A PRISON STUDIO.
TEACHING CRIMINALS TO DRAW
AT UNO SING.
to Kmp Prisoner* Employed
Bine# the L»w Abolishing Con*
▼lot Labor Wont Into Mnrt—
Methods of I astr nation.
SING SING'S art school it firmly
established. It ha* passed the
experimental stags, sat* the
Nsv York World. There is
no longer any doubt of its success. Its
objeot is not that of any other school
of art, being chiefly to keep Its oon
riot pupils out of miaebisf. Warden
O. V. Sage, one of the kindest disci
plinarians in the State prison aarrioe,
invented the sobool when the law
abolishing convict labor went into ef
foot. Be is surprised as wall as
pleased at the progress the pupils have
made.
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SING RING AST CLASS..
Imagine a grant, long, bars, gray
room, its thick brick walla pierced on
three aides by many narrow windows.
That is the atelier in which these hum
ble followers of Raphael bend over
their drawing boards. There are fifty
students in coarse, striped suite. They
stand at their work, resting their
drawing boards on high tables on
which brnxh fibre used to be worked.
The - atelier is a pleasant place, es
pecially by oontraet with the rest of
the prison. Its walla have been newly
painted in a dark gray tone. There is
plenty of light and fresh air.
The art instructor is an architectural
draughtsman of more than ordinary
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SKETCH MADS BT A PUBOKBB.
ability. Be is serving a term of four
yean for a trifling misunderstanding
with the law. He gave hie first lesson
on the morning of January 28. He
kas given two lessons a day since then,
from oto 11 a. m., and from 1 to 3
p. m. His first task was to teaob Jus
men how to draw straight vertical
lines. That sounds like child's play,
of course, but let any one who thinks
it ia easy try to draw twenty straight
lines three inobeb long side by side.
If any of them are parallel he may
congratulate himself.
Tb* Sing Sing art students began
their work with enthuaiaein that has
not waned. They drew vertical lines
all morning and horizontal lines all
afternoon. Lesson by lesson they
PBXX BAND DBA WIN 08 BT OONVIOTB.
have marohed foarVaid until now oom
plicated geometrical «gnx«e
terror fox thorn. Os i°o*io»
droning to oil free bond. Not o»o of
thomh«*o«»n°»*L 10 0,6
p«M ox T-square. Thor **• P® nOl1 *
and light brown aaailo paper.
fflho manner of teaching to somewhat
different from that omployod in «th«
adhoolf of art. The pupils march to
the atelier In lock step. One by one
they fall out of line as they arrive at
thair places. Each stands attentive
GXOUUTBIOAI. naOBMJ DIAWN BY CONVICTS.
over his drawing board and watches
the teacher. Keeper O’Hara stands
on a sort of high sentry box with a
dub near his hand.
This studio is for serious applica
tion only. Not one of the pupils may
so much as whisper without losing his
place in the olass or suffering some
other punishment. To bo put out of
the olaaa means sitting idle in one’a
cell—something every oonviet dreads.
The instructor stands at an elevated
blackboard. Be draws a simple tri
angle or square or a more complex
figure. Aa he draws ha explains what
he ia doing ao every pupil may under
stand. He repeats the instruction
Ados or twice. Then he walks up and
down along the rows of pupils. If any
of them finds it difficult to understand
ha ««t« the teacher, who promptly
■tops and explains everything to
him.
Some of the pupils have begun to
decorate their drawing boards. One
young fellow v'jo is serving two years
and a half for grand larceny has drawn
a lighthouse and an attractive bit of
the shore. A merry burglar, twenty
four yean old, who ia serving six
year a, baa relieved the monotony of
waiting for lessons by portraying a
dude, not forgetting the neoewary
cigarette and the monocle. A young
New York burglar illuminates bis
drawings with a motto he baa bor
rowed from the American Volunteers
—“Look Up and Hope."
mmtmm — ■ .«■«—
A German Ueumueal Tillage.
A German correspondent writes:
“A word about the community of
Staufenberg, » ‘city’ of six hundred
inhabitants, for it maintains proudly
the dignity of this legal designation,
which it has held since the middle
ages. It is one of the fortunate spots
where poverty literally baa been abol
ished. They are all agricultural, and
till the extended fields which lie all
around the place. The community
owns, as a corporation, immense tracts
of forest stretching for miles into the
billa I spent a whole morning rang
ing through them with the keeper,
and we passed through a noble sue
cession of magnificent timber—firs,
pines, larches and oaks—with open
glades In which the deer roamed, and
all regulated by a scientific system of
tree culture whereby these productive
for eats are extended and replenished.
