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Colonel Huger of South Carolina tells the story of his attempt at rescuing Lafayette from prison in Austria. Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...
...Hall is both a former ace of the Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia, to Iceland and back to Tahiti. His first chapter set in the Iowa village and describing the various soldiers of fortune passing through on the sleepers gives promise, but for the rest Hall is too self-conscious, inadequate, and careless...
...average convict is a young God-fearing native of the U. S., according to the annual report of Lewis E. Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing Prison at Ossining, N. Y. He says that out of the 1,452 prisoners, 1,445 profess membership in some religious denomination, 1,034 are native Americans, 1,008 held jobs at the time of their crime, 707 had gone to school up to the sixth grade, 67 have college degrees (an increase from 19 for the previous year). The average age of the prisoners...
Died. Thomas Mott Osborne, 67, pioneer in prison reform, onetime (1914-15 and 1916) warden of Sing Sing, newspaper editor;* at Auburn, N.Y., of heart disease. He dropped dead on the street. Later, 1,200 convicts of Auburn Prison marched solemnly past his bier. In 1913 he became "Tom Brown," entered Auburn Prison as a convict, A week later he came out with a philosophy of prison reform. His plan was to restore the prisoner's self-respect and help him maintain it. The key to self-respect, he believed, is labor...
Died. Emil Bacher, 71, king of the Hungarian flour industry; in prison at Budapest; of apoplexy. Borrowing ?1,500,000 to fight the Chicago Wheat Exchange, he lost in a year the colossal fortune it had taken 50 years to amass...