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Evening star., 1901-11-09

If they were bashful as to instructing him
in what he did not already know about
mischief. The moral effect of such impris-
onment is evil, for he is led to consider
himself an equal and associate of men who
We're by nature and achievement worse
than he. If he is sensitive, this is the
worst part of his punishment; but as sensi-
tiveneSS is more likely to be one of his
most conspicuous lacks, he is too apt to
take pride in the association, for it puts
him on equality with experts in crime and,
therefore, it fiatterS his shallow egotism.
Criminals are self-conceited, as class, and
it is that very self-importance that makes
it hard to teach them, since a person who
thinks himself one of the most important
people in the world will not put forth much
effort to make himself different.
Spanking Would Do.
If the judge is wise, properly sympathetic
and has the understanding of human ma
ture that fits him to be judge, he will not
send the boy to prison, but return him to
his parents, to be spanked. If the parents
refuse him he should go to a reformatory,
and the milder the rule in that reformatory
the better. The institution will then begin
the work that should have been done before
the boy got into trouble, and if he is fairly
intelligent and tractable it will make man
of him, instead of a burden and a nuisance
Should the boy be sent to a prison, he will
be photographed, not, as would be the case
if we had a scientific system of dealing
with criminals, or, indeed, any system at ALL
for the purpose of arriving at a better un-
derstanding of the physiognomy, physiology
and psychology of the criminal, therefore
coming to better result in his treatment
but merely that he may be the sooner
caught in case he runs away, or I'm case he
is wanted for another offense after his re-
lease. The photograph goes into the rogues'
gallery, which is for the view of any con-
cerned, and which has afforded a means of
Identifying hundreds of men who might
otherwise have escaped. For the fact of
being represented in the collection is in
itself a damning circumstance and may
fasten upon even an innocent man a belief
on the part of the detectives in his guilt
Odd as it may seem, the measurements,
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family. It takes ten days to form a bad
habit and ten years to form a good one.
Virtue I'm Lowly Life.

family. It takes ten days to form a bad
habit and ten years to form a good one.
Virtue I'm Lowly Life.
In the present form OF society tns whole
sale reformation Of the part of the human
race that needs 1t Is the only cure for
crime, and 1t Is undertaking too big a con-
tract for our means to lift the masses tha.
furnish the larger number of criminals. Let
not the mistake be made, however. of sup
poSDg that honesty and virtue are Incvn-
sistent with lowiy life in the cities. While
Iour-ntths OF the crime comes from the ten
ements, yet there are hundreds Of thou
SANDS or dwellers among them who remain
unspofled. The tenement as an Institution
rs PAD there is no doubt on that point; but
ene InuiViduai family that lives in IL can
preserve Its moral autonomy and p i.,y up
ITS children in honor. The mass Of me.i are
good and OF women better The tenement
mas its virtues of domestic fidelity, indus
uy, couraee-yes, and OF modesty and IN
teiEgence- Its views on wrourdoinp are
pronounced and its measures against II
prompt and severe
Inc concrete moral force that the young
offender breads is the poficeman To MIN
the man In blue and buttons is a genius OF
malignity. He has no play room except the
street, and the policeman chases him IL ne
sees him playing there He has no ward
except the roof and when he goes IN there
ana lnnocently casts pebbles on the heads
Oh pedestrians, the policeman likewise pur-
sues nim Grown folks can lounge before
the saloons, but when he pauses there, the
policeman smires his legs and tells him to
move on.
Yet all too soon, he learns to know the
power that is vested in the man with the
buttons, even the man in buttons learns
TO Know the power that the boy and his
oand may WELD; for more than one officer
mas come to his death from the revengefuI
assaults of a ''growler gang" And the
criminals awakening to the attitude of So
ciety toward his offenses generally comes in
a police station. After that he is put into
the black maria, with company as rag
ged as unwashed, as detected, as i'll fed as
himself, and presently debarks before the
court, and is conducted by an officer to the
cage" upstairs, where he awaits hearing
and sentence, and he goes hence to liberty
or punishment.
When Career Begins.
If the judge is some kinds of magistrate
the boys career in crime begins from that
hour, for too many of the men who have
got themselves put into the lower courts ar:
unable to discriminate between offenses
and offenders, and visit on the criminal by
accident the same punishment as would
be imposed on the criminal by intention.
The boy is usually a criminal by mistake
mistake of birth and association; mistake
of understanding and ideals. There should
never be commitment of child to Jail
or penitentiary. His place is in a reforma-
tory.
If he is normal boy. with only the
usual allowance of sin-which is plenty in
any case-hc is not a candidate for associa-
tion with old and experienced scamps, even
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youngsters in the street, where the police
eare looked upon as prosecutors, where there
is dirt darkness, filth, disorder, evil cook
ing, where girls lapse easily into lives of
sin, where murders are committed for the
price of a pail of beer, where all that is
to be priced in life of peace and beauty and
refinement are unknown, and what will be
the result? Unless a miracle happens the
boy will take his moral color from his as
sociates. He will join a street gang, he
will depredate on apple stands and grocer
les, he will not work when he can borrow
and beg, he will become adept in thievlng,
he will be arrested for fighting and DIS
order on the streets, he will become
quainted with police stations, jails, reform
atories and prisons, and, unless he expert
ences some great awakening, which be-
comes less and less probable and possible
every year of his life, he will in time be-
come an habitual criminal and will end his
worse than worthless days behind the bars.
Meantime what of the other who has
been placed in good home, among clean,
honest people, who are just and temperate
in their dealings, kindly and consderate
toward every one; who have books and
pictures and music; who, if they do not at
tend church, are as moral as II they did;
whose amusements are wholesome; who
have an adherence of filth and meanneSs
and vice; who, because they have enough
to wear and to eat, are never tempted 10
break the laws; who encourage schools and
institutions for the education and bettering
of the people-will he, also, escape the ef-
fects of his environment? Oddly. he is
more apt to than the other, for while the
child OF the slums may not see many high,
class people, the boy Of good family is GER
tain to meet with any number Of little sim
ners; meet them In school and on the
streets and in his play. Yet, all things con-
sidered, he will become as his parents or
guardians have been, and win grow INTO
useful and respectable citizenship. The
bad boy in a good family is more likely to.
turn out well than the good boy, in bad
Evening star., 1901-11-09
American Printing Cheap.
From the London News.

