The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-03
SUS. PER COL.

1t has beeu said that the worst use 10
put man to is to hang him; but that
can't possibly be true in this city. 1t
now and then happens that IA criminal is
promptly haunted down, fairly and
promptly tried, and if his offense isa cap
ital one, promptly sits. per col. And he
was never worth so much in all his life as
in his death, for he bangles from the glib
bet, a terror TO his kind, and life is safe,
for a gooi while after. II is not pleasant
thought that d man may meet on the
streets of New V. - t.. c---.iug's
promenade q i.i.,dre men, who. il they
had good chance. vc;j!i rnr his throat
for two dollars ui.,l :. iI,.if, or some
such matter; but it is true, neyerthe-
less, and nothing keeps their hands
down but the shadows OF the gallows
tree-a i'oDny tree for i,.is locality.
Now, here is a substantial fact: up to
the time of the swift conviction and
sentence of the murderer of Mr.. Noe. q
month ago, crime was Oh the advance in
this city. Since, it has fallen off, as if
that righteous death sentence had palsied
the hand of violence.
SAILORS AFL'5AT AND ASHORE
There's Il sweet i.tle cherub that sits I'D
alo!t,
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack"
So runs the stout Old English sea song
of Thomas DibdeD, but surely that atti.
tudinous watcher is sadly remiss of his
duties, for the record shows that |. 500
sailors annually lose their lives by fall
ing from masts and spars of ships at sea.
Think ye well housed landsmen, OF going
aloft in the darkness of winter storm
far out al sea. up shrouds, and along
rigging and spars slippery with ice, when
TO miss grasp of a frozen rope, or a
false step, is sudden death. Very few
persons know much or care much about
the sailor. His life is the life of dog;
no slave was ever the victim of such
wrong as he endures. His life lies so
apart from that of ordinary humanity.
that the advavce of civilization hardly
includes him; he is left in a condition of
barbarism. Let NE try to convey to
your readers, some notion of the way
he is treated in this city, one of the great
seaports of the world, it being the same
everywhere. Imagine a sailor just land
ed from voyage. Suppose him to have
been a sailor for twenty five years, and
TO be forty years old. He has got his
wages IN his pocket, he knows no such |
word as home or family, he has not
friend in the world, the strict discipline |
and narrow life on ship, have so de- |
graded and imbruted him that he has ST.
most lost the gift of speech. and only |
retains few terms OF the sea. He has |
only one notion of enjoyment, and that
is of the lowest forms of animalism
Fhe land sharks are waiting for him.
and although he has been devoured bv
the'-' thousand times in all the
ports of the world, he rashes into
their jaws again. He is led unre-
sistipgly into one of the many I
vile dens in Water .or similar street,
piled with poisoned liquor until Se Is out
Of his mind; handed over to a wretched
female companion, whose business it is
20 see that be does not leave the premis-
rs, nor allowed TO get sober. Then,
when his money is oaiI spens-and it
axes only few days to do it-aud a bill
'un up equal to bis advance wages, the
proprietor of the devils hole where he
wallowinz, slips him through an