The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-24

NJ. Brockv,y began Tie movement hese,
but be b. besa warmly seconded By the
good people Of Detroit Of all religious
faiths and sf - ssligiou faith. A buildi,g
has been ssssasd foe this special purpose, nd
i ]: most admirably arranged to meet that
design. There ere low and broad eallesies
On three sides kof ID hoose, tie fourth being
occupied By platform for speaking, sing
ing, and the accommodation Of visitors. One
gallery and the space beneath it is closed by
folding doom Of glass. These rooms are each
used for an infant claA, Who are taught
orally. You can see what i going II tAe en-
closures, but IL tumuk Of the happy dill
dsea dos not reach the ear of the hundreds
ofolder young folks who are reciting their
lessons or listening to reading and
speaking in the other paris Of the house AT
the opening and 1t the closing of the exer-
cises the glass doors below are aid aside and
the great glass screen above i raised through
the ceiling, like . curtain At . theatre, and
then the youngest voices join the others in
singing inspiring songs. The music used
here seems to be cross between old-fashioned
hymns and palms, and the jolly TUNES sung
BY the minstrel troops. One Of the pieces
nng Va to the tune Of Tramp, tramp,
tramp" and another was the ''Ssar Spangled
Bannef," arranged on some evangelical plan,
and the singing vas delightful. In Bosom
heard an Episcopalian minister preach in
Music Hall, Phillips Brooks, who is one Of
the most able and most earnest men in that
city Of churches, where the singing was done
BY trained choir, under the leadership of
NJ Tou1ee. This man came out with a
haton,-as Carl Zerrahn and Theodore
Thomas do with their trained Orchestras-
and swung his arms and doubled up his body
in IN excited way which reminded me OF the
theatre and the Concert Hall, but very little
of religious services in the chief city of the
Puritans. One could not but think while
listening to the innocent voices of these poor
children, in the Mission School, tia, the
cause of piety and devotion would be pro-
NOTED il they we're sent of, in squads OF
twenty, to take the places of the trained
chsiu and paid orchestras in the fashionable
churches of the great cities.
The arrangement of the seats in this school
seemed to me to be admirable-not new, per-
haps, but new to me. Each class sits in a
semi-circle around the teacher. There may
be seven or eight in the class, the head at
one hand of the teacher, the foot at the other,
and the centre of the class directly in front OF
him. All are within arms reach, and also
within reach Of the teachers personal in
fuence. The instruction here is given
BY young ladies and gentlemen who gladly
volunteer in the good work. One part Of
the exercises was novel, and as good as it
was new. 1t consisted in a brief lecture on
natural history BY gentleman who was fully
informed on that subject and had the tact to
make himself entertaining to the young.
Some of the straight-laced, am told, object
to this secular entertainment. The children
certainly do not. They listened with the
most eager interest, and fred in their answers
like pistol shots.
This School, Of course, is not dissimilar to
those Of other cities, including our own. Its
principal charm arises from the fact that the
children would be otherwise unprotected and
exposed; and the enjoyment Of the visitor is
heightened BY the fact that the house is full,
numbers giving spirit, interest and enthu-
siasm.
Mr.. Broekway has recently delivered an
address before the National Congress on
Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline,
at Cincinnati. He took for his subject .'The
Ideal of True Prison System for State"
hope the address will reach our Governor and
all Of the County and State officers who have
charge of prisons and prisoners. He be-
lieves that the central aim of a true prison
system is the protection of society against
crime, not the punishment of criminals; PM
ishment is the incident, protection of the OBJ
ject. Vengeance for recompense belongs not
to human hands, but to God; it has no place
in true prison system. But must content
myself with having called attention to this
address, and with the following quotations
from it. wise and suggestive pages:
''Nor should punishment be inflicted upon
perpetrators Of crime that others may be de-
tered from similar course, for this is I'M
just, jeopards reformation aud breeds antago-
nism to the law and its executors. 1t may.
be affirmed also that in the history of juris-
prudence it is found practically failure for
the purpose in view. Nevertheless they de-
mand the most thorough treatment of crimi-
nais. They espouse no sickly sentimental
ism. They are not popular philanthopists,
but urge upon society the obligation to treat
the great company constantly coming to the
surface, whose mania Of mOnomania, though
formed and manifested never 80 natu-
rally, still renders them dangerous or damag-
ing to the public welfare. so that they shall
be cured or kept under such continued custo-
dial restraint as gives guarantee of safety from
further depradations.
Therefore, AZ for the other
reasons' suggested, sentences should not be
determinate but indetermir a'e. BY this is
meant Ito state briefly that all persons in a
State, who are convicted of crimes or Often
ces before a competent court, shall be deemed
wards of the State, and shall be committed
to the custody Of the Guardians, until in
their judgment they may be returned to
society with ordinary safety and in accord
with their own highest welfare. OF course
this Board will have control of all the pre-
ventive and refOrmatOry means of the
State a. before indicated, and will be charged
with the right restoration of all prisoners at
the earliest possible date when this result is
or can be reached. For more detailed des-
cription of this principle see the synopsis Of
a bill drawn for presentation to the Michigan
Legislature next winter, appended to this
paper"
will happen next, or where he will go next.
Editors and reporters 60 almost everywhere,
and that i the reason why they and their
readers are so thoroughly informed on what
ever is .een, thought Of, known, or guessed
at on this labitable globe of ours. The iron
has not entered my soul, but while here 1
entered an iron establishment-the works of
the Michigan Bolt and Nut Company. !
found that it was nothing like an Editorial
room, or Sunday school, or a prairie, or a
picture gallery. But it is nevertheless, a
very useful and interesting wOrk-hOuse
using that word in its English and parochial
l found that they had been doing
work here for the Leavenworth bridge, and
that thousands of dollars worth of bolts and
other iron things had been sent to the Atchi-
son and White Cloud Railroad. Kansas
seems to be known everywhere, and to have
. hand in everything.
Within comparatively small space, hard
" larger than that occupied by the Great
Western Foundry, At Leavenworth, thirty
ton Of iron are used each year.
This establishment in on the beautiful De-
troit River, about two miles from the Post
office. The company own two acres Of land,
and send out their manufactured products to
Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and slmost everywhere else.
Their principal sales are made to rail-
roads, bridge builders, makers Of agri-
cultural implements and hardware deal
era. Every variety of business is
DOW divided into departments and special
lies. but it is within recent date that great