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MY 01,1) HOME.
It stands upon n sunny Mope,
And fronts the bi colir ho low
Where pli'fijy vines have ample scope
The wanton b:iok t follow;
Vitch-hnzols drop Ihclr nuplc wands
In search of golden treasure;
And, 1- ng in the si lout ponds,
The trout find quiet pleasure.
The oxen turn their p tlcnt cyv
Upon me; the bay lllly
Neighs s ft y in her glad surprise;
Hr.-tender ambs ntc chilly,
And nestle In my apron wide;
The ap!;leb!ooms arc sifting
In eddies on tlx lau ;h ng tide,
To yonder rher drlftiug.
Tlie snowy rtojw-iod stars the copse,
Kerns nod in frouded beauty,
The v olet ha modest hopes
To pay bur flagrant duty;
Tl.o i.rinn duris u mottled t'uguo
To Indian pipe, and vying
"With every iluwt-r the muse has sung
Aburtu pa'e Is tig in.'.
''J. Dream of the AiliromlacH.Mrs. liich.
AFTER aJX Y 15 A US.
"I nm giving you a treasure, my
i). Why do you hesitate? Surely
DU Iiuvo no other jOVC?"
Tlio sick lusiti lifted hhnsolf on his
illow, and lookoel eagerly, fearfully,
a tlio faco abovo him.
It was a haughty, yet frank coun
iiianco a faco which mingled
tronglh of will with pride, and tou
orness with truth, yet had enough
octie lire in it to make tho request his
ither mado of Clarenco Liviugstouo a
cry hard one for him to grant.
For Elmar Livingstone, dying, ro
loniberod tho wrongs ilono by him
'in tho days of nature," and, rccall
lg a lucky venture, which, by cn
iohiiig him, had beggared another
sked his son to take that other's or
han daughter for his wife.
Clarence knew nothing of the hour
f toinptation which paw his father's
ill knew of no reason more power
til than Christian charity which had
idticed his father to adopt the ponni
jss girl, whori she was left alono in
ho world; and, full of fair dreams for
is futuro, ho shrank from a marriage
rith one whom lie had rarely scon, in
is years of study and travel, and who
ras to him only a shy, awkward child
-no more.
"I have no lovo," ho answered.
'Why do you ask this of mo, my dear
alher? Make any provision you wish
or Miss Monroe; dower her as riehl'
s you choose. Hut leave her, as I
iray you to leave me, f roe. 1 have no
dvo for hor, nor she for me; wo aro
Grangers. Let us remain so, lost in
aating us as you would you do both
ives injury."
"Stoop down, Ciarenco. She loves
ott ; you have boon her horo, her idol,
years. 1 have fostered her ielola
ry, for 1 have wished to atone for tho
rnrng I did her; and thoro is but ono
fay to make her tho wifo of my only
on. My hoy, jou will not ioiuso to
fcako my last hour easier?"
, "Father, I would purchases your
seaoo with my 1 fc, were it possible.
lut thoro is surely soino other way !
ban this, and I will hnd it. What is
ho wrong of which you speak? I
list know it, s.nco 1 am to atono;
aid trust mo, my father, though it
ftko my life, I will not fail to mako
he atonement a complete one."
"There is no other way," nioauod
ho sick man; "and since you bid mo
Uiseal my lips, I will toll you how 1
allied my wealth, and planted my
ifo with aloes of rcniorso, my sou.
ly cordial! Tho story is not long, but
cry hard to toll very hard, my bey
-for it will make you blush for your
kthor."
And, while the summer night closed
a, gray and spectral, Claronco Liv
agstone, listening to his father's
tory, of a credulous friond betrayed,
lid wealth snatched from a too trust
Dg hand, bout his young hoael in a
itimiliation wholly now and wholly
Dtolerable to liiiu.
Without, in tlio clustering shadows
if tho veranda, drooping like a lily on
ts stem, stood Lena Munroo, drinking
o tho t'tlo, with puhos boating as
trougly as those in tho broast of her
'laronoe, in hor own girlish bosom
miu as keen, rogrot as bitter; for she
ad loved Elmar Livingstone as a so
und father, and felt tho sin of tho
ying as keenly as tho wrong done
he dead.
