The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-22

inal's sin does not find him out his
nose is very likely to betray him.
With the nose under suspicion, as it
were, an entertaining series of specu-
Iations is afforded the observer. He
wonders what his w nose says about
him, and he finds himself studying the
evidence outlined in the noses of
Others.
Science accepts the human nose as
a truthful witness, with testimony for
o. against it's owner.
August brahms, resident chaplain of
the State Prison at San Quentin, Cali
fornia, has expounded this interesting
theory, with voluminous statistical
reasons to justify it, in a book called
1.-THE Criminal; A Scientific Study"
which is just now attracting the at
tention of the entire scientific world.
Says brahms, in the San Francisco
Examiner, concerning the nose, the
feature which, in his opinion, is ma
lures sign of warning when she would
reveal the true character of man or
woman:
Criminal Noses.
<'The nasal induces in normals are
less than those of criminals. The
nose, generally ~rectilinear, large, and
frequently crooked or malformed, with
large wings and o~rifces, sometimes
Undulating and with uplifting base, is
peculiar to them. Among habitual
criminals I found, upon examination,
A per cent possessed noses deviating
to one side or uniformed; among
thieves, 46 per cent crooked, and
among homicides, AZ per cent. LON
broso found Is per cent crooked noses
among female offenders; fiat noses, 40
per cent in normals; IL per cent in
homicides and 20 per cent in thieves.
Malformations are doubtless largely
due through accident, attributable to
their wandering habits, drunken
.brawls and general recklessness."
Compare the criminal nose above
with the others shown and then carry
your studies into the street. You will
find the study fascinating and there
will be much to startle the keen OBJ
server The criminal nose here given
is a composite from the photographs
of half a dozen confirmed criminals,
men who are vicious not by accident
but from deliberate choice and be-
cause they have brute blood in their
veins. The clerical nose is that of
the Rev. DR.. Mackenzie. The poetic
nose is that of Edwin Markham. The
moneyed man is Daniel Meyer. Judge
North, of San Francisco, represents
the judicial type and the Governor of
California serves to illustrate the poll
tician. The athlete is "Lanky Bob"
Fitzsimmons and the actor is a compo-
site type.
Chaplain brahms is an interesting
teacher on the subject of criminals in
their variety. Learn of him If yor
would pick your criminal from among
his fellow creatures. He has studied
to such excellent purpose that the pub
1ished results of his researches will b.
placed alongside authorities on Grim
inology.
Startling Statement.
A startling statement, which will es
pecially interest the layman, is mad
by Mr.. brahms to the effect that tn
greater per cent of criminals in for
eign countries is furnished by tn
churches, while in America the church
es do not contribute to crime.
Lombroso, the great Italian Grim
inologist, upon this point states tha
81 per cent of the violators and Sc pc
cent of the ~assassins in Italy frequer
churches.
Chaplain brahms is of the opinio
that American criminals as a class al
different from the criminal classes
foreign countries, and that the cause
of their criminality are different. +
says:
Careful inquiry convinces me thu
not one half Of 1 per cent of the tot
prison population held actual membe
ship in good standing with any churC
at the time of committal to prison
and. as to the habitual criminal,
rieidivist, I have never known such q
instance"
Is it true, then, that America
churches are SO much more potent tia
foreign churches in the matter of r
straining from crime those who con
regularly under their influence?
Human Beings Are Savages.
Lombroso declares that a human b
ing is a savage universally at heart, ]
matter where he is, just as a dog
and that he has to be educated in
.docility and ~amenability to law, ev'
into a recognition that law for t