The Stanstead journal, 11 avril 1889, jeudi 11 avril 1889

[" ry he 1m, es, £8 SETE Ae 1% FM =n Established in 1845.Vol.XLIV.\u2014No.18.The Stanstead Journal.- ao L.R.ROBINSON, Publisher.Journs) Building, Rock Island, Btanstesd.U.8.Adiiress, Derby Line, Vt.\u2014 Torme: Une year, (advance payment).\u2018 If paid in six monthe, 1 2 At the end of the yeur, ; 2 > nt in single wrappers hav i habiber paid to on the label, Keep watch of the number, and pay before the time ex- piren, to save loss of papers. assist .| bim a private citizen ie Laidiy able to .br ev Drs.armen sad take \u201cieka which the law forbids sa Haotington os the Boston Tniveraity.Savings Bok 1g tM Fri fax, 10 The interment wag ad Loon Aubusd.| Dation Movitar.à effect tection to Canadian in-lustries, Le has - without fear of contradiction tbat Mr.« the residence of Mre.Lathrop.andi Mr.H.H.Hanson was a brother-in- : The expectation of receiving | The writer places the \u2018number of : the .bas under consideration .mn ar .- CORRESPONDEN( E.\"We io bok Le f GUfee ves Pe PLB, TOD, Slee, Smee GY, table dd poset cut eo Teas, coffees and suger a sfecaliv, A Érsicués stacx vf mens\u201d, bade\u2019, adie aL meses LOU, snes ard \u2014 \u2014 ÉD.rut ere, Ca esas aut Eng weei-, \u2018\u2019OVERHILL FARX\u201d FOR SALE Ehbou vouis, © 6e lt : wi: dress Zuais in ad ile Lee rimder, lGC up.ad woo Caracian tweets, 350 up te farm uf iV iter Ls ! ) ; .\u2026 Ca.moi mee our goeis Au) get prices >.BLUIT JUSEPH, wWliicu ste proportivuste.s ow.We nave 7° Bus :-la.i, PQ.Lougati cm ow and are Seterm sed 10 sel Pp Cc 1 - E A E .ILE.GURDUN & BOWIE.HE™war recetiy declared 13 sone of Sianstewd Junction, Apri.©, Tas 224s, the men t-te of The mo {raters iy ANNOUNCEMENT caw Es EXTRAORDINARY! Tuz 23CK ISLAND GRIST MILL.Tes were eft.tie reur a ne wen ove or undersei] eversi Jy, and do «© wth the tar Uwo- , Corn at lierent prices.+ eXpisis iv Eur 1: elds und Baris oy tu * à § .- A | oe Se a 5 auaiity Don't be sx.ndled ty rozues o'teri: par .Six months 820 we began Having recently purcim-ed ot STE gd Hutcn™ Lis interest iu tne wueat busin Lam sow prepared to seliin avy qua a! pr.ces tuat defy competition.rain of ai kitde, duur, feel, dc, a a5, Go Lani, Ve do Cu-tom grading tetter than any Oliéz coLvern in tue county.We Lave had the experience.STEPHEN A.GREENLEAF, Practical Mii.Baux i-.an1, Marc.23th, 12-9.42 | PuRcHASERs MADE HAPPY.ALWAYS AHEAD! COST! Larze - Toot Grassbon,.5 was E! - Larze Majority, heads, but the Voun- Ou < Ents explaiae 1: \u201cIls Unola loft bin Dollars, and Le must Inabout three rn.he hope had =n Miemanead À Ants wire compvilel to Bounc> out of tin Industry Busine.Tho Deposed leador vw te \u201cfor Consolation, but wos promptly a : + Hu \u201cair «li Thousand re that the \u201cThe Pora-isy e7 01 qean the Po.= tis ro abanits+= becs vuilty ofrbter able by drath, bine © marcy nn the u A ev'arit pleats) far L wa rlatedto \u201cLe was aakel »\u2018vour Lame | ho: and bacon l aka\u201d \u201cThat ur fs not bgcon until ie 12.Lua-, unt yor are aoas, \u201cbut as hog pou are 7» ro:ativa of mine\u201d\u2014Sen Franci- + Argouant Tho qu: mis ef ner\u2019 + TCatted Bin 0 the last yar exsgged (hat of tue wisde (of Surope gy the Grass .Lim or go WHIPPING A FAILURE.! AN EX-WARDEN ON CORPORAL PUN ISHMENT OF CONVICTS.A Veteran \u201cPen\u201d Keeper Declares Thas Cruel Punishments Do Not Accomplish Good Results=\u2014A Suggestion as to Rtate Reformatories.\u201cIn the light of ab experience of nearly twelve years as one of the luasees and as warden of the Missouri penitentiary, I am prepared to state in the most unqualified manner that I believe corporal punishment of convicts is a mistake, that whipping and kindred tortures should be abolished, and a humane system of discipline sulætituted.Since I re tired from the control of the Missouri penitentiary | have visited the leading penal institutions of the eastern cities, and state as | my conviction that more work and better work can be got out of the men where the cat ¢' nine tails is banished\u201d The speaker was cx-Warden Willis, now a resident of St.Louis.and the listener a Glohe-Democrat reporter.\u201cYou ore.then, a believer in the power of the state to reir it> criminals! A BELIEVER !Y REFORM.