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Show HURTS POOR MAN'S FEELINGS. Indianapolis Star. Down In Alabama the law requires a wlfe-beater either to work In the coal mines or on the streets. A well-to-do white citizen of Decatur, who had a habit of knocking his wife down and kicking her, is now serving a term of thirty days- with a street-cleaning gang of white and negro convicts. Perhaps this Is quite as suitable and effective a punishment .is whipping would be, but the same objection ralBed by sentimentalists senti-mentalists to the whipping post exists In this case tho poor man's feelings will be fatally hurt! |