The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1898, Page 20

20 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1898. SHOULD THE STATE TAKE A HAND AND RESTRICT MARRIAGES? D R e e R R R e R RS R R R test. They don't want to be compelled 1 to go before a board of physicians and pay $250 for a physical examination. Even if they pass the physical tests they are confronted with the old time nightmares of heredity: insanity in ¥ the family, consumption, drunkenness #* HE proposed Ohio law whereby candidates for matrimony must successfully pass a physical ex- amination before a medical board is exciting all sorts of dis- cussion throughout the country. Some people think it is simply another step indicating that the law is getting deeper into the home and the individual to check it. progeny, life of the people. They say, ‘“What next?”’ In other quarters it has aroused storms of violent opposition, protest and derision. But through it all the matter is being seriously and carefully discussed by the Ohio legislators. The father of the bill, Representa- tive Parker, declares that the present tendency of degeneracy demands legal AR R R R T R P P e The result to be attained’ | is desirable; the means MAEREPS D e | impossible, certainly im- __| practicable. To start with, you cannot compel men and women to submit to such a test. If you could, men and women would not submit to the ban put upon them. The law would be futile. The result would discourage marital relations and substitute illicit. Widespread illegitimacy would take the place of the occasional defective or delin- quent mentally, morally, physically. To fix the re- sponsibility for children and thus provide for their rearing is more important than to exclude the possi- bility of congenital defects. It is better for the State to maintain hospitals and asylums on account of mistaken marriages than to become a universal father and mother. Max Nordeau thinks otherwise. He is wrong. In Europe every restriction on free marriage has re- sulted in failure, although there, under the paternal system, such laws are easier to enforce. . Legislation of this kind is repugnant to American ideas. The fittest will survive. Nature will eliminate the de- fectives. And from the point of view of the politician I think nature should work more expeditiously and save society from maintaining too many asylums for mental, moral and physical delinquents. . . . The idea is ridiculous, to say the least. No one should have the right to say who should | JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS. or should not marr: ‘What were we given hearts for if they are not to decide for us in a matter of marriage? It has been said, and it is so, that God's greatest gift is love. Is the law to set itself higher than our Maker? Not by any means. In my opinion the bother about. proposed law is too silly to AR i As to the propriety and et P expediency of a law re- { REV. ELBERT R. DILLE. | uping it persons apply- i = ing for a license to marry to s a medical examination, and forbidding mar- riage to persons afflicted with dipsomania, insanity, bleod di: or tuberculosis of the lungs, or heredi- tarily disposed thereto, I have only to say that I do not think such a measure would be either practica- ble or de: ble. ady our laws make insanity a bar to marriage, and crime works a dissolution of the marriage bond. And while there should be some means by which de- cadent and defective should be prevented from marrying and propagating their specles, no such measure as is contemplated in the article re- prevention and that as a legislator he is going to do everything in his power His first step is to prevent alliances that will result and he holds that posed bill will bring about that much desired object. Men and women alike must submit to this examination, and it is to be as thorough as though the candidate was applying for a life insurance or a place in the regular army. as yet been made for women doctors on the examining boards, but the pro- moters of the bill say that is a detail that will come later. are uniting their efforts to meet the radical opposition to the bill. But the Ohio unmarried people pro- in inferior his pro- and blood diseases. relation to matrimony. No provision has At present they proposed law: P R R R R R R R R R B 2 10 3 PGP P G S ey ferred to above could be enforced. And where the re- strictions upon marriage are too rigid the result is increased immorality and a larger number of ille- gitimate births, as witness France and other Euro- pean countries, where divorce is practically dis- allowed. On the other hand, I believe that divorce laws far less lax than ours—laws permitting divorce for, say, two or three causes only—would tend to diminish the number of ill assorted marriages and those in- imicable to the well being of society. . . . ] How to prevent the mar- riage of persons who ought not to marry Is a diffi- Qi Bl et et Wiy i eultproblem; iand IS unt likely that any legislation will solve it. Moral suasion is the only force we can apply now to dissuade the partners of an ill-advised union, and that generally fails. An act of Congress will not help the case, but will lead to decelt, fraud, immorali- ties and other evils. It might be practicable to forbid the issuing of a marriage license to a confirmed drunkard or to a hopeless consumptive, and then the sworn