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he. she hacts like a youngster, but she's
divorced her third husband an is looyin'
for another
The old gceser after her is sober now.
but he haint had time TO locate the booze.
The Ugh stopper with the blond air is
a married woman, but you wouldn't know
II from her gaddin' with the young bucks
And so he continued with every one who
passed. That butler knew them all by
name and everything about them. He
really knew so much that he was a dan
gerous man 10 have around, but Of course
il was none Of my business, After while
he took me to an anteroom and summoned
nv partner. Then he called his assis' ant
and told him 30 bring bottle OF vine.
The butler and us two sleuths sat there
drinking the wine when the, boss came in.
That's right, James, says he to the
scandalmonger See that the boys have
everything they want TO eat and drink.
James was all obedience and servility
while the boss was in the room. When
he had gone out James was a different
man.
"'E's a stingy pup, said James OF his
employer, but e opens up on a night like
this
James Is still friend OF mine and
have often found him useful. Buffers are
treated 70 haughtily by the people above
them in the social scale that they arc only
too willing to Be friendly with those ~ho
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Library. When he came up in the Chill
dren's Court the Judge asked him what
books he stole.
1.-Two volumes Of Shakespeare no
said
why did you take those'
"'Because, he said very softly I am
very fond of reading Shakespeare
aThe boy with him had taken some books
on geometry. They were released on
parole and he comes each week and bor
rows a book, sits and reads it and takes
it home with him acknowledged books
too, the best my little library here affords.
There is a small and homeless boy wan
dering about whose history adds another
link 10 the chain of interest. He has com,
from Galicia running away from a cruel
stepmother. BY working here and there,
playing stowaway, eluding vigilance where
he could. he fnallyreaohed New York and
for four days wandered about the streets
until he was found and sent TO the Gerry
society.
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week of reportingpn his own responsibility
that lis well.
As the visitors enter, the dozen boys are
describing with, eloquent words and ges-
lures their experiences at various Bowery
theatres The one who is holding the floor
Is saying: Il seen a scene
an what2- asks the probation officer,
kindly. interested Immediately In whatever
interests her boys, as she calls all the young
sinners in her flock.
Tracked Around the World is the
answer, and one after the other offers a
word of description. TO all Of which eager
attention is accorded.
Mrs. Axman's alert eyes note that one
boy is avoiding Der gaze: that another Is
looking better physically and morally; that
still another is waiting for that moment Of
confidence when, with their backs toward
the others in the room. a few low spoken
words, a few tears, perhaps, will meet with
needed sympathy and advice.
Mrs. Amman returns from one Of these
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lace cF the Williamsburg Bridge, a queer
procession Of visitors call on Mrs AMMAN.
She Is probation officer of the city and
t"s charge of parole and probation cases
a the Children's Court. The visitors are
persons who have been tempted and have
fallen perhaps just once.
The holiday trade Is an enormous temp
tation to the women she said to a Sun
reporter who got her 10 talk about her
experience Where / have perhaps ten
cases 10 look after in November and Jan
uary. during the holiday rush l have
couple Of hundred. majority Of these
cases are absolutely first offences and in a
great many cases. the greater part should
say. the offence is absolutely unpremedi-
tated
The poor creatures arc sent perhaps
IN an errand. go into store and yield TO
the most incomprehensible temptations. |
have known Of cases in which a girl was
trusted with money by her mistress, per
haps did the shopping for the household
or worked in an establishment where costly
materials were displayed before her and
was absolutely honest. yet she went into
store during the holiday attractions and
stole something she didn't want Such
girl wonder, why she took what she stole
when -he comes 70 herself
One Of the cases in point Is that Of u
young lrish girl ~ho had a record Tor
uunIeaoiiaJilc honesty for a couple of
years She was sent down town TO buy
-omcthing and seized with this uneSplain
able desire took some twenty-five cent tat
ting and a little doll for neither Of which
she had any use.
-She was caught and arrested. When
was sent for to talk 20 her after her APP
pearance in court all she could do was %
rock herself back and forth and say. oh,
| don't know why | did it, want to 90
back to Ireland | want to go back to
Ireland
After long time / got her to admit
that she had a friend. Mr.. Brady, and
ne could help her prove her honesty. 1t
at,ervard came out that the Mr. Brady
IN question was her brother, ard she did
not Ike 70 say so. because she 70 7shamed
for hinI to have such sister.
After l got her releas ed / could not
shake her determination to go back TO
Ireland and back she went. She simply
could not get over the fact that she had
done something whose remembrance would
never be dispeled, and she wanted to go
away from il to her old friends and her old
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LIGHr rOR rME tTsnES.
Aqunrum's Tanks Now on BARK DAYS
illuminated 10y Electric Lamps.