rom tne London News
According to a correspondent, a represen-
tative of provincial printing firm called on
a London firm which distributed circulars
by the million. He was asked TO quote for
a circular from which the printers name
had been removed. An estimate was pre-
pared on the basis of a small turn over
profit which, considering that the works
were situated in rural district forty miles
from London, on rental which in the city
would not pay the ground rent was much
below what would be possible for London
house Indeed, the representative was con-
hdent of obtaining an order, but was thor
oughly nonplussed when told the price
quoted was considerably above that now
paid. The firms printing was done in the
United States, the orders being given IN
such quantities as to insure the lowest
freight charges, and after adding the latter,
including delivery to the door, the cost
turned out to be considerably below that OF
the lowest estimate yet received from any
British firm.
Evening star., 1901-11-09

yet the criminal ceases not from his depre-
dations. Has the balance in his case tipped
so far to the wrong side of the scale that
it is hopeless that it should ever tip the
other way? Why not, then, start him in
life on the moral side?
Can it be done? 1t is the greatest Of
problems of society today. The conse-
quence of the medium to be used for specie
of legislation to regulate the sale or aboli-
ton of merchandise, of agreements on tax
alton, of the change in national boundary
lines, of party supremacy, is slight compar-
ed with that of permitting or denying the
right of abolishing crime or the criminal
Is the offender incorrigible? If he would bur-
del the world all his days, has he the right
to live! Has the professional, irredeemable
rogue the right to reproduce his kind? Has
he the right to liberty? Has he the right
to demand that the law-abidng public shall
be forever assessed to keep him in the idle
ness of prison or an almshouse? Shall he
alone, of all people, be absolved from the
duty of useful labor and self-support? Into
these considerations policy enters, also
sympathy.
The criminal never had so few excuses as
he has today. Education, which theoreti-
cally lifts us above the need of crime is
free for all; work is to be had by most Of
those who really want it and will look for
1t In the right places; charities were never
SO ample; there was never much money
IN circulation as at present; many gTaces
ana comforts of life that half a century
ago were only for the rich are now at
the people in cities is closer, and they do
more for themselves than ever before, gain
ing the benefits of schools, libraries, mu-
seums, art galleries, parks, hospitals, sani-
tation, even nfasic, without price; the eff
fort to carry health and light and air and
understanding into the crowded districts
was never so persistent. 1t is a good world
and good age; yet the malcontent is still
abroad stealing, outraging, beating, cheat
ing, killing. drowning his alleged sorrows
in alcohol, and, while drowned, refusing to
work or behave himself, and neglecting his
wife and children. Society has pleaded with
him, it has punished him, it has made an
outcast of him; but he will not stay cast
out and he will not change.
A Parallel Case.
Take two boys of exactly the same char
acter and put into a tenement where
he will be a witness of drunkenness every
day, where he will hear profanity and OBJ
scenity as common talk of men, women and
children alike, where petty thieving is re-
garded as clever and amusing where they
beat their wives, and wives take it out on
their children, and children beat the weaker
Evening star., 1901-11-09
IN HER OLD HOME.
The ROsy-Cheeked Young Dutch
Queen is Back There.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.


