1
mum
I o boy wants to go to the reform
school. Judge Lindsey, of the Den
ver Juvenile Court, has sent 19S
boys to the reform school at Golden,
everyone 'going without an officer and
everyone going because he agreed with
the judge that there was nothing else
ior h!m to do If be meant to amount to
anything in life
One of the last boys to go was Im
manuel Sara, a very little boy of nine,
who made the remark, "Well, ' mothers
ain't much use, I guess, but a fellow
frets wild if he lives alone." Immanuel
first came to the court under the heavy
hand "of Officer Sullivan, with his cog
nomen shortened to "Mule," and with the
possession of any Christian name what
ever in dispute.
"It's my name, sure, Jedge. Immanuel
abastian Sara, sure it is; no cop knows
A fellow s name and him not in the
family. He's got a grouch on me mud
der see? She ain't got no name but Pol
lie. I guess that's so but me, sure I
get a whole name." he argued when the
officer urged Judge Lindsey to send him
up so as to keep him off the street.
' Leave him here, officer, and thank
yau for bringing him. He looks like a
pretty bright boy and I want to get ac
quainted with hlro," Judge Lindsey re
piied. That was the first we saw of Mule.
Judge Lindsey took him into his cham
bers and talked things over with him.
"He had not been into any mischief as
yet,, but he would not go to school and
bo truant officer had been able to Inter
view him, for he had a genius for
evasion.
Ke listened with alert interest as
Judge Lindsey told him. "A feller's
Just sure got to bum when he s got
nothing else to do. When a feller
bums he gets weak, so weak he's no
good. None of the decent kids want to
know you and you get into the tough
frang and there you are
"Immanuel. if you want to be a de
cent man you sot to begin when you re
a kid. sure, you got to cut cut loaf
ing and get down to work, hard work,
for you ve got things to fight and if
yeu get down to it and play the game
square, you see you get stronger than
the kid that's just naturally born good,
only, on the dead level, there's no
Jiid born that way. I got to fight the
bad in me and you got to fight the bad
In you. and fighting is what makes us
strong. Sure, now you got to clean up
and get to work right off, now, if you
want to grow up anything but a bum."
"Say. Jedte, if Id a been to school.
J wouldn t a swiped Iccy s shoes. Say",
that's on the dead level. I swiped
Iccy s shoes cause I was lonesome."
the child answered, comprehending the
spirit of the warning.
"You know I'm Judge of this court,
and I could send you up for swiping
Iccy's shoes don t you?" Judge Lind
say asked, the matter cf the shoes
was not in the complaint, and evidently
riot known to the cop.
"Yep," the boy replied, cocking a
wise little head and looking at the
Judge .philosophically. "Ain t a bit
scared of you. Better not let you
catch me at it again; huh."
'I'll tell you what It is Immanuel.
You're a kid and kids know things. It s
because you know I love you. You like
me to love you. Nobody ever loved
you very much before. It s what makes
a feller get down to work. 6ee''
Immanuel looked very solemn. In
all his r.iae years of living no one had
ever said to him. "I love you, Imman
uel. " Nobody ever seraed to care,
whether he went straight or crooked,
so he did not bother.
Immanuel went home with some new
ideas. I went to call en his mother the
next day.
Immanuel Home.
It was the middle of the morning. The
neighborhood was the very worst in
Denver, where vice pays for protection
by the vote of its women and flaunts
all day in the advertisement of shame.
Immanuel's directions were very easy
to follow. "Keep straight ahe3d tree
doors past Icey's and go t'rou' de long
ball, and out. and den you se de stairs
outside what goes up to our house;
you know you se got dera cause dat's
ee end '
The door was slightly ajar. From in
side came a slow steady swish of a
scrubbing brush on wet floor. I
knocked, but it was unheeded; the
scrubbing continued, and a voice I
knew it to be Immanuel's said: "You
got to do it. Snakes, only don't you go
make no noise cause de old one'U be
tlighty if you wake her up too soon.
Guess some mudders ain t dat way.
Gosh. It must be funny."
