Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 April 1891 — Page 4

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PROFESSIONAL CRIME. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage Discourses cm Another Great Plague. The Reign of Crime, Followed ms a Fro* reunion, One of the Greatest Plague* the Cities or the Lend are ^ CaUed to Deal With. The professional criminal furnished a fruitful theme for ohe of Rev. T. Dftr Witt Tal mage's discourses 6n “The Plagues of the Cities,” delivered in Brooklyn and New York City. His text was: A1I the waters that were In the river were turned to Mood.—Exodus vit., 20. Among all the Egyptian plagues none could have been worse than this. The Nile is the.wealth of Egypt. Its fish the food, its waters the irrigation of garden and fields. Its condition decides the prosperity or the doom of the empire. What happens to the Nile hap1 pens to all Egypt. And now in the text that great river is incarnadined. It is a red gash across an empire. In poetic license we speak of wars which turn the rivers into blood. But my text is not a.poetic license. It was a fact, a great crimson apalling condition, described. The Nile rolling deep of blood. Can you imagine a more awful plague? The modern plague which nearest corresponds with that is the plague of crime in all our cities. It halts not for bloodshed. It shrinks from po carnage. It bruises, and cuts, and strikes down, and destroys. It revels in the blood of body and soul, this plague of crime rampant for ages, and never bolder or more rampant than now. The annual police reports of these cities, as I examine them, are to me more suggestive than. “Dante’s Inferno,” and all Christian people, as well as reformers, need to waken to a presort and tremendous duty. If you want this “plague of crime” to stop there are several kinds of persons you need to consider. (1) The public criminals. You ought not to be surprised that these people make up a large portion in many communities. The vast majority of criminals who take ship from Europe come into our own port. In 1869, of the forty-nine thousand people who were incarcerated in the prisons Of the country, thirty-two thousand were of foreign birtli. Many of them were the very desperadoes of cities, oozing into the slums of our society, waiting for an opportunity to riot and steal and debauch, joining the large gangof American thugs and eut-throats. There are in this cluster of cities—New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn—four thousand people whose entire business in life is to commit crime. That is as much their business as jurisprudence or medicine or merchandise is your business. To it they bring all their energies of body, mind and soul, and they look, upon the intervals which they spend in prison as so much unfortunate loss of time, just as you look upon an .attack of influenza or rheumatism whieh fastens you in the house for a few days. It is their lifetime business to pick pockets and blow up safes, and shoplift, and ply the panel game, and they have as much pride in their business as you have in yours whgn you upset the argument of an opposing counsel, or cure gunshot fracture whieh other surgeons have given up, or foresee a turn in the market as you buy goods just before they go up twenty per cent. It is their business to commit crime, and 1 do not suppose that once in a year the thought of the immorality strikes them. Added to these professional criminals, American and foreign, there is a large class of men who are more or less industrious in crime. In one year the police in this cluster of cities arrested ten thousand people for theft, and ten thousand for assault and battery, and fifty thousand for intoxication. Drunkenness is responsible for much of the theft, since it confuses a man’s ideas of property, and he gets his hands on things that do not belong to him. Rum is responsible for much of the assaijijp and battery, inspiring men to sudden . bravery, which they must demonstrate, though it be on the face of the next gentleman. Ten million dollars’ worth of property stolen In this cluster of cities in one year. Yon can not, as good citizens, he independent of that fact. It will touch your pocket, since I have to give you the fact that these three cities pay about eight million dollars’ worth of taxes a year to arraign, try and support the criminal population. Yon help to pay the board of every criminal, from the sneak thief that snatches a spool of cotton, up to the man who swamps a bank. More than that, it toijphes your heart in the moral depression of the eommuni /. You might as well think to stand in a closely-confined room where there are fifty people and yet not breath*! the vitiated air, as to stand in a community where there is such a great multitu de of the depraved without somewhat being contaminated. IVhat is the fire that burns your store down compared vrith the conflagration which consumes your morals? What is the theft of the jjrold and silver from your moneysafe compared with the theft of your children’s virtue?

