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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1919-08-29

The Monticellonian has added
thirty-fve new subscribers to
its growing list of readers
since the publication of it's last
issue.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1919-08-29

unteers of America, (Inc. Nov s
1866, spent last Sunday in Mon
ticello, presenting the cause of
the Volunteer Prison League.
At the First Baptist Church.
he spoke in a most impressive
manner for a few minutes at the
beginning of the morning SER
vice, briefly outlining the plan
and policy of this organization.
The Volunteer Prison League
was organized by and is under
the management of Mrs. Maud
Darlington Booth, the worlds
greatest prison reformer. The
object of the Prison League is
to contribute to the moral, men.
tai, spiritual, and physical better
ment and uplift of the men and
women in our State and Federal
prisons. 1t solves the much
asked question. "Out of prison,
What ?" It's aim is threefold:
FIRST, to reform the prisoner
himself within the walls, to give
him a new hope.
SECOND, to strengthen the
mans position and faith upon
leaving the prison, aiding him
to find work upon being dis
charged or paroled.
THIRD, to create new senti-
ment on the part of the outside
world concerning these unfort-
innate ones, who have been and
are incarcerated; to show that
their reinstatement in society
depends upon the sympathy,
help and trust extended them,
when theprison sentenceisended
The plan Of the work is to in
duce the prisoners to join the
League, and help them to make
good in prison by being obedient
to the existing prison laws.
They are shown that the easiest
way out of prison is to adopt the
best methods while in. They are
encouraged to strive to attain a
higher spiritual life through
prayer and scripture reading.
The League also seeks to help
the families of prisoners in a
very practical way. 1t is the
representative Of the hungry,
starving, and helpless ones,
brought into evidence by the
fall or crime of the bread-win-
ner. It's main inspiration is
derived from the fellowship of
its workers with a living Christ.
For discharged prisoners the
League maintains homes, which
are aptly called Hope Halls.
Many prisoner has come out
from prison with the deter
mlnation to live a straight clean
life and has been driven back in
to crimes by inability to secure
the work to make an honest liv-
ing. 1t was the realization Of
this truth that led to the found
ing Of these homes for ex-con-
victs. There are twenty-five
homes and two farms in the
South for discharged and parol-
ed prisoners.
For more than twenty years
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth has
worked among the prisoners in
this Christlike way, bringing
comfort and cheer to thousands
of discouraged souls.
There is now a Prison League
membership Of $4,000 and over
100000 men and woman have
been aided from prison. There
have passed through its Hope
Halls over 10000 men who are to
day making good in the world.
Among the prisoners Mrs.
Booth is lovingly known as
Little Mother.
But many besides prisoner.
nave reason to know and love
this remarkable woman, whose
personality is so winning and
whose sympathy is so world
wide in its scope. Among the
soldiers during the war she was
known as Little Mother of the
"A. r. F., having been commits
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1919-08-29

Only GOT pounds of bacon are
assigned to this postoffice.
For the items given above
the postage, which must be paid
by the purchaser, has been add
ed to the cost of the goods.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1919-08-29

Roland Kizer was a Warren
visitor Monday.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1919-08-29

Mr.. H. F. Bailey visited Me
Gehee Monday.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

There was a. pause. The boy gazed
at the small creature before him, a dull
spot of color smoldering in his swar-
thy checks. He felt an actual suffo-
cation as the flood of deep, slowly ac-
cumulated thought surged and pressed
against the barrier of his habitual reti-
cence, and found no outlet in speech.
He clenched his hand on the stone
rail of the steps.
You've been to a party?" he Ques-
toned, rather hoarsely.
She glanced at her pale blue chiffon
frock, visible through her half opened
coat of dark velvet.
only to my dancing lesson. Do you
like to dance, boy?"
II don know. Do you want me to
learn"
"Oh, if you want to-" Surprised,
she poised on one small foot in a blue
kid boot, and smiled ~engagingly.
Il want to learn whatever you want
me to know" He moved nearer, his
eyes fired by strange lights. He was
himself unconscious of the force that
made powerful his stumbling, made
quate speech. II found out who lived
Your people are rich. You a had
things; you always have to have
things I never even heard of; but
I'll find out about them and III make
money to buy them I'll give you
a better house than this one. Eve seen
houses-Tve worked on a BOAT since
that day, and seen places-Yucatan,
the Argentine, BRAZIL" He made a
vague gesture. I'm going away again
today, but Pm coming back when
you're grown up. l made up my mind
when you gave me your shoes. Will
you marry me, princess, some day."
Astonished, but with a 10-year old's
a%daptability to new ideas. she con-
sidered him. her curly cad tilted
aside.
yes" she consented serenely, IF
grandmamma will let me. / like you
better than the boys l know"
you will not forget"
"I don't forget" she treasured him.
Then will you keep this to remem-
Der me by? l bought it for you"
h readily held out her little gloved
hand for the package he offered, but
with a swift and unboylike passion
he placed his hands on her shoulders
and, STOPPING. kissed her childish
mouth-a mouth as cool and uncon
scious Of life as the red flower it re-
sembled.
"IIl come for YOU" he promised.
This time it was he who fled. Ieav-
ing her standing there all amazed and
rosy. So. if the first gift was hers.
the second was his, but again it was
he who carried the magic away with
him,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

