The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-05-01
RAN DEEDS SELDOM SPRING
FROM G0OO REASONS
By Annie Laurie

ment in New York the other day. A
Young man, good looking, well
dressed and a plausible talker.
He cried when they took him to
the police station.
Eyes; I cashed my employers
check" he said, land used the
money for myself. But | have an
invalid mother and l could not sup
port her on my salary"
And every one was very sorry for
the well dressed young man until it
turned out that he really did have an
invalid mother and that he hadn't
given her a cent for over year.
He had spent the money on per-
sons who we're neither invalids nor
mothers.
Of course.
Once in a while it turns out that
the speck in the apple isn't really a
speck at all, but just a bruise, and
the apple is quite as good and sound
as it would have been if it hadn't
fallen too hard from the tree.
And then we are all glad. for we
all love to think well of human ma
ture when we can.
But, as usual, the apple with the
speck in it is not sound.
There's something the matter with
that apple besides the little speck
you see on the surface.
And if you keep the fruit in the
pantry long enough it will spoil every
good apple on the shelf.
And not one of the good apples
can do thing to keep the bad apple
from spelling.
It's too bad that it is true. But
being sorry about it doesn't seem to
alter the situation.
Some years experience in and out
of criminal courts has forced upon
me one conclusion.
Good people don't do bad things
with good objects.
And when bad people do bad
things there is generally bad OBJ
ject at the bottom of the business.
| have read a good deal about
thieves who rob jewelry stores to
save their dying mothers.
| have met and talked with many,
many thieves. but the one whose
mother drove him to stealing | have
yet to see face to face.
| have heard great deal about the
woman who sells herself to save her
child's life or her brothers chance in
business or her fathers fortune.
] have sat in many prisons and
talked for hours with many miser-
able women who were prisoners there
because they wanted to do the things
they did.
Perhaps they were not to blame
for wanting. Who shall gauge the
mysterious depths of heredity? But
not one woman thief. not one woman
vagrant. not one woman of the
miserable world, had sold herself for
anybody on earth but herself.
The woman who loves her child
will scrub floors for living, but she
will not sell her character to make
money for that child. There are
women of light repute who love their
but they are of light repute
in spite of their children and not be-
cause of them.
The thing that makes a man a thief
is the same thing that makes him
the money that he gets
thieving upon people who are even
less worthy than he is himself.
We read in the magazines fine
stories about honest men who are
driven to dishonesty by selfish and ex-
travagant wives.
l can think now of seven different
bank cashiers in different parts of the
world whom have seen go to prison.
And every one of those cashiers
threw away his liberty and his good
name and his place in the world for
the sake of a woman.
And not one of these women was
the wife of the man who became
thief for her sake.
Men do not steal for good women.
The sort of man who loves a good
woman cannot be made to steal by
any sort of woman who ever breathed.
Lilies. they say, can spring from