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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11
PENALTIES FOR MURDER.
Statistics Regarding Eject of Cap
ital Punishment on This
Crime.

At hearing before legislative com
mittee in Boston on a bill for the abo
lition of the death penalty, George L
Patterson, Of Cambridge. presented sta
tistics bearing on the subject. He SAID
he had al one time made a special study
of the matter and had collected consid'
cradle material from original sources
In Michigan, which was the first state
10 abolish capital punishment, there
were 81 murders in the 13 years proceed
ing the passage of the law abolishing
the death penalty, and 81 in the IS years
following its abolition, small decrease
On the face of it, but as the population
had in the second interval increased
about 30 per cent. the actual decrease
in murder was more than 40 per cent.
Rhode Island abolished the death pen
atty in 1852. and from 1850 to 1870 the
records showed that there had been
decrease in the crime of murder of
about 40 per cent. In Wisconsin, where
the penalty was abolis he'd in 1853 the
decrease had been about three per cent.
from 1871 TO 1889, and in Maine, where
II had been abolished and reinstated
and again abolished the decrease had
been about the same. In Iowa 1t had
been abolished and reinstated, but in
the four years from 1872 to 1876, while
the penalty was in force, there was one
murder for every 1900, 900 of the in hab-
itants, as against one murder for every
SOC, 900 in the four preceding years.
From sources not original he had
gathered these facts: In Norway, from
1869 to 1879, IA men were sentenced TO
death and only three executed; in Aus
tria, from 1870 to 1879, there were SOC
death sentences and only rs eNecu-
tons, In Denmark from 1870 to 1880,
o. were sentenced and one executed;
IN England about 76 per cent. of all the
trials for offenses not punishable by
death resulted in conviction, while only
80 per cent. of the trials for otfenses
punishable by death resulted in con-
viction: in the United States the aver
age number of trials for murder each
year was about $500 and there were
from 100 to $50 convictions Holland
has abolished the death penalty, and
there has been a decrease in crimes for
merly punished in that way. In Portu-
gal. which abolished the death penalty
in 1867, there had been marked de-
crease in homicides. as he had been
assured by the United states consul at
I.sibon, who had consulted native au.
thor ies.--N T. Post.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11
PUERTO RICAN SMOKERS.
The Tobacco Is Bad, But the Natives
Love 1t and Use Ii COL-
stantIy.

Homemade molasses-soaked plug to-
bacco, in ropes hundred feet long, is
one of the primitive wonders of the
island. On any marke day one may see
the tobacco-man with his little table
piled up with bad cigars black as your
hat, so green that you may wiring wa
ter from them, and SO cheap that a
silver dollar will buy out his stock in
trade; but the thing which catches the
by six in breadth, made up, you would
swear, from bights of hawsers soaked
In tar, but in reality chewing tobacco.
Try it once and quit. A tobacco chew
ing jockey from Georgia, with a day
ashore at Ponce, volunteered the in
formations: 'Yes, sub, that's the most
pow'ful stuff / ever slowed in my wis
dom teeth Yes, sub, that's right" l
agreed with him, says a writer in Har-
per's Weekly.
Smoking is almost universal in Porto
Rico, the cigar and the cigarette be-
ing alternated by most natives with
out any apparent preference. The bet
ter classes of the women seem never
to use tobacco in any form, and to one
accustomed 10 seeing the dainty fingers
Of Mexican senoritas hold lighted Gig
arettes after the black coffee is served
somehow something Is lacking in the
familiar ensemble Of tropical home
life.
The peasant woman dearly loves her
black cigar, and a sight which arouses
visibility is the common one of huge
black aunty rolling down the center Of
a street, burdened with head-balanceG
load heavy enough for horse, placid
ly smoking an inky cigar of able pro-
portions, whose clouds of smoke en-
shroud her head and watt into her con-
tented half-closed eyes. Envy her. She
has only half enough to eat, but is
rich in the soothing of nectar nicotine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11

