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CHAPTER X Continued.
But my vanity was not done with
me. Led on by it, I. proceeded to hare
oae of those ridiculous "generous im
pulses" I persuaded myself that
there must be some decency in this
liberality, in addition to the prudence
which I flattered myself was the chief
cause. "I have been unjust to Roe
buck." I thought "I have been mis
judging his character." And incredi
ble though it seems, I said to him with
a good deal of genuine emotion: "I
don't know how to thank you. Mr.
Roebuck. And. instead of trying. I
want to apologize to you. I have
thought many hard things against
you; liave spoken some of them. I
had better have been attending to my
own conscience, instead of criticising
yours."
"Thank you. Blacklock." said he. in
a voice that made me feel as if I were
a little boy in the crossroads church,
believing I could almost see the an
gels floating above the heads of the
singers in the choir behind the
preacher. "Thank you. I am not sur
prised that you have misjudged me.
God has given me a great work to do,
and those who do His will in this
wicked world must excct martyrdom.
I should never have had the courage
to do what I have done, what He has
done through me, had He not guided
my every step."
XI.
ANITA.
On my first day in long trousers I
tnay have been mere ill at ease than
I was that Sunday evening at the
Ellcrslys. but I doubt it
When I came into their big drawing
room and took a look around at the
assembled guests, I never felt more
at home in my life. "Yes," said I to
myself, as Mrs. Ellersly was greeting
me and as I noted the friendly inter
est in the glances of the women, '"this
is where I belong. I'm beginning to
come into my own."
As I look back on it now, I can't re
frain from smiling at my own simpli
city and snobbishness. For. so de
termined was I to believe what I was
working for was worth while, that I
actually fancied there were upon these
in reality ordinary people, ordinary in
looks, ordinary in intelligence, some
subtle marks of superiority, that made
them at a glance superior to the com
mon run. This ecstasy of snobbish
ness deluded me as to the women
only for, as I looked at the men, I
at once felt myself their superior.
They were an inconsequential, pat
terned lot. I even was better dressed
than any of them, except possibly
Mowbray Langdon. and if he showed
to more advantage than I. it was be
cause of his manner, which, as I
have probably said before, is superior
to that of any human being I've ever
seen man or woman.
"You are to take Anita in." said
Mrs. Ellersly. With a laughable sense
that I was doing myself proud. I
crossed the room easily and took my
stand in front of her. She shook hands
with me politely enough. Langdon was
sitting beside her; I had interrupted
their conversation. c
"Hello. Blacklock!" said Langdon.
with a quizzical, satirical smile with
the eyes only. "It seems strange to
see you at such peaceful pursuits."
His glance 'traveled over me critically
and that was the beginning of my
trouble. Presently he rose, left me
lone with her.
"You know Mr. Langdon?" she said,
obviously because she felt she must
say something.
"Oh. yes." I replied. "We are old
friends. What a tremendous swell he
is really a swell." This with enthu
siasm. She made no comment. I debated
with myself whether to go on talking
of Langdon. 1 decided against it be
cause all I knew of him had to do with
matters down town and Monson had
impressed it upon me that down town
was taboo in the drawing-room. I
rummaged my brain in vain for an
other and suitable topic.
She fU and I stood she tranquil
and beautiful and cold. I every instant
more miserably self-conscious. When
the start for the dining-room was
made I offered her my left arm,
though I had carefully planned be
forehand just what I would do. She
without hesitation and. as I know now.
out of sympathy for me in my suffer
ing was taking my wrong arm. when
it flashed on me like a blinding biow
in the face that I ought to be on the
other aide of her. I got red. trippea
in the far-sprawling train of Mrs.
Langdon. tore it slightly, tried to get
to the other side of Miss Ellersly by
walking in front of her. recovered
myself somehow, stumbled round be
hind her. walked on her train and
finally arrived at her left side, con
scious in every red-hot atom of me
that I was making a spectacle of
myself and that the whole company
was enjoying it. I must have seemed
to them an ignorant boor; in fact. I
had been about a great deal among
people who knew how to behave, and
had I never given the matter of how
to conduct myself on that particalar
occasion an instant's .thought. I should
have got on without the least trouble.
