The evening world., 1907-08-26
drunken, bedrag2ied.

| SaAlihSii, L~hIdS SsSh.
There ara SO many OF them and they
are judges 50 RAPIDLY by these legal
specialists in the weakness of human
nnture :hat TO tho da1ed spectator the
Individuals become one congloptsrate
mass whose face is the face Of tragedy.
and ono could never forget those eyes
staring ttp al The itpage-blus eyes.
brown eyes. bright eyes. wide with
fright. eyes duh with sodden inliffer-
enec
There isn't any humor: none OF the
droii characters which -niiven some
Courtroom scenes appear here, II Is all
grim. and a frishtfui festuTe is that 1T
seams 10 he TOO commonplace 10 attraat
any attention.
A MereIful Magistrate.
Magistrate Cornell presides and his
personality easily dominates the place,
The type OF judge that Is ponderous.
physically and mentally, tull o: legal
lore and whereaser and wher-fores
would be astonished at this Judge o
methods. Ho is distinctly a product Of
new conditions His face Is nne one.
keen and Intelligent. and his eyes arc
quick to search the faces before him for
any traces OF virtue and dignity 10
which he may appeal Yoa read your
hooks and plays. but he reads human
beings in that hour when their pre-
lenses and shams are stripped away.
His voice IL stern. judicial admonI-
tory. paternal. sympathetic Erieved as
tho case may A>e'n TO require. He
searches for any grains of god amid
.tits .iaoss and aHd.Hs- aae. Aa. -polxi.aE- Il
up for the owner with a few brisk YER
bal rubs
Here IL tail man with pntriarchai
drunk. first time no had been ar
rested: didn't know-how 1t happened.
Why this man has a Eood face. he
has seen better days. he doesn't look as
II he belonged with this, Go home. my
man. and don't drink any more.
-Four Italians and street fight. They
arc Notwithstanding youths With mis-
shapen heads and degenerate features
Aren't those iine people TO unload upon
us7 They have the intelligence OF apes.
What appeal TO deeency could one
make here?''
Two saiirs-Swedes perhaps-who had
bccn f,ghtins. rough. pathetic hgures
with The appealing eyes OF dumb AMI
mails
ti4 s-ssi sarrs far-aesp-Fsa sailors:
they have hard life and these men
don't look very bad. You never fought
betore7 No You won, any more
Where do you Ave. Well. 60 home and
don't get in trouble like this again"
A group of besotted old women.
drunken tramps. frowsy. hopeless. old
offenders. and with them one rather de-
cent -ieokinR woman
why. you don't belong with these.
-aayathn Cnnrl-.Yon- have "A good face
You took drink with them! Don't Do
II again Where do you liveT Well, 60
home and don't come here any more
An intelligent looking workingman
who has been drunk Is appealed TO, ad-
monlshed, and is offered help or work II
he needs It. He promises not to drink
any more.
And thus justice Is tempered with
mercy,
A Judge who deals daily with these
remnants of humanity. marked down
to s., $ or $40. according TO sentence.
must become cnllopted Of feeling or
else divinely compassionate
Most Pitiful OF All Figures
And here Is one last piEful figure,
tho saddes,. most wrotrhet OF ail.Srste
Is like bruised lilies thrown upon an
ash heap, Ono behoids her with pity
too deep for words or teara.
The mngnificently wicked women of
history who ahmed royalty and won or
lost In great games OF life do not need
.rity,
But these-they are not wicked. many
OF them have no, intelligence CROUCH 10
be- They are ignorant, woGa. unstable.
and the competition OF lie Is too much
for them Two OF them were girls who
came here to work, thinking New York
place full OF opportunities for sue
ecss, They had been starving for two
days when arrested. Another fraii girl
worked In restaurant and did not
mako enough to live on.
These arc the real tragedies OF life
and these ara tho things one may see
any night AZ ths Jctferaon Market