there will in time be built many feeders
connecting the provincial capitals with
the outside world, and when all of these
are completed they will represent more
than 1000 miles of track.
When the system of Chinese railroads,
as outlined by the existing concessions,
are completed they will make of Han
kow the Chicago of China, This city
of 100000 people is situated on the
Yangtse river about equal distance be-
tween Peking and Hong Kong. and
nearly as far from the coast as Shang-
hal. Around ii centers the paper sys-
TEN of Chinese railroads, and if all of
them are ever completed the city Will
be Il railroad center second to none 9TH
er in the old world,
Aside from the road which the Amer
lean syndicate is now building there is
another which is in the hands of Bel
gian syndicate, but which il is thought
will be transferred TO the American
company, that is TO run from peking to
Hankow. This road. like that of the
Americans, will have many branches
touching the rich coal-producing see
tions of the empire around Peking and
to the south. The road has been COM
pleted and is now in operation from
Picking to Paoting, distance of about
100 miles.
Of the many other concessions for
railroads that have been given by the
Chinese government within the last few
years are the following:
DR.. Yang Wing. a naturalized Chi
nese, who is now a resident of Con-
necticut, holds concession for q road
from Picking TO the cities of Nanking
and Shanghai following the line of the
imperial canal. The road will be about
500 miles in length. One of the fea-
lures of this concession is that after rs
years both the road and rolling stock
are to become the property of the Chi
nese government. Another one is held
by Jardine, Matheson d Co.. an Eng
lish firm, for a road between Shanghai
and Marking, distance of 200 miles.
portion of this road has been built
and is now in operation running from
Shanghai to Wusung.
railroad connecting Shanghai and
Wusung was constructed in 1876 BY an
American corporation, but after il had
been in operation for a year the rails
were torn up because the Chinese mag
ined that the rumble of the trains inter
fered with the spirits Of the dead The
second road was opened for business
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11

" DHIIE the American govern
\MV ment has taken no part in the
wv scramble for Chinese terri
tory and Chinese concessions of various
kinds, yet the American capitalist Is
not far behind his European brother IN
his wooing of the tickle goddess, as rep
resented by the Chinese government
China has never before shown such
evidences of an awakening from the
sleep which has lasted for centuries as
At the present time. She is demanding
modern methods, but is herself unable
TO produce them, and so turns TO the
other nations Of the world for assist
ance. For nothing is her appeal
stronger than for railroads, for the
means of transportation of her vast
products from the inland cities ana
towns to the seacoast. and of all the con-
cessions granted foreigners for the con-
struction of these roads none have Sc
cured more important ones than those
granted the American-China Develop
ment company, which was first organ
lied by the late ex-senator Brice work
on the roads for which this company
holds the concessions is now being
pushed, but it will be a number of years
before all of them are completed. 1t
is the main line of the road from Han
kow to Hong-Kong that is being built
at the present time and which Will be
completed first. The completion of this
line will open up one of the best sec
tons of the Chinese empire. 1t will be
about 900 miles in length and will have
its northern terminus at the great
Yanptse river. From this main line
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11
OLD MEN MAY LARRY.
And No Fuss Is Made. But when Old
Women Try II Every
One Sneera.

never expected to write a defense
Of brass band, particularly band OF
Welsh extraction. But censorious per-
sons are shifting at the intelligence That
Adelina Patti on the occasion of her
recent marriage was escorted 10 church
by brass band and fire company. all
indigenous to that unspeakable terri
tory upon which her unpronouncea ole
castle has been set up.
Some persons are hard to please.
They covertly suggest that AdeIina
Patti is no longer in her first youth.
They refer to her two previous mar
riages. They take pains 10 repeat her
exact age, referring TO church regis
ters as solemnly as though it made
the least difference whether she were
horn year earlier or ten years later.
Then they give statistics concern ng
Baron Cederstrom and finally, as reg
ular clincher, they drag in the brass
band and the fire department, as who
should say: ''After this nothing will
shock or surprise YOU"
| have heard many brass bands in
my day-big bands and little bands.
gutter bands and country bands and
circus bands. For some ineNplicabIe
reason the marriage of man TO a
woman half or one-third his age evOkes
no unfavora bic comment or criticism
There be those, indeed who grow SEN
timental, not to say maudlin, over the
touching spectacle and give utteranct
TO a lot Of twaddle about the hus band
who will also be father. No limitation
is put upon the age a man may marry
and though he he twice her years WE
are assured such and such a urfon
was one of pure sentiment on 10th
sides.
| have 70 desire to dispute the a. ser
ton that men past so are freque 1tly
more lovable, more dangerous to the
peace of mind of womankind than theiI
younger less experienced brothers. |
don't know when a man. is not cha rm-
ing. Certainly not under 80. As for
the susceptibility of men, why, ON
mend us to an old party past 60 for the
dernier cri in that line.
What do object to is the inequality
with which marriages made between
persons where there is a marked dis par
ity in age is regarded when the oder
person is the woman. If a man is not
ridiculous, when at GO, with a flourish
of trumpets aad all the ceremonials we
naturally associate with youth and ro-
mantle love. he leads a girlish bride
bedecked with orange blossoms to the
altar. why should the very occasional
woman who decides that her happiness
lies in union with man much young
err than herself become an object of
unpleasant criticism and rather coarse
merriment?
Why should they drag in the accom-
mOdating and Innocent brass band?
Why hold up the precious fire depart
ment Of Staid-lnglas (?) to ridicule
Is there anything really much more
humorous in the marital notes of a
fearless band of brass than in the voice
that sings ''The peace that fell o'eI
Eden" as the bridegroom of 60 i'm
prints his first kiss at the altar upon a
girl wife younger than his own daugh-
ter? Anyway. should the brass band
be held up TO further ignominy liar
riet Hubbard Aver, in y. Y. World.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11
Gardening Is UnheaIthy.

