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. .OOGS>0?CaCOC G 05C 3038 OOO O O . ' * i Torturing Men in S . Free Am?rica- | ?BOOaOOSGSQOJOOOG?OCOOO?O? "What roes on behind prison wails? Terrible things, inhuman punish ments and despicable tortures aro common, to not a few penal institu tions, according to the report made by that veteran investigator and so cial philosopher. Charles Edward-Rus sell. For Hampton's Magazine Mr. ' Russell is writing a series of articles on the evils cf some prisons, and the hopeful progress upward in oth,ers. Of .the worst type Mr. Russell con siders the Ohio State Penitentiary a fair sample. . He thus describes a part cf it: The first buildings aro cell houses. Here is one built in 1S34. It is a frightful place, very dark, damp, and to the ssnses pungently suggestive o? long and odorous occupation. The ventilation is so bad that even when the tenants are gone forth the air is heavy and foul what it must be when the ? 00 cells are occupied with breathing and perspiring men is a suggestion to jostle complacency. There is first the outer wall with barred windows, few and narrow; then a space of ten or twelve feet, then thc calls in five tiers. At noon barely so much light enters the cor ridor that one may see one'r way about. light enters the cells. In to these black caves, where the chill of old stone walls strikes one like a palpable thing, and where the heavy air is stirless always, not one ray of natural light has penetrated for sev enty-five years. And 500 men sleep in the<:e caverns. Especially does Mr. Russell attack "the contract system." Under this, In the Ohio State Penitentiary, he says the convicts worked in shoos un der the direction and control and practical] y at the mercy of the con tractors, who were irresponsible to the State or in this matter to any other human authority. Each convict musr. each day pro duce a certain amount of work called hi? "task." If he fell short the con tractor's foreman reported him to the guard who forthwith took him to the "cellar." / / This Tras the place of judgment and of torture. The deputy warden sat as the court; on the report of the guard swift sentence was pronounced. Usually the offender was condemned to be paddled, sometimes to the bull rings, sometimes to the water cure, and in many cases of old offenders to all three-one after another. Punishment by the paddle is man aged in this fashion: The prisoner is seized, stripped and bent over the edge of a bathtub, his legs being man acled to the door and his hands chained before him. A guard takes a flat instrument, ash, three and a half feet long, two inches wide, fitted with a handle. He soaks it in hot, water. Then he beats the prisoner I with it ? prescribed number of times ?-four or five according to the prison officers, ten to thirty according to the prisoners. "Bull-rings" means that the pris oner is strung, up by the wrists in a dark cell and thus left hanging, like a carcass of beef. Sufferers from this device and other witnesses haye declared that the chains are some times so adjusted that. the delin quent's feet barely touch .the floor. This is denied by the prison officers. There is no re?son why it should not be true; the guards are a law unto themselves: The cell is perfectly dark except for what light filters through a few narrow slits in the door and is otherwise unventilated. At night the victim is usually low ered and allowed to sleep on the floor-usually, not always. ' American vs. European Guns. Thc weapons of Continental Eu rope, England and America are all constructed on similar lines, of iden tical quality of steel and wood, have the same systems of choking and bor ing and the character of workmanship is not essentially different. There are minor variations, of course, dictated by taste and h?bit. Europe tends to multiplicity of lock ing devices. America to simplicity. But the one American rotary bolt is stronger and more lasting than the quintuple fastening of foreign arms. American and English guns are alike noted for their perfection of balance, beauty of outline and severe simplic ity of scroll engraving. Continental Europe tends to flor idly of ornamentation with the most artistic pictorial effects in engraving i and wood cutting. Personally, I pre fer rhe pictorial in ornamentation, but that ia merely a matter of taste. One thing the American manufac turer can