Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1909, Page 6

_THE OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- matt TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION | Daily Bee (without Sunday), one yea Dally Bee and Sunday, one year......... DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week lic Dally Bee (without Bunday). per week | In out ay! Evening Bes (with Bunday), Sunday Bee, one year, Saturday Bee, one year ey Address all co ty of irregularities in | aclivery to City Citculation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bes Bullding. £ South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N Council Bluffs—15 Scott Btreet. Lincoln—sis Littie Building. Chicago—1548 ‘Marquette Butlding. New York—Rooms 1101-102 No. 34 West Thirty-third Street, Washington—125 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE fcations relating to news and edi- torial_matter should be addressed: Omaha | Bee, Bditorial Department. REMITTANCES. { Remit by draft, exi or postal order, pavable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mail ersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County. s George B. Tuachiick, treasurer of The Bes Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and comple! coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of March, 109, was as follow: . 398% 1 Semanoass GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subacribed in my presence and sworn to before mw this 1st day of April, 1909. M. P. WALKER, otary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Sabscribers leaving the city tem- porarily eh The Bee mailed to (hem. Address will be “hunged as oftén as requested. * Governor Shallenberger's Ananias club will bave to enlarge its member- ship. An earthquake at Lima, Pera, stopped the clocks. That's nothin even the Nebraska legislature did as much The night iders are busy again in Kentucky. The recent elections in that state rendered things dry enough to burn, It a governor is known by the ap- pointments he makes Governor Shal- lenberger will have & heap to answer for later, As another sample of democratie home rule South Omaha has just got- ten a new police commissioner com- wmissiened in Lincoln. woman who held onto her hat and let her pocketbook uway evidently knew which rep- resouted the greater value, The Easter, blow Philadelphia club up the fiying machine fad. Club men hate a reputation of fiying pretty high without the ald of machines The speculators are having their' say now, but wait until western sun- shine gets busy and there will be something really doing in wheat. —_— The Treasury department has ruled that prepared Chinese duck is not dressed poultry. Does the department intend to insinuate that there is lax- ness in the methods of preparing the product. New Yorkers are offered a play en- titled “The Return of Eve,” Unless she has elaborated her costume since her Initial appearance she will find the New York season hardly far enough advanced,, For the first time in a period of peace the United States army is re- cruited up to its maximum limit. With this competition removed the governor of Nebraska should have no difficulty in securing a supply of colonels. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon says he does not believe in opposing the re- publicans when they are right. The application of that principle would have deprived most of the democrats | of an occupation during recent years. A popular local preacher, speaking to the club women, has seized the opportunity to take the customary shot at excessive bridge playing. It is to be noted, however, that for lack of courage he fought shy of the Baster The Memorial day committee of the G. A. R, starts out with a neat cash balanee on hand, left over from the Memorial day celebration of last year. Better put that committee in charge of some of our other public enter- prises. It buying the water works will not increase taxes, what was the object of that bill so zealously lobbied for by the water-marked statesman to put an ‘unnul frontage water tax om every owner of Omaha real estate facing a water main. — Forty-four days of storm, with a to- tal of nine feet seven and a half inches of snow, is the record of Denver for the seasol When the summer sun starts the water down stream it will | convincing. men have taken | Stretoching the Constitution. braska's state constitution undergone a great many twists and turns in the supreme court. It has been held that a stenographer is not a clerk and also that two railroads join- ing the same termini by the most di- rect routes are not parallel and com- peting roads. The court has now held that the requirement that no money be drawn out of the treasury without a specific appropriation does not apply to the proceeds of the university mill levy. The dissenting opinion of Judn‘ Rose seems to us to be by far the more There should be no trou- ble in having the legislature appropri- ate at each session the money pro- duced by the mill levy and to make an additional appropriation, if necessary, of any surplus proceeds collected in from previous levies.