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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-06-09

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-06-09

one of the sixty-eight bills passed by
the senate Thursday provides punish
ment for parents and guardians reSpon-
,ible for delinquent school children.
Another increases deer hunters licenses
from seventy-fiye cents 10 a dollar and a
half; another forbids horse racing and
other sports ON Memorial Day, in Isa-
bella. Lapeer and Cass counties, which
the bill of Representative Higgins. of
Cass. proposed to do for the whole state,
but he did not get votes enough in the
house 70 suspend the rules and pass IL
\ similar general bill in the senate is
smothered in committee The Kelley
anti-treating bill came 10 vote in the
house, and lacked just two of passing,
getting forty-nine while eighteen Were
recorded against II.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-06-09

The tuberculosis sanatorium bill has
been reported out of the house committee,
from which some had feared it might
not emerge 1t comes with its fifty
thousand dollars appropriation cut in two
in the middle, as the senate had pre-
viously halyed its one hundred thousand
dollars; but good deal can be done with
twenty five thousand dollars, and per-
haps the demand for holding down APP
preparations juStifies the cut The good
roads bill has been approved by the gov
ernOr, and he has selected Senator
Earle, of Detroit, as the state highway
commissioner, 20 conduct the new state
highway department in its trial trip
an appointment conceded by all TO be
admirable. The governor has also sent
10 the senate the names of Frank =
Neal, present legislative clerk in the gov
ernor's Office and formerly member of
the house from Wayne county, 70 be a
member of the state board of mediation
and arbitration for term of three years,
and the appointment was Immediately
confirmed i'm open session.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21

games, scheduled this summer are so
large that they are everywhere en-
barrassing the officials. And of
hardly any less interest is the fact
that the American woman is taking
her place abreast Of her brother,
with racquet. or golf club. or canoe
paddle, or even baseball n1itt In hand
ready for use.
Washington leads. as it ought to
lead, in this movement toward the
stronger man. It maintains with
steady patronage in baseball alone
ten leagues of about six teams each,
two of them recruited from Sunday
schools; two college teams which
rank with the best college mines:
half dozen independent clubs, an
abundant number of scrubs" and a
professional team as constantly ''on
the jump" as a Mexican bean. Fur
thermore the Capital has a fine
league of basketball clubs, half a doz-
en- associations of bowling clubs, two
fine boat clubs, in addition TO crews
maintained by the local colleges; a
score of tennis clubs, an association
of rogue clubs. and general athletic
| associations in the National Guard.
the military and marine stations, the
public schools, the departments, and
every other field of local labor.
What will be the effect of all this?
To fit q sound body on every sound
brain, to loosen the girth and increase
the endurance, to clear the eye and
establish all the workings of the
brain on the normal, resourceful ba-
sis of good health In a word, it VIII
conduee to good citizenship; and in
that sense it is pleasant to think that
the President is himself a leader in
all manly sports and has doubtless
given force to this wave.
The whole country seems to be
Weakening. We are purging our poll
tics, cleaning out our businesses,
turning resolutely back to honesty
as requisite in all our dealings
and looking away from the confine-
ment of a house in row to a dwell
ing where Gods air and sunlight car
/ get in on all sides. This rebound to
! the joy of a resourceful physique is
corollary to these other currents to-
ward better national life Ameri-
ca can afford to be complaeent as
long as its men and women are as
happy in open-air sport as they are
| today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
The Indeterminate Sentence

The magazines have much to say
these days of discrepancies IN SEN
fences imposed for crime. Thus, lar
ceny, which usually moves the courts
of the District OF Columbia to i'm
prison the offender for fifteen days
or three months. in Louisiana JUS
titles a sentence of two years, and in
Connecticut a sentence of twenty
years. The seyerest penalty for for
gerry in Delaware is three years inn
prisonment: in New York 1t is SEN
tence for life. The average sentence
for arson in Arkansas is two years;
IN Rhode Island it is seventeen years
and a half This is all retributive
justice-but it is retribution accord
ing to geography and not according
10 the character of the offender.
Accordingly. Eugene Smith-a law
yer who has given whole lifetime
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
The hooking Bird

