Year: 1874


| the Season. Only this and nothing more.
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| If n story which comes from the West is true we
cannot help wishing that Mr.. Wesley Allen, who
dictates our prison discipline, had Illinois for his
sphere of usefulness rather than NewYork. 1t will
be remembered that this sensitive malefactor. on
receiving an order he did not like, de6ed the au-
thorities at Sing Sing and converted them to his
own way of thinking. 1t seems that an imitator of
his at Joliet did not meet with equal good fortune.
Mr. Forester, who accused himself of the Nathan
murder in order to get free transportation to New
York. was sent from here to the peEitentiary in
Illinois to arrange some unadjusted balance
of labor due that State Fired. perhaps, by
the example Of Mr.. Allen, he announced
on being assigned his allotted task that he had not
come there to work. The keeper in charge OF his
division was puzzled and let him alone for little
while. The consequences were what might have
been expected. In the words of an unknown poet,
1t made the cOnvicts laugh and play, to see hand
so cool" man of quite another caliber, hearing OF
the disturbance, asked that Forester might be
assigned to his gang. This was DONE and Mr.. For
rester was given his work and shown how to do it,
He sat down on bench and cracked jokes with his
new pals. The foreman of the room came back and
said "Why are You not at work. Because did
not come here to work" The efficient foreman did
not rant or swear He said, "You had better go to
work" Forester asked, in his Sixth Ward manner,
"Whatll you do if dOn'tp Il will kill you,"
said the foreman quietly. The answer was unex-
pected and effective. Forester asked, " How can
YOU do that I" The foreman, still in the tone of one
imparting information, with no shade OF anger or
menace said, i will give you punishments that will
wear you out, and end in your death. Everybody
works here" The rufian thought over the matter an
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this thing 20 ~ If there is any moral to this mar
ratiye it is that most men would rather work than
die and that those who like to have their own way
are better as jailers than as convlcts.


The Fathers of Pittsburgh Penn, in their great
wisdom recently ordained that nothing should be
sold upon the sidewalks of that city. The law was
really aimed at those two great articles of pedestrian
consumption peanuts and soda-water; but its
nbraseology was such that the Pittsburgh shop
keepers are driven indoors with vengeance. All
the usual temptations to purchase must be hidden.
| The grocer can make no display of his boxes and
barrels; the butcher must withdraw from sight the
fat pigs and the fine legs of mutton; the ready
made clothing man must no longer exhibit Fallsuits
on a dummy, to be sold for S29;" while the shoe
| maker with tears IN bis eyes, must take in the
glass cases full of beautiful Misses" and





nuisance, we must say that we should be very sorry
| IN have a law like this enforced in any town in
| which we were obliged to live. The disappearance
of this outside show would take all the picturesque
ness out of our thoroughfares, and leave nothing
but bad architecture and commonplace prone
naders. A man who seldom purchases may yet be
much Obliged to the shOpkeepers for display OF
varieQated novelties always pleasant to the jaded
eve. When the streets are all the real estate in
which man has legal interest, he likes to have
them bright and pleasant.


Republcans who can recall the days when Lin
colin Chase, Seward and Greeley were the chiefs of
the marty. must have read with grim amusement
| the announcement that Senator Clayton, ex-Chef
| Irstice Mcclure and others Of that stripe had
arrived at the Southern Republican Convention now
| in session at Chattanooga, gathering largely
! composed of political freeboOters, adventures,
and thieves. Chief Justice Mcclure, by the
wav il more widely known as "POker Jack.' 1t Is
IN he hoped that he will not lose this opportunity of
| sbow,np his brother " Republicans Heaven save
the mark!-the beauties of the great American game
| as he has applied it to Arkansas politics. They
know already pretty much everything in the way of
trickery but he give such advanced scholars
some very useful hints in the way OF shuffling and
dealing.


| The Boston Radical Club has apparently come to
life for few moments on purpose, as we suspect, to
reply to the appreciative obituary notice which we
published last week. Whether its reappearance is
10 prove genuine resurrection. or the embalmed
CORPSE as our correspondent r. w. L. suggested, is
70 be borne around from house to house. it is too
soon yet to Judge. But in either event we must re-


ioice that body which has provided so much intel
lectual entertainment Is spared earth yet little
while longer.