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'%W 1 KIN* APPEAL tfEPS IN FRONT I ^BO^-XTSEIi 1 1-Itatm. publish all the news possible I -It does to Impartially, wasting no wards. I i-Its oorrespondsnts Mrs able and snerfetle. iU A PRISON REFORMS PROVEA SUCCESS of Country's Largest Jail Adopts New Tactics. PRISONERS TREATED AS MEN Believes In Doctrine of Rewarding Convicts For Their Good Deeds In stead of Punishing Them For Their Faults Golden Rule Brotherhood Handles Cases of Misconduct. New York.When a wealthy phi lanthropist was made warden of Sing Sing prison, the largest jail in the world, and given a free rein to insti tote reforms which would better the standard of convicts, the nation watch ed closely, for it realized that another step in prison reform was about to be made. Thomas Mott Osborne, long a student of modern jails, was particularly well atted for the place. He himself had served a term in prison as an experi ment. For about a month he lived the life of a convict, worked with them ate with them and slept in a cell sim ply In order to gain an uiBigbt into the real conditions. And after several months' experiment he says: "The prisoners are being treated likt human beings. We have got rid of brutality because we realize that the prisoners are men. weak in spots per haps, but we don't know what we would have done if we had been hi their place "Tbe^ prisoners' court, conducted by the prisoners themselves, does not send men to the dark cells, but suspends them from the League or Golden Rule Brotherhood for any disobedience. I Photo by Atneiican Press Association. WARDEN THOMAS MOT OSBORNE. have touud that the prisoners do not likt to bo disciplined by their fellow prisoucis. They have a pride that makes theiu strive to avoid that The punishment which the league metes out is suspension fiom the league, shown by a black bund on the prison er's coat, which means that he is de barred from the entertainments pro vided under the auspices of the league "We have just smashed rules at Sing Singand I love to smash rules The prisouers have done the rest. Thej have shown that they appreciate being treated with common sense, which means that they are being treated as human beings They are allowed to do theii work without constant sur veillance that means slavery. Thej get every day an hour of recreation and complete freedom in the yard and are permitted to talk to one anotbei without using the grunt language, a device resorted to by prisoners to speak to one another when the guards were near. "Now. 1 want to show you that the men appreciate that sort of treatment.' Mr Osborne pulled two $1 bills and a silver half dollar from his pocket "You see that?" he asked "Well, we had 140 members of the Brooklyn Civic flub at the prison, and one prisoner was assigned to every two visitors to show them about the place. I told the visitors not to give the prisoners any money, as it is against the law. Well, here is $2.50 which the visitors slipped to the guides and which was handed back to me by the prisoners them selves At least twelve prisoners that 1 know of refused money that was offered to them One prisoner said. 'Well, if you want to help us out. give it to the brotherhood' "We have taken the guards from their stationary positions in the work shops and have left the prisoners to work' on their honor. The result has Deen that in the shoeshop, for in stance, twice as many shoes were turn ed out by the same number of men last month as in the previous month. The same increase holds in the other shops Yon see. when the officers were con stantly on hand watching the men the prisoners were watching them, and they were keen enough to know ten minutes ahead of time just what those guards were going to do They have the schoolboy love of bucking the tencher. and when you removed the anarfl yon did away with the incen tive for loafing ASSISTA"T E WIF Mrs. Carlson oi Colorado Will Look After Laws Relating to Women. Denvol Mrs 4.eni^ A Carlton, wife of the uew gowiuor of Colorado, has assumed her duties as "assistant governor." a position made toi her bj her husband. She will ha\e charge of legislation pertaining to women and children Her decision in such* mat lers. the governor has announced, will result in his veto or signature Mrs. Carlson is well equipped for such work, as she was trained for teaching and besides has an intimate knowledge of law and political eco nomics. She is at the statehouse each day and says that her husband ap pointed her his assistant because he thinks a woman's views are necessary on laws affecting women and children. In ndditioirto handling this side of the government of the state, Mrs. Carlson holds confeiences with women who are interested in constructive legisla tion. To reporters Mrs. Carlson said: "1 leave a large part of my boys' training to Mr. Carlson, and he leaves the training