It was with a sigh of profound re
lief that I sank upon the chair be
tween Miss Ellersly and Mrs. Lang
don; safe from danger of making
"breaks." so I hoped, for the rest of
the evening. But within a very few
minntes J realised that my little mis
adventure had unnerved me. My
hands were trembling so that I could
scarcely lift the soup spoon to my
lips, and my throat had got so far
beyond control that I had difficulty in
swallowing. Miss Ellersly and Mrs.
Langdon were each busy with the man
on the other side of her; I was mft to
my own reflections, and I was not sure
whether this made me more or leas
uncomfortable. To add to my torment,
I grew angry, with myself. I looked
up and down and cross the big table,
noted all these self-satisfied people
perfectly at their ease; and I said to
myself: "What's the matter with
you. Matt? They're only men and
women, and by no means the best
specimens of the breed. You've got
more brains than all of 'em put to
gether, probably; is there one of the
tot that could get a job at good wages
if thrown on the world? What do you
care what they think of you? It's a
damn sight more important -what you
think of them, as it won't be many
years before you'll hold everything
they value, everything that makes
them of consequence, in the hollow of
your hand."
When the ladies withdrew, the other
men drew together, talking of people
I did -not know and of things I did not
care about I thought then that they
were avoiding me deliberately as a
flock of tame ducks avoids a wild one
that some wind has accidentally blown
down among them. I know now that
my forbidding aspect must have been
responsible for my isolation. How-
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ever, I sat alone, sullenly resisting
old Ellersly's constrained efforts to get
me 'into the conversation, and angrily
suspicious that Langdon was enjoying
my discomfiture more than the cigar
ette he was apparently absorbed iu.
Old Ellersly, growing more and
more nervous before my dark and sul
len look, finally seated himself beside
me. "I hope j-ou'll stay after the
others have gone." said he. "They'll
leave early, and we can have a quiet
smoke and talk."
All unstrung though I was. I yet had
the desperate courage to resolve that
I'd not leave, defeated in the eyes of
the one person whose opinion I really
cared about. "Very well," said I, in
reply to him.
He and I did not follow the others
to the drawing-room, but turned into
the library adjoining. From where I
seated myself I could see part of the
drawing-room saw the others leav
ing, saw Langdon lingering, ignoring
the impatient glances of his wife.
while he talked on and on with Bliss
Ellersly.
At last Langdon arose. It irritated
me to see her color under that in
different fascinating smile of his. It
irritated me to note that he held her
hand all the time he was saying good
by. and the. fact that he held it as if
he'd as lief not be holding It hardly
lessened my longing to rush in and
knock him down. What he did was
all in the way of perfect good man
ners, and would have jarred no one
not supersensitive, like me aad like
his wife. I saw that she. too, was
frowning.
In an aimless sort of way Miss
Ellersly, after the Laagdons had dis
appeared, left the drawing-room by
the same door. Still' aimlessly wan
dering, she drifted into the library by
the hall door. As I rose, she lifted her
eyes, saw me. and drove away the
frown of annoyance which came over
her face like the faintest haze. Ia
fact it 'may have existed only in my
imagination. She opened a large,
square silver box on the table, took
oat a cigarette, lighted it aad holding
it with the smoke lazily curling up
from it between the long slenderfirst
and second fingers of her white hand, 1
Stood idly taming the leaves of a mag
azine. I threw my cigar into-the
areDlaa.?nMaaghsoasd as it struck
nurnW juntp.sw, that,
neath her surface of serf set cal
was in a nervosa state'fall as toss
y ow. . 3
"Yon smoke?" saM L
"Sometimes,'' she repMsd.
It to
soothing and distracting. I dent
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smoke my pdasTis ste.pmpty."