Aaunrium's Tanks Now on Dark Days
illuminated 10y Electric Lamps
An electric lighting plant has lately been
installed at the Aquarium Tor the hotter
Illumination Of the wall tanks on dark days
Two incandescent lamps are placed over
each OF, the larger tanks and one over each
Of the smaller tanks The tanks are at
tached to wires running along over the
tanks in the service corridors, where they
are quite out Of sight Of the visitor. who
secs only their effect.
With the aid Of tho added light from these
lamps the tank interiors, with 'hcir rock
work. are on daik days brought clearly
into view. az are likewise the fishes and tho
markings uron item
The fishes are not disturbed hy H. At
frst many Of the fishes swarned 10 tho
surface when the light wa TUNED on.
attracted 10 II as many fiahcs IN nrturo Gre
attracted TO she surface ny jaclglrnts carr
ried in boats by fishermen. bat taey s0on
became used to &, and now they continue
their lives in the tanks just as before, with
out paying any attention 70 II,
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Now he is under the chaperonaRe 81 the
probation o,fi7ar awaiting ;hc next moyo
ON the chessboard Of his fate. which Mrs.
Amman hopes will be the offer of a good
home
Here are some things about the East
Side learned on tho visit TO the Educational
Alliance Building;
at is useless to try to give these people
over on the Fast Side anything but the
best when it comes TO IA question of enter
tainment," said one instructor. "They
know good art even though they are shabby
and squalid. When we give them music
they can tell in a moment If IL falls ipelow
a high standard. II IL the same with
dramatic work entertainments of every
kind They are artists, all of them, by
temperament and through inheritance
Another instructor asked
WHY Is il that every other man and boy
down this way is called Abe? Itra good old
name sure enough and has stood the test
of time. but you would think even ia this
quarter Of the city, thoy could find few
others.
Just for fun OH my way down hailed
small boy who was ahead Of me Hello.
Abe, | called ont Sure enough. he turned
and said. Hello in a matter Of fact way
that showed me | was right
His story was met by another by Mrs
Amman.
FTP in the Children 5 Court tine other day
Judge Deuel. asked small bog who was up
for examination Do You know 80 and so|
mentioning a boy by name he answer
was No and the same No was repeated
as the Judge read list of boys' uaDes to
him. Finally he said.
DO you know any boy by the name OF
key?
The boy looked up at him. full ia the face.
and said I don't know any boy by the nume
OF key
The Judge said Convicted boy
who lives over on the East Side and don't
know any one by the name OF key il under
suspicion right away.
Papers in every language arc in the read
ing room This story wac told Of it 10y an
official of the Alliance
i heard an amusing conversation the
other day Two men discussed on event
of some importance 10 them.
II was in ali the papers this morning,
said one, surprised that the other had not
read about IT,
What pspers2' inquired the other
THE English papers
but who reads the English paper49
snarled the second man
That is quite true too We have the
papers printed IN English. but have little
call for them. Yiddish German, Russian
and every language except tlo Anglo
Saxon are in constant demand ana that
gives one an impression OF the cosmo-
polita1 condition Of New York WIN yon
realizs that we are standing only about
fifteen minutes from Broadway and Four
teenth street"
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REPORTING TO THE PROBATION OFFICER.
confdential, moments with frown Of per-
plexity.
at is so hard she exclaims THAT
