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Bureau)
The bold idea of allowing prisoners to
go outside the jail alone and work with
out guards upon their honor, is in sue
cessful operation today in Vermont In
1906 the legislature provided that all male
persons imprisoned for certain minor Of
fences may be required to perform not
more than 10 hours of manual labor with
in or without the walls of said JAIL
Afterwards a law was passed that all
persons convicted of crimes for which
the Imprisonment lis one year or less
should serve their time in these jails.
In our Jail at. Montpelier the average
number of prisoners has been about 30.
At first no one was willing to employ
Them The first trial made was to use
a small gang to cut bushes and do other
work on property owned by the sheriff
Those whose term of sentence was short
est were employed and the state was given
so cents per day for their labor. The trial
had poor success. The men had no inter-
est In their work and hardly earned the
small sum allowed the commonwealth.
Afterward a small number were en-
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ployed on the water system of the city
ct 81 per day which was turned over to
the state for the law provides that 1.-The
proceeds of such labor II any, shall be
applied in payment of materials and
tools furnished, and any balance left
shall be turned over to the state treas
ury." This was almost a failure be-
cause the men did as little as possible.
Finally we hit upon the idea of giving
the men a part of their earnings and
trying the honor system. For three
years the state has taken 81 per day
for the service of these men and has
allowed them the balance of what they
earned. The average wage paid has been
s175 which gives each man IS cents for
his own use. The prisoners go to their
work unguarded being placed entirely on
their honor, During the time over 700
different men have been sent out to
work and only two have attempted to
escape. One was captured In another
state after months of liberty and both
served sentences for prison breach.
For two years we have often been I'M
able to furnish the men needed by
farmers. contractors and for common
labor. Often we have had IS men work.
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gave him the car-building idea and
thus came about the repairing plant
which was so fertile in graft.
Newspaper reports of the investiga-
ton in Chicago have told of Oster-
manns methods and how Illinois Cen
trail officials of high repute made sacrt.
flee of their regulations and prospects
in order to secure some of the dishonest
money which Ostermann temptingly
placed before them. The scheme was
exposed after Ostermann and his asso-
ciates had robbed the railroad company
of some 100000 of its earnings.
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Stockholm, October %. 2The Nobel prize
for medicine has been awarded to DR..
Albrecht Kossel. professor OF Psychology
at HeidsIburg university
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CIRCUS TICKETS FOR PRISONERS
Honor System Tried In Treats His Charges
AS Personal FriendstMen Go Out Alone
to Earn Money
BY #. H. TRACY
Sheriff Washington County, Vermont


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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-12
WOMAN GONE OF U. S. TROOPS
Boston School Teacher Who Went to
Philippines Is So CIassed.

Washington, Aug. 11.-While a
woman would not be permitted to en-
list in the army, navy or marine corps,
she may become one of the troops of
the United States
This announcement is made on the
authority of Comptroller Traceweu of
the treasury department.
The decision was rendered in the
case of Mrs. Eva B. Peck of Boston,
a school teacher who went to the
island Of Guam to instruct the natives.
She was appointed by the navy de-
partment with the understanding that
after serving a year she would be
permitted to return home, the govern
ment paying her travelling expenses.
When she returned she travelled from
San Francisco to Pine Bluff, Ark,
over the Southern Pacific, land grant
road.
Mrs. Peck was classed by the gov
eminent as entitled to the rate which
land grant roads are required to give
to troops of the United States"
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WALKING FOR HEALTH.