affidavits of reputable citizens would be necessary. But prog- ress along this line will be slow, and the surer prog- ress lies in the direction of deepening in parents the conscientious sense of guardianship over their chil- dren and in children loving deference to the advice of their parents. In a true home, wherein children are wisely taught and reared, the boys and girls, when tney arrive at years of choice, will be likely to select a fit partner, who will be suitable on the ground of health, habits and character. The church can do more for the race along this line than the state. REV. W. H. MORELAND. . . [ | This is a problem in so- | | ciology involving more | DR. J. M. WILLIAMSON. ‘ thought and study than LA b e S can readily be given to it by the medical practitioner. The plan is so radical that it will certainly meet with general and violent opposition as soon as its purpose is made known. At the present time, and under the existing conditions of modern civilization, the public is not eaucated up to the standard which would place marriage on a civil service basis, and would compel those who contem- plate entering into a matrimonial contract to produce official certificates as vouchers of their physical and mental fitness to take such a step. The first effects of the enactment of such a law would be almost revolu- tionary. I do not believe that an order of the Gov- ernment compelling the slaughter of all first-born children wculd cause greater consternation than would this. At first glance it would appear ta the casual ob- server that legal methods framed for the purpose of eliminating from the reproductive portion of the Throughout Brazil there prevalls a remarkable and self-imposed law It is recog- nized among all the higher The man who Is about to marry is re- ¥ quired to furnish a certificate from cne 4 or more physicians that he is free from 4 disease of a certain character, Belew will be found what some well- known San Franciscans think of the New Bill Intro- tduced in Ohio Proposing that : : Candidates for: tMatrimony Shall Pass a : Physical Exam- *ation. + population all elements which might contribute to an unhealthy, vicious or depraved progeny could only be commended, and that the enforcement of such meth- ods would in due course of time s0 modify and im- prove the line of succession that a perfect race of men and women would result. Theoretically, this would happen: but it must be taken into consideration that a law so far-reaching in its effects would preclude so many that a compara- tively small minority would receive official sanction to enter into the marriage state. ‘What steps would then be taken by the Govern- ment to compensate those who might be declared matrimonially ineligible? What would be done in the way of restricting and controlling those to whom the privilege of creating a domestic establishment had been denied? These are questions for the sociologist and the po- litical economist to answer to the satisfaction of the great bulk of the people before such a law can be en- acted. In my opinion it will take centuries of time to reconcile the human race to the imposition of such a restriction, and if by some accident this bill should become a law the inevitable result will be a social upheaval which will eventuate in the increase of pauperism, crime and illegitimacy. I am against the proposed law. . . . + + + in clnsses. 3 + PS + + + the + Man is a chemical com- pound, with a mentality superadded. It is through EHEN iS5 the perversion of the lat- ter factor that most of his evils arise, and from this truly physiological and scientific standpoint, the idea suggested by Senator Parker and embodied in his bill is absolutely correct. Man is frequently termed the superior animal, but a close intimacy with his fraiities fails at all times to indorse this conclusion. Standing in the relationship which the medical pro- fession dogs to mankind no false sentiment, no mis- taken leniency, must dictate, guide or influence in any wise the physician’ ition as wa mstructor to his lay brethren. The reproduction of specles has a divine foundation for its existence, but with the great mass of humanity the only portion of the divine law recognized is “Be fruitful and multiply,” which com- mand is earrfed out with a blindness anrd an {gnor- ance which are truly lamentable. If man’s superifority does not entitle him to a per- fect offspring, both as an individual and a species, then he had better sink his superiority and become classified with the so-called lower creation, for there- in we fail to find the tr; gressions and resulting evils which are apparently so persistently, so re- ligiously, so detrimenta adhered to by man him- self. We aeccord to man th DR. D'EVELYN. ‘ e element of mentality withk the quailfying attribute, sentiment—an attribute for which we have the most absolute and sacred respect; but we could not justly permit sentiment to usurp + received therefro! ${THE PROPOSED OHIO LAW TO REGULATE MARRIAGE. R R L D PO R R R R R e e R S SRR R R R SRR R R e + + + + T shall be the duty of the Probate Judge in each county to appoint three persons, who shall be + reputable practicing. physicians, and no two of whom shall belong to the same school of medicine, ¢ whose duty it shall be to consider and pass upon all applications for license to marry, and no license to marry shall be granted