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EBsarful State of the Criminals
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m PRISONERS FETTERED
SeunB From Cruelty Becomo In Appear-
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l The first thing which impresses the
ESttaropenn visitor to the Chinese prison
S2s the absolutely flimsy character of
Ttifao structure Itself If one gets per-
njcfHlon to visit the prison In Canton
shoals of globe trotters do wend
13kelr way thither after they have seen
iBSe execution ground It will be found
- le a ramshackle building of no pre
Tmse whatsoever
lEhe question will be asked By
vw bat means are the prisoners held in
3xffety if the structures in which they
sore Incarcerated are so flimsy and in
secure The answer says the East
toT Asia Magazine is brief Without
Hception the prisoners are fettered
Many have chains on the legs only
-These are the less dangerous and have
S ieeu guilty of the less important
vcrimes Others in addition have fct
srs on the arms which make it im
Spossible for them to escape
Xaslly a few prisoners were uot only
aanauacled on the ankles but wore a
6nlu around their necks at the dan
5dig end of which was attached a block
af granite The prisoner would walk
lirxom place to place within the court
IlSiird but ere he could move beyond
ilflfe iength of his chain he must stop
suad lift the stone and carrying it in
ijssliackled arms drop it again where
iSac -wished to stop
3a addition to the chains worn by
all the male prisoners are further
esfaackled at night By means of two
rSeavy beams in which holes have been
jssiade for the ankles of the prisoners a
rode but effective method is discovered
1or detaining the prisoners in absolute
security
The prisoners who during the day
ave been loafing in the courtyard
axre in the evening driven into the
awards and made to lie side by side on
sa raised platform The upper of the
3wo beams is then raised and each
2jaii is compelled to place his ankle iu
3K3te liole made to receive it whereupon
iie upper beam is replaced and the
prisoners are held by the feet in these
snide stocks There is no possibility
escape They are allowed bricks
pillows and in this uncomfortable
ISfaositiou they pass the hours
Tn addition to this however special
ccmelties are perpetrated on certain
sSKlsoners who for some reason or
are exempted from capital pun
ishment Prisoners there are whose
appearance becomes as wild as the
v boasts of the forest who with heavy
on their shoulders are incar
cerated in a filthy dungeon for the
terra of their natural lives I have
aaen them moving to and fro like caged
syeuas in their dens at a menagerie
ITheir appearance is revolting
ISTight and day as far as I remember
ioth asleep and awake this heavy bur
den rested on their shoulders though
isow it was possible to sleep therein I
W2S unable to understand On the
soxber hand in a prison I visited a few
rweeks ago I was informed that the
ssangue was removed at nights that the
prisoners might sleep A crowd in the
tprlson quadrangle with their unshav
wi Leads their unwashed faces their
3anking fetters their hopeless looks
3ieir diseased bodies and their bebrut
sd souls can never be forgotten
ZBut although under the recognized
- system of punishment Chinese prison
ers must live a life which to us of the
crst Avould be unbearable it would
caot be so to them if they were fairly
treated and were saved from the exac
XJons and barbarities to which they
sire exposed at the hands of their
xacious keepers
When a prisoner first goes into the
beards the warders claim his clothes
his money and he is left with the
Ssarest rags to cover his nakedness
3Es is robbed of all his cash as a mat
fer pf course Those who are con-
- nined are compelled under a threat
the whip to write begging letters to
3 aeir relatives requesting them to for
arard money
It -the unfortunate man hesitates to
2 ccede to this demand the warders
by some of the oldest prison-
jers for it appears that inmates of
more than twenty years residence
-Save accorded them certain privileges
take the man in hand during the
sight The hands of the prisoners are
by a rope and the other end
23I the rope is then passed through a
which hangs from the roof of the
5ard
TTne -warders then hoist the unhappy
