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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-02-11
YOUTH AND CRIME.
The Experiences of New York Judge
With the Combination.

The Experiences of a New York Judge
With the Combination.
A very large proportion of the Grim
inal offenses brought to the notice OF
the courts consists of those committed
by boys, or young men under the age
of twenty-five years. In many in
stances the crimes are the result OF
the influence of older criminals, or are
committed without realization of the
great wrongfulness of the act. Some.
times, however, the criminal instinct is
strong in even immature youths.
A boy OF fifteen years of age. who
was brought before me a few years
ago. was convicted of high degree of
robbery, and it appeared that in other
cases he had been guilty of similar
offenses, but on account of his extreme
youth had escaped punishment He
took part with older men in assault
ing citizens on the street and taking
property from their persons. The
which institution committed the boy,
refused to receive him because of his
previous crimes and the bad influence
which he exerted upon other inmates.
l was unwilling to send him either to
the penitentiary or the state prison, on
account of his youth. and because l
felt certain that association with older
criminals would only render him more
hardened in his vicious career He was
detained in the city prison for many
months and finally discharged. Other
instances Of the early depravity of
members of the criminal class have
come to my attention.
The fact that SO many crimes are
committed by persons of immature
years, however sad it may be, proves
that, to some extent at least, the pen
alties of the criminal law are effective
in preventing crime Young men who
have had their first experience in re-
forming or penal institution either
learn caution, and do not again expose
themselves to conviction of serious
offences, or become convinced that
honest employ ment at some laborious
occupation is, after all, more profita-
BILE than a criminal career, with its
liability of detection and severe pun
ishment. Some, of course, of the
young offenders continue their lives of
crime and become professional crimi-
nails. The number of professional GRIM
inals is, however, smaller than is ordi-
narily supposed.
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mo, row if you feel like it. Better get
up after supper and walk around. It's
wonder to me that such slight at
tack brought you home"
But Mr.. Bowser's back-ache grew
worse, and when the chill finally went
off he was out of his head most of the
time with the fever During Mrs.
Bowser's sickest night he had gone to
bed to sleep and snore and rest undis-
turbed by her means. She had to sit
up with him, of course. He wanted
vichy water, lemonade, ice-water, GIN
ger ale, pickles, tea, toast and dozen
other things, and he seemed to take
solid comfort in keeping up grooming
so doleful that it finally stopped the
clock.
The doctor returned in the morning,
to find Mr.. Bowser's pulse jumping, his
tongue covered with fur and his throat
almost raw, but he expressed his great
surprise that he had not gone to the
office. He encouraged him to get up
and go down cellar and upstairs, but
Mr.. Bowser stuck right to the bed.
Doctor, l don't think you realize
how serious this case is he groaned.
II am sure do. It's very mild case
of that namby-pamby epidemic called
the grip. I have five children in this
neigh borhood who have it worse than
you, but all are up and playing with
their dolls. Very curious that a man
of your stamina should give up. Keep
on with the medicine, however, and
III send a gargle."
For four days Mr.. Bowser gargled
and dosed and doped and groaned.
Mrs. Bowser had to attend him as if he
were baby. He had very little to say
during this interval. He seemed to
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beyond. But Zouri had never been
very brave about crossing the pond:
there was only narrow plank-way
across, and it seemed so near the
water, and SO many fishes and noisy
frogs and other queer creatures lived
right under this plank, and the water
looked so quiet and dark.
When Zouri reached this point in her
journey she stopped moment, a little
frightened, and was almost ready to
turn back and go home. But she did
not do this She began to sing, and as
she sang she ran lightly across the
plank.
Zouri was on Uncle Joe's farm now,
and hoped to find him in some field not
far away. AS she went along the road
way, looking to the right and left, she
saw, on little rise of land, the figure
of man. He was standing between
her and the sinking sun, and a warm,
soft light shone over his face.
Uncle Joe! Oh, Uncle Joe!'' she
called.