Gardening is generally considered
one OF the healthiest of occupations,
but the German Gardeners association
has issued a warning to those who in
tend entering the industry. They cite
the fact that during the years 1889 TO
1897 of the 29l members of the associa-
ton who died in Germany no fewer
than LAP succumbed TO consumption
and other affections of the lungs.-N.
Y. Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11
Destructive.

II care not who fights my nations
battles if l may write its songs" said
Offmeter
We'll. they're deadly enough" re-
marked Crush.-Syracuse Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-11
4 Definition of Gratitude.

Gratitude i TOO often bur feryid ex-
oectation Of favors 10 come.-Chieagc
Daily News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25
TREMENDOUS TICKET SALE SALT PALACE DECORATIONS
GREAT CROWD WILL WITNESS
SKIDMoRE'S BENEFIT.
Fire and Police Team Against the
City Clerks-Fifteen Hundred
Tickets Were Sold Yesterday.

The phenomenally large sale of
tickets for Saturdays baseball game
on the University campus indicates
that the public is generously respond
ing to the appeal to aid the afflicted
family of Mail Carrier 5. +. Skidmore,
who will be the beneficiaries of the
gate receipts. The picked nine from
the police and fire departments and
the team from the city and county
building will put up a most exciting
game of ball. The game will be called
at 5 p. IN.
While employees of the postoffice are
prohibited by the regulations from
selling tickets direct for the benefit of
their worthy fellow postman, whose in
juries will probably leave him an in
valid for life, it will be possible for the
mail carriers to deliver tickets to p.a
sons on their respective routes If thus
fact will be borne in mind the benefit
fund will be swelled to large proper
tions.
There were probably 1,5O0 tickets dis
posed of yesterday and an order was
sent to the printer for more No police
man had sold less than twenty-five and
Detective Sheets carried off the honors
of the day with a sale of nearly 300
The firemen worked hard, but as they
cannot leave the engine houses and as
their acquaintance are not so numer-
Gus as those of the policemen they did
not sell quite so many tickets Should
the demand for tickets continue as
large today the fund for Skidmore's
family will be much larger than was
expected.
DR. Root said last night that the
patient was resting easy and was very
quiet All hysteria and violence had
left him and he ate and slept regularly.
His mind was not wholly normal, but
he answered questions nationally. He
is inclined to wander and will begin
talking about something foreign to the
subject in the middle of a converse
ton. 1t cannot yet be determined
whether or not the patient Will recover
the use of his mind.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25
Slow Game Played On Univel sity
Campus.
SCORE STOOD % TO IA
ALL KINDS OF MISPLAYS WERE
NUMEROUS.
Both Pitchers Were Hit Hard and
often = Game Witnessed By Two
Hundred Spectators-Y. M. C. A.
Team Arranges For Two Games
Schedule of Approaching Contests

