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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

I'm Birmingham, Ala, 240 men in ~
cells; 25 women in ten cells. :.
The inmates of jails are chiefly of two
classes-those awaiting trial and con-
victed misdemeanants. The ordi-
nary term of convicted misdemean-
ants, Migrants and inebriates is too
short for any sort of industrial train
ing or systematic production. A care
full study of the situation in all parts
of the land has long ago driven many
to the conclusion that we must have
district labor colonies or warehouses;
for those convicted of offenses, and
that the term of degenerates must be
at least two years, if we really intend
to fit them for useful lives
r HE committee plainly shows that
! under present conditions and laws
the county Jail must provide for males
and females; children, youth and
adults; first offenders, habitual crimi-
nails, vagabonds, prostitutes; wit
nesses held for their testimony; poor
debtors whose crime is their poverty;
idiots, imbeciles, insane, epileptics,
persons arrested on suspicion, and
apoplectics whom the sapient police
man could not distinguish from drunk
ards. All these, says the report, are
often under one roof and management,
in building so built that cries and
whispers travel along a corridor with
cages open at the SIDE
Now, what chance is there in the
average Jail for the reformation of the
imprisoned vagrant? We may think
that Jack London draws the long bow
in his picturesque descriptions of life
on the road, but in his tale of impris-
onment in the Erie county Jail he
never wrote of such horrifying condi-
lions as are described by the report
of the committee, of which Prof.
Charles r. Henderson of the Univer-
sity of Chicago was chairman. What
chance above all, has the detained
witness or suspect, held in the Jail for
his testimony, and innocent before the
law until he is proven guilty? What
| chance has he of not suffering con-
tamination and gaining a hatred of So
ciety that will not die? In many coun-
ty jails the only exercise enjoyed
by the prisoners is in common large
room, with steel grating separating it
from the surrounding corridors, and
| called in Jail parlance the bull pen.
N NE VIC Aol IHeu III d WIelCAeu Ill
"A lemma, we who urge that the
vagrant receive treatment that will
deter and reform? Shall we, know
ing Jail conditions, allow him to roam
at large? But the vagrant habit is fos
tered by idleness, mendicancy and the
| absence of prosecution Even as it is,
the unwillingness of many police Off
| Gals Or magistrates to prosecute
| tramps is well known. When the
i vagrant is told to 'get out of town or
be run in" he of course decamps, and
| the town finances are spared, while
| the neighboring> community receives
the shifted burden Yet if the con-
victed vagrant is sent to Jail he be-
comes source of contamination to
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to enable him to form an adequate
judgment of the case.
Coupled with this carefulness and
completeness of investigation, regis
tration, and adequacy of judgment is
the Belgian system for the punish
ment of Migrants, which differs SO es-
sentially from our opportunist meth
DDS as to be staggering at first to con-
template. We bunch" our Migrants
in law. In New York state the man
with no money. no work, and no visi-
bic means of support is vagrant.
That, such man is not often jailed,
unless the case is aggravated by
other factors, is not the fault of the
law, so to speak, hut is due to the I'M
Willingness of magistrates to commit
the unemployed homeless, or to the
Indifference of the authorities. But in
Belgium the state of mo work no
home, no money is not crime I'M
less there is added to that the state of
intentional idleness.
d UT when Belgium does commit a
- vagrant, then woe to the liberty of
that vagrant for a long period Con-
viction is to a depot de mendicite for
from two to seven years. The depot
de mendicite is at Merxplas, a great
industrial colony with accommodations
for about 5000 prisoners. Here there
occurs a classification, the worst ele-
ments being at night placed in soil
tary confinement and otherwise placed
under strict discipline. Intensive la
Dor is carried on, the work being
graded according to the physical abili-
ty of the individual inmates.
The Belgian treatment of Migrants
brings out prominently several facts.
In the first place, Belgium believes in
getting Migrants of the streets and
highways. Some years ago the minis
ter of justice declared that there was
no vagabondage in Belgium This
statement needs interpreting. There
is probably fairly little vagrancy
along the highways, because every
vagrant must be apprehended and
made to show cause through his pa
pers, or by the absence of a record at
Brussels, why he should not be sent to
the depot de mendicite- The fact that
Merxplas contains about 5000 in
mates, and that the average period of
detention is Is months, and that the
majority of the inmates are returned
to Merxplas for succeeding offenses
of vagrancy, shows that vagrancy in
Belgium is not eradicated from the so
cial body, but removed as much as
much as possible from society.
e ECONDLY, Belgium does not re-
- gard all Migrants alike If there
are extenuating circumstances, or If
| the case of vagrancy seems the result
of physical incapacity. the apprehend-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