Who has not heard that certain exercises are
good for because they shake up" the liver? But
it is not the best thing in the world to shake up
the liver violently unless is trained athlete
and ordinary and women very far from
being in that category Exercise increases large
ly the lvers production both of bile and OF sugar
Hence if it be violent than that to which one
is accustomed, more bile and sugar may be formed
than can be taken care of by the system, and the
subject may have what is called in popular parance
a bilious attack" Now this is where walking
comes in a happy medium in exercise. We can
often walk off, headache a digestive dstur-
bance when running would only aggravate the trou.
BILE.
1t is fact, supported by the highest authority,
that moderate exercise, such walking, is a
great aid to digestion. To run would retard dges,
ton. In other words, you will digest your dinner
better if you walk Immediately after having eaten
it, than if you sit still. Try this and # you are
thin you will gain in weight, besides saving more
in the cost OF living than you will lose in the wear
and tear of shoe leather
But suppose you are already corpulent will walk.
ing after meals, in that case, make you stouter?
No. ParadoXical the statement may sound,
walking will in that make you thinner. Fat
is very unstable compound and when it is pres
ent in excess more of it is destroyed by the in
creased amount of oxygen in the blood-due to the
exercise-than is deposited by the blood while on
the other hand when adipose tissue is deficient the
UlOOu, t!lSO IdCIy par"
ticles, deposits more fat than it destroy, and
thus the thin subject grows heavier.
Walking then in the open air is exercise par
excellence for everybody 1t shakes up the liver
just enough to keep it in good working order, it
enriches the blood by increasing its amount of
oxygen, thus favoring the destruction and elimna-
ton from the system of poisonous waste products,
particularly by the lungs, skin and kidneys. and
finally by stimulating activity of nutrition in the
muscles 1t tends to prevent the deposition of NOR
bid matters of tuberculosis or cancerous nature
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SOLDIERS SAVE YELLOWSTONE
Two Hundred Troops Drive Flame
From National Park.

Livingston, Mont, Aug. 11.-Soldiers
of Uncle Sam fought all night to save
Yellowstone park from devastation
by fire. The drought nurtured con-
f1agrations, which have been ravaging
the Northwest, yesterday invaded the
national park.
From Bell mountain came the news
that the forest was ablaze. pillar
of smoke rising over st. Marys gave
signal of a similar disaster. Still
gravel conditions were reported from
southeast of Lake Yellowstone by
smoke-begrimed couriers.
AS quickly as orders could be given
200 regular soldiers stationed in the
park were marching against the foe.
That large areas of the magnificent
trees fostered as a part Of the national
forest reserve were doomed to denuda-
ton was apparent from the first, but
the courage and discipline of the sea-
soned fire fighters eventually stopped
the advance of the Bell and the st.
Mary's mountain fires, saving miles OF
woodland from destruction.
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JOE CANS DIES--CONSUMPT|ON
GREAT FIGHTER sUccUMBs TO
DEADLY WHITE PLAGUE.
Was Considered the Best AlI-Around
Fighter Ever in the
Ring.

Baltimore, Aug. II. - Joe Cans,
former lightweight champion pugilist,
is dead of consumption which mani
tested itself about year ago. Late
last spring he went to Arizona with
the hope of restoring his health, but
the disease had been too deeply
seated and he declined rapidly. He
was brought here last week to die.
Joe Cans true name was Cant, the
name Cans having been fastened upon
him early in his ring career by mis-
take of a. referee. He began his ring
career in 1894, but prior to that time
he had made a name for himself as a
fighter about a fish market in this
city where he was employed. His first
fight for money is said to have
brought him 81. The largest purse
for which he ever fought was $4,000
in his first bout with Battling Nelson.
Of this Cans received only 900,
he having agreed to give Nelson the
remainder win, lose or draw.
Cans won the title of lightweight
champion from Frank Erne at Fort
Erie in one round in 1902 and lost it
to Battling Nelson in 1908 in the sew
enteenth round
He was considered by the greatest
analyzers of prize fighting to be the
best combination of filter, boxer and
ring general that ever essayed the
game. He fought more than $50 ring
battles.
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DAN WEBSTER VASE;
Among Rare Exhibits in Boston'S
Public Library.
Valuable Relic Is Made of Pure
Coin Silver and Weighs
at Least Thirty
Pounds.

