Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1897 — Page 2

MINDS ARE TAINTED

rXBNICI07S EFFECTS OF THE SOOAIXBO "NEW JOURNALISM."

The Garry Soolety'a Report—Seme' "Cases That Have Been Cared For By the Society, „t: &|< aAb«! 4,

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New York, Feb. 4.—The Sun says: In the twenty-second annual report of the Society lor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, fast printed, there is set forth the effect upon the minds of children of the new journallsm. In his address, President Gerry speaks of the influence of vicious journalism as one of the chief incentives -to crime in the young. He say®, in part: "Child criminals are inoreasing in this ^comnjunity. Notwithstanding all the humane, legal and religious influences at work this unpleasant fact can not be denied.

In the first place, the class of child criminals seems to have entirely changed. The larger number are those recently arrived foreigners, whose poverty and lack of intelligent education prevent them from giving that care to the children which the latter require. Many of these children are bright, intelligent and precocious they are ready to seize upon whatever may be placed in their way in the form of literature, and to shape their own actions accordingly. "They soon learn to read, and then comes the first cause of their training in vice— what may well be called vicious Journalism.

Lurid stories of crime, illustrated by vivid pictures representing criminals in daring and attractive attitudes descriptions of criminals arrested for gross immoralities, is with the like pictorial illustrations narratives of these, and especially of children charged with crime, where all the details ire elaborated with the greatest care, with their pictures often of a salacious character, make a deep-rooted impression. Any one conversing with children held for crime may soon learn whence the suggestions of crime are derived. They are only too ready to talk on the subject and frequently to compare their exploits with those found

In the nlewspapers. Our officers constantly 5" report thajt very young girls who have committed gross immoralities give as a reason for so doing the love of notoriety and a desire to see themselves illustrated in the newspapers.

Daily Doge of FolnoDi

"The decent part of the community exelude suc!h vile poison from their housear holds, but it is greedily read and devoured 3 by the uneducated classes, and this daily doae of poison poured into the minds of the young can be and is productive of but one result. Unless the poison is suppressed the number of criminal children must and will increase. No wonder that with the educational literature to aid them, the successor^ of Fagin find it easy to instruct their useful scholars in practical crime. I knew of no more effectual method of diverting the young from the paths of virtue and common honesty than by continually saturating their minds with prurient ideas, vicious stories, and tales of crime, in which ,the criminal is pictured aB a hero, and the narralve provokes inquiry from curiosity. Dime novels A are bad enough, but the criminal news costs •rfi almost nothing to purchase.' It is the enemy of the human race, and especially of the poor and ignorant. The intelligent neither read nor believe it. "If the able men of influence and experienoe who conduct our great journals were to unite to suppress this 'vicious journalism,' dangerous as it is to the future of the community, they would not only inspire every confidence among the law-loving and law-abiding citizens of this city, but they would do more to stifle juvenile crime and

Improve the habits and morals of the future citizens of this great republic than any other power which could be invoked to stay the evil."

Mr. Gerry says that in other respects the work of child saving goes forward satisfactorily, and mentions as a particularly advantageous feature the closing of evil resorts.

An instance of the influence of the new journalism in another form is shown in case NO. 106,516, which came under the society'a notice on July 17. The report is as follows: i" "A so-called 'Sick Babies' Fund,' an enterprise conducted by one of the sensational evening newspapers of this city, has been the source of a large number of complaints made to the society in regard to children begging ostensibly for this 'fund,' but often only using this as a cover for begging for themselves or their parents. On this date an officer of the society found a girl of 14 years on Fourth avenue making the stereotyped plea, 'Please help the Sick Babies'

Fund.' The child was taken into custody and to the rooms of the society, and was

later arraigned before Magistrate Flam iner in the Second District City Magistrate Court. It. had been ascertained that the parents of the child were poor but respectable people, and they, had no knowledge- of their child engaging in this begging scheme. The girl admitted that she found it profitable and that the money she received was spent in riding across the ferries, in buying candy, and visiting museums in company with other girls of her age who also begged in the name of the 'fund' and for similar purposes. The child was discharged to the custody of her parents with a word of caution from the magistrate."

Wanted to Free Cnbii.

A promising career was nipped in the bud by the society when it shipped back to his home Harry Ihler, a 11-year-old lad from

Massillon, O. Harry went to Canton with a delegation from his home, shook the hand of President-elect McKinley, theu a presi

dential candidate, as it was September, and decided to free Cuba. Having come to this laubable decision, he contrived to get to this city by train, and finding that there was no regular railway communication between here and Cuba, set about finding out how to get there. Following out an ancient maxim for those in doubt, he asked a policeman which was the way to Havana. The policeman asked him what he wanted to go there for, Harry expressed a desire to set Cuba afloat in Spanish blood, whereupon the policeman walked him around the corner and enlisted him at the Oak street police station. Subsequently he was arraigned at the Center street Police Court, and committed to the care of the society which communicated with his parents. On learning that he was to be sent home again. Harry, much disgusted, contributed an unsolicited testimonial to the society, which Is omitted from its report on the case. He irrived safely iu Massillon. Thus were the lives of untold numbers of Spaniards saved by the efforts the society.