LONDON. October 3d. 1901.
Rosy-cheeked young Queen Wilhelmina of
the Netherlands is an object of greater
interest to her loyal subjects at present
than she has been at any other time in her
life except on the day she was born and
on the day she was married An addition
to the royal household is expected in De-
cember and every women in Holland Is
confident it will be boy. The women of
Amsterdam are preparing for the new
conner, linen cap embroidered with
pearls and diamonds and encircled by
blue ribbon signifying that the wearer will
some day be king The wives of the min
listers are embrofdering Wondrous cush-
ion which is to rest on a silver salver and
on which the child will be laid for pres
entation to the ministers. The women of
The Hague, always a little jealous of the
women OF Amsterdam, are striving to out
do them with a silk christening robe
adorned with silver buttons. The wives
of Dutch noblemen have subscribed for
silver cradle of rare workmanship. Gifts
are Forthcoming also from most of the
royalties of Europe.
The young queen has left her country
palace at Loo, and is back in the homely,
unpretentious cream-c colored residence in
the heart of The Hague, where she herself
was born and where the civil ceremony of
her marriage was performed. 1t, would
be quite contrary to the unbending Dutch
etiquette-more stiff than that of any other
Evening star., 1901-11-09

70 him. The well-known Gerry Soci .ty OF
New York has now counterpart i'm the
leading cities of the country, and the cities
of other countries are studying their meth
DDS. The Brooklyn Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children may be taken
as an example Of these beneficent institu-
tions This has wider range and function
than its name implies, for it is a force in
reformation as well as in rescue. Last
year Ii dealt with ,6S5 cases. and of these
hundred were of children accused of bur
glary. All of the cases were of children os
sixteen years and less. The boys and girls
had been accused of theft, drunkenness,
truancy, crap playing, assault. throwing
stones and other malicious mischief. There
were arrests for attempted suicide, 3 for
arson and for murder. In the same time
there were $50 cases against adults for he
abuse and neglect of children. In the whole
city of New York, including all borougEs.
there were 1870 arrests, of which mum
Der ,433 were of children. Owing TO the
efforts of this society the age of couscnS
was advanced from 10 years, I'm 1889. to Is.
in 1892; yet there has been diminutiCn in
the number of cases of assault.
Evening star., 1901-11-09
A PULLMAN PORTERS' BANK.
Their Reported Intention to Establish
One ia the City of Chicago.

Their Reported Intention to Establish
One ia the City of Chicago.
From the Chicago News.
Pullman car porters are about to organ
ize bank. Under the direction and super
vision of one of their organizations known
as the United Investment Company a bank
will be opened somewhere in the business
district of the city as soon as a place can
be rented for the purpose. For two years
the company has been operating two stores
"a furnishing store at 291S State street
street. These two business ventures have
been successful enough to warrant in the
minds of the members of the Investment
Company a branching out into the larger
field of the banking business.
According to the statement given out by
the projectors of the movement the bank
will have capital stock of $4,000. The
entire amount has been subscribed by men
who are employed in the Pullman car serv-
ice. In the language of President A H.
Edmonds the color line will not be drawn
among the depositors. Said that official of
the company recently:
We have formed this bank for the sole
purpose of widening our business horizon
In the employ of the Pullman Company are
hundreds of young colored men who by
reason of natural ability and education
should have opportunities opened to them
in other walks of life. 1t is my firm belief
that the colored man must take a higher
rating in the business world before he can
hope to command the unqualified respect
of his white brother. While our bank will
be an institution for colored people we shall
attempt to draw no color line in the matter
of depostors. We are Htmply building for
the future The bank will be the second of
the kind to be started in the north. We
had hoped to be the first, bat our brethren
in the city of Philadelphia have beaten us
and we are obliged to take second place"
Evening star., 1901-11-09

