“Of course the prison should not have its progress clogged by these border-line cases any more than it should be hampered by care of the distinctly feeble-minded. Out of 427 women 17 per cent. of those below 30 years of age were found to be definitely feeble-minded, 25 per cent. mentally subnormal, making nearly half of the number with some marked mental defect. These should, obviously, be separated from those who are mentally sound and given special instruction, which would be the case were we to classify according to intellectual age.” Sherborn Prison is, because of lack of funds, a long way from the cottage system--it is still a prison, built on the dormitory plan. But its “cells” are fair sized rooms, clean, and with a large window to let in the sunshine. There are colored pictures and postcards tacked on the whitewashed walls of most of them. The room of one of the “lifers” was unusually attractive, potted plants at the window, a rocking chair, and a table covered with a spotless cloth, edged with a border of the finest kind of crochet made by the prisoner herself. And just before lights-out time Saturday evening it was curious to go down the corridor and see outside of each barred door a neatly folded policemen’s suit and helmet, or a pirate’s gay colored cape, with dagger and cocked hat on top. And behind the barred doors could be heard, in a subdued undertone: His capacity for innocent enjoyment, ’Cent enjoyment, Is just as great as any honest man’s, Honest man’s. FRANCIES AND HIS FIVE THOUSAND ACRES [At Bellefonte, Pa., the State of Pennsylvania has bought what is probably the most wonderful farm prison site in the world. The editor of the _Delinquent_ made a recent visit to Warden Francies, and can enthuse over the site without any reservations. The following article, from the Pittsburg Gazette Times, tells of Francies and his farm.] Prison reform is to be realized in the Western Penitentiary now in course of erection in the Nittany valley, Centre county, about five miles from Bellefonte, Pa. One hundred and thirty convicts with terms ranging from 2 to 15 years, too busy with their day’s labor or their evening’s sports to think of evil, are building the new penitentiary or tilling the soil. Only nine hours a day, that time allotted for sleep, are the prisoners under lock and key. They go about their various duties under the direction of a guard or overseer, but the shotgun or rifle, usually accompanying such officer, is conspicuous by its absence. The prison gives promise of being the ideal penal institution of the world. The site is ideal for the work to be accomplished. It stretches from the Nittany Mountains across the valley, almost to the Muncey Mountains, being more than six miles long at its greatest length. In width, it reaches out in some places over three miles and covers an area of 5,250 acres.