Living.

To toil all day and lie worn out at night;
To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,
And breed new broods to do no other thing
In toiling, bearing, breeding-life is this
To myriad men, too base for man or brute.

To serve for common duty, while the brain
Is hot with high desire to be distinct;
To fill the sand-grain place among the stones
That build the social wall in million sameness,
Is life by leave and death by insignificance.

To live the morbid years, with dripping blood
Of sacrificial labor for a Thought;

To take the dearest hope and lay it down

Beneath the crushing wheels for love of Freedom;

To bear the sordid jeers of cant and trade,

And go on hewing for a far ideal

This were a life worth giving to a cause,

If cause be found so worth a martyr's life.

But highest life of man, nor work, nor sacrifice,
But utter seeing of the things that be!

To pass amid the hurrying crowds, and watch
The hungry race for things of vulgar use;
To mark the growth of baser lines in men;
To note the bending to a servile rule;
To know the natural discord called disease
That rots like rust the blood and souls of men;
To test the wisdoms and philosophies by touch
Of that which is immutable, being clear,
The beam God opens to the poet's brain;

To see with eyes of pity laboring souls
Strive upward to the Freedom and the Truth,

And still be backward dragged by fear and ignorance;
To see the beauty of the world, and hear

The rising harmony of growth, whose shade

Of undertone is harmonized decay;

To know that love is life-that blood is one

And rushes to the union-that the heart

Is like a cup athirst for wine of love;
Who sees and feels this meaning utterly,

The wrong of law, the right of man, the natural truth.
Partaking not of selfish aims, withholding not
The word that strengthens and the hand that helps;
Who waits and sympathizes with the pettiest life,
And loves all things, and reaches up to God
With thanks and blessing-He alone is living.

JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY.

CHARITY NOTES.

The Chicago Parental school will be formally opened the 28th of January. This will be the most important addition to the facilities of the Cook County Juvenile Court which has been made in the past year.

The Juvenile Record in this issue publishes copies of the petition blanks in use in the Cook County Juvenile Court. These blanks may be of interest to persons contemplating establishing courts in other states or where courts are already established. One of the significant points of these blanks is that no mention of any crime is necessary, even when charging the child with delinquency. His condition is stated as a sufficient cause of this delinquency. The Juvenile Record will be pleased to furnish any additional information desired in regard to these blanks.

Among the last of the states to hold their annual conferences of charities and correction were Minnesota and Michigan. The Minnesota conference was held at Owatonna, commencing on the evening of November 19. The Michigan conference was held at Ionja December 10 to 12. Questions similar to those taken up at other state conferences were discussed at both meetings.

Philadelphia will soon have a detention home similar to the one in Chicago, if the efforts of the women in that city are successful in obtaining a sufficient appropriation from the council. In connection with a juvenile court, a detention home to keep the children before their hearing is almost indispensable.

In the past two months the probation officer in Kansas City, Mo., supported by the Associated Charities has made himself so indispensable that the judge of the Criminal Court says that he could not now do without such an officer. The legislative enactment for a juvenile court applies only to St. Louis, so that this officer must be supported by private subscription.

Since the juvenile court agitation has struck Missouri many changes have been made in Kansas City. The boys in the county jail have been placed in a room far removed from the older offenders and efforts made to grade them according to ages. School instruction is given them three hours daily and they are supplied with reading matter.

The Tree Planting association of New York is a unique organization for the purpose of planting trees in the tenement district. The trees are not only for the purpose of shade and municipal beauty, but also to encourage a love of nature and an interest in plant life among the tenement dwellers.

The paid charity workers in all organizations in New York have a Monday club, which meets weekly for a literary programme and dinner. It is expected that the social feature will be the chief benefit of the club.

The first conference of charities and correction in the state of Oregon will be held in Portland during February. Great interest in the work of child saving has been shown in that state and the executive committee is now arranging the date and other details for the conference.

The Boys' and Girls' Aid society of Oregon emphatically endorses the idea of state visitation of children in foster homes. The Oregon charity workers in the main agree with the principles advocated by Mr. Kelso, but hold with T. D. Hurley of Chicago and W. B. Streeter of Indianapolis that the names and locations of wards should not be made public.

The Children's Friend society of Boston, which has been in existence for sixty-eight years, made a radical change in its methods last year. Previously it had maintained separate institutions for boys and girls. These institutions were gradually emptied and the seventy children received during the year placed directly in homes. The society now has a list of 230 applicants for children and emphatically endorses the "home-placing" system.

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THE JUVENILE RECORD'S RECORD.