The first result of this communal
wealth la that the citisens have no
local tease to pay; moreover, as the
wood ia sold at auction, they ean get
their fuel ohesply, and a certain
amount is distributed gratia. Finally,
each citizen receives from the muni
cipality about $5 in gold yearly as
profit All the municipal arrange
ments—town hall, streets, water sup
ply and schools—are remarkably
good, and administered with the ut
most eara and oeonoay. Thar# are
otter aemi-sootaliatio enterprises oar*
ried on, as, for instance, the publio
bake house, of which every citizen
maw make rue, supplying hto own
fooL If ho dosa not nao thoae privi
lege at loaat once a year ho forfeits
them. r ■
The latest estimate of the Hebrew
population of the United Btetes plaoos
it at 500.000, of which 140,00 to ered
ited to New York.
'BUDGET OF FUN.
WTMOROUB SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Hie Wills Rot Afraid of Mloe—Letting
Him Down Hard-Other*—Civil
ized—Making Up for Loot
lime Triumphs, Etc.
"My wife la not afraid of mloe,
And from a rut sh* nover ran;”
The speaker wore a yellow akin—
la feat, be was a Chinaman.
—Twinkles
LKTfIKG HEW DOWN HABD.
He—“Do you ever have ‘that tired
feeling?”’
She—“ Not when Pn alone." s
I* 8 OUEAP.
“They say you have no sympathy
for the struggling poor.”
“Me?" mid the accused gentleman.
“I have nothing Imk sympathy. “
onom
“la the sail the only thing that
guides a ship ?" asked the green pas-
IftXUNff*
“No,” mid the mate, “there are
ruddacra”
PBAOTICS MARUB 71IPKT.
“What are you crying so for, Nel
lie?"
“Oh, it's nothing, Lucy. I want
my husband to buy me a new bonnet
to-morrow, and I’m simply practicing
a little."
WAKING HI- FOB LOOT TUTS.
"Why do you skate ao feat, Bobbie?
You’re always in'such a fearful hurry. ”
“I only get one obance a week," ex
plained Bobbie, “and 1 have to do
seven days' skating all at onoe."—
Harper’s Bazar.
CTATJ.Y CUTTING BLIND.
Museum Proprietor—“ What’s the
matter with thc Blind Ch coker Flayer ?
He’s been losing games all day."
Manager—“He hasn’t been just
right for a month. I'm afraid his eye
sight ia failing him."
(UTILIZED.
“And you didn't eat the captive?
Now, ill engage civilization was re
sponsible for that”
The savage sighed.
“Yes,” he answered, “it was the
eook’s day out.”—Truth,
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A HOBS BXBIOUS (USX.
Mrs. Watts—“lsn’t its good -deal
of annoyance to got your meals at such
iiregular hours?”
Hungry Higgins—“ The irregular
hours ain't ao bad as the irregular
days. ” —lndianapolis Journal.
A LONG WAR.
(Mike, having been directed to go
down to tta station and see when the
next train Left, is gone about two
hour a)
Perkins (anxiously)—“Well, Mike?"
Mike—“ Well, sor, I had to wait a
long toime, sor, but it has just left. ”
Harper’s Bazar.
TRIUMPHA
“General," said the Almost breath
leas Spanish offloer, “send out the
glorious nows without delay."
“What has occurred f"
‘Three more brilliant victories.
We have just put to root two Sunday
school picnics and a camp meeting."
—Washington Star.
Aucoer a TBAOBor,
Yuppe—“Did yon hear that de
Tanque nearly killed his wife with a
■ingle blow?"
Potts—“CLood gracious l no."
Yapps—“Fact. You see, as ho was
on his way up the stairs on his hands
and knees after the bridegroom's din
ner she accidentally caught a whiff of
his breath."—New York Journal.
DIFFICULT TO DECK3*.
“The last victory," remarked the
Spanish general, in a tone of great
irritation, “was not nearly as brilliant
as I expected it to bu”
11 Whom do 70a consider to blame f”
“I can't quite make my mind
whether the person who spoiled it was
the typewriter, the telegraph operator
or the compositor. ’’ Washington
Star.
a prompt nncisiaN.
“Now," said the old gentleman’s
accomplished daughter, “Pm going to
improviso a little for your amuse
ment”
“la that what you were doing up till
11.80 o'clock ?” he inquired suspic
iously. .
“No, indeed. That was entirely
differ ant Now, what kind of time
wonld yon like to have me play in?"
And in a voice that was almost
severe in its firmness ths old gentle
man answered:
“Daj time."
xu novae.
“I want to git a tombstone far the
old man’s grave,” said the lady in
black. “Ha’ll been dead long enough
now, and I've got tta insurance."
“Shall I put on any saatimant like
*Gone to a bettor land,' or something
of that aort?" ask#<l the dealer in
ready-made monuments.
"I dunna I dunno. Ha was kinder
on the feooo politically. when he
dropped off, and his last words was
'Hurrah far—,* an’ as he didn't finish
I dunno whether he vent the right
*ey er not"—lndianapolis Jonrnal.
