Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 August 1873 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. DOAKK, Publisher. JASPER. INDIANA. ii Kill I i'A IIAUK AFI18. Incidents and Accidents. A Georgia veteran of 1812 wu lately tripped P by on of hU pigs, and died in consequence of the fall. A Baltimore duck swallowed a lighted fire-Tracker, and shortly after felt decidedly patriotic In Its stomach. A four-foot snake was recently killed In a saloon at Kllbourn, Wisconsin. He wan hunting for an eligible loot. Mr. TVulier, of LaU range, Texas, ha committed suicide at the grave of his wife, one year from the time of he r death. An Ohio man Mho was riding to pay his taxes was struck by lightning the other day and killed. Is there not a moral In this? Girl.' ought to be more reasonable. Minnie Pay ton, of La Crosse, fell and broke her "neck the other day while trying to escape being kissed. Miss Fannie Endslev, of Burlington, Iowa, knocked a burglar down with a goblet, In her father's house, and held Elm until a , stance came and he was arretted. A woman at Wheeling wanted strawberries for siipjer. while her husband didn't, and the fettled the dispute by shooting him through the shoulder. He is a straw berry man now. Sebastian Mcrgy, while drunk, was earning his four-vear-oldboy In his arms In Cincinnati. lie staggered, fell, and killed the child. Then remorse suggested the oath, "I will never drink another drop." Two Peoria boys filled their fond father's pipe with gunpowder, and Just after the display of Mre-works the old gentle man called up his class In dancing and kept time with the halter-strap. A threshing machine boiler exploded near Kuhville, Ind.. recently, killing Archie Piwnev, William Anderson and George A. Ward. Four or five other per sons vre hurt. A melancholy accident occurred recently at the West Point Military Acade my, by widen Cadet Israel w. t'ennls was drowned while bathing. The deceased was from Illinois, having been appointed from the Fifteenth Congressional District At St. Cloud. Minn., a short time since, Kotrt Ieaeh and Theodore Steinburg got Into a dispute In the saloon owned by the latter about a goat. Stein burgws standing behind his counter at the time, some angry words were ex changed N'tweon them, when Steinberg took a lO'iueu revolver from a drawer In the counter, and leaning forward rested his elbow on the counter. lie pointed Ir weapon at Ieach, who was but a few f-:t distant. Leach said, "Shoot away f you want to," whereupon Stelnburg i.rei, the Dan entering J each 's breast. Killing mm almost instantly. The mur derer was arrested and Is now In Jail i ne rwdalla Democrat iiys : e gave an account of Mr. Buckner's death by ngnming near tireenmige a lew days ago, Rev. Mr. Smith preached his funeral sermon on the c!ay following. and three davs thereafrer he was killed by the same subtile fluid. This was considered strange. but the most singular thing connected with these deaths remains to be told. The clothes worn by Mr. Buekner at the time of his death were hung upon a very thrilty willow buh In the yard, and from that hour the bush wilted and Is now dead, though only one week has elapsed. Who can explain this remarkable phe nomenon r At Atchison. Kansas, the other day. a little 'my of Col. 0.uiggs, aged three years, fell into a cistern In his yard. The cistern was twenty feet deep, and had five feet of water In It. A little niece of the colonel named Nellie, aged fourteen, witnessed the child's fall and Immediately jumped Into the cistern after him. Seizing the little bov she held hirn above the water nntll a ladder could be procured. and both were taken out. The little heroine was somew hat bruised and almost exhausted, but the child was unhurt I he girl's clothing buoyed her up on the water or she would have been drowned before she could have been reached, as would also the child. The courage and preence of mind of the little girl excite universal praise and admiration In the community. It was a remarkable exhi bition of heroism. School and Church. Ihevtuve managed to squeeze 420 school districts Into Rhode Island. Tljcrs are pupils In the Boston , .i'ui-. i in-y ume kiefs. At the recent Ohio Uiilvcrsalist State Convention a reolutlon favoring the Increase of the ministry by the encourageraent and aiding of worthy young men to become mlnUti-a i r. t i. . . t. n ini ii ui' jjiir9 nanforth, of Peru, objected to the use of me weru "men" exclusively, and the words "and young women" were added fcr "young men' In the resolution. T yr: w. Corcoran, of Washington, ' C., has donated 30,000 acres of land in j cxas, to the Kplscopal Church In thst fte. and 10,(XK) acres to the church In Mississippi. The valuation of these lands not stated; but, no doubt, the Church "J reap substantial fiencflt from these timt' j and liberal benefactions. TiATonIin 10 the statistics furnished the late liaptist State Convention of ortn Carolina, the Baptists are the most uiuerons religious hotly in that Stat. "itu churches, 270 pastors, 27.5W 'm'r9; baptized, l.lk The total St ?S n,,n'l,r lOfi.Of.,. There are f'iht antl-rolssionary associations, whose numbers are not given. . rTl'.c Jews ,n New Vork " winning 11 fhw of college and school honors, wording to the itrsnenger. 'Four mcmpcrs of the graduating class of the Col'jare of New Vork this year were of the "threw faith; another took the first gold Wfdal of the Junior class In the same InY'tution. At the Normal College five oewpa,.s graduated with distinction ; and at Columbia College a young Hebrew ob

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re are in thlrfy-slx white associations --ennrches, 42t! pastors, "S,502 mem- '!; baptized during the year, 4,558.

