The Press., 1892-08-18


 So we are to have bigger jail for Tol- land county. There is need of it, if the jail is to be made a bum's paradise to gain shelter within during the win ter months. Men who are of no use at all in the world openly steal, smash win dows, or in some way make themselves eligible to membership in a nice social club at Holland, where the county kindly furnishes food, shelter, warmth and lodg- ing for them during long winter days, while they play cards and enjoy the large stock of tobacco which, with a pack of cards, they are very careful to provide themselves with before going. Some years ago the county commissioners tried the experiment of keeping the prisoners at work. They made strawberry baskets, we think, but the business did not pay in a money sense, and there was an outcry against the board for encouragement and needlessly increasing the county's ex- penses. But better have continued, even If the baskets were used for kindling wood when finished, than have made the jail too attractive, increased the number of its inmates, and finally put the county to great cost to enlarge the size of it's so- cial club roo-jail. Going to jail should mean something to the professional jail bird. It should mean a term spent in confinement If any of the prisoners are given the relaxation of outdoor work or employment about the hotel or stable, as is the custom at Holland, let it be some other than the professional rounder. The jail at Holland is big enough now for it's legitimate occupants, or would be if going to it were considered punishment rather than privilege.
 PARTIES in Maine are buying up ad- jacent farms, giving large, contiguous tracts of country upon which it is pro- posed to engage in sheep raising. There is no doubt that most parts of New Eng land are by nature adapted to this indus try. The town of Union, for instance, could be almost entirely bought up for a very small sum by parties who desired to engage extensively in this business. But it Is by no means necessary that large cap- ital or large tracts of land be employed Single farms and hocks of 75 to 500 sheep can as well be kept proftably. The one great drawback, dogs, will be less trouble some as large focks make the animal familiar to the many dogs who now sell dom see sheep, therefore it is better that there be enough individuals interest combination for local protention, or for looking after needed protective legisla- ton. The objection that will be made, that the repeal of the Mckinley tariff bill will leave the investors stranded, applies to most other industries as well as this. l But the Mckinley bill is becoming every day better established. Wool raising is | being encouraged, and the wisdom of it's | encouragement by protection is being daily demonstrated. Eastern manufac- turers, the class from whom complaint might be expected, are not generally | clamoring for free wool. It will not take long to put the industry where it can take care of itself. There are now and then to be seen, even now, fine fiocks of sheep in eastern Connecticut The tariff cannot | affect the price of mutton, nor is over production likely to do it. It will take an immense amount to supply the local and it is kind of meat that can be sold direct to the consumers at fair price if the butcher gives preference to western mutton. Congress is now ad- iourned. The tariff is not likely to be changed, as to effect this house, senate and president must acquiesce.