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SOMETHING WORTHY OF NoTIoE.-When
was in Berlin, ! went into the public prison,
and visited every part of the establishment.
AT last was introduced into very large hall,
which was full of CHI .aren, with their books
and teachers, and having the appearance of
Prussian school room. What" said / lis
it possible that all these children are imprison.
ed for crime2" "Oh no. said my conduc-
tor, smiling at my simplicity, but if parent
is imprisoned for crime. and on that account
his children are likely to grow up in ignorance
and crime, the government places them here,
and maintains and educates them for useful
employment" This was a new idea to me.
| know not that il has ever been suggested in
the United States; but surely il is the duty of
the government, as well as its highest interest,
when man is paying the penalties OF his
crimes in public prison, to see that his unof-
Tending children are not left TO suffer and in
herit their fathers vices. Surely it would be
better Tor the child, and cheaper as well as
better for the State. Let it not be supposed
that man will go TO prison for the sake OF
leaving his children 10 be taken care OF, for
those who 90 to prison, usually have little re-
gard for their children. If they had, discipline
like that OF Berlin prison, would soon slcken
them of such bargain.--Prof. Slows Report.


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Still. PROGRESSING. A Division OF the
Sons of Temperance was instituted, under
very fattering circumstances, at Lafayette,
Indiana, on the 26th ult. This makes The 24th
establishment in Indiana. Already, through
this instrumentality, have no less than 10000
human beings, within a few years, been
banded together in the bonds of Fraternal
Brotherhood, pledged to total abstinence them
selves. and to the advancement of the cause OF
Temperance, Virtue, and Honor, among their
fellow men. The peculiar nature Of the ties
which bind them--the many inducements, and
safeguards thrown around them-furnish am
pie ground for confidence in the success Of the
glorious cause.