Land sakes! If that amt Seth's lit
tie Zouri," he muttered, as he started
toward her.
mo, don't come yet" she called
again. II amt ready"
He stopped, and stood waiting.
What on the earth's brought Zouri
over here? Ill bet Seth don't know it'll
The child's just the apple of Seth's eye.
Well, if she can get around him, there's
something in her,
Uncle Joe, are you listening?"
Eyes, honey-,talk on"
well, I've put it in that old hollow
tree down here. When I'm gone, you
can 60 and get it Good-by, Uncle
Joel'
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rad come out and made things look
very bright and happy, and in the
southern country its light was so warm
and pleasant that three little girls had
come out among the grass and trees to
write their valentines. These girls were
Seth Gran berrys three little states, as
they were called.
The two cranberry brothers, Seth
and Josiah, were farmers, and their
large farms joined. The brothers were
twins.
They were married on the same day.
There had been a sort of agreement
between them that whenever a baby
girl came to the household OF either,
she should be given the name of state
in the union.
SO it came about that, when some
years had gone by, there were six little
states three in each family. The boys
did not count in this union, for it
would not do to call boy Texas or
Mississippi.
Then came the time when Seth and
Josiah ceased to be twins in spirit, for
they had a serious quarrel about the
planting of division stake, and the
ownership of three or four feet of land
Seth, the more self-wiled of the two,
had planted the stake where he
pleased, and Joe had submitted; but
from that day the brot hers had not
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old arm chair
half his work undone, he was well aware),
While the pickering light in the dingy room
Made the usual newspaper ONCE gloom
Before him news from the north and south,
A long account Of a foreign drouth
lot OF changes in local ads,
The report OF a fight by some drunken cads;
And odds and ends, and smoke and talk
reporter drawing cartoons in chalk
On the dirty wall, while others laughed
And one wretch whistled and all Of then
chaGed.
8ut the editor leaned far back in his chair;
lie ran his hands through his iron gray hair
And stole ten minutes from work to write
valentine to his wife that night.
He thought Of meter he thought OF rhyme,
Twas a race between weary brains and time
He tried to write as he used to, when
His heart was as young as his untried pen.
He started o sonnet and gave it up,
\ rondeau failed for rhyme to cup"
Nnd the Old clock licked his time away
For the editors mind could go astray.
He thought of the days when they were young
And all but love to the winds was flung;
He thought Of the way she used to wear
Her hayward trcSScs Of golden hair.
He thought Of the way she used to blush,
He thought Of the way he used to gush,
And a smile and tear went creeping down
The face that so long had worn a frown.
And this is what the editor wrote,
No pOem-merely a little note,
Simple and manly, but tender, too
Three little words. They were: II love you"
Tom Hail. in Munsey's Weekly.
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again. and there was roaring in his
head as if he stood on the brink of
Niagara A boy who came in with
telegram. looked Mr. Bowser over and
said:
"O'd man, you've got it.. and got
it bad! If you've any home to
go to you'd better skip If never see
you again then fare well"'
Mr.. Bowser didn't stop to exercise
any will power to throw it off. He got
into his overcoat and made for home
The street-car conductor tried to con-
sole him by saying that he would prob
ably be out in four weeks and a
woman on the car named over twenty
two of her acquaintance who had been
carried off in a week.
Heavens, Mr.. Bowser! but what
does this mean?" demanded Mrs Bow
ser, as he staggered into the hall.
'I'm-Im a dead man, he gasped
as she pulled off his overcoat and
helped him on the lounge in the back
parlor.
Have you got chill?"
yves! Get forty bed quilts to
cover me up!''
And does your back ache?"
docs it? Great Scots, but l dou't
believe can live half an hour longer!
It's congestive chill, suppose"
Its simply the grip, Mr.. Bowser.
That's exactly the way every body is
taken. Hadn't you better exercise a
little will power?"
Mr.. Bowser looked at her reproach-
fully and shivered and shook.
