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PRISON-LIFE THOUGHTS.
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The Earth, or Soil, is stimulated, heated and forced as much as Man; hence so much mildew, vermin and rotten trash in market.


"Slave to no sect, but look through nature up to nature's God,"—my piety to a dot, and the only genuine article in existence.


Whenever a man is rich enough, or able in any manner, to run a large establishment, he is respectable and his acts are not criminal, if ever so foul. As examples:—To keep a bawdy house as large as the Continental or St. Nicholas Hotel is decent; but, if it were some starving widow keeping a boarding house for a few persons, whose actions and business she would not dare to question, if ever so questionable, for fear of losing her little, mean income, her gossiping neighbors and city detectives would soon report her as a criminal.

Again, a man may keep a little shanty where persons play games for pennies and he will be arrested, whilst a Bank President