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cheaper than most any
body. If you don’t be
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I am using trading
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You don’t have to trade
$25.00 before they are
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wards.
As to my prices, they
stand single and alone-*-
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Money talks, and talks
loud at my store.
I have on hand too
much tobacco, soda,
cheese, pepper, crockery,
etc.
I would like to buy a
few thousand Schnapps
and Early Bird tags.
Jim Reeves
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An Hour at the Federal Prison.
Written for tin- Nkw*~Oazkttk.
To visit Atlanta and not see
the Federal Prison (one always
uses capital letters after seeing it)
is to miss a most enjoyable revela
tion. It is worth one’s time and
money to visit Atlanta just to
see the prison and h*arn something
of the life of its inmates.
If you have any doubt as to how
a visitor will be received just place
yourself under the care of Capt. J.
15. Webb and Capt Geo. 11. Mar
vin, both officers of the prison,
and you will see how charmingly
Uncle Sam’s officers treat every
citizen of this mighty republic.
A visitor, having passed the iron
bars at theentrnaee, is first usher
ed into Captain Webb’s office and
required to register. In attend
ance upon this most courteous
officer, is a youthful convict whose
graceful and dignified manner, in
designating the desk at which to
register, the putting aside of each
visitor’s umbrella, and, when ne
cessary relieving ladies of heavy
wraps, not only reflected most
favorably upon the daily associa
tion with his officer in the office,
but elicits many questions from
lady visitors, who learn from the
ever smiling Captain Webb, that
the youthful and rather good look
ing prisoner was a Virginian wlw>
had interfered with Uncle Sam’s
mail.
“Alas,” remarked a young lady
to her companion, “who knows
but that the unfortunate young
man may be the scion of some F.
F. V.”
In showing visitors through the
building and pointing out and
explaining everything of interest
Capt. Marvin displays as much
interest and patience as if he per
formed this task but once a year,
instead of, as 1 heard, often forty
times a day.
In an article like this only the
briefest mention can be made of
any particular. The thing that first
impresses a visitor is the building.
The impression that remains is
flic unwavering politeness of the
officers, whcfreQOive you and con
duct you into every department.
The spacious dining room. with
its eighty-four tables, of highly
polished oak, about twelve by two
feet, with elmirs attached along
the hack of each table, similar
in design to the Yietor school desk,
is an object of unusual interest.
Upon each table is seen six tin
plates and six tin cups, pain tod
white, with steel knives and forks
and glass salt canisters. The im
muculate cleanliness of this room
is wonderful. The kitchen, with
ith several cooks, convicts of
course, its gigantic copper cauld
rons, immense cotVee boilers, its
range, so largixasto be unrecogni
zable as such, its hush chopper, a
wonder within itself, and the two
huge water tanks, is it not a thing
of beauty, at least an object of
,wonder. The oven for baking
bread is large enough for a com
fortable sized bed-room, and the
ingenuity of its conveniences, such
as a register for testing the tem
perature of the oven, the upper
door for viewing the top only of
the bread, the many divisions of
the adjoining cupboard that re
ceives, daily, about a hundred
loaves near half a yard long all
attest the wonderful ingenuity of
the present age. The bread was
cut by a sword-like knife and Cap
tain Marvin gave each one of the
throng of visitors, an opportunity
of ascertaining that it. was most
excellent bread. They were told
that the prisoners had daily, most
excellent steak, roast, rice, soup
and once daily, coffee and butter.
The “store” and tailor shop
contained boxes of shoes, suspend
ers, sox. stacks of blankets and
sheet ing and many bolts of a gray
cloth. The last is used for uniforms
for those whose good behavior
relieves them of the stripes. The
wearers of these graw clothes are
those who have attained to the
the third and highest grade. In
this department all the clothes
for the prison inmates, including
uniforms for the officers, are
made.
The laundry with its wringers
is a revelation,, the “dryers”
being the objects of greatest won
der. These dryers are tin frames
about six by seven feet, with five
or six rungs, to each frame, upon
which the wet clothes are hung.
Each frame is then slided(expies
sive if not elegant terms are these)
into grooves in the brick walls
just wide enough and deep enough
to receive them. In thirty-five
minutes the frames or dryers are
drawn out, and —presto! The
clothes are dry. Near by stands
an array of pigeon holes (similar
to those in the* office desk) each
about two feet square and each
marked with a different number.
This is the prison wardrobe. Into
each one is placed a suit of uu-
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derwear marked with the corres
ponding number of the pigeon
hole. The only garment worthy
of special notice is the red figured
cotton handkerchief that lay on
toj) of each pile of clothing. I
noticed that the more refined look
ing convicts wore a similar arti
cle about the neck in lieu of collar
and tie. Is it force of habit, to
enhance as best they may, their
personal appearance, or an hered
itary instinct, transmitted through
many generations, that makes
them cling to this show of neat
ness?
The bath rooms are a succession
of doorless stalls with the shower
bath sprinkler hanging above and
a round perforated sink beneath.
Brown towels hang at every en
trance and bars of soap, seeming
ly a nice article, are placed on
benches at the entrance to each
stall.