Pushing the door open, I could see
A
n
the whole bare home of Immanuel. On
the floor swishing about with . the
scrubbing brush was the boy, beside
him with one foot daintily drawn up
out of the way of the water, his dog
listening and looking as if he were
trying to understand what the Juds-e
had told the boy, as he repeated it.
The room was hopelesly dirty, the fur
niture crippled and thriftlesly mended
with makeshift. The sun poured in at
the two windows, shining directly on
the mother snoring on the bed in a
drugged drunken sleep, painted, help
less and sad.
I was about to slip away without let
ting Immanuel know that I had seen
him, when Snakes barked a short quick
announcement that I was at the doer.
Immanuel rose, dropping his brush,
half ashamed.
"He said I got to clean up," the
child said, glancing around the room..
"She s sick." he added defiantly with
out looking towards his mother on the
bed
"Yes, Immanuel, she does look pretty
sick, come outside so we don't awaken
her. She will be glad when she sees
you are cleaning up,"I replied. Im
manuel grinned and came outside clos
ing the door carefully behind us.
Told His Story First.
It was a few days later that Im
manuel came again to the Courthouse.
It was near the end of a long, hot day,
the cause c a will contested by a
posthumously acknowledged family of
cf, a rich man. dragged and droned
when the door burst open and Imman
uel dodged breathlessly past the as
tonished bailiff and round -the table
where the 'lawyers and clients sat, up
to the high bench where Judge Lind
sey. scarcely concealing a smile at the
suspension of business caused by the
'kids" dash held out a hand, saying.-
"Well, Immanuel, I'm glad to see you
You'd ought to have told me you were
coming.'
"Sure, Jedge. they was no time, and
the cop's coming, and I gotter tell
first."
Judge Lindsey asked for an adjourn
ment of court to attend to him; the
living was a deeper interest than the
money of the dead man.
Me and Snakes vas selling poipers,"
sea. like you sed a feler must get to
work and all de coiners is tooken, so
dey ditch a kid what cuts in if dey
das't. De cop he said dat I stole de
half to buy de poipers and he sassed
me. He always does, Jedge, cause he's
got a grouch on me. I passed him.
some and he sassed me some more and
he kicked Snakes and he got mad. and
I got mad and I rocked him, see?"
Eut, Immanuel, I can t stand for
that; he s an officer and you are bound
to stand by the law. You didn't under
stand the cop. He's all right if you
get on the right side of him. I can't
have you impudent to the cops."
' I was only trying to get to .work
like you said and they wasn't no place,
so I sure had to eut into some other
feller's place, ain t it so?"
We'll have to get things so tHey
are square for the other kids, too. You
see. they have been there a good while
and that means it belongs to them.
You know every one of the corners is
sold and a kid has to pay money for
one. But we'll fix it up. you can work
if you want to and of course you've got
to."
The matter of the money was a
thing the child could not quite under
star-d. No, he did not steal it Sure.
He "got it often de old cr.e." he ex
plained. "You don't tell me dat it s swipen
to take money effen de old cne and
ee dat sick she can t never know whed
der she had it or whedder she didn't."
A compromise was effected with a
promise that when he needed money
for business again he would apply to
the Judge, who gave him so cents to
give back to the -old one"
Immanuel returned the money to his
mother, saying Judge Lindsey did not
allow his friends to swipe, not even'
from "old ones."
"You scrubed here, too, didn't you?"
6ha asked
Well, he said I gotta clean up." the
boy replied with shame.
' You ben going to school pretty reg
ular, and you got some better clothes:
he give 'em to you?" she asked as if'
she meant to learn all. the disgraceful
truth.
"Yep. I'm going to be a lawyer when
I m big. he said I could."
Couldn't Koep In tte Right Way..
A woman, pale, trembling, her lips
Quivering as she asked if she might see
Judge Lindsey. was the first appear
ance of Mules mother at the Court
house. When the young Judge, a clean man
whose strength lies in his simple pur
ity, took her into his chambers, it
seemed as if 6he. like , the boys, had
brought her needs to him.
It was a iocs time sae stayed. .When
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she was gone he said. "It took her only
five years to go down after her hus
band died. She named her baby, Im
manuel, sent of God."