tained the four scholarships awarded to

meuiDers oi me rresnman class. These achievements reflect honor upon the entire ewisu community. The attempt to Introduce) the confes sional luto the Established Churck of Kngland has roused the laity of that Church to fever heat. On the last Monday night of June an Immense meeting was held In Exeter Hall to take measures to resist the Inroads of Romanism. The Karl of Shaftesbury presided. He censured the House of Convocation for rewiving the petition of the 4S3 clergymen at all, and closed an hour's speech by saying, "Much a we love tbe Church of Kngland. If the confessional be Intro duced, we will let her go, and all the bishops with her." The 7ru; In commenting upon the meeting, admits that If the practices denounced cannot be checked, the Church of England Is In Im minent peril of a great convulson, and that, as matters stand. Die bishops are I protecting the) clergy In setting the law at defiance." The Church Timet claims that there are 2.000 clergymen In the Church who might have signed the petition which was sent to the Convocation. Scientific and Industrial. Connecticut is the heaviest hardware manufacturing State In the Union. The British Aeronautical Society Is discussing the propriety of substituting balloon power for steam and horse power In running engines. Two convicts at work in the shoj de1artment of the Virginia Penitentiary tave made and sent to their lawyer an tiefan t pair of boots. It Is said that cannel coal can be mined In West Virginia and sold In New York at a prortt of til per ton. asrainst $22 for English cannel. It is said to be fully as good as the English. The dissatisfaction among the miners of the Lehigh, Wyoming, and Scranton anthracite coal regions is becoming more intensities, a strike is imminent and dear xi probable. Colt's Fire Arms Company have received an order for 30,000 pistols, which will make it lively at the armory for some time to come. r.ignt tnousanu oi the new order are for our government, and the balance are foreign orders. Pressed coal, prepared from waste coal-dust, is extensively used on some of the i rench railroads for fuel. Originally the cost of the article was very little, and by the use of it a very great saving of expense was made. Since the advantages of this kind of fuel have become known the demand has Increased, and the quality of the article has Improved. Conse quently the price is greater. Vet it is much cheaper than ordinary coal ; and what was formerly entirely waste material has become of great commercial value. rersonal and Literary. Theodore Tilton is writing a novel. Sixteen American females are writing up the Vienna exposition for American journals. A colored poet Is In the fHd in the person of Mr. Isaac Warden, lately of Howard University. George Francis Train's doctor bills as to his sanity, presented to the New Vork Doard of Supervisors for payment amount to$l,WX). Agasslz is getting up a book that will make the monkeys sick, who thought to claim a relationship with mankind and handle the ballot In a few years. Henry Ward Beecher has sent Sd.OOO to the Congregational Church at Seneca Falls, to help pay for their new edifice, which it was feared would have to be sold. Kate Field is pronounced by the Womn J.turnal to be a compound of ' Mark Twain," John Hay, and Dret Harte, with a propensity for puns which Is beyond all control. 44 M. E. L." Is the lat novelty in college degrees, and It is said to have been conferred by the Indies' Seminary at IJordentown. N. J. It signifies Mistress of English Literature." II. T. Helmbold turns up in Paris as the owner of a palatial residence in the Champs Elysses. On the Jth he extended an Invitation to Americans In Paris to celebrate at the palatial residence. Amanda Smith, the colored Methodist cxhorter. Is described as a tall, noblelooking colored woman, with white, superb teeth, and clear black eyes a figure that arrests one without knowing who she Is, in that strangest costume for her race, tbe (juaker hat and bonnet. Mr. Henry Watterson, of the Louisville CourUr-Jotirnal, is what the late Dean Richmond would style "iloshlng around" London, and taking John Hull by the horns as to his morals. ;H. W. went one night to Cremorne Gardens, recently reopened with great gush, where there was ball, ballet, opera bouflV, and no end of supper. II. W. gently Intimates that the good American who goes there should carry his church letter In his pocket, and look it over now and then for conscience' sake. Watterson did. I.arvard College had its origin In the urp-ncy of Tucy Pownlng, Governor Wlnt ward catJo urge stltutf toed erlan The' the I ones I Vict army reser expH comi the s for o be In be vi the Im edt thej also time Witli

