Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-04-08
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OUR JAIL BUILDING.
CBy L. B. Akers.)

looking for a location, ! found a man
who had three pigs in a house with
GOOD roof but no floor; the rain
ran under the house and the pigs
didn't look first-class. asked MIN
what he fed them He said dish
water and bran. I noticed they
were bedded with gunny sacks and
baljng wire and asked him which
he liked best. He said: "Well, the
gunny sacks absorb lot of mois-
turo" So I supposed he liked the
balng wire best,
After the Boxer trouble in China
the empress was for a long time abb
sent from Pekin, and one of the
necessary conditions of her return
was that the breaches in the city
wall should first be repaired. There
being some hurry and less money,
it was repaired with paper and was
all right, especially when seen at
long range
The Russian warships to be used
in the war with Japan were built
by contract and the contractors
found it necessary to economize in
material and avoided the expense
of many tons of bolts and rivets by
substituting putty in proportionate
distribution with the more perman-
ent material, and it worked all
right, or at least if ever a vessel
sprang a leak through a putty filled
hole have not heard of it.
Well, this is not what l set out to
write about, but gunny sacks, bal
ing wire, paper and putty are sug-
gestive. Gunny sacks and baling
wire are good to bed the pigs with,
especially the baling wire, Paper
makes good Chinese walls and putty
is very good material in building
Russian war vessels? But such ma
terial is only good in its place and
would not do for a Josephine county
iail building. Now, this remark is
not absurd, for the steel bars of the
iail building are not better than the
aforesaid cheap material in that they
are no stronger, are no more per-
manent than their protection makes
them. An ocean steamer may be
perfect in material and construction,
but unless the hull is protected by
copper the barnacles will destroy it,
The security of the prisoners in
our jail depends on the honor Of his
outside friends or friend, or on their
disinclination through some other
vein than that Of honor. And 1t is
very possible to break jail with no
outside help. Our jail not being
modern makes it more possible The
windows are more for the prisoners
convenience than the security of the
public. There is no way to get a
prisoners meals to him but to open
the door of his cell and walk in with
it, even though the prisoner should
be a most desperate character and
might take advantage of any OPP
nortunity
Baron Trenck fell in love with
Amelia, sister Of Frederick the
Great 1t was not the emperor's
desire that the matter 90 farther so
the baron was cast into prison,
though Amelia was just as much in
love with him, His love for Amelia
was so great that he broke jail with
nothing but his pen knife. He was
recaptured and again imprisoned.
only to break Jail again and again.
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worse men, We nave some of the