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Show TREATMENT OF HABITUAL CRIMINALS. The test ot tho habitual criminal Is tho lack ot response to reformative Influences The beginner In crime, whatever lilt temperament or hie apparent ap-parent hardness ot heart, Is entitled to at least one opportunity to show whether bo Is thus amenabla to reformatory re-formatory Influences or not If not nnd hu persists In criminal action, the Interest of society i -Id seem to demand de-mand tho Indeterminate sentence, and ho must bn made to understand that, hnvlng forfeited bis chance to ahapo hla o cirter, ho belongs to tho atato, and that hotter hla Imprisonment Impris-onment lasts tor a shorter or longer period depends upon himself. Now York Times, |