from the new YOrkAl1meS.
When Andrew Carnegie had made up
his mind that a certain thing should be
done, and believed it could be done with
money, he was not the man to hesitate
as to his own fitness to do it. Years
passed before 1t was thought wise to
publish the fact that. at the close Of the
Spanish war. he went to the White House
and proposed to pay the people of the
United States $2o,O00,O0o for the privilege
of giving the Philippines bach to Them
selves. Even today the scene staggens
the, imagination. And do we contemplate
without a tremor the provisions in Mr..
Carnegie's. will by which he pensions our
ex-presidents and their wives? Certain
aets have a grandiosity which the mind
is slow to comprehend. But the fact
persists. What shall we eventually make
of it?
The people of the United States see fit
10 take successful citizens from private
life, make use OF the best they have. to
give, al them in service-and the cast
them aside like q discharged employe,
with the aura of q great office about
them andqn nc means of sustaining their
dignity, and the dignity OF the nation,
beyond such makeshffts of employment
as they can find. The process is mani
testify unfair to- them, but that is the least
of the evil. It brands us all with iagrati-
tude. Ws,S
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
Bad Sickness.
Caused by


/ II people onsy realized the health-destroy-
ing power OF an acid-stomach-of the many,
kinds OF sickness and misery it causes-of'
the lives 1t literally wrecks-they would
guard against II as carefully as they do
against q deadly plague. You know in an,
instant the first symptoms of acie-stoInacn-
pains of indigestion: distressing, painful.
hloat; sour, gassy stomach; belching; food
repeating; heartburn, etc. Whenever your.
stomach feels this way you should lose 10,
time in putting it to rights. If you don't.
serious consequences are almost sure to5fol-
low. such as intestinal fermentation. auto
tntoxicaHfon, impairment of the entire ner-
vous system, headache, biliousness, cirrhosis.
or the hvers sometimes even catarrh of the.
stomach and intestinal ulcers and cancer.
If you are not feeling right, see If 1t Isn't.
aoid-stcmach that Is the cause of your III
health, Take EAToNIc. the wonderful mod.
srn stomach remedy. EATONIC Tablets
auielsIy and surely relieve the pain. bloat.,
bel:hinE, and heartburn that Indicate acidt
stomach. Make the stomach strong. clean
and sweet. By keeping the stomach In,
healthy condition 30 that You can get full
strcngth from your food. your general health
steadily improves. Results are marvelnu~iy
quick, Just try EAToNIc and you will ba.
as e1ihusiastic AZ the thousands who hapa..
anything could bring such marvellous relief;
So get a big 5o-cent box ot EAToMlcs
from your druggist today. II not satisfaa-
tory return It and he will refund Your ,nOnny.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
S. O. S.
If c~onstipated. Bilious
or Headachy, take
"Cascarets'

I Sick headache, b%iliousness, coated
tongue, or sour, gassy stomnch-always
trace this to torpid liver delayed, fer
menting food in the bowels.
Poisonous matter clogged in the In
testines, instead Of being cast out of the
system is ~re-absorbed into the blood.
When this poison reaches the delicate
brain tissues 1t causes congestion and
that dull, t%llrobbing, %sickening head
ache.
G%ascarcts Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out oil
the constipated waste matter and poi
sons In the bowels.
4 Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out BY morning. They
work while you sleep.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
Suggests Premier For America.
the Springfield Republiear

Current issues OF more inamed.ate and
absorbing interest may prevent public dis
cussion of the very natural question, now
that Mr.. Wilson'S strength has failed him,
whether the presidency has not come to
be even In normal times too great a strain
o any one mans intellectual and
physical energies. Its duties have steadily
increased in range and it's exactions upon
body and mind have grown more and
more severe. When an ordinary man com.
pareSwhat he himself does with what thu
president OF the United States has 10 do
he marvels how any holder OF the off.c
can I've through his term. And the pro.
spect Is that hexcaftef the strain viii 81
much greater than In the past aing /,
Anaarica's new activities IN Gn,sI aa1airs
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
CHAPTER ".