Boston.-The Daniel Webster vase,
now the property of the city of Bos-
ton, has been placed among the list
of rare exhibits in the fine arts de-
partment Of the public library. 1t Is
made Of pure coin silver, weighs at
least thirty pounds, and is worth in
trinsically a tidy fortune.
The vase was presented r. Mr.. Web
ster on October IL, 1855, at the Odeon,
which was the name by which the
old Federal street theater was then
known, and a crowded house of inter
ested spectators were treated to a re-
sponsive hour-and-a-half speech, in
acknowledgment of the gift, by the
foremost political orator of his time.
The current newspapers records of
the event say that the money to de-
fray the cost Of the vase was raised
by small subscriptions. No one sub
scriber was permitted to contribute a
sum in excess of one dollar. The re-
suit of such a restriction was large
list of contributors and no attempt
W nave bSCII ludIC W III We
the names. Neither was there any
reference made to the aggregate of the
sum which was raised.
I'VE shall say nothing descriptive of
this massive piece of plate" said Edi-
tor Buckingham Of the Courier OF Oc-
tober IS, until we can obtain more
exact account than we are now pre-
pared to give"
The Courier also said that 5000 per
sons witnessed the ceremony OF pre-
sentation, a large estimate for the ca
pacity of Boston's first theatcr, and
listened to the speeches. Francis G.
Gray spoke for the subscribers and re-
ferred in many complimentary phrases
to the services Of Senator Webster in
his debate with Robert Y. HayHe Of
South Carolina in 1882.
Mr. Webster, in closing his address,
said: Nov l want you to go on,
right on, straightforward in maintain
ing in your utmost zeal and with all
your power the true principles Of the
best, the happiest, the most glorious
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STOPS HIS BOUNTY ON FLIES
MiddIesborough (England) Alderman
Is Swamped With Insect Disease
Spreaders.

LondOn.-"Please have mercy Oh me
and withdraw my offer to buy dead
flies and bluebottles," writes Aid. Mat
tison of Middlesborough to local
newspaper. A few days ago Mr.. Mat
tison, aware of the baleful influences
Of housefiies and bluebOttles on the
public health, proposed through the
sanitary department to pay a penny
1.-TWO cents) for every so flies and
penny for every II bluebottieS deliv-
cred, impaled on pins, TO the corpora
ton Offices. His offer stirred the wags
in Middlesborough One wrote tO MIR.
MattisOn:
"Will you quote me price ON daddy
longlegs? I can deliver a choice lot"
Another wrote:
What is your quotation today on
gnats and fleas?'
This was the funny side of Mr.. Mat
tison's adventure into practical phi}an-
thropy, but it also had its serious side
for him.
Flies and bluebottles arrived at the
corporation Offices by the thoilSands.
Every small boy in marlborough
was busy and even men and women
joined in the crusade. One boy de-
livercd 1000 dead flies in a single Lot
and the clerks had to leave their or
binary work to receive, count and pay
for flies. The corporation Office
reeked with the odor Of the disease
breeders. Children besieged filth
heaps in looking for flies and their
mothers are after Mr. Mattison's
scalp. Hence the alderman's frantic
cry to the newspapers to call or the
hunt. He is out Els ($75) in cash
II don't mind that" he writes. but
l have 100000 dead flies on my hands
and have lost my reputation. want
ed to promote the public health. but
am afraid that / am going TN give
every boy in town some infectious dis
ease"
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J sin senator's voice seemed to be actually in BET
ter condition during the closing hour of his ad
dress than it was during the opening hour.
The Wisconsin senator naturally has rather 9
rasping voice which like the voice of Gore of Ok
lahoma is open to the Yankee characterization, but
twang, accent, idiosyncracy or whatever you may
choose to call it, passes with the first few minutes
of utterance. The roughness is smoothed away and
the words fall smooth and rounded and with GER.
tain appealing force, though the subject have
nothing of appeal.
When a senator has the floor in his own right,
he can talk upon any subject under the sun. He
does not Of necessity have to confine himself to the
subject in hand So it that La Toilette did
not speak entirely Of the currency question, but
about other matters as well. Occasionally in order
that he might spare his brain the trouble of thought
and so keep it unwearied, he read from book OF
fiction.
During many of the hours La Toilette spoke
there were comparatively few senators i'll the cham
Der. Hour after hour he spoke, and then taking
up his book of fiction, he read with a perfect re-
gard for the rules of enunciaon. His auditors were
all sleepy and most of them out of humor be.
cause there were only two who were in sympathy
with the speaker, and yet perforce every person
in the chamber gave heed to what La Toilette was
reading. For it's subject matter perhaps they cared
not whit, and yet by the force of his reading eo'
quence he drove it home to their attention.
When La Toilette had ceased speaking Senator
Gore OF Oklahoma, who as had been planned, took
up the work and kept at it for some hours. He was
relieved by Senator Stone of Missouri who already
was tired with his previous vocal attempt to keep
the senate from vote. The Missourian kept it up
for seven hours and then Gore relieved him once
more That filibuster ended because Gore being
blind failed to note, and told him, that Sen
ator Stone whom he expected to relieve him
not present in the chamber when the Oklaho.
ma senator sat down for the third time. The vice
president instantly put the vote and the flibuster
had been in vain.
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YELLOWSTONE PARK ABLAZE.
Soldiers Battling With FIames-Wild
Animals Driven Into Valleys.