About fifty other cases are detailed in the report, and a number of pictures of children are printed. One of them represents one of those mysterious cases of abandonment so common and so difficult of solution. The case is that of five-year-old Rosa Alt man. who was found at 10 o'clock »n the night of October 17, at Madison and Jefferson streets. The child was neatly dressed and intelligent. She said her uiu:h5 er had left her within sight of the "green lamps" (-those of the Madison street police etation). She could not remember where •he lived, nor did she know of any father, end all that is known of her to this day is she told the officer who found her.

She now in the care tA the Hebrew Sheltering Gmu*dla» Society. The report oii Superintendent Jenkins shows that during the year 9,082 complaints have been received and Investigated, 3,437 cases have been prosecuted, with a result of 3,379 convictions, and 5,922 children have been rescued and relieved. The society's reception rooms have sheltered 4,685 children. At the request of the city magistrates' 1,942 cases have been investigated, involving applications to commit 3,444 chilr dren, of whom 1,477 have been committed.

THE CZAR'S MELANCHOLY.

qu Continued HI Health C|«te» |^Th® Succession. |f|S bji London, Feb. 4.—TheD aily "Mall publishes dispatches announcing that the epileptic symptoms which marked the youth of the Czar are returning. These symptoms, taken ia connection with fears of the result of the approaching operation by which it, is ihoped to remove the bony protuberance from the head of the Czar have, it is asserted, produced feelings of morbid melancholia in the Russian monarch.

In commenting upon the Czar's health the Spectator says: "His Majesty's health is, as it happens, from circumstances connected with the succession, "a matter of almost historic importance. There is no heir yet in the direct line for though there is no Salic law in Russia, the little Grand Duchess Olga does not count until all male descendants of Nicholas I have expired. The Czarewitch, the next brother of the Emperor, is afflicted with the form of consumption which Englishmen 'used to call 'a decline,' and could not bear the rigors of Russian winter wfaile the third brother, the Grand Duke Michael, is almost too young to reign, and is always described by those who know anything of his personality as not yet very strong. It certain that tthe Czar can not possess his father's iron constitution, and certain, too, that he is, and if the present system endures, he must remain, terribly overworked. It is not only that he must do work, sedentary work with papers, for eight or ten hours a day, like the English barrister or physician, in great practice, but that the kind of work is so exhausting to the nerves.

It is bad enough to be Viceroy of India, with 200 or 300 executive orders to sign in. a week, 10 per cent of which may make' or nearly ruin individuals but a Viceroy is protected from doing too mucii harm by immutable laws, customs and responsibilities to the ultimate home authority. The 'supreme order' of the Czar, as it is called, has the force of law, can not in numerous cases be dispensed with, and in others almost as numerous, affects great interest^, great political movements, or the fate of persons to whom enormous powers are necessarily intrusted. Every such order requires an effort of the mind. People talk of autocrats as if they were necessarily demons, but in reality they are men of business, harsh or gentle as temperament may incline, but still most anxious that their policy or administration or special fad should succeed, and increase either the dignity or the happiness of the empire they are set to rule. It is almost impossible for a man in weak health to fill such a post without occasionally breaking down."

SENATOR WOLCOTT'S MISSION.

He is Not Meeting With Much Encourageinent in Europe. Paris, Feb. 4.—Senator Edward N. Wolcott of Colorado, who is now visiting Europe in the interests of bimetallism, had. an interview yesterday with Premier Meline. The correspondent of the Associated Press learns on authority that the interviews which he has so far had have been without the result hoped for by the senator. The interview with President Faure on Sunday was short and formal, and afforded no encouragement to look for a tangible result. M. Loubet, president of the senate, in his interview with Senator Wolcott, is understood to have expressed himself enthusiastically on the subject of international bimetallism, but on the other hand, Premier Mellne was very guarded in his expressions at yesterday's conference. He is reported to have said that however favorable France might be to the object sought nothing could be done unless the consent of England and Germany was previously obtained.

In official quarters little confidence is felt in the ultimate success of Senator Wolcott's mission, although he seems to be sanguine of England taking part in the bimetallic movement.

TERSE TELEGRAMS.

At Bloomsburg. Pa., Clifton Knorr confessed to having put poison in his mother's coffee and diphtheria germs iu her clothing.