Near The Times Office is a Gagged
mocking-bird He sings as gladly as
though he were free; he has the par
donabie pride that goes with superior
ability and acknowledged excellence;
his soul is full of music, and he
pleases himself and his neighDors by
pouring it forth from morning to
night. His song is the springtime
call OF nature and freedom and love;
IL is the one touch of beauty in q
street otherwise dingy and narrow
Sometimes, at the close of the day,
when the air is heavy with the smell
OF ink: when the distant rumble of
the press Grones In the ears like the
hum OF innumerable bees; when the
pen sputters and the pencil grows
dull; sometimes, when the work of
the day gives way to the more sooth-
ing process of digestion and the eyes
droop and skip line here and three
lines there; sometimes that bird puts
extra sweetness into his notes and
has dangerous liquidness in his
call that causes day dreams and the
surge Of ancient and neglected mem
cries. 1t is then that the mind goes
back TO the moonlit splendors Of the
Southland.
Once, as this magician sang his in
cantation, a little boy III a lonely
garnet lay awake and listened to the
melody without, which seemed TO
flood the night equally with the
moon: there could be no ogres or
giants where such delicious music
pleased the ear, and the little boy
fell asleep to dream of lovely prin-
cesses, his fairy godmother, and him
self as the lucky prince. At another
time the bird-notes, with their full.
low tremolo, set the heart-strings in
sympathetic vibration; then a youth
and maiden paced the path before
her fathers house while the scent of
the honeysuckle, the Jasmine, and the
spicy rose filled the air with a sweet
ness that Wed with the melody which
the mocking-bird in the oak tree near
the road was pouring forth. And,
again, the deep beli-tones of the Gagged
bird recalled that night In June when
the family sat solemnly on the moon
lit lawn, one of its members having
been laid to rest beneath the myrtle
and the yew trees IN the private GEM
etery beyond the hill. There was
little to be said; but the glorious
melodies of the mocking-bird filled
the silence with beauty and lee
thought to rise above the grave and
soar starward.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
Midnight NaTbleTs.

There is a species Of bird common
in the District OF Columbia that is
seldom seen, though its song is
often heard. Its habit is to remain
quietly in hiding during the daytime,
and until shortly before midnight,
when it futters erratically from the
corner of one street to another sing
ing popular airs in a shriIl and dis
cordant, or else bass and muff1ed,
tone
This bird is of sociable nature
and usually goes in small focks, but
occasionally it may be found in
couples. or a solitary specimen may
take possession Of the night. 1t has
a fondness for bright lights, which,
perhaps, accounts for its fitting from
one barroom to another; but it has
one habit which approaches divina-
ton and second-sigbt so closely that
scientists are puzzled TO explain it.
How does this bird know, by what
instinct is it led. what malevolent
devil possesses it invariably TO detect
in which houses there are teething
infants, tired men, and nervous
women, and unfailingly TO pause in
front of such domiciles and pour out
its song? Evidently the bird is OF
Ill omen and its advent portends loss
of sleep. 1t is called the midnight
warbler from the tremolo that dis
tinguishes its song. Our scientists
the police, would do well to investi-
gate its curious habits and help it tc
its nest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21

of attention to the study of prison
reforms out in the Independent with
an argument in favor of the indeter-
inmate sentence for crime. BY this
sentence says Mr.. Smith, "a person
convicted of crime is sentenced to i'm
prisonment-not for any fixed or def
mite term--but to Imprisonment sim
ply. The Imprisonment is TO continue
until the prisoner shall have under
gone such a change in his character,
habits. and purposes as tie render 1t
safe, in the Judgment of a competent
tribunal, to restore him to freedom. =
It is manifest that our present sys-
tenn of Furnishing criminals begins
wrong. The conditions which produce
crime and the nature Of the offense
are approximately the Same all over
the country. At any rate, there is
no difference which warrants this ex-
traordinary discrepancy In punish
ment. And most of the penal insti-
tutions are not reformatory in their
influence; they are punitive merely,
and send the criminal into the world
the worse in character and the more
bankrupt in opportunity. To remedy
the first failing the National Bar As
ISOLATION ought to prove equal. The
second is more serious, depending as
ii does on the character OF the prison
warden.
AS long as the indeterminate SEN
tence depends upon the judgment Of
/ such men as now govern our ere
! formatories' it will appeal to tbs
average citizen as, perhaps, a desirabl,
scheme of punishment, but at pres
ent decidedly impracticabie We vii
j begin our reform first with the re
| formatories.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
Sunday Among the Trees.