Mr. CUne, the authoress, was writing In her boudoir on the evening of the flth Inst., when a spark flew from the tire and

ignited tier dress, liefore assistance could arrive the unfortunate lady, who for years had been a confirmed Invalid, was burnt most terribly. She died on the following morning. A rrusian amazon has appeared In Spain. A alentla newspaper says : 44 We have had the pleasure ot seeing the Prui slan heroine announced who will. It Is said, command a battalion of volunteers against the Carlists. She Is well-grown, hardly twenty-five years old. has a rather pretty face, and blonde hair. She wore a ior.z urmcr garment, long riding trowsers, and a Phrygian cap, and carried a cavalry worn. Near Lorlent, France, a father aged seventy has been sentenced to ten years' transportation for barbarity toward his son, aged thlrtv-four, who had a mania for twitching off the heads of flowers. His father sent for a blacksmith, ordered chain to be made, which he riveted round his son, and then to the wall of a pig-etye. For three years the unfortunate thus lived ; his bed was a heap of manure, and ma oniy companion a pig. The Levant limtt, speaking of the re cent Illuminations in Constantinople says : 44A most p.uuful Incident occurred In connection wit) J.e Illuminations. Mr. J. L. Haddan, C. E. Ottoman engineer of the province of Aleppo, had charge of the electric light and other .displays in front ot the yali of 1 lash Id Pasha, minister of Foreign affairs. On awakening the next morning Mr. Haddan was dismayed at discovering that he was totally blind the result, there can be no doubt, of w atching the electric light, which was one of extraordinary power. Ills medical at tendant happily has reason to hope that in the course of time the patient's fight wui be restored." Odds and Ends. The author of the saying, 44 You must always take a man as you find him," v, ki a cousublc There were 141,S5C Immigrants landed in New York between January 1st and June 11th of this year. The Graphic suggests that Italy is the only country which is represented by Ps organ all over the world. A Peoria citizen claims to have a 6tone that General Washington threw at a wood-pecker on his father's cherry-tree. San Francisco hoodlums fill keyholes with powder, ring the door-bell, and light tbe fuse just as somebody comes to open the doors. It is said that the principal dishes at an Adirondack hotel are deer meat, dried and roasted bear meat, woodchuck stew and speckled trout. A pack of bloodhounds haunt the woods of New Jersey, and parties who go berrying load themselves with shot-guns and corn-cutters. The young ladies of Winchester, Mass., have resolved to discountenance " low men" who swear and chew tobacco. They only care for Hymen. Bloomlngton, 111., Is now receiving her coal for making gas from Pennsylvania, the new tariff or the Illinois Central not justifying the using of Puquoin coal. The Ixxilsville Courier-Jiumal says that unrequited love Is the toothache of the soul. Yes, and the only way to stop It Is to use some gold filling. Boto W. We are told of a gentleman in this section who, though only 23 years of age. recently married lils fourth wire. lie three previous ones die-d, each leatingtsro children. Uulumbu$ (ua.) Sun, Fredrick Sholti, living near Pleasant Hill, .NeD., uic other day cut nis s-ster s Mrs. Ferdinand Suckrows, head JtT with an axe. After he had commtted the deed, he left the house and wnt about eighty rods into an old field aid cut his own throat. In which conditim he was found dead. At a recent agricultural how In Nor folk, one of the inhabitants uttered his sentiments on a canvas ban re r : 'Of all the erop th fanner riUet, Or rapftal employ, None brmrt meh comforts il inch prU A crup of rlrli ul bour. ' ' A recent event wllch occurred at Binghamton, N. Y. will serve to strengthen thoe who tcdiave in the super natural. The local taper states that a family named Glazer lad Just sat down to supper when one of te women Informed them that she had presentment that lightning would strue the table and beg' ged them to leave te rom. They had scarcely ooeyed wren tne lightning came In, smashing their mpper dishes to atoms. A man namec William Harding, of Baltimore, the otler day, showed his in capacity to andestand a Joke, and also a very bad temrvT. A mischievous der had escaped fron a park near town, and Harding coralig along by himself the der thought ie would have a little fun. He ran up helind the man and knocked him down. He then backed ten or fif teen