instances to the penitentiary Boston,
Lowell and other Massachusetts, towns
report sending some Migrants to the
state farm, where there is nine
months sentence in these jails and
warehouses the labor required, when
there is any, consists generally of
breaking stone in quarry orsin jail
yard. roadmaking, chaircaning, chair
making and farm work This work is
ION paper There is little or no eff
fort made to bring Informative inf1u-
ences to bear on those serving short
sentences or to teach a trade Even
at the Massachusetts, state farm,
where the workhouse conditions are
far better than in most correctional
institutions where misdemeanants of
the vagrant or inebriate class are con-
fined, the industries maintained seem
to be far more largely carried on as
sentences than as chances to earn
a living.
MANY of the cities use the Berti1lon
IVA system of Identification measure
ments. One chief reports asking the
usual questions" another the name
and address'-as though a Migrants
name and address would be of value!
What contrast is this to the elabor-
ate Belgian system for the Identified
ton of Migrants. which centers in the
easier centrale de vagabondage," a
general identification bureau at Brus-
sells? In Belgium the process of trying
an arrested vagrant is speedy and
thorough As soon as the police arrest
a vagrant they communicate by tele-
graph with Brussels. Within a few
hours there is sent back from Brus-
sells by telegraph full description of
the vagrant and of his previous career,
if anything of the prisoner is on rec
ord. On the following morning the
magistrate, who is a graduate of the
university, has before him sufficient
material about this particular vagrant
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

ture of the ordinary Jail is radically
wrong, and offends against the laws of
health Almost all the reports
from jails record the dull, mononton-
Gus. maddening tramp of prisoners
walking aimlessly up and down the
corridor 1t is the path of lunacy-
Why not have walled yards in the
open air. partly sheltered from rain,
covered over with steel wire to pre-
vent escape? But this plan is rarely
thought of. 8. Card playing is the
universal resource for passing the dull
and anxious waking hours
Many examples are given of exces-
zsive overcrowding.
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other inmates, and in addition he is
OFTEN glad to hibernate or spend a few
weeks where warmth, food, idleness
and the company of vicious fellows is
assured Are we not often, by admin
istering the law, condemning the vag-
rant to further depths of degeneracy !?
What do the reports OF chiefs of no
lice show? The writer recently re-
ceived extended reports from so
chiefs, representing as many different
cities, representative of large and
small municipalities The letters
showed that in most instances vae-
rants are committed to jails. less fire.
quentiy to warehouses; 2-- = few
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

~vEW YORK-The course of the
III vagrant's life is in a vicious cir
VA cle Street, park bench, cheap
lodging house, court, jail, street,
brake-beam, court, jail, ETC.; SO it
goes, from month to month, from hand
to mouth, from city to city. More ac-
.curately stated, the Migrants course
is spiral and downward, with accel-
Grated momentum toward demoraliza-
ton, disease and death. Along his
road are certain rescue stations
charitable societies, missions, curb
stone breadlines, industrial homes,
personal visitations in alcoholic wards.
These are efforts to extend the help
ing hand, to switch the vagrant from
the circular track to the straight
ahead line" But generally the mo-
mentum is too great Failures are re-
corded far in excess of even imagined
successes writes 0. F. Lewis of the
Charity Organization society in the
New York Times.
When we seek, by Imprisonment, to
sleal with the individual "vag," what
do we find? Generally ineffective, in
adequate, unjust methods of punish
ment, SO futile as to be ridiculous,
were they not so tragic. We find cor
rectiona1 methods in jail that, instead
of correcting, debase, methods as
vagrant as are the prisoners. We be-
lieva that each man who is able
should contribute his share of the
days work Nature abhors a vacuum,
and the community in general abhors
the constitutional idler. If the drone
work not neither shall he eat We
believe that crime. should be punished.
Vagrancy is a crime under the law.
Punishment is generally and neces-
sarily effected by the restraint of lib
erty, within a penal institution. Vag-
rants are imprisoned generally in jails
or warehouses.
But how?
What are the conditions of Ameri-
can jaiis?
Do they check vasraney?
Do they punish justly?
Do they reform?
A N ANSWER has recently been
IA made public which is a scathing
arraignment of conditions in great
majority of American county jails, all
the more scathing and staggering be
cause made after careful inyestiga
ton by a committee of the National
fTlSou congress, WHICH uOeS not seek
sensationalism. The following para
graphs are almost random quotations
from the report:
"If the only or chief purpose of jails
were to keep wild beasts in cages
most of the jails are well enough
adapted for this purpose. The
customary mode of serving food is re
voting, demoralizing and often dan
gerous to health. . Often we must
imagine bunk over bunk, in the same
cell or cage, crowded until the horrors
of stencil or suffocation are indescrib
able. Under an open Jail system
the filthiest, vilest prisoner Furnishes
or tortures those who have not yet
sunk to his level. The very struc
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
4 WOMAN SPORTING EDITOR.
Colorado Girl Has Original Method Of
Keeping Scores-HoW She Started

