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Call to Old Members

MY, Dear Girls and Boys.-one OF the
what had become Of all the old mem
bers. and true enough. they seem to
life and banged the door on our dear
T. D. g. G. page SO ! am writing to-
day to ask that all the old members
come out Of their. front porches. at
ones all about what they have been
doing long. School is done.
pretty nearly so, and feel that l can
gather you all back again for the sum
learning who discovered American and
how much six times nine Is. School is
mighty nice, ] know. but isn't II grand
TO feel that the summer stretches like
Il grand. splendid picnic woods right
before us. without single day
. Several letters this week have been
ton. Thank you. dear children. FOR
the sweet things that YOU write me.
and II | only had thousand hands. in
stead of two. I'd write to every one.
so you must Just understand that your
editor appreciates them very much and
loves YOU great deal. And il seems
TO Inc that quite number of the mem
Please don't be sick. 1t isn't comfor-
table ut all. and besides ii is too hot
Tor aches and pains to be kept In bed.
And the contest. for fear that you
school -closing contest. You may write
IL or draw 1t or make a poem or puzzle
about it. And just one word more,
want you to got used 10 the prizes not
months. because there is 70 much to do
that ] cannot got around to II but once
in so often, and II makes me feel very
badly to think that there are disap-
pointed girls and boys watching for
prizes that take so long TO come.
YOUR EDITOR.
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NEIII W ALh Ell.
fol Otey Avenue. Bedford City.
THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION.

The United States government was
In the hands of tho Republican party
for so long that the people naturally
became tired and worn out The men
of each term governed by the same
principals. and were Republicans In
every respect. Very few of them cared
FOR the welfare OF the people, and
nearly everything was done for their
own benefit.
In some respects It was machine
government. Certain men having i'm
portant positions In the government
used their influence TO help their
friends having large interests In New
York and other cities. Those In power
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other State. Mississippi and Georgia
rank next highest. The cities of Fall
River and Lowell, in Massachusetts.
make more cotton cloth than any other
cities in America New York and Bos-
ton handle much of the raw cotton
used In the mills OF the Northeast. Most
Of the mills OF the United States are In
this section OF tho country.
The United States ranks first in the
production of cotton England leads
in the manufacturing OF cotton cloth
Tho United States holds second place,
and then comes Germany and France.
BY
DORA COHEN
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HIDDEN TREES.

]. The tree near the wall has nuts.
.. o. the range is broken
.. AS the pen Is broken We can't put
the pigs In.
4. II was a shame she couldn't go.
5. See, dar now. what am a-gwine
to do.
q. The boys built the dam with the
help OF Undegoo's son.
{. The boy is said to be very sick, a
great deal moro than last time.
S. He was knocked plum out OF the
box.
.. May Mary and I pull frst7
10. 10" said Tom, that custard was
fine"
PATTIE CALLAWAY.
Norwood Va
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THE WEET<'S PRIZE WINNERS.
Dora Cohen, no address, given.
Willie VIII. send address.
Rcna Page Hill, of Dewitt, Vac X,
II. ID. No, 1.
TIE WEEKS CONTRIBUTORS.

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i. Osrse.
2. Wsctc william.
g. Eopyn.
T. Racanitno.
g. Asdiy.
q. Falsg.
SAMUEL LOUIS CARTWRIGHT.
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Drawn by Irene Clay.

CTIARADE.
My first is In shore. but not In land.
My second Is In pretty. but not In grand
Ny third IL in ring. but not In hand.
My fourth Is In bring. but not In band.
Ny fifth Is In moon. also in sand.
My sixth lis In game, but not In Dan.
My whole Is n name we often say
When tho robin sings his happy lay.
And flowers bloom on n fair May day.
(OriSinal)
MARGARET PROCTOR.
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ptswrya Bun. Va.
II Dor.n't Matter ,yhlch.

