The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-01-27

system OF working cOnvicts upon the high
ways would promise better results in the
southern states, where the climate is less
rigorous, and where expense OF keeping con-
victs, when not at actual labor, would be
less than here, and yet, so far as we can
learn, all the states In the south where this
has been tried, have either abandoned 1t
entirely or have rconfined 1t to those con-
victed of petty Offense, tramps and Migrants,
who have less motive for escape than con-
victed felons.
All public exhibitions of brutality tend to
make the people brutal. This is principle
SO well established by the experience of the
past as to require only illustration. Execu-
tons for capital offenses are no longer pub
lie; whippings ut the post have been abol-
ished, and the placing of prisoners or con-
victs In stocks would justly now be con-
sidered an act of barbarism. The brute
force necessary to keep these cOnvicts at
labor and to prevent their escape we think
would be In its influence demOraliZing to the
people.
"This conclusion however," said Mr.
Kinnane, ''would not exclude the idea of
working tramps and others confined in
county jails for petty offenses, for the pur-
pose of breaking stone or such other work as
they might be put to in the way of road
making, and this idea is even now in prac-
tical operation in some OF the cities of
Michigan. 1t cannot be put into operation
In this city, however, until the city charter
shall contain provision upon which an
ordinance for that purpose can be founded.
Mrs. Hartwell, of Lansing, has been in
the city this week caring for her sister, Mrs.
EnOch Eddy.
Rand, Mentally & Co., 1865 Adams St.,
Chicago, Illinois, desire local manager
to take the management of the sale of their
new Universal Atlas. Any one desiring a
pleasant and profitable position would do
well TO write them.
q. l. Hood & Co., of Lowell, Mass, pro-
prietors OF Hoods Sarsaparilla are great
friends of the publishers and printers. We
are indebted to them for couple of their
pretty calendars for 1898, copies of which
can be procured of druggists or of the firm
by sending six cents.
List of letters remaining uncalled for in
the OwOssO pOstoffice the week ending Jan.
81, 1898: Mrs. Francis SandersOn, Mrs. j.
ID. Smith, +. K. Hewitt Mrs. w. Palmer,
IL. A. Bowers, Mrs. Geo. Davis Lucy
Cooper, f. j. Lapeer (3), Theodore Young,
A. S. Riley, w. +. Bailey. Lewis G. Stimp-
son, Eli Smith, r. B. Hazlett, Harmon S.
Palmer, John j. Brown, S. G. Davis, Nellie
Conner, (2), Fanny Murphy, M. V. Jessop,
l.. K. White, e. III. Lawler (2). Drops,
Albert F. Shuts, Henry Gibbs. Foreign,
Carl Bush, Chas. Hurst.
Rev. Anna Shaw will lecture under the
auspices of the w. c. Il. u, in the first NJ.
K. church, Wednesday evening, Feb. LIST,
on the subject: 'The American Home. u
Admission ten cents, to defray expenses.
The theme is one that should interest every
man and woman in OwOssO.
The Rev. Anna Ii. Shaw, the celebrated
Methodist divine, was the central figure at
last nights session of the w. G. Il. u. con-
vention. Her name had been sufficient to
crowd the auditorium and galleries. Per-
sonally Miss Shaw is extremely pleasing.
Her address was characteristic, plea for
total abstinence and for the welding of
womanly influence on the side of right.
The evils that beset the youth of the land,
in the sale of liquor and the display of
obscene literature, were strongly commented
On.-Evening Journal, A.shtabula Ohio.