e are all ready to arraign criminals. We shout at the top of our voice: “Stop thief!” and when the police get on the track we come out, hatless and in our slippers, and assist in the arrest. We come around the bawling ruffian and hustle him off to justice, and when he getjs in prison what do we do for him? With great gusto we put on the handcuffs and the hopples; but what preparation are we making for the day when the handcuffs and the hopples come off? Society seems to say to these criminals: “Villain, go in there and rot,” when it ought to say: “You are an offender against the law, but we mean to give you an opportunity to repent; we mean to help you. Here are Bibles and tracts and Christian influences. Christ died for you. Look, and live.” Vast improvements have been made by introducing industries into the prison; but we want something more than hammers and shoe lasts to reclaim these pijople. Aye, we want more than sermons.on the Sabbath day. Society must impress these men with the fact that it does not enjoy their suffering, and that it is attempting to reform and elevate them. The majority of criminals su ppose that society has a grudge against them, and they in turn have a grudge against society. They are harder in heart and more infuriate when they come out of jail than w hen they went in. Many of the people who go to prison gp again and again and again. Some years ago of fifteen hundred prisoners who during the year had been in Sing Sing, four hundred&liad been there before. In a house of correction in the country, where during a certain reach of time there had been five thousand people, more than three thousand had been there- before. So, in one case the prison, and in the other case the house of correction, left them just as bad as they were before. The secretary of one of the benevolent societies of New York taw a lad fifteen years of age who had spent three years of his life in prison^ and he said to the lad: “What have they done for you to make yoti better?” “Well,” replied Ihe lad, “the first time I was brough t up before the judge he said: ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself.’ then I oomurittefj ft orime again,

and I was brought tip before the same judge, and he said: “Yon rascal!’ And after awhile I committed some other crime, and I was brought before the same judge, and he said: ’You ought to be hanged.’” This is all they had done for him in the way of reformation and salvation. “Oh,” you say, “these people are incorrigible.” 1 suppose there are hundreds of persons this day lying in prison bunks who would leap up at the prospect of reformation, if society would only allow them a way into decency and respectability. “Oh,” you say: “I haTe no patients with these rogues.” I ask you in reply, how much better would you hare been under the same circumstances? Suppose your mother had been a blasphemer and your father a sot, and you had started life with a body stuffed with evil proclivities, and you had spent much of your time in a cellar amid obscenities and cursing, and if at ten years of age you had been compeled to go out and steal, battered and banged at night if you came in without any spoils, and suppose your early manhood and womanhood had been covered with rags and • filth, and decent society had turned its back upon you, and left you to consort with vagabonds and wharf-rats—hoW much better would you have been? I have no sympathy with that executive clemency which would let crime run loose, or which would sit in the gallery of a court-room weeping because some hard-hearted wretch is brought to justice; but 1 do say that the safety and life of the community demand more potential influences in behalf of public offenders. In some of the city prisons the air i^ like that of the Black Hole of Calcutta. I have visited prisons where, as the air swept through the wicket, it al most knocked we down. No sunlight. Young men who had committed their first crime crowded in among old offenders. I saw in one prison a woman, with a child almost blind, who had been arrested for the crime of poverty, who was waiting until the slow law could take her to the alms house, where'she rightfully belonged; but she was thrust in there with her child amid the most abandoned wretches of the town. Many of the offenders in that prison sleeping on the floor, with nothing but a vermin-covered blanket over them. These people crowded and wan and wasted and half-suffocated and infuriated. I said to the men: “How do you stand it here?” “God knows,” said one man, “we have to stand it.” Oh, they will pay you when they get out. Where they burned down one house they will burn three. They will strike deeper the assassin's knife. They are this minute plotting worse burglaries. Some of the city jails are the best places I know