of the girls of the family to me. Following the same theory, he believeo 1 am better fitted to look after the needs of the women and children of the state than be, a man. "Don't you think that a woman who is competent to be the mother of four children is competent to have a hand in the affairs of a state? I do. "I am glad that my husband wants my help, and I hope I shall be of real service to the women. Of course he and I shall consult together We al ways have' CONVICTS WORK AT OWN JOBS Wisconsin Town Only Requires Them to Report at Jail at Night. Racine. Wis.The city's manner of handling prisoners detained at the county jail is attracting widespread at tention The Commercial club is in receipt of communications from va rious large cities in the middle west seeking particulars as to the novel plan now in force here. The scheme is tor the sheriff to allow prisoners to continue their daily pur suits, only requiring them to report for the night at the lockup. If the prison er has a family his earnings are turned over to his dependents, but if not he is given his earnings at the end of his term of service. The sheriff has been instrumental in procuring positions for prisoners who had no employment. The method prac tically leaves the jail uninhabited by prisoners through the day. AVIATOR GILBERT IS CHAMPION OF FRANCE Three Times He Has Defeated German Dirigibles. Pans.An official report of recent aerial fighting given out by the French war office relates the exploits of M. Gilbert, the famous aviator. Gilbert gainqd fame in 1911 by fighting an eagle in the air when taking part in the Paris-Madrid race, in which he fin ished second. He also has held the records for altitude and long distance flying. The account says: "Pilot Gilbert, with Lieutenant de Puechredou as observer, was returning from a reconnoissance near Chaulnes on Jan. 10 when they caught sight of a German machine flying toward Amiens. They gave chase without be ing noticed. "Not far from Amiens they overtook the German machine and cut across its path. The French observer fired four shots from his rifle, two of which hit the German observer. Lieutenant Fal kenstein (not Lieutenant von Falken hayn. son of the German chief of staff, as previously reported) "The third bullet wounded the Ger man pilot Miller, in the neck, and the fourth pierced the radiator. The wounded pilot went to the ground im mediately and was taken prisoner. "This is the third time Sergeant Gil bert, who already has received the mil itary medal, has brought down a hos tile machine." German aeroplanes are said to be distributing the following manifesto on the Russian lines "God has abandoned your standard The bloody sacrifices you have made are useless. Hundreds of thousands of your best and most valiant troops have fallen on the battlefield. "Now a new enemy more powerful and dangerous has declared war on your czar. Islam has declared a holy war against you and your allies. You have lost the game. Four hundred million men devoted to the law of Mo hammed today reply to the call for a holy war. "Friends, demand peace while there is yet time." WELSH PHEASANT BY MAIL. Days on the Way. St. Paul.A pheasant killed in Wales was examined by custom bouse men at the St Paul postoffice recently The bird was wrapped up in a wicker sack and was in fair condition, although it had been on the way twelve days. The English game bird was address ed to a woman In Minneapolis, and the custom house men, after finding no duty was due. hastened it on its way. The parcel was mailed in Carnarvon. Wales. FUL N 'L0ND0 GOVERN* SPIRIT- WA 0 Soldiers and Recruits March Every where or Drill In Parks. London.Two months ago a London newspaper described Kuala nd as "si na tion half awake" and contrasted the unruffled aspect of London life with the transformation that war had east over Paris and Berlin. Since then Eng land has become fully awake. This awakening has been more of an inner than a surface change, and only those who know England from within can realize how great the change has been The most remarkable feature of re cent British events has been the entire absence of excitement with which the country has passed from a condition of profound and thoughtless peace to a military status which pervades all the activities of life and seems almost to have brought upon the scene a hardei ,and soberer nation. Sports, politics* "society"the three absorbing interests of the population three months ago have disappeared from the columns of newspapers, from the talk of the people, and have almost vanished from existence. All that is left of the absorbing pas sion for sport is the football games, and a majority of the first class pro fessional teams are drilling in the ter ritorials and Kitchener army. And it would be a brave man of mili tary age who would be seen carrying his bundle of golf sticks on the street