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Show THE BOY CONFESSED. From tho New York Tribune. Secretary Shaw told this story tho other day as to the propriety of extending ex-tending clemency to violators of the customs laws who furnish evidence against their associates. It was at a Echool In Mr. Shaw's native State of Iowa, and one of tho boys had committed commit-ted some grave Infraction of discipline. The teacher announced that he would thrash the whole class if some one did not tell him who had committed tho offense. of-fense. All were silent, and he began with tho first boy and thrashed every ono in the class, until finally he reached the last one. Then he said: "Now, If you will tell me who did thi3 I won't thrash you." "All right, sir. I did It," was tho reply. |