of to manufacture foot-pads, vagabonds and cut-throats. Yale college is not so well calculated to make scholars, nor Harvard so well calculated to make scientists, nor Princeton so well calculated to make theologians as many of our jails are calculated to make criminals. All that those men do not know of crime after they have been in that dungeon for some time, Satanic machinations can not teach them. In the insufferable stench and sickening surroundings of such places there is nothing but disease for the body, idiocy for the mind and death for the soul. Stifled airland darkness and vermin never turned a thief into an honest man. We want men like John Howard and Sir William lllackstone, and women like Elizabeth Fry, to do forthe prisoners of the United States what those people did in other days for the prisoners of England. I thank God for what Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines and Mr. Harris and scores of others have done in the way at prison reform; but we want something more radical before will come the blessing of Him who said: “1 was in prison, and ye came

UUtU LUC. Again, in ydhr effort to arrest this plague of crime you need to consider untrustworthy officials. “Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes drink in the morning.” It is a great calamity to a city when bad men get into public authority. Why was it that in New York there was such unparalleled crime between 1866 and 1871? It was because the judges of police in that city at that time, for the most part, were as corrupt as the vagabond that came before them for trial, Those were the days of high carnival for election frauds, assassination and forgery. We had all kinds of rings. There was one man during those years that got one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars in one year for serving the public. In a few years it was estimated that there were fifty millions of public treasure squandered. In those times the criminal had only to wink to the judge, or his lawyer would wink for him, and the question was decided for the defendant. Of the eight thousand people arrested in that city iu one year, only three thousand were punished. These little matters were “fixed up,” while the interests of society were “fixed down.” You know as well as I do that one vRlian who escapes only opens the door for other criminalities. When the two pick-pockets snatched the diamond-pin from the Brooklyn gentleman in a Broadway stage, and the villians were arrested, and the trial was set down for the general sessions, and then the trial never caine, and never anything more was heard of the case, the public officials were only bidding higher for more crime. .It is no compliment to public authority when we have in all the cities of the country, walking abroad, men and women notorious for criminality, unwhipped of justice. They are pointed out to you in the street day by day. There you find what are called the “fences,” the men who stand between the thief and the honest man, sheltering the thief, and at a great price handing over the goods to the owner to whom they belong. There you will find those who are called the “skinners,” the men who hover around Wall street, with great sleight-of-hand in bonds and stocks. There you find the funeral thieves, the people who go and sit down and mourn with families and pick their pockets. And there you find the ' “confidence men,” who borrow money of you because they have a dead child in the house and want to bury it, when they never had a house or a family; or they want to go to England and get a large property there, and they want you to pay their way, and they will send the money back by the very next mail. There are the “harbor thieves,’ the shoplifters,” the “pickpockets,” famous all over the cities. Hundreds of them with their faces in the “Rogues’ Gallery,” yet doing nothing for the last five or ten years but defraud society and escape justice. When these people go unarrested and unpunished, it is putting a high premium upon vice, and saying to the young criminals of this country: “What a safe thing it is to be a great criminal.” Let the law swoop upon them. Let it be known in this country that crime will have no quarter, that the detectives are after it, that the police club is being brandished, that the iron door of the prison is being opened, that the judge is ready to call on the case. Too great leniency to criminals is too great severity to society. Again: In your effort to arrest this plague of crime, yon need to consider the idle population. Of course, I do not paler to toe people who are getting