T. D. Hargls, for sixty years a magistrate in Marshall county, Kentucky, is dead. During his term of offie he had married 1,999 couples.

The New York police commissioners have dismissed the charges against Police Captain Chapman, growing out ot his raid on the Seeley dinner, at Sherry's.

Serious charges of immorality and dishonesty have been made agralnst the management of the western Pennsylvania penitentiary, and will be officially investigated.

John E. Carpenter, a prominent member of the St. Louis board of trade, left home last Saturday, after writing a note saying recent reverses had been too much for him to bear, and threatening suicide.

A dispatch from Vienna announces that Munkaczy, the famous Hungarian artist, is very ill. It is said that two years ago he was placed in a private insane asylum near Bone, and that in all probability he will never be able to work at his easel again.

United States* Consul Walter B. Barker at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, complains that dispatches from the state department to him have been seized and read by the Spanish authorities.

The Supremo court of Ohio has decided' that Cincinnati may issue $0,500,000 bonds to build water works, but the bonds must be paid out of water revenue.

Lady William Beresford. formerly Duchess of Marlborough and previously Mrs. Louis Hammersley, of New York, has been deliver?d of a son. The mother and child are doing well.

Beujamin Henderson, a wealthy ranch-own-er and pioneer settler, of Ukiah, Cal. was murdered by a Mexican employed as a laborer on the ranch. There is great excitement in the community over the murder, Henderson beihg the most prominent citizen of this place. The murderer stabbed Henderson in the back and then hacked his body to pieees. .lohn Lane, of Grand Rapids, in consideration of $25, has, under written agreement, sold and released his wife to James H. Hurst. All concerned are to-day celebrating the event.

Charles 11. Yates, formerly United States Jndian agent at the Round Vall?y, Cai.. reservation. is alleged to be short iu his accounts to the government, lie has failed to account for $3,900. an4, the United States district attorney is about to sue Yates and bondsmen for the amount of the deficiency. It is alleged Yates made returns to the government of claims paid by him to Indians and ethers. Government experts have now discovered that many of these reputed amounts were never paid by Yates.

The sealing steamer Nimrod is still in the ice off the Newfoundland coast, searching for traces of the missing State of George, but the last message did not indicate, that any traces of the missing liner have been found. The State of Georgia is now over a month ovtrdue from New Fairwater, in the Baltic, to Halifax, freight, laden, and insured for $8,000. She carried a crew of thirty-one men, vrariy all of whom belonged In Aberdeen

Afa a desperate strugg:e, Slicriff Cuuuiru hani and pos.~ee as rested Charles Kleupfei". who murdered tharles JOodge and Alexander Borland in cold blood, at, Nowhope, Oal. Ar•er killing his victims, because they led him from a saloon where he. liad been creating a disturbance. Kleupfer "held up" the arresting conatahle. forcing the officer to tend bar for him. until the sheriff arrived. TCven then ii required the efforts of four nu4u t"' hold 14h»-

r*nf#r

her lover,. After, hiding for

BmuHs the Case With Extri Oellcacy.

I Special to Figaro.'

TBKRE HAUTE EXPRESS, MORNING, FEBRUARY 5,18W.

HEa SIN AND INSANITY rX: ST££

Charlerol.Jan. 19.—This moraine at 9 o'clock the divorce case of the Prince de Chimay against his wife, the Princess dp Chimay, came up before the Civil Court ot Chartered. The preceedln&s were^ conducted with closed doors. The court room was ali most empty, and no sightseers were outside. What do the miners of the blkck country care for this aristocratic gcandal?

The substitute for the crown prosecutor," M. Morelle, nevertheless, asked the court to spare the publicity of the bearing for the sake of the young children of the Prince de Chimay, the Innocent victims ot thb conduct of their mother. The sentiment was praiseworthy, but, unfortunately, the precaution was rather late, for a rfecord could reveal nothing new to the public.

For some weeks now Clara Ward, formerly Princess de Chimay, and., today the mistress of the gypsy Rigo, has been making herself notorious among all the lovers of scandal, and lending herself to the most extravagant interviews. The journalists whom M. Morelle, borrowing an Did phrase which he evidently 'believed to be new, called "the professionals of indiscretion," would have given proof of supernatural, virtue if they had closed their eyes and ears to this extraordinary case and after the hearing of this morning I can. relieve th& anxiety of the young magistrate of Charleroi. The trial added nothing to the scan-, dal on the contrary,.it toned it down, and that is a thing which does credit to Me. Beernaert of the house of representatives, and also to Me. Delacroix, the couiMJcl for the Prince de Chimay.

its to suspicious houses in Paris,, of her wanderings in disreputable localities, and of her indulgence in the most scandalous and gross fancies.

