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'STAL FAIRBROTHER ttewio, a rxxm. rcxai cor, . qxts SATURDAY, JUKI cx ax at tit w..Air. axd ox ,hsih. l ESTABLISHED MAY loda.' :
AND RED LKCICER
WILL SOON GO
. ?j f i!! that the proposed prohibition legis-
f7C ! J v - uw rractica.fy
i
t
ycv..i;ucn curir tic rtnxi ci tte
j. .v rr si.'c!s?e cf wise if he ws!i to a!
at ttr asi iry arc ceo
;r rr.issfacv.t-c
ccae. TtU
rP: r-.rcr,i-,r.e i-.kier or rye wr.iM,ey
br harmed by the ones who hapjxa
t: t wse. jte only ti:ng that
n $: t tiat no appecpnation u
a frw thousand deputy mariKals
T.-ir
5ir firui;-
t carture the moonihtners.
That
rr."g up by the thoctana there t
The atcrage man who want whi
Z to gel it, even if he ha to make it.
4 r
rva.e tt he wul have xrmc fcr h;
ar. I hU neighbor ftitr.dK The
at'
"ST
$ pretty hard to catch.
nr:tr hen the deputy shenf:, alcr.
, H I J - P . tft
- cn:T. went oat touth of town they
Vnf y, -J i'.J read the rtctfd for a year in
Vr; i 4?v;ra. acerta;n tht a lhc;and an-1
r -.n ?i hate ben made, the atilU hate
i;h: with the fire burning, but the
T? s i it rr.;;r. It i not one time in ten
w cpratcr are caught. Why? Be
i.;' : .':c i tyitem. and because they eper-
i-'U. Lrvdc am ccae hj mar.utac
f Urr.td whiiiry and there will.be in
-er ;. turt.v ir.e r.itscn with wh:.cr
the ireaurr lepar:rr.er,t wi ,1 be shy just
i i has ircvJ ni.,;cn :oI.ar a year.
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la France.
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rpear that the t-t marine xor.e. the
d dn't keep tTr.c.'e am soldier
rurc a safe Iarxf;rc on the there cf
.r. J-: how many hate landed t not
Vn n the rf-; !c rf the ccintrv, but doubt
'" r?-r.tr lare cr,oi:i:h lo help out in the
When Afrtrrii ir.i'.t nf
-- '5 rr.cn in rrar.e: wr,fn tre r.;
- s .
aercrur.es
an I our avutor
t drep thousand ef bomb into
:v rr-.in trtr.chet; when th: great coantry
- fv-:p;d ar.d let loo. ytrj will find
that the war' end
i cloc
at hand.
a the create: nation in thc world
'f f4-i aty cf them when it come to rr-
anj we have lwer.tr million men who
if
r-eeueiJ.
And twenty million new
! cp aainti the hatlrred force of
e r.uu win.
fer, ar.d it it a!! ruet work, fir-
tv Jl cnlcst the war. end before win-
" : ' r throsh several years. Cer.eral
fc;rs' Ccarrr.an. cf the Southern, say hi
f r-iku-c arranrement for at least
'!".'i t!1'i rot wirtr i: bird bv trri-r-.
carxc are that it will take a vear
rr. but there wjll be r.o need to
r tear. We can either whip Cer
rt: whpe-! in lets time than that.
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Stia Tiling Up,
rew preh biticn law another deceit
- wt:i
t xen oenelh:rr Me five
"n a sear. Well, that i eaiv.
r-any other thlert lo grt revenue
" ' th human beirr who i Kelr-le.
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r- df;r.k;rr i ttcrrcd the fire hun-
wUl be earned by men now ir.ca
, l.im. b w:tl get iu-i-er and go to
vrjj- ivti time. With bar rooms
the prte;cn rf heavy drir.k
;t !:;rArr lurnir ihetr money and
ether char.se.. it wi.j net cr.Iy
and
reter,ve, but it will mean in-
fall
f ard a' better citi?enh:p. Th:
wi:i
f e a rreat prpcte. It i God
p-rpcte.