wretch who is left hanging in midair
X the hands Should he attempt to
out his mouth and throat are filled
2jita ashet When the breath has al
most left his body and he is choking he
3s lowered and under the terror of
of this torture he is eager to
Ssomise almost anything
Many die under this ordeal But as
-ft is assumed among the mandarins
aiiat mortality must be high and as no
vifiicial probing is ever dreamed of a
5neral statement as to natural death
2s sufficient
The Cashless Engagement
1 hope you wont Insist upon a long
engagement dearest he said tenderly
No sweetheart I wpnt You have
2T2ot money enough to make one enjoy-
skble she answered practically Life
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The charity that hastens to proclaim
Ss good deeds ceases to be charity and
only pride and ostentation Hutton
JAILED FOOEBT
At Ono Timo the Law Was Severe on
Those Who Owed Money
In nearly every country until com
paratively recent times debtors have
been subject to Imprisonment After
the panic of 1825 101000 writs for
debt were Issued In England In 1830
7000 persons were sent to Loudon
prisons for debt and on Jan 1 1840
1700 persons were held for debt In
England and Wales 1000 In Ireland
and less than 100 in Scotland From
time to time modifications in the laws
governing the Imprisonment of debtors
have been made so that fewer debtors
are imprisoned for this crlmo each
year
In 1829 there were 3000 debtors in
prison in Massachusetts 10000 in New
York 7000 in Pennsylvania 3000 in
Maryland and a like proportion In oth
er states Many of these persons were
jailed for debts of 1 The law pro
viding for the Imprisonment of men
who could not pay their debts was
shown to be impracticable by statistics
taken from Philadelphia where in 1S2S
there were 10S3 debtors imprisoned for
debts amounting to 23000 The ex
pense of keeping these persons In con
finement was 302000 which was paid
by the city and the amount recovered
by tins method was 293
Imprisonment for debt was abolished
by congress in the United States in
1833 though this measure was not
fully enforced until 1839 New York
Tribune
WIFE OR CHILD WHICH
An Ingenious Problem With Two In
teresting Equations
Some time ago George was bragging
about never having told a lie and he
said he never would An Irishman
hearing the assertion made a wager
with George that he could make him
tell a lie in two minutes
So Pat began Supposing you and
your little child and her friend were
out in a boat for a row the boat sud
denly capsized and you were all
thrown into the water Now which
child would you save asked Pat
Well answered George under the
circumstances I should save my own
In preference to any one elses child
Very good answered Pat Now
suppose you and your wife and child
were out for a row and the boat again
capsized Now which of them would
you save your wife or your child
After a thoughtful pause George an
swered that he would save his wife
There 3011 are cried Pat You
said at first that you would rather sae
your child in preference to any one
elses but now you say that you would
save your wife who is somebody elses
child Pearsons Weekly
From Obscurity to Renown
An ancient well once surrounded by
walls eight feet high in Yeolug field
Trewsbury Mead a valley about three
miles from Cierencester near the vil
lage of Kenible is the source known
as Thames head In summer no sign
of water or of water plants can be
found near it Its walls are now down
and thickly interlaced vines and brush
hide it from view In winter it over
flows floods the valley and contributes
its little foce to the greatest of island
rivers Thus from an obscure hidden
and neglected origin Englands historic
river swells and flows on until upon
its pellucid bosom above Folly bridr
to its brackish waters below the Towt
of London it nurses everything from
an infants gentle pleasures to the sin
ister tragedies of the greatest city in
the world From In Thamesland
A Trade In Learning
I want you said the old farmer
to give the boy bout six or eight dol
lars worth o learnin Fer instance
Ill start him on three bushels o corn
then when thats out Ill keep him
a movin on a couple o smokehouse
hams an I may decide to give you a
young heifer to iarn him writin an a
home raised cow for a leetlo rithme
tic
Do you want him to learn any of
