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IntHrufttinc; Information.
TIIll following interesting in
form:! tlon is tal.en from the
recent article entitlefl "Road
Building with Convict Labor
in the Southern States," by Professor
T J. A. Ilolmos, and will he of interest to
those interested in the good roads
movement:
Portable prisons on wheels are novel
ties which are now in use 111 several
localities. Those movable jails appear
to solve the problem of preventing the
escape of convicts employed at great
distances from their prison proper. In
exterior appearances they are freight
ynr bodies provided with barred win
dows and mounted upon wagon trucks.
As the road improvement progresses
they are drawn forward by horses and
collected in some convenient grove or
open Held, selected as the temporary
prison camp. Morning and evening the
convicts are marched along the road
from and to their quarters. To facil
itate their being safely guarded
1 during the night without too great risk
y and expense, each prisoner, when he
goes to bed, has either one foot or one
hand manacled loosely to a chain or
rod from which he can be easily re
leased the following morning.
Tiers of bunks inside comprise the
sleeping quarters. These are easily
and cheaply made comfortable. Ample
ventilation Is afforded In summer and
during the eold months there Is a stove
In each ear.
One of these portable prisons, which
can be disjointed and transported In
sections, is in nse on the public roads of
North Carolina. One of these movable
jails can be lengthened to accommo
date fifty convicts. Its sides and ends
arc of hoards bolted together in sec
tions. The roof, of corrugated iron, is
also in sections. Large tents are used
i In States.
I Womeu prisoners do the cooking and
A washing of some migratory camps.
This work is usually done, however,
by trusty male convicts, nud in some
cases it Is performed by hired labor.
The younger prisoners arc usually as
signed to such tasks as the carrying of
water or the running of errands.
A ball and chain are attached to con
victs who show a desire to escape.
While these encumbrances make it im
possible for a prisoner to run rapidly,
they do not seriously hamper his move
ments during the regular road work.
Critics of the convict system of road
building say that It offers too many
opportunities for the escape of prison
ers; as a matter of fact, however, the
annual escapes amotiuL to less than
two men out of each hundred. Almost
HOfl counties, representing ten States,
employ convict labor upon their roads.
This furnishes an army of 4377 road
'Builders, each of whom costs Ills State
Tthirty-three and one-half cents a day.
Wore he left in the county jail lie
would cost one and one-half cents more
a day. Hence he la a cheaper article
tolling upon the roads than languishing
In a cell or jail yard. All told, the cos:
of convict latior in these States ranges
from one-third 10 one-half that of hired
labor employed in the same work.
The Southern States employing con
vict road builders are Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina. South Carolina. Ten
nessee, Texas and Virginia. In :lie
two Carolinas and Georgia such a per
fection of systems Is reached that large
camps arc operated at cost of only
twenty to thirty cents per convict 1 -r
day. Provisions are purchased for tile
prison camps at wholesale at conip .i
--live rates; the convicts do their on
cooking aud washing. Owing to Ihe
■Usually good sanitation of the cm pa
"and the benefits of exercise to the p is
ti'iers. the cost of medical attention is
almost, nothing.
Another virtue of the system is that
the prisoners, after injuring their c< ai
nmnitles by the commission ol tli
crimes, and after adding to its fiiiun; ial
burdens by incurring expense for tla-ir i
capture, conviction and punishment,
nre put in a position to benefit that
community. Having served an nppr. n
tieeship in the handliug of road bull
ing machinery the convict leav, <
prison with a training which enalps
him to earn a better living than he
probably made before.
Only prisoners convicted of 111 into
meanors can be assigned to work <ei
the public roads of Virginia, West Vir
ginia, Kentucky. Tennessee, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Texas, Florida and Geor
gia. The terms of such convicts do
pot usually exceed one year. In A!:t-
all able bodied ,male prisoners
whoso terms do not exceed two yea
may be sent to the roads. In Sou b
Carolina the limit is five years and in
North Carolina ten.
An experiment Is now being made in
i some Southern counties In the employ
j ment on the roads of captured, hut 11::-
I convicted prisoners, unable to give
bail. If the prisoner lie acquitted at hi.;
trial he Is paid for his services. If con
victed, his period of labor on the road
is deducted from his term.
Many convicts in the Southern states I
fire employed on farms, in factories or
In mines, being worked under the lea e
c-r contract system, or in sonic ease ;
Under State control.
I California convicts quarry and crush
f stone for use in permament road hull.i
#hg. The cost is half what it would be
fwvith hired labor. Strong stockades
H surround these quarries, also the ce:i-
L vlct quarters. The percentage of
■f capes in 110 larger than that cxperi
ft cnecd in jails proper,
ft There are over 82.000 prisoners in
Blconfinement within tills country. Sev
wfenty-six thousand of these arc men, 13,-
5 #OO white. There are 73,000 Inmates of
alms houses, 11,000 of u liom arc men.
With such a force every county in
every State might develop its highways
to the highest degree of perfection.
The article above referred to on
"Road Building with Convict Labor
in the Southern States" can lie secured
free of cost by application to Professor
J. A. Holmes, Chapel Hill, X. C„ who
is tile Special Agent of the Southern
Division of the oliiee of Road Inquiries
of tlie United State Department of
Agriculture.
An Imagination Staggerer,
j If we could have good roads it would
add more to the value of farm property
than all other public improvements put
together ever have. It would reduce
the cost of getting our crops to market
more than one-hall', and in saving of
feed that is now fed to idle horses, it
would amount to a sum that staggers
the imagination.
A Practical lit, Mill.
Every day that a team remains idle
it is something for which no return
will ever be received. If we had good
roads the teams could be used on the
farm when the ground was in condi
tion and the crops could he hauled tc
market at such times as farm work
could not be prosecuted.
A Itamnrkable Statement.
It has been computed that the aver
age cost of getting crops from the farm
to the railway station is greater than
putting it from the railroad station to
the seaboard.
A Farmer'* Opinion.
"If it were a question of farm wag
ons with narrow tires furnished free
of expense, or such wide tire wagons
as I inn using at my own cost, I should
continue to use the latter."—A Farmer.
Have Wide Tire*.
The very best way to make and keep
good roads is to have wide tired
wagons.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Like the bee, we should make our in
dustry our amusement.—Goldsmith.
If you will not hear reason, she will
surely rap your knuckles.—Poor Rich
ard.
Politeness induces morality. Sere
nity of manner requires serenity of
mind.—Julia Ward Howe.
After so many have coldly repeated
• that vice leads to misery, is there no
generous man who will proclaim aloud
that misery leads to vice?—Landor.
The human race is divided into two
classes—these who go ahead and do
something, and those who sit and in
quire, "Why wasn't it done the other
way?"—O. W. Holmes.
Taken in its widest souse, culture
means preparation for complete living.
Acquisition of fitness for carrying on
the business of life is primarily a duty
to self, and secondarily, a duty to oth
ers.— Herbert Spencer.
The aim for which we give our best
strength is everything, the visible sue
cess is nothing. True faith may be the
greatest, goodness and fidelity at the
highest, when visible success is at the
least.—John Hamilton Thorn.
Men. though never so thickly clad in
dignities, sit not inaccessible to the iu
-11 uonce ol ilieir time; especially men
whose life is business; who at all turns,,
were it even from behind judgment
seats, have come in contact with the
actual workings of the world.—Oarl.vle.
""is certain that the one thing we
wish to know is, where power is to be
bought. Rut we want a finer kind
than that of commerce, and every rea
. enable man would give any price of
house and land and future provision
for condensation, concentration and
the recalling at will of high mental en
ergy. Our money is only a second
hesr. We would jump to buy power
wiih it, that Is. intellectual perception
moving the will. That is first best.
Rut w. don't know where the shop is.
—l'mersoD.
Kritlitl Maperntltimin.
