Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-10-06


inquiry, What becomes of those no.
tOrious offenders that escape hanging
by law or mob? Do they change their
names, and, having sinned as Smith, do
they die as Jones? Or If not, then
what? There are caverns and dens and
parlors for the reporter still to pry into
with the intent of knowing who Is there.
What ever became Of that preacher who
beat his child to death for not saving
Alright its prayers? The child would
pray until its little brain and terrified
heart would make some error, and then
its reverend father would beat the inno-
cent thing for a half hour. When at
last the disciple of Christ had gotten
! through with his method of instruction.
his child was dead. The name of this
most infamous man was Lindsay, and
his home was in New York. Now,
what has become Of this once famous
clergyman? OF course, if he is dead,
all would know where he is; but is he
dead? If so, who or what kindly killed
him? and if not dead, where is he, and
what would he now have TO say to an
interviewer were he asked about the |
best method of teaching men and chill
dren how to pray?
And there was that Richmond clergy
man who made Indiana sick BY Sun
day morning exploit which consisted in
claiming his son to post in stable
and then whipping him with horse
whip, all for reading novel. The
father himself read sermons, and was not
willing to have his sons mind corrupt
ed with a romance. Hence this beat
ing almost to death, of Sunday MORN
ing. The police took the father to Jail,
but one may well be anxious to know
whether this clergyman is still preach
ng, and whether he has had ID. d.
conferred upon him by any learned uni
7ersity? i
Old Lactantius, one of the Christian
athers, published book once to show :
hat all bloody men came to violent :
ieaths. Our times need similar kind /
# historian, for there is now q large ;
lumber of names whose owners ought !
o have come by this time to bad end, !
md about whose end, come or coming, !
Omething ought to be said. 1t is !
ather strange that those daily papers 8
which send inquiries to the worlds con-
ines, and which employ men who )
you'd interview Satan himself if they !
ould find his front door bell, are doing :
Iothing toward keeping the world post .
q as to the final result of certain =
elbows of the baser sort.
While on this topic, what became of $
hat Pittsburg preacher who used to T
brow hot coffee and sometimes a whole o
OF beefsteak into his wife's face? Does Z,
e still do so? If so, how does his Sec a
nd or third wife like such modes of ex- Ii
ressing disapprovai? What is the use II
having morning papers if they will n
ever tell their readers that some one of n
lese fellows has been removed to an i
Their world? Some Lactantius of the d.
resent must show himself and make al
lie hunting up of lost villains special r,
:. The old Sunday-schOol books used II
keep the world informed about the W
estiny of each bad boy, and the des- h,
ny was swift and frightful; but after II
ark Twain found few instances in Ii,
hich the good boy got drowned or II
lrned or bitten, the study of the finali- II
OF bad boys fell of, and thus is the cl
orld without any adequate history of sp
d or young rascals at large. as
Murder will indeed out, but once it has of
'tten out the zeal over it suddenly an
es. The affair becomes as empty as To-
lessed conundrum. Thus all crimes
e huge when first seen. but all men
no commit them and who barely es- ca
pc the mob become wonderfully in mr.
'ible after a time. Nothing about &C
EN- will ever out afterward. Excep- mr.
NAL cases occur. Mr.. Harlowe Case, da
no enticed Mrs. Frances from her a
me and who attempted to plant up
ohammedan heaven with the beauty %.