Messrs. Delacroix arid Beernaert did no.t attempt to rummage through pll that vmclean linen. One single episode sufficed ror the demand for a divorce on the part of the. Prince de Chimay, namely, the latest infat-i uation of the princess, her "craze," to employ her own style, for the gypsy who used

hotel of a village in the neighborhood off' Chimay, and brazenly visited him there ia broad daylight, driving to the place in hfet1

letter to the absent

s°I'a

took the train for Paris, accompanist by Rigo, and followed by her factor and his wife who consented to aid her in her flight. On arriving in Paris her

flrst

tor that ardent, indomitable and rebellious.

SAO STORY OF THE WRBTCHCD PBIN-' tjsmpcrajiieat. In Rico the Princess de CBSS OB CHIMAY,

qhlauty

haa tne river uug order that, her Rigo might enjoy a swim. He Clements, the father of Mark Twain, needed it..

h"'

Cbi™

J'.

pnne®'

the procession of Corpus

husband's

tVi|n

pass through the part^of Chimay this year The old custom could not be followed 'he old custom could not oe

just ang^r, the Prin

care wa« to

give them a dinner at the Atnbassadeuw. Rigo, of course, was there, and the next day after that evening party in private apartments the Princess wrote to her factor an astonishing letter in which she advised him to watch his wife closely, because from the oysters to the dessert, .especially the dessert, she never ceased eying Rigo- ,u

All that is known, and the Princess,herself took good care to keep the public, informed in regard to her apjorous Odys^yp We find her in London, Rome .and pest, appearing every day to be more, aip more in love with Rigo. She had not the excuse of being seduced by good JjjoKS, because her gypsy is fearfully pock-marked, or by education, of course, or even by wild art of his bewitching music, bwu?e she hates the violin, and compels hjp .[# put away his bow. •."r

And during all this frenzy of voice, debauchery she wrote sentimental Igttfgf to her husband, full of expressions of repentance, which the lawyers of the Pr,inpe regard as masterpieces of feminine duplicity. In one of them, when Rigo was indued at Chimay, and when she was with hii^ every day, the Princess begged her husband to forgive her, and to save her.. She wanted to throw herself at his feet, and implored him to allow her to do penance for two years' in a Carmelite convent, or to take her on "a long voyage, far, far away from the temptations apd rascalities of the world.

In another, a perfect specimen of insanity or bold depravity, she asks for a sort of conjugal leave of absence or release of five years, to enjoy perfect love with Rigo on the flowery banks of some river in the South. When the fire of her passion would be extinguished and her caprice thoroughly satiated she would return and resume her place in her old home! "We may yet see,'| she writes, "some bright days at Chimay.

In another letter she sends.to her husband her engagement presents, her.jeweis, and her prayer book, the latter "to be given to her little daughter on the day when she makes her first communion."

In other letters she declares, that she is no longer worthy cf the illustrious name of Chimay. On the night preceding her departure from Chimay with Rigo, whose name she will henceforth bear, she-slept with her little boy and her little girl, anl she tells her husband how the little things cuddled up to her, each repeating several times, "Won't you let me sleep with you every night, mamma?"

In still another letter she says that a.ter all, divorce is not made for dogs," and she begs her husband to take a mistress, hop-

ing that he "will make a better Choice

than he did when he married her. A"few

lines further on she speaks with affection

for her children, and would "love to'ikiss

their little rosy feet" and purchase their

happiness by giving up all the years of

In all this correspomtence mere

1M* found, perhaps, that master.' Me. Beernaert replied briefly, calling at-

t^ntion to the admissions of the princess

®nr .5 if ho does not attentat to deny an adultery

if ho does not attempt to deny an adultery, \fhich she has proclaimed to the world. An investigation would be superfluous, and would only bare the effect of prolonging the scandal. If the court said that witnesses ?^ere necessary to prove the adultery of the ijrincess de Chimay all Burope would thirst out laughing. The court, he said, would grant the divorce de piano, and would give

stpe

custody of the children to the prince, ifith an.annual allowance of 75,000 francs. »j Me. Allain asked that his client- might at least be allowed to see her children once a ttonih for an hour, in the presence of a third flarty. "The princess still loves them," he said. "She sacrificed herself for their happiness. By leaving them with her husband in the care of the mother, who was married for the third time this summer, and who succeeds her in the castle of Chimay and loudly condemns her conduct, Bhe performed an act of abnegation Solicitous of their education she did not wish to bring them with her and ruin them with herself."

The presiding judge, M. Bastin, adjourned the case for two weeks, for the conclusions of the Crown Prosecutor.