these days. Streets and trains everywhere are filled with soldiers. Khaki is conspicu ous in all the restaurants, the gilded and the cheap, and military equipment and uniforms fill the shop windows. Recruits are drilling in all the parks, in public squares, on the lawn of the Tem ple, where barristers work and live, in all the little open spaces among the stately law courts and in the courtyard of the National academy, sacred to art and science. Small boys accoutered with paper caps, wooden guns and tin drums also are everywhere EDUCATE ONLY THE FIT, SAYS OR. BUTLER President ot Columbia Urges Physical Examination. New York.If you would be a uni versity student first prove that your muscles are good, your heart action right and your lungs sound. This is the new idea advanced by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Photo by American Press Asset 1 Custom House Men Pass Bird Twelve i *al academies maintained by the gov NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTIiER. Columbia university in his annual re port. It is more than a suggestion. President Butler presents the physi cal examination as an obligation in these words: "The university is expending each year out of its endowment income im mense sums to supplement the fees paid for tuition, in order to provide the best possible facilities for college and university instruction "The university owes it to the pub lie and to itself to see to it that these i colossal expenditures are made only upon and in the interest of those who I are really fit physically, as well as I mentally, to take advantage of the op portunities the university has to offer and to make appropriate return to the community in the form of personal and social service." A certificate of good health is now i required in Columbia college, but Pres ident Butler favors a mote rigid physi- t-al examination He likens it to "that i insisted upon in the case of candidates for admission to the military and na- eminent of the United States As is well understood, a relatively large proportion of the applicants for admission at Annapolis and West Point are refused as not physically fit Pumpkin Weighs 100 Pounds. I Atchison, Kan.S. J. Blythe. a farm er, living just across the river, brought to this city a 100 pound pumpkin that now on exhibition at a local bank. The pumpkin is as large as a bushel basket. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY: JANUARY 30, 1915. L| QUAKE VICTIMS DRIVEN INSANE Soldiers Worked Day and Night to Rescue Those Alive. BRAVE GHILOREN ARE SAVED Survivors Menaced by Madmen Wan dering Aimlessly Around the Ruins. Young Woman's Fiance Worked All .Day to Rescue Har, bwt^pries Grad ually Became Inaudible. Rome.Maniacs roaming aimlessly about, menacing the sane survivors half wild dogs and bands of wolves prowling amid piles of bodies, men tearing frantically but in vain at heaps of wreckage from which* came the faint and gradually weakening cries of their loved ones, women abd children dying of starvation and exposure, scores of old and young perishing be neath great heaps of ruins, from which the utmost efforts of the rescuers were unable to drag them in timethese were some of the te-rible stories from the government officials in charge of the relief work in the area devastated by the recent earthquake. One of the men made mad by the ca tastrophe killed an injured survivor who reproached him for looting a ru ined wine snop^ Scores of men and women, crazed By grief and hardship, wandered about the country, a danger to the living, for whose adequate pro tection even the thousands of soldiers on the scene were insufficient One of 0 most pitiful cases report ed her4 te that of a young man, whose fiancee', buried in the ruins, called out to film to save her if he loved her. All day he had been digging desperately at the wreckage, aided by the soldiers, who were moved to tears by his grief Despite their great efforts there was no hope of saving the girl, and her voice gradually became Inaudible. The same young man had previously saved 1 himself, bis mother and his sisters I from underneath the walls,of his fall en home, but could not fiqd his aged father. Strangers were not allowed to ap proach the towns and villages in the stricken area, where the work of res cue went on without^ jejsation The task of digging out those aUve in the ruins and of taking care^fotne injured survivors and feeding those who are unhurt was so great that attempts to bury the thousands of bodies were abandoned, and they were piled up in I great heaps awaiting the moment when there were no more to save A royal commissioner assumed ebarge of the earthquake area and ordered the soldiers not to dig into the ruins unless they heard the moans or cries of victims Officers were specifically detailed to find out the most likely spots for excavation In Avezzano a4* a result of