court in Europe-for an heir to the throne
to be born in any other of the Dutch
palaces.
One can judge of the requirements of
this Dutch etiquette from an incident that
happened a few days ago at a concert
given to the queen by the musical clubs of
Amsterdam Her majesty and the queen
mother sat in front of the audience in two
armchairs. When the orchestra started to
play the national anthem the audience rose,
according to custom, and the two royal
ladies also. At that moment the
queens bouquet slipped from her lap Her
majesty looked down at 1T and then glenced
meanngly at her mother Poor Queen
Emma hesitated a moment, then swallowed
her pride, stopped to pick up the bouquet,
and handed it to her naughty daughter be-
fore anyone of the suite sitting behind the
two ladies had had time to grasp the situa-
tion. One Of the Dutch papers ventured
cautiously to hint that this was carrying
etiquette too far.
Evening star., 1901-11-09

originally devised. not for criminal ident:f-
cation, but to keep tab on the soldiers IN
the French army and prevent the enlist
ment In 1t of German spies, is OF more use
than the photograph. A mans appearance
changes with years, especially after years
et well-spent life, and he can. moreover
disguise himself by growing long hair and
whiskers, but his measurements will vary
little, making due allowance, OF course.
for natural growth In the case of the
young. In all the prisons there Is a large
cabinet, resembling card catalogue. in
which these measurements are arranged In
such divisions that given the mere fact of
large head or a small head. TO begin with,
the suspect can be Identified and his pre-
vfous record obtained in five minutes ana
more generally in two, IL he is on the bad
books at ALL
The young offender has more chances for
escape from these evils than ever before.
His youth has become a partial protecti on
Evening star., 1901-11-09
Russia's Press Censorship.

From The london Chronicle.
Russian press censorship is a serious and
solemn thing. The new number of the
Finland Bulletin contains some striking
proof of this. At the beginning of 1890
about ninety political newspapers were
published In Finland. Twenty-one have
been suppressed, and twice that number
suspended for various periods That is the
significant result Of the rule of Gen. Bo-
brikofr. who, by the way, does not under
stand the language OF the people he gov-
erns. The Russian censorship extends
even to Punch, and from a copy picked up
In st. Petersburg cafe a large portion of
Mr.. Owen Seaman's lines on the cars
French visit was blaeked out. However,
one may see the British papers intact at
the embassy, and the English chaplain has
a similar privilege.
Evening star., 1901-11-09
How Offenders Against Law and
Order May Be Restrained
REFORM PROCESSES ALREADY TRIED
No Child Should Be Committed
to Penitentiary or Jail.
WHAT TOO OFTEN HAPPENS
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
How slenderly We balance between right
and wrong! The momentary temptation,
the sudden stroke of passion, the flash of an
evil thought, the suggestion of selfish mo-
tive, may turn us from the right forever.
But while we may coddle theories and
plead with offenders for reform, society
has to take sharp measures every now and
then to protect itself from the rebellious
element. The criminal must be restrained.
But how? We have prisons and gallows
and electric chairs, and we have vast and
expensive machinery of courts lawyers, po-
lice, constabulary, sheriffs and what not,
Evening star., 1901-11-09
"scientife" Anarchy.

From GunICns Magazine92 $
We do not mean to say that all anarch-
lists advocate violence and murder. but all
anarchists are enemies Of organized So
ciety, and the logicafaetfeet of their teach
ing is murder and other forms of physical
force to overthrow society, because no
other method will accomplish the end So
called "theoretic anarchists and I know a
joice at the fall of aetulef, no matter how
accomplished The theory of anarchy has has
no constructive basis, at ALL Its only aim
and ultimate goal is ldisintegration and de-
struction of associated interdependence. In
theory, therefore, as we'll as practice an
archy means the overthrow of organized
order and it always leads directly to GRIM
inal methods. There isa no such thing as
peacefully abolishing government The
teacher of anarchy is an enemy of society.
no matter whether it Is Benjamin Tucker
or "A Herr Most
Evening star., 1901-11-09
Cross Purposes.