Many and curious arc the customs re
garding brides. In {Switzerland the
b.ide on her wedding day will permit
no one, not even her parents, to kiss
her upon the lips. In parts of rural
ten gland the cook pouts hot water over
the threshold after the bridal couple
go, in order to keep it warm for an
other bride. Tbe* pret.y custom of
i browing the slipper originated in
France. Ail old woman seeing the car
riage of her y< ting king Louis XIII.—
passing on the way from church, where
he had just been married, took off her
shoe, and. Tinging it his coach, cried
out, " 'Tis all 1 have. Your Majesty,
but may tbe blessing of God go with
it." There is an old superstition in
G< rmany against marriages In May. *A
favorite wedding day In .Scotland is
December 31. so that the young people
can leave their old life with the old
year and begin their married life with
the new one. The Italians permit no wed
ding gifts that are sharp pointed, con
nected with which practice is our su
perstition that the gift of a knife sev
ers friendship. One beautiful marriage
custom is that of .the bride, immediate
ly after tlit* cerem -ny, Hinging her bou
j pi. t anions her maiden friends. She
| who catches it is destined to be the
next bride.—London Globe..
Parcel Currying.
For many years the endless-belt
; method of carrying merchandise front
I place to place in large buildings has
been in use and the system has worked
well. Its place, however, is being
rapidly taken by the telepherage sys
tem, in which, on an overhead wire,
merchandise may he carried suspended,
with electricity as the motive power.
One of the uses of telepherage, which
appeals to everybody, is in railway
stations for carrying baggage.—Balti
more Eun.
Young girls at i \
this period of life, /]r • # \
or their mothers, \J : f \ I
are earnestly in- 1 '
vited to write Mrs. JB
Pinkham for advice; all such letters are
strictly confidential; she has guided in a
motherly way hundreds of young women;
and her advice is freely and cheerfully given.
School days aro danger days for American girls.
Often physical collapse follows, and it takes years to recover th
lost vitality. Sometimes it is never recovered.
Perhaps they aro not ovcr-carefnl about keeping their feet dry;
through carelessness in this respect the monthly sickness is usually
rendered very severe.
Then begin ailments which should bo removed at once, or they will
Eroduce constant suffering. Headache, faintness, slight vertigo, pains
l the back and loins, irregularity, los 3 of sleep and appetite, a tendency
to avoid the society of others, are symptoms all indicating that woman's
arch-enemy is at hand.
Lydla E. Pinlcliam's Vegetable Compound has helped many a
young girl over this critical period. With it they have gone through
their trials with courage and safety. With its proper use the young
girl is safe from the peculiar dangers of school years and prepared for
hearty womanhood.
A Young Chicago Girl "Studied Too Hard."
"DEAR MK3. PINKHAM :— I wish to thank you for the help and ben
efit I have received through the uso of Lydla E. Pinlcliam's Vege
table Compound and Liver Pills. When I was about seventeen
rgssj-- years old I suddenly seemed to lose my usual good
■f p' benUli and vitality. Father said I studied too
hard, but tlio doctor thought different and
prescribed tonics, which I took by tho
quart without relief. Heading one day in
paper of Mrs. Pinkham's great cures,
and finding the symptoms described an
/ swered mine, I decided I would give Lydla
/ CTv E. Pinlcliam's Vegetable Compound a
• q trial. I did not say a word to the doctor;
j|*P' I bought it myseif, and took it according
(EIKL to directions regularly for two months,
and I foimd that I gradually improved,
WwHPSr y \ and that all pains left me, and I was my
J J ffw JINCE more. LILLIE E. SINCLAIR,
"Miss Pratt Unable to Attend School."
•DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: I feel it my duty to tell all young women
how much Lydia E. Pinlcliam's wonderful Vegetable Compound has
done for me. I was completely run down, unable to attend school, and
did not care for any kind of society, but now I feel like a new person,
and have gained seven pounds of flesh in three months.
u I recommend it to all young women who suffer from female weak
ness." MISS ALMA PRATT, Holly, Mich.
Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the one sure rem
edy to be relied upon at this important period in a young girl's life.
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How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured bv
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENET A CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for tho last 16 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligation made by tboir firm.
WEST A TRCAX Wholesale Druggists, Toledo.
Ohio.
WALDINO, RINNAN A MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, act
ing directly upon tho blood and mucous sur
faces of tho system. Testimonials sonfc free.