" r. izi if rrch;b;t:cn ccme lo
t
.;h it. it w:.:bave been wrrth
ar.4
a re.Vi:ksn crack. In fact, we
C t t!etrvnr tt;: cr rut dmrk-
We haie c ry fcr the drvr.kard
" ' the r-,an who fater the tale cf
h: r:rht in tavir.r 11 Buf
e rrrat rD.! that c-jr rartial
tre in ?Cctth Carctir.a, ani
i the whe'e ration were given
thr riats'-vn a!(J be better in
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ea.:
in
re
a l that
make life
set a good
c 7h?t,
hrn
.;;.
we
1: cn.
rrv: ci the whhkey now on Kasd can t-c
f - i'T PKC demanied; it meat:
.-. 1tV crep will toco cahautt, and the
; it ;n ,f-in ism irai mu wia wwoi TVr.-r wx in rance to rccrivr fhrm and I r ..-.w wt,iw w,- , ooui us, mosi unnaiurai, ana yet most naiurai i
. i r . r - t. . fc..J . t I
rriC 6r bfore. In fad. it may have ; hid mide rrrat rrmirition. m c"Ye ""trance. ,n being so! Hear the magistrate or judge ad-
th tr.crn.rg. But the rj!e trA lo lhc hoXlvm of the ocean all the tran- wu Ztz'J? a."nPlnff. .tcI1 monish the unnatural outcasts of society; un-
-r-r : were r-t e-n orr.e way they I ttt ..isir Bui it ih h tA . rcarcr tbat conscription is unconstitution- natural in brutal habits, unnatural in want of
Vir r c:T.er were cctr-inc. The o5.cers fo to this lime we have no information of bow a ifan ?rovc lL. . 11 ,$ we." that thc Pov" decency; unnatural in losing and confounding
i utj t.r Ixtt tplted. the furnace intact, but the blockade wa run; a strict silence has been cnV?n. " tfir0wn bis aporings out of the all distinctions between good and evil; unnat
2 .: 4 rr.tMjr.r. T.e orcratcr had rnitniii-fJ asd thp r.ftrtnir nrV hivo it. ro.ai! ow. w 11 ! TX hlf" ?r K"5??.1 ural n ignorance, in vice, in recklessness, in
. ... , - . - i l. - . . . . i. .r . . . . . . . I nicht convict him. And if c-uiltv nhftuM hi I i-nnt..niii.f : :a : ii, u:
- 5v.,..i a j wi i 4iea in maintains
f . . , , m ..T'.'i n,,- .
1 vr , -K, iv !.i.iUft homerarrwa
, . . I national game cf
. " " - l . r. . I coni:ere4 a
r.: i! Ica! ten th-tiar. ! r.fw tfrr-tslv rr.ir- I
;.! in thc nw-.Ji. If : it.i'i dore the rr.ooo- I America
SOLDIERS LAND
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ON FRENCH SOIL
There wu feouine thrill felt in American
ho4 yetterday when it was announced that
American xi;ert had anrivetl aafeJr in France
jhat thn:tandt cf them had paed throKh
t&e L-wxat xone and all arrived well and happy
ana i-rance waj humr tne a:r witn enctru
Thl happy retail meant more than atn.ply
me faicsy oi ttote wno lanceo. it mcan
that mother and fathers who arc tending
their ton acrost the tea will hac hsgh hope
that the jVjrr.ey will be ?afely made, and to
tuilasa that hope wjll he the knowledge that
the f.?: eapedjiioo made the trip without an
accident of anr kind.
How dj.Tcrent it wottldf have been had the
tubmarir.es encountered the thtp holding the
o"d;er and tent thousand of the brave men
to the bolters of the tea. How deprestiog
wtuJ4 have been the thoughts of the parent
of thote who mutt follow. But when we read
that the whole feet landed safely, escaped the
L-boat scuact. paited the barret! zone with
er-1 knowicg there were uch things a tub
marinet. the fear of danger vaniihe, and it is
welL
It i ttaied, and pcrhap with authority, that
Germany ha been preparing for weeks to way
lay the oldcr boat. She knew there would
be jteat number of oldiert corning. he knew
:g secrecy
tha4 from tome place and at some time there
would be some new, but all kept quiet. The
new of yesterday wa rreat news new that
rave the nation a genuine thrill. Let us fer
vently pray lhat all soldier who start across
to fight for freedom and liberty will arrive
safelr.