- If, on the other hand, the university draws its money up to the nominal amount of the full levy each vear it will be certain to create a deficit of from 5 to 10 per cent. If the shortage in annual col- lections is only 5 per cent, in less than ten years this will amount to 50 per cent and require an extra % -mill levy to extinguish it. Instead of asking the court to sus- pend the constitution the university should have asked the legislature to appropriate the unused collections from the back taxes. has The Cry of Coercion. When democratic senators charge President Taft with trying to coerce congress by threatening to veto bills they sound upon unsympathetic ears. This charge hardly comes with good grace from the democratic side of the fence when the late democratic stand- ard bearer of the party in the last and in two previous campaigns has been putting in all winter traveling over the country secking to coerce democratic legislatures into passing measures which the country has repudiated. Hid latest exhibition in that line was made in Texas, the home state of the sena- tor voicing the charge against Mr. Taft. 8o far as made public, Mr. Taft has not said he would veto any measure passed by congress or made any threats of what he would do in case desired legislation was not enacted. He has made it plain, however, that the country expected congress to re- deem the pledges made to the people who elected them. If supersensitive legislators call that coercion they are thin-skinned, indeed. As president Mr. Taft is not only the head of the republican party, but is primarily held responsible for the re- demption of the pledges the party made to the people on which the re- publican party was retained in power. In the stand he has taken Mr. Taft demonstrates that he understands the responsibility and proposes to make good. The president would be justly held remiss In his duty if he did not, in his official capacity, do what was within his power to bring about the enactment of measures demanded by the people and pledged by the party. Opening the Base Ball Season. The umpire's call, “Play ball,” re- sounds throughout the land-—not the half-hearted exhibition kind of ball, but the real article which is to settle who is mistaken in the many guesses on pennant winners. From the chill spring winds, through the sweltering days of summer to autumn’s frost the enthusiastic fan will yell himself hoarse, roast the umpire and stand ready to fight for the declaration that base ball is the greatest game on earth. In business and in play American life demands action of the strenuous kind and base ball fills the bill., This 18 the answer to the query, “What do Americans see iu base ball to make it a national sport?” An hour at the ball park makes them forget the troubles of the business day. All the amusement they require is crowded into the time they have to devote to the purpose. If doubting ones do not think they enjoy it let them go out to the ball park and be convinced. Young America plays the game on the corner lots, watches it through the cracks of the fence and grows into his | heritage of a seat in the grandstand in his mature years through the step- ping stone of the bleachers. The sea- son {8 on and all nature smiles again. Even on bad days the rain check is a rainbow of promise it will shine agdin. The Anthracite Coal Situation. The situation in the anthracite coal flelds presents some encouraging and #dme discouraging features. The fail- | ure of the operators and men to reach an understanding leaves a difficult | problem, fraught with all kinds of | possibilities, yet to be solved. 'I‘rue,l the men are at present working under | the same scale of wages and under the | same operating conditions which have obtained since the famous award of the commission appointed by President Roosevelt. Under that agreement there was constantly arising situations which caused friction and which but for the agreement would have pro- voked conflict. Vithout this or some other restraining force equally as effi- clent, there are certain to come hitches and open ruptures between those di- rectly interested. Any other result where mutually suspicious parties are involved, would be too much to ex- pect The public has an interest in indus- trial peace which should make itself felt to bring about conditions which would render an open rupture improb- able, but no one has yet come forward with a solution which gives promise | | | be time for people on the bottom. lands 1o take to the hills. of acceptance. The chanc there- | the industrial situation. THE BEE will prevall and all simply wait for de velopments. The encouraging feature is the fact both parties have decided to proceed with the work of mining and market- ing coal. Time was, and that not so far distant, when on April 1, when the old scale expired, would have wit- nessed a strike or