Dear Editcr.-I WAS very glad to see m,
drawing In tho paper Sunday. l am stii
waiting 20 receive my prize. Do you wan
VI To write COMPOSITIONS on lined or unllne,
paper; WIZ YOU please answer In III,
paper Sunday? Best wishes 20 all
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THINK Nou,
y Won, y so
Likes lSp,icr
Those Were Hi

Dehr Editor.--l got the drawing all riEht
Thank YOU for tho present very much I
hope this wil. be albright. / Will sond
some more Yours truly.
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Glad NniI In

Sly Dear Editor-I SIN sendirx In. NIX,
part of my story. hoping TO zoe II In print
next SUNDAY. ] think the contest viii be
JUST tnc. our sincere member.
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Petersburg. Va

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Dear Ed:tor.-I win write you q few rre,
10 let you know that ] was very GLAD IA
geo my drawing our T. D. 9. G. mage
.ast sund ay. l. have been 80 busy all this
time that ] didn't have time to write 10
our Page. / SIN sending a drawing Hops
IL VIII escape the trash basket. I have had
a hne limo picking Strawberries We had a
Iot OF them. They really wore nice. Wish
you were here. with me. We would have a
dandy Kim. picking them think l had
better close my lottcr this time for Il IL
getting rather long. With best Of wishes
10 So" ana all members, l oeS to remain
IYnJt III >,o>-co>,
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Meadow bridge Road
Draw Some for Jnly.

Dear EdItor.-I am sending anotn
Ing for next week, Us DO II
whcthe. YOU received the one
week. have read my prize boo
think II L. grand. Next I shall try
IN something on the Last Day OF
Wo di3 not have commencement {
as on: schoo. IS destroyed. and Il
wo wen, 10 would hardly hold all {,
l must close now. Your loving
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atrocious sort for which Leohler had
Just been hanged.
Volney. who lectured at the Normal
School in Paris. told once Of a journey
through France shortly nfter the Reign
Of Terror. In which he saw bows and girls
amusing themselves by guilotining ca II
and dogs
Numerous Instances are on record t0
show that sherifs whose prisoners have
been reprieved on the glilows have been
forced to fee for their livee from tho dis.
appointment OF the enraged thousa nd.
who had gathered
What Of our FIVE American States which
have no death penalty Rhode Island.
which was the second OF them, had seven
murders during the years 1869 TO 1875.
while Connecticut had twenty-eight
Maine abolished the death penalty In
1887 during the twenty years preceding
that date abe had had 2j3 murders, dur
ing the twenty years after 1t 1872 murders
IL the long list of the capitally punished
actually dcterriug murder In the United
states; In thirty representative American
cities the average yearly murder rate per
100000 between the years 1913 and 1902
was 40. Between the years ivo3 and 1917
10.
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In This Country Each Year More Men Than in All Other
Christian Nations in the World Conbned- Criminal Code
Contains Eleven Capital Crimes

The death penalty In necessary. It 10
urged. to deter men from crime. But
Belgium has had no executions since 1863
the decade before tina, year it had 92i
murders. the decade after 703 murders
The decade before Italy's abolition Of the
death penalty in 1889 saw 1877 murders
per 100000 of its population. the decade
after IL 80 per 100000. Tuscany. with no
capital punishment. has a yearly average
OF 5.lS murders per 100. 900 Of its popula-
ton. The United States has IL per l0O. 900.
II the death penalty Is a deterrent FRI m
crime England to-day should be as pure
as the riven snow. For six consecutive
centuries she melted out the death penalty
for every crime in her criminal code save
petty larceny and may hem. Any theft
big enough to buy halter would furnish
another public hanging Men and women
were hanged for draining a fish pond. for
stealing a shilling. for cutting a hopbind.
for chopping down n tree. for personating
Greenwich pensioner.
Under Edward |. a man was hanged for
burning GOAL within tho city limits Of
London. Thirteen we're hanged after one
assize during Queen Eliza beth's reign for
associating with gypsies One hundred
and three hangings followed the Lent
assizes Of 1885 Men and women wore
hanged In batches OF sixteen md twenty
after an Old Bailey sessions, until London
came to be known AS the City OF the Gibbet
The net result was that England became
40 overrun with crime that In 1910 tho
whole system toppled In 1911 the Irish
linen manufacturers. who had years before
secured capital punishment for blea ching
yard thieves. asked Parliament to remove
the death penalty because juries refused
to convict under 1t. and In consequence
their yards were overrun with thieves.
In 1920 there were 222 capital crimes In
England's criminal code. In 1880 there was
one-murder Three more were added
when the present oods was adopted In
1891
II the death penalty dsters from orime.
why should II not no held In public. whore
the full force Of It's deterring influence
Dan be had' The hanging OF John Lechler
In 1882. which brought 1900 persons
around his gallows at Lancaster, Pa.
displays typical.y ths deterring In
nuence exercised by the death penalty.
During Lechler's first death Struggle
the great throng gaped In silence. but
before the slight. slow vibrations OF the
swinging body were ended a period of
drunkenness and crime broke out which
resulted In twenty eight arrests before
nighusll. one for = murder Of the same
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Comparisons Between Practices Here Prove
Convictions Are Easier the Absence of Death
Penaty-.-T The Galows

