The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-13

penalty, but, in the measure of the pos
Sible judicial remedy and above all.
social protection. The wrOngdOer must
be considered not as an object for So
ciety'S vengeance, but for it's ministra-
ton; sick person, morally infrm or
mentally deficient; tainted member,
which must be restored to health or
ruthlessly removed"
In opposition to the system now most
in vogue, the refOrmers at Elmira pro-
pose:
First, in opposition to the stupid
plan OF measuring off criminal acts
with time division as with yardstick,
there is the indeterminate sentence,
corrected in it's turn by the parole sys-
tenn
"To overcome the danger growing
out of the indiScriminate cOnglOmera-
ton of cOnvicts. classification, and grad
ing of prisoners has been advocated.
ITO reform the criminal while in
SeQueStratiOn, instruction has been Sug
gested, intellectual. moral, industrial.
"TO estimate the true gravity of the
moral faint in criminal individuals, to
distinguish between the morally and
the mentally deficient, between the free
willed, determined malefactor and the
degenerate sinner whose criminal tend
encies are the result of heredity or of
other organic influences, bureau of
psychological research is proposed as
an addition to the composition of Grim
inal courts. '-NeaC York Sun.
The Weight a Man Can Handle in Ten
Hours.
l was past % years of age, says j. E. Emerson
in the Scientific american. when | hired with
Mr. Grimes, the boss of the Manchester Machine
Company. was to work in the yard as labOrer
until a better opportunity offered, which did
come when went into the machine shop. There
arrived by rail some 500 tons of pig iron, which
was hauled from the cars on dump carts and
dumped in the yard and piled up in rows about
four feet high. The pigs weighed from say 60 to
$50 pounds each. A man of the name of Bunting
did the hauling, and each load was weighed on
the scales as it came into the yard. One days
hauling has been done and piled up by four of US
yard hands. In the morning Grimes said to me
that a lot of machinery had arrived for the print
works then being built, and that he would have
to take all the yard hands except me, so that l
might pile up what could and let the balance
lie on the ground. We used leather pads on our
hands to protect them from wear and soreness
in handling the iron. which is always rough |
took into my mind the idea of ping up all that was
hauled that day, just to see what could be done.
Mr.. Bunting drove one of his teams. They
hauled about one ton at a load Every time he
came in he would laugh at me, suppOSng that L
could not pile it all up as fast as it came in. and
said: "Young man, we II make you weaken before
night i considered this sort of challenge and
accepted it, and Just as the whistle blew to quit
work had the last pig on the pile, about as used
up a man as ever lived at the end of ten hours
work. Bunting and myself went into the office
and had the clerk foot up the weight which was
212lR tons.
/ was so used up that could scarcely walk to
my boarding house. l retired early and had
good nights Sleep and was SO stiff that could
scarcely get down stairs. hObbled down to the
ward office. when Mr.. Grimes looked at me and
said: Emerson, what possessed you to pile up
all that pig iron yesterday, you foolish fellow?
Now you go home and rest, and your wages will
90 right on for two days. for you did more than
three good days. work. 1 confess that l was
pleased with the opportunity but only lay off one
day. and when l went to work it was to pile up a
few cords of wood and shall never forget how
light it felt. 1t seemed as though was handling
cork don't think that it ever injured me- but
would not advise any man to try such feat.
Moral Courage in Daily Life.