How that woman tried to "get back."
She was used to idlenes; she was given
to days of enthusiastic overdoing that
were folowad by days of dark repining,
when it semed impossible.
Immanuel, too, had acquired habits
of jdleness. It was born in him to loaf.
He always was having such a fine ex
cuse for staying out of school. He had
slept under any cover from the time
he was old enough to know anything
of escape from home misery. The seed
his mother had planted grew as he
grew. She could not keep herself in
the right way, much less be a help to
the boy who came again and again to
confess and promise to "cut out" this
wrong and that.
In the Summer, time Judge Lindsey
got him work with a man who com
prehended ' and intended to be patient.
He kept the boy three days and Im
manuel ran away. Twenty-six places
had he in two years and his besetting
weakness grew.. Mule would "go on de
bum." ' .
When he felt the thing mastering
him he came to the court and was
tided over. .One Summer he disapeared
entirely. It was a great disappoint
ment. His mother sat for hours weep
ing in the probation office day after
day. In October Mule came back and
told of the Summer of tramping. He
was only 11 years old and small for his
age. He would have been in the re
form school long before but for his
mother.
"On do Eujar' Again.
He went back to work, promising
and meaning to keep his promises.
In less than a week lys mother came
to the office and said that Mule meant
to go "on de bum" again.
When he himself came, Judge Lind
sey's mind was made, up that he must
go to the reform school. It would not
be easy to make the child agree, when
he could barely be kept in a house with
the loose rein of his mother.
"So you're going on the bum again?
Don't think those shoes will go far, do
you?" he asked when Mule made his
half-ashamed appearance.
Say, Jedge, I gotter go; it's all wAat
I likes out dere and all what I hate, Uis
here city."
"Will you come along and well get
something to eat. and then you'll have
to have some shoes; those wouldn't
go far."
He took the boy. out, bought him
shoes and suggested the reform school
when they were at . dinner in one of
the big reitaurants.
Mule was heart-broken. . Judge Lind
sey argued. It took three weeks of
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toOTSxseiP wlto.' ' )
"wxix, irwAxrEL, i n glad to see
arguing. Eoth had his side, both talked
and thought.
"It's sure the only thing for a kid
like you, you're getting so weak. You
say to me, Yes, Jedge, I'm going to
cut it out,' and you mean to, and then
you get away by yourself and you can t
cut it out, and you go on' the bum
again and again. When a feller can't
make himself cut things out that he
wants to cut out he's got to have some
one help him or he's going to the
bad. Sure, Immanuel.. You can't get
around it. I don't see any other way
for you. It's the only way for you
to grow up and amount to anything. If
Two Most Enterprising Seaports
Continued From
Continental commerce. Antwerp and
Hamburg have few points In common. .In
the first place, Hamburg is nearly three
times as large as Antwerp, its population
now being almost 905,000. Antwerp has
expended practically all her energy in
building up her trade, but Hamburg has
entered extensively ' in manufactures- Her
steel output is very great, and steamships
built here sail every sea. Besides there is
a great output. of chemicals, oils, spirits,
rubber goods, manufactures of ivory, etc.
Notwithstanding the greater relative
dominance of the port proper in Antwerp,
it did not appear to me to be of nearly so
much interest to the Antwerpians and
their visitors as the port of Hamburg is
to the citizens and visitors here. This
may be because Antwerp is the richer of
the two cities in historical sights and
buildings and "artistical works," to copy
the phraseology of the genius who com
piled "The Stranger's Guide to Antwerp."
In this truly unique publication the
"wharves and docks" receive scant at
tention, despite the fact that bu't for them
tiie ancient town would now be little more
than a. cluster of houses surrounding the
"Steen," the fine old cathedral and the
statue of the pa'nter Hubens.
The contrast between the old and the
new Antwerp is sharp. The "Steen." the
only building of the oldest part of the
town not destroyed when the "Mur du
Quai" was built, is now surrounded by
the most up-to-date improvements. This
ancient building dates back to the 10th
century, its exact origin being shrouded
In mystery. In its SCO or 1000 years' his
tory it has served many purposes.