old, or to the sick, or to those who can not get work; but I tell yon to look ont tor those athletic men and women who will not w k. When the French nobleman was asked why he kept busy when hd had so large a property, he said: “I keep on engraving so 1 may not hang myself.” 1 do not care who the man is, yon can not afford to be idle. It is from the idle classes that the criminal classes are made up. Character, like water, gets putrid if it stands still too long. Who can wonder that in this world, where there is so much to do, and all the hosts of earth and Heaven and hell are plunging into the conflict, and angles are flying, and God is at work, and the universe is aquake with the marching and counter-marching, that God lets His indignation fall upon a man who chooses idleness? I have watched these do-noth-ings who spend .their time stroking their beards, and retouching their toilet, and criticising industrious people, and pass their days and nights in .bar tooUes and club houses, lounging and smoking and chewing and card playing. They are not only useless, but they are dangerous. How hard it is for them to while away the hour 1 Alas for. them! If they do not know how to while away an hour, what will they do when they have all eternity on their hands. These men for awhile smoke the best cigars, and wear the best clothes, and move in the highest spheres; but I- have noticed that very soon they come down to the prison, the alms house, or stop at the gallows. The police stations of this cluster of cities furnish annually between two hundred thousand and three hundred thousand lodgings. For the most part these two hundred thousand and three hundred thousand lodgings are furnished to able-bodied men and women—people as able to work as you and I are. When they are received no longer at one police station, because they are “repeaters,” they go to some other station, and so they keep moving around. They get their food at house doors, stealing what they can lay their hands on in the front basement while the servant is spreading the bread in the back basement. They will not work. Time and again, in the country districts, they have wanted hundreds and thousands of laborers. These men will not go. They do not want to work. I have tried them. I have set them to sawing wood in my cellar to see whether they wanted to work. I offered to pay them well for it. I have heard the saw going for about three rpinutes, and then I went down, and 10, the wood, but no saw! They are the pest of society, and they stand in the way of the Lord's poor, who ought to be helped, and must be helped, and will be helped. While there are thousands of industrious men who can not get any work, these men who do not want any work come in and make that plea. I am in favor of the restoration of the oldfashioned whipping-post for just this one class of men who will not work; sleeping at night at public expense in the station house; duVing the day getting their food at your doorstep. Imprisonment does not scare them. They would like it. Blackwell’s island or Sing-Sing would be a comfortable home for them. They would have no objection to the alms house, for they like thin soup, if they can not get mock-tur-tle. I propose this for them; On one side of them put some healthy work; on the other side put a rawhide, and let them take their choice. I like for that class of people the scant bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the Thessalonian loafers: “If any work not, neither should he eat.” By what law of God or man is it right that yotf and I should toil, day in and day out, until our hands are blistered and our arms ache and our brain gets numb, and then be called upon to support, what in the United States are about two million loafers? They are a very dangerous class. Let the public authorities keep their eyes on them.

mere is a vast underground i\ew York and Brooklyn life that is appalling and shameful. It wallows and steams with putrefaction. Yon -go down the stairs, which are wet and decayed with filth, and at the bottom you find the poor victims on the floor, cold, sick, three-fourths dead, sinking into a still darker comer under the gleam of the lantern of the police. There has not been a breath of fresh air in that room for five yews, literally. The broken sewer empties its contents upon them, and they lie at night in the swimming filth. There they are, men, women and children; blacks, whites; Mary Magdalen without her repentance, and Lazarus without his God. These are the “dives” into which the pickpockets and the thieves go, as well as a great many who would like a different life, but can not get it. These places are the sores of the city, which bleed perpetual corruption. They are the underlying volcano that threatens ns with a Caraccas earthquake. It rolls, and roars, and surges, and heaves, and rocks and blasphemes and dies. And there are only two outlets for it—the police court and the potter’s field. In other words, they must either