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MONDAY. MAHCII I". I'.H.'i.
THE CA5E OF CONLIN.
Tin* Kansas < iI> Star i*<*i-<*iilly j
gave an account of lln* lib' "I
William M. dunlin. lb* bad .jus)
been released from I lie stall* pri
son of Missouri at Hie age of (>i.
Forty-one years id' his life were
spent in various prisons.
llis story is a living arraign- ;
meat of the utter stupidity and j
folly of society's method of treat- I
ing wrongdoers. It is not to
his present pitiable condilion, old
and broken, that we call atten
tion. No matter how terrible
the effect upon lln* victim, his
punishment would be justitied if
only it either prevented crime or
cured the criminal, dunlin's rec
ord shows that imprisonment
does neither.
It is not an exceptional case;
it is an average, typical case.
Note what he says of several of
his prison experiences.
He was sentenced to live years’
solitary Confinement in Cherry
Hill penitentiary in Philadelphia.
“I was pul to making brushes,”
he says, “in a cell four by eight
feet in size, and the very brutal
treatment there only hardened me
all the more.”
In the Columbus, Ohio, peni
tentiary he was repeatedly ‘‘duck
ed” and kept for months in “the
black hole” as a refractory pris
oner. T was treated so cruelly
I made up my mind there was
no humanity in man, and 1 came
out more hardened than ever.”
His next prison was in Indiana.
Here he was fed on rotten meat !
and hominy, and frequently beat- |
on with the eat-o’-nine-tails. “I j
have sears on my back that I will |
carry to my grave from the whip- .
jiings I got there."
In the Nebraska penitentiary he.
and 13 other convicts rebelled at
the poor food. For that he was*
tied by his thumbs to a cell door
and compelled to stand therewith
l.is arms above his bead for I i
days.
In the Michigan penitentiary he
refused to do the torturing work
in the mines and was chained for
three months in a dark' cell, on
ly In be carried from thence to
the prison hospital for fear he
would die.
“I have seen men whipped un
til they fainted,” he writes. “I
have seen the guards spit in the
faces of convicts because they
could.not do the tasks allotted to
them by the contractors.”
Every time lie was out of prisg
on he was hounded by the police:
The only friends he could find
were fellow criminals, who led
him into now crimes.
♦ Thus we see a beautiful illus
tration of how the state, after a
boy has done one wrong deed,
forces him into the criminal class,
and by every hellish device con
trives that every spark of good
in him shall be put out. Not one
effort to help and cure.
The whole prison system of
modern society is thoroughly pu
trid.. It has not, one defensible
idea behiip it. It is based up
on ignorance of psychology, ig
norance of political economy, ig
norance of the science of gov
ernment. ignorance of history,
ignorance of human nature, and
,ius| plain every-day ignorance.
“When we send a man to pris
on,” says Pearson's Magazine,
“we punish his family more than
we punish him. He has a place
to sleep, warmth and food. His
innocent family have, neither.
The profits of his work go to tin'
few men who make coni rads for
prison labor.”
William Dean Howells justly
alludes to this nr “Oriental jur
isprudence. by which the inno
cent are made to suffer as much
as possible with the guilty. W hen
a criminal is sent to prison his
family is left to starve, while t.ne
state sets him a thief’s example
by stealing'his wages.”—Seaii It*
Sun.
PRODUCE BLONDE ESQUIMO
IN MOVING PICTURES
New York—Hoping to .wipe otT
Hie nia)) much of the while space
indicating unexplored regions of
(lie north, Yilhjalmar Slefansson,
discoverer of the blode Esquimn,
will start north again in May.
Slefansson and bis cninpan
jniis—eighl or ten picked men of
science—will sail out of Esqui
maux, It. <:., the latter part of
May or early in June on the 2 17
ton steam whaler Karluck, pm*
chased for the expedition by the
Canadian government. The Kar
luck now lies in San Francisco
harbor. During the next ten days
'she will be overhauled and sent
to Esquimaux. She will IIy the
Hrilish Hag. as the entire cost
of the expedition is to be borne
by the Canadian govern.ill. and
will carry a crew of li.
The barken! ine will carry I he
parly as far north as ice-tilled
seas will permil. Under favor
aide conditions they expect in
| September In reach land some
i where in Ihe Reaulorf sea. now
: unexplored. There I hey will es_
ilalilish a base, sending the vessel
•back and remaining for Ihe win
ler. If this plan fails, I he expe
dilion probably will land at Iler—
|schel island, remain there a week
to establish a primary base, re
turn to Prince Patrick land and
'spend Ihe winter either there or
at •Herschel island. In the spring
they will go north. They will re
‘Iurii to civilization in September,
I!)Id. Dr. H. M. Anderson, who
was with Slefansson on his last
trip, will be second in command.
The olliers of I lie parly have not
been selected.
A million square miles ot snow
anil ice north of the North Ameri
can conlinenl and Siberia will be
explored, as far as possible. The
parly is not searching for the
pole; if they find it it will be by
accident, Mr. Stefansson said.
What they want to do is to open
the locked land and seas of the
north.