,jin her unconsciousness and in her hysteria that this young woman of 24 seeks the excuse of her con.duct. It remains'for her to await the judgment of the court and the inevitable justice of life. Yesterday she was Princess de Chimay tomorrow she will be Mme. Rigo. Yesterday she had a husband tomorrow she will have a master.

Alas for her once simple, happy, honest and plain life in Chimay, and those splendid evenings under the tall trees of the park, with her young children! How long will the

ploy ner awn Siyir,,iui VHP 6/koj .y- young Uimurcu now nnig win tue to play the fiddle at the Paillard restaurant. ignorant and pock-marked gypsy be able to She ran away with him., installed him in the1

com

^niao-Q in thn neighborhood off"

the castle, in the absence of the prince, and had the river dug in the park of Chimay in

pensate her for all that?

SELLERS VINDICATED.

broad dayngnc, anvmg crested carriage. She also received him in Millions in Land Onee Owned By Mark .. «. a mnl VIAA rPnra In'a ITn tian

Twain's Father.

Nashville, Teun., Feb. 4.-r-Samuel L. was a

Maine congressman, but the humorist was

The entire population was born in Missouri, according to some authorthe scandal. The burgomaster ^notified the men are now living who posiprlncess that he would be compe tively swear that he was born at "Jimtown," the passports of the lazy .. jn the Tennessee mountains. The coming she took under her pro ec on^ Congressman Clemens to Tennessee and her friend. The Cure of

,h his overland trip to Missouri in the early

.nl(1 ILtt forties were brought about by a speculation

iu which he and Daniel Webster lost $30,000 through the original of Colonel Mulberry

Selle

Ts, says the New York Sun.

Condemned by all jimtown is up in the Tennessee mountbuuuciuucu with Jimtown is up in tne Tennessee mouui-

ains ana on

the niap it is set down as

Jamestown, the cOtnty seat of Fentress

ner iuv«. ...^—'•" .• TT- Jamfcstown, tne cocniy seat oi j?euuw» granary in the neighborhood, county. Fentress county is a great hollow husband believed that she was

area

of land begirt on all sides by high spurs

area of land begirt on all sides by high spurs of the Cumberland range. In the fastnesses of these mountains are the hiding places of moonshiners, highwaymen and desperadoes. The James gang sought refuge once in this retreat. Jo C. Taylor, who has been magistrate, county clerk, county judge, state senator and deputy revenue collector, has earned $6,200 in the last twenty years by capturing criminals for whom rewards were offered.

Five years ago the little mountain paper of Fentress county contained a legal notice, warning the heirs of Daniel Webster, Samuel L. Clemens, et al., to appear and show cause why about 100,000 acres of land deeded to them in Fentress, Overton and Pickett counties should not be sold for back taxes, which had accumulated against them for forty years. No one appeared to defend the suit, and the land was sold to the highest bidders at public outcry for a song. Within two years after the sale oil was discovered, and the Webster and Clemens purchase was seen to be worth millons. Jimtown is in the center of the oil section.

Fifty years ago a foxy lawyer of middle age, the original of Colonel Sellers, arrived in the mountain town and opened a law and land office. He secured grants from the State for thousands of acres of the wild mountain lands, and made optional purchases of many thousands of acres more from his neighbors for 30 and 40 cents an acre. Then he packed his grip and moved on Washington. Webster was then at the height of his power in the Senate, while Clemens was in the House of Representatives from Maine. Webster wanted to be President, and Clemens was his confidential friend. The South held the balance of power, and Webster wanted the Southern vote. The lawyer and land agent from Tennessee met Webster, and impressed him with an exaggerated idea of his political power, and promised him Tennessee's support. Then the land agent broached his scheme to Webster. In the wilds of the Tennessee mountains, he said, were lands teeming with precious minerals, and the men who developed them would become fabulously rich. He told about his purchases, and said be wanted to associate with him men of capital. How better could Webster secure the support of Tennessee than by being a landowner in that State, he asked. Webster liked the scheme, and persuaded Samuel L. Clemens to invest with him. They raised $30,000 and turned it over to the Tennessee lawyer, who left Washington after having deeded the lands to \Vebster, Clemns, and their associates. What became of him is not known.

Months afterward, when nothing had been heard from the Tennessee boomer, Webster persuaded Congressman Clemens to leave hom and take his family overland to Tennes-

to reap lhe riches

join

life that remain to her. nessee to the Mississippi river, and crossIn all this correspondence there Is n»t a*

•_. 41Tri*irf»rde ..

word of reproach against the Prill eel «e

Chimay. The princess c&nstatttl? te|feats

ing

cUjr 0

that he was always good to her, that he'Me- gouthw^st served to be loved, that she holds hinf in the highest esteem, and that he never ffcr a single moment caused her any trouble. -Shfe calls herself a "wretch," a "cursed aud infected creature." a "joor hysterical thlttg," etc.

