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LIFE IN DUBLIN'S PRISON
Bmrj ElcliU Within thTcwera Walls of
Grim Kotinyov,
tASY TO GET IN, HARD TO ET OUT
How Prisoner Are Oaarded, Fed and
Worked Method of Treatment
of lamitfi of Yarlona
Grades.
- I was In Dvblln and wanted to have a
look through MountJoy, the largest convict
prison In Ireland, and to which all Irish
convicts are now aent. Visitors are very
seldom allowed Into this penitentiary, arid
especially newspaper writers, who at the
time of which I write were holding a con
vention in the Irish, capital. For this rea
son I found It very difficult to get a peep
Into the big penal establishment which
belongs to hla majesty, the king.
When a man Is In Jail he may get out In
two waya. He may leave with permission,
or he may break loose without permission.
Getting into durance vile la a different
matter. There la the common method of
being put In. Moat people object to that.
To break Into a penitentiary Is a very un
common thing In these days, yet such a
cane occurred near Chicago lately. A .man
had been sentenced to Imprisonment, but
bis lawyers succeeded agalnBt his will In
having the sentence appealed. In the dark
hours of night their client stole up to the
Jail and made a determined effort to break
Into the prison for the purpose of begin
ning hla sentence. The prison officials throw
him out, which was alao rather uncommon
treatment for a lawbreaker to receive at a
JalL
If the man from Chicago had attempted
to break Into MountJoy, Dublin, ho would
hare found it Just as difficult, probably, as
to break out of If he once got In. From an
exterior view I came to the- conclusion
that this big Irish prison waa constructed
to keep all Intruders out, and others, onco
In, safe In. A prison In Ireland is a olaoo
of forbidding mystery to everybody but
the unfortunate Inmates who must reside
there. Furthermore, all Irish prisons have
k sort of patriotic history attached to them.
Great Irishmen have honored their walls In
the past for love of their native land. In
thia resDact the Institution of which I
write has had no small share.
Through the Influence of a former lord
mayor of Dublin I at last obtained a per
mit from the chairman of the Irish Prison
board to visit the prison. But not without
a tremendous lot of red tape, cross-quos-
tlonlng and official wirepulling. A long,
white, official envelope waa placed In my
hand, addressed to "The Governor of His
Ms.iatv'a Prison. MountJoy. Dublin." It
was a mysterious looking document, and
for all I knew, might have been an order
to have mo hanged, drawn and quartered
as soon as I presented myself Inside the
gates.
A Grim Looking Pile.
Mountloy prison Is situated In the very
oonter of the beautiful capital of Ireland
From an exterior viewpoint, It presents
anvthln but a Joyful picture. It seemed
very large and grim looking aa I stood out
aide and surveyed the buildings of dark
atone, surrounded by high walls and tow-
era standing out ohlll, cold and forbidding.
Overlooking the walls that made such a
'"great divide" between the world 1 out
aide and the aad world within, one caught
a film pee of several rows of small, barred
windows,, whose dark, thick glass shut out
not only the bright sun.ight, but also the
noise and turmoil of the busy world with
oat and all that It held dearest and best
lb. life liberty.
Standing at the gate, X pulled at tho big
hell, which re-echoed la those halls of
misery aa If It were re-echoing In the
a-rlm shade of hadee. , The ; huge gates
with A rattling of keys and
chains, and I entered. A warder took my
name and address and my order of ad
mission to the governor. In the' meantime,
I was caked to be seated in a small room,
which I soon discovered was the guard
room. It was nothing more than a bare
cell, with bare walls, an open fireplace and
a large armchair with covered tops and
aides. In which the guard sat through the
long hsurs of the night While watting
there I had time for reflection and ob
servation. Everything about me seemed
quiet and cold. A funeral alienee prevailed
about my surroundings. I felt as If I hud
left the wentleth century outside and
taken my first step backward on the "road
to yesterday."