systematic exploration flf teen survivors were lescned They were all thoroughly exhausted and badly injured, and several had to be operated upon, crushed .irms nnd legs being amputated The ruins are now terribly silent The burial of the dead was hastened for sanitary reasons. Various reports from the soldieis show that scores of persons had the most marvelous escapes from death in the catastrophe Under wrecked house*, little children have been found alive, although nearly dead from exposure and cold, but absolutely unhurt by the crash of timber and masonry The en durance of women and babies was re markable, for many of them were in need only of food when saved after long ordeals, imprisoned in wreckage and with the dead bodies of their fnm ilies buried in debris near them The Inhabitants of Balsorano and Raccaviva fled in a panic because of the immense crevasses splitting length wise the crest of Mount Pizzodetta. 6.100 feet high, due to the earthquake. The estimate of the number of dead remains in the neighborhood of 36.000 Fifty towns and villages have been de stroyed. The following list of dead in damaged but not destroyed villages In the Sulmona district is now available: Scanno. 200: Villalago. 25: Raiano. 4 Popoli, 5 Pentina. 4: Barrea. 12 The mortality in the country, where many farmhouses and buildings col lapsed, has not been ascertained In Avezzano three babies only slight ly Injured were taken from the rains. Four other children, the eldest eleven, also were found. Although exhausted, they kept shouting until they were saved. They promised the soldiers who dug them out that their father would pay them, but he was found dead in the ruins near by. A girl who was saved uninjured from a neighbor ing building asked the soldiers wheth er it was dawn. She said she felt that she bad slept a long time, but could not see the light Eight rescues were the result of an entire day's work by 20.000 soldiers, which shows the enor mity of the task which confronted the government At isoladelliris the main church col lapsed, but the statue of St Restiruta. the town's patron saint was untouch ed and Is intact, even to the finger on a band which is raised in blessing. Turks Surrender For Food. Petrograd. The Russians etgaged against the Turks frequently move their kitchens to the first line, and at the first smell of food the Turks throw down their arms and surrender. i 1 HE WAS GUNNER FOR VILLA. Hooaier, Who Quit When United States Forces Came, Sa Job Was Picnic. Kokomo. I ud forge Hart, a How ard count.\ jotifh. formerly of the United States anuj, \eteran of the Philippine*- .mil who a service in China, is home iiuui Naco, Ariz. He has been updating a machine gun for the Villa roue*- .uioss trom Naco at $25 a week and board He decided when Uncie Sam's guns were trained on the Mexican trenches it was time to leave. Wading the river, he was captured by American sentinels. General Bliss made arrangements for him to leave Hart served under Villa in the battle of Torreon, but does not think the gen eral as great a man as bis troops, who idolize him. Hart says the Mexicans fight at long range, shoot awhile and rest, but refuse to come close together. Hart regards his service in the nature of a picnic. ENGINEERS LIVE 11 YEARS. Vital Statistics Presented at Western Railroad Wage Hearing. Chicago.Dr. Henry .1. Harris, a stat istician of the Library of Congress at Washington, testified at the western railroad wage arbitration hearing that "the occupations conspicuous for their high death rates are, first the miners and workers in stone and clay: second, the locomotive firemen: third, struc tural ironworkers, and. fourth, the lo comotive engineers." Where the normal expectancy of death is 100 the actual deaths among firemen is 190, the witness said, and among engineers 160 Opposing counsel disputed the aver age life of engineers as engineers, but it was finally shown that it is between eleven and twelve years. JAPANESE TROOPS TO RE-ENFORCE ALLIES France and England Will Wel come Aid From Far East, Pans.The Japanese "foreign legion" now being laised voluntarily in Japan to re-enrorce France on the firing line will be very welcome It* is admitted that such a volunteer force of the "little yellow men" ten dering their services, as Lafayette and his men did the American Revolu THE EMPEROR OW JAPAN. tionary war. will solve a knotty prob lem. Official participation by the reg ular Japanese army, under their regu lar officers and in every way on the same basis as the British, French and Belgians, might result in a serious com plication. They might have to be paid, and Japan would be hi a position to claim much of the credit for victory should her sons aid In finally crushing the German empire. But with the "foreign legion" coming at least one objection would be solved. These men are reported to be picked veterans of the