a lockout If the common sense thus displayed could be carried a step farther and the inter- ested parties come to an operating agreement, a load would be lifted from The business is so extensive, the number of men in- volved so large, and it is so intimately connected with the other affairs of the country that the uncertainty is a cloud upon general industrial activity. General Booth’s Optimism. The eightieth birthday anniversary of the founder and commander ' of the Salvation Army has brought from him a letter filled with optimism. Years of labor for the lowly and among the unfortunate and distressed have not made of him a pessimist. With a knowledge of the dark side of life possessed, perhaps, by no other living man, his eyes have not been so dimmed by years and environment as to obscure the bright star of hope. It is pleasing to note that while others with less right to judge class Ameticans as dollar chasers, wrapped up in the problems of material devel- opment» and ‘acquirement, the clear in- sight of General Booth sees the other | side. He recognizes the immense po- tentiality of the restless energy of the American people, backed by great nat- ural resources, and expresses the faith that it will continue to be directed for the uplift of humanity when he says: What will you do with this mighty, magic force? If you are permitted to realize your ambition to lead the world, you lead 1t? To utter abandonment of faith in the eternal and the neglect of every duty flowing out of it, to senseless worship of mammon, to useless frivolities? No, I am sure you won't, and I blush at the very mention of such things and denounce them with all my soul. The life of General Booth at' 80 stands as an object lesson to others. His methods and his creed may be sub- ject to controversy, but his keeping in touch with the world’s progress and thought has made him a virile force during the years past Instead of a croaking raven and will continue so to do until his time comes to lay life’s burden down Two Water Bond Propositions. is seeking to bonds.—Water The Omaha Water compa: defeat the water works Commissioner Hipple. If thé other statements made in be- half of the proposed $6,500,000 water bond issue are on a par with this they must be very flimsy indeed. Not only is the water company not opposing the proposed bond issue, but its officers are actively working for the bonds. The Bee knows whereof it speaks on this matter. Whatever else may be charged against the owners of the | water works, tirey will not be accused of lacking in business judgment. They will not only be glad to sell their plant for the $6,263,295.49 fixed by the ap- praisers, but are the very ones who will make big profits by the transac- tion. If voting the $6,600,000 of bonds will help them unload the sodner they will omit nothing to bring about the voting of the bonds and the com- pletion of the sale, The president of the water company is on record in favor of voting the bonds. Anyone who says the water company is against the bonds does nmot know what he is talking about. Municipal ownership of the water piant will not affect the tax rate one way or the other.—World-Herald. That depends entirely upon the price we have to pay to buy the works. If the water works could be acquired on a valuation on which the revenue from private consumers would pay all fixed charges in addition to operating | expenses, that would be true, but if we have to pay $6,263,295.49 it is 10 to 1 that the revenues will not pay the whole sum required and that we will have to levy taxes, disguised as hy- drant rentals, or some other w make up the difference. The water company is now paying about $70,000 a year in taxes, which will have to be made good by taxes on other property after the city acquires the plant. The city in addition is, or should be, paying about $100,000 a year raised by taxes for hydrant ren- tal. The only place where a real sav- ing would be possible is in dispensing with the high-priced lawyers who have been milking the water fund. Put it down that you cannot have your ple and eat it, too. The bills will have to be paid either by the | water users or by the taxpayers, and the basis of the burden will be the price paid for the plant with a million or more added for betterments and ex- tensions. Speaking of he water company and its friends,” the very best friends the water company has in Omaha right this minute are the members of the Water board and their satellites, who are tearing their hair to hand over to them $6,263,295.49 in exchange for | that water works plant. William R. Hearst is in hard luck First they tried to take from him by legal process the evidence intended to "be used in the libel suit brought by Governor Haskell and now they have stolen it from his representative. The governor is in Oklahoma and can easily prove an alibi. Omaba should be specially gratified over the promise which is held out that the receivership of the Chicago Great Western is soon to be termi- pated. The