"It's a nasty habtt smoking.'
said L . -"'
"Do you think -soTT Seldshe," with
the slightest lift toner (one ami her
eyebrows.
"Especially for a woman.' I west
on, because I could think of nothing
else to say, and would not, at amy cost,
let this conversation, so hard to begin,
die out.
"Your are one of those men who
have one code for themselves and an
other for women, she replied.
"I'm a man," said h "All stem have
the two codes."
"Not all." said she after a pause.
"All men of decent ideas," said I
with emphasis.
"Really?" said she, in a tone that
irritated me by suggesting that what
I said was both absurd and unimpor
tant "It is the first time I've ever seen
a respectable woman smoke," I went
on. powerless to change the subject
though conscious. I was getting tedi
ous. "I've read of such things, hut I
didn't believe."
"That is interesting." said she, her
tone suggesting the reverse.
"I've offended you by saying frank
ly what I think," said I. "Of course,
it's none of my business."
"Oh, no." replied she carelessly.
"I'm not in the least offended. Preju
dices always interest me."
I saw Ellersly and his wife sitting
in the drawing-room, pretending to
talk to each other. I understood that
they were leaving me alone with her
deliberately, and I began to suspect
ME-JUST LOOKED."
she was in the plot I smiled, and my
courage and self-possession returned
as summarily as they had fled.
"Fm glad of this chance to get bet
ter acquainted with you." said I. "I've
wanted it ever since I first saw you."
As I put this to her directly, she
dropped her eyes and murmured some
thing she probably wished me to think
vaguely pleasant
"You are the first woman I ever
knew,-" I went on. "with whom it was
hard for me to get' on any sort of
terms. I suppose it's my fault 1
don't know this game yet But I'll
learn it. if you'll be a little patient;
and when I do. I 'think I'll be able to
keep up my end."
She looked at me just looked. I
couldn't begin to guess what was
going on in that gracefully-poised head
of hers.
Studying Human Nature,
But in the End the Crowd Drank With
Both Betters.
W. H. Milbarn and several friends
were walking along Sixteenth street
the'other day when one of them picked
up a woman's handkerchief made of
lace. "What shall I do with it?" he
asked.
"Put it on the mail box at the cor
ner and watch some poor woman steal
it" suggested another of the party.
"It won't be a poor woman who
steals it" said Mr. Milburn. "It will
be some woman of means."
"Ill bet you it won't be a well-to-do
woman." came from the other. '
"What will you bet?"
"Refreshments for the crowd."
"Done." said Mr. Milbarn. The
handkerchief was placed oa the mail
hex at Sixteenth and California aad
the men retired n few feet to see what
would take place, says the Denver
Post Several poorly dressed women
went by aad saw the handkerchief,
but none made any move to get it At
the end of four or five miautes a
stylishly dressed woman came along
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tinned to look at me in that
3 steady, pawling way.
"Win yon?" I repeated.
"I have no choice." said she slowly.
I lashed. "What does that meaar
She threw a harried and, it
to me, frightened glance toward the
drawing-room. "I maa't intend to af-
fead yon," she said ia a low votes.
"You have been sack a good frisad to
papa Tve no right to feel anything
but friendship for you."
"I'm glad to hear yoa say that." said
I. And I was; for those words of
hers were the first expression of ap
preciation and gratitude I had ever
got from any member of that family
which I was holding np from raja. I
put oat my hand, and she laid hers
in it
"There isn't anything I wouldn't do
to earn your friendship. Miss Aaita,"
I said, holding her hand tightly, feel
ing how lifeless it was, yet feeling,
too, as if a flaming torch were being
borne through me. were lighting a
fire ia .every vein.
The scarlet poured into her face and
neck, wave on wave, until I thought
it would never cease to come She
snatched her hand away and from her
face streamed proud resentment God,
how I loved her at that moment!
"Anita! Mr. Blacklock!" came from
the other room, in her mother's voice.
"Come in here and save us old people
from boring each other to sleep."