Hosidcs, anothor pang was hers
or Clarenco had bogged his fathor
;ot to nsk him to bo more than a
trangor to her!
Tho story was told, and tho old
nan lay panting on his pillows, his
ace damp with dows of coming death;
,nd tho girl, peering into tho chamber
fith wide darkened eyes, saw Clar
nco on his knees beside the couch.
"Forgive mo my sou! I uid the
rong for vou," camo hoarsely to her
rom tlio drawn lips of tho dylii".
Make her your wife, and all will bo
eli. She Is puro as a llowor unpluck
cl. She has grown tlear to mo as a
laughter nnd, my boy, sho loves
'Oil."
A hot flush crept into hor facoat tho
ow, broken words, but it died in
tnntly, for Claronco was replying,
n d sho bent hor, face to her hands as
lie llstoned.
"Sho may bo all you say," camo in
he clear tones of theyoung man; "but
lio is no moro to mo than a flower
fhioh I havo no wish to gathor. If
lie loves mo, it is with a childish loro,
rhleh will not lltigor. Rest content,
n 'hor, sho shall not suffer through
your your regard for mo. I wll
giro back every ill-gotten dollar. Hut
I will keep my freedom; I can not sell
it, father."
"What do you mean?"
"That 1 will make over to Mis'?
Munroo every acre that you leave mo
every farthing that is lior duo. Nay,
not ouo dissenting word?" as the o'd
man strove to speak. "Let me keep
my houosty, and mako my own way
with clean hands, if empty ones. 1
would not oiler my hand to your
ward now, oven though I loved her,
which I do not" .
"Claronce, my son!,f
"Father, say no more, but trust to
me; now you shall sleep."
The girl, shaken by hushod sobs,
turned from tho silvory night, and
glided into tho house like a shadow.
Ere morning dawned, tho soul of
Ehnar Liviugstouo had gono, whore
human eye could not lollow its flight,
free of that clogging clay, to its judg
ment. And, as untraceable, it would seem,
as tho spirit of tuo mail who had
wronged her, yet guarded hor youth,
Leiia Munroo had also gono with the
night, leaving no token behind her,
bidding no farewell.
Six yoars later the accident occur
red on tho midnight train which tilled
tho hospital of G with moaning
life, orerushod and shapoless bodies,
in which was loft scarcely strength to
sigh.
'Tho nursos went from pallet to pal
let, holding bandages, aiding to bind
up great gaping wounds, shrinking
from the sight of severod arms, but
putting personal feeling away before
tho great needs that mot them.
Ono nurse, with sweet, blue eyos,
tender and pitiful, gavo a low cry at
last, as tho surgeon, whoo assistant
sho was, paused besido a cot on which
a young man lay unconscious.
"You know him?" tlio surgeon
asked her regarding her blanched
faco curiously.
She bent her head in silence, a sob
bursting from hor lips.
Half an hour later ho lay there un
der her eyes, cold and still, witli strips
of linen across his bosom, a broken,
bandaged arm, and court plaster hold-'
ing together the red edges of a gash,
that ran perilously near the temple;
and sho knelt beside the eot with an
ashen pain in her young face, as she
stroked back the hair lrom his fore-'
head.
"Aftor six years!" she whispered,
soltly. "Oh, my lovo! aftor six joars,
during which I havo striven to forgot
your lace, to see it so cold and wh:te!
Hut you shall be more tenderly cared
for than though you had a sister near
you; and when you are well onough to
know me, wo part again."
For tho crushed and wounded man
was Clarence Livingstone, tlio kneel
ing nurso tlio girl to whom ho had re
fused his dying father to mako oiler
of his hand Lena Munrco.
Long days and nights lollowed each
other, and Claronco waked from stu
por to mad delirium, in which ho told
patient nurso all of which sho already
know, and much besides told her ofi
the wealth ho had vowed novor to
touch, lying in his solicitor's hands
for tlio girl ho could not traco; of;
struggles and trial which ho had gono!
Or) O '
through, which mado her bluo oyes;
dim.
Hut ho said no word of any woman
whoso lovo was his guerdon, and sho
was glad that wa3 sparcel her.
Once in a midnight hour, when tho
ward was silent and the lights low,
about them, he suddenly put lorth his,
uninjured hand and took ono of hers;
his eyes, brilliant with fovor, wero
fastened on hor face.