A PSTOHOLOOICAL FHBXOIfSNOK.
“It is pleasant, "aaid the girl who
read mystical philosophy, “to have
came friends whose Ideas are thorough*
!y in sympathy with yours."
*'l—«—l suppose it is,” replied
the young man who reads the sport
ingpage.
"Some one who thinks sa yoajthink;
vhoae words are often simply echoes
of your own thoughts. ”
“No,” he interrupted in a positive
tone; “I draw the line there. I found
a friend to-day who answers that de
scription. and it wasn’t at all pleasant,
I can assure yon."
“How wonderful!”
“Nothing strange about It. We met
on the avenne and rushed toward eaoh
other with a common impulse. We
had not finished shaking hands whan
we looked into ceeh other’s eyea and
■aid in perfect unison: 'How are yon,
old man I Coaid you lend mo tan dol
lars r ’’-Washington Star.
POPULAR*SCIENCE.
Charcoal thread used as filaments
for inoandesoent lamps ia worth §l2, -
000 a pound.
Scientists say that the inhabitants
of Mars are undoubtedly trying to
signal the earth.
Among the botanical rpeoimens col
lected by the Cornell aeieniifle party
in Greenland were some foil grown
oreat trees leas than three inches in
wight.
Every ton of Atlantic water, when
evaporated, yields eighty-one pounds
of salt; a ton of Paeifio water, eeventy
nino pounds;- Arctic and Antarctic
waters yield eighty-fire pounds to the
ton, and Dead Bern water, 187 pounds.
The Pleiades contain six at era visible
to eyea of only ordinary keenness,
though twelve or fourteen have boen
counted in this cluster by persona of
extraordinary eyesight. A two-inch
telescope shows about sixty stars In
' his cluster.
A wavo motor baa a number of piston
rods,connected with an air compressor,
worked by the rise and fall of the fall
ows. The air ia forced through pipes
to where the power ia needed, or can
m stored in a chamber for bm when
the meter ia not running.
At Klansthal, Germany, a bolt of
ightning instantly melted two wire
nails 5.32-inch in diameter. To melt
iron in this short time would he im
possible in the largest furnace now in
exiateaoe, and it conld only be accom
plished with the aid of electricity, but a
entrant of 200 amperes and e potential
of 20,000 volts would be necessary.
This electric force fox one second
represents 5000 burse-power, but as
the lightning accomplished the molt
ing in considerable less time, aay
l-10th of a second, it follows that the
bolt was 50,000 horse-power.
British experience tends to show
that there ia so aueh thing as insus
ceptibility to vaoeinntion. The public
vaccinators of London and Beading
report aucoeasfnl vaccinators in 88,875
and 14,000 cease respectively, with no
ease in whioh the individual was
vaccinated three times nnauooes*fully.
Yet notices than 1983 certificate#of
insusceptibility were granted by
medical men in England and Wale*
during the last year reported on—a
fact probably due to the use by the
phyeioians of stored lymph instead of
that perfectly fresh.
Animals and (Wean Machinery.
A writer ia a Gorman engineering
journal contrasts the behavior of dif
ferent *nin>*i* toward steam machin
ery. That proverbially stupid animal,
the ox, stands composedly os the
rails without having any idea of the
danger that threatens him; dogs ms
among the wheels of a departing rail
way train without Buffering any .in
jury, and birds seem to have a peculiar
delight In the steam ergine. Larks
often boild their nests and tew their
young under the switches of a railway
over which heavy trains are constantly
rolling, and swallows make their
homes in engine houses. A pair of
swallows has reared its yoang for
Jours in a mill where a noisy three
undrod-horee power engine it work
ing day and night, and another pair
has built a nest in the paddle box of a
steamer that plies between Peeth and
Semlirn
A Curiam Wooden Watch.
The moat curious timekeeper, per
haps, that has ever been mode in this
country was the work of one Yiotev
Doriot, who lived at Bristol, Team,
about twenty years ago. This oddity
was nothing more or lass than a wooden
vetch. The case waa made of brier
root, and the inside works, all exoapt
three of the main wheels and the
springs (which are of metal) were
made from a piece of an old boxwood'
rale. The face, whioh was polished
until it looked like e slab or finest
ivory, was made from the shoulder
blade of an old oow that had been
killed by the oars. “Doriot’* queer
watoh," as it was oallsd, waa an open
faoed affair, with a glass orystal, and
was pronounced e fins pieoe of work
by ell the watchmakers in East Tsnn*
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WUSEW
Th* Book of Life.
Life Has a thousand paces—levs and acorn.