Denver, Col.@The Trinidad (Col)
Evening Chronicle-News, is. in one re-
spect, distinguished above all other
newspapers in the United States in
that it has a young woman sporting
editor.
There are now few daily newspa-
pers upon which women are not en-
ployed in ons capacity or another-as
compositors, linotype operators, re-
porters. fashion writer's and editors of
departments. but only one can boast
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

Starch, like everything else, is be-
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market rs years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est Observation-Disclosures Starch-al1 in
furious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by US. gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other brands.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
In Moroeco Harem.

Every woman in the harem has her
face decorated in the most curious
manner. The practice is to elongate
the eyebrows to the ears and to embel-
hsh the chin with little points of black
paint. In contrast with the men,
their compilations are very fair. as
they are shut within walls and are
never exposed to the sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
M'klNLEY HUT FROM IRELAND.
Cottage Birthplace of Ancestor on Elk.
hibition at London.

London.-The little Irish cottage in
which the late President McKinley's
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

A man who claims kin with pes
simist displays poor judgment.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

IF YOU USE BALL BLUE,
Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Bal
Blue. Large OF. package only 5 cents
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup
For children teething softens the gums, reduces In
dammaton, allays PAIN cures wind colfc 25c bottle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

People waste lot of valuable time
in foolish arguments.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

Birthdays, holidays and weddings
are what keep the average man poor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11

FITS, St. vitus Dance and Nervous Diseases per-
manently cured DIR. Kline'S Great Nerve Restorer
Send for FREE S2.0O trial bottle and treatise. DR.
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Pride.

did your son get near the top OF
his Glass;
NO answered Farmer Corntossel
cherrily. But You ought to see the
way he could get to second base"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
Dramatic.

Bings-Why dye suppose that new
play writer ordered all those big jack
screws2
BangsEWhy, haven't you heard?
He's going to elevate the stage
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-11
PROBLEM OF THE
AMERICAN TRAMP
HOW SHALL vAGRANcY EVIL BE CHECKED?

Laws of Various States Have Proved Unequal to the
Task-Elaborate System for the Cure of Habtua
IdIeness in Force on the Continent of Europe-Is
Striking Contrast to the Futile Efforts That Have
Been Made Here n the United States.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Cultivating Slinness

Fat women must take this injunc-
ton to heart if they want to be in style
for the new modes will not drape over
a fat figure.
The fat has got to come off quickly
but without harm, of course and this
means only one thing can be depended
upon. Exercising or dieting are too
slow. The fat woman who wants to
wear a form clinging gown must make
an immediate "trip to her druggist and
get a case of Marmola Prescription Tab
let's, which will cost her about rs cents
Taking one of these after each meal
and at bedtime should be enough to
bring her to the losing -pound-a
day" stage before even the first case is
used up 1t is hardly believable thai
such delightful results can be obtained
without harm and for such small sum
of money. but then, fact is stranger
than fiction.
Test the effect of these tablets by
getting a case yourself. either from the
Marmola Company, Detroit, Mich. or
from any druggist. They are made in
exact accordance with the famous Mar
mola Prescription and, consequently.
can not have any i'll effects.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
The Remarkable Will
OF A Doctor
He Leaves the Secret of Life to His
Children and the World

One OF the worlds greatest physt-
clans upon his death bed called MS
children about him and said: When !
die / will leave the secret OF life as i
have discovered il in my practice.
When they read his will 1t directed
them to safety vault which contained
a large envelope marked thus: Inc
Secret of Life" Upon opening IL they
read: Don't abuse the stomach. This
profound thinker after a long life of
medicine knew the stomach to be the
throne of man.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will help
you make a stomach healthy.
If 1t is worn out and lacks the fluids
OF digestion these tablets will take the
place of such fluids.
If il is filed with poisonous juices.
these tablets will neutralize and re-
move such poison.
If you canno: eat without agony
these tablets VIII show you how you
can II YOU will eat foolishly' or drink
excessively, or IL business demands
abuse of stomach. these tablets after
meals viii make such abuse light, for
they take the hardship away from the
stomach.
They are great digesters, filled with
more powerful agents than the system
can give. They go back into the blood
after they have digeSted NEAL there
by increasing the ability of nature TO
take care OF digestion without eX-
hausting other organs.
High liveTs need feel no considerable
hardship if they Will eat one OF these
little tablets after rich or late meal
It is a splendid gift to the stomach
and a good habit to form. Stuarts Dys-
pepsia Tablets sell for soc per package
at every drug store.
Send US your name and address and
we will send you a trial package by
mail free. Address + A Stuart Co.,
$50 Stuart Bldg. Marshall. Mich.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
SCHOOL BUILDING WILL BE
FINEST IN THE COUNTRY
Architect EIIory Declares New
Normal Institution Will Be
SuperbIy Equipped
SPECIAL DISPATCH 10 THE CALL

