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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
OSBORNE'S INCARCERATION

order 10 nj men for responsible life OF
freedom after they are discharged from
confinement. men and women are deprived
Of all responsibility. OF all freedom, ard
are subjected to senseless and harass-
ing regulations and too often to filthy
conditions and associations which are in.
compatible with self-respect
"All of this must be changed and re-
placed by conditions which will encourage
the growth of the qualities which will
make our prisoners capable Of living a
decent. well ordered and responsible life
outside of the prison walls. To learn
how TO act In freedom man must be free
as free, that is to say, as is compatible
with the restraint of the evil disposed
person from further harm to society
This, then, is the problem OF the prison
reformer-so to reorganize our prison life
as to afford training, 80 far as this Is
possible, for a responsible life In society
1.-THE crux Of the situation is the prob
lem of prison labor. Indeed, so far as
the vast majority Of prisoners is con-
cerned, the whole problem may be stated
in the following propositions:
First. that prison system is best which
HELMS the largest proportion OF convicts
TO re-enter society as now constituted.
SECOND labor is a fundamental requi-
site of any such system.
Third. such labor should be productive,
efficient. and. as far as possible, volun-
tary.
"Fourth all voluntary labor should be
adequately remunerated'
1T is along some such lines as these
that the solution OF the problem of deal
ing with the criminal must be found. OF
course. the fundamental thing is to pre-
vent boys and girls from becoming GRIM
ipals IN sion the stream 1t its source
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
ACT ~, SCENE u.

crime: IL Is a crime against the frst-born
children; IL is a crime against society"
Norman Hapgood indicates his position
in the following letter TO Frederic II.
Robinson:
nine out OF ten people whom | met
howled about the stage being no place
FOR such subjects. Now that reason has
prevailed. and everybody approves OF
Damaged Goods they 60 ahead and howl
against the next new thing. OF course.
when any subject becomes popular. mel
odrama will take IL up. and undoubtedly
there are on the stage now certain melo-
dramas dealing with social problems In
crude way. But even that. II an evil
at all. Is a very slight evil compared to
the good that may come from the serious
productions and also slight compared TO
the evil that comes from productions
that nobody raises any howl about. IL
some solid students want 10 give pri-
vate performance OF a serious play on
a great subject. you can get the police.
the newspapers. and the exponents OF
virtue generally so excited they can
hardly see but New York can be full OF
so-callsd musical comedies the whole
purpose Of which Is salacious without
exciting n ripple.
II believe the way TO improve standards
OF moral responsibility In sex matters is
through scientific and ethical education.
The question OF preventing births
is merely touched upon In The Guilty
Man. 1t is a more difficult question, no
doubt At present II is associated with
crime, often Of the most horrible kind, to
such an extent that 1t is difficult to think
clearly about the real object Some peo-
pie think that the more children born In
a family the better. no matter what the
circumstances OF that family To me that
opinion is simply incomprehensibe
look forward to a civilization In which
for a pair OF healthy and well educated
persons, we'll able TO furnish what chill
dren need, the raising OF family VIII De
looked upon as the happiest, most usefui
and most interesting life; but, at the
same time. the responsibility will be real
lied. and the having OF very large, acci-
dental families by irresponsible and In
ADEQUATE persons tIhli NC i'c"hSN NfO'''
But the real point OF the play Is that II
shows how dastardly a man is who lacks
a proper consideration for woman
whose love he wins and child that Is
born to him.
III the Puritan element In our COM
munity want to concentrate their ener-
gies on fighting against allowing Few
serious people to contemplate these ques-
lions at a private performance on the
stage, they presumably cannot be pre-
vented from that method OF expressing
their intelligence"
And the Rev. John Haynes Holmes
wrote:
1T is a rather pathetic commentary on
the courage Of some of the members OF
our committee that they should seek to
run to cover so speedily. but ! trust that
most OF the sponsors Of the work will
stand by you. You may certainly count
upon me to the finish"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
Continued from first page.