to persons contemplating. marriage unless they shall have - + received a certificate setting forth that they are free from the following aiments: % nsanity, hereditary insanity or insanity resulting from vice, blood diseases, hereditary tuberculosis + Or consumption. Dipsomania, true + + Each applicant for a marriage license shall pay an examination fee of $2.50. Out of the moneys + * county to ths credit of the general fund. AR R R R R R R RS R R R R R R R S R R that judgment which should certainly be exercised in the fullest degree when the transmission of physical legacies are under consideration. The stockraiser, in his reproduction of the animals whose characteristics he has fully studied, takes means and uses precautions to prevent the accentu- ation of any degeneracy which may bve recognized, his object being to produce equal or superior off- spring, and not to initiate a series of retrogressive products. ‘When by means of legislation, if possible, but cer- tainly by some method, the reproduction of the ani- mal man, who is supposed to be made after the image of his Creator, when such methods are applied to the perpetuation of his offspring, then and not till then can we hope to successfully stamp out the long train of degeneration, popularly termed ‘“disease,” which has been accepted, so universal is its presence, as man’s birthright, not man’s misfortune; for we must recognize beyond question that max, as a physi- cal success, fs in no wise coequal with his predeces- sors, either in stamina or in the perfoa of longevity. Marriage means reproduction and reproductiop is simply the resultant of the union of physical forces— forces which must of necessity imprint upon that re- sultant the essentials which enable their union to vitalize their offspring. The object of this union should be the production of animal perfection. If their parents are not as perfect as nature's laws de- mand, then the union should certainly be intercept- ed, -for we aim not at civilization’s apparent wants and not at society’s demands, but at the most perfect type of human development. This is the goal to which the best efforts of science and humanitarianism should press, for theu we can substitute this perfect product for the puny offspring of pseudo-sentimentality, which has only the outer semblance, the perfect type to recoms mend it and which we denominate “man,” more from social courtesy and popular usage than from any physical claim these degenerates maay have to the title. In conclusion, I am pleased that legislation, through the Ohio Senator, is giving its attention to a line of action which has for its object the restoration of mankind to his architype, which, as the consumma- tion of creation, places him only a little lower than the angels. Marriage should be the unification of two primarily physically perfect prototypes of man and woman. . . . It is, I belleve, pretty well established that a large proportion of the in- ] Bl ie ! sane, the epileptic, the con- sumptive comes through heredity. Such marriages as are aimed at by the proposed Parker law ought not to take place, and unless prevented by law will oceur. Love laughs at disease as well as at locksmiths. Therefore people who will not consider such condi- W. H. L, BARNES. m each member of the Examining Board shall be paid, as compensation for his: services, the sum of $1000 per annum, and ths surplus, if any, shall be paid into the treasury of 4 + + + tions should be made to consider them. It would be wise legislation. . . . ’ A law of the kind that REV. FATHER PRENDERGAST. | Parker is trying to intro- duce would only result in lying, perjury -and corrup- tion. Besides, this thing of trying to improve the race by legislation is a mistake. The physical and moral sanity. of mankind depend upon physical and moral conditions that are beyond the reach of legis- lation. Moreover, the basis of the proposed law is not sci- entific, or at least cannot be brought under the cor- sideration and direction of science, for it is' well known that parents apparently delicate people have sound and, vigorous offspring, and on the ' other hand that physical and intellectual weaklings are sometimes born of physical and intellectual glants. Finally, the right to enter the state of marriage is a personal right, and secured to every man in the constitution of the race, just as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are recognized as primordial rights in the constitution of the United States, It is impossible to see how such a law could be practically carried out without social stigma upon names and families. It would be an outrageous pro- ceeding. . 3 b In some cases, such as dipsomania and insanity, JUDGE JOHN HUNT. the law would be a good one, for it has been proven that both these dlseas.es are hereditary. But one of the list, “all blood diseases,” is a little too sweeping. There are very few people who are absolutely free from some little blood trouble. If the bill could be modified and enforced it would undoubt- edly do a great deal of good. The idea is an old one, More’s “Utopia.” & dating back to Thomas . . To begin with, $2 50 for the examination: is too much. The marriage li- cense is only $2 at pres- ent, and that, in my opinion, is $1 50 too much. Oh, the theory is all right. There is much to be ad- mired in the theory. But it will never get any far- ther than theory. There are very few people absolutely .