"My fathor loved you as a daugh
ter,'' ho said, softly, "and ho told mo
you loved mo; but I did not believo,
and I wanted him to loavo mo freo.
Child, why did you lly from mo? Did
you fear 1 would learn to lovo you?"
She bent her face, and tears flowed
silently down hor cheeks.
It was delirium, sho know; but she,
who had been uuablo to forgot, re
membered that long hour in tho early
night loo vividly not to again fool
some of its pain as she hoard him.
It was weeks later whon, after a
long sleep, ho wakened to full con
sciousness ouo morning at day-dawn.
Tho lights wero low, tho scono spec
tral, as his languid eyes turned lrom
objoet to object.
At last thoy restod on tho quiet iig
uro of his nurse, asleep in her chair,
and thoro they 1. tigered.
How sweet and girlish tho weary
faco was, under tho still' cap! and
sad, too, as though this life was not
such as her heart yoarnod for. And
the hands lying idly in her lap wero so
fair aud while and slender, dainty
enough to be ducked with gems,
fair enough to bo kissed, but
too frail and white for toariug of linen
and lifting of dyiug heads, ho told
himself.
Thou a sort of memory camo to him
of thoso soft lingers on his brow, when
it had seemed burning; of that sweet
faco bent over him iu his delirium,
when he had taken it for tho faco ol
an angel.
Ho had soon it before, but where?
Porhaps In ono of his day dreams. Now
ho would never forgot it, ho told him
self, as, his own eyes closing ho drop
ped oft to sleop.
It was mid-day when ho wakod
again and found hor bending over
dim, and this tuno no recognized her.
"Lena!" he cried, trying to put out
Sis hand.
Hut he was too weak. It fell on the
jottnterpniio.
"You know me?" sho said softly,
airing paler.
"1 know you, and I want to tell
rou, ho whispered, faintly, but with
a warm glow in his oyes "You aro an
iioiress; thero is no need for you to do
this work. My fathor"
"I know it all," sho broko in;
"and that was why I loft Lynn as I
iid. Did you think I would beggar
rou? And vour father had beod kind
to mo. 1 forgave him because ho
ioved mo. I will not go back; I will
aot take a farthing of that money; it is
yours."
"Then sharo it with mo," ho said
mftly. "I would not :vk you once,
beeauo 1 did not lovo you. I do now,
because love has grown in my heart
for you in an hour. Lena, you have
nursed mo back to life from what
must have been very nearly death.
Will you learn to caro enough for
mo to sharo my future?"
"l'ou lovo mo!" sho said, incredu
lously. "When did you learn tho les-
sour'
"At day dawn, while I watched you
asleep in your chair, ero I know who
you were. Lona, do not doubt mo!
"I do not." She knelt at tho cot
and put back his hair, as ho had
dreamed sho did while ho was uncem
scions. "Aud I will own to you, Clar
once, that 1 havo loved you always
since I lirst saw you. That was why
I lied from Lynn."
"And now you will como back?"
"For the same reason." she smiled,
although her lips wero tremulous.
"Lovo sent mo forth then; love recalls
mo now, and 1 will sharo tho posses
sions with you which wero neither
honestly yours nor mine, but can bo
long fairly to us together. Yes, Clar
onco, I will go back!" Mary C. l''?cs
(on.
Curious Coins.
"What is that curious-looking cop
per piece?" asked a reportor of a deal
or in old coins.
"That is tho Roman Acs, a coin
which was in use in Homo about 2,''00
years ago. It is an original; it could
not bo spurious, and for tho reason
that though tho coin itself, so far as
its outward shapo is concerned, might
bo coiinnterfeited, it would bo impos
sible to imitate the red patina, or coat
ing, upon it. Y'ou see, this coin has
two coatings of colored matter ono
green and the other rod. Won, tho
green can bo imitated by modern in
genuity, but the red stuff can not bo
put upon counterfeit coins by any pro
cess at present known to tho world.
"Whore do you got those ancient
coins that were in use so many yoars
tgo? Where aro they found?"
