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Show SILENT CONVICT MUCH SHOCKED (Bj International eu- Service.) BOSTON, Nov. . Suppose you hid' been locked up behind tho gray, grim wall! of a state prison for twenty-flye twenty-flye years', how would the world look to you when you entered If again7 What would make tho greatest Impression Im-pression on you? Patrick (Corky) Hanley, known as "Silent'.1 Hanley because he has not talked for ten years, has completed 1 Quarter ot s century at Charlastown 1 3 prison and answers these ouestionc via a pencil and pad. The flr6t thing that Impressed him was 1 no, not automobiles and moving picture! 1 women's dresses. The no-;ond no-;ond was t he general refinement of the people and the third tho lntelll-;;eiue lntelll-;;eiue ,, tin voijiik' generation. Aflei "Corky" had written '1 Women's Wo-men's d reuses," ho stood up ami pulled the left leg of his bluo serge trousers nearly up to bis knee. Then he put both legs together signifying that women's wo-men's skirts are tiht. Next he placed both hands on bis hips. liaising his eyes SS if the lit of Boston and New York had shocked him. he wrote. "What became of the bustles?" Next "Corky" wrote: -'When I went away there wore no such short dresses, except ton) girls of ten. Ami the thin silk stockings you all wear. H.i re ' Then there was more pantomime to describe high heels and Hanley wrote four words more. "A 1 if on stills." r.ut "Corky" Isn't a knocker. He has been just as much Impressed by th rising generation. 1 1 wrote: "Young people today appear much more Intelligent than tho young folks of twenty-five years ago. They look clean. They've got a go-ahead look that only one in a hundred used to have. This Is a great country." cither things Impressed him both In New York und L5oiton. He wrote: "The Bowery Is not what Is used to be. "So many Jews everywhere even In Iynn. "So many Italians. "Boston's North Knd is gone, pai In IS SO Fleet street was nil Irish. There isn't any South Knd, either. BUl everything appears to be better." Hanlej characterised as "paper talk" the report that ho has been on .ii slleni strike' for ten years He aid thai while walking in the prison 'yard during a storm a brick from a IchlttUie was blown down on his heud and that be suffered concussion Which I left him speechless. "U'eii." Eltinle) was usk'-l finally, "how does it feel to h, out again and jfre?" "orkv wrote I "Just like helnp born again." new potato digger Is featured lv I large cfOSfl barred wheels Into Which ;h. tubers are thrown b a plowshare be rid of soil, after which thc fall baCk Into the furrow mads by th plow. I |