n6 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Although we said that the reform of criminals was not the chief 

 objects of these clubs, nevertheless it is accomplished very fre- 

 quently, and, what is even better, a higher and higher sense of honor 

 and morality is developed in each boy every year of his club life. 

 In most cases to have the intelligence to know what is right is to do 

 right, and with growing perception, awakened by continually think- 

 ing, questioning, and reasoning, the most harmless act of one year 

 appears to the boys a downright wrong-doing the next. 



The success of the clubs in the public schools will depend very 

 much on the help given by well-educated and sympathetic people 

 of either sex. If three or four Junior Good Government Clubs could 

 be established in the course of time in every school in New York, 

 there would be less work for our political reformers to do twenty 

 years hence. From the experience of several years it is safe to 

 prophesy that boys who learn to run honestly and successfully their 

 Junior Good Government Clubs are never going to try, in after 

 years, to run dishonestly (but too successfully, in one sense) their 

 city. 



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SKETCH OF CAEL VOGT. 



CAEL CHEISTOPH YOGT, the eldest of a family of nine 

 children, was born in Giessen, Hesse, July 5, 1817, the son of 

 Dr. Wilhelm Vogt, professor of clinics in the university of that 

 place, and Louise Follenius. Professor Vogt, the father, lived hon- 

 ored and beloved by the people of Giessen, but frowned upon in 

 official circles on account of his independent democratic spirit. Of 

 the family of Madame Vogt, the father was a judge highly esteemed 

 for his probity and erudition, but mistrusted by the Government, 

 while her three brothers went far to confirm that mistrust by being, 

 besides jurists, soldiers, and poets, republicans who in time had to 

 be expelled from the country. One of these brothers, Karl Theodor 

 Christian Follenius, implicated in the assassination of Kotzebue, be- 

 came known in this country as Prof. Charles Follen, of Harvard 

 University, author of German text-books, poet, Unitarian minister, 

 and one of the victims of the burning of the steamer Lexington on 

 Long Island Sound in 1840. 



Carl Vogt's boyhood exhibited no special features, but was 

 much like that of other boys. He was fond of going with his 

 younger brother Emil on pedestrian tours. Being rather fat, he was 

 a little awkward in gymnastics, but attained great skill in sword com- 

 bats, in which he usually came off victor. 



The days of listless study and fencing came to an end, and Vogt 