and does do, he can give you as much gun for $100 as Europe can for $200. Grade for grade, it will be found on examination that there is very little to choose between an American gun costing $50 and an imported arm at $100. If money is no object, then exercise your fancy . in absolute confidence that a beauti ful and satisfactory arm can be ob tained either at home or abroad. Charles Arkins, ic Outing. Man of Many Limbs. The o7d Colonel was spinning off yarns cf thc Civil War, and in the heat of reminiscent patriotism his memory be:.ame somewhat tangled. "Ah, gentleman," he related seri ously. "I shall never forset the charge at Chlckamr.usa. It was there I lost my leg." Ten minutes later the old Colone! was relating an incident of Gettysburg. "And when we climbed Little Round Top the bullets were whist ling on all sides. It was there that I lost my leg." And thirty'minutes later through a misty haze of smoke: "Seven Pines, gentlemen. Seven Pines! Ah, that was the battle. One of my legs was shot from under me and But just then a timid little boy looked up and asked shyly: "Grand pa, were-were you a centipede in those days?"-Chicago News. The Salvation-Army has a factory in Europe where musical Instruments ar6 me de f or ita members. TSE ORIGINAL This curious relief from the Cai Giotto. It gives the Thirteenth Centn: Keeps Grapes Fresh. A great firm of wine growers at Saint Benezat, France, has devised a simple method of keeping grapes per fectly fresh for several months. To keep grapes fresh they must not bo C5> allowed to dry, while, on the. other hand, thea' lose all their good quali ties if they are immersed in water. Therefore, they must receive moisture just as they receive it while still on the vine-through their stalks. The grapes must not touch anything and they must be handled as little as pos sible. The device, which has. just been put into use in France, is well illus trated in the accompanying picture, from the New York World. In cut tint the grapes an inch or two of stalk ia left, on each side of the twig tb at bears the bunch, and to each end of the stalk is fitted c. bulb of rubber or glass containing sterilized water. The whole is then hung up where the grapes may swing free. The water in the bulbs'is sucked up by the stalks and supplies the fruit-with tho where withal ?o keep fresh. This water can be renewed as often as necessary without touching the grapes, and any grape that withers ca:i be slipped off CAUSE AN ""^^'.'."".;>-."s-T- . . ' . "Why are you crying, little boy "Far ver 'it 'is fu mb wiv a 'am m Shapes Wires to Or??r. There is little necessity nowadays of flolv tWvtZS by hand On" n" latest implements to save wear and tear on the fingers is the wire-work ing device designed by an Iowa man. FLYING M mpanile- of Florence was modeled by ry idea of a flying man. without disturbing its neighbors. It is said .that by this method freshly picked grapes can be kept fresh for two or three months.-Philadelphia Record. A Monkey Eating Eagle. The first specimen ever caught aliva cf the monkey eating eagle of the Philippines was recently acquired by tho Zoological Gardens in London. Its body is a dark brown and the breast feathers aro of a dirty cream color. A monkey diet being out of the question in England, it is being' fed on chickens, whence, presumably,, its worried look.-The Graphic. In American secondary schools in the year 1900 there were 925,000 pupils-742',000 at the public high schools and only 183,000 at private Gchools of all kinds. D EE3?TECT. '..?y^''.'*" ? ? 7 .? ter-an' I laughed."-The Tatter. This contrivance takes a piece of wiro, j cuts it to the desired length, bends it into the form of the letter U and wrap3 it around a hose, thus making . a ?oupling. At one end is a movable j carriage which is turned by means of . a handle. Thc wiro is passed over ( . oue of the gaps in the corrugated car- . riage-way and as thc latter is turned ' ; thc ridge behind carries the wire 1 ; down a slot aud bends it into shape, j ? In another part is a cutting device de- , ! signed to cut a second wire to size j j while the first is being formed. At | I the back is a grip by which the U I shaped wire is held as it is wrapped j over a hose. Wi re workers who are j restricted to the old method of cut ? ting, bending and wrapping with no moro aid than a pair'nf pliers, will appreciate thc relief this new imple ment affords.