"Well, you see, people iu thoso an
dent times d d not havo banks and
bank vaults to deposit their wealth in
for safe-keep ng. As you know, the
Honians wore almost constantly on
gaged iu warfare with others, and
thoso who had nionoy would frequent
ly hide it in tlio earth or secure it in
tho walls of their dwellings when thoy
went to tho wars. Thoso who wore
killed left, quite often, no trace of
where their wealth was hidden, and
so it remained to bo resurroctcd by
somo modern relio huntor. A groat
many ancient coins havo been found
also in river bods. 1 think then in
niatiy instances thoy wero put into
rivers by people who wished to havo
their history reinoinborod by tho com
ing ages. There havo boon coins
found in the Thames near old London
bridgo by which wo can traco many
ot tho Roman emperors. Tho fact
that thoy havo thus boon found in
order seems to clearly indicate that
they were deposited on purpose by
persons dosirous of perpetuating tho
names of the rulers." Thus, by thesu
coins of anciont Home, many thing
portaining to that great empire which
ruled as unstress, of tho world aro
made known to us. Mail' Ihings are
indelibly impressed upon tho mind by
glancing at these coins and afterward
becoming interested in tho subject. I
do not believo there can bo a bettor
educator of tho history of any coun-
try than a collection of its coins. The
symbolic devices and inscriptions
upon them have a priceless value In
lixing upon tho mind the great facts
and epocs to which thoy refer. Not
only does this apply to anciont coins;
It is equally truo of modern coins.
Hero is something that to tho thinking
man indicates a great sooial and busi
ness revolution In the mannor and cus
toms of tho pooplo who usolt, for hero
you seo a specimen of tho largest coin
over known to bo iu usoanywhoro."
'Iho reporter wits struck with
amazement whon informed that the
huge square copper plattcr-liko nftiur
wus a co"n. Frt'cooellng, tho dealer
said:
"Yos, it is a Swedish ploco and gen
oralis wolghs from C to 7 pounds.
1 is ono weighs CJ pounds. Ills 10 J
lMelios.wido by 9 inches lone, and is a
very raro coin. It was mado durinc
tho reign of Frederick, king of Sweden,
iu Iho year 1723. In the center of the
piece, inclosed in a circle you see th
stamp '1 dolor,' aud underneath tin
words 'Silf mynt' (silver money), ami
iu each of the four corners, and it
order to provont tho coin being
clipped, they were stamped with tin
royal coat of arms." Boston Ulouc.
FACT AND FANCY.
Wiscassot, Mo., has an anti-slang
society.
Orange wine is bocoming popular
in Honda.
Georgia is full of tramps with old
straw hats and linen dusters.
It is said that sixteen colleges in this
country are looking for presidents.
A creinatorv is to bo erected in
Hull'alo bv a builder from Milan,
Italy.
Hutte, Montana territory, ships an
average of $120,000 a week in silver
bullion.
One and ono-half tons havo been lift
ed by electric power forty feet in one
minute.
The l'ackor memorial church of
Lehigh university will cost over
$2oo ooo.
The town of Hrooklyn, Conn., has
voted )?.00 toward a monument to
Cen. l'utnam.
It is estimated Iliac thoro wore over
thirteen thousand marriages in Penn
sylvania during tho week previous to
the taking effect of the now marriago
la w.
A fishing schooner at Gloucester,
Mass., one day last week took in
three hundred barrels of iish in half
an hour that sold iu the market tor
82,'.'GS.7.r).
It is estimated that tho strike of tho
Albany, N. Y., moldors, which ended
on Wednesday, has cost tho workmen
aud manufacturers iu the neighbor
hood of $200,000.
One hundred thousand colored chil
dren in North Carolina attended school
in one thousand ami ninety school
housos last year. The average cost of
the buildings was less than 100 each.
A California newspaper calls upon
Riot Ilarto lo revisit California and
"bruh ii) lis social information."
Tlio California which he knew is nl-
logod to bo utterly unlike tho Califor
nia which exists to-day.
The New York Ladies' club, pro
jeeted witli enthusiasm, has died bo
fore it was formed. Its aim was siui'
ply amusement, imitating the features
of the men's clubs, and its premature
death is not surprising.
There is a woman living in Davidson
comity, North Carolina, who is the
mother of seventeen children, cloven
of whom aro living. She has oighty
soven grandchildren and thirty-two
great grandchildren. She is now 72
years old.
