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MM BF Bavarian State's Attorney Writes Article on Juvenile Courts. ( Munich Prosecutor Finds Less Than 500 Youthful Offenses in One * , Year Among More Than * 600,000 People. * New York. States Attorney Rup- { prccht of Munich , Bavaria , has writ ten an article for the Munchener Me- jdizinische Wochenschrift on juvenile Courts and the study of the juvenile 1 ' 'delinquent as the result of his expe- jxiences as a practitioner in the chil- ' .dren's court in Munich , concerning prhich the Medical P.ecord says : "One result of the establishment of ( children's courts t hould be a more in- jtelllgent study of the juvenile delin quent. The boy criminal differs radic- , v ! ally from the girl offender. Youthful * offenders differ from adults. The chil- wren also differ , as to the relative fre quency of offenses , according as they dwell in agricultural , manufacturing or commercial communities. ! "In that city ( Munich ) the chil dren's court takes cognizance of all offenders between the ages of thir teen and eighteen , inclusive. The lad ior girl of healthy stock must at this roeriod bo regarded as potentially a jcriminal , because character and will jare undeveloped , and experience has not yet had its innings. Such must be confounded with defectives. Cot Munich has but a. small contingent f youthful criminals. In a population bf nearly 600,000 there are less than J6ve hundred serious offenses a year teommitted by juveniles. Petty of fenses multiply this five fold , but with these we are not concerned. i i "Theft is the great offense of youth , t overshadows all others so far that ; he latter appear almost freakish. The oy steals in an unpremeditated fash- jton , while the girl has a plan. Boys [ lend to steal 'junk' not to sell , but ifor making playthings. Girls tend to appropriate cosmetic articles. "We have heard much as to moving picture shows tempting boys to pat tern after burglars and highwaymen. * This theoretical position may be quite offset by the actual knowledge that in Munich boys steal to be able to visit these entertainments , which , for all rwe know , may be highly moral. The ( temptation is so strong that even a hgood' boy may pilfer the price of the entertainment. He will do as much to 'get hold of a Nick Carter or Sherlock Holmes story. f "The boys in Munich also steal in connection with deep laid plans for visiting the frontier and fighting sav ages. But the Bavarian youth must toe much more long headed than the iAnglo-Saxon in this respect , for he usually steals a horse and firearms be- 'fore sallying forth. He robs/the fam ily strong box for the sinews of war. , "Girls sometimes steal to make a present to a favorite school teacher , fone took the flowers off a grave for " jthis purpose , iWhen caught in the act of a theft - * \n boy usually confesses , repents and \ " refuses to betray his associates. A lies until the last minute , and Jjgirl jthen endeavors to throw the blame on pome one else. Boys almost always ob in bands ; girls usually act alone. L"J boy seldom robs his employer , ( but some outsider ; the reverse is the tease with girls , who , since they pilfer cosmetics , adornments , etc. , must al most necessarily rob their mistresses. "The chief value of Rupprecht's Btudy is that it deals with normal subjects , the policies advisable in dealing with whom have hitherto re ceived comparatively little attention. " -CHIGAGO/.MONUMENT / TO GOETHE Ttt GOETHE HEMOXIAL. /CHICAGO. Preparations for the erection of the memorial to the poet V * Goethe in this city are progressing , and art lovers are congratulating themselves on the fact that Chicago is to have a monument that is at once unique and artistic in design. The model selected was the work of Prof. Hermann Hahn of Munich. It is surmounted by an ideal figure of Youth , and bears a portrait of the poet in relief. IGNORANCE Much Money Lost Through Care lessness in Using Coins. Jewelers Guilty Every Day of Commit ting Criminal Offense in Filing One Side of Coin Smooth Other Offenses. Chicago. Thousands of dollars are lost yearly by big firms through ig norance or carelessness in observing the federal laws governing abuse < of ' coins. ; ' " " Just lately in Chicago a piano com pany came to grief in 'this' way. Had they asked the proper authorities ( the information would liave Treen furnish ed gratis ) or had they looked up the law they would have found in Section 165 , public act No. 350 , these words : "Whoever fraudulently , by any art , way or means shall deface , mutilate , impair , diminish , falsify or lighten . . . the gold or silver coins which have been or which may hereafter be coined in the mint of the United States . . . shall to fined not more than $2,000 and imprisonment of not more than five years. " Much trouble and expense would have been saved the firm and the gov ernment had the law only been read. It all happened in this way : Some clever advertiser conceived the idea of an "ad" of metal just the size of a dime , with the wording and printing placed in such a way that at first glance It would