With this number The Juvenile Record enters upon the third volume of its existence. The success of the publication almost from its inception has been greater than usually attends similar efforts. It has been during the past year one of the few papers published in the interest of any charity-not only juvenile charities-which has been selfsupporting. With a constantly growing subscription list, the regular monthly edition of The Juvenile Record, exclusive of exchanges and gratuitous copies, is between 15,000 and 20,000 copies.

In the past, and we shall adhere to the same policy in the future, The Juvenile Record has confined itself to articles whose subject matter related to the work of child saving in different parts of the country. As the name of the publication implies, it has devoted itself to juvenile interests. It has not been in any sense a magazine for juveniles nor even for the casual reader of light literature. It has been and will continue to be a publication which will furnish not only entertaining reading, but also valuable information to the person seriously interested in any form of juvenile charity.

When The Juvenile Record first started publication it declared no greater intention than being the official publication of the Juvenile Court of Cook county, Ill. Though it still occupies that position, its field has been many times broadened. Unconsciously the scope of the paper has expanded until the paper is no longer restricted to the interests of one city or state, but is national in its scope and rapidly becoming international. We have a regular department from the Pacific coast, have a bureau in New York city, and during the past year have had correspondence from every Juvenile Court in the United States. The Juvenile Record finds its way into homes in all parts of the world, and in this issue we reprint a letter from the sunny islands of the Mikado.

The general approval of our efforts which has made our success in the past we now have no reason to believe will be discontinued. In the future and for the coming year there will be no deterioration in the contents of each issue, and we expect an improvement uniform with that of the past. For a paper like The Juvenile Record it is impossible to give a prospectus of the coming year's work. To serve the best interests of juvenile charities the value of its contents is largely governed by the time of publication, and the best promise that can be made is that e latest and most valuable ideas in child saving will

immediately find expression in our pages. We thank our friends for their assistance and advice..

AN ESTIMATE OF THE NEW YORK IDEA AND THE CHICAGO IDEA.

The two largest cities in the United States furnish illustrations of the two rival methods for caring for juveniles. New York in both practice and theory endorses the "institutional" system; Chicago, on the other hand, is the strongest advocate of the "home placing" system. Of the many reasons which to us seem to make the "home placing" system superior to the other, the strongest is shown by the result which invariably follows on the child's life according as he comes under the influence of either system.

From a financial standpoint there is little ground for argument. New York institutions expend annually about ten times as much as do the Chicago institutions. The number of children cared for by New York institutions is greater in the same proportion, but the benefits to the child do not maintain the same ratio. There are thousands in Chicago who are cared for in families. This accounts for the fact that while New York has 34,000 children in institutions, Chicago has few more than 3,000. These foster families in Chicago bear the financial burdens which otherwise would fall on the institutions.

The different charitable organizations of Chicago, the institutions themselves, the Juvenile Court and other agencies have thus far endeavored to make the child's stay in an institution as short as possible. The officers of the different institutions from their observation declare that it is injurious to a child to keep him in an institution until adult years and that institutional care should be but a temporary expedient.

Many children which enter an institution for no worse deed than that their superabundant energies are misdirected leave it helpless and indolent. The girl who has been raised in an institution where she takes turns on "shifts" that operate the machine laundry or bakery, make the beds or do the sewing is as helpless when thrown into the world as the "society" girl who, in her father's home, has always had servants at her beck and call. Such a girl tries to live up to the ideals which she has learned in school, but in many cases has not the practical training to successfully fight for existence. The boy from an institution is almost as bad, and, having become "systematized," is usually unwilling or unable to adjust himself to the severe life of earning an honest living at meager wages.

In only one phase of juvenile charity has Chicago verged into the "institutional" system, and that is in the care of delinquents. But it has been shown that delinquent children, as well as dependent children, can be profitably placed in homes. All charity workers in Chicago are striving for the success of the new school for delinquent boys. It may not be amiss to emphasize the caution not to be carried away by the project of building up an enormous institution. Even if it is possible to arouse the public-spirited men of the city to establish an ideal institution-with schools and manual training departments and broad acres for cultivation-when we stop to think, we realize that the modest home with good influences is the best place for the boy after all. Some time and money should be spent toward securing foster homes or improving the real home of the child. An institution in conjunction with such a system would fulfill the most roseate dream of the charity worker. We should not become enraptured with the great facilities of the new institution and condemn the boy to remain there until of age. He should remain only long enough to get a start in the right direction. That the people of Chicago are willing to provide homes for these children if approached in the proper manner is shown by the fact that the four boys who wrote the best essays in the recent contest at the John Worthy school have already been taken from the school and placed in homes.

Kosuke Tomeoka.