She turned swiftly and went into the
other room, I following. There were
a few minutes of conversation a mon
ologue by her mother. Then I ceased
to disregard Ellersly's less and less
covert yawns, and rose to take leave.
I could not look directly at Anita, but
I was seeing that her eyes were fixed
on me, as if by some compulsion, some
sinister compulsion. I left in high
spirits. "No matter why or how she
looks at you," said I to myself. "All
that is necessary is to get yourself no
ticed. After that the rest is easy.
You must keep cool enough always to
remember that under this glamour
that intoxicates you, she's a woman,
just a woman, waiting for a man."
XII.
"UNTIL TO-MORROW."
A week passed and. just as I was
within sight of my limit of patience.
Bromwell Ellersly appeared at my of
fice. "I can't put my hand on the
necessary cash, Mr. Blacklock at
least, not for a few days. Can I count
on your further indulgence?" This in
his best exhibit of old-fashioned court
liness the "gentleman" through and
through, ignorant of anything useful.
"Don't let that matter worry you,
Ellersly," said I, friendly, for I wanted
to be on a somewhat less business-like
basis with that family. "The market's
steady, and will go up before it goes
down."
"Good!" said he. "By the way, yoa
haven't kept your promise to call."
"I'm a busy man," said I. "You
must make my excuses to your wife.
But in the evenings. Couldn't we get
up a little theater party Mrs. Ellersly
and your daughter and you and I
Sam, too, if he cares to come?"
"Delightful!" cried he.
"Whichever one of the next five
evenings you say," I said. "Let me
know by to-morrow morning, will
youT And we talked no more of the
neglected margins; we understood
each other. When he left he had ne
gotiated a three months' loan of
twenty thousand dollars.
They were so surprised that they
couldn't conceal it when they were
ushered into my apartment on the
Wednesday evening they had fixed
upon. If my taste in dress was some
what too pronounced, my taste in my
surroundings was not I suppose the
same instinct that made me like the
music and the pictures and the books
that were the products of superior
minds had guided me right in archi
tecture, decoration and furniture.
I was pleased out of all proportion
to its value by what Ellersly and his
wife looked and said. But though I
watched Miss Ellersly closely, though
I tried to draw from her some com
ment on my belongings on my pic
tures, on my superb tapestries, on the
beautiful carving of my furniture I
got nothing from her beyond that first
look of surprise and pleasure. Her
face resumed its statuelike calm, her
eyes did not wander, her lips, like a
crimson bow painted upon her clear,
white skin, remained closed. She
spoke only when she was spoken to,
and then as briefly as possible. Th
dinner and a mighty good dinner it
was would have been memorable for
strain and silence had not Mrs. Ellers
ly kept up her incessant chatter. I
can't recall a word she said, but I ad
mired her for being able to talk at all.
I knew she was in the same state as
the rest of us, yet she acted perfectly
at her ease, and not until I thought it
over afterward did I realize that she
had done all the talking except an
swers to her occasional and cleverly-"
sprinkled direct questions.
(To-be continued.)
and noticed the prize. She glanced
about her and then took the hanker
chief. Around the corner she stepped
into her automobile.
"There," said v. Milburn, "what
did I tell your'
"You win." said the man that had
the other end of the bet -
Just then they heard the woman
snealr to her chauffeur. "I lost my
handkerchief. John." she said, "but
found it again on that mail box.
Wasn't I lucky?"
"Hold on." said the man who had
bet with Mr. Milburn. when the auto
had gone. "I don't know whether I
tost that bet or not"
"To tell the truth, neither do I," re
plied Mr. Milburn.
"Then I think you both-ought to pay
the bet said another member of ths
party.
And so it came to pass.
He Knew Maria,
"I could tell you what I think of yoa
in a very few words."
