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Tfa'e Bees
ome Maaziitie Pa
His First Glimpse of the Sea!
By NELL BRINKLEY
Copyright. IMS, Intem'1 News Service.
Cavemen of Our
Modern Age
How Intra-Mural School
Saves Prisoners
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright.
1915, International
News
service.
A former Washington lawyer and busi
ness man was convicted of embezzlement
of funds of which he was secretary
treasurer. He waa sentenced to twenty
years In the Mary
land penitentiary
and began his term
In December, 1915.
As soon as he en
tered the peniten
tiary he became In
terested In the In-tra-Mural
school
Just started and In
a short time was
made superintend
ent. Recently the
Baltimore grand
Jury made an In
spection of the
penitentiary, and
his work became a
subject of special
inmitrv. The school
is
. A.
ti'i(,m waa mnalriared SO linUSUal and
had achieved such remarkable results
that the prison ruie was Droiten ana per
mlsslon given him to publish under his
own name the article herewith describing
the school and its efrect.
When one wishes to Ret the trend- of I
another's mind he watches his unguarded I
utterances. It Is through language that I
"prisoned thoughts are released." lie
who said "language was Invented to
conceal UiouRht" must have been a
diplomat.
The men who are groping for mental I
light In the Intra-Mural school are too '
little acquainted with world subtlety ti I
fall into the Insincerities of diplomacy.
The work of the men In the school for j
Illiterates ot the Maryland penitentiary
has elicited editorial commendation.
Trained educators concede astonishing
results. Kvldences of progress, as ex
hibited In iwnmanshlp specimens and
general written and oral declarations,
have lured the mentally elect to Its ses-'
slons,
r... iUam itmlttl,.- wVilph trtnkp for!
VUl llluoc " " :
good citizenship may not develop corre-1
epondingly. lias the school touched the
decpersprlng of the men's spiritual
nature? If so. Its Influence should be ob
servable In speech not directly related ,
to assigned lessons, and In conduct In-'
spired by logical thought. Are these men
this school's influence making
a successful effort to fit themselves to
enjoy those blessings organized society
offers all her advocates?
Remember, many of them have never
had a chance. They are In-prison because
they didn't think didn't know how to
think Twm.uUa .nut -mind, haa dictated
physical action. They nave never Deioro i
been governed by thought standards Just j
emotion standards.
Out of -eighty new men total Illiterates ,
brought Into the class room last Sep-j
tember, citizens of Maryland, not one
could say. whether George Washington
was an American -or a steamboat.
Think of JEO In a room, between 20 and
CO years of age, sprung from one of the
most Imaginative races, who had never
heard of "Jack and the Beanstalk."
"Cinderella" or "Alladln!" And when
they were told the story of "Jack" and
later tho first president's life was
sketched they vied with one another for
days outside the school In repeating the
fancied and historical Incidents presented.
Think of the possibilities of a school in
which a 30-year-old man defined "poetry'
as chlckena" the first night he entered
and smiled In bewilderment when shown
his own name written sending a well
penned letter home In three months car
rying this thought:
"livery line I write you tonight Is a
stroke from my heart!"
For 100 years the prison had been main
tained solely as a place of punishment
No attempt was made to Improve the
men. They were returned to society im
blttered. The first-timers came back In
numbers. They had seon no virtue In
dominating man or system. Punishment
narrows. Expansion of views had been
checked. The futility of warring against
Hystem comes only with the appreciation
that "the stars themselves obey a law."
One hundred and ninety are nightly In
the big school room, with only one officer
present. There has never been a dis
turbance an unnecessary commotion.
Only the hum of earnest workers each
class unaffected by the recitations of Its
neighbor. Encouragement, kindness main
tain where once physical and spiritual
suppression were monitors.
The teacher, with twenty years of
prison monotony hanging over his head,
spends half an hour dally communlngr
with a tree. It Is many city Mocks
away and visible only to the raised eye
from a certain spot In the prison yard.