More indulgent in terms, if not in really. Me. Allain delicately pleaded attenuating circumstances in favor of his client. She is a savage of the new society," he said. "the is a savage of the new society," he said, "the ried at the age of 17, ouly too glad to become a princess, and was not to nufaJpct herself to the discipRue of our'piode of living. In the Prince de ('hiiiiay she found an exccUeiu too confi'dlu^i Vio

wag thig venture

that: had been prom-

hem. The trip overland was a

weary mouth of

Clemens

travel. When Congressman

a^ved he found a wilderness. Dis-

gusted wJth his part 0

.)Qeyed

the bargain, he

with his wa

gon train across Ten-

proceede( to

the spot where the little

Tfr

proceeded to the spot wnere tne ntue

hat gave Mark to the

Hannibal, Mo., now stands. It

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Durham to Succeed Penrose. Philadelphia, Feb. 4— Israel Durham was today nominated by the Republicans of the Sixth senatorial district to succeed United States Senator-elect Penrose in the state senate. Mr. Durham will be elected without opposition. He is the leader of the ancicombiue, or tiuay forces iu this city, and has been active for two years past in the pianajtenient of the campaigns of the faction which he represents.

Melville Company. Matinee Saturday afternoon, Fanchon. the Cricket. Children. 10c to all parts of the house.

MILITARY RECORDS.

SOSIE CCRlOCf FA

The

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The readers will forgive me for having thus discreetly, sketched the hearing. Respecting the order of the court, I have voluntarily abstained from giving a complete and detailed account of this thing, What I have written above is a sketch, or, less than a. sketch, an. impression. But I may repeat that the case revealed nothing that was not already known. Avoiding nasty little stories and scandalous testimony, the lawyers on both sides endeavored, within the range of possibility, to repair the evil of publicity, apd they put the thing in such a shape that it looked like a pale reflection of the reality.

The Prince de Chimay is a noble looking man, with thick hair, a military mustache, and a sympathetic and manly face. He was present at the hearing, surrounded by several members of his family. He will at least have- this consolation,N which is very rare in such trials. Not a single reproach has been addressed to him by the woman Who has made his life so unhappy. It is

In the life of the unfortunate woman who, in many letters to her husband, deolares herself unworthy of the name of Chimay,. it is only necessary to turn over the leaves of the calendar of the past year to find the evldence of imprudence and of -guilt. The yfcerself alone, in her insatiable temperament, newspapers have given accounts of her vis,-.,

MOWN

THE RECENT STATISTICS.

Greatest Work of BarpMt Come* Frmv Applications For Removal of Chfcrgcs of Desertion.

Special to the Chicago Record. Washington, Feb. 4.—Up in the bureau of records and pensions of the war department there are 45,207,770 cards la the file cases, containing the name and reoord of every man who ever entered the military service of the United States, with the exception of a few soldiers of the war of 1812 and' ?. considerable humber of the revolutionary patriots. The records of the revolution are very incomplete. There was no uniform system of mustering joaen ip and out of

service, and there was no organised pay department. Many of the regiments and companies were local organizations, and the only information that exists concerning them is found in the records of the towns from which they came. There was no war department during the revolution and for some years after its close, and the commanders of divisions ard brigades and regiments kept their own books and musterrolls, and carried them home with them as personal property at the close of the war. Colonel Ainsworth, chief of the records and pension division, has, been trying for several years to collect these records from the different sources, and is preparing a roll of the soldiers of the revolution as rapidly as possible. The records of the war of 1812 are also very imperfect, but they have been collected from the several states and towns, until they are now reasonably complete, and the files of the war department are believed to contain the names of at least 90 per cent, of the men who served in the army and navy during that war.

The total number, of men who have performed military service for the United States up^to date aggregate 45,207,770, which see^ns an extraordinary number, when one considers that his nation has been at peace the greater part of the period of its existence. Colonel Ainsworth has prepared the following table concerning the personality and mortality of the war of the rebellllon: Number of men furnished* ..

To army To navy Number at re-enliBtments

In army In navy

.....2,778,304 .....2,672,541 ..... 105,083 .. 664,939 643,393 21,646

Number of desertions .... .... 131 896 From army 117 "47 From navy /gig Number of deaths ..!!!! 364' 116

In army 359528 In navy 4 jgg Number of individuals in service.. 2.213,386

....2,128,948 84,417

Survivors at end ot war 1,727|858 In army 1,652,173 In navy 75(x«,

Colonel Ainsworth estimates the total number of survivors on the 30th of June, 1896, thirty-one years after the close of the war, to be 1,125,725, and, according to his calculations, the veterans "will become extinct in 1945. The following table contains his estimate of the annual mortality until that date:

Year. ... Survivors. rVear 1897 v5 .1,095,62811907 1898 1,064,52411.48- .. .. 1899 1900 .. 1901 .. 1902 .. 1903 .. 1904 ..

