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Echoes From the Outside
(Continued from page two)
-—We received another new boy this
week A. J. Clark from Albany, Ga.
From a Boy In College
—Dr. J. A. Price came out this week
and vaccinated some new boys which
came in late.
—The boys that were helping Sur
veyor Stanley have had to stop on ac
count of rain.
—Mr. J. J. Nolon has had a squad of
boys tamping the yards as it has been
to wet to# plow.
Dear Mr. Lovvorn :
I take pleasure in writing you
for the first time since my release.
I wanted ro first make sure that I
j was making good, and 1 now feel
■ justified to say that so far 1 have
j proved a success in every way
j since my departure from the G. S.
1 R. to my old home in Columbus,
I Ga.
—The new fence for the barnyard is
finished and it looks a lot better than
the other one did.
—Judge R. E. Davison one of the
Prison Commissioners paid the insti
tution a visit this week.
—John Sheffield,was paroled out to
his home in Wayne Co. this week and
we hope he will make good.
—It has been raining so that the
plow squad could not work, and the
mules have been in the pasture.
—The boys received a wagon load of
peaches and watermelons last Sunday
which they appreicete very much.
—We received a visit from Superint
endent J. M. Burke, and Mr. J. L.
Satterfield both of the State Farm last
Tuesday.
—Mr. L. C. Hall one of #ur Sunday
School teachers accompanied by Mr.
Shivars of Eatonton, paid us a visit
this week.
—Mr. E. B. Cochran has had a squad
of boys patching the holes in the walls
and floors where the pipes of the
plumbing went through.
—The new dormitory will be ready
for the boys to move in just as soon as
the new screens come, and the boys
are wanting them to hurry and come.
We received a lot window glass to
replace the brokens windows, and
the boys went right to work putting
them in, and hope to have the job
finished this week.
Soon after leaving there I entered
—— College here at —G«i. In the
fall of 1915, and was assigned to
the first academic class, but by
hard toil and study L made a mid
term promotion and then made my
finals alright; and I am proud to
say that I will be in the junior
class at the opening of the next term
in September.
I now look at getting an educa
tion with a reason and with both
ryes open, and feel that 1. only a
boy of seventeen, with the many
opportunities before me, I can do
something for my state and country
by trying always to do my best.
From the time of my release until
now I have tried to look upon the
pathway of life, of this enlightened
20th century, with better hopes in
\iew and store for me. And my
greatest ambition is to be, some
day, superintendent of the in
stitution that once held me as a
prisoner. 1 want to show and prove
to the people of Georgia that l am
not such a desperate boy after all ;
and I like your advice, and will
abide by it, whatever you think
best.
I want the people to know that
the G. S. R. has done me more
good than harm. It learned me to
look out on the broad expanse of
the future, and be a somebody
instead of a ne’er well. As the old
—The boys that received boxes from
home last week are Albert Cook, Sherry
Corley, Randolph Bowles, Bill Salters,
Weston Bryan, Will Howell, Ernest
Brown, Lucius Roberts, Julius Starnes,
Horace Cato.
—Mr. C. A. Herndon the expert
plumber from Macon, has been pro
gressing very well and expects to
finish by the end of this week. Then
we will be ready to move in the new
building as soon as the windows are
put in.
adage goes, “A stitch in time saves
nine,” and I feel that staying there
twelve months may have saved me
nine times twelve in some state
prison. A man or boy never learns
anything until he has had the ex
perience. When his better nature
is asleep experience wakes him up.
Thanking you for any advice at
any time, 1 will close, wishing you
much success in the future, 1 remain.
Your friend.
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P. S. Please send me a copy of
the Future Citizen and also I would
appreciate it if you w’ll handle
this in such a way that it -will not
be known up here that I have been
an inmate there, and also take care
of that in all correspondence with
me while 1 am here. It might not
hurt for the people to know, but
then again it might not be best.
P. W.
It Pays To Be Good
1 have lived a long time in this
valley of tears, and my head has
been whitened by hurrying years;
I’ve sized up the world as 1 toddled
along. I’ve sampled the right and
I’ve sampled the wrong; 1 have
herded with goals and I’ve frolick
ed with sheep, I have learned how
to laugh, and I’ve learned how to
weep; 1 have loafed, I have dream
ed, 1 have whacked up some wood,
and I’m sure of this fact, that it
pay® to be good. Whene'er I do
wrong with malicious intent, then
1 feel for awhile like a counterfeit
cent ; 1 would swap myself off for
a watch made of brass, 1 haven’t
the courage to look, in the glass.
But when I do right, then how
chesty I feel! 1 feel that a feather
is placed in mv hood, and l guess 1
am right for, it pays to be good.
Oh, what are the tilings of par
ticular worth? And what are the
prizes we gain upon earth? They
are the gems that go cliekly-clank,
they are not the bundles we have
in the bank. Respect of our neigh
bors, the love of our friends, some
credit up there where the firmament
blends—these things are guerdeti
for which we should strive, they
give us an object in being alive.
And you’ll never gain them, as
gain them you should, unless you
believe that it pays to be good.
—W\lt Mason.
The two most precious things on
this side of the grave are our rep
utation and our life. Hut it is to be
lamented that the most contempt
ible whisper may deprive us of the
one. and the weakest weapon ot
the other. A wise, man therelore,
will be more anxious to deserve a
fair name than to possess ii, and
this will teach him so to live as
not to be afraid to die.
—C. C. Colton.
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