Chicago Great Western [lflre. are that the opportunist policy illnrled things here when it pushed its OMAH/ [ tra labor to clip the tail off the comma whither will | DNESDAY. western terminus to this point, and it | will do a lot more for Omaha when it again becomes a good, live factor in the railway world Six working girls today filed claims ag gregating 820 ageinst the Lake Shere rail way for damage to Easter suits and hats by a discharge of olly water from a locomo- tive~Elkhart (Ind.) dispateh. That averages $46.66 aplece 'for each working girl. That prosperity special cannot have been sidetracked 80 very long. The house wants the tariff bill re- turned in order to insert a period in place of a comma. As ¢he senate has inserted a number of other things in the bill it would not require much ex- and make a period out of it Mayor Jim I8 to have a platform made for him by “‘the people.” The platform, however, will be made in ad- vance for “the people” by one of Mayor Jim’'s trusted lieutenants. New Jersey is starting out season’s war on mosquitoes. By get- ting an early start the Jersey folks hope to make a fair showing in the un- equal struggle on the And at Any Hou Washington Post. ‘The Michigan supreme court has decided that a man has the right to treat his friends in a dry territory. Strong friend- ships will now become epidemic in the drouth countles of Michigan. Utilising Waste Producta. Buffalo Express. The state of New York has been collect- Ing taxes on_gas. Now If congress would levy a tax on the hot-air expelled at its sessions the problem of meeting the na- tional deficit would be solved. Wisdom Exhibit Number One. Philadelphia Press. Attorney General Wickerham's admission that he recelved a professional fee of $300,000 for services lasting over two years proves President Taft's wisdom in getting 80 high-priced a man at such a low salary as the office pays. Yellow Pimers Line New York Sun. The entire Florida and Louisiana dele- gations and seven pf the eleven Georglans voted against free lumber in the house. Great will be the ordeal of the senators from those states If a separate vote Is taken on the lumber schedule. v Where the Tired Feeling Prevails. Brooklyn Eagle The injuries to naval officers engaged in the riding tests prescribed by Mr. Roose- velt, and not.yet prohibited by Mr. Taft are so serious that we venture to suggest that this form of exercise be confined henceforth to the ho marines. Lawful Explosions, Baltimore American. A judge in Towa refused to hold a man accused of swearing at a baggageman. The judge held that swearing at baggage- men was justified. Trunk owners will per- ticularly enjoy. traveling through lowa in future. Thew, will be able, without fear of the law, to square many long-standing accounts with the smashing fraternity. l-'r')o‘. Tpensury Showing. Boston Transcript. An improved showing in the Treasury shows How closely federal revenues are re- lated to business conditions, In boom times almost any schedules yield large returns. It Is not so easy to devise a revenue law that will be @epression proof. One is not immediately necessary, it now happily ap- pears. ) Susceptible Juries. Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1t is difficult enough to obtain a verdict | of guilty against any woman charged with | a capital crime, triply ditficult if she hap- pens to be young mnd of attractive per: sonality. Preachers of women's rights have held that women should be tried by female Jurors. Na jury of women could possibly be more lenient to a woman than is the usual male jury in this country. It Is, even, not impossible that women hearing @ case agaigst a woman would be less swayed by gentimentality than are the masculine jurors, that almost invariably fall victims to w pretty face and a woman's tears. RECASTING JUDGE-, Fellow Se t Doet e Repudiated by Several Staten. Philadelphta Press. New Jersey follows New York, Pennsyl- | vania and Delaware in the enactment of ADE LAW. | APRII Around New York Ripples om the Ourrent of XLife A8 Seen in the Great American Metropolls from y to Day. “the dear pub- are too common to excite wrath, one sounds the depths of ab- surdity and pretense. New York supplies a shining example. A number of streets in that city have street car tracks on which cars have not been operated for years. But the malintenance of certaln franchises owned by the Metropolitan company de- pends on the “operation” of cars over those tracks. So at long Intervals, perhaps of month anclent car, known as the “ghost car,” 1s slowly driven over the otherwise unused tracks. Nobody rides in the car except the conductor and driver If anybody boards it no fare is demanded Corporation tricks fo do T occastonally But it is lable to stop indefinitely at any | can | has been held | point on the line, so the get nowhere. Yet this farce a sufficlent “operation” of the rcad, over ssonger the strects in question, to keep alive the | company's alleged perpetual franchise. And the courts