poor boy is the oldest Of a large family
he wants TO go to work to help his widowed
mother. and he is not old enough to get his
working papers The working papers can
only be given to boy of IA. and he is only
10. hut large and strong for his age
Il can do nothing. and feel that be should
be allowed TO do as he wants TO. That is
one Of the hardest refusals to give and
il is one OF frequent occurrence. 1t is very
hard on many families.
One boy says his good-nieh in a peou-
larly att-aod' > way, his words well ar
ticulated aud his manner courteous and
refined. Il hesitates at the QUESTION as
TO whether there il anything he wants,
apd HOLDS up volume he is reading.
Il am very much interested in this. he
says @if could take it2'
II il lent to him Immediately, and after
he leaves his presence is explained.
"On parole, he was arrested with another
boy for stealing books from the Public
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in this evening to report have a record
each of them for perfect honesty in differ
ent places where they have worked, but
they took positions in a store while the
holiday rush was on, and that was their
undoing. They could not explain to me
why they stole. All they seemed to feel
was that they could not resist the tempta-
ton to have some of the pretty things by
which they were surrounded.
Il have these paroled prisoners come
here to me because | can have a better
chance to talk TO them undisturbed, and II
is less humiliatng to them. ! make visits
too. Last month | made nearly three
hundred but / find that my best results
are achieved right here
Most Of the cases are petit larceny cases.
have had in the course of two years only
one case Of inebriety and the usual cases
of immoral conduct, which | find when
investigated are really immoral rather
than immoral.
what do | mean by that? Simply that
the young women are absolutely without
moral stamina and cannot realize that
they are doing anything for which they
should be punished. I can do nothing for
them except help them to get into an en-
vironment where they are kept straight
in spite of themselves for many OF them
are merely blown by whichever wind finds
them and do not seek either the right path
or the wrong one of their own volition
While Mrs Amman was talking there
we're frequent kno oks at the door. pre-
ceding many visitors-men who escorted
paroled wives, the two sisters mentioned
and others
But don't SEQ, darling said one
smooth tongued visitor how I'm hurt
ing anybody. I've got the nine children,
and they must be taken care OF.
Her offence il the practice OF medicine
secretly without license under cover OF
fortune telling She explains her method
Of fortune telling which might furnish
ideas for the army Of palmists further
uptown.
q just take wooden box and hand it to
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After her young couple just out OF their
teens come in shamefacedly, at least the
wife is So while the boyish husband is per-
haps merely sympathetic, From the far
corner of the room one hears her low
voiced appeal
Tell me | won't be locked up again,
don't know why | did III
When she has been assured that if she is
good she will be no longer in danger pro-
vided she makes her weekly report until
her parole is over, the couple go out with
ELUSIVE thanks from the young husband
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environment. And yet she was absolutely
guiltess OF any real wfongdoing.
when saw her OF on the steamer her
uncle came TO me and begged me to aocepl
little token of their regard, l promptly
refused, but tell this to lead up to the fact
that many Of these poor people whom /
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ON
PAROLE

