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Much is being told in Japan of the devotion of the people left at home, The women let their hair go undress- ed once a month that they may con- tribute the price of the dressing--five discovered that sen. A gentleman every servant in his household was contributing out of his wages cach month, and in consequence he offered to raise wages just the amount each and it would be you who would be deine our duty for us to Japan." A Japanese lady apologized profuse ly for being late 'at dinner. She hac been to the station' to see her son ofl for the front, where already were three of her sons. Said another straichtway : "How fortunate to be able to give four sons to Japan." Hundreds and thousands of families are denying themselves one meal a day that they may give more to their country. One rich merchant, 'who has already given 100,000 yen, has cut off: one meal, and will live on one the rest of his life for the sake of Japan. On every gateway is posted a red slab where a man has gone to the war, marked "Gone to the front" -- to be supplanted with a black one-- "Bravery forever" --should he be brought home dead. And when he is brought home dead his body is receiv ed at the station by his kin with proud faces and no tears. The Ro man mnther has come back to earth again, and it is the Japanese mother who makes Japan the high priestess of patriotism. servant was giving away. The an swer was: "Sir, we cannot allow! that; it is an honor for us to give, | | and it is, that they may he indicted | and IN ISOLATION A MODERN AND. REFINED SYSTEM OF CRUELTY Says M. S. Burnette--Modern Primitive Systems Far Behind That of Pentateuch -- More Guards Needed--Should - Be _No Dungeon. Kingston, 'June. 8.--(To the Edit- or) : I wrote the subjoined communi- cation about & year since, wpon the occasion of the death, by suicide, in the Kingston penitentiary of a con- vict confined in the prison of isola- tion; 1 have not it sooner to the Whig for publication, because I thought that some might comstrue tho same as an attack upon this in- stitution which it is in no sense in- tended to be. I am attacking a sys- tem not any particular institution, and our penitentiary as respects the subject matter is neither better nor Nose than the prisons in the United States, or England. Further, I am too much tarred with gritism myself to desire to attack any branch under the control of the present liberal gov- snwment, The, article speaks for it- , and shows itici is intended. --M. 8 Jeeta) sian. Every nation, since the dawn of human history, has claimed to be the most highly civilized, and so the pro- vince of Ontario boasts of an ad- vanced place in She scale of civiliza- tion, but really with England and the United States occupies, perhaps a place not too high; the proof-of this i8 to be found in the fact that it believes in and practises a refined sys- tem of cruelty and torture. I know not in how many of the so-called highly civilized nations of the warld the prison of isolation is to be found but I do know, at least to my own satisfaction, that 'any state that makes use of such a torture-house is not properly cjyilized. But some will say that human nature is so desperately bad and incorrigible that such 4 place as the dungeon: honse is needed; 1 do not believe it. Again, some will affirm that such a place exercises a deterrent effect upon the convicts, and so subserves a beneficial purpose. This may or may not be so, but if so, is not a sufli- cient justification for the use of such a place. As we turn the pages of history we stand revolted at the cruclties and tortures inflicted by different peoples upon the vietims of their power. Byron thought that the descent of the Northern Barbarians upon the ancient, wealthy and cultured city of Rome was a punishment upon her for the torture she inflicted upon certain classes of her populace, and so, in describing a gladiatorial contest in the Coliseum, he exclaims, "Butcher- ed, to make a Roman holiday ! Arise ve Goths--and glut your ire!" Sup- pose the great English poet on a 4 vine day in June Rie unto this upon which 1 write, were to take a boat on the Ontario, a more beautiful sea than any of which he ever wrote, and in sailing by the Kingston peniten- riary, which looks so finely from the lake, should be told that amidst all this splendid setting of nature, 'there was before him an institution that had within its walls every device known to theswit of man in the line of cruelty and torture. Think you not that great souls would indite an other "Prisoner of Chillon?"' I won- der how many of the readers of the Whig ever entered through the open door of a prison of isolation. Some years since, while on a visit to the county jail at Ottawa, one of the officials took me to the "dark coll," and bade me enter, As I stood within the four walls of that horrible place, in a darkness that could be felt and in a silence worse than the grave, 1 felt my reason leaving her throne, and I wonder not that the unfortunate victim of the tragedy in our prison of isolation a few weeks since sought death by suicide as a merciful relief from the horrors of dun- geon-house. We Anglo-Saxons boast of our power and prowess, but there is an element of savagery and cruelty in our makeup that will yet be broken on the wheel of war and revo- lution, and should be. We are not a whit better as to all these awful scenes of carnage, cruelty and torture than were those of the worst: ages of which history has given any annals, The tortures known as the "water cure," inflicted by the soldiers and generals of the United States armies in the Philippines are equal to any thing recorded of the Spanish inquisi tion, or the surpassing crueltiss of the Roman emperors in the: worst days of Rome. And so the jury em- paunelled oft the coroners inquest at the death of "the convict consigned to the "punishment cell," a milder form of the dungeon, reported that "'they had no criticism to pass upon any one.' Several weeks have clapsed and the pulpit and the press of this city of churches have entered no protest against this relic of barbarism, and have said no word concerning that soul summoned before its time in the presence of the Great Judge of the universe. Could any thing afford a greater proof of the calloused con science and the hardened heart of this wrdid and materialistic age. Proudon tells us that all private property is the fruit of robbery, and, reduced to its last analysis, 1 think the statement of this great publicist i¢ corréet. But it will be said that the suicide was. justly sent to prison for violating the law, the divine law, if vou like, of private property, and that he made a murderous assault upon a gruard--admit it all, and yet there is no justification for his incarceration even in the primishment cells, or the dungeon. The law, in its wisdom, has provided . a mode of procedure for those who make a murderous assault. brought to trial before the re- gular tribunals of their country, and ii declared guilty, recive an adequate punishment. 1 will not here discuss who are. the authors of the mode of punishment known as that of the pri: won of isolation further than to say that it is the result of the united act of the community, and that it in the cyetém 'that 1 desire to criticise, rather than any single indivifual who may have been an instrument in the execution of the details of thesys- tem. When any thing disastrous hap- pens, as the suicide now under ¥ ances, systems are importance than individual and that our stricture should a ainst gurie}ves us con stitu t grea lv rate out of hich one ing Ny Let the le, pf this province, of all and cl , bear in mind that they are respo for the suicide o! this convict, and not the head of that ro Tasti tin, only, The sub ject of prison reform has engaged the best minds, of k age for a consider ablo time, and #t is a gratifying fact to know that mich reform has come about in the . matter. Tunane- ness has charpéterized many fea tures of prison. reform. I am one of thane eh rightly or wron ly, that th mot one convict in the Kingston pfison, 'or any other prison, who is not there as the re sult of the crimes of sociegt at large upon its weaker jen en go to prison becguse tho wc is fra along the lines: a the survival of the fittest, and bees the selfishness of ro. has created' condition: human natu that have deprived many persons of would have that envirowmtnt: that made of t intelligent and respec: table members of the community. his being so, prison discipline should be made as cosy and as humane as ix consistent with the public safety. 1 can find an example for us to fol low in the punative systems as laid down in the Pentateuch, for we make the greatest posgible mistake when we imagine that we have improved upon the systems, in any aspect of society, as formulated under the Mosaic code. This may not seem flattering to an optimistic and an ignorant 'age, but it is the truth nevertheless, I would like to know if to turns a key upon a man behind the prison door, and thus shut him from light and liberty, is not suffi- cient punishment" for anyone? When a great crithe #8 committed, like the actors, assault in the prison, an investiga tion should be held, and the state ments of oll 'concerned heard and printed in the press, so that the facts may come ot, and the public have a knowledge and so a judgment. No summary punishment like the torture of the dungeon-house should be per mitted, and there should be a suffi- ciency of guards, and last place w here the public service. should be crippled is in a place like the Kingston penitenti ary. I close as I began. We have no right to torture a human being, and it matters not what he has done. Two wrohgs do not make one right. Take a man's head off slick and clean, if necessary, but do not torture. The Southern States and also spme of the northern ones, in' some localities, should again be broken on the wheel of war, if nothing else will teach them common lessons of humanity. 