'Curious how it took hold of man
of your strength of character" she con-
tinued as she got his shoes off.
Mr.. Bowser's chin began to culver in
suspicious manner and she said no
more on the subject He had been put
to bed and was grooming and SILVER
ing when the doctor came in.
"Well, your ear has been pulled
down, see," remarked the doctor, as
he rubbed his hands together in a
cheerful way. "Have you tried to
throw it off bv strength of will?"
"I-I suspect it's pneumonia replied
Mr.. Bowser.
"Well, don't It's grip-just grip. 4"
"And I'm sick enough to die-
"Pshaw, man! you have got a mild
attack-about as the babies have it. If
you had it as bad as your wife did
should feel very anxious Just keep
quiet and take this medicine every two
hours
"How many weeks will 1 be in the
house?"
"Weeks2 Why, you can 90 out to-
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At one moment in the battle of Wa
terloo Wellington was left alone, his
aides-de-camp having all been sent
with messages to different parts of the
field. He was sorely in need OF a mes
senger. and looked around anxiously,
when a gentleman in plain clothes rode
up to him, saying: Can I be of any
use, sir?"
Wellington, looking him over, said:
Eyes. Take this note to the command
ing officer over there pointing to
part of the field where the battle was
hot and fierce. The gentleman at once
galloped off, rode through the thick OF
the fight, and delivered the note.
After the battle the duke made long
and anxious inquiry, but he never
found out to whom he was indebted
for that special service.
II consider it." said he, in telling the
anecdote to Lord Shaftesbury. lone OF
the most gallant deeds that ever came
under my notice, for the gentleman
who did it could have had no prospec,
of reward of honor"
The deed recalls Shakespeare eu
logy on
1.-THE constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for need
Youths Companion.
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fatten all out and lose his conceit.
Once he even went so far as to observe
that if his life was spared he would be
an humb BILE man in future. On the fifth
day, however, after getting out to the
gate and back, his meekness seemed to
be disappearing, and on the sixth, as
he started for the office, he said:
81 propose to visit two or three diff
ferent doctors to-day and find out what
caused my sickness"
"Why, it was grip,of course replied
Mrs. Bowser.
Not much! There was a com bina-
ton there and l know it, and it was a
mighty serious one, too. Nothing on
earth but my determination not to give
way to it pulled me through. Plenty
of men in my situation would have
turned up their toes, and plenty OF
others would have been in bed for
months. Grip! Humph! Mrs. Bowser,
you don't know me yet When knock
under to grip I'll have the decency to
go and drown myself! Grip and brain
fever are two widely different things.
and want you and that fool of doc
tor to know to, too!'-M. Quad, in N.
v World
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FALLING SNOW.

Apple blooms and woodland vale
Babbling brook and sleeping river,
Lilies in sequestered dale,
With their yellow hearts a-quiver;
Mountain height and land Of dreams,
Have been sung. and yet 1t seems,
In all the songs I've read or heard,
From whispering gale or hooking bird,
None SO pure are in their flow
As the song Of falling snow.
Tangled wood and thistle-down,
Summer sun or April showers,
Buttercups with a golden crown,
Nodding bluebell, queen Of flowers;
Or purest song of woodland thrush,
Nightingale or lark must hush,
For songs may come and songs may so,
But none can match the falling snow.
Sweetest song Of idle dream,
Waited from untraveled regions,
Though the sleepy air may TEEN
With the breath Of fairy legions;
Though the earth be glad with flowers,
Laughing with the summer showers,
Yet white tassels Oh the pine,
Bring again this song Of mine,
For June may come and June may go,
But naught CO i match the falling snow.
