Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-15

PRISON STUDIES.
The Aztecs obtained d good many good
ideas from the Toltecs, some way, be-
fore they went TO Mexico, and other:
after. At any rate, they were well ad-
vanced in some Of the arts and sciences,
though they were idoatrous and often
sacrificed human beings to their gods.
Here they also used very poor judg.
ment. If instead of Offering up their
most attractive young people, girls es-
pecially, they had used the politicians
as far as they would so, the Aztecs
would have been on deck to-day nc
doubt and the Montezumas would have
been giving pink teas on Pennsylvania
avenue.
1t is estimated that the Aztecs sacri-
feed over twenty thousand people an
nually to their gods, Notwithstanding
the fact that these gods had repeatedly
shown their total inability to attend to
things. History tells nowhere of more
inadequate set of gods than those en-
poyed and paid by the A2tecs. The
Aztec god was also complete artistic
failure, being excessively plain. He was
also very unsuccessful socially. All that
he could do successfully was to accept
the bleeding sacrifice OF innocent school
children, look pleasant and scare the
farm horses.
The fortress near Newark Is only one
of several peculiar earthworks regard
ing which we have no authentic history.
They may have been erected by the
Aztecs, the Toltecs or the Woodtecs,
No man can tell. Only few have tried
to do so, and they did not know.
Newark has the most desirable jail in
the State of Ohio, and possibly in the
United States. 1t is built of cut stone,
in modern and artistic manner, with a
beautiful porch, handsome lawns around
it, and in every way resembles the
dwelling of wealthy merchant instead
of the calaboose Of city.
Criminals come here for hundreds Of
niles to be incarcerated. Men contem-
plating crime try to arrange it so that
the offense may be committed in New
ark and themselves also. 1t is certain
ly one of the most neat and attractive
tails that | have ever seen, and | have
made jaillife close study for years.
While in France / visited a facsimile
of the old Bastile, which had been re-
constructed exactly by French archi-
tect.
The Bastile was built in 1870 by
Charles V. 1t was the State Prison. The
stones of the old BaStile are now used in
paving the streets at the forks Of the
road in Paris, called the Place de la
Bastile, or where the Place runs into
one of the Rues. Paris is the greatest
town for Rues that l have ever seen.
The Bastile has eight towers, five
stories high, In which prisoners could
be confined and be entirely cut off from
the rest, and even the prison authori-
ties did not need to know they were
there.
Here literary people who had written
pieces for the papers over the signature
of "Veritas" were incarcerated for weeks
and months and years, only to be at last
beheaded by the light running and noise
less guillotine. Those who sassed the
administration were gathered in by
means of the Letter de CGchct, and that
was sufficient. We should be glad and
proud that we live In land where one
can have not one trial alone, but seven
or eight, together with an arrest oil
Judgment and executive clemency.
The Bastile was destroyed by the
French revolutionists July Il, 1889,
and now it is the great national holiday
July IA all the French yeomen and ALI
ance people throng the streets, bring
ing their lunch with them, including
long, black bottle of sour wine, with
which they fill themselves In a WILD
ana Intellectual effort to getintoxicateo.
On this day also the beggars and
criDpes of France are permitted to In
wade Paris, and one will see greater
assortment of excreseences and
deformities than in a New forh
hospital in lifetime. kemun'
erative assesses and incuraole
sores are brought out on the
beautiful boulevards. and the Champs
Elysees swarns with beggars whose
limbs are so crooked that they seem Z
be trying to climb up their trunks. Odo
and whimsical wens start out IRON
these people on the slightest provoca
ton, and curious wounds are utilized &c
rake in the confines. One man nao
bullet hole in brachea, or wlndpipe- BY
closing his mouth and nose and insert
ing the mouthpiece of bugie In tni:
hole he was able to play tune pretty
well, and he seemed 10 have croWe
around him most of the time.
he told me that be was very thankiu
because a kind Providence had pro
yided him such convenient slot, as i
were, for people to put their france ant
confines into.
Winter grain is looking especially
well in Ohio, and the green hillsides ar
dotted with bright new lambs. In
coming summer bids to be the best ina
the farmers have ever experienced
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