Washington cuddles up, through
the winter, II coy nest of hills.
All about her-north, east, south, and
west-sturdy pines shield her from
the chill winds; and the beautiful
city in the shelter spins and weayes
so industriously that she forgets. now
and then, to look out and nod her
thanks in return.
But when summer comes with
new needles for the pines and crisp.
cool leaves for the oaka end NAPLES.
the city looks up and sees the hills.
And those of her children who are
able to go out among the trees and
put on airs. The rest of the family
must stay at home, working, swelter-
ing, and casting their eyes toward the
hazy trees in the distance with a
longing that Just misses being envy
At this season those who summer"
in the country come into town every
little while and talk about being
roasted alive" and rushing back
to the COOL" and being here Just for
some business at the bank and SO
on, as though they had no knowledge
at all of their brothers and sisters
who would like TO live beyond the
hills, but cannot
For these others the holiday comes
once a week, not three months in the
year. They must rest, as they live,
a. day at time. So on Sundays they
dress up-mother in fresh muslin,
father In a black cut-away, edged
with braid; John, who clerks in a
store, in blue serge with yachting
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
Reform and RefoTmers.

There IS a movement for righteous
is but as the rustling of the trees that
accompanies the break OF day; it is a
rising of the wind that promises much
for the future
Many men are honestly urging this
movement forward. but there are
eharlatans here and there, who, hay-
ing caught the direction OF the breeze,
are using it to grind their own grist
Concerning these the current issue of
The World Today says:
Just now the charlatan reformer
is too considerably in evidence. We
are in an era of confession. Boodlers
confess to escape punishment. Good
men to ease their conscience Gentle
men with active imaginations confess
in the interest of their income. 1t is
the charlatan's golden age A mans
penitence has come to be his largest
financial asset There never was a
time when regulations were SO butch
cred to make newspaper and maya
zine circulation.
ITO uncover the sins of ones asso-
ciates and ones self as a Commercial
venture and to advertise specifics OF
eure-alls is q genuine menace to pub
lie morals. 1t is one thing for the de-
partment Of health to open up city's
sewers. It would be quite another
thing If sewer opening became a com
mercially lucrative fad A man Is
not prophet because he lays bare
social evils. He may be a common
yellow journalist. 1t Is one thing tc
bare evils in the name of God; it is
quite another thing to be a scandal
words"
Mr. Lincoln's epigram gives much
encouragement to all optimists: ''You
can fool some of the people all the
time; you can fool all of them some
time; but you can't fool all the people
all the time" When notoriety hunt
ers and charlatan reformers seem
most to sway the public, it is ther
the hour draws near for the swift and
certain condemnation 20 which they
are entitled Let us not fret oul
hearts about the pinckbeck and cop
per- washed reformers; there are trus
and honest men at work in thu
world, men full Of patriotism anG
wisdom, and in the end the works Of
the latter will endure and the work:
of the others will be swept away and
| forgotten.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
HOW oYAMA WORKS.

