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Show THOSE HOUNDS? Would it not be a good idea to trade those penitentiary blood-hounds off fax coyotes? A coyote coy-ote can at least find a man after he is dead. We believe that is more than those terrible bloodhounds blood-hounds have ever done. One prisoner who escaped es-caped from the penitentiary week before last was so fearfully wounded that he fainted when but a few yards out in the brush, and for five days was all the time within an hour's ride of the officers, within twenty minutes run of the dogs, and yet he had to give himself up to be re-captured. Another escape when brought in said he had seen the men and dogs but paid no attention to them, knowing the dogs "could not follow a lantern." The safest way, we think, in an emergency, would be to turn the dogs loose, note the direction direc-tion they take, and then take the opposite, being sure the dogs would be wrong. By the way, experts declare that blood-hounds must be trained a certain way and fed on particular par-ticular food or they soon lose their power to follow fol-low a scent; evidently the penitentiary hounds need treatment. Speaking of hounds and escapes, that wretch Lynch showed by his struggle for freedom that in his nature were elements which under different training and environments might have made a great man of him. Wounded so that he fainted within a few minutes; fainting several times a day thereafter, his trail marked all the way by blood; without food, without shelter, he wandered and staggered through rain and cold for five days and nights before he reeled and stumbled into a house craving food. Another, a younger man, unwounded, succumbed in half the time. The iron-will that held Lynch up to his sufferings was never excelled on a battlefield or in a retreat. Suppose his mind in childhood had been started on the right track and he had exerted that will of his in trying to make for himself an honored name, what might he not have accomplished? The years between ten and twenty-five are the years when boys need encouragement, kindly discipline dis-cipline and to have their honest hopes cherished and, encouraged. |