Walter M. Hazeltine, in Good Housekeepin,
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evening and found Mrs. Bowser in bed,
and was informed that it was case of
grip, he blurted out:
Grip! And you have gone to bed
and had the doctor for a case of the
grip? Humphr'
But am awfully sick!' she replied
"Rats. Mrs. Dowser! You just i'm.
agine it! This simply goes to prove
what have often asserted-that no per-
son of any strength of character has
ever had the grip. It's mandy .pamby
thing. which even child three years
old ought to be ashamed Of
You may have it before you get
through"
eff do-if am silly enough to lay
down with any such thing as that
hope somebody will pound me to death
with a fence rail! l have the grip?
call doctor for such nonsensical
thing as that? Not if my name is
Bowserl''
Mrs. Bowser was in bed three or four
days, and Mr. Bowser lost no oppor-
tunity to talk about her foolishness in
giving up to such a trifing ailment.
he likewise TcIndThcu W Iuc uOCCOT
that he thought it very foolish in the
medical fraternity to encourage the
public in any such delusion.
You'll probably have it. and when
it comes you'll change your opinion"
CURLY replied the doctor.
Il will, Ell! There isn't enough grip
in North America to pull down one of
my ears! I'd really like to be attacked,
just to show you how strength of will
could throw it off"
afternoon, Mrs. Bowser heard some
thing fall against the front door: She
called to the girl to open it and see
whether it was bag of potatoes or a
corn-sheller. 1t was neither. 1t was
Mr.. Bowser-not the Mr.. Bowser who
had gone away in the morning stepping
high and carrying his chin in the air,
but the Mr.. Bowser who had come
home shaking and shivering and all
bumped over until he didn't appear to
be four feet high. 1t was case of the
grip. As he sat in his office gayly
whistling "Old Black Joe'' a sudden
SILVER shivered up his back. He looked
around to see who had flung it, but it
was followed by two more. He jumped
up with feeling that all the ice thus
far cut on the Hudson had been loaded
on his back. A whole drove of shivers
and shakes and chills kept Waiting
from his heels to his neck and hack
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HUMOROUS.

Edith (reading)-"' Ocean frcights
are dull and no engagements are re-
ported HIM, don't think I'd care to
60 across on freight steamer. "-Har-
ward Lampoon.
Mrs. Brown-"I'm afraid TO let
you have bicycle" Little Johnnie
Don't feel that way, ma. Even if it Gid
kill me, remember that it would be the
last thing ever asked you for."-Once
q Week.
When the question of doing away
with circus posters and sbow-bills as
means of advertising comes up for final
debate the bill-poster will be dead
against it. He will stick up for his
trade.-Philadelphi Times.
Love and marriage.
I'll WOO lass,
I'll wed lass.
End of chapter one.
Iwooed, alas!
we'd alas!
This oertrue tale Is done.
Yankee Blade.
Miss Ruby-"Wasn't it sad about
Mr.. Larabee?" Mr.. GRIM ian old bach
elor)-"What is it?' HE was married
on Tuesday and died on the following
Friday" Eyes, it's sad; but then mar
riage doesn't always prove fatal SO
soon. "-Brooklyn Life.
--Burglar-"I have decided to go into
some other kind of business when l get
out" Prison Missionary-"I am re-
joiced at your decision; what has
brought it about" Burglar-"I find
that night work is breaking down my
constitution. IN. Y. Truth.
The Unreality of It.-Bess-"Now
we have been married month, and vet
it doesn't seem as if we were married
at all" Belle-"You are SO happy"
Ress-"That isn't the whole of it. You
see Charlie hasn't said a word about his
mothers superior cooking. "-Yankee
Blade.
-Gaswell-''Who was the lawyer
who defended you in your recent case?'
Dukane-"It wasn't a lawyer" Mop
"What's the difterence?" "Well, he
charged me $3.50 for his services. A law.
yer would have asked about $50 You
can figure up the difference yourself. u
IL tell you," said recently-re.
turned traveller, who was clad much
after the fashion of Mr.. Richard Swiv.
eller-"I tell you, Argentina's the place
to go! Everything is dead cheap there
Why, you can get splendid fat turkey
for twenty centsr' "Whew!" said one
of the interested by-standers; IF Tc
been in your place, should have stayed
there!' would you now?" remarked
the traveller, cycling his friend, medita
lively; well, then, since you'd have
stayed, probably you can tell me how
was to get the twenty cents, in Argen
| tina?'