appear as a dime CHINESE SAILORS FEED FISH Crew of Steamer Chatham Throw Food Overboard for Member Lost by Drowning. Boston. So that their drowned brother might not feel the pangs of 'lunger while on the spiritual high road to the other world , 23 Chinese jsailors , comprising the crew of the ( British steamer Chatham , wMch reached Boston the other day from | the west coast of South America , .threw rice and other foodstuffs into fthe sea all the way from off the coast of Brazil to Boston lightship. Li Chow /was the late lamented. Chow fell overboard - * board while engaged in boat drill ( when the steamer was off the coast of Brazil. The Chatham was stopped ) and lifeboats launched , but before the ispcediest of them got within twenty { feet of Chow he disappeared beneath Ithe waves. Almost immediately after Ithe steamer resumed her way the rest of the Chinese on board began stinting { themselves and casting overboard fwhat they saved from their own fare jso that Chow might not go hungry. That the Chatham encountered severe - vere weather in her 10,000-mile journey - > ney was amply testified to by dam aged deck fittings and smashed deck 'houses. The steamer was very hard Chit when passing through the Straits iof Michigan , sustaining most of the damage at that period. She was caught in a blizzard that kicked up 'waves , which in washing over her idecks tore up steampipes and washed all movable objects overboard. The steamer's hospital was smashed in by one comber and several of the crew 'had to cling \vith all their might lest "they be carried overboard by the re ceding water. Throughout most of ihe passage from Chile , to Montevideo ' % 1 the steamer was covered with ice and snow , winter weather prevailing. The Chatham started from Junin , Chile , on August 22 , and called at five ports while en route. At Antofagasta she took on 3,010 tons of silver ore , valued at $500,000 , and thus her cargo was one of the most valuable ever thought to Boston from ; South rAnier- ica. t COWS IN HILARIOUS FROLIC Make Bacchanalian Raid on Cider Mil ! , - Easily Accumulating Joyous * - ' 'AiV * * - Old Jag. Rocksburg , N.'J. When the work ers at the Warren county cider mill , near here , went home the other day at noon they left the trough of apple mash uncovered , with the result that a herd of ten cows from an adjoining farm , wandering in from the in- closure , ate most of it. Farmhands were attracted to the place a short time later. The cows were frisking about , kick ing into the air and assuming atti tudes that in a human being would have been described as hilarious. Puz zled at these antics , the farmers be came worried when one after another of the cows sank to the ground. Be lieving the prevalent epidemic of hog cholera bad reached the supposed im mune cows , they summoned a veter : inarlan , whose diagnosis relieved the anxiety of the situation. "Just a Jersey cider "jag of unto ward proportions , " was his verdict. The cows' heads' were bathed in ice water and in a short time they re covered , since which time , they have refused all food , subsist.fn5' | on [ qojil" draughts ' ' , fromthe , j&Vture spring. - i -l - . _ . , . .J * . . . f . - , The idea was cleverly executed. A fair imitation of the head of Liberty was on one side and the advertise ment on the other. The number waa placed where the date on a dime is and the first glance certainly im pressed one as the real coin. The other side had a sheaf of wheat and in the center the words "On Time. " ' The firm had'no desire to defraud the public. But unscrupulous people who had access to them did. Several waiters 'at a Summer park lost money by accepting- advertisement foi "real money , chewing gum machines were filled with them and at last the secret service learned how matters were r.nd began an investigation. ' There were 150,000 * of the metala confiscated. Some stray ones , how ever , were in circulation and it took almost a year to "hunt them down. " Jewelers are guilty every day ol committing a criminal offense. Every day some one of them lays himself liable to the law. According to the or dinance quoted above , to mutilate money is an offense in the eyes ol the law. Jewelers file one side of a coin smooth and monogram it. The other side is perfectly good. Pins , bracelets , lockets and numerous other things are made. The owner never means to use the article for money. But some one gets hold of the pin or locket. He thinks the money would be more useful and so passes the coin with the pin or ring pulled off and the good side up. To "change the complexion" of a coin also is an offense. That means to dip silver in gold. Only a few days ago a "lot" of shirt sets were confis cated and sent to Washington. The sets were made of Panama halfpen nies gilded. Carelessness of the law again. The only kind of coin that can be worn is that so completely mutilated that there can be no chance at all of passing it ; for example , the filigreed dimes that the Mexicans make. SILK FARM STARTED IN U. S f"r Synaa Is Raising Worms and Wit Erect Looms .in Louisiana First in South. . " NewrOrleans. . An