-Washington Star. Af tor n Lower Price. Hart-"Isn't it a bit late to be wearing your outing snit, old mau?" Smart-"Well. I'm on my way to tho coal dealer and I want to give him tho impression that, it's si ill summer." -Boston Transcript. i THE WH?SL?G -Cartoon by > UNITED STATES IN PERIL, Head of Great Northern Railwj High Cost of Living is I National Hoi Washington, D. C. - President Taft's program for railroad and trust reform legislation'at the next session af Congress was the lodestone that Irew another railroad man to the White House. He was none other than Mr. James J. Hill, of St. Paul, Minn., president of the Great North srn Railway. He remained with the President long enough to say a good many things, and whep. he came out lemonstrated that he was frhe only md original "artful dodger'' in cap tivity. When he was asked by the newspaper men what he thought of the President's legislative ideas and what suggestions he had made to im prove upon them he seemed inspired to deliver a lecture, which began in this wise: "I am a student of history. History shows that the high cost of living is the beginning of every national de cline. This country is in grave dan- I ger of entering upon a period of lecadence through extravagance, pub lic and private. Prosperity is not a :ure; it is only a help.' How much longer Mr. Hill would ?lave continued to delight his hearers with this dissertation, had not some me broken in, will never be known. He was interrupted with a question as to what all that had to do with .ailroad and anti-trust legislation. He milled. "What this country needs is to :lean house and spend less money and stop bothering, about new laws to govern corporations," said Mr. Hill. 'Deep and serious consideration should be given at once to the ques tion of reducing the cost of food and DEATH FOLLOWS IN THE TR Selim Habid, Latest Owner of Baleful Gc ni Luck Stone With Him-Myste Has FoUowed the Po: Paris.-The mysterious and won ierful Hope Diamond, the jewel that :ame out of ?the East in the reign of LiOuis XIV., and which has seemed for nany long years a baleful Nemesis, lursttin^lto misfortune or the grave :he monarchs, peers and laymen who aave possessed it, and bringing sud ien ? sorrows to the famous women whose beauty it has adorned, has ;one back into the East, and as popu lar superstition will undoubtedly de jare, is said to have been the cause af its last owner's tragic end. A curt four-line dispatch from Sin gapore announces that Selim Habid was among the passengers drowned In the wreck of the French steamer 5eyne in the China Sea. "It is believed." the message says, "that Habid had the Hope diamond in his oossession at the time of the wreck." If this is so, the mystic gem. at ance the bane and envy of kings and potentates, has ended its dark story it the bottom of the Malacca Strait. It had been sunposed that the Hope ilaraond was sold by Habid in Paris last June for $S0,000. But no pur chaser was ever named with author ity. Habid had brought the .iewel to Paris with many others of lesser fame, and it was rumored that he was in agent of Abdul Hamid, deposed Sultan of Turkey, who was said to be making vigorous attempts to dispose af his jewels. / Now it is believed that Habid did aot sell it, but was taking it back to me Orient in an attempt to sell it to iome Indian potentate. LOWEST DEAT? Census Figures 15.3; Per T inj? Seven! Washington, D. C.-The death rate !or 19OS in the registration area set tside by the Census Bureau for tabu lation nurposes was 15.3 per i OOO aopulation, the lowest yet recorded. 1 n rural districts covered by the labu- 1 ation the rate was slicrhtly lower, av- I ?raging 14 to the ? OOO inhabitants. I During the same period the death rate ! 'or England and "Wales was 15.7 per j IOOO. The total number of deaths re :urned for the year 190S in the reg-I Federal Jud-re Decides Syrians Can not Bo Barred From Citizenship. Wheeling, W. Va.