During the Spanish occupation it housed
the inquisition, and a part of the original
structure remains intact. It is now used
as a museum,- and visitors may turn from
the contemplation of the latest things in
ship loading to that of the grim instru
ments of torture preserved in the "Steen."
Three, languages predominate in Ant
tor. van orGsr 10 eax told me
you have, anything to suggest , that we
haven't tried go ahead with it."
For the month they talked it over,
the Judge putting the reform school
' in every light to tne boy who could not
bring himself to agree to go.
One day Mule came in, .weary, his
eyes sunken and red, and evidently af
ter a battle with himself.
' I'll go, Jedge, I don't see no other
way." he sobbed.
The Judge took him into bis cham
bers; he seemed sobbinb and broken.
His mother had failed him; she was
sick again, his world was al sawdust. '
"You know you are going because I
Page Forty-Four.
werpTrench. Dutch and Flemish and
there are streets In which' the people on
one side speak only Dutch, while on the
other they spe3k only Flemish." In Ham-
burg German is the general tongue, though
both ports have a large Coating cosmopol
itan population of seamen, as a matter of
course.
In Hajnburg there are constantly 350
ocean-going steamers and 60 sailing ves
sels in port; there must be about as many
in Antwerp, and this means thousands of
seafaring men, guests at the hotels and
boarding-houses.
It is not specially flattering to American
pride that only six vessels flying our flag
visited Hamburg in the last' ten years
One which flew the Stars and Stripes
called here last year, but she was not
registered and she carried a cargo of
contraband arms for Japan.
While, because It is a part of the Ger
man Empire, Hamburg'6 prosperity and
growth seem bound to continue as long as
the empire itself, the continued prosperity
of Antwerp depends far more than the
American reader might suppose upon the
politics of Europe. So long as the Ger
man Imperial Government is friendly
Antwerp's trade may increase and wax
great. Antwerp Is the natural outlet and
entrepot not ' simply of little Belgium,
whose . commerce is really insignificant,
but of all the southern parts of . the Ger
man Empire. the northern parts . of
France, Switzerland, and even part of
Austria.
The port is fed not. only by the Schelde,
but also by the Hhine, boats coming down
the latter . being able to reach the port
through the intricate network of its out
lets, which communicate with those of the
Schelde. Hundreds of boats and barges
come down both, the rivers, and also by
way of the canals from the. interior,
bringing goods of many sorts. Including
1
toc wese costrNe.'
love you, don't you, son, because I
must help you?" the Judge asked, with
his arm around the boy.
"Yes,, sir," the child sobbed.
"Xow, then, we'll make out your
papers and you are going to earn your
first good' mark . by delivering yourself
without an officer?"
The boy looked up with scorn. "Tink
any cop needs go wid me? If I wanted to
ditch de cop where' d he be, tell me dat?
Go wid a cop? Well, I guess not."
. It was 30 miles to the reformatory at
Golden, out into the foothills in the sum
mer time, and Mule's weakness was the
tramp s tastes born in him.
cheese, woolen and cotton fabrics, y3rns,
wines and liqueurs, the wooden toys
which the. Swiss make In the long Winter
evenings, steel and iron manufactures in
great variety, and so on.
Hamburg serves North and Middle Ger
many in much the same way commercial
ly. Of course, goods from the outside
world find their way to many European
regions mainly through the two r-al
ports. The network of railroads in which
they are enmeshed greatly facilitates their
commerce. The first railroad built in
Europe. by the way, extended from and
to Antwerp, and the quaint Belgian port
has never lost the advantage it gained
from this circumstance. Naturally the
friends of Hamburg would not be sorry
to see ah anti-Antwerpian policy adopted
by the empire. This will not be done,
however, in all probability; at least dur
ing the life of Emperor William.
He realizes that the people of the south
of Germany can be more cheaply served
commercially through Antwerp than
through Hamburg, and it is due largely
to his influence that the project for build
ing an interprovinciai canal in Germany
to connect the Khine, the Elbe, the Oder
and the Vistula is about to be accom
plished. The friends of Hamburg have consist
ently opposed this project, since the new
canal will make the passage of boats and
barges from the upper reaches of the
rivers mentioned to the Schelde an easy
matter. This may increase Antwerp's
commerce at Hamburg's expense, for the
distance to the sea by the more southern
port is enough less .than by the more
northern one to make a difference in the
freight rates 'which will be' worth while.
