Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-09-22

like the one | came to on nv first |
night in. To the hundreds of
homeless persons, young and old, in
the cities, these deserted farms offer
homes, and then may be improved.
During the second year I paid my
note for $75 with interest and took
up the mortgage.
A DETECTIVES SERMON.
The cell-door in the police station
was closed upon thief who had Civ
en- his age as seventeen years, and
who looked even younger. His cloth
ing and person were clean, and his
features were of a type indicating in
telligence. The brutal expression
often noticed in breakers was
lacking entirely in his. A New York
Tribune reporter, who saw him lock-
ed up, noticed tears in the youths
blue eyes. The detective who had
| made the arrest had served many
years in the police department, and
and was familiar with the history of
many thieves. ''That boy ought not
| to be thief he said. s'His father
is dead, and he has respectable,
hard-working mother, to whom he
might be a comfort instead Of a
curse. He has been on the island
twice already and now he will go up
for burglary
';What kind of boys become bur-
glars?" the reporter asked.
"All kinds
| "Do good boys ever get to be
thieves? ?"
eyes, when they fall into bad
company
"What influence do you consider
the most powerful in leading boys Oh
to crime?"
s'Rum"
"'Has not natural depravity much
to do with their fall?'
Il do not believe that human de.
pravity is NATURAL" the detective
said. sit is unnatural. The lives
of the worst criminals in the city
prove as much. Did it ever occur t.
you that there is much less of wha
you call natural depravity in country
places than in the city? People ge
to be bad because their surrounding
are bad; because they cannot resis
temptation; because their better in
stincts are taken away by evil infu
ences. This boy here lives in ten
ement house. His mother is poor
and there is not much pleasure fo
{ him in the house. So he runs abou
in the street. If he lived in th
{ country, as / did when / was a boy
: he couldn't find much mischief ava
from home. Here he associates wit
t all kinds of boys. and there is nc
much wickedness which New Yor
= gaunn does not know about. Ever
e grog-shop which bears a sign Poo
y for Drinks is training school fo
t young thieves. The boys get heate
h. with beer, and are fascinated wit
Y the game. They must have none
to enjoy the sport, and drink lead
n them to steal it. The lad bega
0 stealing from his poor mother frs
# She would not have him punished
), Then he stole from his employer an
S was discharged. | caught him picl
e ing pockets and sent him to the pei
7, itentiary. When he got out he rol
st bed money drawer in grocer,
e Last night he and his pals brol
l the shutters of a cigar store and ca
% ried off a small amount of the stocI
le After he gets out of prison again
n may become more expert burglar
/ but his mother will die of u broke
re heart"
E. A sob within the cell sounded Ill
IS an expression of assent. The offic
is noticed it, and turning away fro
J. the door he added in a lower ton
v, cit is the fault of the parents som
le times. II his home life had be-
ar made little better and pleasanter
at might have been a steady boy. "a
mother was always complaining al
+ fretting in the house before he beg:
TO steal, and since then she has tri,
lie to shield him from the police, whi
a she kept nagging him when they we
h alone. Boys are growing up to
ID sober, honest men in the worst ten
ment houses in the city. You W
n- find as rule that they have be-
is taught by their parents to expe
: punishment for evil-doing, and th
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