go to prison or to hell. Oh, you never saw it, yon say. You never will see H until on the day when those staggering wretches shall come up in the light of the judgment throne, and while all hearts are being revealed God will ask you what you did to help them. I have preached this sermon for four or five practical reasons: Because I want yon to know who are the uprooting classes of society. Because I want you toibe more discriminating in your charities. Because I want your hearts open with generosity, and your hands open with charity. Because I want you to be made the sworn friends of all city evangelization, and all newsboys’ lodg-ing-houses, and all children’s aid societies and Dorcas societies, under the skillful manipulation of wives and mothers and sisters and daughters; let the spare garments of your wardrobe be fitted to the limbs of the wan and shivering. I should not wonder if that hat that you give should come back a jeweled coronet, or if that garment that, you hand out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be whitened, and somehow wrought into the Saviour’s own robe, so in the last day He would run His hand over it and say: “I was naked, and Ye clothed Me.” That would be putting your garments to glorious uses. But more than that, I have preached the sermon because I thought in the contrast you would see how very kindly God had dealt with you, and I thought that thousands of you would go to your comfortable homes and sit at your well-filled tables and at the warm registers, and look at the round faces of your children, and then you would burst into tears at the review of God’s goodness to you, and that you would go to your room and lock the door, and kneel down and say: “O Lord, I have been au ingrate; make me Thy child. 0 Lord, there are so many hungry and unclad and unsheltered today, I thank Thee that all my life Thou hast taken such good care of me. O Lord, there are so many sick and. crippled children to-day, I thank Thee mine are well, some of them on earth, some of them in Heaven. Thy goodness, 0 Lord, breaks me down. Take me once and forever. Sprinkled as 1 was many years ago at the altar, while my mother held me, now I consecrate my soul to Thee in a holler haptiam of repenting tears, I

A STUBBORN NEGRO ta Bed Twenty-SpTPD Tears, Though Not Physically Disabled. One of the mo6t remarkable illustrations of the power of the hnpian will* says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is John Bonh, a negro about fifty years old, who, although in no way disabled, has lain in bed for nearly twenty-seven years. When quite a young man he, with his mother and two sisters, lived on a farm near Paoli, Ind. The mother determined to sell the farm and move to Mitchell. This plan met with great opposition from the son, who declared if the farm was sold he would go to bed and never get up No attention was paid to the threat, and the farm was sold and the family moved here. On the night of their arrival John went to bed as usual, but when morning came he refused to get up. No amount of persuasion, threats or entreaties could get him out of bed, and for twenty-seven years he has stubbornly carried out his threat of not arising, with one exception, that being the death of his mother a few years ago. About midnight, as the neighbor women were watching the corpse, they were terribly frightened by the appearance of John, making a most ghostly appearance, all draped in white and his face as ghastly as that of a dead man. Some of them, not being aware of his existence, thought they were being visited by a sure-enough spook. When he first took to his bed the case caused a great deal of comment. Physicians examined him and pronounced him in perfect health But all means which were used to raise him proved failures. An alarm of fire and a cry of burglars had no effect on him whatever. As time has. passed the people have lost interest in his case and are only reminded of his existence by seeing him carried on a stretcher to the polls on the occasion of some important election, in the last few years his health has been gradually failing him, and he lies in bed, His head and body completely covered, and speaks to uo one unless spoken to, and then he answers all questions as intelligently as anyone._ ACCUMULATED WEALTH. Historical Incident In Which an Astor Forgot Ills Honor. If some men who hare accumulated great riches had been more scrupulous and less selfish in the accumulation there would be less prejudice amongthe poor and the moderately well off against the owners of -many millions, says a writer in the New York Press. The Astor wedding reminds the student of American history of the. singular course taken by the first American Astor at the time of the warof 1812. In his anxiety to protect his Canadian fur