the higher branches
Well after he climbs a leetle you
might throw in bout a bushel or two
of em or say bout a quarter 0 beefs
worth Atlanta Constitution
They Disagreed
These fellows were fighting said
the policeman
Your honor began one of the pris
oners I beg of you not to accept so
crude a misconstruction of our acts
Doubtless you have heard of a gentle
mans agreement
Certainly
Well we had one but it had pro
gressed to the stage where It became a
gentlemans disagreement
Yet was the judge deaf to reason
Philadelphia Ledger
An Unexpected Shot
My dear said the caller with a
smile to the little girl who occupied
the study while her father an eminent
literary man was at dinner I suppose
you assist your father by entertaining
the bores
Yes replied the little girl gravely
Please be seated Judge
His Work
What asked the man who Is al
ways preaching have you ever done
to make this a brighter world
Ive done a lot in that line stran
ger said the one with the large rough
hands Im a barn painter by trade
and I generally paint em red Chica
go Record Herald
The Trials of Life
Visiting Prison Chaplain Ah my
friend this world is full of trials In
carcerated Guest Dont I know It mis
ter Aint I ad my share of em But
It aint the trials I minds bo much If s
the verdicts Philadelphia Inquirer
DUEL G
THE m
The Tragic Affair That Put an
End to the Practice
A MIDSHIPMANS CHALLENGE
It Was Accepted by the Lawyer and
the Battle Was Fought In Delaware
Sad Fate of the Two Principals In the
Unfortunate Meeting
That settlement of quarrels by appeal
to the code of honor was no longer to
be the unwritten law of the American
navy was determined by a duel la
which William Miller Jr a Philadel
phia lawyer was slain in a personal
affair fought along the northern circle
of Delaware The man who fired the
fatal shot was Midshipman Charles G
Hunter and the encounter took place
along Naamans creek on the afternoon
of Sunday March 21 1830
Singularly enough neither Miller
who lost his life nor Hunter who kill
ed him was principal in the original
quarrel that led to the meeting on the
bank of the little creek in Delaware
Neither had seen the other until a few
hours before the challenge was sent
and accepted
Simply a misshot in a game of bil
liards played at Third and iestnut
streets Philadelphia led to tlu tragedy
that plunged two homes into borrow
and imbittered the life of the man
whose pistol shot causelessly shed hu
man blood
Henry Wharton Griffith and It Dil
lon Drake prominent society men of
Philadelphia played the game of bil
liards and Griflith made the misshot
which called forth a taunt from Drake
who was immediately struck in the
face with a cue by Griflith A chal
lenge to a duel was sent by Drake but
Griflith declared that the challenger
was beneath his notice and that he
would not demean himself socially by
consenting to meet him
Then followed a long and wordy war
fare in which each posted the other as
a coward Lieutenant Duryee of the
United States navy was called to make
an effort to settle the dispute and it
was then that Miller the lawyer and
Hunter the midshipman became in
volved in the quarrel In the heated
discussion Hunter accused Miller of
publishing a confidential letter and a
challenge was at once sent by the mid
shipman and accepted by the attorney
It was decided that the duel should
be fought early on Sunday morning of
March 21 but it Avas nearly 10 oclock
before carriages containing the princi
pals seconds and surgeons left a house
that stood on Chestnut street above
Sixth The presence of the company
excited some suspicion at Chester
where the party stopped for lunch but
they hurried down the post road tied
their horses close to the highway and
proceeded 200 yards behind a clump of
trees that would shield them from ob
servation
As the sun was setting two pistol
shots rang out simultaneously as one
of the seconds counted One two three
fire Hunter stood unharmed as the
ball from his opponents pistol struck
at his feet but Miller cried out that
he was shot placed one hand on his
breast and fell with a bullet lying
close to his heart In a few minutes
he died while pale and anxious faces
watched the convulsive breathing of
the dying man
Gentlemen said Hunter I had no
enmity against this man I never
heard of him until two days ago Let