Cleanliness, cleanliness every
where, and if that comes next to
Godliness, why then many a con
vict must become a better man
than he would have been left to
the hardships of a life of poverty
out side the prison.
The hosital with its white iron
beds, neat dining table covered
with white cloth, portable, porce
lain lined bath-tubs is in keeping
with every department of this
wonderful building. There are
separate wards for consumptive
and those having contagious dis
eases. At present there is but
one patient in the hospital and
was brought iu today.
There is a well equipped dispen
pensary with an everpresent phy
sician, an armory, the office for
carrying into effect the Bertillon
system of measuring and photo
graphing each prisoner, and long
rows of cells where the prisoners
sleep. There are long corridors
in which the convicts are required
to exercise, and while watching
them we were told that the Indian
prisoners might be recognized as
they invariably walked pigeon
toed. I was at first, disposed to
take this as a jest, as it was at
variance with my idea of the
st at ely t read of this grand, gloomy
and peculiar child of the forest as
depicted by Fennimore Cooper to
my youthful fancy, but observa
tion led me to know that it was
not a joke.
The chapel is a large and rest
ful looking apartment. It con
tains the most comfortable opera
chairs and an organ, and has a
rostrum that reaches entirely
across one end of the broad room.
We were told that religious ser
vices are held every Sunday, and
that there is a religious organiza
tion among the prisoners similar
to the Epworth League. On Sun
day the prisoners are led by a
choir composed of some of the
convicts. The wife of one of the
officers plays the organ, thus but
evidencing the fact that woman is
always to be found where the sor
rowing needs her sympathy.
Were it not for the stripes and
iron bars, this prison life could
easily be mistaken for some home
school, where system and discip
line are stressed. The prisoners
are allowed to write home once
a week and to receive letters—
all mail of course undergoes the
warden’s inspection. At night
they are permitted, for a certain
time, to read papers and maga
zines. At all hours a chaplain is
present in the building to admin
ister, if needed, spiritual com
fort. liarring the humiliation to
pride, and every prisoner does not
suffer from this, and the depriva
tion of out-door liberty, there is
no borrow, no disagreeable thought
of physical or spiritual pain to be
associated with the life of the in
mates, but only a most peaceful
and serene life of retirement is
suggested. To many, the comforts
of this place are far beyond any
thing they ever experienced, and
environments are, doubtless, to
many wretched creatures a delight
ful and wonderful revelation as
well as elevation. The visitors
mind soon becomes divested of
any sentimental pity or mawkish
idea of cruel unjustice being dealt
out to .human creatures. For the
depraved it is a blessing to be sent
to such a place. For those whose
crime arouses our sympathy, that
they must share the fate of the
more depraved, every one who
studies prison life as evidenced
here, must be convinced that to
even the victim of one offence,
there could be no system more
merciful, no place more perfectly
conducted where a criminal can
expiate, in accordance with the
law, the crime he has committed.
1 want to say just here, that
out of, perhaps, more than a hun
dred criminals of whom I had a
hasty view, not more than two
had the face of the typical crimi
nal, with whose likeness we are
familiar by newspapers or novel
tists description. On the contrary,
we saw some most pleasant faces,
and two or three handsome speci
mens of mankind. As we caught
a passing glimpse of the bestlook
! ing specimens, and they did have
j good faces, a thousand thoughts
| sprang up. Were these once the
fond pride of some loving mother
or wife? Was it their first crime
and was it done under the pressure
1 of circumstances under which the
best, if assailed by like tempta
tion, would fall? Was it done
that some dear one might be
avenged, or some dear one render
ed happier—a mother, a sister or
a dearer one perhaps?
' Here they lose their identity,
I are never once called by their
names, but by numbers only, and
if they die here or after given their
' liberty that number passes away
with them never again to be used
! in this prison.
| Within these walls tradegy (in
thought if not in deed) is blended
with comedy, for I learn that one
of the officers so far as confine
ment in prison walls is concerned,
is as much a stranger to out-door
liberty as a convict, since he must
always be on duty except during
the hours when he is compelled to
sleep. In other words to hold his
job he must give up his freedom —
comedy and tragedy?
Well, when this prison loses such
attentive officials as Captain Mar
vin and Captain Webb, the pris
oners as well as visitors will regret
the necessity that moves such ef
ficient officers, and in the mean
time let me end this as I began it,
by saying that everybody who
wishes to look over an unread
chapter from life ought to visit
the Federal Prison.
Cosmopolite.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo \
Lucas County )
Frank ,T. Cheney makes oath that he
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City of Toledo, County and State afore
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s
Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of Decem
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. A. W. GLAESON,
■ seal J Notary Public.
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It is better for a woman to be
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Some men plan so carefully
about heir pleasures that they
swear off drinking just for the fun
of being able to swear on again.
The man who speaks of “my
lawyers” is generally the one who
asks him a question casually when
they are riding down town in a
street ear in the hope of getting
legal advice without having to
pay for it.
Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has
just been photographed for the
first time in twenty years. The
governor is not eccentric, but old
fashioned and extremely modest.
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