"True, you could, Maria," responded
Mr. Meekraan. "But you won't Maria,
you woa't
CRIME IN
Process of the Evolution, of the Crimincil From Boy-
. hood Traced
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i
Few:
"When I first came into this office
under Inspector Byrnes," began In
spector Mclaughlin, "yoa could count
the Italian criminals in New York on
your lagers. But now" He pushed
sack his chair aad looked squarely
at me, writes Frederick Boyd Steven
son la the Brooklyn Eagle. "Now no
one knows how many there are. It is
the same with all other nationalities
they have increased so rapidly that
it is almost impossible to keep track
of them."
"And Is there a proportionate in;
crease in the criminals in other large
cities of the United States?"
' "UaqaesUoaably. The fact of the
increase ia New York would Indicate
that New York-is the .clearing house
for crime in America. It not only is
the starting out place, but it is the
winding up place. New York has a
much larger criminal population than
any other city in America, and prob
ably, than any other in the world.
The crime problem in New York Is
getting away with us. and it has ar
rived at the point where we must do
something, and do it promptly."
"What is the first step?"
"The first step," said the inspector
decisively, "is to drive the crooks out
of New York city."
Has No High-Flown Theories.
"But how about otner cities and
other states?" I queried.
Then it was that the trait of the old
M"
thief catcher came to view. He smiled
cynically as he said:
'1 am interested in driving the
thieves out of New York city. Let
the other cities take similar methods.
If they would all do that the criminals
would have to go to work. I would
have them earn their livelihoods as
honest men do or put them all behind
the bars."
"Then you do not believe in the in
determinate sentence as advocated by
the Prison association?"
He shook his head.
"Nor probation?"
"See here," he said suddenly, and
he set his jaw flrmlv. "Not one habit
ual 'criminal out of a hundred ever
reforms. Once a crook, always a
crook, is an old saying that I have
found to hold perfectly good. Some
years ago a well known thief came to
me and said he wanted to reform and
earn an honest livelihood, and I
helped him. He secured a place in
the house of a wealthy woman. Not
long after that he stole the woman's
diamonds. When he was brought be
fore me he said: 'I couldn't help steal
ing those diamonds. I meant to be
honest, but when I saw them in the
drawer I .couldn't resist the tempta
tion to take them.' That is the case
with the majority of criminals. Now
and then you may find an old crim
inal who wants to reform. But those
cases are exceedingly rare."
This feeling is shared by about all
the men who are engaged in the occu
pation of running down criminals and
endeavoring to prevent the perpetra
tion of crime. Robert Pinkerton once
expressed practically the same views
to me, and only the other day Samuel
J. Barrows, corresponding secretary
of the Prison Association of New York,
told a story where he was made the
victim of a pretended reformed crim
inal. The man had come to him with
a tale' of reform; a small loan was
made to him and repaid, followed by
confidence resulting in the advance of
quite a sum of money for goods to set
him up in business. Since that ad
vance no word has been heard from
the so-called reformed criminal: The
incident however, did not affect Mr.
Barrows'-faith, for he still believes
there Is good in many criminals and
that assistance should be given to
them.to reform. But with the profes
sional thief catcher, it is a different
matter. They "are daily brought in
contact, with such a low order of hu
manity aad dally see the lowest side
THE SADDEST
Confederate Soldier. Returning Home
at Close of Civil Conflict Shot By
His Father. Who Mistook Him for
Straggler From the 'Army Bent on
Robbery--Tragedy ''Revested at
Close of Joyous Gathering.
"The saddest war story that ever
occurred has never been fully told so
far as I kabw," said a maa who fol
lowed Lee to the surrender at Ap
pomattox. "I believe that Mrs. Chest
ant ia her 'Diary from Dixie' made a
brief mention of the incident
"The soldier had enlisted in Georgle
from his home, where his father remained-undisturbed
during the strug
gle. "The1 'young maa had fought
through the war without a scratch,
save a slight wound which left him
slightly deaL This aflUctton he had
never referred to ia aay of his letters.
"After the surrender he communi
cated with his father, sayiag he would
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OUR LARG&emES
av.s.