Survivors. .... ?«,196 .... 705,197 .. 665,822 .. 626,231 .... •429,727 .... 116,073 .... 37,033 .... 6.296 340 .... 0

...1,032,418'1909 999,339*i 1910 965,31311915 930,380I19?5 894,585(1930 858,00211936

1905 820,68711940 1906 ... ...... 782,722(1945 The Alleged Deserters.

The greatest work of the bureau of records at present comes, from applications for the r&moval of the charges of desertion standing against a large iumber of volunteer soldiers who left the service without a formal discharge or were absent from their commands without proper permission of some time during the period of their military service. Many of these men, though guilty of a technical violation of military law, were not willfully nor intentionally deserters, and in 1889 congress passed a law authorizing the secretary of war to receive and consider applications for the removal of this stigma. The records show that there were 117,247 desertions from the army during the late war, and 4,649 in the navy. Nearly 50,000 of these 'persons have applied for a clean bill of health, and they were gratified in every case where it appeared that they were not actually guilty.

The clerks of the bureau of records in their dull and formal work often uncover romances stranger than are found in the pages of fiction. A few weeks ago Mr. Mansur, one of the comptrollers of the treasury, applied for information concerning the record of a Missouri soldier in the Union army that it might be used as evidence by his widow to secure a pension. It was found that another woman, claiming to be the widow of the same mau, and living in the same country, .within a few miles of his former residence, had drawn a pension as his widow for several years.

An investigation resulted in disclosing the fact that the soldier had fallen out with his first wife during his absence in the army, and at the close of the war did not go home, but settled elsewhere. He married again, returned to a farm in a township near where he ad previously lived and did not even take the trouble to ascertain whether his first wife was dead or living. The first wife, hearing nothing from her husband assumed

that

he was dead, and

after the Wgal tetftiMiad expired, was granted a pension on his'account. In the pensioft dfflce a few weeks ago one of the ^xamin^rsl,r'to whom was referred the application of a veteran, ascertained from the records that a woman had been drawing a pension for several years as his widow. When he was notified of that fact he wrote back for further information, and within a few weeks husband and wife reunited after a separation of thirty-two years. For some reason that has not been explained they ceased to correspond during the war, and he never returned to his old home. In the meantime his wife supported herself and three or four children, who have grown u^p to manhood and womanhood, and several years ago made application for a widow's pension, and it was granted her.

SHAVED MANY FAMOUS MEN.

T. J. Martin of Dowagiac Proud of His Record as a Barber. Dowagiac, Mich., Feb. 4.—Thomas J. Martin, a tonsorial artist, who for forty years has lived in this city, boasts that he has shaved more noted men ot war times than any living barber. He was born in 1820 and was a slave till 1840. As he had learned the barber business when young, he went to work at that on securing his freedom and for the next fifteen years following the business on steamboats running on the Mississippi, Ohio. Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. During these years he numbered among his customers General Twigg, General Pillow, Rough and Ready General Taylor, Generals Buell, Wilson, Lyon, President James K. Polk and President Abraham Lincoln, Leonidas Polk, Simon Cameron and J. R. King of Alabama. He once shaved the notorious land pirate J. A. Murray, and cut the hair of Chief Ross of the Cherokees.

After his removal to Madison, Ind., and his marriage to Miss Laura Clay. In 1848 he became an active worker on that famous and semifabulous highway, the "under

HOBBS HEARS GOOD NEWS:

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Great Crowds of People OW taincd a Free Sample of His Wonderful

Discovery

At the Drug Store of the Bun." tin Drug Co,, Cor. 6th and Wabash Sts., Many of

Whom Make

.'' "Fg.-? Report.

ALL SAY THEY HAVE NOT-' ED A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

From Day io Day the Facts of This Investigation Will 'V: ^Be Published in

This Paper.,

Dr. Hobbs representative did not expect so soon to get favorable reports from applicants who procured from the drug store of the Buntin Drug Co., a free sample of Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills. Tests so far have gone to show that these remarkable pills produce favorable results with a dev gree of quickness heretofore unknown in theitreatment of kidney and bladder diseases and all ailments arising therefrom. At the same time no reasonable person would expect that within five days from the time the first sample of Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills was given out good effect would be generally manifest, as the very nature of kidney disease is such that a reasonable amount of time and patience will be found necessary to test their real virtues.