interests John Jacob Astor, having procured the earliest news of the declaration of war, sent word by express messenger to his agent or partner at Queenston, Can. The messenger, as he dashed through the villages and by the pioneer farms of western New York, never hinted a word of the portentous secret that he boi-e in his breast. He crossed the Niagara to Canada and there made known the fact, a whisper of whiRi on the American side would-have put the whole border on guard. The Canadians, without a moment's hesitation, organized an expedition and descended on the' unsuspecting Americans.' Of course Astor's sole object was to save his furs. # It is well known that the fortune of the Rothschilds, the groat European bankers, was swelled immensely by the use of early knowledge regarding the result at Waterloo. Millions of hearts would have been relieved by making known that exclusive knowledge, but wealth looked after its own interests, without respect to patriotism or humanity. Such instances might be multiplied, but these are. .among the most conspicuous. It is nos strange, therefore, that there is a disposition on the part of the people toward harsh criticism of the Hebrews who possess extraordinary wealth, when wealth has been so often indifferent to the highest interests of t.hp nonnlp

A TEN-FOOT HEAD OF HAIR. It Ilelongs to a Delicate Little Texas Woman Who Is Proud of It. The longest suit of hair in the world is perhaps that which grows on the head of Miss Asenath Philpott, of Cfainesville, Tex., hers trailing oh the ground when she stands nearly four feet, and measuring in all ten feet and seven inches. Miss Philpott is a slight, delicate woman, approaching middle age and regards her magnificent tresses as rather a nnisancev complaining that their weight actually drains her strength. The present growth, says the New York Journal, is of the past seven years, as in 1884 her head was shaved during a spell of brain fever. It is nee- | essary to her health to cut out argo quantities of hair every few months, and this she has a regular sale for from some large wig manufactory in the east, which pays her well for it, as its fineness and silky gloss is exceptiona , besides being of a much-admired red gold tint. Miss Philpott says she has been several times approached by enterprising proprietors of dime museums, who have made her offers to travel with then as a freak, and has also been requested to act as agent for sundry hair tonics. She claims that her family have for generations been noted for the beauty and length of their hirsute ornaments, her grandfather having a beard that fell to his feet and beingobliged to eut his hair every day or two. Her mother’s hair was such that when she lay In her coffin it enwrapped her from head to foot and was then obliged to be folded back sew eral times. » - = THE MARKETS. NEW York. April 13. 1891. CATTLE—Native Steers.,$ 4 50 ® 6 €0 COTTON—Middling.. 8%» FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 3 75 ® WHEAT—No. 2 Red.. .... 1 16%a 77%a 5 25 4 SO 4 00 CORN—No. 2 OATS—Western Mixed. 57 a PORK—New Mess. 13 50 ® 1 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling... REEVES—Choice Steers...... 5 75 Shipping .. HOGS—Common to Select. SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. •. FLOUR—Patents. 4 SJ0 XXX to Choice_ 3 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter... 1 05 CORN—No, 2 Mixed. 68%a OATS—No. 2. 54%® BYE-No. 2. 85 ® TOBACCO—Lugs. 1 10 » Leal Burley. 4 50 ® HAY-Clear Timothy. 14 50 ® BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 18 EGGS—Fresh—........ ■•■«.. .... FORK—Standard Mess.. .... BACON—Clear Rio....,. LARD—Prime Steam. ® WOOL—Choice Tub. ® CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 4 35 8 HOGS—Good to Choice. 4 75 ® SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 4 75 a FLOUR—Winter Patents. 4 50 a Spring Patents.. 4 60 ® WHEAT-No. 2 Spring.. 1 03%® CORN—No. 2. 6715® OATS—No. 2 White. 55Va® 9 5 65 1 20% 79% 62 14 00 8% 625 5 60 5 30 6 25 5 00 4 00 1 05% 68% 56 87 5 10 a 700 ® 17 60 a 22 a 11% a 12 so a 6% a 6% a 35 6 50 5 40 5 90 5 15 525 1 03% 67% 56 PORK—Standard Mess. a 12 37% KANSAS CITY CATTLE—Shipping Steers... 3 75 a 6 15 HOGS—All Grades. 335 a 505 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. a 100 OATS—No. 2. a 53 CORN—No. 2. .... a 65 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-Uigh Grade. 4 75 a 5 26 CORN—No. 2... ... a 84 OATS—No. 2. 63 a 64 HAY—Choice.. JO 00 a 22 00 PORK-New Mess.. a 12 75 BACON—Clear Rib. a 6* COTTON—Middling. a 8% LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Bed.• a 1 01 COKN-No. } White.. a T* OATS—No. J Mixed.\ a H PORK—Mess... ..... • 13 01 BACON—Clear Rib....$ a 6% OOTTON—Middling.. 8% f Mfc

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