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Base Ball.
-Whsle North Carolina died cm third and the
sold lo s jonk dealer, the gTeat;
bate ball is juit row being
an international affair. The
Herald sees it in this light:
greatest outdoor game came
into existence a few years before the out
break of the civil war. Its growth in
popularity was slow until the soldiers at
thc front fell under Its spell. Then it
spread from regiment to regiment, from
Northern army to Southern army, until it
became the universal mean of obtaining
relaxation from military duties. When
the war was ended the soldiers took the
game back to every part of the United
Mates, and soon thereafter the formation
of intercity league placed it on the thresh
old ef it rresent pornilarity.
Bac ball, like trade, follow the Ameri
can f!ar. and today the game "is plaved in
Cuba. J-orto Rico, Hawaii and the rhilip-
P'ne. Thai it will follow the flag to
urope i shown by thc announcement of
the Young Men" Christian Association
International Committee that it i sending
to the American concentration -camps in
France five thousand base balls, five hun
dred bate ball glove and four hundred
bae ball bat. Nearly every American .
soldier will have, beside a lieutenant gen
eral baton, a bate ball in his knapsack.
Already the Americans in thc armies of
France hae been teaching their French,
Britih and Belgian comrades in arm,
and it i not too much to expect that when
the main, American army arrives on the
wetl front there will be uch a base bail
ing of our allies a will make an after thc
war international league a necessity.
North Carohna could have gone throurh
and entertained the v. ho enjoy the game
had not Governor Bickett thrown a monkev
wrench in thc work and topped the Kaleigh
end ci it. Amusements arc necessary during
a war, more. so than at any other time, and it
wa a matter cf regret that North Carolina
wa taken out of the date line and left without
a home team anywhere.
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Soldier Insurance.
Pretidcnt Wilton want life inturance for
the soldiers, and Secretary McAdoo wants
America to lake the leadjn such a movement.
Why not? Why not give the boy assurance
inturar.ee? Let them know that if they
the mother cr widow, whoever needs it,
rtt a likely sum, perhaps a thousand dol
lar. The government certainly should pay its
freight. It will spend millions for battleships
let ihem become obtolete. W hy not spend
mi"sor. fcr men if they are put out of com
rr.3n? The solJier will go without intur-
.ar.ee. but if he know there i ample provition
made for hi widow cr mother if he fall, he
w;il rake a better soldier. Hi whole heart
can go into hi work. The hope is that some
rtan will be deviied whereby every soldier
carisc arms will know hi life i insured and
that Uncle Sam i behind it.
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The brewers are certainly filling the air with
wild shcut tcvJay, but they are shouting to
vhir.gTn to give ihem a clrance. .
TOM WATSON IS -AGAIN
IN BAD
The government ha refused to allow Tom
Watson publications to go through the mail.
All of hi last vaporing were returned, and
now Tom will make-a noise. Nothing gives
him greater pleasure than to appeal to "thera
aes ' and c'aim.that he is a persecuted man.
Watson has wonderful ability. No writer in
the South excels him. As a word painter he
has wonderful imagniation his stun flows as
cay as a gill of corn likkcr down the throat
of a thirsty tramp. He paints beautiful pic
ture. He charms. But the trouble with Tom
i he is at war with all the well ordered condi
tion of Society. He wants to reform a world-
that cannot be reformed. He is acin the
Catholic church, he is agin the government,
and where he properly belongs is in a prison
where neither, pen cor ink are allowed. His
fulminations have been ever on. First a popu
lit and then a doxen other things ambitious
to have a great publication and never succeed
ing, he has been at war. He imagines a gTeat
storm is lathinr the wave of the social sea.
His ship rocks on the billows and he cries for
help, lie is doubtless sincere, but he is mis
guided.