In the big building Of the Educational
Alliance in East Broadway upstairs in
c.,.v room filed with bric-a-brao, with
hie bookcase, and comfortable chairs,
with windows through which you can see
am outlook at night OF dense shadows and
bi,b Esht-. black housetops and the neck
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the lady who comes. she draws slip OF
paper out of It, and while she is drawing II
pray the good God TO direct her hand.
1t is all for the poor idren, darling
She ignores with the innocence OF per
feet ignorance the real reason of her con
viotion, but goes away promising to make
her report the next week, and eSclaiming
again that the nine children must be taken
care Of, law or no law.
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through the influence of another woman.
At last they are both together again; he
has worked out his sentence and she is on
parole. 1 don't believe in him, but | do in
her, and | am keeping my eye on both
THE attitude of the people toward me?
II varies Some Of them are so grateful
Even after the parole and the probation
terms are over. they still come for advice,
sympathy. because they like me and know
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TIE SLEU7H IN SOCIETY.
FINE JOB, TF YOU KNOH HOE TO
UfIRIOUR CLOTHES, SAYS NE.


H. &; Make Frfentis WIN the Butler
and learn the secrets Of Swclldom
: reroTt IT, the Central ONCE Man.
Well my dress clothes have been pressed
and the camphor smell removed and now
am ready 20 be a sas5icty gent said the
Central O1lco detective, lounging in the
lobby Of the Metropolitan Opera House
I've been PLAYING the heavy swell now for
six winters, and I'm getting to like II.
When the opera begins and the social
season is in full swing many calls are re-
ccINed AT the Detective Bureau for men TO
attend social functions of all kinds. These
requests all 90 to Inspector McClusky,
head Of the bureau, and he knows Just
Wat il wanted. George used to do the
society stunt himself when he was plain
detective sergeant. That's where he got
lao swaggcr air that made Bill Devery call
Bun "hesty,
'TNcse requests for detectives como
rom the folks In society who give the
swell dances and balls They always want
couple Of sleuths around 80 that no dar-
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Of development. She too, had stolen a
doll and two handkerchiefs. All she could
say 10 me was:
oh. was sorely tempted, was sorely
tempted
Il had her put on parole. not because
thought there was any danger of her re-
peating the offence, but. so that ! could
keep her in view
Two other grls. sisters. who will como
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be a bit surprised when told him nothing
had happened. When he babe ne good-by
he pressed a fifty spot IN my palm II
wasn't such an Improbable job after all.
There is always change for man Who is
doing the sociefY stnnt
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s,ate secretary.

b. Herald
|nce receive an auto
4 Edward or Queen
nature may be there.
|of the contents. be-
slid 10 then secre
rretsry Of popur.
&re FIFTY or sixty
tge Of her Majesty :
the Kings duty
8 for his 81 gnature,
can ave ham the
Is reads n letter and
Hon 10 a laoonio nc
margin: then Dord
the queen 5 con-
D. the rest
I'd right hand man
Rplonatic style with
knIiar and long be-
Etatinn. Such very
= and Queen do SEND
mates are discreetly
kchives, from which
20 uneaTth them
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reason that they arc 30 used to paying foI
everything that is done for them that they
do not seem to realize that they can be
helped and rescued from unfortunate and
humiliating conditions for nothing. 1t is
a sad truth which needs special attention.
Another girl arrested this holiday season
for stealing was poor little half-Mexican
resident OF the East Side who was q ir
years but with a mind childlike in its lacl
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almost too ELUSIVE II would seem to a casual
observer.
She was married to him secretly OK
plains Mrs. Axman as the door closes.
Two weeks after the oeRmony he was
arrested for the dress suit fake; that is,
going to houses and getting dress suits
TO press, and then either selling them or
pawning them.
while he was in prison she was arrested,
her first offence. A usual, II was committe I
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AIMED JOHN.

New York Arch.
Nt In Favor
BE- Of tho present
as it was Of fouF
b John Murphy
PLY. John Dubois,
&AlcCloskey.
b John is a lucky
ner in most onsea
&d success in life
sen TO fame and
h here have been
Nc some color to
N Of the Catholic
2ghs Of Manhattan.
IL. it is found that
rest Numerically
1.-THE next nearest
B called Thomas.
Down in this order:
Joseph, 30: Patrick
each; Francis, 10.
Daniel, o: Peter. 4:
Denis. 5: Louis, 3.
hard, 4; Martin. 3.
bard. 3: Augustine,
E Cornelius Eugene.
ss and Gerard, 2
D was John Lough-
he other boroughs.
hors and their as
humber of priests
b comes next with
kliam, 20. ard JOS
Pauick. 9; Peter. Q;
ichael. 7: George, b;
bert, 3. Anthony, s.
b. Philip, Henry;
bndelin, Louis and
churches dedicated
pity. 8 to St Joseph.
10 the Virgin Mary
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help try TO recompense me in some way
gifts anything. everything, not 50 much
from gratitude as from the more pathetic
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kthe testimony
btor Mary,
Pr life has had
Riu az ten dif
J out from her
fhe grating Of
peers in, but
\ father. Mrs.
A not seen each
r.. since they
" sentenced 10
April 20, 1902.
1.-THE foregoing
i say that Alma
liable She has
.d her years
Nth Her ner-
.ocs sional re-
Iingly resistless
bparently with
kpomt perhaps
(which she was
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"A 7 HFDR NJ.
1.-The entenary
flniOre.

