Show the power of a vole A low sympathetic voice will sometimes win its way with men and women who seem hardened against their fellows such a voice was possessed by miss dorothea dix whose life was devoted to the succor of the prisoner and the insane A story is told of the eff effect act of her voice and of her power of persuasion upon a desperate prisoner she was traveling in a stage coach through michigan when it was held up by bt a robber who demanded her pursa without any apparent tremor or fear ear miss dix gently told him she had but little money and what she had was needed tor for her work in visiting prisons and poor houses almost as the first word dropped upon his ear the man stepped back with a gesture of dismay and his face ace paled perceptibly then he uttered an exclamation in which the words that voice could be distinguished he made no further demand but with some feeling said that the memory of an earnest appeal uttered by those thos very lips in a penn pennsylvania alvania penitentiary years before when he himself had been present had not passed from his mind he could not rob that speaker yet the gentle woman would not let him depart before she had shared her money with him so fearful was she lest poverty should be to him a temptation to further violence |