He preaches at time sound doctrine, and
suddenly, he goes to anarchy, to nihilism and
socialism. He makes fcmma Goldman's
dealt with accordingly If he isn't guilty, then
the press needs no latitude. It is not only
privileged, it is licensed. It can say whatever
it wants to say, for. Watson has gone thc limit.
if the reports be true.'
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The Beer Question.
There are hundreds of thousands of people
who think beer is wholesome. They drink it
and keep it in their. homes. Thev prove that it
it a fleihOuai Jer 'A ad that 11-does .not-makc
Beer contains about thfec and a half per cent
of alcohol. That is not very muoh. Take
many of the medicinal preparations on the
market and they run from ten to twenty per
cent alcohol, and they are not molested. Beer
contains so little alcohol that it would take a
tubful to make the average drinker drunk.
Beer has a tendency to make many people
bitious, and for that reason they do not drink
it. lierman Kidder, of New ork, insists that
hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in
breweries and millions of people are employed
in making, handling and selling beer. He
thinks it a sad blow to commence to put it out
of commission. The trouble witji beer is that
it has had a tendency in this country to build
up tjic alcoholic thirst. That is to say, the
man who starts in on beer will in a year or two
become a whiskey drinker. If whiskey is to
be eliminated, then beer might be left as the
national drink. Three or four per cent alcohol
itn't going to send up many skyrockets, and
it might be the solution of thc prohibition
question. Germany is a gTeat beer-drinking
country, and 'certainly beer hasn't interfered
with her mental works. She has proven her
self the most wonderful of all countries, not
only in thc matter of system, but in barbarity.
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' A Great Sum.
The final figures show that thc Red Cross
fund reaches the magnificent sum of one hun
dred and fourteen million dollars. Chairman
Davidson announces that there will be a
checking system introduced, and the Ameri
can people who freely gave this vast sum of
money will be informed each week just what
i done witn it.
done with it. The surcestion that there is
no system, no business behind it. is denieu by
those, in charge. It is claimed that everr
penny will be accounted for and the general
public will be duly advised from time to time,
Well. if there is graft it can't be helped. The
people gave cheerfully and willingly, and there
t little danger of looters of such a fund. One
hundred and fourteen million dollars in col
lections -in a single week, and no individual
mining what he gave, suggests the wonderful,
limi;less resources cf this country.
And suggesting the wonderful need of such
a fund it is predicted that another sutiscrip
tion will be necessary withm six months.'
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Bond At Par.
After thc Commissioners had adjourned
yesterday evening a telegram came from a
bond-buying house offering the city par for
her $70000 of refunding bonds, and at a spe
cial meeting this offer was accepted. In these
days of other kinds of bonds five per centers
arc not going like hot cakes in January.
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A Change.
Arthur Brisbane, who has edited Hearst's
Kew York Evening Journal for many years
and who has made a great reputation, has
purchased the Washington Times fromTrark
A. Munscy. Brisbane will perhaps undertake
to make thc Times a national newspaper. His
writing, bordering on socialism, are cad by
millions, and no doubt his new venture will
prove a great success.
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WORK IS NEEDED
HERE AT HOME
We know it is proper to have foreign mis:
sions ; we know that every human being should.
be told of God Lnd God's goodness; but some
times we are impelled to think that we axe too
busy to properly enlighten our own people.
The man who will take a morning off for a
week or two weeks and attend the police court
in this city -will find something worth while, if
he is at all inclined to figure on questions con
cerning the betterment of the human race.
For the most part negroes are the ones who
come up for trial. It often is brought out in
evidence that whole families live in one small
room; that they have no apparent concern for
virtue ; that they are just like a lot of pigs in
the sty or dors in the kennel and what can
one expect?
