He cannot even endure the discipline of ten hours' daily
shovelling--it takes education to instil discipline, if only the
education of the early pick and shovel.

He has not been taught anything. He has been turned loose in a
city full of temptation. He had no real start to begin with, and
no effort was ever made to repair his evil beginning. ----

"What's the charge, officer?"

"Attempted burglary; pleads guilty."

"Three years in prison, since it is his first offence."

In prison he gets an education. They teach him how to be a good
burglar and not get caught. Patiently the State boards him, and
educates him to be a first-rate criminal.

There's your first-rate criminal, Messrs. Bishops, good men,
politicians and benevolent women. ----

Dear bishops, noble women, good men and scheming politicians,
listen to this story:

In the South Sea Islands they have for contagious diseases a
horror as great as your horror of crime.

A man or woman stricken with a loathsome disease, such as
smallpox, is seized, isolated, and the individual sores of the
smallpox patient are earnestly scraped with sea shells--until the