those whose quarrel embroiled him be
responsible for his death
After a hurried consultation it was
decided that the midshipman should
leave the state at once and he was
driven rapidly to New Castle Del
where he boarded a boat for New York
and rejoined the navy In order to
hide the tragedy it was decided to wait
until dark and take Miller to Philadel
phia in a carriage
Seating the dead man between them
two seconds held him in an upright
position on the long journey to Phila
delphia News of the duel had reached
Chester and a crowd of men stood at
Third street bridge to Intercept the
carriages The first buggy contained
the surgeon and as his explanation
was satisfactory he Avas permitted to
proceed The dead man in the second
carriage was driven through the crowd
without the ruse being detected and
at midnight the body Avas placed in a
house In Walnut street where vigil
was kept by the seconds who drank
heaA ily to support them in the terrible
strain under which they had been
placed
Millers father said that he held no
malice against Hunter but the mid
shipman who Avas suspended for a
year for punishment was haunted by
the specter of the dead man lying on
the bank of Naamans creek slain by
his hand and died a prematurely old
man after a lonely life shut off froni
all hope of preferment In the navy He
Avas buried by the newspaper men of
New York who erected a tombstone
over his grave Philadelphia Ledger
Mentally
You have been abroad havent you
Mr Snipleigh
Xo Miss Sharp What made you
think I had been abroad
Why I heard papa say you were
way off Cleveland Plain Dealer
Candor
Mabel aged six Aint you afraid of
our big dog The Parson very thin
No my dear He would not make
much of a meal off me Mabel Oh
but he likes bones best Chicago News
Every brave heart must consider so
ciety as a child and not allow it to dic
tate Emerson
ABYSSES OF OCEAN
Extent of the Deep Waters and Their
Tremendous Pressure
More than half the surface of the
globe is hidden under Avater tAo miles
deep Seven million square miles He
at a depth of 18000 feet or more
Many places havo been found five
miles and more in depth The greatest
depth yet sounded Is 31200 feet near
the island of Guam
If Mount EAerest the worlds high
est mountain Avere plucked from its
seat and dropped Into this spot the
waves would still roll 2000 feet above
Its crest
Into this terrific abjss the waters
press down with a force more than 10
000 pounds to the square inch The
stanchest ship ever built Avould be
crumbled under this aAvful pressure
like an eggshell under a steam roller
A pine beam fifteen feet long which
held open the mouth of a traAvl used iu
making a cast at a depth of more than
1S000 feet was crushed flat as if it had
heen passed betAveen rollers
The body of the man Avho should at
tempt to venture to such depths would
be compressed until the flesh Avas
forced into the interstices of the bone
and his trunk was no larger than a
rolling pin Still the body Avould reach
the bottom for anything that Avill sink
in a tub of Avater -will sink to the utter
most depths of the ocean Exchange
SECRETS OF SAVAGES
Some Things That Balk the Ingenuity
of Civilized Man
The head Avas no bigger than an or
ange the black bearded head perfect
ly preserA ed of a man of forty or so
The Dyaks alone said the ethnolo
gist have the secret of taking an
adult human head and reducing it like
this to less than half its size Their
houses are ornamented profusely Avith
these reduced heads of enemies slain
in battle No one kuoAVS hoAV the re
duction is accomplished It is a mar
velous secret that the Dyaks refuse to
give up
Savages degraded as they are be
side us possess a number of marvel
ous and unfathomable secrets One is
the making of fire by the rubbing of
dry twigs Only a savace can do that
Another is the construction of fish
skin suits The natives of the Siberian
coast make suits of fishskin that are
softer finer and far more AAaterproof
than any fabric knoAvn to us What
could be so waterproof as fishskin
A third is the secret of arrested
life There are aborigines in India
who can die temporarily can be buried
a week or more and on being dug up
come to life again
The best blankets the best baskets
the best canoes and the best dyes are
all made by saAages Ncav Orleans
Times Democrat
