The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-03

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Thsse = wy uttje stirring IN to city
e1oept the min that = hlling and TIE
bright green leaves IN Tie newly dsoked
tsess and The noisy sparzow& Only fur
mugden sises the last exeeutioa, ok
days ego and three attempts, one Of
which may prove . sueoess. 90 you go
the papess are dull-6or Whist 10 . daily
paper without it, usual plethora Of hor-
ronf Il haCloag bssa . subject 1t ~
mark, that Immediately after the hang
ing q IN assassin The very dir seems to
MI with the myssssious force that Inn
pels the criminal Glasses to deeds Of
atrocity, and that before the week IL
elosed the columns OF the papers TEEN
with new stories Of bloodshed. The
question In the minds Of great many
good men who ne their bsains to think
With, b whether the brutal strangling
Of . murderer does or does not deter
the thugs from the bloody work that %
many Of them have learned to look
upon = tho browning glory Of their
lives. Horace Greeley Wa wont to say,
that the Won't possible useto which you
could put man Wa to hang him. Hin
death b the result Of . judicial murder,
and aided BY the quick apd graphic pen
Of the eves-Feady reporter, It serves not
to intimidate the vicious bat 70 encour-
ags them. Mine out Of ten murderer
"dje game" asd ] ~ It with no irrev-
erent beeling-nearly oil, according to
the solemn observations Of their spirit
ual adviscss, 80 right straight to Hesv-
en-. But what Of their victims?
HosHB TAYLOR.
Moses Taylor - added to the list OF
the distinguished dead Of the year. He
va one AZ the typical business men Of
New York. When he was only twenty
six years old he had capital, earned BY
his own private speculatious, Of $l5, 900,
and It that time such an amount was .
fortune Ofcoune in tho pres. mt age Of
large things, bonansas and Black Fri
days, tbis would not be considered much
for . young man II twentysix. bat the
big fortunes that have been aecumulat-
ing In the metrupolis have been In ths
hnt place earned by honest endeavor
and have multiplied through careful a.
pervision. The AstoEs, the Lenoxef,
the DeRhams, tho 0oeles and tho lew
oehess Of what arc recognised % the
''blws blood" Of New York society, &C.
cumulated their wealth BY degrees. In
the good old timas our staid anceston
" .uld have looked with mortal horror
upon Jay Gould and regarded . Van
derbilt or Cyrus W. Field - . special
creature q the evil one. But times
change and ~ change with them. The
death Of Moss Taylor oomes - . n
minder Of how man may carve his
way 10 honor and fortune and die hon.
osed and respected. Hi father, Jacob
B. TAylos, W. aeabinst maker and VIZ
. member of the Board Of Aldermen
from 1917 10 1a96, long before tho time
when Aldefmen were selected from The
keepers Of rum mills, bat Moses Taylor |
himself never catered actively into polt-
tieD, although during the civil war he |
Wa lavish In his expenditure for the
preservation q the Onion. Hewas one
Of the Oldest chipping merchants In the
city, doing IN snosmous basiuess with
the West Indies and G. ntral American
posts. Unlike some Of biz predecessor,
however; be seems to have taken no |
special interest in the city Of his birth
10 FIR, at least, % donations go-and
while We have IN Astor Library, . Len
OK Library, and . Roosevelt Hospital,
there h no public institution bearing |
the name Of Taylor.
AND ''PooL FOB DnrNxs."
There ars two evils non. opes.tins in
this and other cities which are hardly
Ices powerful in their damning influence
over the young than rum N ito most
devi)ish form. / don't refer to the %
called boys and glrls weeklies that scat
ter poison broadcast over the land, bat
they are bad enough and their publish
10 shou)d ill b doing thu State some
'esviee in tie Stone breaking depart
ment Of the prison. I don't count even
he variety shows, which pest holes,
wen the best Of them. The two with
% point out particularly are cheap Gig
arettes and pool for drinks." Nearly
very boy beyond the wstchfnl eve OIL