The university and l.. d. S. Business
college mines played a free-for-all game
yesterday afternoon on the varsity
campus. 1t was an easy thing for the
university boys, who left the bases so
hot during the last half of the game
that the scorers were almost forced to
hire assistants. The windup was % to
II, in favor of the varsity.
The game was not so fast that the
200 spectators couldn't keep track of the
remarkable plays. These We're rather
few, and some considerable distance lay
between them.
The first innings gave some promise,
for the university retired scoreess. This
would have been the case with the
Saints also, but Margetts made a
double. bringing in Luff. In the second
the boys relaxed a little, and Castle
ton, who pitched the first two innings
for the bookkeepers. was so much in
clined to be battable that the varsity
scored four times.
The I. d. S. failed to see home, al
though they hit Heuser freely. In the
third Holt replaced Castleton, and did
good work, but seemed to lose control
of his arm during the remainder of the
battle. Heuser was in just about the
same fix. Loose playing all around the
field characterized the game. Flies were
muffed in bewildering succession, bases
were given on balls, ineXcuSable errors
were made, and the ball was batted al
most at will.
The summary:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25
LOW WATER PRESSURE.
Firemen Discover Serious Conditions
On North Bench.

A serious defect in the water system
was discovered yesterday when the fire
department was called to quench the
flames on two small buildings at Nos.
654 and 65s Third street.
The alarm was rung in just before
noon, and the crew from No. i engine
house was on the scene in a short time.
But the stream which was turned on
the flames was very small. 1t would
not squirt more than five feet from the
mouth of the nozzle. Fortunately. the
buildings were small outhouses, some
distance away from residences, so that
without a breeze the flames had no
chance to spread, and they were extin-
guished without much difficulty. The
fire was caused by boys who had been
playing with matches. Had there been
a strong wind, houses nearby would
have been in great danger. The prem
Uses were occupied by S. d. Trent, and
owned by c. w. MidgelY.
While the water pressure was small
at the fire, the gauge>at headquarters
registered SO pounds. 1t is not yet thor
oughly understood what the difficulty
is, but the matter will be Investigated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25
CoLoRED CRYSTALS FOR THE
INTERIOR WORK.
Decorator Anderson Promises Some
Beautiful kIfects-Many Inquiries
Concerning Exposition.

Decorator James Anderson. who has
charge of the work of finishing the in
terror of the Salt Palace, made trip 10
the beach yesterday after some salt crys-
tails for experiments in color work watch
he has in hand. At this time Mr.. Ander-
sons work is of purely preliminary ma
ture, but he reports mat he is busy day
and night getting designs and making eX-
periments in crystallization. with good
results. He says the lake salt will work
splendidly in this connection, and prom
ises some beautiful effects.
The grounds are a scene of activity
these days, the workmen engaged in the
several departments being busily emu
employed.
Inquiries concerning the palace are be-
ginning to come i'll very fast. from both
east and west. The novelty of the affair
seems TO be attracting attention every
where. Requests for advertising matter
are being received by the railway lines.
lit is expected that all lines leading into
the city will issue advertising novelties in
connection with their regular matter con-
corning rates to. the city and the palace
this season
1t is reported that parties are out So
Letting advertising matter for the officia!
programme of the palace. No one has
any right to do this, because the pro-
eramme has not been let to any one, and
no advertising matter for any official
programme should be contracted for
without the consent of the board of di-
rectors. which will announce the success
full parties in due time after the same
shall have been disposed of.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAMME FOR THE GRADUA-
TON EXERCISES.
List of Young People Who Will Re-
ceive Sheepskins - Dates Fixed
For the Glass Day.

