Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 December 1902 — Page 4
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TERRE HAUTE, IND,, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1902.
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•A Frenchman has invented a smokeless powder which insures for the luture noiseless artillery. The historian of the yeans to come will have to dispense with those trite expressions "the thunder of battle," f'the pall of smoke hanging over the field of carnage" and a host of others just as shelf
.• ftye National Anti-Saloon League with considerable noise nnd no argument declares against the re-establishment of t.hie army canteen. Is the army of the United States to be regulated by its educated and experienced officers or by a pussy cat coterie of short-haired women and long-haired men?
The investigation of the Dudley case at Indianapolis has disclosed the names of several of the "best, citizens." who took part, in* tive'' recent Sullivan county lynching. In tlio eyes of the law those ill en are all of them guilty of deliberate minuter. Will they be prosecuted?
,'v Grower Cleveland declares with Booker T. Washington itjiai the best solution of the negro problem lies in industrial and manna! training. These gentlemen evidently have not beard of the Terre Haute plan of "race severance."
It is stated that Frank Burke, of Indianapolis is dying in a hosp^tal^t, Jeffersonville. In him the Bryan Democracy of Indiana loses'its right arm, hypocrisy an ardent enemy, and unreasoning fanaticism an illustrious devotee.
It seems to be question n,s to whether Mr. Smoot is coming to the senate to represent Utah or the Mormon church. If the latter, it is to be hoped that he will never be permitted to take, his seat. "i 5
Anent the Lincoln hotel fire in Chicago a paper of that city remarks that the death traps are all found out sooner or later. The only trouble is that they are not found out until they are sphjng..
If you mi}st play Santa Claus this year make a heroic resolve right now that you won't cover yourself with cotton and then go fooling around a lighted Christmas tree. The practice is unsanitary.
It is intimated that Goemor Durbin's message to the legislature will not be a lengthy one and that its reconimendaions will be of a negative rather than a positive character. It is well. 1
He war ship as a collecting agency seems to be a crowned and sceptered success. What a pity that warships cannot run oil land and be employed by private individuals and con-
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If Mr. Castro had only realized a few days sooner tnat discretion is the better part of valor he might have safced that jpfeciajjs uayy of his.
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The enemies of vaccination are now up against a proposition which they cannot combat. For many years they have denied the efficacy of the treatment in the United States and littve attributed its good results to other causes. But this c#pnot be done in the case of Porto Rico. When this country took possession of that island it found thousands of cases of the disease in existence. For years the annual death rate from smallpox Tiad' averaged 621 and tended to increase rather than decrease. The enforcement of certain sanitary rules in the towns and cities caused no diminution in the ravages of the disease and finally as a last resort compulsory vaccination was ordered. All except about a hundred thousand of the million inhabitants were vaccinated and the result has been a marvel. In the two and a half years since the order became effective the yearly death rate from smallpox in Porto l^ico has been reduced to two, while not one case of the disease ii. found where thousands could be found before, \accination has- certainly been a blessing to Porto Rico and its success there should be a benefit to the United States as well, in that it so completely refutes the harmful and fallacious claims made by the enemies of the treatment.
Mr. Minor Baliou of Oshkosh, Wis., has been fined $500 for kissing his comely hired girl against her will. He acknowledged his gum, and explained that it was "only a joke." Of course. Who doubts it? It can be taken for granted that evorv time a shaggy old goat grabs and kisses a pretty girl he is merely endeavoring to impress her with the fact that I. ja a sort of Bill Nye in disguise. What a pity 'tis that pretty girls are so obtusely dull. They are simply missing ail sorts of good jokes.
Lieutenant Governor Gilbert declares in favor of voting machines not only because they would prevent errors in voting and save expense but because they would very largely eliminate vote selling. Men will not buy votes unless they know that the goods are delivered and where machines are used the purchaser must rely on the good faith of the seller.* It would require something more potential than the good faith of a dirty floater to coax coin out of a politician's pocket.
In this year of prosperity the thousands of tons of holly, mistletoe, and southern vines that are being sent north injure' for us a green Christmas no matter what may be the of the weather man At worst or best, as you like it, tie can give us nothing more than a Christmas that is white and green
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In view of the announced determination of several vailway companies to advance their rates, the general pretext lor which is the recently granted increases in wages, it is not irrelevant or impertinent to ask whether the lutes \Vere not advanced before Wages were raised. The revival oi business was first felt py the transportation companies their earnings began to increase before the country was conscious that it was rising out of the depression, and till recently their net earnings increased in a higher ratio than tlreir gross eariv ings. Some direct advances of rates have been made, more advances have been accomplished indirectly by changes of classification, and perhaps the railroads have gained even more by the fact that for some time pa»t the demand for their services has been sq, gfeat that they have been able to get schedule rates.
The statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission show that in 1891 40.36 per cent, of railroad capital paid dividends the percentage fell below 30 in each of the yeans 1805, 1890, and 1807, rose in 1806, a little over the percentage of 1891, advanced to 45.66 per cent, in 1000, and reached 51.27 per cent, 1901. In the meanwhile the total amount of outstandhij .stock increased nearly one-third, so that the actual amount of stock on which some dividend was paid was nearly two-thirds greater in 1901 than in 1891.
Comparing 1895 with 1901, the amount of stock on which dividends were paid doubled, for some of the stock in exist ence in 1891 had been wiped out by 1895. The dividends paid increased from $85,287,543 in 1805 to $156,735,784 in 1901. The percentage of all stocks on which between 1 and 2 per cent wa,s paid increased nearly three fold there were tnodrate increases in the amounts of stock that paid between 2 and 4 per cent stocks that paid between 4 and 7 per cent, very much more than doubled, and stocks that paid between 7 and 8 per cent, nearly doubled. There were decreases in the amounts of stock that paid more than 8 per cent.
More striking contrasts can be made by considering single sections of the country. In the Central Northwestern States two-thirds of the stocks paid no dividends in 1805, and only one-sixth paid nothing in 1901. In the Southwest 92.40 per cent, of stock paid nothing in 1895, ^nd only 52.92 per cent paid nothing in 1901.
Should Soldiers Marry?
The spectacle of a venerable senator travelling from New England to Washington to intercede for a change of detail for a young married army officer who had been ordered to the Philippines has stirred a Washington correspondent to a moving discourse upon the inexpediency of marriage for the younger army officers. It is them atter upon which General Corbin spoke with so much feling in his annual to impressions received abroad, but his own expedience and observation undoubtedly give ample warrant for his views. He is right in considering that a lieutenant with no income except his pay is not in a good position to marry a wife and raise a family. If the young officer serves ten years as a single man it is not unduly long. The lawyer or the doctor who can marry nowadays before he is thirty must have better than average luck in his profession. General Corbin says that a young officer may reasonably hope to be a major at thirtytwo, with a salary equivalent to $,422. If that is true, hope deferred need not make the heart incurably sick, but this reasonable hope of being a major at thirty-two is a new thing that has come with the enlargement of the army. In days past an officer who was a major at forty-five was lucky. The correspondent quote aboved says there is far less trouble about premature and inconsiderate marirages in the navy than in the army. There is less new, raw material in the navy than in the army that doubtless makes a difference. For anothw thing, the naval officer's course of duty is more explicitly prescribed than his army brother's, and he knows better what to expect. All sea-service takes him away from his family, and when he marries he expects and counts upon long periods of separation. The army officer expects, as a Tule, to have his wife with him, and when he is ordered to the Philippines or somewhere she cannot go, it disturbs his calculations and makes trouble in the family. llien comes the appeal for a change of orders, and the
Adjutant-General
office makes a new note about the inexpediency of marriage for lieutenants.
The Deficiency of Our Navy.
There are now, including midshipmen who have left the Academy, but have not yet obtained their commissions, 1023 officers on the navy list. The number absolutely required for officering existing ships is 1600, i* that there is already a deficiency of 577. When the ships now are completed and are in commission, the number of officers that will actually be required for them will be 498. Allowing for the usual percentage of officers in transit, sick, on leave, and on shore duty. 023 more officers will be required after the new ships are'finished. .During the next four years, ItiO officers will retire, so thiat at the end of that period the total- deficiency of officers will be 1300. This is a large number, it -will be seen, than the total list of today. From this deficiency, howvei% there must be deducted 355 graduates of the Academy, and, possibly, six .promotions from enlisted men each year. This will bring the deficiency below 1,000. Mr. Moody has made the most of hU personnel. He has so greatly reduced the number of officers on shore duty, in order to man the ships, that he has called forth direful predictions from old bureau officers. His answer has always been that sea duty is of the first importance in the navy, and certainly if we are to have a navy we must keep its snips fully officered. The opposite policy' would be entirely consistent with the theory that we need no navy at all. Mr. Moody says that graduates of the Academy make the best officers, nnd that we must not lie content with less than the best, bfecause the best is obtainable. He a.sks congress increase the number of cadets at Annapolis, and hip recommendation ought to be followed. We have the ships we are to have others and we must have the men. Besides more officers. 3000 more enlisted men are needed for the ships now afloat.
THE PIRATE'S CORNER.
The graduate from the school of experience may console himself with the reflection that he escapes the commencemeht excrcisest. •s •*,
Clothes do not make the man, but in the ease of woman's clothes they make him hustle.
