Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-29
CONTRASTING A WILL.
Property Amounting to s6O.OO0 Being
 Kmvolveds

Involved
 Deposition of several witnesses were taken yesterday afternoon by Court Stenographer CoggsWeIl as 8 commissioner of the Superior court in the contested will case of Mrs. Ade- line King of Detroit, who left about $60,000 worth of property.
 Attorney Mason appeared for the contest ants, and Attorneys Most and Prentice for the will. They are Detroit attorneys. Mrs. King used to live with Henry Mix, who form erly kept restaurant in the City Market when he lived in this city. She made will in 1886, and died some time ago. The physician who attended Mrs. King testified yesterday that her mind while he visited her was very weak. She would throw off the bed clothes and expose her person, not appearing to have any moral sense at such times. She had these paroxyisms fires quently. She was bewildered and never knew when she came out of these paroxyisms temp to attack the doctor. In the doctors opinion Mrs. King was wholly unfit to make @ will. She did not have power to compre bend such a document.
 At one juncture Mrs. Mix asked Attorney Mason if she could make a suggestion. When Mr. Mason resumed his seat, Attorney Prentice told the stenographer to put it down that Mrs. Mix made suggestion.
 "I object" said MT. Mason, "because it is none of his business. had the right to speak to whoever please without it's being put on the court record.
 The two attorneys had quite tilt over this point, but Reporter Coggswell said he thought his duty was only bis duty to take questions and answers, and he adhered to it.
 To every question Attorney Mason asked Attorney Prentice objected. The physician testified further that once Mrs. Kling offered to give him piece of real estate. He con sidered it only one of her fancies. She was subject to fancies and morbid impulses.
 The ground that the attorney for the will will take is that Mrs. Kings attorney was not 8 college graduate and knew nothing about nervous diseases; that Mrs. Kling suf- fered with pains caused by dyspepsia, which caused her.to act excitedly and throw the bed clothes off her.
 The hearing will be continued to-day.
 AduIserated Bread.
 10 the Editor ofthe JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 noticed this morning in your paper and some other papers that my name has been brought very prominently before the public in connection with the ''bread bill,' p which is now pending before the legislature, in oppo- sition to the same. I, of course, oppose it for reasons which I will show little further on. First let us see what the bill is:
 BREAD BILL.
 PARTI.
 A loaf of bread shall be two pounds in weight. Bread except that composed in chief parts of rye,
 maize Cor corn) flour shall be sold in whole aud half loaves, but not otherwise.
 PART II.
 Whoever shall knowingly sell any bread adulter- sented by the seller shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
 s.A A6ah af fy70 Tha first part says loaf shall weigh two pounds, and half loaf one pound, but no price is specified for the same. What is to govern thati The price of flour, of course. A baker cannot make the price the year around on standard weight. The price must huc- tuate as the flour does. For example, if the price for large loaf today should be ten cents and the small loaf five cents, and next week four should advance fifty cents or one dollar per barrel, the baker must advance the price of his bread. If he does not, he must certainly fail. So if the large loaf is advanced to eleven cents per loaf, he must advance his small loaves to six cents and if he does that, he then is taking one-half cent from the public that does not belong to him. So under the first section the bread must Huctuate in price the same as -four, and in that case is the public or baker benefited by such lsw3
 Furthermore the law says any bread dQulCerAL6u WILL huy 4OE6lSu etc. Now in my experience which has ex- tended some twenty-five years, I have yet to learn how bread is adulterated, but if strictly pure bread is composed of wheat -four, wa ter, salt and yeast, which learned yesterday is pronounced pure bread-if that is so- why then, acknowledge that I sdulterate bread to 8 very large extent. The bill says if any foreign ingredient is used the bread baker would be fined and imprisoned. Now then, if use milk, lard, butter, or sugar or corn -four in the bread, I, or any other baker 50 doing, must pay a fine or go to jail. If I want to improve pure bread this bill pre- vents it and the public must be satisfied with the "pure bread" specified above. Bakers usually strive to outdo one another by giving the best bread they can make for the money and to cater most &C., csptsbly to the taste of the public, and little corn flour used in bread is acknowl- edged by the general public to make bread sweeter and keep it softer and longer than without it. could say great deal more if l had the time and space in regard to this bill, tlt will not take your patience any longer Anly to say this: If there is any vir- tue ir sh bill as this leave the public to judge for themselves.
 trust this explanation will show clearly my reasons for objecting to the bill as now constituted. F. B. RooT,
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