Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 September 1896 — Page 5

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The political demonstration by the railroad men was several times bigger than expected by those who had charge of it. In the beginning it was thought that perhaps three, or at the outside fottr, thousand men would come to the city but during the three or four days preceding Thursday, the preparations had to be hourly changed to accommodate the increasing number of excursionists. By Thursday morning the railroad companies knew that they w^re short on coaches. Thursday night they knew that they could have brought 1,000 more men had the companies been able to getcoaches. The official figures are given as 10,000 men. It is undoubtedly true that there were 8,000. And, fully one-third of these were not in the procession. They streamed up town from the depot on the arrival of their trains, and1 helped to swell the number of spectators.* The railroad companies officials gave their time and incurred expense liberally to make the meeting the success it was. The question as to the net political effect depends on the number of Bryan men who were persuaded, or through the infection of the enthusiasm, or interest to say the least, concluded to vote for McKlnley. As to coercion, that is a word with, varied meaning to different persons. No one believes for a moment that a railroad official, superior or subordinate, would plainly make known to an employe that be would be a victim of official displeasure !f he did not join in the movement. But, no one believes for a moment that the 8,000 railroad men would have coma here at the request of the Republican committee, though the railroad companies were paid by the committee for all their faros. In short, the influencecnd effect of the activity and financial outlay by the railroad companies will be a big factor In the McKlnley campaign.

There is good reason for saying that the Populists and Democrats would have little or no difficulty in agreeing on a mixed electoral ticket were it not for the alarm of the candidates on the Democratic state ticket. There are candidates on that ticket who have thus far been able to prevent the Democratic state committee fusing 1 with the Populists unless the Populists state ticket be wtthdrawa. The Populists will not oonsider any proposition as to either state, legislative or congressional tickets until after the electoral ticket is arranged. They have cow submitted an ultimatum and they hold that the

Democrats have everything to lose and nothing to gain by refusing to accept the proposition. It Is that the Democrats accept Ave Populist electors. The Democrats have offered to put four Bryan and Watson electors on the ticket 'f the Populists will pull down their state ticket and the question now Is whether they will yield to the one demand that must be considered before any other fusion Is taken up. The Populists will put the other ten Democratic electors on their own ticket with the flvu Pops and the Democrats are to put the five Pops on the regular Democratic, ticket In this way each party will have a complete ticket ?n the field but the same fifteen electors would be voted for on both tickets. The candldatos on the Democrat 1c state t'cket will not like this proposition because they will fear that the Populist who might otherwise be inclined to vote a straight Democratic ticket from electors to sheriff will vote his own straight ticket knowiug that he is thereby aiding the Bryau cause just as much as if he voted for the electors rnder the rooster. The strong probability is that the Populist ultimatum will be accepted. The national party organisation will put the pressure on the state organisotlon if it has not already done so, and just now when the state managers are begging for money, speakers and campaign literature from their national managers they are in the position when it is very true that beggars are not choosers.

The fact has been demonstrated once more that TVrre Haute people will not go to the race meetings unless they are assured they will see something phenomi/ml or world's record breaking miles. It 'has been noticed for several years that four-fifths of the money received at the gates is from non-residents. The ten or twelve years we hare been having high elaas harness races have not appreciably increased the local Interest in the races simply as contests. Tbe common explanation of this is that Terre Hau was spoM (H1 »iinn' years ago when every ra was a sennation. The do not want to go to the grnnnris unless they are assured thoy wHl the sensational. They are like t!io Ixvmlor -tt hotel whose taste has

H«n ruinixI hy the hitfuly spiced entrees. He d*v* not like k»«1. wholesome ros^t Of rour-'" if would have fopen smpossible to k***p np the lick at a few jvir* ac for

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for-r.autvs o( th horwp as in all other thing*. Thoae persons who r**My enjoy atil Appreciate a good horse race, though 1 ho tim may not be phenomlnr rarely ht«t seen anything better than the races on Tawrssiay. Still, *t

assurance that just as good races would be given next week it is doubtful if there would be an increased attendance of Terr*

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Haute people. A few specials like Marion Mills would drawUibre people than all the races of the week's programme. If Barnum had been managtag ths races he would have made as muclfcf a sensation out oC the pretty mare which paces a well rated mile without driveror sulky as he did of his woolly horse. *Fhe gentlemen who are managing the trotting meetings are not showmen, however,, and it is not to be expected that they will adopt such methods.