feet, and when Harding made a bow of himself Ir the eflort to get up, the p:ayful der butted hirn down again. This rami was repeated four or five times. and atlergth Harding had teamed enough to ne su i. i ne deer soon got tired of his stupd playfellow and went about his ' Harding watched his opporJnd went about his. His first act borrow a gun and go back and e poor harmless animal. He did about venison but went and got Ion to dress his wounds, which Ite severe. r markable Case of Larceny. fibers to newspapers In Oakland, solved to find out who stole their k'verv morninc. "After many teJours of investigation and anxiety, l Tuesday mornings King Charles was observed to walk up cauand remove one of the cherished This action was repeated systeIy, house by house, several times he guards followed their victim to ce of refuge. ear the foot ol gton street, behind a large pile of was round tne receptical sought was here that the dog was seen his Journals. The earth around was subsequently turned up, and 1 fully 100 of the stolen papers. id astonishment prevailed. loDy,' rd ascertained as the dog's name. ked, and his days are numbered. is capture papers have betnreegularly, and eace and contention In the neighborhood."

Machine Politics.

As soon as the Ilepubllcan leaders dis covered how strong the popular Indlgna tlon was ajralnst the Credit Moblller corruption and the back-nay steal, they at once trimmed their sails to catch this breeze, and with desperate audacity have sought to make capital by pretending to wnuemn outrages lor wiilcb tlielr own party Is exclusively answerable. Ohio held the flrt convention and sent out the pattern resolutlou, which was suDscqucntly adopted without altering a word bv Maine and Iowa. This little fact shows the preconcert of the managers, and proves that the scheme was a deliberate deception from the start. And now Minnesota has Passed the machine resn. lutionas follows: Ketolvtd, That we h-artilr aptUol Uw aeUe furaaurv of the late Otmrrcea for frrrptinr uui mu ripcwnr commuon. e bare irrn itb profound rrirrut. In drYtlntiiMnu thuvbjr, evidence of pohucl and oiliclal corruption and alms of reaponalhle position by mm of all political parties to ftir'tx-r personal ends, ami we demand irtire offlclal conduct and the puniahnient of unfaithful public servant, State nd national, who. havinr Im-Ii-ivm! tlia mil. denoe Ireely extended to them, shall not be shielded front the dinjrraoe of their acta by anv partisanship of ours; and we denounce all Credit 31 obilier trausacuont. whatever be their ferro This declaration Is Identical In the four platforms of Ohio, Maine, Iowa and Minnesota. Stripped ot its artful dlsxulses, the attempted fraud becomes glaring, and the falsehoods detect themselves. It is not true that the late Congress adopted any 4'actlve measures for ferretinir out and exposing corruption." An investigation of the Credit Mobilier Jobbery was forced by the independent press, and when the testimony convicted the mnt prominent liepnblfcan chiefs of corruption, the "late Congress" refused by repeated votes to expel or condemn the guilty members. It is not true that men 4kof all political parties" were Involved In that iniaultv. i'he late James Brooks was the only Democrat Implicated. Schuvler Colfax. Henry Wilson, Henry L. Dawes. James A. Garfield, WHm ). Kev, John A. Bingham, Oakes Ames, James" W. Patter son, Glennl W. Scoheld, William B. Allison, James F. Wilson, and James Harlan. all leading Republicans and holdinir the highest places of honor and trust iu the party, are the men whom that investiga tion branded with Infamy, and not one of tnera was punished bv the "lata Con gress," to which most of them belonged TLese resolutions therefore extol the very rogues who voted themselves inno cent, and who packed tlio Uoue of Itepresentauves with the most formidable lobby ever collected there, representing all the great corporations, to coerce a ver dict oy terrorism, or to purchase it with money. That is the way the ltcpublican majority "lerreted out and exposed corupuon." - . . Equally false is the declaration made bv these conventions, 'We demand pure official conduct, and the punishment of untaithiul puoiic men, State and national who, hav.ng bctraved tho confidence mely extended to them, shall not be shielded from the d'sgrace of thei acts bv ary partisanship of ours." Not single name of all tne convicted Kepubl cans has been held up to reprobation. fcise conventions have done exactly the opposite of what they professed, bv JhielJing from disgrace" the "unfalthftil public men who had bctraved their confidence." Another machine resolution