tyranny (these can scarcely De saio 10 ca
list in English prisons), but IN such re-
construction OF our methods OF deaiihs
with criminals as will be involved IN our
regarding them as our fellow human De-
ings who. through lack of will power or
because of special conditions OF tehpla-
ton. or because Of the formation OF WRONG
habits, have gone wrong. III othe'
words. the problem Is one OF dear
ing with individuals and not with as
,,nct TYNE or class Of persons herded TO-
osther and dealt with regardless OF their
TAreonaI characteristics and the causes
which have made them what they aie'
Tbese causes-what we may call proxi-
,,a,e causes--of wrongdoing may be saiu
90 ha weakness of will In the face OF
- tsmntation and the destruction, or
,n,nairment. of self-respect and OF respect
for the good opinion OF the community ny
,.,h,cb the restraints upon the evll pro-
rars,ties n The Individual are weakened
oThe objects which we should set oeiore
lis then in our treatment OF '''e -.
should be the Strengthening OF 'he w."
will and the building UP IN MN u
..1a,,aot ord respect for the opinions Oh
..,ai, ordered society. Obviously these
ends are not attained, but ra'her "
feated under the artificial system OF re,
arass,on and regimentation which obtain
in our prisons as well as in those OF O ,ne
- I, is not too much to say that
the entire body of regulations uno es
which our prisons are administered as
vsu as the attitude of the administrative
onosrs are directly calculated to destroy
such self-respect and 10 Impair 49,, 80
power as the prisoner possesses IT, =,
-. 80. tern, of imprisonment. In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12

These are the only adjectives that will
characterize them properly. Introduced
and dragged through by puritanical in
quisitors, they are a blot on our country
and a disgrace 10 our nation.
1.-THE punishment for sending by mail or
express any kind Of information on the
subject is five years at hard labor, plus
500 fine. The law is not dead letter.
but Is applied mercilessly, revengefully.
81 have ALWAYS maintained that II com
mon sense won't convince person, stats
tics surely will not. But an interesting
study has recently been made by DR..
Alice Hamilton, and was read before the
American Academy OF Medicine. Sixteen
hundred families Of wage earners were
Investigated. and the results are contained
In the following table
Deaths per 100 births in families OF
four children and less................ lie
Families Of six children and more. 2S1
Families Of seven children and more. 30
Families of eight children and more. 2el
Families OF nine children and more. 5o3
CDR Hamilton fond that child mortal
ity increases proportlonatey M tue mum
Der of children per family increases. until
we have death rate In families OF eight
children and over. which is two and one
half times as great as that in families OF
four children and Under
80 YOU see that even from the stand
point Of the race suicide alarmist ex-
cessive childbirth is not an unmitigated
blessing and defeats its own object to a
large extent. But in the meantime. 1t
causes lots OF suffering. lots OF time
waste, lots Of economic loss TO parents,
and deprives the surviving children Of the
proper chance.
ON short. excessive childbirth if a crime
from every point OF view: 1t is a crime,
first and foremost. against the mother: 1t
is a crime against the father. though he
is himself the involuntary author OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12

my head he looked away. but as soon a.
l glanced back at my magazine l felt
his eye upon me again. He was a heavily
built man in an ulster and wore a felt
hat pulled down over his forehead. I be-
gan to feel rather nervous. My thick veil
effectually prevented him from discover
ing my secret; of that was sure. Why
then should he be so Interested in me?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
THE AVERAGE THINKER.

