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Show hr Arthur Brisbane) Letting Convicts Read Taking Babies Away Pity Savaga Brides Many Brave Men Left - WARDEN Uwu of Sing Sing Pits-son, Pits-son, wise man, says: "I shall 1st my oonrlots read In newspapers accounts ac-counts of the outbreak in the Auburn Penitentiary There will be s good deal ot bussing when they read them. But the effect oa their morale of withholding the newspapers would be ; worse thsn allowing them to see them." That's an intelligent man. The esars t might be ruling yet hsd they , known enough to let the people know the (act. , . .,. . . .... Information and dismission supply a great safety valve. . f ' 1 The warden ot Auburn Prison, captured cap-tured by ooaricU in rebellion, - said the oonriots, ot whom many are dead, i Were made desperate by the - knowledge know-ledge that If they tailed, they would surely go to the electrlo chair. In this ease, at least, capital punishment did i not deter men from murder. Tne yublie will wonder at these repeated re-peated outbreaks, la American pria-one, pria-one, the most desperate ot all only re-t re-t eenUjr la the State ot Colorado. Ave prison iiprUUii within a tew ntonth. How a It that crime dlnlnUhea 9k Berope, with prisons Altered tor real V lor industrial or other useful pur- poses, while we hare a steadily rlsias 1 crime wave la this country? . , bit that bootlegging has financed . ' orime on a gigantic scale, or is It part of a general disregard tor law promot- e d "jeapectabiuty." the "upper ? classes" XiouUng a prohibition law ee- cause It happens net to please theiaT Whatever the cause, the results are A serious, and the Nation will have to de wore than talk about them. I An "expert" ot the Russian Oorera- steat proposes thai all babies be talt- ea tram their mothers, "immediately 4 alter birth" and brought up by the ' t stat. He wouldn't even give them . time to be weaned. Somebody should tell that gentle-Baa gentle-Baa the difference between mother's milk and other niUk. Also somebody should tell Stallu, , , Russia's real ruler, that while human , beings will stand much regulating, i women rule la the end and will aot allow their children to be taken tpwn I Omss. Sparta tried that, although it didn't t take uaweaned . babies from - thei I mothers. Sparta did not live. : I Ignorance unfortunately accom- I paales the raising of children, la splr- I Uual aad la material things. IAa able physician soys "it per cent ef tauilies are lgaerant of the. proper care of children." Nevertalesa, aa Ignorant mother is better for the child than the most 4 scientific and oold blooded . govern- meat institution. The Duchess of Atbol, who goes to I and fro oa the earth, and . up and ; down therein, and sits in the House i ef Commons, asks the Imperial Gov- erameat to Interfere with ' frtghtrul j cruelties inflicted upon native girls before marriage and during marriage . j set smcnlos In Africa. I Atrecitles committed could not be f printed. They are, however, not con- I fined to Africa, or any particular aav-ag aav-ag race or tribe. The history of hu- I la sue place in South Africa when I a nan marries a woman he stands her with the back of her head against I a tree and knocks out her two rapper I mi Idle front teeth to show, that she I is awried aad belongs to1 aim, and that's a eamparatlveljr mild form of bswtaUtr. ' t I la the great item sweeping British eeasta, wind going 10S miles aa hour, a French steamer, the Omnia, seemed J doojacd with Its crew of nineteen. No I boat coald be launched aad live. The I eejeat guard could act send a line by X SMket ' I A young Com tan man named Laity l said he thought he might live through I Dm hundred yards of raging water, eeyereUng the ship stranded twexa i land. He tadk a life line, swam I through, saved the whole crew and t htaseit He will be forgotten by the world before next Moaday, but that dees 1 aot matter. This earth, and the solar 1 yatea will be gone aad forgotten, la j Hue. A few extra millions of years I Bake UtUe difference. I from Seattle the Pacifto Aeronaut 's tw Kasearea foundation . plans for I next Hay a aon-stop flight across the Paelfla. atea have flown from Europe to . South America, from Loadon to India, f across the Atlantic repeatedly, over the North and South poles, f The Paclfio alone remains to be conquered. Aad only a few yean ago Lard MofthaUffe offered 150.000 to anyone that weuld fly the English Channel. 1 |