Onoe again the big bell would ring out,
the keys rattle, the heavy gates roll back
to admit some Individual with royal es
cort, who was coming to stay as the guest
of his majesty, the king. I was kept a
long time waiting in the reception cell. A
whisper was given me that the' Jail au
thorities were not prepared for my coming
and were putting thing In good shape bo
fore my auguat person came along. To
the authorities of MountJoy I might have
been some secret government Inspector
prying around under the guise of a tourist
looking for trouble. At last the great man
himself, the governor, came. He waa a
small, unassuming little man, whom It
was hard to believe was the man In charge
of 700 men and women convicts.
Prtaoa Arra naeroeata.
As we entered the prison proper we were
followed by the head warden as a guard
of honor, and who, by the way, unlocked
every door we came to, and relocked it
after we bad passed through. To be brief.
MountJoy la divided Into two principal de
partmentsthe cells and the workshops.
The dally life of a prisoner Is spent with
the exception of a short time for exercise,
either In the workshop or in his cell. The
Interior of the prison Is well lighted, and
what surprised me, more cheerful than I
expected. Indeed the Interior was In
striking contrast to the exterior. Like all
penitentiaries the cells are arranged Into
long corridors or wings. The cells of the
long-time men are somewhat better than
those for short term residents. Each cell
contained the usual plank bed, mattreBS.
warm woolen blankets, table, chair, book
rsgk, and utensils for food. In American
prisons the prisoners are fed In one large
obtnmon dining room. In MountJoy each
Inmate eats his food in the seclusion of
his own apartment. The food Is brought up
to the different corridors on an elevator,
(even Irish prisons have elevators, not to
mention the hotels) and then aerved to
each convict. Outride the cell doors, hangs
a small card bearing the prisoners name
4 and number, the date of his arrival, and
7 tha date when he leaves He may have a
month to serve, or ten years, but what,
ever the time the date of release Is marked.
Borne cards have no date for freedom
marked upon them; they were life prison,
ert. i Save for the barred windows and
darkened glasa the cells cf the prisoners
were warm, comfortable, and clean. For
sne they were probably cleaner and bet
ter quarters than they could ever have
In the tenement house of Dublin, or the
workhouses of the Irish towns.
Trie Oil of Doom.'
Fasstng to the end of a long corridor
of cells the governor brought me Into on
cell that differed from all the other cells,
In that U had three very dark windows
and three plain prison bed. It was the con
demned cell, where those awaiting sen
tence of death are confined, truaxded right
and day by two warders. Prom this cell
tha condemned man bad to walk the whole
Iftugth at long onidor to th execution
chamber, put now the condemned cell Is
within a few fret of the fatal drop. Out
side this cell, a nnrrnw d tor wns opened
from tho corridor, and I entered a small
room, with a vaulted celling, and a long
beam running the entire lencth of the
room. There was no furniture In the room,
and no coloring save the doors, which were
black. This was the execution room. In
the center of the floor was a lona- white
chalk line. It wns the dividing line be
tween time and eternity, for the man who
Stands with pointed toi-s touching Its white
outline, before the floor beneath him drops,
and he crashes to his death.
When I pased Into the exercise, yard I
Saw many groups of coni:ts, pnd among
thrm famous criminals and murderers who
were to stay there for the rest of their
hRturnl lives. It may be here explained
that long-term and life convicts are better
trented and have more privileges than men
In for short terms. There is a sort of a
social In rider In MountJoy. The life pris
oner won't notice or even associate with
tha Individual who Is the king's guest for
the short period of a year or two! In the
woman's exercise yards we were forced
to beat a hasty retreat, owing to the
choice Inngnaign of the Inmates. This is
the only department of MountJoy that
the rule of silence cannot be enforced.
Penal servitude and all the hardshlpa of
prison discipline have no effect whatever
on the tongues of the women who must
leslde there. Among these prisoners were
three women murderesses whose sentences
had Just been commuted from death to
life Imprisonment. One of them was mak
ing soup in the kitchen when the governor
drew my attention to her and told me of
the crime she had committed" th murder
of her husband, in which she wa assisted
by her mother, who was also in the same
prison with her.
The Yeamtner Ryes.