Soldiers Battling With FIames-WiId
Animals Driven Into Valleys.
Livingston, Aug. 11.-Forest fires
are still raging in the Yellowstone
national park, midway between Nam
moth Hot Springs on the north and
Yellowstone station on the west. All
troops of Fort Yellowstone were hur-
ried to the scene and about 100 troop
ers are fighting fires on Mount Holmes
and Mdry's mountain. Fires on the
latter mountain are serious and heavy
damage is threatened.
Herds of deers and elk and numer-
Gus bear, driven from the timber by
fires, are common sights in the valleys
below the fire region, wild animals
apparently losing their fear of man be-
fore the approach of the flames. Much
big game is believed to have persisted
in the fires, those northeast of Yellow
stone lake being particularly wide
spread.
Blazing forests at night furnish a
spectacular sight for hundreds of tour
lists.
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constitution Of free government with
which 1t has pleased providence in
any age to bless any of the nations of
the earth"
In 1865, or nearly thirteen years
after the death of Mr.. Webster. GER
tain public-spirited citizens of Boston
purchased the vase of the heirs Of the
Webster estate, and in formal letter
to Mayor F. w. Lincoln conveyed the
massive piece of plate" to the city
of Boston. Among the list OF sub
scribers to this enterprise, which was
headed by George w. Lyman, were
such prominent names as Henry j.
Gardner, F. o. Prince, G. S. Hillard,
H. W. Paine, E. D. Jordan, Peter But
Ter, II. D. Parker, J. p. Healey. Lev
erett Saltonstall and Peter Harvey.
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GIRL SEES HER SISTER DROWN.
One Goes Beyond Depth and Other
Dies in Rescue Attempt.

CroOkston, Aug. 11.-Grace Walton,
10 years old, and Luella Walton, Is
years, were drowned in the Red Lake
river, while bathing. The latter got
beyond her depth and her sister, try.
ing to rescue her, also lost her life.
A young sister, who witnessed the
drowning, called for assistance, but
before it arrived both girls had disap.
peared. Their bodies were recovered.
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SULLIVAN, MICHAEL.

An East Boston doctor told of the experience of
a druggist the other day who sold alcohol
to customer. After the had signed the
book as required he said: Now. don't get that
name twisted. 1t Is Michael Sullivan and not Sui
Ivan Michael same as they turned it around in
the directory."-Boston Journal
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Mr.. Clark is a free
trader so sturdy
that the other strong
ones are weaklings;
b u t nevertheless
these two tariff eX-
tremes met and
formed a friendship
that time and separ-
alton have not been
able to break.
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Hle Lure Of Che c 51l 1R6C0
1A(ational CAPITAL . $500 M@ +

HEY cannot keep away, for the Wash
ington lure is strong upon them. The
attraction of the capital draws form
er senators and former representa-
tives here just as surely as the call
of duty summons the present Office
holders. They drift down In Novem-
Der and scores of them stay until the
adjournment, and other scores stay
all through the summer.
Some men who befor2 they were
sent to congress rarely left the en-
vironments Of their home villages
have found after a term or two in
the capital city, that the district had
few attra ctiOny fO offer them nroyi-
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eye state most of the time now that he has re-
tired from congress-, but the Washington lure
draws him here occasionally, and he Is seen al
ways in his old haunts. General Grosvenor was
such fixture that it seems impossible to realize
when he comes back and appears in the old places
that he has been away at all.
No one misses Charles Grosvenor more than
Champ Clark, the Democratic leader Grosvenor
is a standpatter of such strength that Mr.. Cannon
it was said, used to sit abashed in his presence.
The evening world., 1910-12-15
WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR
UNDERWEAR
SWEATERS, ETC.