THE SPECTACLES OF MR. BRUCE
In the year 1916, in a dark, foul
odored cell in the prison of Rio Ma
buco, a man sat on a three-legged
stool and listened to the rain pour
down with the u~nceasins violence of
a waterfall. It was a nool i'm Janu-
airy, the season OF rain i'm that in
terror of Brazil where Corey Bruce
had made IN end of life with aus shock
ing suddenness as If he had stepped
from the brink of a precipice.. That
still striving to accustom himself to
.sS sc--Ssss.ss Sc. VIZ. a.S c.sc.c
his knees. his forehead resting i'm his
palms, his thin fingers clutched INFO
the bush Of his red hair. His angular
figure had grown stopped from hours.
day spent in, this attitude. His eyes
were closed. because there wass moth
ing in his cell he wished to seq. and
much that he did not: also, because
he was trying to concentrate thought.
In his ability to withdraw into, the
retreat of imagination lay his only
amusement, his only occupation, his
only refuge from stark panic and
madness.
Lest he lose that ability. he set
himself mental tasks to be done. He
recalled books that he had read, chap
ter by chapter. and continued their
narrative through additional episodes
Of his own creation. He ~refearsed
plays he had seen; his college days;
his life at home in Philadelphia. Some
times this latter form of discipline o
on the torture of the u~nattafnable. but
he persisted; he believed that he had
to persist. This afternoon he had set
himself to cataloging the things he
would first demand. surprising he
should find himself free and at liberty
to have his desires. Eyes shut he
strove to attain the art OF self hyp-
notism.
What would he have first? His hot,
perspirfng, reluctantly but u~ndeniabiy
dirty body Moderated the answer. He
would have a bath, a long drawn oaat,
ceremonious bath; with unscented soap
and piles of clean. ~agreeably rough
Turkish towels. A savagely hot bath.
followed by a cold shower. Fresh
clothing next-wit hahoes. Somehow.
ii always had seemed to him the last
degradation to be barefoot. And then.
after that orgy Of cleanliness, food,
real food! For Is months he had been
either sickened Or hungry. as a per-
ma cara ..se.: he - sse= s.eeAs Is
choose which he would endure. No
doubt, the food was edible from a ma
tive point Of view. but not from his
He was too badly out OF condition fol-
appetite to arouse before bowls Of
black beans and manioc. He crave d
airsand exercise. inactions mental and
physical. wa killing him. Sometimes
ne blnndered srto black alleys o
/ thought, wondering If q man could x
mad a such things. Without III
own Knowledge, 4 Il insSns mer
srally ira grcorseinrs heis srr,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

headaches disappeared. / gained in
weight and feel fine, SO l can honestly
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's vege-
table Compound to any woman who is
suffering as | was. - Mrs. ApELNE B.
LYNCH, 100 Plain ST, Providence, RI.
Backache and nervousness are symp-
toms OF natures warnings, which in
dicate a functional disturbance or an
unhealthy condition which often devel-
ops into o more serious ailmcnt
Women in this condition should not
continue to drag along without help, but
profit by Mrs. Lynch's experience, and
try this famous root and herb remedy,
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
ponnd-and for special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co.. Lynn, Mass.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

Let "Danderine" save your hair and
double its beauty. You can have lots
of long, thick, strong, lustrous hair.
Don't let it stay lifeless, thin, scraggly
or fading. Bring back it's color, vigor
and vitality.
Get a 35-cent bottle of delightful
"Danderine'' at any drug or toilet coun-
ter to freshen Jour scalp; check dan.
druf and falling hair. Your hair needs
this stimulating tonic; then It's life.
color, brightness and abundance viii
return-Hurry+Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

8, my Dack
ached all the time.
/ waa tired and had
no ambition for any
thing. | had taken
a number OF medi-
cines which did me
no good. One day
| read about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
what it had done for
women, SO l tried
it. My nervousness
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

g. cecstI.4t
The old half breed peered in hatween
the barR4
1T is bead today" he questioned.
Yes
Shall I talk t othe senhor?"
If yom Hike said Bruce. He STAN
meredl Slightly in his speech, not, be-
aus he knew the language imper-
fectiM but as a failing he had never
been, able to- overcome in moments
of agitation
The old man nodded, and squatted.
down. on the opposite side of the bar
srier. Made g%arrulous by age and mon
iotonX OF life, he loved to recite long.
iaimless. tales OF his active days. And.
the AneniGan had found a relief, some
times, in listening to the confused,
endless variations that managed to,
retain al certain vividness and move
ment. Sometimes, as now, ne mereIK
let .the Little Bald One" havesthe en-
iipyment of a fancied listener. too goad,
natured and too sad himself to check
sanothar's pleasure.
Good" grunted the old man. .sHp.
day | will tell of a scene Of yestes-
day, Of when l followed the caudtro,
Dom David Noel. Yes, I was a cook
Fin his camp, eight years ago."
He launched into a long wandhz:ns
story; am account Of a military expe-
dition against a group Of cattle. Maid
ers and bandits.
At FIRST Bruce heard little. IRE had
caught the rapid stamp Of hoofs upon
the rom through the village without.
A party Of riders was passing. He
could imagine their sinuous bodies
swinging to the horses stride, their
brown faces turned to the clean sky,
and the lift 0 ftheir sleek black hair
to the wind. Once such a can from
without had stirred him to frantic re-
beslion against captivity. Months ago
he had learned to listen alphabetically,
Sat today he Avas stir q s. ; otter
envy. II he might only have on more
such ride! II he might even hope It'd
he transferred to another prison! But
his trial was ove his sentence passed
nothing stretched before him excep,
monotonys II he had been in some
countries-say, IN Contra America
he might Have hoped for 4 revolution
bit Brasil lay basling IN peace. Te
fend offb desperation, Rruce began q
tastens his. attention on the old srnan,s
speech. And gradually attention
ceased tn ~ - effort, His interval
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

