n outrage, inflicted on helpless people.
I hope that the people of this county will be aroused to the enormity
of this problem, and very soon put an end to this imposition.'

"And the counterpart of the story in McCLURE's MAGAZINE has happened
here within a short time. Lewis Gerardin, a sailor, was released last
April, after being detained six months. Several months before, Frank
Blaha, a saloon-keeper, who committed the crime of murder in the
second degree, managed to get bail. While Gerardin was held he
received pathetic letters from his wife and family begging him to come
home. They did not know why he was held, and he said that if they were
to learn of his imprisonment they could not understand his innocence
of crime. One day a letter was received from home, announcing that his
favorite little son had died but a week before. The last words of the
child called for his father. But Gerardin was not released until the
prosecutor was ready to dismiss him.

"Such possibilities are a disgrace to any community that tolerates
such a horrible law or such a feeble administration of it, and such
callousness to human suffering that it will not save these innocent
victims from its outrageous injustice. When to this brutality are
added the comparative safety of the criminal, and the vile jails and
the vile inmates with whom young boys and girls and honest men and
decent women are thrown for the crime of witnessing a crime, it
convicts the civilization of the age with a combination of stupidity
and heartlessness that had better say nothing of the Czar of Russia or
the ferocious Kurds. In its essential injustice and inhumanity it is
not many removes from the lynchings of the South."

THE REAL LINCOLN.

The "McClure's Early Life of Lincoln," which has just been published,
is worthy of comment in these pages for several reasons.

1st. It contains no less than twenty portraits of Lincoln; and
although this is only one-third of the number that will appear in
the whole life, it is more than twice as many as have appeared in
any previous life. Furthermore, most of the portraits are new to the
public.

2d. There are a large number of entirely fresh documents, several
of which are absolutely essential to a full understanding of Abraham
Lincoln, and some of which make it necessary to revise our opinion of
Lincoln's career.

3d. It contains a remarkable record of the achievements of the Lincoln
family, whose services to the country