A serious upheaval of any sort in Eu
rope might endanger the commerce of
both Hamburg and Antwerp.
The commerce of both Hamburg and
Antwerp with the United States is very
heavy, and the Consulates General in
both ports are very busy places. Dr.
Hugh Pitcairn. Consul-General at Ham
burg, has held -his present place for nine
years. Ke is a highly efficient official,
and one of the most popular of the for
eign Consul n in Hamburg. Vice and Dep
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"All right, Immanuel, you may tak-
yourself to the school and I won't even
write that you are coming. When do you
want to go?" the- Judge replied, glad to
create a diversion.
"Say, Jedge, I got to say good-bye to de
'old one.' Mudders ain't jnuch. good, but
a feller gits wild when he lives alone."
"She may be away for days, and I
can't have you down there alone any
more, things are worse than they - used to
be in that neighborhood. Will you. go
and 6tay with the Wrights at the lie
tendon Home?" .
"Jedge. I d like to stay at home as long
as I can. I might never come back."
"Will you go to the Detention Home to
please me. Mule, I want you to?"
"Yes, sir, I'll go," he replied very reluc
tantly. The mother returned pitifully trying to
explain, promising to reform, bitterly re
penting. Judge Lindsey went with her to
the Detention Home to say good-bye to
th9 boy.
"You don't want him to get where you
are, do you?" Judge Lindsey asked her.
"Oh, no. no; I d rather he'd die," she
cried.
"That is why I am sending him to the
reform school." the Judge replied, simply
as the woman sobbed helplessly, hope
lessly, "before he gets where no one can
help him."
"Oh, Judge, ain't there nothing you
can do for me. ain t there nothing? Must
I do this all the time? Oh, I hate it and
I want to get away," the mother wailed
as the boy stole quickly to her, weeping.
"When I'm bigger, mama. I'll make
money and we'll cut it all, see?" be
soothed. "I wish I was more'n only
'leven but sometime I'll be growed up."
HELEN GREY.
uty Consul-General Ernest H. L. Mum
menhoff has been in . Hamburg for 15
years. Deputy Consul-General Otto W.
Hellmrich was appointed to his present
place in 1S99.
The Consul-General at Antwerp, Henry
W. Diederich, of Pittsburg, has recently
been appointed to succeed Consul-Genera!
Church Howe. The Deputy Consul-General,
H. Tuck Sherman, at Antwerp, has
seen long service at that post, and un
derstands Antwerp's trade relations With
America thoroughly. (Copyright, 1906.).
A Man' a Man for a' That.
Robert Burns.
Is th&re for honesty poverty
That tangs bis bead, an' a' that?
Trie coward slave, we pass tia by;
' We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Our toils obscure, an' a that;
The rank is but the guinea's stamp
Tte man's tte gowd for a' that!
What tho' on tamely fare we line.
Wear todden-gray, an' a' that;
Gie feois their silks, and knaves their wtnei
A man's a man for a' that!
For -a' that, an' a' that.
Their tinsel show, an' a' that;
Tte honest man. thougn e'er sae poora
. Is king of men for a" that:
Tou see yon blrkle ca d a lord,
Wha struts, an' ctaree, an" a' that
Tho' hundreds worship at his word,
iitts but a coof for a' that;
For a' that, an' a' that,
H: riband, star, an a that;
Tne man o" independent mind.
Ke looks an' laugh at a' that.
A prince can mak a belted knight,
A ciarquii, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's- aboon his might
Gude faith, he tr.auna fa' that!
For a' that, an" a' that.
Their dignities, an' a' that.
Tne pith o' aense. an' pride o' worth.
Are higher rank than a' that.
Then let us pray that eaoie it may.
As come it -will for a' that.
That sense an' worth, o'er a' the earth.
Shall bear the gree. an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' thatt
It's comin- yet. for a' that.
The man to man, the warid e'er,
fihaU brothers be for a' that.