Price, 76c. per bottle. Sold bv all Druggists.
Hall'a Familv Pills are the best.
CONGRESSMAN WILBER SAYS
(To Tke Pc-ru-na Mudiclne Co #f of Columbus, 0.)
"Pe-ru-na is All You Claim For It."
Congressman D. F. Wilber, of Oneonta, N. Y., writes:
The Pe runa Medicine CoColumbus, Ohio:
Gentlemen— u Persuaded by a friend I have tried your remedy and
1 have almost fully recovered after the use of a few bottles. 1 am fully
convinced that Peruna is all you claim for it, and 1 cheerfully recom
mend your medicine to all who are afflicted with catarrhal trouble."
Pe-rn-nH k Preventive and Car® for Colds.
Mr. C. F. Given. Sussex, N. 8., Vice-
President of the Pastime Boating Club,
writes:
"Whenever the cold weather sets in I
have for years past been very sure to catch
a severe cold, which was hard to throw
off, and which would leave after-effects
on my constitution the most of the win
ter.
"Last winter I was advised to trv Pe
runa, and within five days the cold was
broken up, and in five days more I was a
well man. I recommended it to several of
my friends, and all speak the highest praise
for it. There Is nothing like Peruna
for catarrhal afflictions. It is well
nigh Infallible as a cure, and, 1
gladly endorse it."—C. F. Given.
A Prominent Singer Saved From Loss of
Voice.
Mr. JulianWeisslitz, 175 Seneca street,
Buffalo, N. Y., is corresponding secretary
of The Sangerlust, of New York; is the
leading second bass of the Sangerlust, the
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David F. Wither.
largest German singing lociety of Nctr
York, and also the oldest.
Ia 1899 The Sangerlust celebrated it*
fiftieth anniversary with a large celebra
tion in New York City. The following ia
hia testimony:
"About two years ago I caught a sever#
cold while traveling, and which settled
into catarr&h of the bronchial tubes, and
so affected my voice that I was obliged
to cancel my engagements. In distress I
was advised to try Parana, and although I
had never used a patent medicine befor#
I sent for a bottle.
"Words but illy describe my surprise to
find that within a few days I was greatly
relieved, and within three weeks I was en
tirely recovered. I am never without it
now, and take an occasional dose when I
feel run down." —Julian Weisslitz.
If you do not derive prompt and satisfac
tory results from the use of l'eruna writ#
at once to Dr. Hartman, givinga full state
ment of your cose and he will be pleased
to give you Ids valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Ilartman, President of Th#
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
7/o INVESTMENT
The Preferred Btock of the
W. L. Douglas s c°. e
Capital Stock, $2,000,000.
51,000,000 Preferred Stock.
$1 ,000,000 Common Stock.
Shares, Sf O O each. Sold at Par.
Onlj Preferred Stock offered for s le.
W. L. Douglas retain; all Common Stock.
The referred Stock of the W. I. Doup'.iis Shoo Com
pany pays lienor than Savings Rank* or (.rivormnent
Kvcry -lobar of a •
demons' ra y*d -tividrnd pay*
IJ nooilyenr wldi (llnndVcwod
nf>, ' , ' p *arT
dividend on the prrfrnrll stock of'SI'.OOC.COO.*"
Tiie annual business now is sr,.Min wo. n ia iricvcartng
very rantiliy, and will equal Jtoouw for tie year u*>.\
I'll- taclory la now tnrn:nc out 7koo pairs of shoes pr
day, and an addition to the plant is lming hmlt which
will increase fho capacity to in.OuO pairs per day.
The reason I am ofTeririit the l'i vie tied Stock lor sal*
Is to perpetuate the business.
It you wish- to invest in the herd shoo btiftintM in thn
world, whn-h is permanent, ami receive 7 per cent on
muii moii'v. von can purchase one share or more in thia
crc.u Imh'iichr. Send money hv cashier's check or certi
flcd check, made payable to \Y. h. Doutrlas. If there
l" no bank in your town, send money by express or
post offh-e money orders.
Prospectus mving full information about this groat
ainl prof l table business sent upon application. Address
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