People who have dosed themselves with all kinds of so called kidney medicines until not only their kidneys, but their entire system Is in a state of prostration, cannot expect to be -cured tn a day or two by Dr. Hobbs grand remedy, however great his claims may be. The man who would advertise to cure Bright's disease—that fearful insidious and dangerous ailment—in. a few hours, should be drummed out of. town as ah impostor and a man trifling with human life. The modesty of Dr. Hobbs claims is. one thing that especially commends h^m and his remedy to the public. '-wiii

What Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills Are Designed and Guaranteed to Do.

They soothe, heal arid cure any inflammation of the kidneys or bladder. They cure Backache.

They cause the kidneys to filter out of the blood all poisons and impurities, whether made in the system or taken in from the outside.

They render sluggish kidneys active. They cause the kidneys to east out tha poison of rheumatism (uric acid), the dis-* ease germs of malaria and the grip.

They cause the kidneys to keep the blood: pure and clean and thus prevent neuralgia, headache, diszlness, nervous dyspepsia, skin diseases, eruptions, scales, tetters and rashes.

They cause the kidneys to work steadily, and regularly. They dissolve and cast out brrckdust and phosphate deposits and dissolve gravel and calculi In both the kidneys and bladder.

They cure Bright's disease. Wg iThey cause the klflneys to rapidly rid th' system of poisons of alcrfhol and tobacco.

They yield a clear mind, swwt sleep, steady nerves, active bodies, -brimful of tha zest and happiness of living, bright eye* and rosy cheeks, because they keep the blood free from poisons and impuritie^ that would otherwise clog and irritate it,

Healthy kidneys make pure blood. Pure blood makes perfect health. Perfect health makes life worth living. Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills do thisj| and do it at all times.

Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidneys Pills, 53 cents a box. FOR SALE AT

BUNTIN DRUG CO.

DISPENSING CHEMISTS,

TERRE HAUTE, IND. C)

ground railway." At that village in 1854 he was the first to propose a general plaa for the education of free negroes, the main features of which were adopted in the system afterward put in operation.

Coming to Michigan in 1856, he spenf three months in Kalamazoo, and then set' tied in Dowagiac, where he has since resided. In 1884 he was appointed Commissioner of the exhibits of the colored race for the state of Michigan at the New Orleans exposition

New Orleans Runolog Races. Xew Orleans, Feb. 4.—The track was heavy. First race, selling, one mile—Ondague won, Springtime second Bob Qlampett third. T!m« 1:48.

Second race, selling, one mile—Dawn won, Jack Hayes second, .Mauritius third. Tim?, 1:46*4.

Third race, six furlongs—Connie Lee won, Graefin second. Prig third. Time, 1:18%. Fourth race, one mile and twenty yardsTragedy won, Martin second, Al Miles third. Time, 1: JT'/i-.

Fifth race, selling, six furlongs—Laurs Davis won. Panini second, Galley West third, Time. lrlSVj.

Sixth race, selling, seven furlongs—Hailston won. Sir John second, Pisa third. Time, 1:32%.

WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.

Senator Xelson to-day introduced a substitute for the bankruptcy bill now before tha senate. It provides for voluntary bankruptcy on the part ot persons owning $200 or more and gives preference to debts due the Lniteu. States or the state in -vhich the debtor lives, and to those d*ue servants or laborers.

There is no doubt that the house will pasa the Wolcott resolution, which the senate adopted, providing for an international monetary commission. The sentiment shown at today's meeting of the committee on coinage, weights, and measures plainly showed that the committee postponed consideration of the subject in order to give hearings to authors of similar resolutions in the house, to whom the courtesy seemed due. But the house will pass the Wolcott resolution with little or no changes.

Secretary Carlisle went to New York last night. While his mission has not been made public, it is believed that it is to investigate certain busness propostions which have been made to him. looking to his opening a law office in New York after the 4th of March. It is understood that the secretary's preference to open an office in Louisville, Ky., but his final determination of the matter is not yet eti tain. It is said thst inducements also have been held out for him to go to Chicago.

Secretary Carlisle has

removed

from office

William Ryan, a clerk in the office of the auditor of the postoffice, and J. C. S. Colby, a clerk in the internal revenue bureau. Ryan got into trouble through running for congress Colby was charged with running a gaming Me. 'Hyan is nu anient fre* siiver ad^ocat*. •U. was a eanddat? of thax brar.c e'.aiic a iy, (or congm* from .the Thjuj-. •trsft New York (Ito. hester) district last falL

George W. Shanklin, of Evansville, well known as one of the former proprietors of the Evansville Courier, is believed to be dying from Bright's disease He is now at the home it his brother-ln• la*"- InM.lre, Ifir.