All about him are wells and towers and
barred windows. Beyond Is the reart of
the city, but to him the city Is only a
mass of ugly roofs as far as the vision
extends. ,
Just this tree towering to heaven and
spreading its branches to the four winds
breaks the wearying view. It stands .upon
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an eminence, certainly, for among monu
ments of masonry It alone Is distinct tn
form and height
In winter it Is like a desolate giant
In the fullness of summer Its summit and
branches are covered with a vast crown
of leaves. It seems the growth of cen
turies. Storms have failed to make It
bow age has brought greater strength.
It Is more wonderful to him than the
old "Dolly Harbor," the legend tree of
his home town, which civil engineers ac
cepted for generations as the hub of
local surveys.
lie had hidden In the great hollow of
that tree, from whence, the folk talk
goes, the beautiful Dolly and her lover.
on elopement bent, watched the Irate
father dash by, they then doubling on
their course and outwitting him.
The tree beyond the walls furnished
food for pensive thought. Is it oak or
giant maple? Does It grace a rich man's
garden, or Is It a public tree? It en
grosses his Interest. It represents to
him the great world of vendure where
nature erte-aks with a thousand toguee.
In midsummer he wonders whether
tree cricket are among its branches,
and, If so, what story their loud calls
Interpreted would trlL Does the tree
crow, with his long tall and curved bill,
find it as secure a retreat from the sun
as he from the hot prison yard haa rea
son to believe it to be? The mere toad,
with his adhesive toes, he thinks la more
fortunate than he. Nature has fitted
him to climb from ground to summit ami
Investigate. He recalls that some tree
toads, like chameleons, change color to
elude enemies, and he speculates as to
this species flourishing there.
This prison teacher, whose name Is J.
B. Miller, says of his work:
"No one who has known from the In
side the past and present of the peniten
tiary but marvels at the temperamental
change the school haa effected. There Is
hope In every man's breast and prepara
tions are going on to realize It. Abra
ham Lincoln's ambitious announcement
on one of the blackboards has Im
pressed all:
" 'I will study and get ready and
maybe my chance will come.' Thank
Ood for hope! The clouds In the sky
never seem scudding to the sunset now.
It is always Just before the dawn!"
"The strangest school In the world"
they call It Perhaps It la. Polak, Greek,
Spaniard, neso and white American
shoulder to shoulder, youth and old age
staring nightly with wonder's wide eyes
at the unfolding of this new Influence
education! Two years ago over 0 per cent of the
prison population more than no men
were total Illiterates. The only Illiterates
today are the few recent arrivals on the
waiting list
When a man gropes for his soul he Is
on the path leading to decent citizenship.
Initiative will help htm to find It the
Initiative Inspired by Interest and en
deavor. If in eighteen months men have been
brought from absolute Ignorance to the
Intelligent application of the principles
of arithmetic, writing and creditable
composition of letters and an interest
In geography and history that indicates
continuous delving, it la a safe con
clusion that the school Is exerting an In
fluence that tends toward future stabll-
tty.
Five thousand library books are now
In active circulation through the prison!
Intra-mural advancement does not cease
with the nightly suspension of lessons.
What of the teachers In this school
within the walls? Hope is leading them
upward and on. Listen! Opfortunlty
speaks:
They do me wrong who say I come no
more
When once I knock and fail to find
you in.
For every day I stand outside your !
door, i
And hid you wake, and rise and fight I
. and win! .i
Do You Know That
MoBt spiders have poison fangs, but
few are dangerous to human beings.
A sheet of paper J1.000 feet long and
six feet three Inches wide was made at ,
Colyton, Devon, In 1889. I
Monaco possesses the smallest army in
the world. It consists of seventy-five
guards, seventy-five carabineers and
twenty firemen. i
The tide of the Bay of Fundy is the
most remarkable in the world. It rises
at the rate of a foot every five minutes,
the water sometimes attaining the height
of seventy-five feet
Polynesian mothers mould and flatten
the noses of their daughters, and think
that ths long, thin noses ef Kngttsh
women are the result of being pulled out
In Infancy.
The brain Is divided Into two part. If
you are right-handed you think with the
left side of your brain, while if you are
left-handed you think with the right side
of it.
