[El3 EVENING sT0RY1@
H QUEER Girl.
Apyr.gh.. 1913. b. ". werner),


Copyright. 1913, by w. wcrncr.)
Even 10 a child she had been no
ticeahlN strange. AscnathsH Holden was
ever to he found in some quiet corner
with her near-sighted eyes two inches
from the page of a book. And such
bocks! Too old and too wise for her
age. yet somehow devoured and as
simulated. The gay little flock of her
schoolmates and neighbors who had
mot gss much aMfthetatn brain culture
hanIt14 capitalization table regarded
She's queer" Rose Gordon said.
No use asking e to play. She just
reads and reads and reads. And it's all
growneup stuff. too. I know, because
she let fne see the book" +,
Rose Gordon lived in the big house
next door to Asenath's little one. Her
father was the president OF the bank
and Asenath's father was a clerk in
the same institution-the kind OF
clerk who never gets to be anything
else. At nine you knew exactly what
Rose was going to be at nineteen. Her
mother-Xas a-heauty. but. Rose was
going to Guido her in looks. And she
was the only child. y
Asenath Holden was the oldest OF
nve-all girls and all alike. SLIM
legged. wild-haired little creatures
they were. who handdowns or
cutoffs or whatever else came in the
way Of rainlent, for a clerks salary In
the Westmore bank was meager at
Its best. and with to house and
feed. and a sickly mother to keep sup
piled with medicine it too often prov.
ed inadequate. At 10 Asenath could
cook. n scrub and make beds al
we'll as read. She hated homework,
but there was always housework to
be done. inc her mother had o the
strength for It.
Up to the time she Was fourteen
things grew steadily worse with the
Holdens. Mrs. Holdens got into bed
finally and the doctor said frankly
that they need not expect her to get
out again. Yet withal Asenath man
aged to keep up with her classes 1t
school and to snatch time for reading
when she should have been sleeping.
The girls who had once sought to
play with her ignored her now Rose
Gordon made fun Of her.
But for Asenath's ideal world-tho
world Of her dreams and ~yearnings-
she could scarcely have. endured those
awful years Of her young Sirlhood.
It was not the work and poverty and
struggle that tortured her 80 much
as the things Of the spirit-the very
little things, which she felt rather
than saw or heard.
Mrs. Holden at last died and her
girls we're left m%otherless. A new
responsibility was now. Asenath's. She
must be something more W than
older sister to Lefty, Martha, Louise
and Madeline.
The Holdens stayed on in the run
down. house next to the Gordon man
sion with u%nvarying fortunes for three
Or four years. Then Asenath gradu.
ated from the high school. She had
made her. WI gown, and 1t was too
long in the back and too short In
front. in spite of the fact that al the
younger. Holdens had taken turns at
fitting 1t. She had six bouquets Of
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TURN HAIR DARK.
49,: :. WITH SAGE TEA
ar.ndm. kspsffhssr iocks Dirt. s,o..,
and thick with . a1npie; mixtaro
Of sage TIA. ana sulphur.

The old-time mixture Of SAGE Tea
and Sulphur for darkening ray.
streaked and faded hair 10 grand.
mothers treatment, and folks are
again using Il to keep their hair a
good. even color. which 10 quite gen-
sible. - We r living in an age
when q youthful appearance u Of
the greatest advantage. -
Nowadays. though, We danxahavc
the troubleeome task ,tIo1sSS GStkerinr
the sage "a tie musSISamixis3 a.
t sSns; 5 AS ,a1Fe9s ;s.Nss :s51 q. :f..ay-
sse e. sss'e s'!s5 Mats: 'Hf; !; !: WV to so s:sss,
been appiisd!s simply moist,ns yous
S9%e- az. ~ 4 ises.1 sr4sh WIN fnd
I'M; IN; t sS'e :;: a.s. A. iss.n.s g Po g.;
- ee3asai1ssssBt&a:;a ~. -. II ~:
es.aae.i.y H~aytHsniAf the hair tier
that 1Sllt Af5fas33A SSosalanS3s Of
abundanSs Witch Z 3 28ssactiSS:ibes.-
sides. preyAfts.dIndruff. .ttshinels caip
and tx9sfne hCf.@xdV.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-03
TIE PARAMOUNT ISSUE m
MEXICO.