- free from blood -diseases, and any way people, :n- my opinion, have a right to choose for themselves. I hope the proposed law will never come out'this way. I should hate to lose my position as Marriage License Clerk. In case Califormia should adopt the law I most assuredly would. CUPID DANFORTH. HARVESTING ICE TAKING THE ICE UP THE ELEVATOR INTO THE STOREHOUSE. MOST SUCCESSFUL on the TRUCKEE RIVER HE Truckee River furnishes San Francisco with most of its ice. | The ice is not taken from the| large lakes—Lake Tahoe and| Lake Donner—for the former | does not freeze at all, and the latter freezes to a depth inadequate to yield merchantable ice. The ice lakes or ponds are mostly made by damming the river, and the average-sized pond covers 160 acres and is from four to six- teen feet in depth. There are no less than ten of these ponds on the course of the river, and two are in the arms of canyons which embrace feeders of the river. The twelve ponds are controlled by eight companies or firms, most of them having their head offices in San Fran- cisco. There would seem to be some kind of agreement existing among them as to the market price of ice, as there is one concern in the river which has its plant leased to a San Francisco ice company, who pay it $12,000 per year merely to hold its plant out of use, or $30,000 per year if it wishes to fill its storage-house with ice, and hold the same, subject to the orders of the company. It is also stated that where the plant people have availed themselves of this offer, but few carloads of ice have been taken from their house during the summer season, and they have had, In winter, to replace only this small quantity to keep their storage house filled. The thermometer goes down to 15 de- grees below zero along this river, and 4ce cutting begins early in December. It starts early, just as soon as the wa- ter is frozen to a sufficlent thickness, in order that the ice may be gotten under cover before snow falls. Snow is a serious and depressing incident to an ice producer. A heavy snowfall, after freezing has set in, may ruin his en- tire crop. It falls upon the ice, sinks the ice sheet by reason of its weight, below the water; the water rises to the level of the surface of the snow, and freezing again ensues. This proc- ess produces merchantably werthless Ice. The ice instead of being clear, transparent, bright, is white, opaque and dull. It is good enough for refrig- erator purposes, but is undesirable for other kinds of consumption, and when the pond gets in this condition the ice Is not cut at all. When snow falls, therefore, the ice producer hurries his crew forthwith to - clean it off, and many scrapers are brought into requisition. The con- gealed precipitation is gotten off and | © plled around the banks of the lake. This is an expensive process, for it costs about $100 an inch of depth to clear the snow from a pond of 160 acres. If the snow is 5 inches, therefore, the cost s $500, and if several of these falls occur before the ice is frozen deep enough to cut, the profits of the enter- prise for that season become very ma- terially reduced. Merchantable ice must not be less than 8 inches nor more than 14 inches thick. It is then cut into blocks 22x30 inches in size, and for that sized block each inch of ice weighs twenty pounds. A Dblock 12 inches thick, therefore, weighs 240 pounds. These blocks are cut from the ice sheet by a horse draw- ing over it a saw guided by a man, as a plow is guided, which saw cuts a seam through the ice to a depth within intact to permit the horse to walk over | ft. Two horses and saws are kept moving upon the ice, one cutting across, the other lengthwise, with the lake. After a patch has been cut, men follow with toothed ice cleavers on the ends of sticks, insert them in the seams and by prying break the blocks apart. The blocks are then floated, two abreast, into a flume along | which a line of men are stationed, and the blocks are started floating toward the storage house, the men thrusting the cakes by them on toward :he house. On arriving at the storage house the blocks are taken, two at a time, by | the bars of an elevator which lifts them along an Incline to the top of the long storage house. Midway the | elevator is a planer and steel brush which shaves and cleans off the sur- face of the jce as it passes, freeing it of all refuse which may be carried upon the top of it. This storage house is quite an establishment. - It is gener- | ally about 300 feet long, 100 feet wide and 30 feet high; such a house will hold 20,000 tons of ice. There are eight of these houses along the Iline of the Truckee River, some not quite 80 large, perhaps, and I estimate that the entire fce crop with which they are stored is about 150,000 tons. The elevator continues to drag the blocks of ice, and presently they are| carried along a level platform and past doorways, opposite which men stand with iron prongs; as. the blocks pass | they are thrust off the platform intq the door, when quickly they disappear down a slide into the interfor of the house. The alternate tenth block is selected by the first man on the plat- four feet of the bottom of the stratum. This leaves the ice layer sufficiently | form, the others pass on to the other men with prongs at the other doors. y If there are cakes of ice found