To the Editor of The Washington Times:
one Western correspondent was quot
ed recently by one of the Tokyo dailies
IS saying.
Il wished TO see japanese lieutenant
one day who was stationed at General
Oyama's headquarters, established IN tbs
midst OF beautiful Chinese garden
stepping to the open door | saw a
man, clad in an immaculate white suit,
sitting quietly st q table, reading
japanese newspaper. which completely
hid his face. When | spoke he put the
newspaper down and then | saw that
was before Oyama himself
I'm the house. and in the garden OUT
side all was as peaceful as il the world
had never known of war, Yen could
almost hear the shadows OF the moving
clouds rustling over the grass.
.Gyama was courteous; he asked me
in and offered whisky and soda and d
good cigar. for both of which I was
duly grateful had not had drink
IN three days-and waved me to an in
ner room where kodama and other
officers Were sitting.
THE talk was jolly and cheerful, al
most fiippant- | asked about some de-
tail OF the fighting. Kodama laughed
you know too much now. he said. with
smile and a gesture which said. as
plainly as world could say. Drink
your whisky and soda. smoke your cigar
and be comfortable We will attend TO
the fighting. Your dispatches can walt
And even while the two generals
were joking and laughing with me they
were attending to the lighting. AT in
teFvals orderlies, sometimes covered
with the CRIME of the battle, would
come in. salute. and deliver verbal ness
ages, brief and terse, from some officer
in the field Oyama would suspend his
talk, listen, give his directions aad then
return with animation TO the perfectly
commonplace topic under discussion.
precisely as If nothing special were
afoot.
He received many telephone and
telegraph messages, too. in the sans
matter-of-fact way. and dictated his
replies TO his secretary. never losing the
fire in his cigar and eonteatediy slipping
his whisky and soda all the while
1.-The pretty peaceful Chinese garden
in which Oyama's headquarters were
hidden away was in the center OF g
yeritabIe spiderweb of wires through
which the commander-in-chi could get
instant communication with any part OF
his forces.
The Japanese lead the world in field
Biography Unlike Western warriors,
they string the wires on the ground. and
not on posts, thus saving time and
| money. They have the art of securing
insulation worked out TO perfection.
though they cannot always prevent tha
Chinese from meddling with the wires.
| One Chinaman cut off piece OF
Japanese telephone wire to make .
| necklace of it. and was beheaded in full
sight of dozens of his countTymen. no
| lighter punishment being thought suffi-
cientlv terrifying to teaeh them the les
son they SO plainly needed IT.
| Washington. D. c., May It.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
The Shad Bake.

II the way to mans heart is
through his stomach, the way to the
heart of a civic body is through a
banquet. Formal meetings are useful
and necessary, but men never grow
to know each other until they meet
in relaxation and play. Unless they
know each other much time and labor
is lost at unnecessary cross-purposes
and avoidabie misunderstanding
Washington is a city noted for its
public shad bakes. The fire under
writer's have one year. SO does the
bar, and so does the Board of Trade.
At these gatherings there is a joyous
freedom. that is a relief to the busy
men who participate, and that brings
the active men of the city closer TO-
gether IN sympathy and understand
ing. AS result the public spirit of
Washington is as strong, and is on
as high q plane, as that of any city
in the world.
Yesterday the Board of Trade held
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spirit of the occasion was dignifed,
but free and delightful Perhaps the
most noteworthy matter was the in
tense earnestness Of ali the distin-
guished speakers in responding TO the
coasts assigned them. Their mes
sages rang clear and true, for they
were the utterances of men who have
a purpose in life and definite work
to do.
That purpose was the unifcation
and direction Of our public spirit to-
v~rd the Identification of the Ma
t.enal Capital. The people of the Dis
tr iyill heartily fndorse whatever
tends IN this direction, and they will
be backed up by the whole body of
American citizens, for the embellf5h-
ment Of the Nations City is the
adornment OF the Nation itself
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
uNFLATTzRING TO WOMEN.

Many unfistttering sayings about
women are current in various countries.
An old English saying: IF a man
lose a woman and a farthing. he will
be sorry he lost the farthing.'
A Scotch one: The next best thing
to no wife, is a good wife"
The French adage: "A man or straw
Is worth a woman of gold"
The German: There are only two
good women in the world-one is dead.
and the other can't be found,
The Spanish rhyme has 1t: Were a
woman as little as she is good. a pea
pod would make her a gown and g
Hood
THE Arabian says: Words are
women; deeds are men,.
The Persian declares: Women and
dragons are best out OF the world
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21