A valiant Georgia editor w rites: "1
will put our dog Trailor against the
world lor treeing opossums. A fow
nights ago our boy .Jim Ripples caught
lifleen with him, ami it was not a good
night for the business, as tlio moon
shone too brightly."
Tlio now capitol in process of orco
tion at Atlanta, Ca., is of tho same
style of architecture as that of the cap
itol at Washington. Tlio building is
to bo a 17 foot long and 272 feet at the
greatest depth. From the center a
dome is to r.so to a height of 210 toot.
A learned professor who was asked
tho question, "What is cholera?" re
plied: "Cholera is a po. soiling by
urieinia, by ehoheniis, by oxtraoti
lueinia, analogous to what is pro
duced by ptomaines, analogous to
'cholera stiblo' or to 'cholera arseni
cal.' "
Mrs. Mary E. Townsond, of Stono
Ridge, N. Y., has a biblo in her pos
session datotl l ll. J no volume is
profusely illustrated, and is in a re
markable state of preservation. It was
tho property of Josaias Robinson, of
Kripplobush, bearing on tho lly-loaf
tho date 17G9.
A Philadelphia damsel with "noth
ing to wear," while at a New Jersoy
watering-place tlio past season, was
bedecked with a dog collar of dia
monds outside of hor walking dresses,
a diamond buckle at her waist, largo
sditairo "lu-a. Might" earrings,, aud
several rows of bracelets and rings.
Toinporanco people in many parts oi
Connecticut aro Iu high feather. They
aro uxohaiiging congratulations iu the
country press over tho victories for
no license at the polls on Oct. !J. Thoy
had waged a war of unwonted vigor
against liquor-sollors, and wore re
warded with unusual success.
In commending the proposition to
change the datoof tlio national thanks
giving to Oct. 12, the day on which
Columbus first s ghtod tho outlying
islots of tho Now World, Tho Toronto
Uioba asks why Canada should not
join in with tho pooplo of tho United
Stales. Arguments both of a senti
mental ami of a practical nature are
urged iu support of such an interna
tional holiday.
Tho national museum is said to have
been a groat gainer by the New Or
leans exposition, where it had a large
representation. About ouo thousand
boxes wore sent as a part of tho gov
ernment's display, but over two thou
sand wero returned, the collections
having boon greatly augmented by
gitts from foroign governments and
private sources.
Tho msinngorof an olootrlo company
says that it is found that wherever
steam is used to obtain twenty-live
horse-power or loss, oloclrlolty Is more
economical. The advantages are: a
smaller space occuplod, much less
noise and no heat, ami the fact that
the power can bo turned on or stopped
at will. Thoro is no boiler required
and no fire, as tho power Is supplied
to tho motor by wires from a centrul
station, on tho samo principle thul
gus or bteam boat Is supplied.
THE BL'I.OAUIAN UNIO.'f.
A Tint Iiookhur to tlin Deposition of I'rlnci
Alexander WnMrniar of Dcninark Ills
l'robable Sueeessor to the Throne.
A London special cablegram to lO.e
St. Louts (llobc-Democrat s9ys: Tho
apparently sudden outbreak of tho
war fever in Greece causes an immense
sensation, but there is really little
prospect of actual hostilities. It is a
matter of fact, and capable of demon
stration, that tho present outburst has
been in preparation for weeks with
the full knowledge of King George I.
The whole proceeding looks very
much like a game of brag, but it Is
growing exciting. The relative mili
tary strength of Turkey and Greece
prerhides any idea o( the latter power
begiuning a war of conquest, unless,
indeed, the whole Ralkati peninsula
gets ablaze, and Turkey needs her sol
diers elewhoio. At the present mo
ment, Turkey has troops enough on
the Greek frontier to promptly squelch
any attempt at invasion, while tho
Greek army Is weak, poorly equipped
and ill-dis iplined. The Groek forces
ire alleged to number 100.0J0, where
as, in reality, tho only ollicient por
tion of the army numbers but 10,000
men.