By Inspector McLaughlin of New
iThatidty Clearing House for Crime
Reformations Recorded.
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of degraded Jraamal&'jMf that they
naturally become lausdilsaa " whoa
reform aad crime arejlakmi together.
Pathology of Crime.
But nevertheless, there Is "adnata
otogy of crime. The psychology of the
thief or the psychology of the mur
derer not only is aa interesting study,
but it is also a scientific study. v Aad
coupled with the psychological is the
physical side of tbo problem. If yoa
suggest to the professions I thief catcher-the
possibility of heredity or atav
ism, nine times out of tea he will re
ply positively: "No; a thief is a thief
just because he Is a thief that's all."
But back of the surface indications
specialists are beginning to trace a
cause and a possible cure for crime.
The cure does not perhaps, lie ia aay
great reform movement that can reach
the habitual criminals of today. It
lies, rather, in a cure for the future.
It is not difficult to trace the causes
of crime. They may be expressed ia
a few general words: Pauperism, en
vironment, physical disease, insanity,
with all it sociologic relations; politi
cal corruption, anarchy and false eco
nomic and industrial conditions. As
an elementary course in the synthesis'
of crimes one needs but to take a
glance almost any morning at the
faces in the "line-up" of criminals at
New York police headquarters. There
you will see the young criminal just
starting out on his career of crime,
and there you will see the old and
seared thief and murderer aad all
around lawbreaker, with intermediate
specimens between the first and the
worst stages. In the faces of nearly
all the habitual criminals the pur
suits of the men and the women can
be read like an open book. In the
faces of the younger offenders the
reader is often stopped with a query.
There is a mixture of good and evil.
General Criminal Types.
New York criminal types may be
taken as general types throughout the
world. The extent to which this class
prevails in the United States was
shown by the complete census of 1890,
when there were 215.000 criminals, in
sane persons and paupers in alms
houses, in adition to 3,000,000 paupers
at large in the United States. Since
then these numbers have been greatly
augmented. This nation expends
something like $200,000,000 a year to
protect the good from the bad. In
other words every honest man is com
pelled to pay from $3 to $5 annually
in order to receive protection from the
criminal classes and It frequently hap
pens that even then he is not protect
ed. The evolution of the criminal is
the natural result of the present sys
tem In regard to the care or rather
the lack of care of the children of
the poor. The boy of honest poor per
sons is allowed to play ia the street
with the boy of the criminal and the
degenerate. With these vicious asso
ciations the result is a criminal or a
drunkard. If a boy like this becomes
a man and .has children what chance
have these children to become .honest
and useful citizens?
Professor Poellmann, of the Univer
sity of Bonn, investigated the charac
ters of the descendants of a woman
who was a confirmed drunkard. He
traced her descendants for six gener
ations through a posterity numbering
834 persons, and obtained a record of
709 of them. He found that 107 were
of illegitimate birth, 162 were profes
sional beggars, 64 Inmates of alms
houses, 181 women of bad repute, 76
convicted of serious crimes, and seven
convicted of murder. Another statis
ticianthe Rev. O. McCultoch traced
the histories of 1.750 criminals and
paupers who were descended from a
WAR STORY
reach home .on or about a certain
date. Travel then was uncertain and
"As many of the old time neighbors
as were living in the vicinity were
invited to the home coming of the re
turning, soldier. The ex-Confederate
arrived" on the old .plantation the night
before the earliest date he had mea
tloned In his last letter. It was late
and his father and the 'family had re
tired. "The only creature on the old place
that seemed to be awake was a dog.
As the soldier-entered the gate of the J
grounds the dog began barkiag.
"The sound aroused the owaer of
the manor. The country was overraa
with stragglers, some of whom had
not hesitated to commit burglary.
"The father of the returning hoy
arose. He stood ia his doorway with
his shotgun aad challenged the ap
proaching stranger, as he supposed.
