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Youth Tells Doctor of 6
Years of Crime After In-
jury to Skull When 14.
COUNCIL lil.l‘l"FS, 111.. .‘Iay 16.n-
Diven the choice or Spending the rest
of his life in the shadow of the law.
in constant dancer 0! arrest because
of an unconqurral-lu desire to steal.
or submitting llinlrclf to the sur-
geon's knife tor the removal or a
pressure on his lnruin. Curl Goodnow,
twenty. chose the lutta-r course.
Before the operation he informed
Dr. K. Kelly that several surgeons
in the an. penilentiaries where he
had senmi iontenccs had told him
that he “as u. klvlltomaniuc and the
operation rrqlul-«l to remove this
desire in Hull mol-ubly would prove
fatal.
in one or his rulmcr moments af-
ter he “as brought to the hospital
here. hmiug been lound unconscious
beside the romi four miles out in the
country. (:omluow .‘Jllii to the (loc-
tor:
“If I nm to l-c :t thief all my life.
I would rsvthvr die right now.”
\‘iolcnt at Hospital
It was thought when he was first
found beside the road that he had
suflerml an epileptic tit. Doctors
now bi'iiC\0 that he. became uncon-
lcious from tip injury to his skull.
He became \iolvnt at Mercy llospi.
tal and two pnliccmcn were re-
quired at his lwnsldn Ctlnstnlltly un-
til his condition improved sutYL
cimtly to allow rcmmal to St. tier--
card's Hospital tor thi Insane.
At St. Bernard's uoodnow became
,lucid tor several hours and was able
history.
He was born in South Braintrec.
Mesa. and suffered an injury to his
skull while working in a stone
quarry when he was fourteen. Two
days after he was discharged trom
the hospital alter the first injury.
Goodnow says. he walked into a do-
partment store and was suddenly
stricken with an irrepressible do-
sire to steal. He took some cheap
jewelry and was arrested.
After serving a term in the coun-
ty jail the youth says he went from
bad to worse.
“'andered Six Years
For six years he traveled mer
the United States according to a New
York \Vorld correspondent. Wander-
lust and petty thievery became part
or his nature. He served terms in
penal institutions in New York, New
Jersey. Illinois. Minnesota. Massa-
chusetts and Michigan.
Before the operation here the
youth recovered slightly from one
of his violently insane periods and
asked that a message be sent to-his
mother in Ldncaster. Mass. Ho dic-
tatcd the following to a nurse:
'I am about to go on the operating
table. mother. It is my only chance
to be a decent son again. The doc-
tors in this place tell me that if
something. is .done to the old wound
in my head I shall never have a dc-
sir‘c to steal or wander again. I may
(”0. they say. but I prefer death to
the lite I have lived.
"You will know. mother. that 1
took a final chance to regain your
respect in me and {T I fall I shall die
knowing that 1 have done the best
I could."
Dayton. 0.. has the most motor
vehicles per square mile—1885.
Last yenr saw the construction of
20.000 miles of highway.
to tell doctors something or his past
CONSTANTINOPLE
cmorcommr
Most Beautiful in Mass But
Most Squalid in Detail—
Dr‘eamlike.
The writer of that missionary
hymn about the place “where every
prospect pleases and only man is
Vile" wanted a good line in applying
it to Ceylon. He should have waited
until he had seen Constantinople.
0! all the world's great cities this
is the most beautiful in theme-
and the most squalid in detail. Na-
ture in her magnificence and man in
his meanness have here united to
put pinohbeek in the setting of a
gem. says a writer in the New York
Herald.
Look at it from the deck of a ship.
iiy above it in an airplane and Con-
stnntinople seems like the city or a
beautiful dream. Set foot in it and
the enchantment vanishes. destroyed
not only by ill paved streets. mean
buildings and dirty people. but also
by the atmosphere or moral blight
that rests upon the place.
\Vhat is the matter with Constano
ilnople? E\en its pwners. the Turks.
tear its e\il spell and are more re-
luctant to make it once more the
capital of their country.
In twelve years' acquaintance 1
have come to think of the city as of
a man afflicted with some mysteri-
ous organic disease liable to manl-
fest itself in many different forms.
Vice and dishonesty flourish abund-
antly in it. but straightforward
dealing comes seldom to any con-
spicuous reward. ,
Some people trace the corruption
of. modern Constantinople to inherit-
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' THE HAH.‘ ~ v SE NTmEI." i '
ance from the degenerate Greek Em-
pire. iron: which the Turks conquer-
ed it. as if that crumbling 500 year-
old masonry which is still the most
solid stall in stamboul exudbd
some taint to pervert its present in-
habitants.
But a ilkeller explanation is that.
through its geographical situation
Constantinople has always been a
sink into which the soouringl of the
whole Levant have eddied.
Uniformity of race seems to be a
primary condition or national eta
nciency. It was not until the Turkn
went back into their homeland of
Antolia that they recovered strength.
nieces Moral Decay
That is why they want to keep
their capital at Angora and recoil
from the contamination of the men-
grel population of Constantinople.“
made up of Greek. Armenian. Jew.
Arab. Russian. Cireassian. Georg--
tan and Levaaite. with sunples or
almost every other nation in
world thrown in.
It was through mixing their strain
w'ith all the races represented in
their capital that the Turks 0: Coin
stantinople gradually declined in
national character from the days of
Suleima the. Magnificent onward.
Its cosmopolitanism breeds an insid-
ious moral new that is plainly
marked upon its citisens. Their
faces have a. shifty. cunning look:
their manners are either senile or
pretentious. You can pick out an
Englishman among them tiny yards
away by some undeflnabfl ‘but un-
'mistakabls diderenee in his hearing
—-an air of frankness and clean li'v-
living thd: the local population lacks.
lacks.
There are 499,000 motor vehicles
in-t'anada. nearly half or these be-
ing in Ontario.
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