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.. CONVICTS CAN DOFF STRIPES.
. Interesting Experiments Being Made at
the Columbus Penitentiary.
The most original experiment in
prison reform which has yet been tried
has within the last week been put into
eflfect at Ohio’s Penitentiary, at Colum-
bus. A striking, almost startling
change in the conventional prison
stripes of the convict has been made
This, the first announcement of this
'n'npontant departure, will doubtless ex~
cite wide attention and comment.
It is, in brief, regulating the clothing
of the convict by his conduct.
Penologists have long held that the
intelligent convict could be more thor-
oughly reformed by mental processes,
or methods akin thereto, than by the
physical penalties that prison rules
have caused all ofienders to suffer
This .is exactly the idea from which
Warden E. G. Coffin, of the Ohio Peni-
tentiary, conceived his plan of help.
ing the prisoners to reform by grad.
ing their clothing. There are to be
three grades, one hardly different from
the ordinary suit of-the civilian, while
the other two bear in greater degree
the math of the prison.
The first grade of clothing is of plain
gray cloth, with nothing to indicate
that it is anything else than a citizen’s
suit. Thessecond' grade will consist oi
gray andwhit‘e' checkered goods, and
the third giade will be that of the pres
ent regular stiipes, as nosv‘worn by
all”
A prisoner upon entering the prison
will be placed in the second grade, and
after the expiration of six months,
Wfihfltibeingreported for any infrac-
tion of the rules, will be entitled to be
placed in the first grade. Every pris-
oner in the Ohio Penitentiary who is
not... reported for the violation of a
prison rule until January 1 will be per.
mitted to wear the firstgrade uniform
as soon as it it possible to procure it.
The prisonerwho during the time men.
tioned is reported for one infraction oi
the rules will be eligible to the first
grade in ten days thereafter. The
prisoner: who has two reports against
nim‘January 1 will not be eligible to
the first grade for twenty days. If a
prisoner has three or more reports
against him he will not be placed in
the first grade until three continuous
months have passed without an unfa-
vorable report regarding him.——New
York Herald.
Andrew D. White complains that
the newspapers give too meagre re-
ports of the proceedings of Congress.
M12; White should read the Congres-
sional Record for'a day or two, and
learn=to -be grateful to the newspapers
for the afflictions they spare their
readers.- The American newspapers
are not published for the exploiting of
small _.oflicial persons who have the
habit of chattering away hour after
hour forthe mere pleasure of hearing
the buzzing of their own wheels. If
anything, the newspapers are too com-
plaisant. .
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» Board-school.
'SCINTILLATIONS.
“Where was Magna Charta signed?’ _
isked a teacher in a South London
“Please, sir, at the bot
tom.” .
Insults are like counterfeit money—4
we cannot hinder them being offered
but we .are not compelled to take
them. _
It is not the great things which we
would do if we could that will coum
1n the end, but the little things Wt
:ould do if we would.
An Irishman who was enjoying a
plum-pie flavored with raspberries ex-
claimed, “Ah, what a darling of a
plum-pie it would be if it were all
made of raspberries!”
A small boy recently stole a dentist‘s
sign bearing the legend “Painless fill
mg”; he then went and 'nailed it 0V8]
the door of a restaurant.
‘ Alligators grow very slowly. At fif
teen years of age they are only two
feet long. A twelve-footer may be
reasonably supposed to be seventy-five
years old.
That which is‘popularly known as
the “funny-bone,” just at. the point 01
the elbow, is in reality not a bone an
111, but a nerve which lies near the sur-
face, and which, on getting a knock 01
blow, causes the well—known tingling
sensation in the arms and fingers.
Not a hundred miles from St. Paul‘s
London. is suspended over a pile oi
Eiusty volumes in a second—hand book-
;eller’s shop a chart showing the hu-
man skeleton. and underneath the fol-
lowing—“'l‘his is all that remains oi
the tradosman whose customers only
looked."
A smart Irish car-driver was caller‘-
upon to settle a wager which turned
upon his ability to answer any ques-
EiOIl that was put to him without stop-
ping to think. The circumstances hav-
.ng been explained to the man, he said,
‘Be after askin’ me the question, you]
onner." Well, now, Pat, tell me what’s
nothing?” “Ari-ah, now, shut your
eyes and ye‘ll see nothing immediate-
y," was the instant answer.
S . mpatlietie Solicitude.
A mothei was showing hei dear lit-
tle Joe :1 pictu1e of the mar-ty1s
thrown to the lions, and was talking
very solemnly to him, trying to make
him fgel what a terrible thing it was.
“\Ia.“ said he, all at once, “011, ma,
iust look at that poor little lion right
behind there! He won’t get any.”
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“I believe Chamberlain’s 'Cough Remedy
is the best for children I ever used. For
croup it is unequalled. It 15 a splendid seller
with us. -—T. M. ECKLES,Pl1.
Wampum Pharmacy, Wampum, Pa.”
When used as soon as the first svmp‘to’m's?
appear, that' is as soon as the child becomes
hoarse or even after the croupy cough has
appeared, it will prevent the attack. The
mothers of croupy children should bear this
in mind and always keep the remedy at
hand. It is also the best remedy in the
world for colds and whooping cough. For
sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by E. P.
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