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back covers of this book were drawn by him in a few minutes. I hope some newspaper will get in touch with him and give him a position.

Another notable guest lives at Lancaster, namely George St. Clair, but he is not as much of a saint as the name would indicate. Mr. St. Clair was sent up to serve from one to seven years for stealing a bolt of silk from a Lincoln department store. From the start he refused to attend church services, claiming that it was against his religious belief. Being asked what religion he professed, he said that he was a Jew. We called up the Rabbi and had a talk with him about it. The Rabbi suggested that he be a good boy and go to church, and that there was nothing wrong in so doing. Still St. Clair refused and it was decided to place him in a dark cell every Sunday during church hours until he decided to go to church; but he evidently preferred the dark cell to the Reverend Johnson's sermons and

 
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kept on refusing to go to church. He also wrote a letter to the attorney general and the chief justice of the supreme court, and both of these gentlemen wrote him a courteous letter as private individuals and advised him to obey the prison rules. Even that did not satisfy him, he became more and more unruly and disobedient and is now kept in a dark cell all the time. And what has he gained? He has gained exactly what he sought for, namely, a lot of newspaper notoriety which will do him no good. It is astonishing what some people will do in order to get their names into print. Had he acted like a man, he no doubt would have been paroled when he had served ten months; as it is now, he will perhaps remain at the prison for seven years.