Mlnnstpolis Tribune: one thins
CD a thing alone can make Huerta
tho F6d ruler Or Mex1oo. Thaa thlnk
is tia sudo1semsnt-of---the- Emitted
There are those. Who would have
the. Unfted- States take this course,
They believe that BY no other mean.
can the property o. iiforetgners be ade-
quateiy protected. II by that they
mean the protection: u mo property
Of certain .ooncessdonsrsss from son.
tinued neutrality-suspicious. q prs.
snt. they are right But is that the
only isus14
No oue WITH knowsedEe!of ths: TIT.
Will contend: ss. -.
/. That HURTS b.cane !pfsyiasn,
by choice of the Mexican people.
b. That Huerta. was not morally
responsible for the murder Of Madero,
3. That Huerta has the support
either Of the Mexican congress or the
people Of Mexico City.
4. That Huerta has even under.
eeAen 70 give the people OF Mexico
q free choice Of president.
81. That Huerta has over estab.
lisheds order in Mexico.
The real issue .is this:
Shall Mexico have opportunity ia
establish al11 a republican form of gov
eminent ~ g. 49, s,E,., t9a
In the policy Of the present admin.
~istration this issue takes precedence
q III TIE security 81 Investments made
in thA 1itRsppblicp by foreigners
Great Britain. Germany and France
have come now. rather reluctantly
Dlrhaps. t. support Of that POLICY a.
e. 'K6s'1l' -''.,1'frs9fIeef''
In order to put an end, to rapipe
add 10 II seorlderstfDD iRtfvvee the Mexdi!!
rl
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to save the money earned by her ia
Their. growing wan and bent and
pathetically gentle. SO she forced
herself to darn stockings. patch and
contrtNe new garments out Of old. 20
advise and comfort and cherish, to
iced and make the family as comfort
able as her Few weekly dollars would
allow.
Under: Rose Gordon's leading young
Mestmore. society was very gay.
Every day there was some new di-,
version, but nobody yer invited Ase.
nath: II they had she must have re-
fused, for she had nothing to wear.
but sometimes she ycarned for light
and music and jollity. for she was
Young, and all the books In the world
could not make up to her for what
n was missing ~
Her hope lay IN Lefty. Lefty would
soon be old enough to put on the
harness. and then she. Asenath,
could go about her bread-winning
business. But Lefty. alas! poor little.
SOUL. could not fulfill tina hope. She
had inherited her mothers frailty, and
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b Jove. ! am glad to see you
looking so gay and festtve!" said Mr..
Old. Friend. you were all in black
the-iast TIME 1 saw you" ~
Yes" demurely replied. Mrs.
Brown who had just taken q second
husband. "but 1t wasn't a fast black"
Magazine Of Fun
Years ago it used to he the custom
taxes by boarding the teacher, which
meant that from time to time he was
supplied from various quarters with
1000. ~ -. =
One day n boy named Elisha AM
derson sought the teacher and said:
'say. teacher. my pa wants to
know II YOU like pork?" - 80.
Indeed. I do" vas the reply. Say
to your father that there is nothing
pork" $50
Some time elapsed and there was
no pork from Elisha's father, a fact
that In no way surprised the teacher,
Tor the old man was known through
out the country as q tight PROPOSE.
ton. Nevertheless. one afternoon the
teacher asked the boy:
How about that pork, Elisha, that
your father promised me?"
got WELL" =.
One morning while Mrs. Cobb was
at her summer home In the country
she decided to go. uptown ana spend
the day with a friend. Her grocer
had not called by the time she was
ready to leave 80 she wrote on a
:Ail out: Don't leave anything.
ArA tool - nm thu A4.-. 7sFO IN
Upon her return at night slie FOUND
the house had been ransacked ana
nearly everything Of any value had
been taken" on the card which she
had left on THE. door these words ma
been added:a ~ ~ if''E 80 1870
..Thanks' g We. haven't left much.s
E-dAbpancotts. 9at-l-~c- 20 t.ags-
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cans free choice of a president. in or
der to lift from their land. the blight
Of dictatorship, it may he necessary
for America to intervene as once she
found it best to intervene in behalf
foof The people Of Cuba.
But let there be no misnndcrstand-,
ing about it. II that solemn and
costly move shall become inevitable,
it will not spring from regard for
foreign investors. They have their
rights. which Mexico must ultimately
requite. But those rights are no par
mount to the rights of a neighboring
and friendly people to rule them
selves.
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LAUGH WITH US s
=.