President Knight,. of the United Mine Workers of Indiana, has shown that he is able to do a little writing for the public to meet President Talley of the Operators' Association, in right good style. Both the miners and operators find, after all their sharp controversies among themselves, that it is a good thipg to make a play occasionally -for the 'igrand stand," or, in other words, for the public. In the beginning of their negotiations they sit behind closed doors abd the reporters han^ around to get a word now and then of what is going on, but now when both are getting tired of the prolonged struggle the newspaper is called into use, although it should be said in justice to President Knight that he was asked if he cared to make a statement for the public. Mr. Knight's contention is that the Illinois competition, that is from the mines where coal is mined at less price than is paid in this state, is not much of a factor in the Chicago market.* The operators have been insisting for the past year that they could not meet the competition of the cheap mined coal in Illinois, but Mr. Knight says that much of the coal sent to the Chicago market from north of here in Illinois is m'ned at a higher price than paid in Iudi ana that the output of the Grape Creek district, near Danville, is so small in comparison as not to be a controlling factor, I understand that this statement is called into question and that it is said the output is equal to nearly one-half the Indiana product which finds a market in Chicago. One thing that Mr. Knight says is undoubtedly true. It is that the invariable tendency is for lower wages. The talk to the effect that the men would better accept a lower price for mining in these hard times and wait for good times to secure an advance, he meets with the statement that the advance never comes with good times. In other words, there have been several "good times" Bince the price began falling from more than a dollar a ton to 00 cents, and at no time has there been an advance from the lower price accepted in hard times.

The official report of the convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is to the effect that Debs was exonerated, and that the convention elected a new board of trustees and anew executive com mitt~e. It is said that Debs had a hearing, and that Sargent, Arnold and Hynes also spoke. To any one who knows the inside of these brotherhood affairs and the scan dalous and sensational charges probably up at Galveston, the report given to the press is ridiculous as regards its news value. Of course what Is given to the press is from the secretary of the convention, and it is well enough to understand that he does not give the news a newspaper man would want. The grand officers were re-elected. This means a patcbedup peace. There were charges that would not have admitted of a general re-election. But the convention seems to have come to the conclusion that it would put a new set of men on the committees in charge of the affairs of the brotherhood as regards the finances and expense accounts of the grand officers. There is where the fault lies in all these brotherhoods. The "grands" live and travel like Depews and the men pay the bills—sometimes bills that never were incurred. Debs had said so, and that was why charges were preferred against him reach'ng back into his old administration as secretary. But when he arrived in Galveston his accusers fell down before him. The inside story of the Galveston convention undoubtedly would make interesting reading.

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1*HE CRUEL WAYS "AMUSE" THEMSELVES.

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Mario Cararit & disciple of Genre Lomhroso, the Italian expert criminal anthropology, has made a special study Of the sports that criminals engage is. The innooent games of childhood, in the case of criminals, are tinotured with cruelty and sometimes aooompanied by homicide.

Criminals skip the rope, but^part of the game is to trip up the jumper and let him fall heavily upon the stone pavement.

Criminals play leapfrog, but the object of the game is that he who makes the "back" shall rise Buddenly and violently just as the frog mounts and throw him to the gre nnd.

The criminals play blind man's buff, but the man with the bandaged eyes carries a handkerchief bearing in one corner a jagged stone, a pi6oe of hard, sharpened wood or a bit of iron. With this weapon he strikes those whom he pursues.

Another remarkable form of game is for the blinded one to be a by one or another of his companicodif he fails to name the One that touches' him. The penalty is &ot the inno&ftt one cf "the children's game, bat a blow so severe that a physician has of ted* to be called in after a game is over, arid occasionally the sufferer is disabled ioir some time.

It has been found In those Italian reformatories where prisoners are pot kept in solitary confinement that pris oners' games are often accompanied with bloodshed, and that it is almost impossible to prevent cruelties. This is especially true where prisoners work to^ gether, for they secrete tools and use them as weapons in brutal sports.

In one of these games the player has in each hand a stick, having fixed in the end a keen metallio point. He in terweaves his arms, revolving the sticks with rapidity, and the game *is fo^n^ other prisoner to thrust his ,hoad tween the arms and endeavor to follow the revolutions of the sticks without being wounded. It usually hapjpebs, he receives 15 or 16 wounds and c&n out with a bleeding head, while and then mortal injuries are received.

The victim in another game has his eyes bandaged and places his palm upon a table, with fingers spread fanlike. Another criminal repeatedly strikes between the fingers with a pointed instrument If he wounds a finger, then the two change places, and woe to the man who refu .es the exchange. The game is dangerous, although the criminals as sert that the wounds to the fingers s\re not deep or severe, because, they say, the metallic points are too short and do not'penetrate far, a grim form of phil osophy. .'»•

The sport of criminalsis accompanied by characteristic craft. This is especially shown in the methodg in which th$ newoomer is initiated into prison life: The novice is conducted into an improvised court chamber, where the judges are his fellow prisoners. He is placed upon a stand and gravely tried upon a pretended charge, and he has barely been condemned when the stand is suddenly drawn away, so that he is thrown violently upon the earth.

Many games necessarily imply resistance to pain as an absolute oondition of suocess. For example, there is the game of "needles." One of the players places his closed fists upon the table, holding steadily two needles, one in each hand, the points being slightly exposed. It is the game then for a companion to strike with his own fists those of the other and becomes a question of endurance between the one who is pricked with the needles and the one whose fists are beaten by the other's knuckle*

There are contests in which the fingers and hands are deeply wopnded, and the scars are an honorable distinction.