Nearly every spectator at a Spanish
bull fight carries a whistle, which he
blows if he considers a toreador to have
broken any of the rules of the "game."
Bo powerful are the vibrations caused
by the explosion of a twelve-inch gun
that they are sufficient to shatter win
dows at a distance of a quarter of a mil.
Microbes are never found on gold coins,
while paper money Is an Ideal home for
them. The reason la that gold acts as a
bactericide.
A curious butterfly exists In India. Ths
male has ths left wing yellow and the
right one red; the female has tbese colors
reversed.
It has been established that the duke
of Wellington at Waterloo never uttered
the famous words, "Up, guards, and st
them"
Lloyd's derives Its name from a nun
woo kept a coffee house. In which mer
chants uied to congregate y) years bko.
The gypsylng Inlander used to waving fields ot pale green and
yellow grain (and often be wondered, watching It under the prairie
wind. If the pea was not like that) ; used to tiny bodies of water like
a drop of a jewel, a chip off the great gem; used to whispering trees
and flower fields; used to the brown road instead of the tossing In
digo waste and Its invlsiblo trails; used to the blue mountain In
Possibility of Man Keeping Himself
By DR. CHARLES H. PAItKHURST
Keeping young is a science, which
means that perpetual youth la ths product
of certain definite) and largely ascertain
able causes. Bo many years have elapsed
sine the writer
turned his back on
the cradle that he
may be presumed
capable of dealing
with the matter
with some degree
of authority.
Borne of the
causes we know
without being able
to control or ori
ginate them. ' We
cannot pick our an
cestry. Liong-llved
parents produce
children that ought
to be long-lived.
If we could thor
oughly penetrate
the constitution of
a new-born child,
we should find In htm the figure Indi
cating how long he waa Intended to last
Some are constructed to endure to old
age, soma to middle Ufe, some to die
young. We are la that respect like
clocks, some of which are built to run
three weeks, soma one week, soma
twenty-four hours only. This Is a matter
that Is laid down In tho mind of the
ctockmaker.
There Is what might be called a con
stitutional destiny such that even con
siderable disregard of the laws of health
will not be sufficient to thwart or over
ride it It Is something of that kind that
wa mean by saying that we shall go
when our time comes. The fact remains
the same whether we call It destiny,
foreordlnation or biology.
And yet the government we are under
Is not so stiff and Inconsiderate as to be
altogether intractable. Wherever the rest
of destiny comes from a part of It Is of
our own making. Bven clocks sometimes
stop ticking, not because they have run
down, but because their works have been
tampered with or the bearing been in
sufficiently lubricated.
There are people of whom we have all
known who continue to live not because
th-lr tlm; has not ome, but because they
refuse to u. . They teat their own con
I mm
i -. .. '
stitution. The will and mind of a par
son Is an extraordinary thing. It lies In
a way outside of the region of matter
and even alts In Judgment on Its own
body; can quicken or slow the pulse and
laugh at biological law.
One of the precepts of the Bible is:
"Keep your body under." There is more
In that than some seem able or disposed
to find in It The current disposition Is
to keep the body on top and make des
pot of that which ought to be slave and
Is meant to be. There la no frontier line
between mind and body so hard and fast
as to prevent the mind's exuberant full
ness of life from infusing Itself into the
body and thus making a more vital thing
of It and therefore a more long-lived
thing. Life should bs worked from a
spiritual rather than from a physical end.
An old physician told me a while ago
that It was by the exercise of his own
personal Influence upon his patients that
Advice to Lovelorn
She Is Tired of Yoa.
poxr Miss Fslrfsx: I am in love with
a girl of my age. Lately alia has been
acting queer, and as she does nol want
me to go to parties or dances without
i -i
out she goes to parties and dances with
out telling me, and as I never asked her
she docs not know that I know that arte
. a. K.
The next time you know she Is going
to such a place, appear there yourself
with another young lady. If your devo
tion has bored her, shs will grow les
bored. when she finds you Interested In
another.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Would it be proper
for a young lady to pay for a gentle
man's meal at a summer rert when he
is her guest t GtNTLHMAN.