\u201cEmpbatically I am.I am glad you asked the question, for I want tu explain myself.It is dificult, | would almost say impossible, to secure the best results under the present system in the Missouri penitentiary.My idea is to build a brooch, but to let it be known as a reformatory, and send to it such prisoners as there are hopes of reforming.Such an institution has just been opened up at Huntington, Pa.It was intended to Le called penitentiary No.3, but the legislature changed its scope.Col.McClaughrey, who, in à lon; term of years, had mado the Joliet Ills, penitentiary the model of ab prisons in this country, is in charge of the Huntington institution, being engaged by the state for life at $35,000 per annum The prison must not be confounded with a reform school The inmates are required to work at trades as in other penitentiaries, but they are viver advantages, such as nizlhit schools, books, opportunities to converse with cach other in assembly, etc.Prisoners are assigned to Hunting ton after the manner followed in New York.In that state ali prisoners aro sent first to Sing Sing.There they are examined by a board which sits daily, and if bardened cr babitual criminals, or of what is called strictly the criminal class, they are put tu work at once in Sin; Sing, but otherwise they are sent to Elmira, or some one of the other branch penitentiaries, which are much to bo preferred.There is in prison life an existence of caste that is as closely drawn as among tho natives of India.\u2018I remember that f negro was brought to Jefferson Ci*y one day.I recognized him at a glance as a form r prisoner, and I said: *You have been here before, sir.\u2019 With a clear voice, in which thero was tho slightest tinge of pride, he replied: \u2018Yes, sah, but it was for cuttin\u2019, sah.\u2019 \u201cAnd what is it nov I azain asked.\u2018He hung his head sheepishly as he raum- bled out, \u2018Burglary and larceny.\u201d \u201cAnd that brings me back to the reformatory.A man who in a moment of passion has shot or otherwise injured another, and who has always been an honest and, we will say, law abiding citizen, must not be made to think that his incarceration puts him ona moral level with the burglars, thieves and cut throats who are his prison mates, Such à man is most likely, in the bitterness of his spirit, to become unruly, and become a subject for discipline.To whip a man of that class is to make him worse.He would fee) no contrition for his offense, but while recog nizing that he was subjected to the lash he would only cherish bitter feelings.MODEL PRISONERS.\u201cProfessional criminals make the best |.ris- oners.from a keeper's standpoint.A second or third termer is always eagerly sought for by a contractor.Such a man knows that he has nothing tc gain by rebellious behavior, and he sets to work to mako life as pleasant 23 possible.\u201d \u2018The idea of life being made pleasant in a penitentiary is rather a perverted use of the term \u2018Oh, no; some people could be contented, I believe, in the middle of the burning lake.Negroes arc a particularly light hearted lot.| often think of an incident illustrating this phasa of character.[t was on a very bright, but particularly cold December day that a couplo of well fed, lusty colored men connected with the kitchen were lounging about the yard, when there was brought to the \u2018round houso\u2019 a particularly forlorn specimen.Ile was u whito man, and had been arrested for hog stealing down in the country some where, somo time during the previous sum- ser.He had lain in jail during the summer, fall and early winter with no other clothing than that which he wore when arrested.The diet was not over liberal, I suppose, and the poor fellow lockea like the frame of a man, As he walked across the vard the wind scemed to fairly blow through beth kis tatters and Lis anatomy, and he shivered as he felt tho blast.Oue of the negroes glanced at the chattering wretch, and then remarked to his mate, with a contented chuckle: \u2018Looks like times war mighty bard outside, Bill * *You're shouting,\u2019 replied BiiL \u201cBut ! want to again answer your question about reform.The police would be apt to mislead you ou this subject.While warden I looked into the matter, and while I don't recall the exact figure, the percentage of convicts that was returned to the prison was very small, certainly below 5 per cent.| meet men every day of my life who have done time, come out, settled down among their former acquaintances and lived hone:t lives I sce, in the course of a year in St.Louis, hundreds of them, in all walks of life, working at the trades, driving team and in higher walks.The rule.however, is for a man wha during lis confinement has scen the error of his ways to go off to some strange locality and comnnience life again.Every town in the country has its Jean Valjear.| meet them everywhere, and I travel extensively\u2014men who come up to me and say: \u2018That term I served with you made a man of me.