Final arrangements for the closing days
of the school year have been made by
the faculty of the High school and grad
yates and the list of young men and wo-
men who will go forth TO do battle with
the weighty problems Of life is announced.
Those to whom sheepskinS will be pre-
scented on the morning of June ] and the
courses from which they graduate follow:
Classical Course-Flora Leigh Block
Mabel Isa Bridgman, Carrie Goliath. ia
cob Cieman. Ivy Mae Crismon. Sylvia.
Cohn, Irene Earle Dickson, Edna Dean
Davis. Margaret Louise Dooly. Mary
Jane. Eldredge. Ina Dee Eddingfield. Hal
lie Ferron Gertrude c. Gurley Maydelia
Alden Hobbs. Walter 4. Hurd, Maria NJ
Hill. Eftie e Hague. Mabel \. Jones,
kittie J. kidder, Annie Moore. Kate Mad
olson, Louise Nelden. Laura Squires
Florence Street. Jesse W. Smith. Melvin
II. Sowles, Winnifred l.. Webb. Mary
Wightman. Ellsworth S. Woodward, Wal
demar Young.
Scientific Course-Benton Andrews. Ma
bed Irene Carson, Mabel l. Guthrie Harold
c. Hayenor. Winifred Jeremy Hardy
Alvin Jackson. J. Herman Johnson. Edna
May. Bessie Mayne, Clair MARCEL. Richard
Arnold Oslesby. Ruth Mcclellan Palmer
james Henry Pitts, Clarence T.. Post. Ar
thur John Skidmcre.
English Course--Mollie Alexander. Ed
son Coale Gwendolyn Harmon. Alice T.
Horkin. Leroy Bland Hughes. Sarah L.
Jeremy Christen Jensen, Allie Levy.
Claudia NJ. Schmierer, Belle Scofield, Eve
line l.. InOfndS. INGll -Aueila w Gllef. Lyle
WINNER, Lydia l.. Wismar, Jasmine
Young.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMME.
The programme for commencement day
as completed follows:
Orchestra, Selection From the Sere-
made .-......-..-.-.........V Victor Herbert
Invocation.
'Tha Work and Influence of Two
Great Women ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
............M aydeIia Alden Hobbs
Recitation, THE Man With the Hoe.
..-.............-....-.lna Dee Eddingfield
Orchestra. la GaZZa Laddra" - Rossini
Should United States Senators Be
Elected by Direct Vote of the Peo-
ple?" ......Jacob Coleman. Edison Coale
Orchestra. Hearts and Flowers .Tobani
Essay. Influence of Mountains Upon
Character
Crayon Sketch -----..--........-..-...
Flora Leigh Block, james Henry Pitts
Violin Solo, Louise Nelden
Accompanies, Mabel Jones.
Presentation Of Class. observation-disclosures.
80: .-----:-....--- Principal \. o. Clark
Comforting of Diplomas.
................P President w. A. Neiden
America ...--..-. Orchestra and Audience
Benediction.
Exercises FOR the entire week, begin
ming on Tuesday evening. are:
Junior Glass Day-Tuesday. May 80 S:l5
pm. High school assembly room.
Senior Glass Day-W ednesday Nav Il
Sis pm. II igh school assembly room.
Graduating Exercises thursday June l.
$50 pm. Salt Lake theatre.
Alumni Reception and Reunion-Satur-
day. June g. S:15 pm. High school assem-
bly, room-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25
NOTES OF THE DIAMOND.

The next game of the intercollegiate
series will take place tomorrow after
noon at o'clock on the university
campus. The High school and Univer-
sity are the. opposing teams.
The Salt Lake-Short Line game to
take place on Sunday will begin at IL
o'clock in the morning. 1t was at first
arranged that the contest would take
place as usual in the afternoon, but
the managers of both teams set the
game for IL o'clock in order that the
woolgrowers and railroad men might
have a clear field for their afternoon
game.
The Y. NJ. C. A. team is now reor-
ganized, and a decision was made last
next and one on Decoration day. The
first will be played Saturday afternoon
against the High school team. Cal
der's park has been selected as the
scene of this contest. The Decoration
day game will be with the Rio Grande
Westerns, and will be played at IL
o'clock on the morning of that day at
the fort grounds.
The following schedule of games to
be played on Saturday, Sunday, Mon
day and Decoration day, may be of
some convenience to baseball people:
Saturday.-Butte VS.. Short Lines,
Fort Douglas, $3.50 p. m; Y. NJ. C. A. VS..
High school. Calder's park, $3.50 p. m.
Sunday.-Salt Lakes VS.. Short Lines,
Fort Douglas, IL a. m: Woolgrowers
VS.. Railroaders, Fort Douglas, 3 p. M;
Butte VS.. Ogden, Ogden ball park, $3.50
p. m.
Monday-Butte VS.. Ogden, Ogden
ball park. $3.50 p. m.
Decoration Day. NJ. c. A. VS.. Rio
Grande Westerns, Fort Douglas, Il a.
M; Butte VS.. Short Lines, Lagoon, $3.50
p. m; Salt Lakes VS.. Ogden, Ogden
ball park, $3.50 p. m.
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The Dewey and Sampson mines will
play ball on Decoration day, in the
morning, at the university campus.
These teams are composed of some
crack amateurs. chosen from the office
and yard force of the Coop. Wagon &
Machine company.
@ @ @
The Retail Clerks are scheduled to
play the Walker Brothers team a week
from next Sunday.