Swans Defeat a Fox
A correspondent of the Colwyn Bay
Herald describes a fierce fight betweeu
a fox and a number of SAvans The
fox after hiding for awhile among
some reeds boldly swam toward a
number of swans The latter were on
the alert hoAA cver and AAiien Avithin a
yard the biggest bird attacked him
with wing and beak entirely submerg
ing him for two or three seconds
Nothing daunted the fox made a final
attack but ignominious defeat aAATaited
him as all the SAvans arrayed them
selves in single file and made a desper
ate attack on their assailant which
eA entually landed at the south side of
the lake his blood covering the felt of
heather at the far end The SAvans ap
peared to have sustained no injury
whatever
Where They Were Not Bad
A visitor AA ho AA as going through the
penitentiary one day turned to the
Avarden and said
I suppose you have a good many
bad people here
Bad Bid people here ejaculated
the gray haired warden with an air
of comic surprise What put that into
your head There are no bad people
here Why if they wanted to be bad
Ave wouldnt let em
The warden smiled grimly and the
visitor awakened to the fact that the
pen was not the place where people
could afford to be bad
wished Brooklyn Eagle
even if they
Cosmopolitan Dinners
You can pay your money in New
York and get any sort of dinner you
like and of every possible national
ity declared the man about town
You can get an Italian dinner with
spaghetti a French dinner with frogs
legs an Irih dinner with some sort of
stew a Hungarian dinner with gou
lash a Russian dinner with caviare a
Spanish dinner with frijoles and a
southern dinner Avith corn pone XeAV
York Press
Accounts Squared
Hicks I oAve you an apology The
fact is it was raining and I saw your
umbrella and supposing you had gone
home for good I took it
Wicks Dont mention it I owe you
an apology You left your new hat
you know rnd wore your old one As
I had no umbrella and as I didnt want
to wet my hat I put on yours Hope
you dont mind Pearsons Weekly
The Dust
They Avera celebrating their engage
ment by dining at a sAvell cafe
Do you believe she queried as the
conversation lagged that man is real
ly made of dust
Well he rejoined glancing at the
dinner check he Avouldnt be able to
travel far In your company if he
wasnt Chicago News
The man of grit carries in his pres
ence a power which spares him the
necessity of resenting insult Succes3
Agreement Between Packers and Com
mission Men at South Omaha
A The Live Stock Exchango favors
a more rigid ante mortem inspection of
all live stock And that at the timo
of the sale the buyer shall havo tho
privilege of finding and rejecting any
she cattle that appear to be in any way
unhealthy or suspects Any animals
thus rejected by tho buyers if sold to
packers are to be tagged and numbered
by the inspectors employed and taken
by the buyers subject to post mortem
examination by the government inspect
ors If tho buyer and seller cannot
agree as to what rightly constitutes
suspects the inspector above men
tioned is to decide The Exchange
agrees at its own expense to employ
one or more competent inspectors to
be mutually agreed upon to have charge
of tagging any she cattle rejected as
suspects at the timo of purchase
B All dairy cows whether shipped
or driven in and common native cows
known as canners if sold to packers
are to be subject to post mortem ex
amination tho buyer and seller to de
termine animals of this class at time
of sale In caso they cannot agree it
is to be left to tho inspector This
agreement does not in any way effect
range cows tLo same to bo bought as
heretofore Purchasers agreo to allow
full markot price for hides and carcasses
of condemned animals and to furnish
satisfactory evidonco of post mortem
condemnation
C All parties interested will make an
appeal to the Governors of their respect
ive states and other propor parties to
cause such inspection laws to bo passed
or onforced if already passed as will
stamp out tuberculosis which is gener
ally found in dairy cows as it is tho de
cided opinion that from a beef stand
point as Avell as a milk standpoint tho
disease has increased and no past in
spection has been sufficiently rigid on
either article of food beof and milk
Effective July 70th 1907
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