Friday.
women's Cambria aud Nalnsook Nigh:
D~resses-with lace, tucks ana
ribbOn-reg. 81. -, ....,....,... 'S6
Women's Cambrlc Skirts-claborate
lace and cmby trim'd flounces-
reg. VIZ, ,........ ,...s.,.,. DO
NainsOok Combinstions-two and three
piece-emh'y Jokes or lace and
rmb'y media lllons-sOme with trlin'd
siashed drawers-worth 81 ........ 40
Nainsook Corset Covers -daintily
trim'd yokes Of lace and emh'y
Inserts aud medsllions-reg 81. 90
Lawn Princess Sllps-yoke OF 9 rows
OF lace-or deep flounce-elaborato
lace trim-plnk. blue, yellow, white
Special value ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. i 30
Women's Cambria Drawcrs-wIde
ruffle with lace Or cmb'y-reg S.. 40
Children's All Wool Swcaters-whltc,
red or gray-5 20 II yrs-reg. s,s.. 90
women's sweater Coats-serpentine
or fancy basket weave stitch
double brensi, seml-fitted shawl
collars-yaluo $3.50 ................ 3 9S
GirlS' white Flannelette Gowns.
II. :. tucked yOke-silk stitched
turnover collar to ~ yrs.-reg. .9s. 80
Children's Slight Drawers-fleec
lined. knit and striped nauuelet G.
/ to ~ yrs Special, ,............... 40
Women.s petticoa,s-BlaCk. Sateen,
Sstineite and Moreen-fAncy or
tailored ilounces-W worth - -. ........ I DE-
Jersey Top Petticoats strapped
soainh sateen/flounce reg. Si9S,,. 1,40
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MQdamd Butterfly
With }adiOWker
and a NyW Bdby
nv SYL VESTER RA WING.

~ HERE were two newcomers III
the cast OF "NaGama Butterfly
which was repeated at tho Met
ppolitan Opera House last night, one
as Herman Jadlowker, announced upon
4 ne programme as Pinkerton, while the
others anne was not disclosed, but he
Or was 1t she?-Was Cio-Clo-San's
baby, the t~iniest, most plausible and
most captivating representative OF a
three-year-old boy that has been seen
here since Col. Savage gave us the first
glimpse Of the opera at the Garden
Theatre several years ago. All over the
house there were whispers from the
women OF "Oh! Isn't he Cute"
Jadlowker sans well enough, but the
stiffness OF his acting was a draw1acl;
10 his impersonatIon OF the lieutenant,
lie did. however. show that his wardrobe
was not limited 10 one suit. In the las
act he wore a blue uniform coat Instead
OF the white one In which he first APP
peared. All other Pinkertons have
called attention to the small pay Of
American naval officers by wearing
the same suit for three yea $ running,
some day. maybe, there will be a real
iia.c Pinkerton who viii follow custom
and wear civilian clothes while asho Q.
Geraldine Farrar's portrayal OF the
heroine was moe sii.ere and .mpas-
stoned than ever. It was a most moving
picture OF the betrayed and deserted lit
tie japanese girl that she presented both
in voice and action. Almost all ace OF
her exaggerations had gone. Is 1t Tos-
canlnis restraining influence that has
added so much this season to the dig
nifty of the art OF the fascinating young
American prima donna?
Scotti was Sharpless and Marie Matt
field was Suzuki in a cast that IL familiar
Ind excellent, with Toscanini IN the con-
= %,otnr'- chair.
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"a GO DOWN TO DEATH
IN WRECK OF STEAMER.

LONDON. Dec. 1.-THE German
steamer Palermo is a total wreck off
Cape Corrubodo on the west coast Of
Galicla. spain. Her five passengers
and crew of nineteen were lost. Advices
received to-day state that the vessel
struck n shoal Ind went to pieces dur
Ing a fierce gale last Sunday night.
The Palermo was n freight and pas
senger vessel OF $50 tons. She was last
reported arriving at Hamburg from
Palermo on Nov. q. She was prob
ably on her return trip when wrecked.
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