hold that the ghost car system of operation gives continuo life to the franchise. Measured by the combined length and ca- pacity ‘of its five main spans, says Col- ller's Weekly, the Queensborough bridge, across the Bast river from Fifty-ninth street, New York, to Ravenswood, Queens, fs the greatest bridge in the world. In- cluding approaches, its total length is 8,600 feet, width 86 feet, and greatest helght over 300 feet above the water. It crosses from shore to shore, 13 feet above the river, with three enormcus spans of 1,182 feet, 630 fect and 984 fect, the middle one reaching across the full width of Blackwell's island Besides these there two more great “anchor" spans, one at each end, wholly over dry land, with a length of 4 feet for the five, which, together, contain over 106,000,000 pounds of steel. No other spans in this country, except suspeasion bridges, approach the longest of these, and the only trussed span in the world which exceeds it is the Forth bridge, which, although 1,710 feet long, has a capacity for only two rail- road tracks, less than one-third of this, There are two decks, the lower one de nated for a wide driveway and four elec- | tric car tracks, and the upper one for two sidewalks and two elevated railroad tracks, and having, in all, an estimated capacity of 200,000,000 car passengers and millions of vehlcles and pedestrians an- nually. It will cost over $20,000,000. are When one of the large ocean liners which reached New York a few days ago had been less than three days out on its| trip from Europe it became known to the first class passengers that there were people aboard with whom It would be dangerous to play bridge. Several men and women had already been induced to play, | and had lost at games ranging from 1 cent a polnt to % cents. One passenger, who never went into the smoking room, and who avolded card parties because he was not quite well, felt strong enough on the fourth day to wish to play cards In order to kill time, and made the sugges- tion to several people who declined for varlous reasons. As a final attempt, ac- cording to his own story, he approached a man who looked “as though he knew a no- trumper when he saw one” and sal “How about a little bridge?' His fellow passenger looked at him a little quizzi- cally and said, with a wink, “the captaln won't let me." The exclusive passenger did not know untll he had landed that he had invited one of the professionals. —_— i One of 'the 0dd wa¥s of earning a living in New York is that of the confidential bookbinder. He Is in great demand ‘n banks and other large financial Institutions. His tasks are usually patehwork, but ocea- sionally of late he is entrusted with the | building of a complete set of covers for a collection of papers pr records thal have accumulated In some of the new fashioned filing or recording devices. There 18 & man who owns a farm away out in New Jersey and spends the spring and summer on it amusing himself with his hay and butter and fruit and warden truck. About the end of September he runs up to New York and makes the round of his customers. Then he arranges a schedule according to their needs, He will spend a week In one institution mending the backs of old ledgers and put- ting new leather corners on the covers. Then he will pass on to another and patch up its used up day books before they are stored away for reference. The books he handles could not pessibly be sent out to a regular bindery; indeed, none but a thor- | oughly trusted man, one who could be re- lied on to see nothing and say less, could be allowed to handle them, at all The job brings in something like double the ordinary day wages of first rate jour- neymen for about elght months a year, New York people are a superstitious lot, | according to a local auctioneer. As proof | & statute covering the lability of employ- ers for injurles to their servants. Eng- | land years mgo overturned the peculiar | judge-made Jaw which had prevafled for | sixty vears, whereby a servant malmed | for life, or-his family in case he were | killed, could not recover any compensation | from the employer if the injury were | caused by the negligent act of a fellow- | workman engaged In ‘‘common employ- ment.” American legislatures have been slow to follow the English Parliament in | this highly salutary reform of the sub- stantive law. Present Indications are that before long the ‘‘fellow-servant doctrine” | will be entirely eliminated in the United | States. ! This principal was first declared as lhfli law in 1837. Lord Abirger, a common law judge of great learning and ability, wv‘ its author. Cautlous application was made | of it In the succeeding five years. Then Chief Justice Shaw of the supreme court of Massachusetts adopted the same line of reasoning as Lord Abinger, and ex-| pounded the doctrine with greater logical | force than ever before. The sequel was the | firm establishment of the ‘IOIIoI-l\eI’\‘lAH!I’ doctrine” In English and American Juris- | prudence. Shaw's