Russo-Japanese war. They are to be equipped as few Japa nese troops ever have been. It is ru mored here that at their bead will come one of Japan's greatest military ge niuses, a man whose name will mean much to the allies. Not only will the "foreign legion" fight on French soil, but it is expected that the Japanese government will finally enter the war in the west as an active ally of Russia and England. There is said to be a growing senti ment in England to ask Japan to take over the protection of Egypt and In dia, thus releasing for active service against Germany the many British reg iments now held Idle In these two countries. Russia is said to have sug gested that she would welcome an al liance which would permit the Japa nese to take a position with the Russians on the firing line in East Prussia, in Galicia. in Hungary and elsewhere along the miles of battle front extend ing across the continent of Europe. No Honor Guard at Burials. Amsterdam.-The kaiser has ordered that untrained German reservists no longer act as guards of honor at the burials of prisoners of war because they need all their time to complete military training. CUTTERS SAVE 476 LIVES. Good Work of Revenue Service Told In the Annual Report. Washington.Revenue cutters of the United States saved 476 lives and gave assistance to 210 vessels, valued, with their cargoes, at more than $9,000,000. during the last fiscal year, according to a report to congress by Comman dant E. P. Bertholf. For every dollar expended by the service it aided in saving property worth $3.72. Commandant Bertholf urges congress to appropriate $350,000 for a new cut ter for the California coast. $110,000 for an anchorage patrol boat for use to New York harbor and $350,000 for a vessel for duty on the Panama canal. He renews his recommendation for the consolidation of the revenue cutter service and the life saving serv ice into an organization to be known as the coast guard. "There is a consensus of opinion," he says in this connection, "among all parties interested that this will add greatly to the efficiency of these hu manitarian branches of the govern ment" The report points out that although there were no serious floods in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys dur ing the year the previous recommenda tion for three light draft cutters to be used there in flood times should not be overlooked by congress. The appoint ment of twenty-one cadets for the fis cal year 1916 is recommended instead of fourteen, as at present LEAP RESTORES MAN'S MIND. Insane Prisoner Jumps From Third Floor and Shock Cures Him. Superior, Wis.When John Ander son, a laborer, leaped from the third floor of a local hospital recently he was a lunatic. When he got up, carefully brushed the snow from his clothes and saun tered back into the hospital uninjured he was sane. Anderson was being detained in the hospital awaiting transportation to the State Hospital For the Insane He worked his way out of a straitjacket before he made the leap. The shock restored him to normal mental condition. NOTE IN SOCK'S TOE WON SOLDIER'S RRIDE Atlanta Girl Gets Reply to Let ter Sent to Firing Line. New York.-Probably the prettiest Cupid that ever participated in a love affair stepped down the gangway of the steamship Orduna the other even ing. Later this Cupid, who, strange to say, ls a girl and is known in real life as Jane Gail, set out for the sun ny south on her mission of love, a mis sion that brings to light a pretty war romance Many weeks ago Miss Ethel Chap man of 82 Peachtree street. Atlanta Ga.. knitted some socks for soldiers In the toe of one of the socks she placed a note giving her name and ad dress and the words "I'm lonesome." A few weeks later a Tommy Atkins to wit. Sergeant Wallace Munro of (he Black Watchwhile attempting to don ii new pair of socks in the trench es discos ered the note A short time iatei the sergeant fell with a bullet in tils shoulder In the hospital some dajs later he uueaithod the note and. determined to ttute to the gul in Atlanta. He re ened a s|ieel reply, and in a short rune Serjtt'.uit Munro and Ethel Chap man were not onlj in love, but engag ed It wa at thi* point in the pro i eedmgs Miss Jane Gail of New York i.iu a \isit to the hospital and met rite wounded sergeant. He confessed i'is io\e for the Atlauta girl and asked Miss t'..i\\ to be his proxy in the affair Hi enti usted her with an engagement n\"A a message Miss Gail gave liei word and will take the ring and tV iiie* sage to Atlanta. At the con lusion of the war. if he be still alive. x'jgeunt Munro is coming to Atlanta (lniai the sweetheart who bad won Mini through the medium of a sock. It's the grandest romance 1 ever tie.nd ot." said Miss Gail. "I can hardh wait until I meet Miss Chap man and deliver my message and the nnj: And 1 am not going to tell you li.n the message is. either." PERILOUS