SAN JOSE, Nov. 12.-That the new
normal school building. which is to be
erected on the site Of the one destroyed
by the earthquake IN this city, viii be
one Of the largest and by far the
handsomest and best equipped institu-
ton OF its kind ia the United States
was the assertion Of Nathaniel Ellory,
state architect, TO the board Of normal
school trustees. with whom he had
Conference at the st. James hotel in
this city tonight. Mr.. Ellory came
iron. Sacramento today and spent the
entire day ia inspecting the progress
~ the work on the new buildings at
the state hospital for the insane at
AgneW. which are TO replace those de-
srrOyed ia the earthquake.
The cost Of the building has not yet
been estimated the state engineers
office being still engaged upon the spe-
cifcatiOns. 1t is proposed 10 advertise
for bids next Tuesday, the same TO be
opened December IL
The contracts viii be let Immediately
and the work viii commence before the
frst Of the year IT is thought that the
larger part Of the building can be COM
SoIeted by the time school opens for the
term of 190s-IO. and the whole building
within the year.
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department was taking advantage OF
every detail to discover the where
abouts of Edna Clark. Captain Peter
sen denied that he had seen Young
during the day, because Of the illness
of the clergyman.
Inquiry at the home of. Mrs. David
Muir, where Rev. Payson Young re-
sides, brought forth no information
other than that the clergyman was IN
serious condition. The report that
he was at the point of death was de-
MED by the landlady, but she refused
to allow any one to see him. DR..
George T. Pomeroy called at the resi-
dence yesterday morning and after
noon, but gave out no statement con-
corning the patients condition.
1t has been stated by some of the
parishioners of st. Andrews Episcopal
church that Rev. Young had been very
attentive to the grown daughter of
Mrs. Muir. Mrs. Muir was asked about
the matter yesterday and refused very
curtly to answer any questions what
ever in regard to the subject.
The Rev. Payson Young and the
board of vestrymen of the church of
Mary the Virgin We're sued in the JUS
tice court yesterday for $40 on light
ing bill The case was brought by
John n. Ross, as assignee of the Grey
son gas and electric supply company.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE MEETS
Five Members of the German
Council Convene and Dis
cuss Recent Events

BERLIN Nov 12-The FIVE members
Of the foreign affairs committee Of the
federal council held a meeting today
and discussed recent events. The as
sembline Of this committee IS of rare
occurrence. and much interested specu-
iation was aroused by the intimatfon
that the meeting was called with the
idea Of taking some step TO prevent
Emperor William from pursuing an in
dependent course in the foreign affairs
u the empire. In well informed circles
it Is affirmed tonight. however. that the
committeeman old nothing further to-
day rhan to read certain papers relating
10 the Casa Blanca incident. They were
entertained al dinner by Chancellor Won
Bulow.
Today has been full Of rumors and
surmises concerning what attitude En-
perOr William would adopt toward
Chancellor Won Bulow, the reichstag
and public sentiment at large HIS
majesty spent today hunting and had
Breakfast in the forest. Prince Won
Furstenberg. his most intimate friend
is with him.
The present is a time when the small
est circumstances are studied in order
10 arrive at an understanding Of what
his majestys future course may be. and
there IS satisfaction that he is with the
prince. whose influence is regarded as
restraining and wise The prince is the
only man who seems TO speak plainly to
the emperor. and his majesty treats
him as an equal Their ancestors were
counts together in Swabia eight cen
turtles ago.
The prince is vice president Of the
Austrian imperial council and a knight
Of the Golden Fleece. He is as much
an Austrian subject as q. German Al
though Of aristocratc descent, he is not
"a reactionary, and is looked upon as
distinctly modern in his political views
There is still considerable doubt as
70 whether or not Prince Won Bulow
viii remain in Office. and free mention
is made Of possible successors The
names OF DR.. Theobald Bethmann-HolI-
veg, minister Of the interior, and Baron
Won Rhelnbaben, PrUssian minister Of
state, are most frequently heard in this
competition.
The Frankfurter Zeitung today SAYS
the situation viii not be settled until
after the emperor and Prince Won Bu-
low have had a personal meeting. and
this is The prevailing view in the
reichstag. There is nothing more TO
be done at present.
The reichstag today discussed ques-
tions Of colonial expenditure to empty
galleries.