Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-03

and they come and go year in and
year out, TO see beloved ones whom
the world does not love and has put
behind bars. The gray prison walls
hold all that is dear in life to these
dear mothers. wives, sweethearts and
sisters.
The husband who has committed
crime that his wife may have luxurious
surroundings usually retains the af-
fections OF that wife, even when he
dons stripes and is close cropped. The
professional burglar often is model
family man and does not sever his
family ties when he docs time The
man who kills his fellow man for the
affections OF woman and is paying
the penalty for that crime has surely
q right TO expect that that woma n
viii care enough for him 20 remember
and visit him while he Is the servant OF
the state.
CITIZEN there Is mothers love, never
failing, never even wayering in its nm
assailable constancy and that accounts
for one.half the visitors 10 the Sing
Sing conTets. Thirteen hundred men
ANH EHhuAtA az RAAE HAAEt anu AAtA
army az women--sad women who are
snd because Of the thirteen hundred
must easily equal the convicts in mum
Der
Many a romance brought 70 tragic
cliinax by the mcrciless hand of the
Law is suggested by these untiring Wis
itors. Even the ubiquitous hackmen
who infest the Sing Sing railway sta
tion seem 70 appreciate this, for when
these unhappy ones alight from the
trains and look uneasily and sclf.con-
scionsiy about the drivers realize in
tuitiyely the nature OF their errand
and treat them with Difference rarely
met with in their class They APP
proach respectfully, and In subdued
tones say kindly, TO the prison,
MADAME" or, Right this way 10 the
prison
About one visitor only Is there any
mystery. Others give their names and
go 10 zee some convict who Is known
10 the keepers This one goes yelled.
and no one knows who Il IS she goes
10 see
tall, 1.-THE, graceful woman. at
tired all IN black and wearing q heavy
black vcil. occupied seat in car
directly in front Of and opposite that
Of the writer recently.
She was uneasy and restless. though
not obtrnsively 80; she carried herself
with the fine reserve of woman Of
breeding accustomed to do Just such
things Sometimes she would look
anNiously about the car as II in fear
OF being recognized, though with her
veil recognition, even by an intimate
friend, would have been clearly impos-
Aible
An old.tim haclSman Mt the Sing
Sing station approached her as she
alighted. She got into his ramshaclSlc
conveyance as II she had been in Il be-
fore. and II ratified up the hill and
over the stony road along the bluff to
the prison few hundred yards in adj
vance Of the equally noisy conveyance
OF the writer.
1t was the hour at which the CON
viats, having finished their evening
meal ia the great feeding hall--it
would raise the ghost Of Brillat Savarin
To call IL n dining-room march in
locl.step 60 their cells, in long, single
files They come through the stone
tagged prison-yard with steady,
machine-likc shuttle of their heavy
prison shoes. Keepers stand about
with heavy sticks in their hands.
BY the entrance to the long granite
building containing the tiers of cells
arc two great open boxes of bread.
Each striped miserable reaches out and
IN