| Show 1 liffert of f imprisonment on the llie iliad to the ordinary mind full fall of busy schemes and plans for future good in the many active and fruitful years which people are so BO sure sora remain to them the condition of one condemned to die i e a at t t the ho hands bands of the law is in c conceivable tool c e iv n b i 9 to the sick of times the restraint which cornea comes from ther own weakness the irksomeness of inactivity is harder to bear than all the agonies of pain and disease this thi is ia but bat the beginning with the prisoner withdrawn from all th the 0 i interests a ter of the world having no longer any part in humanity destined destin sd at a fixed hour to have the poor remnants of his bis palo pale and shadowy ii life fo choked out of him at the hands of the race of which he was once a part he mu must t count the days and hours that remain to to him till that agonizing moment when he be shall before the unpitying eyes of tho the community he has wronged writhe out that wretched existence to which lie he yet as an ani mat mal clings all crime probably has an element of insanity in it there is ia something abnormal and snood there i ia 9 no konsti seme ot of proportion no idea of values all things are neon boon through a refracting medi U urn 9 which strangely distorts and fal allies them but under the strain of prison life the sanest banest mind cannot I 1 long ng retain its tone Ante american rican H maga aaa zine |