"The young maa, beiag deaf, made
no reply, but continued oa his wsy.
criminal who lived la
17f. aad he ascertained that
these descendants, nearly aB of '
were criminals, 121
had repute. Ia tracing S34
i ants of two sisters who dtod ia ID
the Rev. Dr. Stocker of Berha fowaaV
that 76 of them had served 116 yeara
la prison. 164 ware women of had re
pute. 106 were illegitimate children.
17 were degenerates, 142 saggars ami
64 paapers.
Three Tenets of Crime.
Dr. G. Frank Lydstoa, professor off
criminal anthropology of the Chicago
Kent College of Lsw, says there are
three tenets of crime:
"1. The criminal and vice
are the product of certain li
of heredity, congenital
disease, sad unfavorable surroundings
involving pernicious teaching
ample, physical necessities and other
social maladies.
"2. The influences result la a class
of persons of tow grade of develop
ment physically and mentally, with
a defective understanding of "their
true relations to the social system ha
which they live. Such persons havo
no true conception of that variable
thing called morality, and, ia the caao
of the criminal, no respect whatever
for the rights of others, save in so far;
as it may be compelled by fear of
punishment. Some become crimiaals,
some paupers, inebriates or insane.
"3. These subjects are character
ized. upon the average, by certaia '
anomalies of development that consti
tute the so-called stigmata, or marks
of degeneracy. In them, vice, crime,
and disease go hand in hand."
Dr. Lydston classifies criminals un
der the following heads:
1. Instinctive criminals: Bora
criminals, the moral Imbecile, or so-
called moral instane, the stable fac
tor in criminality.
2. Criminals by impulse: The oc
casional criminal, criminals by pas
sion, criminals from accidental or in
tercurrent factors of disease, in
ebriety,, necessity, or social excite
ment . 3. Epileptic and insane criminals.
4. Political crimiaals.
What Is the Remedy?
Now, the- analysis of crime is aH
well enough in its way. but the prac
tical, citizen asks: What Is the rem
edy for crime? The increase la the
United States, and especially In New
York city, shows the necessity of
some remedy. Inspector McLaughlia
admits that the criminals are almost
beyond control in that city, and ho
believes that the law is to blame for
this condition of affairs. The Inws
are numerous enough, for there are-ha
the United States S24 anti-social acts
classified as crimes, but the case ha
wishes to reach is not reached by a
specific law. The inspector wants a
law that will provide that whoever
has been convicted of a felony, or
whoever has been convicted as a pick-
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pocket, thief or burglar, having a
visible means of support, found loiter
ing about public places or on the
streets and unable to give a satisfac
tory explanation of bis presence, may
be imprisoned for not more than sta
months.
On the other hand, the sociologist
will ask: ,
"How will such a law prevent
crime?"
When the criminal Is horn, society
does nothing to prevent him from con
tinuing n criminal. la a period of 4
years in the last century statistics
show that the population of this coun
try Increased 176 per cent while the
proportion of criminals increased 445
per cent This does not took as if we
had treated the crime problem with
aay great degree of Intelligence.
Be not afraid to associate with year
fellow workman. Work has no caste.
The man In the doorway raised his
gun aad fired. The stranger fell dead.
"The father summoned his family
and the few remaining servants of the
plantation. Aa iavesUgatioa was held
and the tragic truth revealed.
"The father, of coarse, was
solable. He returned to his
while his servants carried-the Hmmss
form of his hoy to the homer that had
been awaiting his coming.
"The next day the invited guests
begaa to arrive. The father had given
orders that the tragedy should not be
mentioned until he himself told It
- "I do not recall what explanation
was made to the guests as to the ab
sence of him whom they' were to he-'
or. Bat after the repast ther ware
told, and then they filed past the dead.
"The body was wiapped.ia 'the flag
for which the bravo young maa had
fought The community was used to
funerals. Every private burial ground
had a grave made by the unhappy
war. Bat no funeral like this had
ever taken place ia the vicinity, ami
I doubt If it ever had a counterpart
ia aay state, North or South. I hops
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