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revealed the sense of injustice always ready to burst into expression.

The treatment of criminals in the Republic sometimes meets with that maudlin sympathy from outsiders characteristic of

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pn- n sentiment in other quarters. It seems cruel for boys to condemn their fellows to stripes (bed-ticking), to bars and bread and water, to ten hours' hard work every day, and to terms as long as a month. But we must remember that these boys are hard cases. Over half of the winter residents have been convicted of crime, some have served in prisons, and two or three are now under suspended sentence. Then, too, they have trial hv jury of their peers; and Mr. George says that he does not remember a case where the sentence has not been conscientiously just. The longest sentence \<t imposed one month was for a crime, sodomy, which the law of the plaers cl s hj.j, as twenty years.