Tito most curious and suggestivo
fact about the Grajoo-Turklsh question
is tho attitude of King Georgo, and to
understand this his family relations
must bo taken into account. King
Georgo is the second son of King
Christian IX., of Denmark, and is the
husband of tho Grand Duchess Olga
Con.stantinovn, cousin of the Czar of
Russia. King Christian has now suc
ceeded in placing all of his children,
save one, on present or prospective
European thrones. His eldest sou, the
Crown Prince Frederick, will become
tho King of Denmark; his oldest
daughter, Princess Alexandra, is the
wife of the Prince of Wales, aud will
bo Iho Queen of England; his second
son, King Gorge, is King of tho
Hellenes; his second daughter is tho
Czar.na of Russia; his third daughter
is tho wife of tho reigning Duke of
Cumberland.
A.TIIKON'K VOU WAMMClfAlt.
The only one of the numerous brood
unprovided with a crown is tho
youngest chihl, I'rinee Waliloinnr.wliti
will bo 27 yours old this mouth. Ho
is about tt) be married to a French
Princess, but thero is little cliauco that
either she or ho will over reign in
Franco. Therolore, it is desirable) U)
give eclat to the alliance by providing
tlio young pooplo with another throne,
and it happens eipporlunely that a va
cancy can now bo mailo cm the throne
ef Hulgaria. The present incuinbonl,
Prince Alexander of Ilor.se, has mor
tally offended the great Powers by his
action iu annexing Eastern Roumelia
without asking their permission. He
has forgotten that ho was a puppet,
aud lias acteel as though hu wore
really a king. Whatever may be the
fale of the Hulgarlau union, Prince
Alexander must be disciplined, and
the most probable form of punishment
is dethronement. His thremo is want
eel for Prince Wahlomar. Despite tho
denials from Pan Slavlst sources, the
rumor is general ami persistent at St.
Petersburg that tho young Danish
Prince will soon succeed Alexander as
tlio King of United Hulgaria. The
King of Denmark is known to have
great iniluetico over his son-in-law, the
Czar, and it is positively nsserloel by
certain woll-iuformoel diplomates that
the former has secured from the Czar
the reversion of tho Hulgarlau thremo
for Princo Waldoinar. The Czar has
nenv been visiting for several weeks at
the Court of his father-in-law. ami
there has been ample time and oppor
tunity for perfecting this arrangement.
It is natural to suppose that King
George ef Groeco Is also thoroughly
in favor of providing a thremo for his
brother, Princo Wnliloiniir, and recent
events iu Greece exactly fit this
theory.
rOJIKNTUI) iiv fiicoiton oy aitKr.on.
There was a probability thatTurkoy
ami tho Powers would accept tho
Hulgarlau union under Prince Alex
ander's rule as an fait accompli. This
would not suit thoso who aro seeking
Alexander's throne for Waleloinnr.
To prevent it, It was necessary that
there sliouhl be pretonilod outbreaks
iu the western ami southern portiem
of the Halkan peninsula. Thoso would
call for the Intervention of the Powers
lo prevent a general conflagration in
Europium Turkey. Then, whon it
was found that everybody would bo
pneilied by the deposition of Alexan
der and tho elevation of Waldoinar,
that change could easily bo made.
This programme scorns now to be in
process of fulfillment. The lead has
been taken by Greece and Sorvia.
Either of them could be crushed by
Turkey, but their simultaneous action,
together with fears for the peace of
. i ,.. .i ir i i.. .1... i
jwuainu anil .naceiioiiia, ooiuuim in
tervention. Many interests would bo
served by the elevation of Prince
Waleleinar to the Hulgariau throne,
and Ills quite possible that this may
be, at least fur the present, the solu
tion of the whole problom.
The Criminal Out of Prison.
The subject of prison reform, first
Introduced to tho attention of the civ
ilized worhl by John Howard and
Kl'zaboth Fry, has coucoriiod Itsolf
chiefly wllh the welfare of the criminal
md the protoution of society after tho
criminal has committed his crlmo and
b shut up in prison. Tho idea that
the prison, like tho county jail of to
day, was a li"!d fer propagating iiumnti
weeds instead of a nur.-ery for ilnvel
oping tlieni into valuable plants, was
the new eli-eeivory which thoso emi
nent philautluopists helped reveal lo
the worhl. The inmates left them far
worse than I hoy entered. To oradicato
such a system has been the principal
work of prison reformers from that
day to this. Study, ingenuity, bene
volence have all contributed to their
store to this important problem.