Put, after all, these unfortunate men
and women, no matter what their crimes
may have hern, are to be pitied. They
ere forever shut out from sunshine, friends
and IUerty. There was not a face In that
prison of the many that I saw that did
not have a yearning look in the eyes.
Perhars It wns the sight of a face from
tho outside world that brought the yearn
ing Into tho eyi of theso Imprisoned
creatures. Thero is no escape from an
Irish prison savo through help from the
official on the Inside. It wns by means of
such aid that the famous I.ynchehaun
made his remarkable escape from prison
In Ireland a few years ago and reached
this country. The prltlsh government
made a determined and costly effort be
fore tho United States courts to have the
fugitive returned, but failed.
The Uvea of men and women confined
In a pentlentlhry may bo made a little
easier and robbed somewhat of severity
If the man who has charge of them be
humane and thoughtful. The governor of
MountJoy seemed to mo to be a kind man,
He Is much Interested In everything that
tends to the reformation and uplifting of
a' prisoner from crime und vice. There Is
a school under his own personal super
vision, and nlso a library, ' where the con
victs may obtain even the latest novels.
But very few prisoners take the oppor
tUnlty of trying to better their lives, even
If that betterment takes place In so un
favorable a place as a prison.
When my visit was over It waa with a
pense of relief that I raw the great gate
roll back, and I stood outside once more
with God's sunshine about mo and the
memory of the lives I had Jut left behind.
The huge gates slammed, there was the
click of a steel lock, and I walked away.
While ;a. .thousand longing eyes, full of
yearning, seemed to peer at me from the
walls and windows of MountJoy convict
prison. j VICOR T. NOONAN.
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BUILDING, FOR TREMBLERS
Untos Ileajra How House Mar Be
Dalit to Withstand Karth
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LONDON, March 18. (Special. "Every
one will agivo that earthquakes cannot
be prevented," said Prof. John Milne, the
eminent seismologist,' In an interview here
the other day. "But there are many who
know tliat a great deal can bo done to
mitigate their effects. This has been par
ticularly well illustrated by the work which
haa been carried out during the last twon.ty
flve years In Japan. In England there are
80,000 little earthquakes per year. In Japan
they get 1.30 earthquakes per year and
feel eighty of them.
"In likiO the Juponese government formed
a selBmological BocUty. Whenever a big
earthquake occurs In India, the Philippines
or as lately as In Ban Francisco we find
on tho sceno the Japanese engineer, arcld'
tect and seismologist. Their objects Is to
mako notes of that which fell and that
which stood and why it fell or stood."
From thowo notes and with the aid of
aelsmological instruments which measure
the earthquakes and thus reveal which are
the safest sites Prof. Milne stated that
builders are now putting up structures all
over Japan capable of withstanding the
strongest shocks.
"In Great Britain," continued the pro
fessor, "there is a building which, at least
so far as lightness of construction Is con
cerned, may be considered earthquake
proof.- I refer to tho building erected a
Osborne for our naval cadets.
"If wo had an earthquake In London
and tho suddenness of the backwards and
forwards movement was only one foot per
second the probability is that thero would
be 6.0M.OOO chimney pots In the streets.
Put at Kingston tha rate at which the
motion commerced and ended would prob
ably loosen about ten times this quantity
Having given the suddenness of move
ments the builder can put up structures
to withstand the same, and these structures
are totally different to those we find in
Europe. He makes his designs and then
testa models of tho same on a shaking
table, the movements of which reproduced
those which can be expected at the time
of severe earthquakes. From these ex
perlments he determines the extent to which
his calculations have ben correct. He
dews, in fact, that which ki done at a dock
yard.
"The upchot of the whole thing Is that
after twenty-five years of experiments w
find that the new structure stand, wherea
those of the old types hav been shattered.'
MATIN TRIES. CLEVER RUSE
To Prevent Trial Out of Tarts It Call
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and they should take such) facts Into careful
consideration when they are ready to outfit a
home or add to th one they have.
Special attention Is directed to our remark
ably low terms of payment, which really make
home outfitting a pleasure rather than a burden
and an Irritation.