There are few thinkers. few real. pro-
found thinkers, in the world to-day" said
Senator Thomas Sterling at a luncheon in
Vermllion, S. d.
Many man who thinks he's think
ing" added the Senator. rs merely d.
costing yesterdays newspaper"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
Continued from sixth page.

ried women n day and has other parlor
tricks. His parents perished In the
Messina earthquake. He has a legal
mind and weighs pros and cons. as
discovered when talked vacations with
him.
on the one hand. he explained cooking
his head to starboard and wrinkling his
brow, vacation time this fall means no
more early morning surf bathing and
rather less promiscuous OSCILLATION. on
the other hand. II means going home 10
Italy and being able 10 smoke TO A rea-
sonable extent In the show on Surf ave-
nue. they are ridiculously strict-they
won't let him pun more than about two
boxes OF Turkish cigarettes a day pro
portionately, a cigarette in the barons
liliputian nit IL as big as a Scent banana
I'm yours or mine) II Signor the Baron
Paucci is not sure Of his spring plans.
He may return TO Coney. IL two-ton
petition from his lady friends finds its
way into the Mediterranean and up 10
Messina In time, or he may go 10 Paris
and handy airy persihage with the frog
eaters and the Oo-la-la ladies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
THE MlDGETING BUSINESS.

Different destinies this fall await the
two midget ladies OF Coney. Queen
Pearl OF the Liliputians." CHEEKY little
person over at Luna, who is Mrs. Pearl
Robinson In private life, is going to take
a long rest from the life strenuous in
her Brooklyn Nat. She is only 3 feet
inch tall but she does all the HOUSE,
work for herself and husband. and likes
1t. too. Queen Pearl has bicycle. and
spins around town awheel on her mark IT.
ing trips.
Elizabeth, the Living Doll. an inch
taller. though smaller Of limb and figure
than Queen Pearl. easily carries off the
popularity laurels in the Surf avenue
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-25

Those Southern
building, certainly direction
could
fill Socialism spreading counting
ndividuansic crowd
the problem
meet the call for privacy.
Maybe this could be the
It's laughing matter though this need of better social
And especially
indoors olden times there paro at home in which daughter
crowded with
forcing people to pack into enemnt it's different story
Sparkling little
hail.
all this idle its
only Sunday and twice during the week
conditions
Lutheran
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-09-25

'Yop." -s..r =,
"Bizzizbin sortaslack tilnow. Ges-
sittell keepapickin nupawile. Had
derlayeffamanna cuppeladaze aweek.
Howztrickswithyer?"
"Ofe air."
'Wotcher thinkerboutdat Mexik-
insittiwashn? Kindabad tainit?
Demgize aintfitterguvvern desselfs.
Itswotdeyeet maiksemdattaway. Dey-
fillsup ontomalizensich, endendy
wannago outanstab sumbuddy wit
amashetty, enden runferpresserdent.
Howyerspo sittel wine up?"
Dunno"
linen favera sendinteddyter bring
emtertime. Takesergink likim. Hoida
noogag yistiddy. 1t goze dissaway;
Wotz derreesin monitalks? Derrar-
seriz: Becorse Observation-Disclosures
evridollur, harharharw -n;e
"Ouchw
Observation-Disclosures? lie put
yum talcummonnit. Howlye shaw
yerneck?"
"Wither aiser."
Harlan, datsapippin, Mistajonsin.
Imagonna springitonder bossumday,
Brush! Ca1lergin Mistaionsin." -.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31
Political Caucuses Held In Little Rock.

Little Rock, March 31-Politi- cal caucuses were held in Little Rock on Sunday which are ex- pected to bring new candidates into the race for governor. Judge Jeptha H. Evans of Boone vile, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate, was in Lit tie Rock accompanied by Chan cellor Virgil Bourland, Robert A. Young and John Arbuckle, all are prominent members of the old Jeff Davis forces in Sebas- tian and Logan counties.
 William F. Kirby entertained Jeff Sanderson and others from Southeast Arkansas. and receiv- ed much encouragement. It is now conceded he will be in the race for governor, and there is intimation he will be given clear field against Stephen $. Brun- didge.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31
BOND, SECURED CURRENCY,