Reward of Merit Jacobs" sale
the managing editor of the great daily
paper, wcarily, "what is the name O.
our man down at Squareville?" Hi!
name is Bohackus," answered the as
sistant. "How much are we paying
him?" "Something like forty dollars .
month" RAISE his salary fifty pc,
cent" said the managing editor. "Tha
is all. Jacobs. You can CO." Mr.
Bohackus, of Squareville, was the onl,
one of several hundred Geographic cor
respondents who had not begun his spe
cial telegram to the Daily Thunderbol
the night before in these words: ''Th'
election here passed off quietly."-Chi
cago Tribune.
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-Visitor-"Do you take notes when
YOU preach, STRIP Country Parson
(sighing)-"When I can get 'em.
But in this parish it's mostly garden
truck and a donation. IN. Y. Herald.
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ALLOWING an average weight Of four
pounds to the brain, deducting one
fourth for blood and vessels and an
other fourth for external integument,
it may be said that each grain of brain
substance contains not less than EOS, $40
traces or impressions of ideaA
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The Old Gentleman-Why do you send
her so many flowers if it is so horribly
expensive and you can not afford it?
The Young Gentleman-That's just
the trouble. If l should stop sending
the flowers the florist would think ]
was losing the girl, and should have
to pay up.-Life.
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A Valentine.

Dear heart, true heart, sweetheart mine,
Be my fond hearts valentine!
Then, tho stormy winds be blowing
Then, tho bitter tears be flowing
Over dead and buried blisses
tTombs Of VOWS and graves Of kisses)
OF them thou wilt be unknowing-
Only sweetness will be thineI
Washington Critic.
Loves Mission.
In every line on flying feet
Love runs unto your heart my sweet;
And, kneeling at that happy shrine,
His prayer is: Be my VJltntin~.
Brooklyn Life.
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Loves Mission.

WHY is it dangerous to go out on St
Valentines day? Because Cupid's az
rows are flying about in all directions
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on r or five
weeks ago, when
Mr.. Bow S e r
came home one
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again. and there was roaring in his
head as if he stood on the brink of
Niagara. A boy who came in with a
telegram, looked Mr. Bowser over and
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SILVER.

SILVER.
suv., co,, go. Ssh Sc -.
'Exdvidend.
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rur prrBOLEUM MARKET.

Tho crude certificate market was arm yesteraay ana
the transactions light The news from ~" .,
some decrease the production ana seNe'ai o.
wells are being gradually lost sight Of
TSe Srurc th MepSoas o asd ye'' Sas showed
decrease OF Yesterday the sales OF Nsona
ne eefarstcs amounted 70 10 600 ba' r,,oesm
So cent the deonss amounted to 900 sar,'s %
cents Refined oil In barrels wss csmas IN barrels al
in bulk At $50 and 70 ssses ~ '"'
c9 ard n Ssls weS. Antwerp iss francs: Bremen.
xo5 make: London tb1<h penes
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Actual cash in TIE
Treasury vaults
over Outstanding OF, go, a,,- ~ 4GY Inc s5p ,2y
,ifcatcs ~ ~ a. 10
I'm hank. III tosoof '-f"''''"- INV
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20, ra.h bal siso o2s,Aos sis''12''o lac e'2s'o
rho foreign exchanges were quiet and strong
without material change in rates rates There was nc
cn Of Shsns ss b SDspeeqb s
SaaSas IA and 81 SO LA 81 IS IL for lona
80 .5nrt sterling respectively; French francs
and Sods1 ia london 90 and lp The q
,, - vas closed At Paris French 3 FER cents
ES'.nced ~ os. so sight exchange on London be
; au ~ "a / . francs 10 the { sterling
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