Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-11-08

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fully grotesque. On one occasion when ac.
c~Ompanying a visitor" on his rounds, ]
saw a poor woman caught in the act Of
squeezing her boy into the oven Of her hob;
and among many quite as odd stratagems
witnessed was one by a mother who stood
in the open door, and after bluntly deny
ing maternity was finally forced 10 admit
the ownership of two Swapping girls that
had for the fifteen minutes parleying sti
fed and trembled beneath the mothers
over ample skirts. Stuffed beneath bun-
dies OF rags, actually covered with Goals,
wedged in chimney hues, hid beneath
floors, smothered between mattresses, and
clinging TO the sides Of privy vaults are
common bestowals Of children to escape
registration or subsequent capture. No
wonder that the ~vagabond and criminal
instinct becomes predominant in the ma.
ture Of folk thus harassed.
We will suppose, for illustration, a boy
has been hunted dow and got within the
chool board jurisdiction. II a single alb
sence be recorded against him be comet
under all the possibilities Of the law.
The usual course il, in case he makes "a
little more than half time-that l.. six
out Of ten ~attendances, two per day, or ten
per week, being the reckouiug-Hnd "a
warning having been served for every
absence, the mother or father. aud usually
the former, is summoned before "a police
magistrate. The visitor" is practically
the prosecutor for the board. He makes
oath % the boys presence aud "al-
sence." II the mother answers the sum
mons and enters "A good defense. the bog
may yet of with "a reprimaud: but Boz -
permanently thereafter under court c-piua.
age. II "a breach Of attendance now occur.
"a second is issued against t.a
mother, and "a iiue-the lowest being % -.-
hug-Is never escaped. At the same time
the superintendent Of the national school
board l- present, who, whether the child Is
from % parish ora hoard school. will RECON-
mend his clmmitmeut 20 sn industrial
school, and never for q term OF less than
three years. HIS commitment Is % sentence
20 one Of three condition.. or grades, OF nd.
dustrial school prison life:
l. To the Truaut school, for boys a-i girls.
Tor "a three years term; in which casa the cll-
lrlt D. chased OBJ "Ei-ItHr-' CD ulI from t4s
school. where le remains certain hours nf
each day and receives bis fool. but ao cloth.
ing, ana sleeps 40 home. The Parents arc COM
PEELED t1 pay one shilling Der week into The In
dustr.t. school fund.
?. To tLe intermediate Industrial school, for
boys Only, where DE- D. committed 90 fl. age OF
sixteen. should Lr Dee sentenced 40 the age of
I've. !.re The lad b. iu absolute confinement.
and DIS parents az" compelled .l pay from 1851.
shilling 90 two shl.llus-Hud -.zueuce Der week
into TOE fund; and,
3. TO the Industrial school proper. f8r ta.,
sexes. under "a five years sentence. The pan
emit, mast pay rho same SUM weekly a. f4t.t
intermediate fund. They may visit their CHI.
dre1 once every three months. but the luttei
are never liberated until FINALLY discharged.
On sentence % the Truant school the
child belongs 90 the law from : In the
morning until b az Night. 20 remains un-
der precisely the same no ne conditions
that a its attendance at board school.
before commitment, hateful or impossible. I
The parental aDlOrreuce Of the system j.
intensified, and iu most cases the efforts Of
both The child and its parents 20 avoid the
"vl-ItOr's' clutches are r.i0ubled. ANY
description Of the disgusting and
brutal scenes witnessed ir the morning
"ruuud up Of these children from among
lOwly homes would an every page Of this
paper. II the child now attends the Truant
regularly, without the use Of force.
IN six months tim il j. permitted to re-
turn 70 the elementary school during the
remainder Of its sentence, the authorities
regulating its conduct until it has reached
axe Of fourteen years. But a single
lnfraction secuces its return 70 the Truant
regime.
II the child becomes incorrigible under
this treatment il is brought before a map-
.strate and sentenced direct 10 the ''ordi-
nary Industrial school, placed in abso.
lutte confinement and l. compelled TO labor
ike any other criminal, the boys at wood
and making brush and sennit
mats, and the girls at knitting coarse
'tOckings and making coarse skirts. This
s called putting the child away" and is
sauVHN.H n 49,. .rhHra.~-.-~ H. "a
.'isitors and authorities. Occasionally a
BOY OF girl j. licensed ont % service. but
hese licenses must be renewed. on good
BEHAVIOR, every three months, and they
IRE revOkable by the industrial school
'oard committee instead Of by a magis-
rate.
The food Of these children is as nearly I
Ipon a starvation basis as can be adjusted
y expert keepers. II comprises a break
fst Of bread and treacle, or bread, milk
porridge; a dinner Of pea soup and
read, boiled rice and bread. or 'scousen
a stewed scrap meat md potato hodge
odgel, on rare occasions only; aud "A sup
er Of cocoa, bread and ~treacle, OF milk 4
read and t~reacle. They are also furnished .
nth prayers" three times each day. !
A trick Of the authorities is to discharge I
child, whose term Of sentence does not
lANH " NhS Npiupui~pfg axe lullIt a month
to expiration Of sentence term. :
his throws IL back into the compulsory Z
.ementary status under court espionage. L
{ the first dereliction, il is resentenced
another three or five years term. There
Re many instances where children nave
lus been compelled TO serve two prison \
rms before they were fourteen years Of
g; and II these wise authorities are suni- 7
emily alert. a third term, as an ''incor-
can easily be administered. +
In the meantime police magistrates
e busy filming parents and sentencing
for nOnpayment Of fees and fines. m
'hateyer the fees may rave been in the 4
ementsry school, they are far larger after j
ie child has become a prisoner. They are
II paid, as a rule, because they cannot be a
id They are allowed 70 run up 10 a :
70 or three pounds sum. Then the Off y
N, who now dog the parents and who =
e called collecting cOnstables," secure an
arrants for the payment Of about ten =
filings in cash and two shillings per
ak When found the fafhar or u,otha.