Las Vegas optic., 1913-03-05

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that the trains win be using it with
in year.
Children Mentally Defective.
That $4,000 pupils in New Yorks
schools are feeble minded is the
startling charge made by report
which has been compiled after care
full investigation for the committee
on school inquiry Tor the board of es-
innate. Even in the high schools the
report shows that there are many zee
bic minded children, condition
which is attributed by teachers to
the fact that the pupils are not al
lowed to stay more than two years
in one grade, and so are promoted
whether they are fit or not The
realization of this condition has con
fronted the city with the necessity of
discovering some remedy. OF the
possible solutions segregation and
colonization IS suggested as having
many advantages but that this plan
is not entirety feasible is indicated
by the report which says, 'it is most
unfortunate that the one institution
which the city supports for that pur-
pose should have such a reputation
as to make this solution difficult and
| often impossible. 1t is possible to
have colonies and institutions so at
tractiVe that parents are eager to
have their children placed there.
This has been demonstrated in many
places the country over Until we
come to the point where we decide to
take these children forcibly away
from their parents, whether they are
willing or not, everything depends
upon winning the parents consent;
and this can be done if the institu-
tions are conducted in the right way
and if entrance to them has been
made simple and pleasant" With
juvenile feeble minded school popula-
tion greater than the total population
of many county seat, New York
finds itself confronted with an ex-
tremely serious condition, the solu-
tion of which will be anxiously
awaited throughout the country.
Woman Grand Army Member
While the announcement that Kady
Brownell is lying seriously, perhaps
fatally, i'll in the old Jumel mansion
here may cause little interest among
the present generation, it is likely
to bring back many memories to
those who lived during the civil
war, since there is today probably no
woman in this country with a more
romantic history than this same
Kady Brownell, the woman soldier,
the woman veteran, the only woman
who is full member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, who has her
discharge papers and receives a pen
sion granted by aApecial act of con-
gress, She was married to Robert
Brownell in Central Falls, R. l., only
three days before the war broke out.
| When Governor Sprague called for
troops Brownell went home and told
his bride that he was going to war.
She said that he shouldn't go without
her. AT first he laughed, then he
forbade her to go, and finally he
begged her not to go. When he EN-.
barked with the rest of his regiment
I he was dismayed to find her on
board. It was only after the hardest
kind Of work that she was taken
ashore, and she Immediately began
her pleadings with Governor Sprague.
She urged to such good effect that
the governor escorted her to Wash
ington and allowed her to take her
place beside her husband She new
er disguised herself as man. She
didn't carry rifle, but she had a
i light saber and a revolver with
which she could shoot so well that
she became known as one of the most
expert sharpshooters Of her whole
regiment. The only wound which
she received was snot in the leg
at the battle of Bull Run. She stood
up under the heavy marches much
better than some Of the men. One
day she plodded along beside her hus-
band over 80 miles Of nard roads.
Prisoner Without a Prison.
While nearly everyone has heard
of the man without country, it mas
remained for New York to produce
a prisoner without a prison, who will
apparently have to spend the six
years to which he has been SEN
fenced as a sort of wandering con
vict taking train rides with guard.