1 well know the reasons that are urged for these harsh measures. My friend, Dr. Phelan tells me that the prison authorities must protect themselves. that thvse desperate weasures are ne cossary, because it is a desperate class with which they have at times to deal; that society must, be protected from the criminal class and oll that; that none but prison officials know how they are tried and so forth. Kingston as seen from the water at a consider able distance, presents an imposing appearance. To the stranger it would seem to be a city of a hundred thous and. Its dones and spires point the nearest way {o heaven and blaze with a resplendence that suggests as far as earthly scbnes may be allowed to sug gest, a fine phrase of Hawthorne, as he speaks of those who eateh "the dis tant shine of the celestial city." Its halls of learning are famous, and its natural beauty beyond the portraval of the ordinary pen. In this glorious season of the summer-tide, at this gate-way to the Thousand Isles, while thousands of people of two na tionalities were bathing their sensts in every delightful bounty of nature, there lay in the dungeom-cell of this fair citv, onc whole feasom was soon to come crashing to the dungeon floor. Has the offended law heen vin dicated bv the tragic death of this unfortunate convie€® "Perhaps so, but in mv opinion at' 106 great a cost. 1 would seck milder . 1 wouald have shorter tering of 'fmprisonment, | would have less numbers of prisoners confined within the walls of anv par ticular penal inetitution, and with mv Tain Ir Over J TR trial prcka tieatTfor pH Send us a postal cave. ine Adee CO. Canadian A N\ quick. Soap will wash. friend, Mr. Corbett would have pris- ons constructed in ward systems, to the tnd that convicts might bo set apart in classes. We must all confess that prison discipline as conducted in England, Canada and the United States, not to speak of other coun- tries, is largely a failure, and that confinement in those institutions tends to make eonviets worse rather than better. The subject is a large one, and a difficult one, and 1 should like to we it discussed in the columns of the Whig. But whatever wb do or do not do. let us abolish the torture eells, as a feature that cannot commend itsell to the enlightened conscience of the twentieth century. ---- Schools For Dogs. A school for dogs is the latest de velopment of the edueatignal move- ment. It has heen established in Paris with the object of teaching, not let- ters, but politeness. The oolroom is furnished with chairs, tables, 'and rugs, to give the necessary "local col: our" to the surroundings, The dog pupils are trained to welcome visitors by jumping up, wagging the tail, and giving a Jow bark. When the visitor leaves, the dog accompanies him to the door and bows his farewell by bending bis head to the 'floor, fle is trained likewise to pick up a hand kerchiof, glove, or fan, that has been dropped, and return it to the owner. He is tanght further to walk with "proud and prancing steps" when put with his mistress, -- Saratoga's Beginning. The Mohawk Indians met in solemn council and decided to convey Sir William Johnson to Saratoga that he wight imbibe the waters of the miner: al springs, and gain relied from his chronic illness. It was a grvat cone cession to their "beloved white bro- ther," for never had white man known of the springs. Sir William liv- el in a bark hut and partook of the bubbling medicine of Naturt, to such good effect that he was able to re turn home on foot. That was in 1767, Saratoga has had one hundred and thirty-six "seasons" cach brinving im- provements and additions until the great American spa has every conven: jence of the twentieth century, Broken Leg Brings Fortune. Through overwhelming competition a merchant at Munich, ; Hr was compelled some months ago to de clare himseif insolvent. He and his family were penniless, and the climax &f misfortune came when be fell and broke his log. 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