e never read JJombev and bon. and we
read it every year, as Dickens is our favorite
author, but what we always pause and read
twice or three times what he wrote concerning
this same theme, but amonc the whites. He
said, and we ask our readers to read this care-
fully, not only once but twice,' and then cut it
out and read it until the mind carries with it a
purpose to help reform. Dickens says:
Alas! are there so few things in the world,
But follow the good clergyman or doctor, who,
with his life imperiled at evcrv breath he
draws, goes down into their dens, lying within
the echoes of our carriage wheels and daily
tread upon the pavement stones. Look around
upon the world of odious sights millions of
immortal creatures have no other world on
earth at thc lightest mention of which hu
manity revolts, and dainty delicacy living in'1
the next street, stops her cars, and lisps I don t
tjcuctc 111 . urcaineme pouuiea air, iotu w;in
.IT !a l . Ti it. . it . n . a r' -
vivij iiiipuiJij- iuai la puiwuuus iu ncaun mu
- vi titijr sense, wuiiicticu ujjuu uui
race for its delight and happiness, offended,
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sickened and disgusted, and made a channel by
which misery and death alone can enter. Vain-
ly attempt to think of any simple plant,. or.
flower, or wholesome weed that, seen in this
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iltiiu utu, luuiu uic lis natural cruwin, or
put its little leaves off to the sun as God de-
signea it. na men, calling upon some ghastly
child, with stunted form and wicked face, hold
forth on its unnatural, sinfulness, and lament
us ucintr su caxiy, iar away irom ncaven dui
think a little of its having been conceived "and
born and bred in Hell!
Tnosc who study the physical sciences and
bring them to bear upon the health of man,
tell us that if the noxious particles that arise
from vitiated air were palpable to the sight we
siiuuiu sec mem lowering in a uense oiacKCioua
above such haunts and rolling slowly on to cor
rupt the better portions of a town. But if the
moral pestilence that rises with1 them, I and in
the eternal laws of outraged Nature is insepa
rable from them, could be made discernible too,
how terrible the revelation! Then should we
sec depravity, impiety, drunkenness, theft,
murucr anu a long train 01 .nameiess sins
against the natural affections and repulsions of
mankind, overhanging the devoted spots, and
creeping on, to blight the innocent and spread
contagion among the pure. Then should we
see how thc same poisoned fountains that flow
into our hospitals and Lazar-houses, inundate
the jails, and make the convict ships swim deep
and roll across the seas and overrun vast conti
nents wrth crime. Then should we stand ap
palled to know that where we generate disease
to strike our children down and entail itself on
unborn generations there also we breed, by the
sarae certain process, infancy that knows no
innocence youth without modesty or shame,
maturity that is mature in nothing but in suf-
fcnnE and guilt, blasted old age that is a scan
on tnc
form we bear. Unnatural humanity !
When we shall gather grapes from thorns, and
figs from thistles; when fields of gram shall
spring up from the offal in the byways of our
wicked cities, and roses bloom in the fat church
yards that they cherish; then we may look for
natural humanity and find it growing from such
seed. .
"Oh, for a good spirit who would take the
house tops off with a more potent and benig
nant hand than (he lame demon in the tale,
and show a Christian people what dark' shapes
issue from amidst their homes, to swell the
retinue of the Destroying Angel as he moves
from among them! For only one night's view
of the pale phantoms rising from the scenes of
our too long neglect; and from the thick and
sullen air where Vice and Fever propagate
together, raining thc tremendous social retri
butions which are ever pouring-down and
ever coming thicker! Bright and blest the
morning that should rise on such a night; for
men, delayed no more by stumbling blocks "of
their own making, which are but specks of
dust upon thc path between them and eternity,
would then apply themselves, like creatures of
one common origin, owing one duty to the
Father of one family, and tending to one com- 1
mon end, to make the world a better place!
This, we insist, tells the story. Why not do
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THE RED GROSS
NEEDS YOU NOW
The army, has its Red Cross workers and its ;
ambulance companies, and these people minis- .
ter to the wants of those in distress physical
distress. The part of Hhe' world not in war,
has its workers to minister all kinds of things
to those who are unfortunate and down and . :
out, and the Salvation Army is perhaps the
greatest organization 'of thisy kind in the world. c "
But the Salvation Armv works for the most
.part among the slums in the great cities and
in the smaller places confines'its labors to the v
poorer classes. Wonder why there couldn't
be a national organization of earnest workers
to look after the middle class, the men and
women wno tali by tne wayside alter they
have once gotten a foothold; to look after the
homeless; to take the place, in fact, of all the :.
different charitable organizations; and work
the thing nationally instead of locally?"