The characteristic feature of all these games, which are the recreation exclusively of criminals in prison, is the love of combat If, as is held by experts, sports are the means of working off the superfluous activity of life, it is evident that superfluous activity, in the case of prisoners, is especially powerful It has been not^d in the case of prisoners that there is a prevalence of great agility and li then ess, which Professor Lombroso considers a negative evidence of mental weakness, since it testifies to a greater development of the notorial centers' at the expense of the other cerebral CcSuterS. But usually this physical energy li not properly used in the ordinary life of thfc criminal and finds outlet and enjoyment in sports.

Another characteristic of the gained of criminals is the admiration shown for physical force, manifested in the docility with which the vanquished in such sports submit to the brutality of the victors, a thing observed among savages.

Finally the insensibility to pain exhibited in sports of criminals proves that such men arc less acute in their physical senses as well as less sensitive to the pains of others, since what seems to others uselessly cruel is only the usual thing with criminals. As the drunkard, bis taste hardened by alcohol, has need of a stimulant constantly stronger, so in the case of the criminal, the nervous system demands stimulate so strong that to the ordinary ste.i going individual they would be actually painful—Pearson's Weekly.

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"If you efcose, yon could be the light of my lifV said he when they met at the balL

YgsF* she said few want of anything better to s^y. "Yes. But whenever 1 call, yon are oat."—Indianapolis Journal.

MAIL, SEPTB]»BB 26,1896.

SIREN SONGS FORSOPHERSU

'Pwr Florids Uad TMitol A— off Their Bote* W. H. Gilbert, looksmitb^aafcropomer, fisherman, scientist, hunter and capitalist* is a great fancier of gopher meat and has thought of many ways at cktohing the game.

Some time ago be learned that there was a family living in the northwestern part of the oounty which boasted of young men who could "sing" gophers oat of their holes. He traveled many miles to ascertain,.11,the report.was really true. n4 .s,"

The young men were reluctant at first to give an exhibition that might reveal their secret, bat Mr. Gilbert had number of pursuasives along and finally they oonsenteLt.v-,?

The young men equipped themselves with a gunny sack and ft- pointed stick about five feet long. A half mile from the house, in the wire grass of the rolling pine land, they found the hole of a gopher. They covered the entrance of his tunnel with a sack and planted the stick over the tunneL Then all of the men lay down about 80 feet away and one of them sang.

In a half hoar the sack was seen to move slightly, whereupon one of the young men jumped up quickly and ran to the stick, which he pansaod deep into the ground, catting off the gopher's retreat The other reached his hand into the. hole and brought out a big gopher, which was made into a delicious stew for their dinner. Mx. Qilbert, jdisooursing oq^the incident, says: •'*1 hhve since learned that the Mexicans, who axe very fond of gophers, pursue this method, except that they do not sing. The singLig is entirely superfluous. Curiosity is what kills the gopher, a« it has killed the historic oat. The animal evidently is curious to learn what it is that has darkened the threshold of his abode and oomes forth to see. The stick does the rest I have tried the same plan myself and very successfully.Florida Times-Union.

FORESTALLING THIEVES.

Why Thomas A. thing H« Invents. JLs Thomas A. Edison watched the pumping of the air from a glass tube in his laboratory a day or two ago, a man said to him vWw"You patent every little thing you discover, don't you, Mr. Edison?" "I do," said Mr. Edison, "and do you know why I do it?" .. "I suppose you do it so you will reap the benefit of your discovery," was the reply. "I thought you'd say that," said Mr. Edison, "and I don't suppose you will believe me when I tell you it isn't so. Nevertheless, I discover a great many things that I would be glad to give to the publio for nothing, bnt I don't dare. I patent these things to save myself from defending lawsuit* There area lot of sharks in this world who are continually on the lookout for new things, and when one of them hears of something new he hustles to the patent office to see if it is patented. If it, isn't he claims it as an original discovery and lies his ol»im. Then he will turn right iround arid, like a? not, begin a suit with the man who invented the thing for making or using it The inventor will say: *But I discovered this thing first I am the inventor.' He is referred to the patent office, where he finds the official claim of original invention. The fact that the papers are filed long afte he made his discovery does not help him, for all the other man does is to hire a fellow to swear that he made the dk covery a month or two prior to the date ttie inventor olaims.

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^A H*rt«4ttln Without Mmmqt. 0bo evening, when returning from the theatiB* in a cab (sic), having ordered the coachman to drive to the Sun, a tavern in Clare market, he threw himself out of the ooaoh window and through the open window of the tavern parlor just as the driver was about to draw up. The man then desoended from the box, touched his hat And stood waiting for his passenger to alight Finding at length there was no one visible, he besought a few blessings on the sooundrel who had imposed -apoa him, remoon tedhis box and was about to drive off $hen Rich, who had been watching, vaulted back, into the vehicle, and, patting his head out, asked, "Where the |eyil are you driving to?" Almost parajyzed* W&& &ar, the driver got. ddwtf again, hut obuld not be persuaded to take his fare, Uumgh he was offered a shilling lor himself, exclaiming

Scyojp! That won't da I know you too w»u for all yonar sboeA, and so, Mr. Devil, for once you're outwitted."— Somervilta.

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