-7- Judge A. G.; Daylqp, of the Federal court here, landed down an order which upsets m order issued by the immigration lenartment at Washington, D. C. Judge Dayton instructs all Federal afficiars to admit to full citizenship natives of Syria who have proper lualifjcation. Recently the immigra tion denartment 1 ejected natives of Syria, claiming that they were of the Mongolian race, being under the sar/.'3 aan as the natives of China. J About Noted People. Sir Morgan Crofton and his wife. | whom he found in New York, re turned to London. Prince Ito was buried in a mauso leum on his estate, near Tokio, after Imnosing ceremonies. The Tarrytown annual flower show closed. William Rockefeller being prominent as a prize winner. .lames A. Patten. "King of the Wheat Pit," made $4.000.000 in one 'lay hy a sudden rise in cotton based '>n cron shortage, which made his es Mrratpd mnrket winnings for the year $12.000.000. ay, in White House Call, Says Seal Menace, and Urges ise Cleaning. clothing to the masses. A grave dan ger faces the Nation. History shows that the decline begins when the cost of living becomes a burden to the masses, but not to the rich." Just as Mr. Hill was about to es cape from his questioners he bumped squarely into a kindred spirit in the person of Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon. Mr. Bourne, as it hap pens, is chairman of the working sub committee of the Senate's new Com mittee on Public Expenditures, of which Senator Hale, of Maine, is the head. The business of this commit tee is to tighten the strings of Uncle Sam's purse, ?.nd it purposes to do it. It was fully thirty minutes before these two economists finished their little chat in the White House recep tion room. When it was over Sena tor Bourne remarked that it would never do .to give away Li advance what his sub-committee was going to report, but he was perfectly certain the purchasing power of a Govern ment dollar could be increased from five to ten per cent, by the simplifica tion of administrative methods, cen tralization and the elimination of un necessary items. Mr. Hill is likely to come back to Washington again. President Taft told him just what he has been telling other railroad men and members of both branches of Congress who.have had suggestions to make to improve his annual message. In substance it was: "What you say is interesting; it may be important. Kindly put it in writing and submit it to me again. Then I will give it due consideration." AIL OF THE ?HOPE DIAMOND. .'m, Drowned in Wreck off Singapore-" ry in Its Final Fate, as Disaster ssession of the Jewel. Louis XIV. acquired the jewel mysteriously, and, although history gives saner causes, the French mon arch's decay set in about that time, j The gem was still in the crown of France when Louis XVI. died by the j guillotine amid the storm of the great revolution. Then the jewel vanished for a time, and it was not until 1830 that a Lon don dealer, purchasing it from a stranger, sold it to the famous bank er, Henry Thomas Hope. As the "Hope Diamond," the blue stone leaned into fame. Hope's daughter brought it to her husband, the Duke of Newcastle, as part of her dowry. Her son. Lord Henry Francis Hope, inherited it, and misfortune be set him early. He married May Yohe, and soon she was wearing the dia mond on the stage. In 3 <S90. Lord Hone was in financial difficulties and tried to sell the gem, but Iiis family prevented this. After his divorce from May Yohe he sold it, however, to Simon Frankel, the New York j?weler. It remained in the United States until January, 1908, when rumors of the financial difficul ties of Frankel Brothers were fol lowed by the sale of the jewel. Im mediately after parting company with the mysterious ?em the firm paid off all creditors and returned to its for mer prosperity. It is supposed that, through a se cret asrenrv. the diamond came into the possession of Abdul Hamid, then the absolute of Turkey. His throne fell before he had possessed the Hope diamond even for a year. i RATE IN I908D iiousand in Area Includ een Stales. istration area was 091,574, while for the preceding year it was 6S7.034. This apparent increase of 4540 is ex plained by the fact that during 190S two new States. Washington and Wis consin, were added to the registration. The month of maximum mortality in 190S was January, -with C7.76:J deaths, and that of minimum mortal ity was June, with if.701 deaths. The death rates of the individnal States vary from IS.4 for California to 10.1 for South Dakota. Shot Forty-four Pct DORK in Streets of Montclair, N. J. Montclair. N. J.