Stefansson will visit the blonde
Esquimos again and bring them
back to America in moving pic
tures. To bring them back in
the flesh, he says, would be mur
der; they could not survive the
“germs of civilization.” He also
expects to explore the interior of
Victoria Land and define the ex
tent of what he believes to be
the largest and one of the richest
copper countries under the sun.
Hot Cross Buns.
Here is a lest recipe for the
hot cross huns for Easier:
To one cupful of scalded milk
add one-fourth cupful of sugar,
two tablespoonfuls of butter and
one-half t,|aspoonful of salt.
When it is cooled enough not to
hurt the yeast cake—that is,
about lukewarm—add one-half of
a veast cake dissolved in one
fmirth cupful of lukewarm water.
Also add three-fourths of a tea
spoonful f cinnaman and three
cupfuls of (lour and one egg well
beaten.
Mix these well before adding a
half cupful of raisins and cur
rants mixed. The raisins should
be cut up and stoned of course.
Let it rise carefully covered like
any buns or rolls overnight if for
breakfast. In the morning shape
the buns like large biscuits, leav
ing a space of an inch for them
to spread, and let them rise well.
Erusli them over with beaten
egg and bake about twenty min
utes. When cool make a frost
ing into the form of a cross on
the top of each or else cut a cross
in each just before baking and
scatter sugar on when serving
them. A glaze of milk and melt
ed butter can also be used wiped
over with a bit of soft cotton
cloth when they are just ready to
lake from the oven.
-1—
BAT NELSON.
When you look a blushing
bride to the altar, at your side,
it was lime to rpiit the lighting,
itnd such exercise as that, in your
i]tii<*I inglenook you should sil
down with a book, and a pipe and
pair of slippers, like I he other
fellows, Hat. Like a married man
behave, looking reverend and
grave, raising whiskers and po
tatoes in the yard behind your
Hal: talk of bills and gloves and
tilings and forget the glaring
ring's where you won and lost
your laurels, ere you were a
bridegroom. Hill. II is sadden
ing to watch you in public make
a botch of the pastime pugilistic,
for you cannot whip a cal: you
would heller far retire In your
rocking chair and lire, and your
spectacles and slippers and your
cushioned footstool. Hal. When
a man has won a wife lie should
■ 111 it the sporting life if he has
a bunch of money—you’ve1 enough
I o li 11 a lull: he should go I o
feeding hens, or Hie piggies in
the pens, lie should lead a life
domeslic. far from all the lime
light, Hal. If you could pul up
a scrap there would he excuse,
mayhap, bill I he foenian always
soaks you in the larynx, on tlie
slat; so. like other men with
fraus, you had heller milk your
cows, tix the furnace, split the
kindling, and dig up Ihe garden.
Hal. WALT MASON.
Rude Forefathers.
Xi'wly-found neolithic deposits
near Lyons comprise remains
hidden in an oval grotto 17 fecit
Jong anil 10 feet wide. The grot-;
to was discovered h,v men digging
in a quarry. While it contained
human hones, it was not a sep
ulcher. The place was an ossu
ary, used for hones cast out of
sepulchers. The bones were eith
er skulls or from limbs; there
were no other parts of the skele
ton, and nothing was found with
the bones but objects hollowed
out of stones, molds or other
receptacles. Of the I 1 skulls tak
en from the ruins, 12 are dis
tinctly long-headed; the others,
which are short-headed show that
there had been an infiltration of
new blood. The bones were from
a skeleton which, if normal, was
of a height of about five feet. The
skull was regular, the forehead
was rounded and well developed,
the face was short and the orbits
were low and widened transvers
ally. Evidently the men of the
grotto were of the race that oc
cupied the south of France to
ward the end of the paleolithic
period.
The Mystery of 8leep.
II is impossible to give any
precise explanation of the phe
nomenon of sleep. Yet many the
ories have been advanced. Leg
endre has shown by fairly con
clusive arguments that it is due
neither to “brain pallor,'' nor to
intoxication by carbonic, acid, nor
to I he presence of narcotic sub
stances in the blood, theories ihat
have been in turn advanced. Leg
endre intimates his preference for
the view that sleep is not the re
'suit of fatigue, but is an inherit
ed instinct designed to protect
the organism against the i!1 ■•!
feels of fatigue.
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Ironing
To iron economically
you must not waste
heat.
Ironingwith ordinary
flat irons is very waste
ful of heat; most of the
heat goes up the kitchen
chimney; a lot of it is
wasted in charring the
ironing pad and in
scorching the clothes.
Ironing with a
G-E Electric
Flat Iron
is quite different — all the
heat is in the iron, ready to
go into the pieces ironed in
stead of going into the Boom
or up the kitchen chimney.
None of it is wasted.
Touts only the amount of
heat actually needed for
ironing, be it either heavy
damp pieces or laces,
embroidery or other light
goods is real economy.
That’s why G-E Irons are
used in thousands of homes
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II i a fact that Valdez beer is a food and not a tonic.
Ask any doctor you know. Valdez beer aids digestion. Use
it a few times with your meals and you’ll And we're right.
If you drink beer you should use Valdez beer in prefer .‘nee to
others. First, because of its unquestionable high quality.
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