\u2019 The police officer's glib axiom, \u2018once a thief, always a thief,\u201d finds no echo in my heart.It is not my intention to discuss the whipping feature in detail.Horrible as it is, it is sane tioned by law.It is for the legislature to» abolish it.1 only give ny opinion, basel upon observation here and abroad, that better results, both to the taen au the contractors, can be obtained without it, or any of the hundred punishments.To take this view, I must stand squarely on the platform that the state's duty is nct to punish convicts, but to reform them.\" \u2014S$t.Louis Globe-Democrat.Sewer Gas l'oisoning.Dr.Henry Hun has an article in The Medical News on sewer pas poisoning, in which he finds that no less than thirteen classes of disease mary he traced to the inhalation\u2014more or luss long continued \u2014 of the atmosphere from sewers.The list fs pa follows: Vomiting and purging, either separate or combined: a fornn of nephriti-: general debility, in rome cases of which the Leart is especially involved; fever, which is frequently accompanied by chills: sore threat.which is frequently of a dipiitheritic character: neuralisiag perhaps.alsu.myelitis of the antericr horns; zymotic es, such as typhoid fever, preur: tiphther:a, cholera.dysen- tery.cexebro - pinal tieningitis, erveipelas and scarict fever (dn these cases undoubtedly the cewer gis merely acts ns a veliicle fur the speatic cerns; a condition of asphyxia which.in its severe form, is characterized by cor convtiisions and collapse: puerperal f-ver, ALSCOsses, Iym- | phadenitis, acute aural catarrh (>.moral of all this is\u2014{:0K to your plumb- | ing.and te sure that there isan escape | from the soil pipes, bath rooms, closets, | etc., to the external atmosphere.~ Detroit Presa Liliteraecy tn Massachusetts, | It hus been asserted that there isan | alarming amoum of iilite Mnsane- | | i chusetts, Statistical innuiry shows that by far tae creator na! or of these itiitere ates are of 1ureign birth, so that the fault is not with the publie school aystem.but | the evil is due to & temporary cause, \u2018 namely.immigration.Acnin.it has Leen freely asserted that in the Unites! States ! women of native birth do tot 1 many children as Women of fend that Lereby the real Ar .lation fs losiug grourd.ile ones of Massnchusetts will «how that aibounl | American women do have a less number of children on the average vet a larger number survives, gn that tbe rlorm is pecdless, Common observation would | never have shown these things, or would not hace shown (bem acpurpiciy, Bodum wi Shem sieij.r= Porte a wil .- - ve -e TO LONDON BY RALL AN ALL ROUND THE WORLD ROUTE WHICH IS PRACTICABLE.Poarteen Thousand Miles of Track, Oue- half of Which Is Already Laid \u2014The Ras- sian Government Already Helping Could Distance Jules Verne's Travelers It is quite probable that some of those who read this page will make an all rail journey trom New York to London, or from Loudon | to New York! A recent writer tas bevy | ; carefully thinking out the wholescheme.How can this ever bo when 8,000 miles of Atlantic ocean separate the two places?he asks.England lies to the east of the United States, but to reach it by railway the trav.der will start westward, and, riding dar e after day and tight after night, until reaches the opposite side of the globe, where west and east meet and separate, and then keeping on still westward, ho will arrive at London, having well nigh traversed round the world.\u201c This is no idle funcy.The scheme involves no ocean ferrying, no stupendous and impracticable bridge building.From the cast- ern shore of America to the western border of England thers stretches continuous dry land.with the exoeption of the narrow and comparatively shallow straits of Belling.between America and Asia, that are a small obstacle; the narrow English channel, only twenty miles across, and the rivers which science already knows how to span.The English «nd of the projected line.huw- ever, is of comparatively small importance.The real problem lies in spanuing the tremendous distance that lies between the northwestern boundary of tke United States and the eastern frontier of Europe, THE PROPOSED ROUTE From New York to a little beyond tho northwestern boundary of the United States sontinuous rail communication is already spen by way of the Canadian Pacific railway, which will soon be supplemented by the com- rdetion of à connection between the Northern Pacific and the British American line.Europe, from the Atlantic ocean to the Ural mountains, which separate it frog Asia, 5 now crossed by the juemotive, its eastern border being reached by two great Russian -ailways, ose terminating at Orenburz ani sbi other at Ekaterinburg, which lust lies gearly due cast from Moscow and sou:beast from St.Petersburg.Ths vast Russian em- tire in Asia, stretching from the Ural inoun- tains to the North Pacific, and far up alm 0 the Arctic circle at Behring sraits, a {istance of thousands of miles, has not as vet one suiitary line of railway.