decision had such weight | in the House of Lords that the doctrine | of “common employment’ was forced upon the reluctant common law courts of Scot- land Several American states other than those | already named have repudiated the doec- trine by statute. Georgla. Montana and Colorado, Kentucky and Connecticut are among those which have joined with Mas- sachusetts in repudiating the doectrine of ‘common employment” and minimized the defense of contributory negligence | Thig doctrine in the seventy years of its existence has entailed terrible hardships to thousands of poor families In En nd and America. It arose from a judicial blunder in considering the problem in Its narrow legnl aspeets without regard to the economic and ethical principles involved. | In effect, it was declared that a work- man. by his contract of service, assumes all risks of the employment, ncluding the risks that may come through the act or neglect of his fellow-ssrvants. Thousands of cases have been decided in the coupse of which the doctrine has been extended n & manner to entail greater immunity for employers | announces that the American market for | of his contention he adduces this incident: One day there came into his shop a table to be auctioned off. It was & table with a past. It had belonged to more than one medium and had figured in many a tip-| ping seance. The auctioneer expected that | psychic history to boost the price of the | table, Instead of exciting competition the | table inspired fear. It was regarded as an | interesting curiosity, everybody to examine it, but no one price had been set on it under which it was not to be sold, and no one bidding | up to that figure it was withdrawn from | the sale. Later the auctioneer omitted all reference to the table's psychic powers and it fetched a good price. are again wearing dlamonds Trade may still halt, and labor is not vet fully employed, but, the gem trade which slumped tremendously at the time of the panic, Is again brisk. Malden Lane wanted would buy. A Americ but | | evils of marriage In | an ; Creai Powd & M hot biscuit. PERSONAL NOTES. After twenty-nine years of falthful ser- vice, Crier Moses Taylor of the Michigan supreme court, has resigned, because of ill health, He's Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor, has accepted an in- vitation of the American Republican club of Pittsburg to attend its twenty-third an- nual anniversary of the birth of General Grant on April 27 . Lorando Taft, who has been awarded the commission for the Columbus memorial fountain to be erected in the Union Station plaza at Washington, D. C., receives the first nyize of $20,000 and the order for the memorial, which is to cost $100,000, An able man In New England boasts physical proportions which would make President Taft appear by contrast as the merest lightweight. He is Mr. Arthur H Moulton, the lately elected president of the New Ergland Fat Men's club and he Is known as the heaviest man in all the east- ern states. A Baltimore woman of husky propor- tlons, on discovering “affinity” symptoms in her husband, slapped him good, swiped his pay envelope and kicked him into a corner. I am boss of the hou she told the judge when asked to explain, adding, I won't stand for any funny business." That's the stuff. At Cleveland, O., Mrs. John C. Hem- meter petitioned the common pleas court for a divorce. “He used to wake me up in the night," she informed the judge, *to tell me low his first wifé committed sul- cide. He would say: ‘One wife is dead and another on the way, but the old gen- eral lives. " Mrs. Hemmeter got her de- cree Edward C. model for th George A. C at Monroe, Potter has completed the equestrian statue of General ster, which s to be erected Mich., with an apropriation of 335,000 by the state. Custer Is repre sented as bareheaded, riding a spirited horse, his long, flowing hair being a dis- tinetive feature. He wears a military coat and the attitude Is one of strength and dignity. DIVORCE COURT REFOR One Nevada Court Declines to Roost | the Busin New York Times @ divorce courts of Nevada are im- proving. Perhaps it is because of the ex- ample of South Dakota. Judge W. H. A. Pike of Reno, In Nevada, granted a ai- vorce last fall, on the ground of desertion, to a New 'York actor, although neither he nor his wife had gained a legal residence there. Immediately thereafter a person in w York attempted to secure a divorce in Nevada without even appearing in court. This was too much even for the legal con- science of Justice Pike, who feared that to grant the divorce would make him the laughing stock of the whole country. Then Bouth Dakota voted the amendments to its divorce statute, which require of foreign petitioners a year's residence instead of six months, and that ull proceedings be heard at a regular term of the court. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the “di- voree colony” In da should be dis mayed at the decision just rendered by Judge Orr's court at Reno, whiclf holds | that the state law does not “throw the | courts of Nevada en to the world so | that people might come he stay a day or so, the complainant star g the action and the defendant coming into the state to be served, and thus confer jurisdiction upon the court It may be, as Prof. Willcox divorce does npt necessarily intensiy the the ratio of its in- Nevada allows many divorces, and many Bouth Carolina none at doubtless family morels are not much | in the state than in the other, | Neva avers, that for causes; diamonds is sgain in a satisfactory con- dition. The value of precious stones and | pearls imported In March was about nine | times as great as the value of those im- ! ported a year ago. The treatment that speeders have for their record last victions arrested automobile son persisten year in Jafl recklessness. Manhattan sentences pended sentences, forty-one; bonds feited, three; fines, 101, averaging $i1.7 Not & single jail sentence and an average fine of 311731 A gentle slap on the wrist for their naughtiness. A The s: Con- none; sus- | | | | received in court is one rea- | | | nice, hful Public Ser New York Tribune. Eihan Allen Hitcheock did a great work, and did it out of a clear sense of personal and officlal obligation. The bitter enmitles which he Incurred are a tribute to the zeal and thoroughnéss with which he applied his policies. He never was in the least a politician, but always an administrator of public interests and the improvement of the public service He left & mark on that service which will last He will be remembered as a public man who accom- plished much and who slways lived up to his own high ideals of industry, justice. and duty, ¥ | | that his society s confronted in some quar. Samuel W. Dike of the N ‘tina' Locgue | for the Protection of the Family, declares ters with strenuo: it objection to the beltef that the pre normous velume of | American divore itself an evil. But| certainly it is a sign of great marital un- | is rest that one in nine to twelve marriages should end In a permanent separation e reform of procedure In the divorce courts an Interstate agreement, even, concerning A \ Baking akes the lightest, most delicious and tasty hot=bread, rolls and muf- fins sweet and wholesome 1n g??i?si ey and restaurants the world over. Makes the Protects the food from alum. First Lion—I wonder how Teddy the | rible is going to kil us? Second Lion (gloomingly)—~We won't have I much chance to epcape. It he doesn't do it at once with his new gun, he will prob- ably hit us over the head with that Ananias club.—Baltimore American. ““That man has done some mighty good things." “Yes; 1 was one of Courter-Jourpal. them."—~Loulsville You t a tariff that will encourage industry ““That's it exactly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “T want to encourage the industrious voters who are trying to keep my friends and me in office. ashington Star. ‘He speaks of his Immedfate family?" “Yes; he married a widow with seven children. “Instantaneous would be a better word." —Louisville Courier Journal. the per- “8o your airship was wrecked in blizzard, 1 thought you considered it tect." The ship was perfect,” replied the in. ventor stiffly, “The alr was at fault."— Philadelphia Ledger. First Fusser—I threw a kiss to a girl the other day. Second Fusser—What did she say then? First Fusser—She told me that 1 was the laziest man she ever saw.—Yale Record. Mrs. Kragg—I see they have just brated the centenary of Mendelssohn. Mr. Kragg—I've always felt a prejudice agninst that fellow, Mrs. Kragg—Why? Mr. Kragg—Bvery time I hear this con- founded wedding march I think of our wedding!"'—8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. “Between his wife and his employer, poor Binks is baving a hard tim “How 07" “Because she is always calling him up, and he is always calling him down.”—In: dianapolis News cele- Yo you ‘think you could asked old Gotrox. I don’t know,"" replied Miss Young- How much are you willing to epend on my education?'—Chicago News. the menagerie)—This the blood sweatin’ hippotamus, s 1t? young man with considerable pull Attendant—No, he used to do it, but he doesn't any more. He's conserving his natural resources these days,~Chicago Tribune. learn to love Is He and Little Boy (at Grafton doesn't work at all He doesn't? Why seemed to be a4 young man when I knew with Towne—All that's changed now. He's a ayung man with considerable pull and doesn’t have to work."—Catholic Standard and Times. CALL OF THE TIMES, Baltimore America. Now in the land s heard t hieh Do ear careless pas But which to all m 2" the score? Now watch the one whom business keeps Away from games until he weeps; Upon all with the query leaps, “What's the score?” ker, of great dignity, erk and lesser employe, office boy—on this agree: “What's the score?’ The The other public facts we find, Of big importance clear defined, Are dwarfed by this in public mind. “What's the score? 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