When little Margaret passed her
plate the third time for chicken her
my dear. you must not. eat 90
m chicken. I am afraid you'll be
We'll. mother" said Margaret.
I'm not eating this because I want
It, I'm collecting the bones for FL
do!"-Harper's Monthly.
The chief forest ranger Of the big
government reserve along the Grand
Canyon in Arizona had occasion late
~, In the course Of an extended trip,
to travel as far east as Kansas City.
When he returned to his post Of duty
he brought along an lrishman who
had expressed q desire to 20 west
and grow up with the country.
When they struck the desert the
1rfshman looked for a spell at the
dry and arid prospect. Then he said:
mister. I don't want to say any
thing unpleasant about this country,
nine acres Of 1t to rust wan NALL"
"What does this mean. SAM" said
Judge Brown to the prisoner, pro-
ducing two razors, one a safety, the
other a straight back.
Sure. Judge. don't you all know?
at safety am fur Shawn, sub, but he
udder. am fur social purposes entire-
ly suh."-AaSa9ine Of Fun
s"Mr. Lane called again this morn
ing. sir said the new ONCE boy as
Ar. Stuart entered the Office.
s"Did you tell him I'd gone to Eu-
rope, as T told. you,.' Edward" asked
IAr. Stuart sf'2H. 's"t@
Eyes, SIR answered the boy. 81
told him this morning."
/. .Ihass q good boy,i paid Stuart 3
s"He wanted to- know wben-you'd be
lb4ck." replied Edward. .and. 1. told
him After lunch, srs.sAaHarper's
M0at83 nz
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she conldnent see. how stuck teath
made any difference. But as Fatty
cant rite without sticking his tunk
oiits he is handicapped. -.
is GEN. INsULrED?
Steve Hardy has MANNED thase nav
hoarse. after Genevieve Hicks, and
Gen. was very conseated abowt Il
at ferst, but when she seen the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Pafnfer==ufannk
would. she maik Steve change the
na1ins1# Steve say ~ifltiie-ho arse don't
kicksShet don't. SOC why Gen: hadent
oughter be- satisfied. "a ,:ss A. : S-aS ~.
F#S12:15-Fatty Bellowesszteathsis stttl
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POINTED

.
The sgoust thinks he has . sood>1.-
Great opportunities seldom emo,cv
IN advance agent.
An unmarried man. never resiiae.
how many faults he has.
Why tire . trained .nur,. 70 nuns.
. grievance?
A htsts push will generally l.st
longer than q POLITICAL pull.
Nv men care to ny what they
think shout women. -
Our idea Of . queer ,yvomaa, IN On,
VINO prsfses comfort to style:
A girl thinks her nrst beau IN. for
eo6en mor than her fatter ever
A man nsver knows what he can do
until he tries-then he may be sorry
6e found out.
Look out for painr--baeor~ fall
ing in love with a beautiful com
When a woman runs across the
street to . nei6hbor's house for 1ust
. minute she stays an hour :.
Some men W proud Of the fact
That they have Insomnia because they
imaSine It indicates excessive brain
work. -.. =
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flowers and her diploma and a little
gold pin: which her father gave her.
N Hammered over her essay ana
the prize went to Rose Gordon. That
nightss;ANnath went home and crept
into bed and lay sleepless until dawn.
w~ofdeftngsif 1t was worth while try
ingF4to live when nothing. ever came
youriway:s Then she fell asleep AMI
mercifully dreamed ofi radiant things.
Asenath:s schooldays were over.
she must bide at home
and keep the domestic ;machinery run
ming till Lefty was old. enough to step
into her place. Her dreams Of earn
ing money were impossibly vague:
q most she could do. It seemed, was
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50 .S@As So&
Who flies more LII. DIS and
Guch-some front and some be-
htnd-than almost any other gent
We just now call to mind? Who
long has worn the churchly cloth
q modern Calvin, sir--but branch
es out and nov becomes a U. s.
minister? Who's envoy to the
Netherlands-the land OF Zuyder
ees? Gan author man? Of
course. he 10. These foolish in
quiriesO Who'll henceforth meet
US at The Hague with gladstone
howdydos and show us ali the
windmills and the girls in wooden
shoes Who needs but mention
Amsterdam and Rotterdam alike
WIENER he foozles on the links?
Our sHen-e-ry van Dyke.
'Dr. a Dyke. himself being
oct. undoubtedly will excuse the fra
ernal liberties we take with his labe
or purposes Of metre.
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O. IN OUR SCHOOL .'I.I.
WEST,

to maik counterit money and is 70.
ing to get very ritch. Anybody can
Join his gang of counterf1tters II they
will bring thare own silver paper
what comes round -tobacko plugs,
but kepe it dark.
11:1S-Fatty Believes teath is still
stuck. Fatty has now missed SPELL
ing and thot he would get. out Of
penmanship. but Miss Palmer said
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stuck, and as recess is near he il
thinking abowt his lunch. = -,
,12:21-Ex. Brigham tells Fatty not
to worry abowt his lunch. Elk. will
etc 1t foar. him. 80.
l2:22-At this. news Fatty gave a
extry hard, yank and: his teath~ come
unstuck. three of. them coming out,
but he doant care. having plenty
No school tomorrer moarning, thare
being electkion, but only up to- after.
noon session, darn it.. :.
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MONDAY. =
=, Large quantities Of school this