[tis across this prodigious stretch of country much of it well peopled, but much, als, an unznown wilderness, Incked 8 large part of the year in the embrace of the Arctic winter, that the rrans Asiatic line must penetrate.Buta great step in this direction bas alrcad» been taken.The Kussign government feels the necessity of railway communication across its Asiatic empire, and the czar Las sanctioned a project for the gradual construc tion of a railway from the Ural mountairw to tho waters of the Pacific at Vladivoetock, the extreme soutbewstern point of the Rus sian empire.lying about latitude 42.directly opposite tho northern, most of the chief islands in Japan.When that great work is accomplished, central Asia will bo brought into much bearer connection with America than now, as Vladivostock lies almost due west from Portland, Ore.abd the distance between the two continents is much less than it is farther south.But this will not do for our all rail route, which must bs made by a line branching off from the great Russian Pacific railway at some point perhaps a thousand miles west of Vliadivostock, and running northeasterly through Siberia to Behring straits.The crossing of the Behring straits is de clared by some experienced travelers to be entirely practicable.In the na.rowest place they are said to be only ten miles wide, and while (or a part of tho year boats can casilv cross, it is asserted that the straits are dotte® with islands, by means of which, and intervening bridges, a continuous passage could be effected.Alaska Joes not, it must be admitted, off e a very encouraging field for railway building, so far as cither climate, topographical features or productions are concerned, but it interps-s no obstacles which money and skill coul2 not overcome.THE DISTANCES.The distances over which the railway would havo to bo built to carry out this great scheme are.in round numbers, about as follows: Miles.United States bouc lary to Beliring straits.2,00 Behring straits to junction with Russian Pacific railway Ce J 2,000 Junction to European line at Ekaterinburg 8,00 Total yet to be construeted ._.THY This looks like a tremendous length of line to build, and yet about an equal amount of railway mileago was probably built in the year 1853 in the United States alone, and in one recent year almost double that inileage was constructed.Some of the distances by our great railway and its connections would be about as fol lows: New York to Port Moody (British America).Port Moody to Behring straits .Retiring straits to Ural mountains.Ural imountains to Lordon .Total New York to London.all rail 14,002 This would be a pretty long rail journey, but it would bo short compared with many ocean voyages that are now nade: in fact, it would bo only about three and a half times as long as tho journey from New York ta San Diego, which is undertaken every day.Allowing the moderate average of twenty tive miles an hour, the trip from New York to London would take aboui twenty-three days.Then the tourist might add a seven days\u2019 sail from Liverpool to New York, and thus accomplish a trip around tho world in?thirty days, which would beat Jules Verne's travelers out of sight.\u2014New York Journal The Color Cure.Colors have considerable influence ou th» the pbysical anture both of plants and aui- mals.Sundry discases grow better or worse according to the color of the apartments ce- cupied by the patients Violet, among otizers, is said to have a very beneficial effect on tii; health.Recent experiments made by a Sw.s doctor have shown that lunatics may be treated by colors.The doctor placed on of his patients who was suffering from meclan- cholia and refused to eat in a well light-d room papered with red; in three hours the man was quite lively and ate with avidity.Another time he locked a raving maniac in a blue chamber, who within a few hours be came quite calm after all other methods had failed.