-Forty-four d'"gs were shot as the result bf the prof '<". nation issued by Mayor Henry V. Crawford, of Montclair, authorizing thc destruction ol' all unmuzzled dogs running at large in the streets. Policeman Hugh Seery and William Stewart, armed with double-barrelled shotguns, were busy all day killing the animals. David Steinfeldt, the official dog catcher, killed the dogs in the centije of the town. Owners plead ed in vain for lives of their pets. Items of Interest. Senator Aldrichmadetwo addresses in at. Louis on monetary reform. Colonel G. R. Colton was inaugu rated at San Juan, Porto Rico, as Governor of the island. lt was agreed between the United States and Chile to submit the Alsop claim to The Hague court for arbitra tion. Again risking arrest for contempt of court, President Gompers at the I Toronto convention of the American Federation of Labor denounced Judge Wright, of Washington, I). C.. who i sentenced the labor leaders to jail. New York City.-The simple tucked j blouse is always a pretty one. This model can he utilized either for the 3dd waist or ?or the gown, and it can be made from crepe, chiffon, moire or other similar material, and also from the simpler lingerie sort, lt can be trimmed with contrasting bands as il lustrated or with any fancy material :aat may be preferred. Also it can be made either with the sleeves that are slightly full and laid in pleats at the wrists or with plain ones. Tucks are arranged on becoming lines and pro "sde just sufficient fulness at the front. Crepe de Chine with trimming of messaline and pretty buttons is the material illustrated. The blouse consists of the lining, which is optional, front and backs. Long Sashes Worn. . Long sashes are being worn with coat suits. Heavy Serge Popular. There will be a run upon serge this season. . It has always been a stock materiall This year the weave is ut terly unlike anything we have had. There were a few patterns of last year, to be accurate, but this year there are a great number, a bit rough er than before. New Flannel Blouse. For the girl who suffers with cold there is a new flannel blouse. It is quite good looking. The flannel is exceedingly soft and silky, there are fine stripes, usually in gray and black, and it fastens down the front with sil ver buttons. Wi:h it is worn a turn over collar of white embroidery. Five-Gored Yoke Skirt. Every form of the yoke skirt is to be much worn this coming season, and this one is graceful and very gen erally becoming. It can be either gathered or tucked, and consequently it suits a variety of materials. In the illustration it is made from one of the new silk and wool crepes with trim ming of folds of the material. Al most everything fashionable is soft, hov/ever, and the list of available fab rics is a long one. The yoke means perfectly smooth fit over the hips, while the skirt falls in graceful lines and folds, and this is true whether it is gathered or tucked. For the long: skirt, which is suited to occasions of dress, the many pretty silks and silk and wool . fabrics are appropriate, while for the short skirt can be util ized such simpler fabrics as cashmere, voile and the like. The skirt is cut in five gores, and is The tucks car be stitched by machine or sewed by hand as liked, and just enough of them extend to yoke depth only to mean pretty folds and fulness. The sleeves illustrated are made in one piece each, the plain ones with upper and under portions. , The quantity of material required for the medium size, is three and a half yards twenty-one or twenty-fo two and a quarter yards thirtv two and an eight' inches wide, with silk for trimming. The New The arts and ? making their way of decoration. Al! pecially well with Moyen age. throi passing. Their r to feminine appa These are quite j made with squar greenish bronze quaint symbols. The Kne The fashion of sash around the ends hang, has nc among the best i are using some r: above the knees, impression of ai which odds and < ized, but it is d force it upon the A Sni! Emerald green a cape. Green i modish evening pink, blue or any , joined to the yoke. The yoke is fitted by means of darts over the hips and the closing is made invisibly at the back. The quantity of material required for the medium size is seven and a quarter yards twenty-four or twenty seven, six and three-quarter yards *' -ty-two or forty-four inches wide m material has figure or nap; four i a half yards forty-four inches le when material has neither figure . nap; two yards twenty-seven, one I a half yards thirty-two, one yard ty-four inches wieta; for bands; th of skirt at lower edge four ami eighth yards.