HIOrfln8c. ..
Torp stebbins was on time through
q mean trick by thare: cook who set
school at 20 minutes to 3. Torp saw
You betcher it woant happin' again,
and only done SO this time because
instead Of, lookin' ahead like he'd
oughter, he had his eyes on the
grownd thinking up his excuse: When
asked why he kicked so at being on
time, Torp said it made the day so
WHAT HAPPENED TO FATTY.
Liege Bogert brot q hunk of tar to
school with him and give it to Fatty
Believes for chewing. Pritty soon
they was muffled grones from behind
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Fatty's geography; and Miss Palmer
investigated; They. was a PANIED yex-
she asked him what 1t was he lust
mumbled and -coufdent say nuthi1E.
So. Miss Palmer made him mite IS I'm
his slait.s and Fatty fote my. teati ii
stuck togeather-tar.".. MISS! Palmer
tried to pry themroapen. but she was
afraid Fatty's ,teath would come u
too, 81 she decided to watesand See
would they comeaapart by themselves.
from resting 1'ff - %. -
~. KEPE 1T DARK! zg-ae .
Andy: Anderson hasadlscoversu how
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1918.
SURGERY FOR CRIME.

Just how the surgery = cure O
crime is being exploited. and n sur-
econ Ia making claims for 1t which
to the layman seem extravagant ana
absurd. He thinks that the hospital
should take the place Of the criminal
court, and the operation the place OF
the. trial. He processes to have per-
formed several operations which have
resulted in complete cure Of criminal;
tendencies, and he 10 making about
as sweeping claims for his treatment
as were made for the .old=ttme patent
medicine which. was said to cure sv-
erythins from fits to hstula.-
No reasonably informed person. in
xhi. day and age, will deny that one
abnormalttiess, which may include
some criminal tendencies. in given
cases. are due to physical defects n
that in some Of these cases h de-
1ects may DO removed or corrected
by operation, with the result that the
undesirable tendencies which have
manifested themselves will disappear.
All Of that squares With 70 many we'll.
established facts that 1t 10 nov &C.
copied everywhere. But 1t 10 one
0hine to accept this. and quite anoth-
q to accept the theory that all crime
u due to a. similar cause ana q cause
which can b detected and removed.
Man IN q CREATURE Of hersdity and
01svirSnznsnt, and hs should be ARE
eul In the selection Of his grandpar-.
snts and Of his surroundings. But
h. /. Also . creature Of free viii. With
ne power to choose for himself. As'
% how these two apparently contra
Aioeory facts are to DO rsconcdled. the
reader 10 respectfully referred to the
xhsologians. the philosophers and
Shs neutrality-suspicious.. But, while these
es0aansn-ass dtspu41ng: over the re-
SN1laaA4sa ok fAots which sssm to be
lsfseonanahls. the ret q 40 moW-
tneuittvssy. perhaps. but nevertheless
Dostsavsayexhas these things ere hoes,
a4d 4haE whl1s ~ m IN q measure
slssaeuiss Of circumstance, We havs
~ power to do ven or III. and that
- aes accountable for the manner
q. sx1 seaoiss. .
fe assume Int an departure from
11Dhk = due to anS over wh4chi
III ofen0,r hAs no control 10 70 de-
trey cur whole social system and to
make Of man q msF6 automaton, re-
speasfvs IN au h1s aots to the Stimulus
of%a chemical reaction or the pressure
~ hnna Az a -uaay> An n u.pvA a>,-
~. Ths -Morsd q human being be-
csanes q world IN which there 10
neither evil 0 good. Human acts
may b neither eondsmnsd COM
msaAed. Ths tibet. the murderer and
the ravisher take their place on the
aamAaDaane with. other members o.
sosist1..- We a1s reduced. not to the
leysl q The mutes, bst 10 hat Of the
ulods and stones.
We must recognize that much Of
what ws ean crime = feally misfor-
tans. ana " must b tolerant ana
sympathetic in our attitude toward
those Who !hnve departed from the
aeospted standards. But with all this,
there q needed . wholesome recosn-
taon q ths fast that when all the &C
ctdsntals are removed. there remains
IN an ordinary humanity an indfvi-
dual r~esporttbtttty for action. ana
that ono Of the best ways to strength
en the moral hber Of n who seems
iHcainsd % 90 wrong ~ not to ooddls
the wrong-doer. but to discipline him.