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Show funds for dolls uuil toys to coax tho li !l(!.lliniii(H into school, confessing li thf columns of thai interesting journal thai they oven pay tho parents to a. low their children to come and l taught, rather than have the poor hiii, grow uji in ignorance. And, on the other hand, in Hie mean time, in our own beloved South Cam lina, nearly oiiP-lialf I ho popu.atioi over 10 years of ago nr not read. In Louisiana, Ala bama. Georgia and Mississippi fron 40 to S3 pin- cent of those, millions ar. as unlettered as the Hindu peasant, a superstitions as the Chinese, as 1111 washed as the Cossack and as ready t use the knife and pistol as the semi-sav age of Corsica. And this is a country where "we hold it to be a self-evident trill li that all met al'J created equal." O tcmpom, C mores: What chance lias the southern con vicl had for a "pursuit of happiness?' Whatmeaning ha "life and liberty' tor the dead mind of the passion-cn Siavcd illiterate, surrounded from birth with a stone wall of ignorance and prejudice? Oh! most deeply shadowet' American pot. e m'st thou afford to de nounuo tlio black of the Rnsiiau kettle? WH.TY IN' CONVICT CAMPS. He Nlhcria In I nele Hum's Do- peaks well for the generous iin- ul the Americans that massing mass-ing are called and petition) eirou-lo eirou-lo protest against cruelty to prison pris-on Kiis-ia. while this svm-t'- interest in a little talked of is attake, is it not now appropri. wbserves a Boston Transcript flto ask, if the e.af is to bo held msililti for cruelties committed on 'inn convict, whom shall bo held usibic foisiiniliiriTiiolties inflicted r far-away to ithern prisons? -I'l'i-taiiilv a question that can not i longer bj evaded, lor. already mil stories concerning tlntreat-"I tlntreat-"I our convicts are ncMvely eir-H eir-H throughout ICirope, founded Anierieau rtieial reports. In-;'.!'! In-;'.!'! gone so far that in a' work irNMis mid Prison llisuipline." I'ub.isheil by a proinine.iit for-alter for-alter limiting troin these re-il'mients re-il'mients which have not boon the author acluallv concludes, 1 T'iii niMiil.s many missionaries to , l Africa. Hut lhre is u vast! "' "Hwr in many of her own t ites '.vi'inoval of tlue. liorriblo prison l these jails in ValtU-uliir I'Plieil tin. wordsof King Oscar wwleii: In truth heathenism ls "nii'h l.ottei- within prisons, "iwnsdistaut tribes u-l.o rtrn hHII are shut up in strong stockades, guarded bv bloodhounds and by watchmen watch-men parading around, armd with revolvers,,- which they freely use with deadly effect in cases of attempts to escape." es-cape." Atone place near North Carolina, Caro-lina, -140 di'd within two years, anil nine were killed trying to escape. In Texas, out of 2'.'l deaths iu ten years, eighteen were killed outright. By all means let us have the electric light of pulilie criticism turned upon the d irk corners, even to the uttermost parts of the earth. . Hut shall we make ourselves known as the Jellabys of the civilized world, whose own national Imuish is at sies and sevens, while wo are laboring to reconstruct all the rest of creation? If wo meet to publicly reprove the czar, have we no message to send to the governors of those states which rival Siberia? Is it not us pitliotic to read of a prisoner shutdown under a burning sun ' for goin out of lino to get waler as of oonvii t s killed in a land of ice and snow? Have we nothing noth-ing to say of that infamous cstahl's'i-meiit. cstahl's'i-meiit. so deadly in its effects that it has been known for many long years under the common life of "Tim Death Hole of Kentucky?" Verily we need not go abroad to liiid sentences of imprisonment imprison-ment changed by ignorant iir brutal kfepura to sentences of painfully l'nger-lug l'nger-lug death, nor lo hnar the counterpart of the. suffering Russian g sigh. ''God ate of natiit-u. " , 'I'miivictciimpsof i.ur'Aiiioricii tlil women niV confined -in lulsin) pns xvilh il Uordo of ninmns who ,roftWt'jiothiii Itaueii.V Truly l!ls ;.il bedl '"'i1:1' c"11 bo 110 itndoly .Will ' .'' 