II has been said that II the State does
not iniliot the death penalty the citizens
VIII take the law into their own hands.
In 1919. up TO November IL, the State
OF Mississippi inflicted the death penalty
hve tunes. but this did not prevent its
citizens conducting nine lynohings
Georgia in the same period had five
executions and seven lynchings; Texas
had four executions and seven lynchings
cut OF 500 executions and 2,24O lynch
1ngs in the United States between 1891
and 1900 twelve States had 900 execu-
tions and l.747 lynchings
II Is said that even sane murderers are
too dangerous to be handled as life term
pr isoners.
Consider the average run Of first degree
murderers the laborer who when drunk
has kicked his wife to death, the Jealous
lover who has stabbed his mistress. the
man who has revenged himself, the
burglar who has shot down his would-be
captor In no class of prisoners does
the degree of criminality vary more than
among these men. in whom heredity and
environment have clashcd in q red flash
of murder.
Ask any warden whether they are az
worthless to society and as dangerous
to their Keepers as the gun toters, drug
tends and other Migrants who take their
short time sentences with an air of "Oh.
| can do that on my head
IL Is estimated that in India 400 inno-
cent men have been put To death during
the last century and forty men In Eng
land. How many innocent, ignoran,
men-men for whom the 1haw millions
do not ilow-are led away each year
IN the United States to be put to death
by American cxecut toner's Ia unknown.
An irrevocable verdict" some one has
said. demands an infallible Judge"
II the United States is to cling longer
to the death penalty some new rules of
evidence, IA infaliible az the Urirn and
Ihummim. should he subst ituted for our
present system Of bargaining for the exc.
outioners victim with all the rules which
clutter our books on evidence On the
other hand. If tho United States IL 10 give
up tho death penalty ample timo will be
available for the awarding to such men
IA are found innocent after their oonyic-
ion of pardons for the crimes thew did
not commit
toncedmg for the sake Of brevity that
man has right 10 take human life. figures
can be shown prov ing that COW ict ions are
easier TO obtain in the absence of the death
penalty 1nd that Justice therefore docs
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quickly made with a lancet upon the
cheeks the names OF the two Arabs were
shouted into their ears with trumpet
nut the countenance relapsed into a
liked immobility. coldly oomplexionless
and impassive In death"
Thirty-fve out OF our forty-six death
penalty States. however, employ the
gallows. which, it has been proved, pro-
longs the victims death agonies to an
average OF Ills minutes. The figure
u from the records OF DR.. Alonzo Calkins
who In 1879 made public these figures.
based On sixty-fve hanpings:
Deaths by strangulation, SIS per cent
Severe contortions. 23; moderate, IA;
feeble. IS chest heavings. s.
Broken neck: Evident. .; partial. 4;
doubtful. 7.
Average fall. tx feet.
Cord broke at eight hangnu.
Even the Turkish bowstring and the
Spanish garrote. Dr. Calkins urged, are
more humane than the gallows In the
history OF the gallows are scores OF GASES
In which its victims. cut down after six
or seven minutes have been restored to
life. One Of the most famous Of these Ia
the case Of Margaret Dickson, who In 1880
was cut down from the Edinburgh gibbet
and was jolted back to life when a rough
cart was used to carry her coffin to Mus
selburg; she lived for thirty years after
ward under the nickname Of Half-hanged
Maggie The heart of John Brown.
hanged at Harper's Ferry In 1850 contin-
ued to beat for thrty-hve minutes after
he had been jerked into midair.
The electric chair. now used In eleven
American States. Is more meroifuI than
the gallows, but from five to ten minutes
Is required for it's 20 horsepower of cleo
trio energy to kill Its harnessed victim.
The United States has led the world In
penal reform. A century ago, when the
worlds prisons were only barred pens
INTO which men and women were thrown
together. Americans built tho first eel
lular, sanitary prison at Philadelphia
and revolutionized the worlds jails. Re-
Gently New fork's prison farm at Great
Meadows has led the world In another
important penal reform. Through these
two American Innovations the United
States has become a world leader in the
regeneration Of the unfortunate, but
by a curious national oversight it accom-
panies it's leadership with the use of the
gnllows
! To-day at Sing Sing one may see "a
strange sight a new penal method of
life and help and hope being introduced
into tho cells about a death chamber--a
school oI morals about chair Of murder
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not 80 readily fall into contempt, Rhode
Island. between 1852 and 1850. secured
convictions in 81 per cent. Of its homicide
cases Connecticut during the same period
convicted in 10 per cent. Of its cases, and
Massachusetts, in II per cent
England. in 1901. secured convictions In
20 per cent Of its non-capital cases and in
80 per cent of its capital cases Holland
with no death penalty. secured twenty
eight convictions in its thirty-iive homi-
eide cases during the last decade, and
Belgium secured i0l convictions out of
1872 cases. But London, In 1911. convicted
SIX out of its twenty-five murder CASES
and New York. IN the same year. thirteen
out OF its lis cases
And penologist the world around will
corroborate to-day the doctrine of one
OF the earliest ana greatest Of penolo-
gists. Beocaria;
1t is the certainty. not the severity. OF
punishment which deters men from crime ="
The persistence Of our death penalties
William Dean Howells once called them
tho most useless piece Of wickedness left
IN the world") is dependent as ALWAYS
upon old General Apathy. Ours ia n
government by emotion, and evils are NOT
corrected until they demonstrate them
selves In "A tragedy so spectacularly ap-
peaiing as to rouse the emotion of "A
nation.
From i7io to III England hanged 100
men and women for shoplifting alone
but not until Mary Jones, 10 years old nna
hannnA tha I,sl, -
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WHERE DEATH PENALTY
HAS BEEN ABOLISHED