Have thoy succeeded? On tho wholo
it must bo admitted that, measured by
tho labor ami time expended, their
success has not been brilliant. As a
rule most criminals on thoir roleaso
from prison betake thonisolves to their
edel associates, thoir olel haunts nnd
their olel evil ways. This is partly
duo to tho attitude of society, which
distrusts them, but mainly to (ho in
grafted lovo of tho crime in. Which
they indulge. What seamanship auel
the pleasures of an roving ocean life
aro to tho sailor; or fox-hunting and
tiger-shooting aro to tho inveterate
sportsman, burglary is to the natural
born burglar. As tho painter lovos
his art, as the actor loves tl.o stage, so
tho forger and counterfeiter lovo tho
exercise of that skill which enables
them at a singlo stroko to enrich thoni
solves at the expense of their fellows.
Moissonier iloos not roeoivc tho 10,
000 chocks which millionaires pay him
for one of his pictures with moro
pleasure than the forgor feols when
the cashier hands him tho nionoy
which attests tho excellence of his
false draft, anil although overhanging
it all is tho ponl of punishment, the
anxiety is probably nmro than com
ponsatoel by tho risk ami sp lit of tul
ve nt tire.
I u spito, thorcforo, of tho many
abuses in prison management that
have been roinoilieel, little pre)gross
has yet been made in the conversion
of the criminal class into a law-abiding
aud useful class.
The attention of reformers, thorc
foro, U turning to another phase of
tho problem iu his earlier stages; to
his vaccination rather than to the dis
ease after it has broken out. Having
been pronounced almost if not quite
incurable, once it matures into an
eruption, tho prevention of it before
hand has assumed a now importance.
This is only following the tendency in
treating bodily disease. Cleanliness,
sanitary regulation ami inoculation
are taking new prominence in medical
science. In moral disease, orphan
asylums, Sunday schools, reform
schools, hotues of all sorts for home
less or neglected children, the separa
tion of children from criminal or pau
perized parents, all havo thoir origin
in the admitted failure of prisons to
reform the criminal.
Hut thero aro still several phases of
tho problem which prison-reformers
have yet barely touched, and In ro
garel to which tho reformation of ju
risprudence ami change in public opin
ion tiro siully nooeled. One of thoso
especially domniiding attention is tlio
want of oversight auel restraint of tho
notorious criminal who is not m prison,
includiug tho valuable right of habeas
corpus itself, the laws which were iu
early days instituted for tlio protoctio
of tho weak against Iho rich and pow
erful, and of the individual ngainst
a despotic governing olass, have in
tho process of civilization tailed to
keep stop with otlior improvements.
They are now ono of tho chiof shields
of tho criminal classes. Thoy aro
straiuod to the utmost iu his behalf.
Thus tho burglar or forgor has a
double advantage. Hehastho benefit
of many of the groat inventions from
lino slcel instruments to otlior and
dynamite, tho best lirearms -but, after
he is caught, which Is nuidu by those
inventions all the moro dillicull, lie
has the benefit of the antiquated
usages of t'ne laws, which have not
been roneliiplcd lo the new era hi civ
ilization ami government.
Whon notactually engaged in break
ing the law or in undergoing its pen
alties he is almost wholly free to pur
sue his criminal occupation. Ho is, it
is truo, subject to the vigilance of tho
police and the detective, but he is not
obliged to account for himsolf, his
time, or his pursuits. Ho can plan a
raid upon a bank or a dwelling liouso
with all the deliberation and secrecy
of a commanding general plnunhig a
campaign against an enemy.
Anil there are notorious resorts nnd
ro'.roats, whore he may stay unmolest
ed until somo oriino is committed
which allows the intorfonco of the po
lice. During tho political progross ol
mankind, individual liberty has be
come) so exalted that although Its pro
toctlon to the good citizen is growing
almost superfluous and gouernlly au
coptod, it has become like tho aban
doned temples of tho Crock gods, o
refuge anil a sanctuary for tho bundiU
auti beasts of proy that make war up
on society.
Thoso aspects of tlio erlmlual prob
lem nood thorough discussion, and
thoy aro elestlnod to roceivo groatoi
prominence horeaftor than thoy hnv
yet hud. While it is not protondod
that all has boon done which can bi
dono for tho criminal iu prison, tin
criminal out of prison has been oyer
looked aud passed by. Detroit Vrtt
JVmj.
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