experiment in silk culture which is watched with interest by the United States depart ment of agriculture as well as the silk industry at large has been started by a Syrian , Kalil Joseph , near Pica yune , La. , about 92 miles from New Orleans. Mr. Joseph has raised many thou sands of silk worms from eggs hatch ed on a farm two miles from Pica yune. He says Picayune is an ideal section for silk culture on account of the numbers of wild mulberry treei there. The silk made from the co coons is as fine a quality as any made in Syria , which is famous for its sills worm farms. Mr. Joseph has formed a company capitalized at $100,000 , and will erect looms and handle the silk In much the same way as it is manufactured in the great silk centers. The officers of the company are : Kalil Joseph , presi dent : Elias Saik , vice-president ; W. A. Stockstill. secretary , and Charlei Marcelle , treasurer. The Kalil plant will be the first bonafide silk farm in the south , and the fac'Ary will .bs. the first , in the country where the .raw sllk is trans- _ _ _ _ _ _ . . f 5 AWW J"L ft W * + f * V * n - M * V * J i * i .A. .from the cocoons. ILL OVER NEBRASKA Farmer Accidentally Killed. Pawnee County. Bert Hall , a far mer living southwest of Pawnee- City , met with an accident that resulted in his death. . He fell from a horse , frac turing h'is skull. Wymore to Own Plants. At atspecial election 'held in Wy more , the , bond proposition of ? 57- 000 for 'A new waterworks system carried * by a majority of 345 , while the -electric light bonds carried by a majority of 286. % Union Pacific Agent Killed. ' S. E. Turner , Union Pacific station agent atDevil's Slide station , some miles east of Ogden , Utah , was- stoat and killed by bandits. The money in the safe of that station and some val uables of Turner's were taken. 1 1 Request for Motor Service to Ord. Hall County. An effort is being made to secure a motor car passen ger service from Grand Island ito Ord on the Union Pacific's branch , in , additi9n to the present service of two trains a day , one of which is a mixed train. Hetd for Trial. Buffalo County. Ed .Leigh of Shelton - ton , -accused of assault of Idell Hens- ley , the 8-year-old daughter of his boarding house keeper , was ar raigned in county court and given preliminary hearing. He pleaded not guilty , but was held for trial. Dead in India. Adams County. A cablegram was received in Hastings announcing the death of Mrs. W. Montgomery at Ko- lar , India. The Montgomery's were old settlers and pioneers of Adams county and removed to Corona , Cal. , a few years ago , where Mr. Montgom ery died. Fremont Census Shows Gain. Dodge County. Census Directoi Hayes of Central City has * just given out the population of Fremont under the census of 1910. The population of Fremont is 9,115 , an. increase of 25 per cent in ten yeara. By the census of 1900 Fremont had a popu * lation of 7,241. * W. J. Vosburg Is Injured. Buffalo County. W. ' 3."Vosburg ; a prominent merchant and club man of kearney , is confined to his feed un able to move and In 'great pain due to concussion of1 the spine and strains and bruises- received by fall ing from a Kearney-Callaway motor car. Mortgage Record in Gage. Gage County. The mortgage rec ord of Gage county for the month of November is as follows : Farm mort gages filed , 10 ; amount , $15,650. Farm mortgages released , 12 ; amount , $21,780. City mortgages filed , 25 ; amount , $13,580. City mortgages released , 18 ; amount , ? 11,550. Attacked by a Tramp. Otoe County. Conductor Joy Car son of the Burlington was attacked by a tramp at Verdon and had to put up a hard fight before lie was able to wrest the dagger from the wouldbe murderer and throw him from the train. He has tacked the dagger up in his car as a souvenir of the occasion. Went Against Plaintiff. Madison County. The action foi $10,000 damages brought by Andrew Nerd against Burr Taft , one of Madi son , county's commissioners , was de cided against the plaintiff. This ac tion was for alleged > assault on. the life of Mr. Nerd and resulted'in : an acquittal of the defendant Judge Welch instructed the jury if they found for the plaintiff that the dam ages should not exceed 1 cent. Testing Brick. Cass County. Chris BayiSter se lected a number of brick from each of the three cars shipped to Platts- mouth for the paving and took them to Omaha to be tested. The test con sists of placing them in a rattler and whirling them rapidly for an hour. The : brick are weighed when they are placed in the rattier and after they are removed. If they lose more than 18 per cent in weight during the process they are rejected. Special Election in Ouster. Custer County. The committee appointed to examine into the nu merous petitions asking for a special election for the purpose of voting a 4 and 3 mill levy to build a new court house reported favorably to the county board of supervisors. The motion was carried without a dissent ing vote and the special election was called for January 9. The board stip ulates if the election carries that the cost of the court house shall not ex ceed $60,000. Another Net Weight Case. Pawnee County. The supro.