Looks like such an organization could ac-
complish so much more by being national in
its. scope it would be stronger and better
equipped in all ways. Possibly, there would
not be room for such a society, but room could
be made. Just a few men and. women m each
town, as it is now, must do most of the work
in these lines, whereas a national organization
could do so much more and relieve many busy
people of much responsibility. Lodges look
after many people ; organized local societies
are out trying to help the poor, and distressed,
they do much good and deserve much credit,
but often it happens that the best intentioned
organizations are criticised. A . National So
ciety would soon command respect and sup
port, and the local people could aid in their
immediate sections, but be relieved of the sus--
picion sometimes obtaining that , they were
grinding axes of their own. . ,
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.Level Headed Judge
A federal judge up 4 in York state was just;
about. to grant naturalization papers to a een-
I-i -.s - .
1 tieman 01 ioreign Dirtn wnen lr developed mat
i upun iwu uadsiuus uic man wanungTTD uve-
1 j nu 1 1 l: 1 i t
i unuci wiu vjiuijt xiiu wxiippcu ills wile. -X uC
I applicant admitted that, such were the facts.
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and the judge very, promptly told him that he
wasn't eligible for citizenship; that we didn?t
want any citizens here who would riot obey
our laws.
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vviic ueaung is aimusi an ousoiete pastime.
The time was when no self-respecting gentle-
man thought he had done his full day s duty
if he hadn't cuffed his wife or done something
to show her beyond any doubt that he was the
superior animal, nuz time nas chanp-ed
things. The average husband doesn't unHpr-
take to lav violenNhands on his better half
Once in a while we read an account of where-
I the wife has spanked the husband, but we'hpar
but little, if anything, of the husband beating ' --
the wife. All of which shows progression and -
1 pnnosopners wouia say civilization.
It Is On. - ,
Garland Daniel, the Committee of One an-
pointed by lis and acting independently, ' in-'
forms us that there will be a Fourth of Tulv'
celebration at the Battle Ground There will --
be base ball; there will be speaking: there will
De a Daiioon ascension mere will be drills and
parades by two companies of soldiers and the
Boy bcouts in fact, it will be a resnlar old-
fashioned Fourth of Tulv celehra
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j ivttj anvc me mc: ma.L were Kinaiea on
Freedom's Gas Stove a hundred and fifty years - '
ago.
While the Declaration of Independence was' " '
not signed on the Fourth, it was- passed by 'i
Congress, and even if it wasn't it was-sipntv " -
on May 20th in Charlotte. . . , ' . "
The entertainment chaperoned and person- '
ally conducted hty Mr. Daniel will be' well "
worth attending. All features are free and all -are
invited. Pack your lunch gasket and j'oin
the throng. . -1 '
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. They Went To Jail v
The foolish suffragettes took the three-day Lr: !
jail sentence and are now "languishing." They - -
should continue to languish not three days but '
three times thirty days. It suggests their men-,
tal calibre when they think that goin? to ia.il -5 '
will make martyrs v0f them. Their cause is
not one from which the heroine serines. .Most
people are glad they are in jail, and the only " '
regret is that they are not sent to the roads to ' v'
carry water for prisoners instead of carrvinir . ' -
banners to disturb the peace. - ,
The average woman has plenty of sense, but
when she takes a fool notion that she' is eoinfr
to reform the world by force, as women diH in - ,
England and these Congressional Union suffra- - .
gettes are doing here, she loses her head- And '
prison is a good place for her. - ; . v
missionary work not so much among the born
as those who will beT?orn? Whv not clean un
he dark districts and turn on light? ' Have
missionaries in these slum districts., in these
crowded and insanitary places cleanse them
and disinfect them, and try to 'teach parents
what to do, and help them do it! . A : week . -spent.
iri studying the police courf victm.s , "
vktims of circumstances over which they now
have no control -will give one ah idea of what -"i
coma De aone. ; : . -1 -
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