'iHmusibio .Hiuiusrf-it.i!.; 'K'o ortvhitivmnli' H'm m mii.Vi c'li.miu uji ,.n,)lnv -s w, '-imirdsMv-hitdr okiinti t '; Wiuies of uoiiv.iou. which lias f ',;,;7 for cluldhood iior ilro, ; , .' '- weaker' sc.x.V. ' If'i . !" ''"'""' t-ihips iliiit eon- h, , T,kei !in,l whiiijitMl until iwlileudin their tlWs; It 7e"Hy iidmitte.l llmt in re-.,, re-.,, '"I'Piiik, "blm-k mid white. "" w"'neii, l,;lve . been treated ;3T ."'P'n-ls timf Tonnowo world 11. self-convictoit .:. kl11'"!? convicts off iLttheen- is ii heaven and tliu cmporoi- lar uay."r' A looi'. ignontnt woman. in deorgui. oulfttgeouslv punished for Some offense biirii '.of destitution and itnoraniw. Js not tip picliiresgue an ohjiicU ii we I-lmrii I-lmrii and educlvtod womlin in Kiissia who eiminiits treason prkatti;mpts ussas-sinaVioh. ussas-sinaVioh. but fltill it iloet not sound well to-hear the;, world talking about American Ameri-can lirutality to eft'n ;lgiMimnt convn wblneu, ov of. ffuldMll locked up at Intliil labor in seminaries of -vice, or or niitle eonviets dmiberalelV beaten or Avoi'kel and started to -death. VVe wAihl not liku'tiie civilred world to know of the discoveries made a month or two ftgo in regakl to the kin. ot food force I upon convicts in Kentucky. And as we draw tip our reolut ions, wondering thai the nobles of 11 issia do not rise tip to reform their prison system, sys-tem, do not let 111 forget that, Kugland thus likewise wonders at hearing m) sound of popular: protest from the American nobility against the bono , I wil hin our own gates. It may maki s mnrn charitable to Kussia to remembei :.;e,,,i" r.,ll!! ot M7 per 1000. ,"l7'1 r. is in a country whose .,, rate has never been U u!' ' ui 1000. MppL w are toltl. these oeatiircs "are worked with .''''Minder tho old slave-, slave-, 7 time, not only with '''Uith a double-bamded l mght they ui-3 huddled 4. ,;! women hi a- log ' . elose. ,llu f0l1 witr, "in l .?1"1-, T'i-nights, their ";lr,iiysof sickness are ,. .tf, ,l:lVk holes of w,-etchcd. ;,.! I'-almied in food, poorly rfe.. 1 f,,m) 'lnn until dark l iU.','1 V1"1 eontinuallv under .tla. ii.g d(,,,,.lsif,g ;. ' 'tin I, " 'lo ,,ot die serve out "ls sl 'S.tr,S'-pni,icill,t faut tbat mi'iiii ' '''""ers are put to as u gPU )ignt p,,,,,,!, t0 M?'rl ,"ll,10l''inotes from the ': i,ni1(; J- ii-!flilhs, (who vis-: vis-: , In l"'iwns) that "In one ..vs ;s"'ent in (Jeorgia, two ars V lml "nder sentence T'a,.r stealing a Iwx of ci-!a(i-..; ' 1,1 association with ."iwchanu tera. In these Niiltntiery inadeiiiate atten-is. atten-is. . ,le separations cve of At night convicts that Wilkes Booth and Agnes h. n. are ever held in scant esteem m n own land; that such prop he s lind t uur honor alrtoad-if they tmd it anyw here, nd we might also do well to remeni be that our chief ruler shows no sign of either knowing ornng hat golw on amongst cnmmals m the w .Ids of Georgia. , While on "public rebukes ' and on missionaries and our "million lm s slons" abroad- ke se raph.m nd H h . ubim-continually do fly. the t, side world is wagging its tongue over the "frightful illiteracy mous amount of crime -''f J " tives in I he southern part of the Lml a a States " A Jaanese hUtoriH.i is w ar..- kin.lly people (see ine n i |