-ne court issued a writ of habeas corpus returnable January 3 for Lew Agnew of Pawnee City , who was brought be fore a court in that county charged with selling misbranded packages of National Biscuit , company goods , His case is similar to that "of NO. J. King and B. T. Page in Lincoln and is the othird .pf'jthe grp up of test cases -the Ty..s , .net .veei hl , sseeuon i 'the 'Ne braska pure food fetf" , . ' \'f \ f * * IS CHEAP AND ALSO GOOD Aladdin Stew Makes Savory Dish Try It on Your Flreless Cooker. This Is a cheap stew , and Is also . .good. Material : One pound beef , one quart water , one teaspoonful salt , six pepper corns , three allspice berries , one square inch bay leaf , one-quarter cup carrots , one-quarter cup turnips , one cup potatoes , one small onion , two tablespconfuls flour , one tablespoonful cold water , one teaspoon Worcester shire sauce. Method of preparing : One pound of beef and one quart ol water are brought to the boiling point and then placed in a fireless cooker or similar arrangement for six or more hours. If you want your stew to have a good flavor of the beef it is better to cut the meat in small pieces. One hour before serving the onion , chopped real fine , and the other vegetables cut in half-inch cubes are ridded. Also add the seasoning at this time. Cook at d temperature just oelow the boil- Ins point. This can be done easily by using a double boiler. Make a smooth paste of the flour and water and add to stew ten minutes before serving. The Worcestershire sauce Is added just before serving. FORCING DIRT OUT OF SINK the sink drain becomes.stop- psd up with matter caught in the trap , tgiscrevv" uie cap from the bottom of the trap. fill the sink about one-third full of water , place over the strainer a board , and strike several good , sharp blows with the hammer. To prevent the water from splashing , place a stick on top of the board and strike that. Cocoanut Candy. The following is a sweetpopular in the tropics. Obtain a large fresh cocoanut - coanut and prepare as follows : Grate the cocoanut into a large , deep dish , pour on it two glasses of hot water and stir and knead with the hands un til it becomes quite creamy. Squeeze hard through a strainer until you have two large glasses of the milk , adding more water , if necessary , and discard the dry cocoanut. Add the pound of sugar to the milk and put it on to boil. If you can get a lime , peel the skin' thinly in one piece without cut ting into the pulp and put It into the candy. It should be taken out when you take the candy off the fire. Fail ing a lime , grate some lemon rind and squeeze some of the juice into the candy. Boil without stirring until it thickens in water , pour out on a but tered dish and as soon as cool enough pull until creamy. Curtains. Bobinet curtains will be used a great deal this season in parlors , din ing rooms , libraries and bedrooms , dif ferent styles being chosen to suit the rooms. Cluny lace as a decoration is a little newer than renaissance , al though the latter is being used as much as ever. - Imitation Brussels lace curtains are to be had in good designs for very lit tle money. It is often hard to tell them from the real thing. Beautiful curtains come in Nottingham , also in the cheaper grades. Colored curtains , like the barred Madras , will not be used very much. They are more of a summer than a 'winter drapery. Colored Nottingham is bidding for favor , however. This drapery comes in one or two tones , a golden brown on tan being one of the prettiest of the latter. A Cleaning Glove. An ingenious woman has recently contrived a cleaning glove and sleeve protector which will be found of prac tical value to housekeepers. It con sists of a fingerless wash-leather glove , with a loose sleeve sewed on at the wrist , which is gathered at the end and elastic sewed inside , so that the hand and arm may be slipped into it , and the sleeve then pulled up over the blouse sleeve wrist. For cutting out the glove , a simple plan is to place a hand upon the wash leather and draw a line around it , allowing about half an inch In every direction , so that the glove , when finished , shall not fit too tightly. For the sleeve any remnant of soft , light material may be use. The glove will not only 'prevent the hand from be coming soiled , but will also protect the sleeve from the wrist to above the elbow. Chicken Broth. Cut up a fowl , crack the bones , put it into three pints of cold water. Boil it slowly , closely covered , for three or four hours or until the meat falls in pieces. Strain it , then add two tablespoonfuls - spoonfuls of race which has been soaked for half .an hour in . very warm water , also 'chop spring of parsiey , if , you have it- Simmer it for 30'minutes longer , or" until the rice is -thoroughly cooked. Season with salt land negper , but nof too highly. Serve with crackers , which should be broken' ' , in .th broth the last minute. " * ; . . ? 