cap; big sister in a lawn dress with
more open work than lawn, and a
white hat that shoots off toward
heaven; two little girls in Russian
oiouses and socks. and the baby in
the pink and white knitted sack that
was waiting for her when they ex-
peeted to get a little boy. but didn't.
John carries market basket and his
father hammock, folded up square
SO they climb into the car and
crowd you away from the end; and
you wonder why they had TO get into
your seat. But the family don't
know you are alive and don't care
| They are off to the woods, and
whether they go ali the way in a
/ trolley car, or on the steam cars, or
by steamboat, they are thoroughly
happy. The air that you breathe in
differently, out among the trees, fills
them with new energy and gives
! their step spring which is a fine
contrast with their next days trudge
about their work The creek you pass
without hearing its murmur or not
ing its glistening Fipples is a wonder
Tul thing to them: the little girls
wade in 1t, and John fishes in 1t, and
the father and mother walk along it's
bank as light-hearted as though there
were no grind on the morrow to shut
them in again
Then the market basket Maybe
you think you don't like cold string
| beans, and ported meats, and thin
lemonade. and tomatoes with salt on
4 them. That is not the trouble. The
trouble is that you have no appetite.
II you had the appetite that hard
work and the country air gives these
Sunday excursionists their market
basket dinner would taste better to
you than all the grass sandwiches or
pate de foie gras that ever were made,
And when the evening comes, and the
/ baby cries, and everybody is tired
out, they come back to the city to
/ sleep as they have not slept since
| their last sortie beyond the hills.
We have assumed that you belong
with those who live in the country in
4 the summer. If you do. take a long
look at the next party like this you
encounter and make way for them in
the consciousness that they can teach
you much that you ought to know
But If you do not, if you are one OF
these excursionists yourself, we say
tae cars are yours on Sunday and
there is not an open-minded, Christ
like preacher in Washington who
would keep you inside the hills on
the day He appointed that all His
children might rest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-05-21
WEAVER IS FIRM
ON The GAS LEASE
Winning Friends Hourly in
Political Circles.
MAY ORGANIZE NEW PARTY
Trouble in t.s5 Air for City Har En-
ployes wfo Pushed Nefarious
Measure Through.
MAY ORGANIZE NEW PARTY

PHILADELPHIA, May Pot is
now the general belief that Mayor
Weayers action in announcing himself
as unaiterably and irretrieyablv on
posed 10 the gas lease is a direct and
defiant breaking Of the bonds which
have heretofore bound him to the Re-
publican organization and a signal to
it that he means to be boss
He is winning friends hourly. and
in political circles this morning ra1rnors
TO the effect that he will Organize a
new and Independent party and act as
its leader are rife Should he take
this step Immediately after vetoing
the ordinance which is designated TO
take away the city's most valuable
asset 1t Is not only possible but proba-
BILE that he would be successful.
Becomes Central Figure.
As matters now stand. Mayor wea-
yer IS undoubtedly the central figure
IN the gas lease situation. He is the
one man who has the power so halt
the deal at this stage. and the people
are looking TO him to exert tha& power
He, as we'll as every one else. knows
that veto OF the gas ordinance. IN Itself,
viii not be sufficient to cause the lead
ers to change their plans. He must
w f9iofS iitsfu i4iiS- he gttAal 4udHS
the men who are responsible for jam
ming the bill through councils real
fze that il they persist in their plans
they will have to answer 10 him.
In order TO make his opposition ef-i
fectiYe he must make the leaders fear
him. and the only way IN which he can
do this is by removing from the public
service every man who Yields e5edi-
euce to the organization
Mayor Means Business.
Gradually it is dawning upon the poll
ticfans and upon those municipal era1
ployes who place their allegiance TO the
organization before the duty they owe
the city that Mayor Weaver means
business and that there is trouble in
store for every city employee who has
in any way made his approval of the
present gas deal conspicuous
II the present state OF high feeling
continues to grow against the select and
common councilmen who voted away
the Philadelphia gas works for period
Of seventy-fve years, the 1Ql members
of both chambers viii probably have to
form a sort OF mutual admiration So
ciety'' among themselves for company.
Never before in the history Of this
city have the citizens held Up their
counciITnen to such scorn. The men
who voted for the lease are being
summed by their constituents in clubs.
in exchanges, on the street. and IN
fact, everywhere. II is q peculiar state
of affairs