| Show t SOCIAL nocial libe LIFE t AFTER aeten a recital of the lust instances andes of depravity and crime in its ita issue of the da day y previous the new york standard in ft an ably written article A glance glatice at our social life tile states not in this city only but in every part of the land the air breathes exhalations exha lations of murder ana and of crime as bad as murder on what hypothesis can we account for this terrible condition of society there must bo be some profound reason at the bottom some fearful evil which is sapping away the foundations of our social structure Is there not a terrible history in these lew few words that case of serious illness just reported is only a common or uncommon drunk I 1 ciler cill r MILLS these uncommon drunks of women are very common indeed they speak of a depravity worse than anything we could conceive of without such sights lights daily before our eyes the same influences which throw women oil oll on the streets as common drunkards lead mothers mother to murder murden their offspring parents to discar discard 4 their thi chi children ii dren and husbands to forsake their wives our oar homes are not homes in the fullest sense of the term the old domestic feeling has lias vani Tani vanished shed from our hearthstones hearth stones our social life hag has been degraded by a personal pride which leads ali classes of people to avoid avold honest hones work end and ind seek seak to appear what they are not W women oman are ashamed to brew and bake and b boil boll OU some Soine are ashamed to nourish ri sik six awn children and many married i jei jel ed women respectable as the world orid orld goes who appear p broadway daily dally and are 6 active in every f Shio nabie utterly refuse to b by m mothers in mt themi two facts are the secrets of the ae easy aay divorce moT movement ement and in them is the foundation for half 0 of the crimes which are chronicled in every eveny issue of the newspapers America american 4 women are dragging our social life I 1 into the mire we have no desire delre to withhold the ballot banot from therald theo them if they want it ault auit ut we would rather see them noble nobie wives and mothers than intelligent v voiers voters bens lens the they must save us from becoming a nomadic people living in boardinghouses boarding houses instead of the place called home they mustin spire a love for little childred chil child dred dreo ren rev they must take young men from the streets and make them happy in the social circle iome home must become the centre of attraction or crime will increase especially the crimes which are now so frequent chere is a catastrophe awalt await awaiting hag bag us unless ualesi we bearn learn where lies the danger ll 11 I 1 the standard closes its Us article by b saying that day by day the evidence accumulates accumulated that the police are p prompting r 0 M P t crime crimes where lit jit t will end 1 1 says DO living man can tell THE tre kanbas kansas correspondence cpr of th fb e ser sew sew new york verald JS erald Herald furnishes an account of an affray which is probably equal in human eav agenes to any event i of the kind that ever occurred in bord border e r life the affair took place in the early part patt of the pre predent present ent month fatir drovers two of them brothers named joe and charley bigger the others named gus norton and tom jackson were returning from missouri where they had been be ilif selling ling cattle homes in texas they had camped in the afternoon two or three hours before sundown on a small stream in indian territory about forty furty miles from lowell Ks and after making preparations for supper sat down to play poker very shortly after commencing three professional gamblers from fort scott en route to kanbas kansas city whose names were watrous allison and bradford came along and were invited to join in the game the inai invitation was accepted and play commena com I 1 between two of the drovers d rovers joe bigger and jaek Jack jackson soil and watrous and bradford two of the gamblers for awhile the drovers were fortunate but soon the luck changed and the gamblers were in a fair way to clean out their genf men but unfortunately watrous was wha detected cheating by bigger bidger biow A row at once commenced V blows were interchanged and pistols drawn but it was finally agreed that bigger and watrous should fight it out on horseback with bowie bowle knives they were divested of their coats and shirts their knives bound to their right hand hando and they were set sixty yards apart with the understanding to ride at each other sa at the word go watrous was mounted on a large roan horse bigger on a strong fiery pony when the signal was g given iven the combat commenced but not until the third round was blood drawn when the horse pf af watrous received a slight cut at in the flank from BIgge 18 knife in the fourth round bigger B ager drove hi his s knife deep into his ad vers arys steed the latter Indic inflicting ting a severe cut on biggers animal both men and horbes horses were exasperated and at the fifth round bigger struck watrous fous in the face with his left fist flat and inflicted a horrible gash in his thigh with his knife watrous in lif return driving his bis weapon into biggers shoulder the human and diina brutes were now becoming weik weak from loss losa of blood and in the sixth round watrous tried to ride down pony PODY and the latter in trying to avoid the collision was severely wounded in the arm and face I 1 his pony however although badly hurt seized the check of Wat rouss animal and tore it in a fearful manner in the seventh round the shock of the combatants was waa so great that biggers pony ony was thrown hib his rider under him iut but both regained themselves watrous wa svery weak from the wound in fit lit his bis thigh and his horbe horse was bleeding to to death from the wound in his neck I 1 but both men and horses received additional wounds Watrous being struck in the thigh bigger in the side in the eighth and final round both horses fell with the concussion but bigger streaming dreaming with gre pre from back arms and side extricated hims himself elf eif and pounced upon watrous too weak to rise and stabbed him to the heart bradford one of the remaining gamblers seeing the fafe fate of his friend fired at bigger and he le fell dead on the corpe of his antagonist A free fight then commenced between the remaining drovers aud and the other two gamblers during nv one of the latter bradford was killed and two of the forber normer former norton and aad bigger ie verely severely budnot t fatally wounded 1 1 |