Is in these words : "Vie condemn without reaerve the votinr for or receiving- of increaord pav for aervirea already rendered, and demand thai thv '.ate met of t oOffTece by which the salaries were tnrreaned noun ite promptly and unconditionally re pealed." ' a tier me norse is stolen oy their own confederates, they are very energetic aooui closing tne stable door. It was carnaiiy leu open until the booty was carried off. The back pay having been pocketed and the increased salary drawn. iney pretend to want the law rein-aled by the very men who were most active In passing it 1 And It Is attempted to palm off mis sort or stun on the puhllc for reform, Just as the Philadelphia Convention de clared for a purer civil service and against further land robbery, after having demoralized the first and voted away the public domain to huge monopolies which purchased successive Republican Congresses at so much a head. Minnesota is the last to make this deceitful utterance. She had two members in the 44 late Congress" Mark 11. Punnell and John T. Averlll who labored zealou&ly by night and by day to pass the Increase of pay, and to extend It back two years, after having already been paid In full for the whole term and receipted fbr their salary. They were re-elected to the next Congress. Yet the Minnesota resolu tions, which in one breath would not shield public men who betrayed confi dence from disgrace, has not a syllable against these its chosen representatives, who did exactly what the Republican Convention prolessed to denounce. All these conventions are silent as to the responsibility of the Pre 6 dent In tli" back-pay grab and Increase of salary, iney now mat ne was tne great est beneficiary by that outrage, and that the Constitution forbids any change in his compensation during the period for which he is elected. They know that without his approval it never could have become a law, and that if ho had vetoed the bill there was abundant time to elimi nate this odious amendment and repass the appropriation pure and simple. The pretence that the Supply bill was In any danger is a sheer Invention. Besides the money for carrying on the Government until the first of July had already been provided, so that in the extremest sup- ...'. w . po sable case there could be no derange ment from a veto. But the President was a Party to the conspiracy, and Iho increase by which he was to pocket iiw,uuu illegally for he was elected when the act passed was the basis of the whole scheme. If censure is deserved by anybody, he first of all oth ers ought to be the object of wrath, for It was in nis power to prevent the consummation which was per frctcd by his prompt signature. An attempt Is made to relieve the Hefmbliean party of this burden and to sliare t with the Democrats. That dodge will not answer until it can be shown that a minority Is stronger than a majority. The last Congress stood as follows : .mate. norst. Ilepallir.an l Republicans 134 N-rtocrti 17 I'eroorraU 104 Literal 5 Liberal 6 Tho Republicans of course con-

trollwd all the committees, and held the whole machinery of legislation in their ban is. No bill could be n ported even without their consent. With these majorities In Congress and their President in the White House, escape Is impossible. The acts of Individuals on either side are

of no importance except in a personal aspect. Let the guilty le punished and the Innocent be applauded. But the responsibility of this legislation, like all other for the last twelve years, belongs wholly to the Republican party, and thev must expect to confront it. N. Y. San. Our National Increase in Wealth. In one of his recent neehe- Mr. Gladstone declared that Great Britain was creating wealth faster than any coun try on earth, with one exception. His exception referred to the United States. He might have added that this nation had two sources of the creation of wealth wholly peculiar to Itself. The conversion of wild lands into arable farms is not so much an addition to our national wealth as a creation, livery year a wave of pop ulation, one .thousand miles loni? and fifteen deep, extending from the Canadaa to Mexico, passes on bevond the confines of the older States, settles down on virgin soil, and converts wild territory Into the homes of civilization. Prior to its settlement, that land was worthless: once occupied. It averages two dollars and a half an acre. Here are sixty thousand homesteads of one hundred and sixty acres each, worth In the aggregate not less than one hundred million dollars. annually added to our national property. And this la onlv the heodnn no- nf fh creation