\u2014 New York Telegram.Aristocratic Frog Spearing.Frog spearing is a questionable kind of amusement which, it appears.1s at present indulged fn by many aristocratic idlers who are trying to \u2018kill the long summer daysincountry seats.The latest instance of this peculiar kind of sport took place in the grounds of the Chateau of Hellan.court.After luncheon a party of ladies and gentlemen, nrmed with weapons resembling crosshows, the arrows being of hazlewood.with iron lanceheads, and attached to the bow by silken strinus, so as to enable the frogs to be hauled in, proceeded to the banks of a pond.Then there was a great deal of unceremonious stooping down as the frogs appeared, and arrows were let off in ail directions.the slaughter being considerable on the part of those who pursued the sport for the purpose of bagging game.The impaled Latrachians were in all cases carefully collected and handed over to the cooks, \u2014 Paris Cor.London Telegraph.Her New Sunday School Song.A very little girl in the infant class of one of our city Sunday schools came howe last Sunday and told ber mother that the teacher Lad taught them a new song.On expressirg a wish to bear it, tho mother was much as tonished at tho foilowing sentence, which was all the chiid could remember: \u201cI'm a litt!» greenborn amoug a balf acheese.\u201d Theworls which bad been misunderstood by the chi'l were these: \u201cI'm a little gleaner among U.\u2026 barvest sheaves.\u201c\u2014 Hartford Courant.A Case of Couscience.A Doston conicciioner the other day re vad the foliowing nate.\u201cSir\u2014\\hen I vas à child, over tuirty yearsago, I took off your counter in Brattle stroet a little sugar maa, price | robably one cent, aad it has troubled my conscience oil and on ever since, ani once | sent money to you by a frisnl, aad she was astamed to deliver it, so | inclose te by wail fifty cents and tad you ill ! seimomingge Ih\" \u2014Caicage re TT = oem + HIS LAST BLUE CHIP., The Tramp Who liad leon Trulned (no: Journalisia Works a New sclseme.The tramp; was a very scady individual altogether, tall and angular, with a woebegone, hatchet (aced, and a general air of disrepu- tability about his make up.His shoes were ragged, so was hi sack ceat; his trousers werv patched, and Lo had no necktie.He might have bon an il starred actor, or a dog tighter gone to seed, or a tramp printer.But, none the leas, it was a graceful attigude that he struck before the door of the eettage as *\u2018the lady of the house\u201d appeared.\u201cMadam,\u201d he said, \u2018vou see before you the wreck of one of the grandest chicken haucliers that ever openal à game suire ina New Orleans parlor.Do you follow me, madam\u201d The woman replied that she knew nothing of chicken fighting or of Louisiana society.form [represent the remains of Chicago's noblest work of art\u2014an untamed bunen | have numbered amony my patrons the for mot men in America Why, it seems but yesterday that | met General Booth aud introduced myself to him as the son of bis oli friend and playmate, the praident of the Ske daddels bank.Ab, madam, if § could touch every one [ meet as | touche! General Boot! for a double X.I would not be Lore cringing before your lovely face and blinding beauty Do-er\u2014do you yet size me up The woman thought she didn\u2019t, but wasn't quite sure.* *Hic jacet sweiterkax-\" as Napoleon suid ten.Have you ever uotic-l an actor, madam, when the fretful babble of society a pampered favorites is hushed by the force of bis magnificent imperscnatica?Such was § once, years ago, ere | sank beneath \u2018the slings and arrows of outrageous forturn You seel you pariez vous\u201d The woman was growing restless.If vou want to sell a pieter book ora new Jbuble back action can opener.young M7, 7 she said sharply, \u201csbow yer samp:-.Don't keep à body here in the cold.\u201d \u201cWell, madam, I aw a ruined :u:an, irre trievably ruinel.You seo, | studied journalism at college and thought myseif another Dana 1 was full of hope when I first st foot in New York aud set about creating a sansation.| imagined myself city editor, they managing editor, [saw myself obliterating the otd atyie of journalism and inuu- gurating a new school.My wame wns beard everywhere.It was blazoned on the musty scrof} of history and sont forever down the future years.Well, | didn\u2019s wak., much sensation or money, and in on evil moment | took to writing verses, hoping to supplement my smali weekly salary.Don\u2019t shudder so; 1 have paid in full tae penzity © \\owrony doing.\" Ho pulled out the tenpenny nal} that serv.d for a button in his ccat.and, thrusting bis bony fingers into an inner pocket, producel a greasy, much crumpled shoet of paper.+f cali thys my last blue chip, madam, because lave played it in eyery rawspaper office enst of the Rockies, [t is one of thoes littlo poems that men of genius t