To show them what women would do to realize this beautiful dream, I told them of Elizabeth Fry and Dorothea L.Dix, of Mrs.Farnham's experiment at Sing Sing, and Louise Michel's in New Caledonia, and, in closing, I said: "Now I want all of you who are in favor of the amendment to hold up your right hands." They gave a unanimous vote, and laughed heartily when I said, "I do wish you could all go to the polls in November and that we could lock our opponents up here until after the election." I felt satisfied that they had had one happy hour, and that I had said nothing to hurt the feelings of the most unfortunate.

As they filed off to their respective workshops my faith and hope for brighter days went with them.

Then I went all through the prison.

Everything looked clean and comfortable on the surface, but I met a few days after a man, just set free, who had been there five years for forgery.

He told me the true inwardness of the system; of the wretched, dreary life they suffered, and the brutality of the keepers.