Italy. abolished In 1889.
Portugal. abolished In 1867.
Switzerland. no executions since
1879.
Fifteen Of the twenty-five cantons
prohibit capital punishmeni)
Holland. abolished In 1870.
Tuscany. abolished In 1889.
San Marine. abolished in lS4S.
Rumania. abolished In 1854.
Belgium, no executions since 1853.
Venezuela. abolished in 1864.
Colombia.
Ecuador.
Costa Rica.
German Empire:
Saxony Brunswick
Oldenburg Nassau
Weimar WuruemburR
Baden Prussia
Anhslt Bremen
Brazil.
United States:
Michigan, abolished In i847.
Maine. abolished In 1887.
Rhode Island, abolished In 1852.
Kansas, abolished In 1907.
Wisconsin. abolished in 1888.
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THE CARLYLE CAT
THERE have been pubns-'i ID

THERE have been published 10
London recently some letters o.
Mrs. Thomas Carlyle = When
the Carlyle Cat figures pr'N 1en"F
II Is quite clear that the 'A3v -afsea
the great man about his H.r ,'' VA
petulant and ridiculous whcr - ;et -
as men who care for animals 'ufa-'ao'
do-at the dinner table ana Hs's'es
that the carpet In the dining -'oin u
Cheyne row was being ri.A'l nv ~.
practice. She admits tina. 'H" 'S'p''
was old and ugly and not wr '"F,N
row with ones husband an.. W.
the impartial critic asks h7t a ''a'-'
later, did she do Il?
Mrs. Carlyle was rr.,r-' R.'r'
and still more wonderful ..- F.r
and could. had she posses-r. ' .-''''
and socIahie husband
real sa,on In Lone Az
was celebrities sat a. bog '-' S.'
Leigh Hunts famous r
ME kissed Me" Is rr.'
was not simply h.Ic
highly attractive 90 me1.
thetic picture this, ev.h't
past Of the sage Of CO., -r
cat and Mrs CarlV,c'- r., U- ''
II wish she were dead
II ended In the author -
sartus" being deprived p '.'
ionship Of his cat a. din"
or tea---all in the !n,cres's
room carpet and ~ feun'n."" '''
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Tyburn gibbet were thrown mo rich
Mysteries by her death that ~ r.it'ns
was swept forever out of n. criminal
code of England.
BY such events is history made Perhaps
some day people in the United States WI
be reused 10 take similar view ~ .A, Ia.
punishment in general
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1EWYORK'S method ofinfiicting the
death penalty. as demonstrated
in the electrocution of the four