It Is most belittling to a man to have
a girl pay for his meal if there Is any
money transnrtlon. However, If a girl
'is a guest at a hotel and arranges In ad
vance to have no bill presented to a
man who takes a meal with her. but to
nave thut i!atged on hi r bill, tl. man
stead of the towering seas where the great swell run; used to the
soft murmur of the clattering creek Instead of the great voice that
fills the world around the coast; used to the unending vistas of land
instead of the abrupt white line of land's end and the blue terror
that moves beyond at his boot's toe the gypsylng Inlander saw the
sea! And he wrote home and said: "It is lovelier than ever I
thought sure sure!" -Nell Brlnkley.
he did more for them than by his pills
and powders. He put his main work at
the mind-center of his invalids and let It
work out from there through lungs,
stomach and liver. He was nominally
an old-school doctor, but was not so the
victim of tradition as not to realise that
It la the Immaterial aids of a man what
we call mind or soul that la primarily
intended to be to him a center of au
thority and source of supply. All of
which Is good scripture, sound biology
and good sense.
Which reminds me that It Is In the
reykin of the head and the heart that
we need to put a kit of work if we are
going to secure to the body that tone
and fullness of life which means health,
youthful freshness and longevity. If a
person Is well alive In tho tone of his
thoughts. In the flow of his feelings. In
the strength of his Impulses. In ths
wealth of his Interests and in the warmth
By Beatrice
Fairfai
has no reason to feel anything but
pleaaud at her courtesy In entertaining
him.
Ysssg Essstk to Wait.
Dear Miss ralrfax: I am U and In lore
with a girt of 11 I believe my love Is
returned. We are not engaged.
Alinough we have no intention ef mar
rying for at least three yeare, I feel
downhearted because I've been out of
employment for the last five months,
and, although 1 try hard, I cannot place
myself.
iti-r purents think a gret deal of me.
Do you think 1 ought to give the girl up
while unemployed?
I do not trunk it proper to ask the girl
to wait for me to make good. My only
prospect, In case I do not lot a position
soon, is thst I am on a few civil service
Hats, and fool sure of an appointment
before the year Is up.
IHJtWNHEARTED.
Toe are a manly young fellow who Is
surely going to win his way to success.
In keeping with your frankness to me,
have a talk with the rarenls of the girl
you love. Tou are young enough to wait
Why not see esoh other ome a week on
a lais of friendship?
Young
of bis devotions, these work In him a
tide that will be likely to anticipate and
preclude such physical tendencies as
make for invalidism. If the body in
certain ways ministers to the mind, ths
mind In vastly superior ways must be
In condition to take care of and carry
the body.
Sickness Is abnormal. Premature death
la against nature. The vices which gnaw
Into the physical system and which
precipitate death are due to ths assump
tion that man Is essentially an animal
and onty Incidentally a soul. Compar
atively few people take themselves at
their true value. Their thoughts are
rather upon the tmminenoe of death than
upon the prospect of life. Mortality is
so present a thought with them as to
hasten their own decease, for It discour
ages their entering Into life In all the
fullness of Its meaning, and therefore
makes them the easier victims of mor
tality. There la sense In the expression we
sometimes use when we say: "I am toe
bu-ry to be stck." There Is svea finer
sense In being able to My; "Le means
so tremendously much to me that It
seems to me I ran never dle I am so
Immensely alive that death is a word
that has no meaning for ma" It Is only
upon experience of that kind that can
be founded any sterling eonfldence In
the doctrine of Immortality.
The more It means to a man to live,
the more power he has to believe that
he always will live. The doctrine of per
petual youth easily' prolongs Itself Into
ths doctrine ef ths endless life. There
Is more ot that doctrine In printed ooav
fesslons of faith than In practical ex
perience. It Is clearly evident why It
should be so.
If the life we are living hare is not
j realised as soma thing Immense, no Im-
puise is given ror conceiving or lire's
Indefinite continuance. Indeed. If life as
we have It today Is fraught with so few
fine fruitions as to be already burden
some, there Is scarcely any thought more
disheartening than that of supposing that
it la going to go on stretching; forth Into
an everlasting future. For life does not
hold for us now and never can hold for
us anything more than what we are
fitted 'to flue la It
Hy GA11KKTT P. SEHV18S.