4 , . S ASS. * . " THRESHING RETURNS FROM WESTERN CANADA. They Reveal Larger Averages of Wheat and Oats Than An- ' ticipatcd. The returns from the grain fields of Western Canada as revealed by the , work of the Threshers , show much larger yields than were expected as the crop -was ripening. It is a little early yet to give an estimate of the crop as a whole , but individual yields selected from various , points- through out Manitoba , Saskatchewan and Al berta show that the fanners there as a rule have had reason to be thankful over the results. Excelleat yields are reported from many portions of Mani toba and a .large district of Saskatch ewan has turned out well , while the central portion of Alberta is 'splendid * There will be shown at the land ex position at St. Louis a sample of the Marque's wheat a new variety and one that appears to be well adapted to the soil and climate of Western Canada that yielded 53 bushels to the acre. The exhibit and statement will be supported by affidavits from the growers. This wheat weighs well , and being a hard variety will find a ready market at the highest prices ob tainable for a first-class article. It is - interesting to point out that a field of one hundred acres of this wheat would give Its producers 6,300 bush els. Sold at 85 cents a bushel would give him $45 an acre. Counting all the cost of interest on land at $20 an acre , getting the land ready for crop. Seed sowing , harvesting and market ing , the entire cost of production would not exceed ? S an acre , leaving the handsome net profit of § 37 an acre. Is there any crop that would yield a better return tham this , with the same labor and initial expense ? Cotton fields will not do it , apple or chards with their great expense of cul tivation and the risk to run -from the various enemies of the fruit cannot begin to do it. While what is consid ered an exceptional case just now is presented , there is no doubt that this man's experience may be duplicated by others who care to follow his ex ample. As has been said the growing of this wheat is but in its infancy , and wheat growing is still largely con fined to other older varieties that do not yield as abundantly. Even with these we have records before us of farmers who have grown 40 bushels to the acre. , others 35 , some 30 , and. others again 25 bushels. Taking even 20 bushels , and some farmers report that amount , it is found that the re turns from such a yield would be $17 an acre. This wheat will cost to get to market , including all expenses , about $8 an acre , and the farmers- will still have a net profit of about ? 9 an acre. Certainly the provinces of Alberta , Saskatchewan and , Mani toba are progressing , settlement is in creasing and there is a general con tentment all over the country. The social conditions are splendid , the cli mate is excellent , and there is every condition to make the settler satisfied. At the farming congress , held at Spo kane in October , Wheat shown by the Alberta Government , took the silver cup , awarded by the Governor of the State. It completely outclassed all other specimens on exhibition , and it was but an ordinary selection , hundreds of fields in Alberta and Sas katchewan being able to duplicate it- There are still available thousands of homesteads , ps well as large areas of first-class land that is being offered for sale at low prices. The agent of the Canadian Government from whom the above facts have been learned ex pects that the rush to Canada' will next year largely exceed the numbers who have gone this year. Tribute to Painter's Skill. One of the still life paintings by Jan van Huysen in the museum at The Hague was recently injured , but it is believed the perpetrator was neither vandal nor thief. The picture represents a basket of fruit on which a number of insects have gathered. On a pale yellow ap ple , which is the centerpiece in the cluster of fruit , is a large fly , painted so true to nature , so say the efficials of the gallery , that the canvas * was injured by some one who endeavored to "shoo" it and brought his cane or hand too close to the canvas. "A tribute to the painter's genius , " says the letter recording the fact , "for which the work had to suffer. " Sense of Taste. From , a series of experiments re cently made at the University of Kan sas it is evident that the average per son can taste the bitter of quinine when one part is dissolved in 52,000 parts of water. Salt was detected in water when one part to 640 of the liquid was used. Sugar could be tast ed in 228 parts of water and common soda in 48. In nearly all cases women could detect a smaller quantity than men. Asking Too Much. : "The count has promised that he will never beat or kick me if I will marry " him , " said the beautiful heiress. "But has he promised to work for J I you ? " her father asked , , , j "Oh , , papa , doji't be unreasonable. " ; * > -v - Which Is 'the Star ? ' < "We are thinking of putting an elec- ' " * trie siga over the church. " - : "It might be a good idea. * * . \ "But there are factions. We can't " - \ decide whether to feature the minister or the soprano of the choir. ' People avoid , him because iner ar - afcald of nla tonsue , - . - . A' TL A 2at _ *