From London Ally Sloper.
Father-"You want a wife, my boy
Son-'Indeed / don't, SIR"
Father-'I mean that you ought to take
one"
Son-"Whose shall take?'
Father-"Don't be so silly; mean that
you ought to marry some nice girl or
other"
Son-"Whom?"
Father-"Who you please"
Son-"No, If I've got to marry I'd rather
have one who would please me-"
Evening star., 1901-11-09
Two of a Kind.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
David of old said: "A merry heart maketh
a cheerful countenance.
That's where merry heart and a fif-
teen-foot putt are very much alike"
Evening star., 1901-11-09
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following Is list of advertised letters re-
naming in the Washington 3D. C-) post ONCE sat
urtiay, November o, 1901.
Tc obtain any Of these letters the appiicant
should can for Advertised Letters.
IL not called for within two % weeks tney VIII
he sanf 10 the Dead Letter Office.
Evening star., 1901-11-09
Not a Sure Test.

From PICK. - :
He-sYou must have known from the first
that was in love with you by my actions,
She-.But it's natural for some men to.
be foolish.''
Evening star., 1901-11-09

THE present service rifle has met with
approval by the army at large. The sights
for it. as first issued, were not satisfactory
They have been changed to meet the needs
of accurate individual firing. The sword
bayonet with which it is equipped is con-
sidered by the chief of ordnance as imper-
feet and antiquated. 1t is a heavy and
with Its scabbard, a costly part of the sol.
dier's equipment. and is a needless impedi.
ment to his freedom Of action and comfort
on the march, and as an intrenching tool
it is a poor substitute. The bayonet has
now only very rare use and may we'll be
dispensed with, relieving the soldier of con.
siderable weight and inconvenience and
saving the very considerable cost.
ITO provide for the rare occasions when 9
bayonet Is needed and at the same time
provide rod cramrodo, which is still used
and deemed necessary, a rod bayonet' was
devised for the caliber As Springfield rife
The sun., 1901-11-12
VIRTUES OF THE ONION.

ri is with the onion as with the lemon.
Its devotees regardit as panacea for
a good many ills and as preventive
of many of the disorders to which flesh
is heir.
The onion is really very ordinary
vegetable, but there is one point which
distinguishes it, and that is the some
what high percentage of sulphur it
contains. Possibly the virtues ascribed
to it depend on the presence of this
element.
Like the lemon, the onion may lay
claim to antiscorbutic properties
that is, to qualities which render it a
preventive of scurvy. Its mineral
constituents include a proportion OF
potash salts, and probably its anti
scorbutic qualities depend upon these
latter compounds.
The onion is doubtless healthful
enough vegetable, but its supposed
sleep-producing powers are said to be
mythical. The virtue of onion juice
as remedy for theStings and wasp at
tacks is conceded. In the cottager'.
repertoire of "first-aid" expedients
onion juice, rubbed on the sting, rep
resents the ammonia of more ad
vanced stage of domestic medicine.
The sun., 1901-11-12
INTERCITY BOWLING
LEAGUE COMPETITION

The result of last weeks play in the
Intercity Bowling League made some
changes in the standing of the clubs; and
the race grows more interesting as the
season progresses.
Penn, the leaders, We're beaten on their
own alleys, IN unexpected defeat, and as
Il result, Penn was compelled TO share
first place with the champions.
| Belmont and Wilmington Whist Clul'
had fine game on the lntter's alleys.
land as usual when these two rival tealns
meet, the result was III doubt until just
before the finish.
Ersine surprised the league by winning
from Germantown on the lattcr's alleys.
ard are now tied for third place with
Reliield.
This weeks schedule brings together
Belmont and Brltield ut Rellield, and as
the hitter team Is considerably stronger
tEan last year 4 very close game shonlf
result,
Wilmington rolls Ersine at NorriStown
The former team has as yet been unabi,
ID strike its gait hut is improving yer,
mach. nnd Ersine will find it a hare
proposition.
Penn and Germantown howl 1t ont a
Chester. with odds in favor of Tenn.
. Standing 10 date: