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IN THE HALLS OF THE MIGHTY “Some Men Are Born Great. Some Achieve Greatness and Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them." (By Edmund Travis.) Special Dispatch. Austin, Tex., Sept. 10. —One moment. We are about to introduce the “man behind the bat,” the same fellow who “went back to the middle ages” for inspiration and put in an amendment to the penitentiary bill retaining the use of the lash in the penitentiaries — the Hon. W. O. Stamps of Gilmer, Up shur county. Slow music. Aha! Vil- “The Man Bellnd the Bat.” lain! But wait. This is the guilty party all right. Ie insisted on the convicts being licked, and all that, and detailed exactly low many licks they are to get, with a strap so long and so broad. But let’s: take a look at the Stamps bat. It .s more like a paddle. The new bat B to be two feet long and 2 1-2 inches wide, about the same dimensions as father’s razor strop, and Mr. Stamps txsressly stipulates that it is to be apflicd where mother used to land with ler slipper. No whaling on the bare Uek or legs but —well, why* pursue the subject in such detail? Spue Rod, Spoil Child. The acbal truth about this bat bus iness is iiat this sturdy old East Tex an, whoput it up to the house cold that hois a believer in the doctrine of “spare the rod and spoil the child,” don’t Vant to whip the convicts at all. He waits them spanked. If you don’t believ this read the amendment which he cfered and which was adopteL Here is the way Stamps looks at it: ‘“lie convict is the bad boy of so ciety therefore spank him. Why spank yourown/boy when he is bad and re- CATARRH A SYSTEMIC BLOOD DISEASE Catarrh is not merely an affection •f the mucous membranes; it is a deep-seated blood disease in which the entire circulation and greater part of the system are involved. It is more commonly manifested in the head, nose and throat, because of the sensi tive nature of these membranes, and also because they are more easily nached by irritating influences from Ee outside. 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What Is to Be Done. “What,” said Mr. Stamps, in the course of his argument on the bat question, “are you going to do when -a convict balks and won’t work and you know and he knows that it is ille gal for you to whip him?” He also asked that the legislators not be carried off their feet by this wave of reform now sweeping the state. That penitentiary bill brought out a variety of funny things. One of them was this debate over the strap. Look ing back at the row it seems like the gentleman from Upshur was not far wrong when he suggested that reform was running away with the legislature. One section of the pen bill had a clause providing for schools and religious services for prisoners, including the teaching of music. This prompted Mr. Bell to insist that convicts work at least half a day every week and not be compelled to attend school more than five days a week, so they would not think the penitentiary an eduea tional institution. The original bill would have made life happy for those poor convicts. They would have been treated so well that the penitentiary might have become a popular resort. It was proposed not to allow them to be worked more than nine hours per day in inclement weather, to give them lighter work inside tjte walls, with a small daily compensation and no fear of being whipped, besides a chance to he educated in several important . branches of study. Some of these features remained in the bill and ,it . cannot be doubted they are good ones, I but thanks to Mr. Stamps those pris loners will get spanked if they don’t | Has Been There Himself. It is presumed, from his remarks on corporal punishment, that Stamps, as a boy, was no stranger to the ministra tions of the maternal slipper or pater nal hand. Assuming this to be correct, he was not hurt thereby and after a busy life is now a sturdy, white-haired old citizen, intensely practical, and with a personality that inspires confi dence. Stamps jaay be mistaken, but he is always honest. Incidentally, the gentleman from Up shur has shown that statesmanship and molasses can be mixed to considerable advantage. Tn private life the legis lator is a “lasses” maker, and, with his sons, owns a plant at Gilmer that turns out Texas molasses and sugar in large quantities. East Texas has known this molasses for some time, but Austin got acquainted with it when Stamps was elected to the Thirty-first legislature. The practical statesm.ni brought several hundred jugs along with him when he came up to the capi tal and sold them in his spare time. Some of that legislative ‘molasses is still extant in the households of this city. And it is pretty good molasses. He Wears Suspenders. Mr. Stamps has served on several im portant committees during his legisla five service, the most important prob ably being the penitentiary investigat ing committee. He was one of the au thors of the pen reform bill and has been a strong man in the house throughout the regular and called sea sions of the Thirty-first legislature. He wears suspenders and smokes a cob pipe, which stamps him a proletarian. Whenever he takes the floor it is in his shirt sleeves and he works as hard on legislative measures as on coaxing the “lasses” out of sorghum cane back in East Texas. head, goes down to the bottom of the trouble and makes a complete and lasting cure by PURIFYING the blood. Then the inflamed Austin, Tex., Sept. 10. —Mrs. H. V. Robinson and children are guests of the former’s mother, Mrs. Fannie Ken nedy, in Bastrop. Mrs. S. K. Seymour and children have returned to their home in Colum bus. Miss Nellie Clopton of Elgin, was a visitor in Austin last week. Miss Dill is visiting in Edna, the I guest of her sister, Mrs. Geo. S. Gayle. Miss Beulah Smith is the guest f El gin friends! Mrs. Martha O. Brackenridge is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. 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