too | impure to turn into the ice house they are permitted to fall over the end of | the platform, whither they are carried by the endless apron of an elevator. | The cast-off blocks are seized upon by | | Truckee butchers, saloons and others | who store private ice houses with them and use them for refrigerator pur- poses. A large number of men are required to operate an ice plant, though the sea- son of cutting Is very short, only about elght days being required to cut for and fill a house of the size I have de- scribed. - But at ‘this place 150 men were employed. The number of men must be increased, as the ice sheet is | cut away from the vicinity of the ice house and as the flume is extended to | the farther end of the lake, requiring | more men at the flume stations to | shove the blocks along. They move | pretty freely, too, for the elevator lifts | sixty cakes or about seven tons of ice a minute. The men are paid 25 cents per hour, and they work eleven.hours per day, so that their wages are $275 per day. They are charged 75 cents per day for board, the boarding houses being run by the company, and the men net $2 per day. The work is not hard, and, though cold, one may keep comfortable with wraps. The ice harvesting season does not last over eight weeks; but during this time it gives employment to 500 men. The ice plants do not all cut at one time, for the reason that the ponds do | not freeze uniformly. Some with the same degree of cold will freeze quick- | er and deeper than others, owing to va- riations in the exposure of their re- spective positions and as to whether the ponds are fed by the warmer waters of the larger lakes; men, therefore, move from place to place as work at one place is finished and at ancther it begins. Some plants cut two and even three crops a season, but most of them harvest but once, having storage ca- pacity for only one cut. Ice at the storage houses is worth $250 per ton, but in San Francisco it is SCENES ON THE TRUCKEE RIVER WHEN THE ICE CROP IS BEING GATHERED. Al retailed at 1 cent per pound, or $20 per ton, whereby it may be observed that the middleman harvests somewhat also. —_————— The street car struck the rear wheel of the bicycle. The bicyclist described a parabola and fell upon a pile of brick. The bicyclist raised on one el- bow, reached back an arm toward a rear pocket of the knickerbockers and collapsed, insensible. A sergeant c¢f po- lice felt in his pocket and drew out a sllver cocktall flask labeled, “J. J. Jones, No. 400 Bonton avenue.” “Go to No. 400 Bonton avenue,” said the ser- geant to a police officer, “and tell Mrs. Jones that Mr. Jones has—" ' The ser- geant paused and drew a hand mirror from the other rear pocket of the knickerbockers. “Tell Mr. Jones that Mrs. Jones has—"" The druggist who was assisting tickled the bicyclist's lip with a feather he was trying to burn under the nostrils. The bicyclist led and murmured, “Charlie!” “Tell Mr. and Mrs. Jones that Miss Jones has met with an accident.”—Life. LEGAL BURLESQUES HE most successful legal bur- lesque ever perpetrated on bench, bar or the public was the publica- tion in pamphlet form in 1878 of two fictitious cases purporting to be genuine decisions from an Arizona court. In the prospectus which preceded the cases, attention was called to the simi- larity of style and substance between ‘the Arizona reports and those of the court of last appeal in Pennsylvania. The writer of these fictitious cases so well concealed his identity that even to this day his name has not been made public. Some of the Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court took of- fense at what they termed an insult. One in particular, Justice George Sharswood, became exceedingly irate over the insinuation and was about to institute proceedings to discover the identity of the culprit who dared draw likenesses between the Arizona judic- fary and Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania and then punish him for con- tempt of court. At that time it was thought that the decisions were bona fide products of the Arizona judicial mind. Justice Sharswood was prevent- ed from taking action, however, by sev- eral of his brethren who saw the hu- mor in the burlesque phase of the cases. The first case is written in a purely philosophical style, with a terminology which savors of Kant and Liebnitz. It is as follows: Silas Tomkins vs. The Commonwealth. 1 A defendant may be convicted of murder by poisoning on an indictment l\2\'hl|(ch charges a murder by a clasped nife. 2. It is no objection to a conviction that it nowhere appears on the record that the Judge before whom the case was tried was duly commissioned by the Gov- ernor. 3. It is not an error to ask a prisoner when called up for sentence: ‘‘“What he has to say why judgment should not be pronounced,” ete. . The course of the administration of criminal justice cannot be stopped for cents. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Ayle, J. ‘The defendant below was found guilty of the gratuitous murder of a mother and her ten children under circumstances of useless and offensive barbarity. We were quite prepared to hear his counsel argu- ing that his conviction was erroneous and their client innocent. It is always so in aggravated cases. But with the inno- cence of Tomkins we, as a court of error, have really nothing to do. Law is the hypothenuse of a right angle triangle of which logic and moral philosophy are the two other sides. Though it touches them each at one point, its general direction is quite distinct. Mistakes will happen, of course, in our judicial system, as accidents do on our railways; but we can do without neither one nor the other. Iach usually carries its passengers in safety, and when the wrong man is now and then hanged or blown up he must console himself with the reflection that he is a sacrifice to the necessities of soclety. The second case is true Arizona style and smells of powder, the knife and the tomahawk: ‘With the law of this case alone it is our province to deal. We find here the usual parade of exceptions and points and assignments of error and a paper book encrusted with authorities like bar- nacles. Everything that the ingenuity of counsel could suggest has been done to confuse and complicate the decision of the case, in the hope, perhaps, that the pris- oner, concealed by the dust of argumenta- tion, might escape in a sort of legal dis- guise. But the eves of Justice are too quick for that sort of thing and we, as her ministers, will block any such game without remorse. The plaintiff in error, in the first place, complains that he is charged, in the third count of the indictment, with committing the allefed murder by means of a clasped knife of the value of 6 cents, whereas the groof was that he destroved his victims y strychnine infused in lager beer. We know nothing of this from the record. The verdict was guilty on all the counts, Which means that he killed the mother » yand the children, or some of them, | some way; and this, for-aught we i tell, may have been both-by.'the knife | and the beer. There is nothing in the | law to restrict a man té one mode of | homicide, as there is in respect to duplic- | ity in pleading. At any rate, it is a mat- ter in which the commohwealth alone is interested, to the extent of the value of the knife as a deodand. We cannot stop the administration of justice for 6 cents. Another objection urged to this convie- tion is that it nowhere appears that the | Judge who tried the case was duly com- | missioned by the Governor. Of some | things the court is supposed to be in pro- found ignorance until instructed by coun- sel; but this is not one of them. Whether |or not we find time to read the elec- tion returns, we are judicially bound to recognize the existence of our brethren of | the inferfor court. The third error i{s somewhat more de- serving of consideration. The prisuner, as appears by the record, was asked when called up for sentenc: "'What he had to say why judgment should not be pro- nounced,” etc., instead of ‘‘Whether he had anything to *ete. The forms of administration are doubtless the life of the law. Except through them we have no means of ascertaining the law ftself. A judge who should substitute his own theories for received doctrines would be guilty of the grossest injustice to suitors and the community. But we are unable to discover in the present casé any very important variation from established us- age. It is true that the form used here is rather abrupt and contains an implied sarcasm. Still the meaning was substan- tially conveyed and the ends of justice sufficiently served. In the case of Sargeant vs.. Coffin, 12 Mass. 315, it was properly decided that an | erection in a navigable river was a nui- sance; and in Smith vs. Mildmaise Adm., 31 Ala. 410, it was held that notice to the indorser of a note of its dishonor might be walved. I need not refer to the rule in Shelley’s case, nar to the well-known Woodworth Patent case of Wilson vs. Barnum, 8 How. (U. 8.), 253. These and ’other decisions, which it would be mere | pedantry to cite, show that the plaintiff in error has no cause to complain of the charge on the court. The other errors are merely supernu- . ¢ | meraries, joined to the principal charac- | ters in order to give them an air of ficti- tious importance on the stage. We shall do the prisoner no wrong by disregarding them. A criminal at his trial plays at pitch and toss with the law for his life, and, if he loses, he must pay the stakes. It is too late to contest here the minor oints of the game which ought to have Eeen settled as it went on. Judgment affirmed. —_——— She Got the Best Eggs. The other day a woman went into a grocer’s and said: “I want three dozen hens' eggs. They must all be eggs laid by black hen The grocer said: “Madam, I am will- ing to accommodate you, but you have got the best of me this time. I don't know how to tell the eggs of a black hen from those of a speckled or a white one.” 3 She said: “I can tell the difference mighty quick.” “If that is so, madam, will you kindly pick out the eggs for yourself?” She did so, and when the three.dozen were counted into her basket the grocer | looked at them and said, suggestively: “Well, madani, it seems as though the black hens laid all the big eggs.” “Yes,” she said, “that’s the way you tell them.” —_——— Thomas,” said a certain after taking his _seat one . “who Is it that sees all we 5'::'2:1'::5 hears all we say, and knows all we think, and who regards even me A, in my Bishop's robes as but a vilé worm of the dust?” }.\.nd Thomas re- plied, “The missus, sir.”"—Tit-Bits. ‘“Now, Bishop, He—It makes me a better man every time I kiss you, darling. She—Oh, Harold, how good you fnust be now!