BOND, SECURED CURRENCY. During the Civil War the Fed eral Government found itself upon the verge of bankruptcy. It could not find a market for it's ponds. In that emergency it decided to create a market by making the bonds the basis of note issues by the national banks. Issues by state banks were made impossible through the imposition of a 10 per cent tax. It was an arbitrary deci- sion, and it created an artificial market, but it was justified by the extremity of distress in which the Government was then involved.
 The situation which justified that unusual step has lOhg since passed. The bonds of the United States are now salable anywhere. No other great nation has so small a per capita Government debt. No other civilized nation has such a banking system. It IS the cause of the inextricable confusion between commercial and investment fbanking. It is, m part, the cause of the vast and dangerous concentration of mon- ey power and money credit in Wall street.
 We should reform our currency system along with our banking system. We should supplant our present crazyquilt currency with a unified and flexible medium of exchange, based primarily on gold.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

interests known as a town. The town is the unit of modern civili zation and is the channel through which civilization confer it's ben efits. There is scarcely phase of civilization that does not find direct and specific expression in the life and organlzation of a town that is large enough to have a school, a courthouse, a library, a bank, mlll or a factory, a church, a waterworks, a brass band, newspaper and railroad station. Representing education, jurisprudence, literature, finance industry, religion, hygiene, art, and the speedy distribution of intelligence and commodities, these institutions express all that is highest and best in human achievement. If civilization is good, then the home town is good, and the citizens should be proud and thankful of it. Instead of casting wondering and envious glances at a distant New York, let us glow with pride for our own littlescity, realizing the diff ference is only one of degree and not of kind.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31
E. J. JOHNSON, EDITOR
THE HOME TOWN.

People seldom stop to consider W much their town means to em. They take it too much for fanted, and in counting up |elr blessings make a superfi-
 Inventory that fails to credit esOurce from which many of elr dearest benifits flow. It is BY to overlook the home town
 summing up the sources of es happiness because t h e Tnl is such large all-envelop.
 lhlng-so large, in fact, that
 hard to see-and the citizen Faaly draws sustenance from it ean infant from its mother.
 aced to their source most of Fs blessings will be found to
 'nelr root in that aggrega-
 uOl human beings and human
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

The April number of the La dies Home Journal is a good one. Get one at Hesterly Drug Store Thursday morning, the 20th of March.
 The News will appreciate that order for job printing.
 Get your Saturday Evening Post for the 29th at Hesterly Drug Store tomorrow morning. It is full of interesting reading.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31
Customer Urges Him to Use His Hal Tonic on His Guaranteed
 Tooth Brushes.

"Say," said customer to the druggist, "you keep a good hair ton ic, don't you?"
 "Yes, indeed" replied the drug gist. "Our own preparation. Hir- sutina, for example, will greatly pro- mote the growth of hair and"
 q don't mean something to make it grow. I mean something that will keep it from falling out"
 "Yes? We'll, we have another prep aration called Scalpola, which Is guaranteed to stimulate the roots of the hair and thereby"
 "I don't care what it does to the roots. What I want to know is if it will keep the hairs from falling out"
 "Indeed it will It is one of the fros r"tio ',0uN t0 ce'o'>ee
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31
A Cure For Eczema.

Eczema..in any form, whether acute or chronic, is easily and rapidly overcome by the use of Meritol Eczema Remedy. Gives positive relief when all others fail, and we heartily recommend it to any sufferer.
 Hesterly Drug Store exclusive agents. Advt.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

Getty sburg, often referred to as the blOodiest battle of the Civil War, takes second place to the battle at Olustee, Florida. There Gen Gilmore with $500 men en. gagged Gen. Finnegan, Confeder- ate, with 5400 men. Neither side had any protection, natural or artificial. Both lines were at all times in full view of each other and the fight was continued till nightfall The Federal losses aggregated in killed and wound ed 1861, which was a little over B per cent. of their force. They also lost 120 horses. The Con- federate casualties totaled 500. Gilmore retreated to Jackson vile and returned on board the transports. Thus terminated the expedition to bring Florida back into the Union. Lee and Meade each sustained loss of 20 per cent. at Gettysburg, as against the B per cent. suffered by Gil more.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

made of the purest ingredients, care fully combined and compounded, and"
 "Well, say, is there any difference between bristles and hair?"
 "No."
 'Then will tell you what to do. You take that lot of tooth brushes from which you sold me one yester- day and guaranteed that the bristles would stay in, and soak them for a week or so in your Scalperina, or whatever it is."-Chicago Post.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

A fellow loves to look at girl s picture; but before he marries he wants to hold her hand.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

This town was built around the first store, not around a mail order catalogue.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

All the mail order house shows is the price; the home merchant shows the price and the goods.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31

What makes some other town look better than this is having better boosters.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-03-31
The Prescott Daily News
 PUBLISHED sY he News Printing co.

