Show ISA SAVING POWER POV IS j f BEHIND THE BARS DARS Maud Ballington Booth Tel Tells s of Labors With Wih Hardened Criminals I I Maud Ja I I h mission Ut lo to save ave e a tho the hardened criminal behind gri grim in prison iva trails I was hs-was was expo expounded U nd Tuesday night In Barratt hall hal to an 1 audience which hued tHed t hj I auditorium The rhe lecture given I en I by l' Ih Mig h hi Booth was WaR under the lie auspices of h tj oft t M Mutual Improvement ns associations n II norl Her orl work Is IH not nol fruitless for 0 since the IaU aU of tle lie Volunteers Volunteers' Prison Prison- I I r league nail limn OUO men macit h ii c Joined after leavIng state RI and federal edI 1 I tc Jt Seventy per eI cent of oC this number Mrs Irs Booth looth declares are arc Ue itt lik 11 lug ing h honest Industrious l e live 1 In lice her labors Mrs AIrs In Booth both reeo recognizes two l ela classes of or If criminals In Iii tho thin I OIIN and antI hul classes casses can cnn b be saved The Tue conventional notion noLon that lint the lie mail I who hat has reached a certain Jn sta stage e fn Iii crime l iii li past reform Is at nt I h by lice her She he entered the thc prison not hot to toWN C I WN weep over ovel 1 men CI In hilt but with a n burning belief In mission ion She h enrolls tho lic con I convicts in her league ul creating n a now life for fOI them Men n have been peen I C. C 1 enrolled en cn- cn rolled lI by Little 1 Mother as she ilO I ii I I known to tl I con convicts serving life I sentences who wIn on this side sile of oC the tho grave have hn c little JILe hope o of reI release case Even L this class s of ot prisoners has s been benefited bene beno- and amid ant thc they have ha prayed for Cor forgiveness for for- glenes years before their death I lmh of I The sulky lifeless In Indifferent lerent prisoner pris oner who suffered from froni spiritual In InIlla Inertia In- In ertia ertla Illa I Is tho the despair Mrs Irs Booth said In lii his cell cel he e lies cs an alit and plans 8 a Wo iva way to get ON even evon with the thc t world an and those who put him him there lie Ic plans crime after crime and amI he hc looks looleN to 0 nothing goo good In Iii his future futuro t otter ortel hl his time June has expired and ho lie I Is thrown thu-ott-n upon the world again as a amun man mun Jh Tho other cla class Is Js the man who sees that lint his life fo Is a dreary waste aid and who ha has u a. a lukewarm heart heul I lie bul builds s ii upon 1011 his hits future U t ore and I if Je f hi his Is in md is s s set MCI et In lii 11 the right direction he lie turns from the thc hi contemplation of his future with wih ii despair espa I L' L There IIO are aie 10 two practical ways of or helping the prisoner In lit the first place while he Is still sti In Iii tho thu cell cel you mu must t wor work upon his better belter betel feelings you must maust put IHn heart icart an and amid hope into him In Iii lie tho second you must tal take talLe e him him In i mi hood hand when he conies comes out of prison antI and decently restore him to the he world Tf if T the tw getting Into Ino prison Is Ig a it terrible business also Is the getting out In Inmany i lal many cases It is then lien that the real punishment pun i begins Persuade tho lie man before the ta day o of f his discharge that the game ane is not riot worth the thc while Convince him that t there here is a n better life and aHl then do nolIN not nol l let IN et go o of him hInt until he Is on his feet cot aga again Iii J Fe p fc I let c urn tam II to Crime Mrs i I i. i Booth BOlth h salt said ahl that thai a few fett men muon re- re turn urn to lo crime prepared to tu tako take all ni m risks risks- e Thle I Is a genial excitement in b burglary and anti Jobs on un the big scale a and n nd an ii old hand sometimes goes oc bace baceLo ta t to Lo o the llie old haunts the lie old gano gang a and an nd the lie old om life Ufo await him hInt Mrs Booth told old t loJ several stories of the chance cance in lii lives of or criminal criminals In lii one In In- In S St stance il Mrs r Booth said that ono one man manns t was ns vai reformed after he lie hail had spent l three three- ft fourths f of hl Ills hIs life In iii prison an and that t the he longest e t period of hl his free freedom om was wasten wasten t ten emi months lie He began hegan hegan his career as asa ah a 1 criminal at tile the age of 7 years cars After h he Iw e was 30 years of ot age he came caine to her n notice otIce In a ti prison She worked with h him and amid ant showed him hin a n better career carcer As toon oon as s he lie JI was released release he lie re reformed ye- ye f formed Within a short hurt time lute he ila had iad hada am a wife and anul family 11 about him and antI was making a ti l gout good honest upright living U During her ner tall talk she told lold several torIes stories s in iii working with wih condemned men di A J prisoner In a Southern prison rl on onha had bad ha committed murder and amI was tva sentenced sen son to lo death Ills His c execution was suspended fu three irce or four foUl times lines and anti during his IIri Imprisonment he seemed 1 to h have have- ave lost Lull all al heart healt anti and ant soul A sister worker of or Mrs Mrs' Booth called on I lini im and in iii her hem talks H sIte she seemed to make an tin impression upon uon him The Tho ca day he hc was to be lie executed ll he lie was told that ho lie could have I anything he lie desired He lie 10 t thought tot for fO some sonic time line before he hl heA 01 A ked fur for Child ChillI Bring mo I my bah baby and anu let Jel me nc put It to fleo sleep once mO more InOR ho hc exclaimed Tho rho child was brought to him from flom ruin his wife's dIrt dirty cabin where sho she was wao forced iCel ell to 0 live Jve on account of hot her cir cir- lr- lr The lit lather father pace paced up UI am and down hl his cell cel and when the lie child went to lo I sleep ho lii et I ft It I. I fondly Condly nn and can led it I to the he turnkey lo to take sake back to its Ix mother Mrs Booth pointed out that I if an au- au I thIng could coul be hI done une with wih these III prisoners hurls pris that the reformation of many a man who had n commenced a crooked C career could be In brought about There ThI are alo two twenty state slate prisons 10 lS where the Ia league ll Iia hU has already atly been formed and HIHl where the lie work worl is going on Her work Is also among children and women Mrs lr Booth leaves this morning tor or Walla Vala ra Walla I a. a Wash ash ash where sho she will deliver sion eJ cl a similar ad address on Ori her ml mis |