The art of architecture in atone, the
most glorious aoliievemnnt of the build
ing Instinct in man, had Its origin among
the prehistoric cave dwellers. The germ
of the magnificent
Parthenon and the
other Oreek tem
plea and of the
great Oothlo cath
edrals, "the stone
bibles" of the mid
dle ago, waa nour
ished by the Mi
man contemporar
ies of the saber
toothed tiger and
the cave bear.
As the caverns In
the rocks were his
first homes and re
fuges, so the dis
tinguishing features of those natural shel
ters, and the material of which they
were composed, impressed themselves
upon man's mind, and when he began to
construct more elaborate dwelling planee)
for hlrmelf he imitated and reproduced
the things that ha had been exKUstomed
lo from the childhood of his race.
The dim, ancestral memory ef the
rocky homes In which his remotest pre
deosssora dwelt leads civilised man today
to prefer stone to any other kind ot
building material It la not merely that
he knows stone to be more enduring, but
he feels that no other material Is equally
suitable In texture, pleatlolty and appear
ance.
Looked at la this way, the cava dwel
lings, ancient and modern, with which
the earth la dotted ever a belt that, as
J. Walker Kewkes haa shown, extends
from China, across India, Asia Minor and
Arabia, the Mediterenean basis, the
Canary Islands, the West Indies, Mex
ico and North and Bouth America possess
fascinating Interest Maa has never
given up ths habit of living In caves. lie
haa not been content with the caverns
furnished by nature, but has both en
larged and Improved them, and eon
etruoted other with his own hand a
Cappadoola. in Asia Minor, for Instance,
haa always been a land of troglodytes, or
cave dwellers. A recent traveller In that
part of the world says that near Urgub,
oven an area some fifty miles long by
forty wide, the cliffs and rocks "are
bored with strongholds and villages which
swarm with people living of eholoe tn the
old wsy."
In Urgutt itself the traveller found that
the town consisted largely of mere house
fronts, which are no more than, masks ot
masonry covering rooms hewed out of
the solid rook of the cliff behind. When
he entered the little rock-hewn apart
ment about nine feet square, tn which ha
was to pass the night, ha found a mys
terious door In the rear wall, and, open
Ins? It, heard voices and the clank of
chains, and his Imagination began to
make a fearful picture of what might
exist in the hidden labyrinth beyond, so
that he passed the night barricaded be
hind his baggage and with bis face to
ward the Inner door.
The cliffs are honeycombed with rooms,
Stables, mangers and chapels, and some
of the latter have paintings on the walls,
recalling the artistic efforts of the pre
historic Inhabitants of the eovems of the
Pyrenees, who likewise endeavored to
represent the life of their time, and even,
as the most recent discoveries show,
something of Its mythology and perhaps
of Its religious ideas.
There are other cove habitations in
Cappadocla beside thoee visited by the
traveller Just mentioned, which exceed,
In strangeness anything that he describes.
These are known to archaeloglsts as "cone
dwellings," and a very curious fact la
that precisely similar structures exist in
2ew Mexico. The "cones" are huge
masses of soft tufaceoted rock, which has
been shaped by erosion Into the form of
gigantic beehives. The Interiors ot these
havs been artificially excavated to form
rooms, superposed floors, stairways and
i passages, while doors and windows are
' bored through the sides. Mr. Fewkes thus
described one ot the CaPPadociaa cone
dwellings:
"On entering we find ourselves In a
spacious chamber with shelves or niches
excavated in the solid stone of the walls.
The stairways resemble round tunnels,
through which one ascends to an upper
story through holes like those lateral
openings by which one enters the room.
The floors separating the upper from tho
lower stories were usually thick enough
to hold the weight that might rest upon
them, but occasionally these floors have
given away and fallen to ths floor below,
thus enlarging both zooms and forming
a lofty chamber. In one instance nine
stories were counted, but generally there
are one, two or four stories, tho position
appearing on the outside as small wln-l-t.'S
or peep holes."
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