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Show THE TERRORS OF IMPRISOMiYiEMT A iitpbew of a niiiliouaire and him-(ell him-(ell u millionaire w.is recently convicted convic-ted fi;r the tbi d timo uf bijb speeding speed-ing with bis autoiijobiiei The judge inflicted a hue of 1,000 atjd a prison seuteuceof one day. The fine was 10 hu g to a millionaire ; it meant no nior'aio bun tiiau a dullar v0uld have tiouo tu a po r man. But the p'ieuu sentence, even but foroueda, was a different maitor- thii Wc.s somethiug terrible. With I ars in Lis e,)es he begged the judge toieimt the punishmeut. But the judge wai determined that the majesty majes-ty oftha law should be respected and the young mat) had to endure the agony and humiliation, Yet, after all, the feelings of the culprit were not greatly lacerated. Instead of languishing lan-guishing for twenty-four hours in a lonely cell, h.s "imprisonment?" ias-t ias-t d for just thirtj-five minutes and, arpareuily, was pleasantly spent. The 6ejtecc. wan passed at 3 :25 in the afiernoon. By one of those legal fictions, which ou occaion are so easily conjured up, the day ended at four, i lit a, to spuie the feelings of the prisoner, instead of being put in a' cell be speui the thirty-five minutes in the j .ilor's boue aud doubtliisa they were most cheerfully spent. And that is what is called justice ai;d a day's imprisoumeut. It is pertinent per-tinent to ask whether 1 1 Lot the name consideration would'have been shown if the offender had be n a poor man instead of a millionaire United States i-enator? |