ourse; for
if kept from that horse hiring, he will doubtless be all right, as he
has never manifested any inclination to wrong except in that particular
point, and that only when his mind was evidently unhinged.

There were others who exhibited each his peculiarity. Some of these,
could we look within their mental structure and there take a just
survey, would perhaps be found possessed of such a native taint, or
bias, or disorder, that their wrong doings, for which they were in
prison, would be regarded in the light of misfortunes rather than
crimes.

This subject of hereditary mental taint or disorder, in connection with
wrong doing, opens to the phrenologist a wide and important field for
investigation. But when he is forced to the conclusion that the one has
acted from a disordered impulse of mind, uncontrollable, and he
therefore not responsible for his acts, it can make no difference with
the fact that the wrong doer must be restrained and put where he can not
trespass upon the rights of others. It will rather lead to the questions
of where he shall be confined, how employed, after what manner treated,
and in what light regarded; perhaps showing clearly the need of
important modifications in our present system of prison management.

22. _The Warden admits presents to prisoners from friends outside._ He
would permit friends outside to send soothing dainties to the sick, or
packages of fruit or home comforts to the well; or florists of the city
to send bouquets to stand upon the speaker's desk on the Sabbath, for
the prisoners to admire, and each received a flower or sprig to carry to
his cell as a memento of innocence and purity, and a stimulus to love
the Author of such beauty. It was really gratifying to see what cheer
to the fallen these remembrances from the outside world would bring. All
packages thus sent to prisoners were most carefully examined by
officers, that nothing wrong should pass.

23. _Warden decides to resign._ He had not found his place a bed of
roses. Certainly it possessed its thorns, and these, at times, largely
predominated. His efforts for bringing the prison, in all its
departments, to what it was, had cost him a great struggle, many anxious
hours of planning, and at times perplexities in executing. But his
greatest vexation came because of opposition, from certain ones without,
to what he felt assured was for the best good of the institution, and
from the misrepresentations