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The Peoples Store Special Ver
nis Martin Iron Beds
(Exactly like cut bed only.)
These Jieds are large and msaslv and
are made of extra heavy tubing, and
have large ornamental chills. Finished
in the latest and popular Vrnis Mar
tin finish, auaranteed not to turn eoi
The head end is 60 Inches
hlch. An exceptional bar
Kain for the price of
fered special
price
The Peoples Store Special Kit
chen Cabinet
Has two large bins for flour and other
meals, two good sized drawers, a bread
board and meat board, occupies ih
space of a kitchen table
and has the room of a
cupboard Special
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(Exactly like cut.)
Made in the genuine ouarter-sawod oak effect.
heavy ornamental carvings the baes aru
large and contain two small drawers for sil
verware, etc., one large linen
drawer and a large lower com
partment. L4irge bevel plate
French mirror and top aide
shelves. Our special
sale price
Oak Dressers
(Exactly like cut.)
Made of solid oak, highly polished,
roomy drawers, frencn Deveiea
mirror of oblong shape, trim
mings are solid brass, guar
anteed workmanship.
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This Handsome 53-Piece
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FREE .
With a. S1C0 Purchase
Each Piece With Your
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Every piece in the 53-plece Dinner Set has yonr initial in gold. A set goes free with every purchase
of 9100.00 or over, or we will sell you the set outright for $6.75 and credit you the amount later on
when your purchaHes aggregate SI 00.00. The dinner set is guaranteed by the makers and is a copy
in design from a famous French set which sold for $4100.00. It cannot be duplicated in style or
qnality for less than $12.00 or $15.00 In any store in Omaha, and will last for years. This is the
most generous offer ever given to the people of Omaha. Dinner set on exhibition in our 10th street
south window.
WE TRUST THE PEOPLE
This Handsome 53-Piece
Dinner Set
Sold Regularly for
TERMS:
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S1.00 Monthly
Each Piece With Your
Initial in Gold
This Offer is Divided
In Three Separate '
Propositions as Follsws:
Proposition Wo. 1 The dinner set will
be given to you rUB with every pur
chase of 1100 worth of furniture or house
hold goods, and the goods may be pur
chased on our well known and Uboral
open account, credit plan.
Proposition Vo, 8 We will aell you the
dinner set outright for $6.75, and permit
you to pay the $6.76 on terms of $1 cueh
and $1 monthly.
Proposition Ho. S If you buy the din
ner set outright now on the terms men
tioned, and should you at any time dur
ing 1907 buy a bill of household goods
or furniture aggregating $100, the $6.7S
will be credited to you on tha $UK pur
chase.
& FARNAM STREETS' OMAHA.
TITK TEOPLE'S FURNITURE AND CARPET CO., ESTABLISHED 1887.
Remember These
Points
The Initial letter of your name will
appear in gold on each and every one
of the 63 pieces.
We do not require you to pay cash for
the $100 worth of merchandise. Simply
open an account and buy the goods on
our matchless and liberal system of
monthly credit. The set la delivered
with the goods you buy.
We do not require you to pay cash for
the dinner set if purchased outrlpht. You
merely pay $1.00 cash and $1.00 monthly,
which gives you six months to pay $6.73.
You do not Imvo to buy $100 worth at
One time to get the dinner set, but if you
buy $100 worth during the entire year of
11)07 the set, with your Initial in gold on
each piece, will be delivered to you free.
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FORTUNE FROM LUCKY IDEAS
Trivial Incidents Fioe a Etimnlaat for
IcTeotire Skill
INVENTIONS HIT UPON ACCIDENTALLY
A Ilea Discovered Ilaw to Hake Sagar
White aad Dog Gave Cs tae
Art f Dyelag Pateat
Office Peculiarities.
PARIS, March 1. (Sperhtl. V-On several
occasions the Matin accused M. Chaumlo,
formerly minister of fine arts, of arbitrarily
appointing his relatives and friends to
ministerial and civil service pouts and
creating enftly but unnecessary missions
In the colonics for others and of hushing
up a Judicial scandal by promoting a nomi
nee to the ministry.