Entered as second class mail matter bvember 4th, 1905, at the 'postoffice
 Prescott, Ark, under the act of hgress, March 8, 1879.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-23
Way to Woo Sleep.

The following method is described
as one which is almost certain to WOO
slumber with success. On going to
bed you assume comfortable atti-
tude in which every muscle is relaxed
but not the attitude In which you are
accustomed to go to sleep though
something resembling it. Every move
ment, coughing, yawning, are strictly
repressed, especially the desire to
turn over. The same attitude Is main
tanned without change. constantly re-
sisting the longing to move or turn
over.
AS rule, by the end of 15 or 20
minutes Of this persistent mainten-
ance of the same attitude you will
find yourself growing very drowsy
and then, just as the desire to turn
over becomes absolutely uncontroH-
able, you turn with the least posi-
BILE effort, and assume the position
in which you habitually go to sleep
and natural sleep follows at once.
This method, it is claimed, seldom
fails and should be given thorough
trial, at least before resortfng to
drug to bring sleep.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-23

Fran arrives at Hamilton rGregory's
home in littlebu1g, but finas him absent
conducting the choir DC a camp meeting.
She repairs thither IN search OF him, b
leave. Abbott Ashton, superintendent
schools, escorts Fran from the tent. He
tells ean, her Grefg9ry Is wea or ana man
pillar of the church. Ashton becomes
greatly interested in Fran and while TAX
Ing leave of her, holds her hand and is
seen by 5apphira Clinton, sister of Rob
ert Clinton, chairman of the school board
Fran tells Gregory she wants a home
with him Grace NOR Gregory private
secretary. takes violent dislike to Fran
end advises her to go away at once
Fran hints at a twenty-year-old secret
and Gregory in agitation asks Grace to
leave the room Fran relates the story
uf how Gregory married a young girl at
Springfield while attending college and
then deserted her. Fran is the child of
that marriage. Gregory had married his
present wife three years before the death
Of F~ln's mother, Fran takes liking to
Mrs. Gregory. Gregory explains that
Fran is the daughter of Il very dear friend
who is dead. Fran agrees to the story.
Mrs. Gregory insists on her making her
home with them end takes her to her
arms Fran declares the secretary must
60. Grace begins nagging tactics i'll an
effort 10 drive Fran from the Gregory
home. Abbott While taking walk alone
at midnight finds Fran on q bridge tell
Ing neE fortune by cards. She tells Abb
bolt that she is the famous lion tanner,
IRAN Nonpafell She tirea OF S1IcuS lie
and sought home. Grace tells of see
ing Fran come home after midnight with
Il man. ~ She 'guesses part. of the story
and surprises the rest from Abbott. She
decides to ask Bob Clinton to go to
Springfield to investigate Fran's story.
FRAN enlists Abbott in her battle against
Grace. Fran offers her services to Greg
DRY as secretary during the temporary
absence iof Grace. The latter, hearing of
Fr4ns purpose, returns and interrupts a
touching scene between father and
daughter Fran goes fishing with Mrs.
Gregory's brother. Abbott. whose reten-
tion superintendent, is to be decided
that day, finds her sitting alone in
buggy He joins her and is discovered by
Clinton and his sister. Grace tells Greg
cry she intends to marry Clinton and quit
his service. He declares that he cannot
continue his work without her. Carried
away by passion, he takes her in his
arms. Fran walks in on them and de-
clares that Grace must leave the house
at once.