Hop* and. advent am, poverty and ala,
Doipsir sad glory, loneliness forlorn,
Ass, sorrow, ozlle, all am writ therein:
And on each pace, however stern end sad,
Are words whlefa gleam upon tne Grabbed
scroll,
KevaaUng words that make our spirits glad.
Anil well are worth the study of the w»uL
We may not lightly Shrink from any leaf,
far on It any he writ the word w* nesd.
God taros the pegs whatever joy or gtM
He open* for ui, Ist us wisely mad.
—Primula Leonard, (a the Outlook.
Centered.
To eoeb man's life them coma* a time so.
prams,
One day, oaa night, one morning or one
noon.
One freighted hour, one moment oppor
tune,
One rift through wfcleh sublime fulfilments
gleam.
One apace when fate goss riding with the
imams
One onee, in balance ’twlxtToo Lata, Toe
Soon.
And ready tor the passing Instant'* boos
To ti p la favor the uaesrtain beam.
Ah. happy he who, knowing how to wait,
KBo sSad taO toW to *<**
On Ufa's broad deck alert, and at the
Brow
Tcseisa the passing moment, big with fate,
From opportunity's extended hand,
When the great dock of destiny strikes
Howl
—Vary A Townsend.
The Sweet, Sod Tears.
Tbs sweet, and yearn, the mu, the rain,
Alas! too qulalriy did they wane.
Tor anoh some boon, some blessincborat
Os amlles and tears «un had It* store,
Its chequered lot of blits nob pain.
AUho’ It idle be sad vain,
Tot cannot X the wish restrain
That l bait held them evermore;
The sweet, sad year*!
Like nebo of an old refrain
That long within the mind Ini lata,
Z bnep tcpeaUuK o’er sad o'er
• 'Nothing can o'er the pn»t restore,
Nothing orlnj; back the year* again;”
The sweet, sad yearnl
—Canon Bell, In Leisure Hoar,
Tets-tt-Tete.
Sweetheart, It there should some m time
When in my careworn fees
The beauty of a vanished prime
You strive In vain to trace;
When faded tresses grey and thlm
Defy the binder's skill; *
Sweetheart, betray no sign,
By word nor look repine.
Thlnlc of the gram That onee was min#;
Kiss me and be still.
Sweetheart, if there should come a year
When from my withered Up*
The loving word that now rings clear,
In tnaeuwe weakness slips:
It I should slag with quMvaring voice
Some old song worm than ill,
Sweetheart, with kind deceit.
Vo mocking word# repeat.
Think of the voice that onee waa 3wertt
Kiss me and be stilL
Sweetheart, if there should como a day—
I know not when nor how—
When your love beams with Lessening ray,
That bums so brightly now;
Wiwa you ean meet my faithful eyas,
And feel no answering thrill;
Sweetheart, let me not know—
-I'could not bear the woe—
Think of the dear, dead long ago;
Klee me sod beat til.
—Samuel Mloturn Peek.
The One Dear Name.
Veil, most parsons know by forty not to
look ter much smooth sailin',
An* I've learned to "grin an’bear ft" what
soever is my doom—
Though the wine, a maddened tyrant, ii tbs
cringin' ooean I ratlin’
Till it spreads out while an' gleamin' as a
cotton field In bloom. • *
- rf-cNJSjyaqeat ,
Laugh whan trouble strikes your pocket
lump It hid If them who’re dearer
Drift away from home forever, or ore tailin'
by the way;
People have their own great wastes, an’
■ good fortune comes no nearer
For your outcry from the housetops to the
rabble all th* day-
But a feller, though well hardened, tryia*
all his trials to smother,
Now an' then, when none 1a osar hiss, will
yet teel u Teamin’ polo.
While ho wishes for a minute on the bosom
of his mother
He could hide from all life’s worry sa aha
eroona ber songs again.
-Will T. Hals, in Nashville American,
ri—
When Ilia Are Forgotten.
“The last three weeks ia December
end the first week in January*" uriA a
Harlem druggist to a Now York Mail
and Bxpreae reporter, "is the dullest
period for the drag btuiuees the whole
year round. In the hustle and bustle
of the holiday season people seam to
forget their ills and the medietas com
pounder. Home of one übronio cus
tomer ■ have not made a oell for their
favorite remedy in three weeks, but
they will be around aa regular as over
in a few daya The reaction will eat
In about the middle of this month."
A Very Old Couple.
William Turner ot Piero* County *»
101 years old. and hje wiiq is ninety
nine. They were so their teens when
they wo™ married and twelve children
ware the result of tta union. Nina of
the ebildren are living and hav* fami
lies. Mr. and Mm. Turner have B*7
ndohildveu, 159 great grandahil
end one great-great-graedahOd,
a total of 499. v Mr. Turner is in good
health cud frequently visits hia chil
dren at BJaokshear and other place#.
—Dabloaoga (Ga.) Nugget.