Chaumie commenced proceedings against
the newspaper for libel and the summons"
were Issutd from M. Chauinle's parlia
mentary constituency and native town. The
Mstln, however, preferring mat tne caseJ
nhnuld be trlt d In Paris, adopted the clever
If audacious move of eerylng subpoenas
upon all the magistrates composing the
Ogt-n court as well aa upon tha Jurymen
serving In the court. As neither magis
trates nor Jury could act In a case other
than as w Um-ss.-s the court decided that
R was Incompetent lo try It. The validity
of the tubpucnAs will, however, txi con
tested '
Whenever a new patent comes out,
especially some little thing that anybody
might have made, you will always hear the
remark: "Why couldn't I have thought of
thatT" Fortunes are made from even the
niost lvlal contrivances. A man walked
from Philadelphia to Washington to patent
the gimlet pointed screw, and the simple
Idea eventually earned him more than a
million dollars. The rubber tip on the end
of lead pencils made Its Inventor rich. The
metal point on the end of your shoestring
earned a fortune for the woman who
thought of It, and the copper cap that so
long adorned the toes of children's shoes
earned $;.'XX,0(0 for the lucky person who
patented It.
Many valuable Inventions were hit upon
in a most accidental way. Tha art of nuk
ing sugar white waa discovered by a harm
less old speckled hen. This feathered
matron one day went for a walk through
a field of clay and later without taking tha
precaution to wipe her feet walked through
a sugar mill on the same plantation, scat
tering clay over tha loose mounds cf augr
as she passed. Afterwards It waa discov
ered that wherever her tracks had fallen
on the molat sugar tha clay had whitened
It. Scientists took up the matter and from
thia incident introduced the method of
bleaching sugar by the clay process.
A dog gave up the art of dyeing cloth.
One afternoon su many years ago, that the
date Is of small consequence, a noted mai
and his sweetheart whin for a walk along
the sanda of the seashore In a far off coun
try. A little dog trailed along at their heels
and becoming weary of much love making
finally ran ahead and went fishing among
the rocks. One particular shell fish which
he captured and devoured exuded a fluid
which dyed the hair about hla mouth a
pretty purple. Investigation of this Inci
dent founded the science of dyeing cloth.
Origin of the Featherbone.
A man from Michigan was told by tha
doctors to take his wife south for her
health, lie purchased a big wagon and
team for tho trip, and thought to make
sume profit by carrying a stock of feather
dusters to sell along the way. One day he
went to a factory where hla dusters were
being made and while standing In the yard
talking to one of tho employes picked up
from the ground one of the "strutters" or
tall feathers from a turkey the refuse
from the duster factory. He began Idly
twisting a thread back and forth through
its broken edges, and tha idea of the
feather-bone came to him. The feather
bone la the successor of whalebone, and Is
Indispensable to the attire of ths modern
woman. He patented the Idea and received
so much money from it that he will never
have t triivel overland In a wagon again
unless he wanta to.
A man standing In front of the postofflcs
lr Washington bent a err Ul piece of tin
in his Angers until It took the shape, of
a T. "This would muk a good paper fast
ener," he remarked to the man with whom
he waa talking, and ha straightway had
the Idea patented. Another man mad
money from tha device ef aa Imbedded
string In the end of an envelope to cut the
paper as It Is drawn out. Still another
man added to this Idea by tying a knot
In the end of the string to keep It from
being drawn through.
It Is Interesting to note how man haa
borrowed ma,ny of his Ideas from the ani
mal world. Waspa made paper from wood
long before man did. The folding aclssors
and folding pocket compass are only copies
of the folding lower Jaw of ths dragon fly.
Ths flying aquld, a apeoles of cuttlefish,
haa a way of projecting Itself as high as
twelve feet above tha surface of tha water
by forcibly expelling water from Its body.
Man saw this and Invented the skyrocket.
Tha rope making machine uaed In tha
United States navy yards follows almost
the precise lines that a spider does when
making his own frail oable.
