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Show Great Invention - and Diecoverieu Uy THOMAS BR AGO Copyright. JJ N T. Mvenlag WerMl. from Fab. Co. THB aUCrORM PCHOOL, Y'- Tha pioneer Institution for the 'reform 're-form of juvenile delinquents waa founded at Met tray, France. In 1I3. The originator of tha movement waa n retired Parla attorney named Mats, who waa generoualy aaaiated s by the Vloomte Cou reel lea It seems almost Impoeslble thst the world had to wait ao long for some oae to realise tha necessity of such an Institution. . Children are ths "seed porn" of humanity, and It la with mankind as It Is with all other forma of j living balngs'Uka good, like harvest.7 har-vest.7 In n deeper aad more fearful sense than many ara aware, "the child Is father of the man and of all forlorn hope tha for lorn est Is tho attempt to make honorable and useful men and women out of Chil-, dren who ar left to grow up without the lure and Insplratioa of high ethical Ideala. And, yst for unknown ages erlmf- . nelly Inclined young people th world over ware allowed to go on unprovided with moral teaching. Youthful offenders were, to bo sure, puniehsd and oftsa tiroes brutally bru-tally punlshsd; hot no one aeomo to have thought of tho reformation of ths wayward Juvsallea "Crime la crime," thought the' authorities of the otdea time, and young aad old. the hards a ad criminal crimi-nal aad tha youthful delinquent, war treated alike, herded together like eattle In th loath aoma Jails sad la the moot aafeeling maaaor . mads ta feet tha penalty of the "outraged law." Oaea a criminal always n criminal, and tha arm of the law went oa with Ita punish- srsnts and tha world kept oa getting; get-ting; wore and wore. But beglaalag with the day on which stats eat hla Inatltutlon to work la Mettmy tnlagg hava aeon look lag up. i . The Idea at tha bottom af that reform echool want everywhere, aad all over the civilised world almllar schools were orgaalaed for the good work of Improving the human seea In 111 tho flrat Hatleasl ef ornate or-nate ry Union waa held In England, and today theer are huadreda of schools for th rsformntlen of yoaag of fa ad ara la other cooatrloe Indeed, tn . every country that Is rsached by tho foroee of civilisation steady progress prog-ress Is being made la the reforma- -tlon of youthful wroagdoen. Thousand a of hoys aad girls ara being returned to the world every yesr from these noble Institutions fitted for honorable and useful lv-a Ing, (and ao fortified by tight teach- ' lag that thay will aver remain good clttsena. Hurrah, then, for Mats of Matt . j ray, the founder of tha first ro 1 form school for "bad" bo ye aad j girls! ' . ' child or woman, tn hla possession, : whether by pure ha ss or otherwise, such parson-shall Immediately go, together with auch Indian prisoner, chlkl or woman, before tha selectman select-man of the probata Judge of th county. If. in tho opinion of tho aolootman or probate judge, th person having such Indian prisoner, child or woman, ia n suitable par son And properly qualified to rants or retain and educate tha ammo, it . shall be hla or their duty to bind out the ammo by indenture for n period pe-riod not lea thaa twenty years" Brig ham Young waa an amleTn-very amleTn-very man and in calling attention to condition a. aald: "No property can or ahould be recognised aa existing ex-isting la slaves, either African or Indian. Later tho slave dealers, -continuing to defy tha territorial authorities, eight Mexicans were arrested, ar-rested, tried before a juatlc of tho pcaoa-at Mantl and found guthy. Their ease waa taken to tho district court hi Bait Lake and tha court j decided against the alleged slave owners and tha nine Indian eleven ' held by them., which included n sauaw and r ht children, were set f rc. Governor Young In April, lfteS. Issued a proclamation and or dared aU slave traders In the southern south-ern country arretted and th territory terri-tory was finally freed from aiarO ' vwnera or aiavg doaiera. 0 |