Spectators in the 1917 Java sugar.
were hit hard by the low prices and.
high freights to Europe.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
HOW TO AVOID
bACKACHE and
NERVOUSNESS
Told by Mrs. Lynch From
Own Experience.

Providence, r. I.-"I was all run
down in health, was nervous, had head
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

For true blue, use Red Cross Ball
Blue. Snowy-white clothes will be
sure to result. Try it and you will al
ways use 1t. ALI good grocers have it.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

Rather Hard.
rs young Mr.. Daft such a fool as
he looks"
mo, indeed. More so.s
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
Net Excused.

Artte-Oh! Excuse me, did 1 step
on your foot again?
Gertie-I couldn't say. I did not
know you wer off yet.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

Accept california Syrup Of Figs
only-look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and most harm,
less laxative or phEsic forthe little
stomach, liver and bowels. Children
love its delicious fruity taste. Full
directions for child's dose on each bot.
tie. Give 1t without fear.
Mother! You must say California"
ADV.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

It's d good thing TO be proud iof your
work hIlt poor tnste TO brag about i.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16

Described.
PA, what is the wisdom Of the
ages"
TITS what the average young fellow
about nineteen years old thinks he
possesses"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
Let Nation Give Pensions.

eTo be continued, next week.)
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-16
The TWICE
By M. INGRAM

rouncings. Suppose a man should live
so or 40 years rs an lnkampt mad
~ in 2 lost village--:nsane men were
said to be long liVed-woUi1 not such
a man I've done better to refuse food
and die while his last remnant of san
1ty remained? Yes-but how know
When n stood at that last outpost
of nope? What if one fingered too
long? CIR if one died too soon: lust,
perhaps, as rescue arrived and arrived
too late? Yet what rescue could be
hoped for a condemned, and justly ctn-
demned, convict? Corey Bruce had
killed his man. He never had denied
it he did not pretend to regret it.
But he could not evade the payment.
A great spider ran across his BARE
foot and startled him. He sat up and
saw the dark thing ~retreating as a
moving blotch across the earth floor
ing. The effort to trace the loath-
some creatures course recalled to him
his greatest material desire. How had
he come to forget in his reverie thai
which in reality he most desired? AT
the head of his list should have stood
his eyeglasses. Only one who suffers
ike him from nearsightedness could
conceived the captive's misery of
blurred sight; a misery that had been
his sine the day of his arrest. To be
in a place so repugnant; to hear a
swarming life about him or feel it's
creatures brush past him in the cell
and be unable to see them or judge Of
their quality; to live, as it were, in a
twilight, tortured by violent head
aches-all these had been unwittingly
meted out to the prisoner by the zambo
who had snatched his spectacles from
his nose on the memorable day when
he had been made captive. Bruce
thought of those tortoise shell trimmed
spectacles by day and woke in the
night to long for them.
When he could no longer see the
spider, he fell to specializing as to the
insects method of attaining it's place
in his cell. Had it come from a tree
window? Or had it crawled down the
corridor and under the door? After
all. that hardly mattered; but what
did it now intend by way of a cam
paign? Would it leave him in peace,
or would it remain to run across his
shrinking flesh after nightfall? He
could not know, and he did not like
to imagine. He sighed YEARLY and
returned to his stool and his medita-
ton. But the door to his mental re-
treat was closed; crashed suit, as it
We're, by the shock of MS encounter
with the tarantula.
Bruce sighed heavily. wnas was to
be done now? He could neither dream
awake nor asleep. Think, he did not
dare. He was too apt to remember
that he had spent one year In this
place, and that his sentence was Is.
BY and by the rain ceased, with the
abruptness Of a faucet turned off. Ar
hour later, a thin voice broke the
siIence-the sharp, piping voice Of a
Very old man.
What are you saying, friend?"
II did not speak, denied Br,spe
hoarsely.
He did not or look up to the
door of rough wooden oars beyond
which the speaker stood. He knew it,.
the Little Bald One a prisoner
sometimes privileged to wander about
the place from which he had mot the