Wouti es Inveators.
Women have been prominent In tha field
of Invention and there are mora than S.U0
different devices credited to their Ingenuity..
Of the list of things Invented by women
about 90 per cent are devoted to tha home,
the kitchen and to dress. The first patent
given a woman In the nineteenth century
was granted to Mary Kler In 1S09 for "straw
weaving with silk or thread" the probable
forerunner of American matting. One of
tha most recent Inventions by woman la a
Shoe string that won't come untied.
The records of the patent office abow
how soma people fcave Invaded the field
of Invention with most eccentric Ideas. An
Invention railed the "antl-anorlng device"
Is something similar to a telephone. No
sooner does ths sleeper begin to snora than
tha sound is transmitted to bis own ear.
causing him to awake at once. Another
ambitious inventor haa brought out a ma
chine which will automatically tip a man's
hat when be paaaea a woman acquaintance
on the atreet.
X woman is responsible for s patent
crimping pin that can he uaed as a paper
cutter, a skirt supporter, a paer file, a
bonquet holder, a safety pin, a shawl fast
ener and book mark. There la a patent
churn that rocks the baby's cradle; a
pocketbook that combines a pistol, so that
when ths highwayman demanda your money
or your Ufa you can send him to kingdom
oome while In the seeming act of handing
him your valuables.
Ths story is told of an Iowa man who
patented an India rubber sidewalk. After
much lobbying with his friends among the
town council he was allowed to put down
several yards of It as an experiment. As
a notsa absorber It proved most effective,
and the early demonstrations seemed to bs
living down all scepticism In regard to it
so rapidly that tha Inventor's fortune was
all but made.
Then the Inventor made a blunder. To
show how solid and strong it was he began
Jumping up and down on It with his whole
weight. The walk could not forget that
It was still rubber, and when the ambitious
Inventor planked his heels Into It he was
promptly pitched over tho fence Into a
brier patch. The .episode proved such a
Joke that the budding popularity of the
new idea began to wane, and there are mill
no rubber sidewalks In Iowa.
Aat Adjaatlble Polplt.
Another happy Idea ttutt cum to grief
was the adjustable pulpit brought out by
a Texaa Inventor. An olwervlng member
of a certain corgregatlon In the Lone Star
stats noticed that soma of tho preachers
were tall and some were abort, so he con
ceived tha Idea of making an adjustable
pulpit which would accommodate Itr.elf
to all heights. Tha first preacher to um
tha automatlo device waa a short man, and
the Inventor wsa on hand and took his
ueasura to a nicety. Later when a six foot
pastor came on the inventor had tha grip
und could not go to church.
Tho pulpit was set for his short prede
cessor and nobody could do a thing with)
It. Tho inventor had Instated Uiat bis
device was easy enough to manipulate, but
It proved most stubborn and would not
submit to a readjustment. The tall man
started in with It, and it was so low that
In reading his text be had to stoop over
almost as much as If his book were placed
on a chair. When he began to preach ho
was got ting along well enough until ha
suddenly stamped his foot to emphaalxa
a point. His action released tho spring In
tha floor and ths pulpit shot upward until
It completely hid the preacher from ths
view of hLs hearers. The remainder of his
sermon sounded about the samo as If ha
had been In a well.
Thomas Jefferson may be termed tho
"Father of the Patent Offlee," for It wss ho
who saw to the passing of the act creating
the office and the copyright system. For
a number of years he waa one of the com
mittee who pusHed on tho merits of all de
signs submitted to the office. One Dr.
Thornton, a rxther eccentric man, was tha
only department clerk tli office had for
a long period. In the war of 1S12, when
the HiTTlsh soldiers had a cannon trained
on the patent olllce to d.-stroy It, the doctor
rushed out and placed his tx dy before tho
mouth of the cannon, exclaiming that if
Ooths and Vandals would destroy a build
ing containing inodnls tliat would benefit
all the world the ball must first go through,
his body. It waa npared, but In 1836 ths
office was burned and tho only thing saved
was a book cf no particular value. New
York Bun.
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