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DAAka08r.en7Qyitrt. j^euiiieuiKa ui hub uitjrdayB ago received through the express what purported to be a gold-brick. He paid $45.00 exprcseage on it and was this weak horrified to discover that it wag only bronzed.The toll*hou86 below Webster, on the Richmond pike has been undergoing removal for over a month now. It stands aluiOBt direcrtly in the middle of the road and, besides being an obstruction, often frightens the horses driven by passers-by. It is passing strange that it t ues bo long to remove these old tollhouses after they once get in the middleof the road.nirdt5I-irise»rehedn9-7ftl-6nir11r•yitTwo long-haired individuals have been floating over this country preaching a doctrine that is new and strange andeven wonderful They claim to^m theiliprecursors of a new religion which shall presently possess the whole earth. They nave been seen at many places in the county, and preached at the comer of 7th and Main streets, Wednesday night, to quite a multitude who marveled ch. There are twelve apostles ofmucit-asofledteasosinteofS'1098ine-ihthem sent out from Detroit, and they travel two by two.No weekly which is a mere side issue to a daily can succeed. It may be printed from the office of a daily, but it must be edited solely with an eye to the wants of the people among whom It must find its patrons. It must have a staff, the same as though no daily were issued. The news must be winnowed of all sensationalism, all falsification, and presented in a compact, yet bright and interesting way. The various departments must be edited for it alone, and the editorial page written expressly forit. ItmuBtoS'a clean paper, for it Ibread by every member of the family. It requires as much talent and skill—per haps more, in special lines—to conduct a general weekly so successfully as to giveit a great subscription list as it does to make a great ana successful daily.Associated press dispatches sent m Washington Tuesday contain-The out from ed the following:“Mr. Wm. Leeds of Richmond, Ind.,accompanied by Dan Reid, the Rich' mond banker, is in the city. They cam* to see Congressmen Johnson _ ana Bynum of Indiana and Senator Brice inregard to the duty on tin plate. They object to the time when it is proposed tojffecfc—Juneplace the new schedule into e:1st—and state that if this be done it willcut their canning trade in two, since the new schedule would go into effect in the midst of the season, and the men who buy cans would delay purchasing thamplate came in under They ask that the I to Jan. 1,1895.”until the foreign tin plate came in underduty.date be changbd from Junethe reduced dut;ntereatmg but we prophesy that Iter,—under the influence of thisdjtion to the force,—it will be so. The forthcoming mistress of uth Eighth street home will not bely connected with the paper, butand that rocks the cradle rules tbe tV you know. But we are rushingon.have a heart full of good for 8. W, Gillilan and his that is to be. And while we are is line we might as well say that if half a chance Gillilan will make ark in the newspaper world. Wepri(]e ourself upon our ability to discernlu.....newspaper talent, and we fully believe thiJ gentleman to possess that article in large and abundant measure. He has been tbe brains of the Telegram for some time and is especially so at present. He deserves a life of peace and plenty and, please God, may such be his portion.Poor Tired Girl!A wretched woman of the street, in thiB city, last week attempted for the fifth time to commit suicide and was unsuccessful. Those who were near her, through mistaken motives of kindness, brought her back to life again. Not so much to life, either, as to the horriblenightmare of prostitution.Bo woman in the city is consideredymore degraded or to have descendedlower in the scale of humanity than MayI!Ward. And yet, poor girl, tired to deatl of.it all and seeking rest in the peacefulSave, they will not let her die. We be-ve that every fallen woman suffers the tortures of hell. And May* Ward is not*so much an inmate of a house of ill fame as she is an inmate of the regions of the damned. Tortured to death by the remorse vof a life's misdeeds, may we not almost fail to chide her for seeking respite from it all? Among the throng that) daily walk the crowded streets of this eity there is no face so sad, no life so apparently blighted as of this courtesan. A look of infinite weariness rests upon her face and she seems to bs tired, tired of everything and longing to be at rest.God pity the poor life so stained and smirched with sin! Who are we that we should condemn her? Chaste and virtuous women are too severe on the Magda-lolones who fall about them. This lost girl might be saved by a word of kindness. We have only charity for the mistakes of humanity. We believe thatoften' when misguided Christians condemn, that He who stooped and wrotein the san^ when the woman of the city who was'.'a' sinner was condemned by the Pharasaical sinners, looks downinto the poor , lost heart with infinite compassion. He knows just the impulseswhich impelled that life to its own mis-g ana c it still.doing ana pities and forgives and lovesThis wanton girl's life has been a double misfortune; first to herself and second to the community. But if we could trace the thread of her destiny back to its beginning, we might stand aghast at the Borrows and disappointments hidden there and bave no word ofcondemnation. Ah, the dreams that areonly dreamed, tbe hopes that are never realized! Is there anything sadder in this world? If it iB true that God does know tbe thoughts, if indeed be looks into our hearts and sees the broken hopes, the vain dreams, the shattered faiths, then surely He must be pitiful and forgive, when in the bitterness, born of terrible disappointments, and crushedhappiness, we grow reckless and desper-oeetate and uncaring, trampling our and purest feelings under foot, growing bitter and hard, skeptical and cynical, having no faith in anything, neither in ourselves nor in our fellow m the angels nor in Him.men, nor inStaiwti*]Pftu*ita*dnit
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Richmond Enterprise
Richmond, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 23, 1894
Page 7
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Sue K.
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