1.-THE Centenary
tlnorr.
gliding Of the
oman Catholic
frenovating the
pale. which will
parts Of a plan
foper condition
htenary in 1906.
Fbasl)een begun.
krk viii not be
bf the dome is
n the laying %
Ethedral will be
\ Distinguished
j Of the country
Ethe celebration
BIT, as the cathe-
Ne United States
berican primAte.
be stlll living at
ais birthday will
a. the anniver-
A0iual cathedral
pt the church OF
trset. The first
opposite the pres
esided over the
the cornerstone
hero was q long
/ various reasons.
were necessary,
Red TO to raise
in 1919. There
hey were sold at
led 10 the church
(40 600 more was
pews.
,urce Of pri de 20
Fhen it was COM
beauty and I'M.
structure in the
He'd paintings and
|, and tho Arch p
,te to Rome for
er ears than those
!. and one Of the
|, tho priasta Of
bishop. the Right
died. They = Mt
ltar. upon which
b. tcstifying that
ction and esteem
saive cand eiahra
Jed Aiarbiehead,
>. in March, 1921
rwarded 10 Bal
Ie paintings from
esoeut from the
IN. was sent by
King Louis Bury
g. was given by
E.
cathedral took
e year, and Arch
ted by Bishop Ii.
Ind Bishop John
first ordination
Of ). l.. Dubuis-
2 cathedral many
functions have
ncils have been
ted. In the crypt
4 ArchbishODs of
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Mrs. Axmdn Probation
Officer. Tells of the Sud
den Temptations Before
Which Her Visitors Fell.
The Falls City tribune., 1905-01-06
Death a New Birth.

Those who die in the fear of God
and in the faith of Christ do not really
taste death; to them there is no death,
but only a change of place, a change
of state; they pass at once into some
new life, with all their powers, all
their feelings unchanged; still the
same living, thinking, active beings
which they were here OF earth. . .
What comfort for us who must die,
what comfort for us who have seen
others die, if death be but a new birth
into some higher life; If all that it
changes us is body-the mere
husk and shell of us-such a change
as comes eel the snake when he
casts his old skin and comes out fresh
and gay, or eve the crawling cater.
pillar. which breaks it's prison and
spreads its wings to the sun as a fair
butterfly? Where is the sting Of
death, then, if death can sting, and
poison, and corrupt nothing Of us for
which our friends love us; nothing OF
us with which we could do service to
men or God? Where is the victory OF
the grave, if, so far from the grave
holding us down, it frees us from the
very thing which does hold us down
the mortal body?-Charles Kingsley.
The Falls City tribune., 1905-01-06
Obedience Through Suffering.

1t is a happy thing if w can learn
obedience by the things which we suf-
fer. Weakness of body and heaviness
of mind will, | trust, have this good eff
feet upon you. The particular lesson
which you have now to learn is TO be
faithful in comparatively little things,
particularly in conversation. Zoe
hath given you a tongue. Why?
That you may praise Him Herewith;
that all your conversation may be, for
the time TO come, meet to minister
grace to the hearers" Such CONVEX
sation and private prayer exceedingly
assist each other. By resolutely per-
sisting, according TO your little
strength, in all works of piety and
mercy, you are waiting on God in the
old scriptural way. And therein he
will come and ave you. Do not
thing he is afar off. He is nigh that
j%ustifeth, that sanctifieth. Beware
you do not thrust him away from you.
Rather say:
my heart would now receive thee, Lord:
Come in, my Lord, come in"
John Wesley.
The Falls City tribune., 1905-01-06
BRAVES HONOR A sQUAW.
Snake Indian Woman Has Great Pow.
ers of Leadership.

The party from the Creek enroll.
ment division Of the Dawes commits.
sion which has been In the field for
some time taking testimony relative
to names on the allotment rolls met
with a remarkable Indian woman.
She has wonderful powers Of leader.
ship and her fame for wisdom and
valuable counsel has spread through.
out the entire Snake tribe.
This woman's name Is Fahne and
she is a fullblood Snake. Her home
is at Hillabee, a fullblood settlement
west of Eufaula. The braves of the
tribe never undertake a hunting ex-
petition without first seeking her ad-
vice. The Indians usually look with
contempt upon the advice OF a
"squaw," and it Is a most unusual oc-
currence to find an Indian sit
ting in the council meetings of the
tribe. Fahne, however, has this priv
ilege. her opinion always being asked
on such occasions. She is so years
old and has an enviable reputation
for virtue and honest dealing. She
is often consulted by Wachache, the
chief medicine man of the Snake
tribe, who is supposed to be in closest
touch with the Great Spirit. To be
taken into the confidence of the medi-
cine man would be considered an hon.
or by any of the men of the tribe. A
woman who enjoys this distinction Is
considered by the tribesmen doubly
honored. - Muskogee correspondence
Kansas City Journal.