Lofty aspirations do not always carry one to a great height, but they keep one from felling to a great depth. *rT i'lie "ante man is not the one who is alv aya cxowing.v
It is only the
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Descended to Forcible Prose. A certain old maid of Cohoes, In despair, taught, her bird to piopo~e ,,
But the parrot, dejected At being accepted, *_ Shrieked words too profane to disclose.
man
who places a value upon his vote that
puts it out of the reach of the political trickster who is worthy of cuumship. *,-.-v-SuR?*
man who is building character cslI) find a lot of ial in the book of Proverbs.j'^|^V
The life of the dog faucier is not always a howling success
It requires more than
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burning ambition to keep one
The average baby joke is merely a kid. A sharp tongue usually goes with a blunted conscience.
It takes the man of sand to check the' career of the oily individual.
An elastic currenj btith ends meet.
is, the kind that enables a man to make
Trf: SUNDAY fKlBUNE: TtfiRit HAUTfe-ltt&r MfCIIMfll 14* !*02.
DUDLEY'S CHANCE SUM
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SHERIFF HAS POOR CASE
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Some Believe Durblll May PrtpfcfIng to Pass on Requipition from "0' Illinois for Dudley HhnMlf _— •_
Local politicians and otbefs art mofe than passingly interested ill the fate of Sheriff Dudley of SuliivU| county, who is being given a hearing before Governor Durbin for allowing a mob to take the negro Ltilard from him and lynch the man. Some surprises are expected Tiles' day when the case will be resumed and the testimony oi several witnesses from Robinson, III., from where the negro was taken, \yill be heard.
Dudley's attorneys introduced two af fldavits of men called to the sheriff's carriage just before the Wabash river was crossed. They show that the negro crossed willingly without requisition pa pers. The governor wishes to see these men. The deputy sheriff of Sullivan county, Mr. Mills, has not yet appeared because of sickness in his family. The state deBires to know what became of him when the mpb pulled the prisoner from the sheriff's carriage.
The testimony of the state's witnesses went to Bliow that the negro did not leave Illinois willingly, that the sheriff and his party Were cruel to the negro, and that all had been drinking.
B. F. Sutfin, American Express com pnny agent at Robinson. testified that the sheriff's father placed the point of a revolver at the negro's head as they drove away in the carriage, and he heard somebody in the carriage (he thought it was true sheriff's father) say. "What we will do to him will be a plenty."
Merrill Moores., assistant attorney general went to Illinois to gather additional information.
The governor's desire for full information about the willingness or lack of willingness of the negro to come to Indiana without a requisition is believed by some to indicate that he is preparing to pass on requisition papers from Illi nois for Sheriff Dudley on the charge of kidnaping.
The sheriff's friends say there is no probability of an indictment in Illinois. They say that the Illinois men who are brought here by the state as witncMe* are generally condemned in Illinois for the part they are taking.
George W. Jones, the attorney of Robinson, 111., who told DiHard that Sheriff Dudley had no right to take him away from Robinson without requisition papers, testified that he heard the negro say to Sheriff Dudley and party. "If you take me back to Sullivan, they'll hang me. *1 have heard you talking this all riighgt."
John j§. Bays, attorney for Dudley, asked Jones if he did not know as* a matter of fact that Dudley did not get the negro at LawrenceviUe untii the morning of the day- the negro Was brought to Robinson. Jones said he had understood so. Bays attempted to show that it would have been impossible for the negro to hear any such a remark from the sheriff's party in the night.
George Asbury, who drove the sheriff's rig from Robinson to Sullivan, testified that he first heard the prisoner say at Palestine he would go to Indiana without a requisition. He testified that at a point just across the Wabash river from Riverton, Ind., the prisoner said: said "Do as you please."
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL
Few People Know How Useful It Is In Preserving Health and Beauty.
Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the safest and most efficient disinfectant and purifier in nature, but few realize its value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the better? it is not a drug at all, but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or after eating onions aiid other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and improves the complexion it whiten^ the teeth and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic. 'T
It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the Stomach apd bowels it disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one form or another, biit probably the best charcoal and the most for the money is in Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics in,tablet form or rather in ihe form of large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal being mixe^ #lth hofiey.
The daily «se of these lozenges will soon tell in a mHChi improved condition of the general health, better completion, sweeter breath and purer blood, and the beauty of it is, that no possible harm can result from their continued use, but on the contrary, {treat benefit.
A Buffalo physician, in speaking of the benefits of charcoal, says: *'t advise Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bowels, and to clear the complexion and purify the breath, mouth and throat I also believe the liver is greatly benefited by the daily use of them they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores, and although in sOme sensS a patent preparation, yet I believe
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more and better charcoal in. Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges than in any. of ihe ordinary charces I tablets."
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