The Washington times., 1915-04-18

neIt' on 1t to keep it from rlInniu too
rs as ana thought after listening to
IN" less n that this belt on my Nris'
Mouid DO the same thing fo' me. Don't
20 think 1t a fust-class idce?"
Held For Manslaughter.
He is high tempered fellow. con-
/ fined for manslaughter. Symbols have
ever been rcspected-rcvered The
Cross. Is our symbol Of faith-a band
of gold has preserved the morality Of
, nations. His leather band will help
him. in its Significance
While the dialect Of home environ
mcnt probably will distinguish always
this man speech, in less than a year
he has learned to spell correctly $50
words in common usage, read reason
, ably well. and add, subtract, multiply
and divide.
DO yo' think if study hard and
| learn, the people in my town will TO- git
that | have been bad, and give me
work when l go back" he has asked
anXlously on more than one occas on
! lie Is from Cambridge. the governors 8
i own town. His crime was the culmina-
ton Of great provocation.
| n" attempt is here made to furnish
funny stories" t" speed the passing
hour. These are "strokes" from I'M
fortunates' hearts. presented by one
who understands their yearninEs In
y! sympathetic ful1ncss.
| There are phases of a prisoners men,
| talty inappreciabe to the outsider.
| complete understanding comes only to
! the initiated-thOse who have lived the
: life. Some Of these men are splendid
examples of Drawn and muscle, but per-
! feet children when they enter, as to all
that pertains to letters. Simple truths
are at first bewildering. AS light breaks
in through patient teaching, they bear
themselves with pride The penetration
of thought centers awakens an infant
/ amDltlon, and nightly 1t grows. Keen,
/ orderly class rivalry stimulates it.
Told of New Year Day.
! ON December 81 last, before the men
We're dismissed, they were told the sig
nitlcance of New Year Day: How it
| presented another chance to make good !:
an opportunity to clean the slate and
begin all over; to do the things which
hGd been left undone: to omit the things
which ought not to be done. For some
they were reminded, the New Year
would bring that happiness which at
tends liberty-for all some happiness in
the knowledge that they were that much
nearer home-that the Christian world
had wiped out the countless Years which
preceded Chrst's birth and begun all
over, calling the starting point, the year,
One. A. D. that this era is called the
Christian Era, that happiness is God S
reward for the observance Of all law
that the best way to be happy is to help
make others happy!
There was In the class ut the time I,
Pickp0cket Wk0 had cOntended that
aS pOcket-pici<inG was his vocation, u
oaS his right 10 make his living h,
h-that every man had a right to fol-
low his "DrOfession."
lust after the New Year comments
= this "unmorai approached n nearby
= student and returned an article he had
: tilched from his pocket, saying:
81 couldn't keep 1t after listening
to that speech"
"Charlie's" interest is always kccnly
alive when the lesson involves rhyme
} or jingle-and he memories quickly
Recently with that bashfulness that's in
| Cident to youth in love, he asked fol
a verse to copy to send to his girl"
/ Since I've been in here" he explain
ed, she has been sittin away from me
and now as | kin write. | thought n lit
tie bit of poetry might win her back"
Send The rose is red, the violet
/ blue. was suggested.
q lie had never heard the lines an(
d sent them off with high hopes. and
= giggle. on st. Valentines Day she sen
in return a gorgeous Cupid, with an ac
s campaigning sentiment that indicate,
the fire had only needed Ittle shak
e ing up.
= Through the simple letters the schoO
u has made II possible for men to senC
r home perhaps many an interest o