= in the electrocution of the four
Rosenthal gunner at Sing Sing
early last Monday morning. has been
declared to be entirely painless and the
law requires 1t to be conducted privately .
A warden's nod at dawn through the bars
Of clean. sanitary cell intimates to its
gray occupant that his presence Is ex-
pected In small chamber a few steps
away. And there the condemned man
u despa tohed.
Nevertheless. In spite OF all that may
be said In favor OF this method OF in
hicting the dea tn pena lty some instructive
comparisons may be- made between
practices in the United States and In other
nations.
In the United States every year more
men are put to death than In all the other
Christian nations In the world combined
From January / to November /. 1912,
the executions numbered 1873 England
ranked second with thirty -seven: France
third. with twelve. Austria put two
citizens to death.
Our criminal codes contain eleven
capital crimes. more than twice as many
as those Of any other Christian nation
in the world Men may be put to death
here for these crimes
Robbery 1.-TWO States).
Burglary -four States).
Arson mine States).
Second degree murder (three Btates),
Rape thfteen States).
First degree murder UNITED States and
forty six States)
Treason Omitted States).
Piracy Omitted States).
Rescue OF a convict going to execution
Omitted States).
Burning = vssssi Of war Omitted
6tates),
Corrupuy destroying q private vessel
United statss),
England abolished tho death penalty
for robbery. anon. burglary and rape
- far back an 1889 1t has now only four
capital crimes. France and Austria. with
fve eaoh are the only Christian nations
sxosedingi It.
Thirty Of the worlds thirty ELK dcat IN
penalty nations uss deoa pitation,a method
u death which Ia 40 nercifullv quick
that tho eye Ia unable TO follow IL That
u works absolutely without pain was
stes'ed by an experiment conducted
10 Algiers in 1893 by NJ Bonnafpnt The
heads OF two Arab victims were caught
AZ thoy foil, the necks swiftly dipped
INTO pulverized gypsum to stanoh the
Mood and altar scariiications had been
The Holly chieftain., 1914-07-31
VALLEY NOTES

Over 5000 feet OF new water was stored
in the Two Buttes reservoir last week a.
the result Of heavy rains.
The oil we'll in the Mustang district has
reached depth of 800 feet. and claim to
have already struck small showing Of
oil. The driIlers struck the limestone
formation last week, this in some coun.
tries being almos. an undisputable fact
that oil will be found.
Sugar City and Ordway are both candi.
dates for new depot buildings, and the
commercial clubs Of those towns are
putting up good argument in favor Of
same.
Over 400 autoes are owned in Otero
county, according to the county assessor.
All valley towns and counties are pros.
porous.
The La Junta Democrat credits Ordway
with being the ''liyest town in the valley!"
owing to the fact that the newspapers OF
that city are SO we'll patronized by the
advertisers. This is . food method in
which to judge any town.
Six thousand, two hundred and twenty.
one pounds OF arsenic has been fed to the
frasshoppers Of Crowley county. The
diet does not agree with them, either.
Most of the counties in the valley are
making extensive preparations to exhibit
At the State fair
The Proeressives Of Otero county will
refuse to support Costisan as their nom.
inee for Governor.
The first melon buyer has reached the
Rocky Ford district, he being q repre-.
sentative of the Coeeins company.
Special trains will be run from all sec.
tions in the valley to the Prowers county
fair.
Ed Ritche Of Coolidse topped the
market several weeks ago with his first
shipment of alfalfa, getting Sl4 per ton
for same.
I
The Holly chieftain., 1914-07-31
KENBR COLORADO EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION

And Arkansas Valley Editorial Association.
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III political parties are fighting for the Law an,
, Republicans appear to have captured same
The Holly chieftain., 1914-07-31
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department Of the Interior.

Department Of the Interior.
U. 5. Lead OG6es At Lamar. Colo.
July 23. j9l4.
Motto. i. h.reb, gwen h.t Giber, c. Lppneo Of Holly.
Color .do ~ho June II. 1870 made home e.d entry
serial No. 0S27l for lots H. IL and south hal. northwest
ausrter Of section and northeast quarter. section B. town
ship 26 south range west, 9Th principal meridian hs.
fled notice Of intention make three year proof to e,,.b
hsh claim the land above bsors the Register
and Receiver. Lamar. Colo. H.. 9th Dc, Of Sep,.m.
ber. 1914.
Clsimsn, names ., Witnesses, T. M. McCurry, n. ".
Crsbi, A. E. Lewis sud D. q. Wsbb, sIl oi Holly Cole
9l$ Evssss N. wkiisLsr, Rssistsr.