of wealth. The forest Btandlng on those Western hills and prairies, financially worthless In its primeval state, becomes of great, recognized value when cut down and converted into houses and barns and Implements of agriculture. Anaeacn years cultivation of the soil, me sceaav growtn or population, the intrusion of railroads, the building? of towns and cities, rapidly swell the value of border-land from Its original price of two dollars and a half an acre till it sells read ily at ten, twenty, and fifty dollars an ere. This Increase of property, owing to the Increase of population, adds some nve uuwired minion dollars a year to our real-estate valuation. But these wild lands are subdued by a population largely foreign ; and this Is the second source of the increase of wealth peculiar to this country. Every German, every Irish-; man, every Scandinavian, landing on our shores, is reckoned by statistics as an addition to our we&lth-nmiiiMnir nowivnf at least one thousand dollars per capita. . In the aggregate, and considered only as a source of wealth, they constitute an addition of fonr hundred million dollars to us, and a corresponding deduction of that amount to 6ome part of Europe. Then, too, the production of our mine the golirof California, the coal of Pennsylvania, the iron ot Missouri Is nearly all creation, all pure profit over the expense of the miner. Missouri alone contains Iron ore sufficient to give tl.d nation million tons a year for the next two centuries. And after the consideration of these three sources of national wealth comes the still greater growth of real and personal estate by the excess of production over expenditure, mainly due D the power of labor-saving machinery. These varied sources of addition to our national wealth may be seen In their clearest form by a comparison of the wealth of the country , In IMW, then estimated at fourteen thous- ' and five hundred million dollars, with that of 1870. when It was thirty thousand millionan Increase of one hundred aid seven per cent, in a single decade. Some part of this growth Is undoubtedly due fo the more trustworthy census of 1S70. But making all due deductions for this cause, and remembering that the wave of immigration Is Increasing about thirteen per cent a year, it is safc to say that we are to-dav creating wealth by agriculture, by manufactures, by commerce, by sav ings, by immigration, and bv the conver sion of wild lands into farms, and towns and cities, at the rate of two thousand million dollars every year! And such a statement as this no other nation in the world has ever been able to make. The IHet of Uraln-Workers. The reason why brain-workers need a better quality and larger quantity of nutrition than mechanics and laborers are the following : l. l.aDor of the L'alii causes greater waste of tissue than libor of the muscles. According to the estimate of Prof. Hough ton, three hours of hard study produce more Important changes of tissue than a wnoic day or muscular labor. Phosphorus, which is a prominent ingredient of the brain, is deposited in the urine after mental labor, and recent experiments have shown that by chemical examination of these phosphates deposited, it Is possible to determine whether an individual has been chiefly using his brains or his muscles. That the brain is the organ of the In- ' tellect is now as well established as any fact of science. The brain, being the noblest organ of the body, receives a greater proportional amount of blood than other parts, and Is, of course, correspondingly affected by the quantity and quality of the nutrition. It has been estimated that one-fifth of the blood goes to ' the brain, though its average weight is not more than lifry ounces, or about onefortieth of the weight of tbebo-iy. 2. Brain-workers as a class are more active than mechanics or laborers. The literary man need never be Idle, for his thinking powers the tools of his tradeare always at hand. Bui wer In his Cax- -tonla, mentions this fact as a great ad- ' vantage that the literary man has over all others. The mechanic nas a definite tak assigned for certain hours, and when that Is over, he feels free to rest. On the other hand, the powers of thought and composition are only interrupted by sleep, and the Intensity of the labor Is measured bvour mental discipline and powers . of endurance. Brain-workers exertlsc more or less all the orgnns of the body as well as the brain. Erckanqt. ' , . . I s Why is a thief vour only true philos opher? Because fie regards everything from an abstract point f t view. Is opposed to al! notions of protection, and is open to conviction.