TRIP OVER ICE. Ohio Motorists Make Exciting Winter Ride Across Lake Erie. Sandusky. O.Dr. J. B. Robinson IIKI ex-Mayor B. Alexander, in an mtoniobile owned by Mr. Alexander, ind Emil Ruh. Captain L. E. Bickford .mil William Haas. In a machine own ed by Mr Ruh. narrowly escaped drowning several times while motor-' nig over the frozen surface of Lake Erie from the mainland near Port riinfon in Put-in Bay. where they re side Several times the ice gave way un der the machines, and but for the fact that they were driving fast all would have gone to the bottom, the men say Raising Funds In Russia. Petrograd.The Russian minister ot finance expects to raise $7,000,000 by taxing nonfighters. those exempted for physical disability to be taxed if their incomes are over $500 and others no matter what their Incomes S2.40 PEB TEAK- SUNDAY TELLS OF MODERN WOMEN Baseball Evangelist Condemns Styles ot Today. HIS OPINION OF NEW YORK Society Leaders Criticised, but Beauti ful Tribute Is Paid the Old Fashion ed MotherHis Peculiar and Sensa tional Tactics In Pulpit Have Moved Many to Join the Church. Washington.The Rev. Billy Sun day, baseball evangelist, who has re cently conducted revival services in this city and in Philadelphia, is per haps the best known and most sensa tional pulpit orator in the country to day. His addresses, always filled with slang, appeal to many persons, and many have been moved to join the church after listening to his sermons. Sunday's tactics in the pulpit too. are different. Frequently he removes Photo by American Press Association THE REV BIIiliY SUNDAY his coat and collar during the discus sion of some existing evil and jumps all over the platform, going so far as to mount the pulpit In a most remark able interview the other day the for mer professional baseball player dis cussed modern woman, modem man mbdern customs and modern fashions saying in part: "Some of the grandest noblest worn en the world ever saw are alive and at work today. They make you think that the rib he lost was the choicest little corner lot in Adam's whole body They're way up front on the firing line against the devil, and they potshot him every time he shows his head They've got God in their hearts, and it's mighty lucky for the rest of UH that they have. I believe if the moth erhood of this country were no better than the manhood God would dump the whole thing in hell "Even in New York, that's going to hell so fast you can't see it for the dust there are good, fine Christian wo men that go down on their knees every night in the good homes they've made and pray God to get after their city be fore it's too late. He can do it you know. He can get it dead to rights, rotting, corroding, corrupt, devil ridden town that it is. He can move it and how he will move it! "The mere society woman is the most useless being on earth. She has no occasion to use brains. All she thinks her body is for is to be a fashionable frame on which to hang fashionable garments and a digestive apparatus with which to gormandize upon all the viands that a rich husband gives. Her daughter runs to dancing and embroid ery and painting her face. If you kiss ed her you'd die of painter's colic. "About women of the smart set who are merely that little can be said In justification. They are silly, frivolous, extravagant. They have thrown to the winds all modesty, prudence, religion and the virtues that are so attractive in women and have allowed themselves to be flattered, cajoled and bamboozled by a lot of jilted jays with cracked characters. They turn their homes into third rate gambling dens and booze joints." The steel blue eyes opened widely, a wrathful spark glinting in each. "The way in which a lot of women are permitted to dress today throws the spotlight squarely on our degener acy!" he exclaimed. "What with silt skirts and slit waists and transparen cies and the rest women act like they were trying to Imitate the daughter of that old souse. Herod, who didn't wear clothes enough to make leggings for a bumming bird. The dance craze is an other thing I'd like to rip from hell to breakfast and back again. All danc ing comes from the devil, and it's re sponsible for at least three-fourths of the Immorality of women." And then Billy Sunday's eyes sof tened as he turned them in the direc tion of the untiring, capable and af fectionate woman who has worked with bim for so many years. "The true Christian woman who is ber husband's companion and help mate and her children's loving, con scientious mother, she's about the I test." he said simply. "The modern girl and woman need ro get right with God." said the Rev. Billy Sunday soberly. "God Is outside the lives of too many girls of today Their attitude toward reKgion is that they should worryand they should, too. in the way that they don't mean Let them get wise to themselvesand get right with God"