The Home School, Sugamo, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 1, 1901. Dear Sir: I got already two copies of The Juvenile Record, which you sent me. I am very grateful to you, as they are a great help to understand your treatment of young criminals. The paper will be very much useful to understand on this subject to me in the future. Please send me it continually.

I am still doing the work as usual for the cause of reformatory work. I am striving to improve our child-saving work, though our work is still young. I opened the training school for the charity workers at this land. I have just nine pupils in it and teaching the charity work in theory and practice. They would be graduated in two years. Our charity is very small scale; especially my work is very small charity to do the work based upon Christianity. I hope you will help our work at Sugamo at any way. I am the official of the government and at the same time I have the private charity institution and am training charity workers to improve the charity condition throughout the empire.

I am so glad to hear your progress at Illinois on the line of child saving. I wish to have the Juvenile Court for our young some day. KOSUKE TOMEOKA.

We are pleased to note that the first subscriber to The Juvenile Record, Rev. Hugh McGuire, Chicago, holds his place at the head of the column, as his was the first renewal to Vol. No. 3.

Sunshine Journal-Note: One of our most valued exchanges is The Juvenile Record, published by the Visitation and Aid Society, in the interests of homeless and dependent children. Would that we had such an agent for good in every community, advocating as it does the establishment of a Juvenile Court.

In drafting the bill for the Children's Court in New York City * * * liberal use was made of the files of The Juvenile Record by the charity workers in New York, because of its admirable articles on the establishment and operation of the Juvenile Court in Chicago. EDWARD T. DEVINE, Secretary Charity Organization.

Mr. Timothy D. Hurley, Editor Juvenile Record, City. Dear Sir.-I wish to congratulate you on the admirable paper which you are making; it has ceased to be a local paper, and has come to be of national interest. Very truly yours,

HASTINGS H. HART, Supt. Children's Home & Aid Society.

I think the best thing to do to save children is, first, to have a free kindergarten as a part of the public school system for every child in the nation; next, if the child of poor parents is overtaken in so-called "crime," do with them just as we do with the children of the rich who quite as frequently commit errors and we almost universally say, "Well, now, his parents are nice people; there is no use of disgracing them; give him a good talk and let him go." I would do just the same with the children of poor parents; in short, I would do just the same by other people's children as I would do by my own, and God knows I would never put one of my own in a prison, no matter what he might do.

Wishing you all good always, I am, very sincerely yours,
S. M. JONES.

January 17th, 1902.

T. D. Hurley, Esq., 79 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. My Dear Sir.-I accidentally came across one of your Juvenile Records recently, and have inspected the same with much pleasure. This Court is known in one branch thereof as the Juvenile Court of Arapahoe County, and so far as jurisdiction is concerned, I presume corresponds to the Juvenile Court of Chicago, the legislature having within the past two years conferred somewhat similar jurisdiction here. The result is that we have very much the same propositions to deal with as Judge Tuthill of Cook County. We have now about seventy-five boys who report here every two weeks, they all being under parole with the condition that they attend the grammar schools regularly and bring good reports. We are pleased to say the system is working magnificently; last Saturday, for instance, there being all excellent reports with one exception. These boys represent convictions for various offenses, from violating the compulsory school law to burglary. Some of them we have helped to secure positions, and our method has been that which seems to be advocated by you, kindness mixed with sufficient firmness to obtain results.

The Record I have is for December. I wish I had some of the back numbers, say September, October and November, and of course I wish the January number.

I just succeeded to-day in getting our County Commissioners to agree to at once erect a shower bath in the basement of the Court House, where fifty of the boys can bathe at once, and a condition will now be that the boys who report at I p. m. every other Saturday will first go through the shower bath. I find in visiting the homes of some of these waifs that lack of cleanliness is very apparent, caused to some extent no doubt by lack of facilities and comforts in this respect.

Enclosed find my check for $1 for which please send me the Record. Wishing you and journal abundant success, I am, Yours truly, BEN B. LINDSEY.

SOME SUBSCRIBERS. Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Chicago. John J. Sloan, Supt. John Worthy School, Chicago. Homer Folks, New York, N. Y.

Edward T. Devine, New York, N. Y.

Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, New York, N. Y. Hon. Judge Neelan, Juvenile Court, Milwaukee.

Hon. Judge Murphy, Juvenile Court, Buffalo.

Mr. Frederick Almy, Buffalo, N. Y.

Sadie Montgomery, Springfield, Ill.

H. Horchert, Probation Officer, St. Louis, Mo.

W. C. Johnson, Probation Officer, Kansas City, Mo.

Robt. Treat Payne, Boston, Mass.