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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-13


law court. and while every good lawyer
would far rather lean on "the law and
the evidence" there are times IKE
those quoted when appearances have got
to count against testimony, and II has
come to be an unwritten law that an at
torney's duty extends to his clients
wardrobe ana makeup" in court.
1T used to be a rule said one Of Chi
cago's great criminal lawyers, when
questioned about this matter Of dress
ing for damages that lawyer should
take the case of anyone who wished to
employ him. even If the client confessed
his guilt. and do the very best to clear
him. Now, however, many attorneys
will not take a case unless they are as
sured Of the clients innocence You
know the advice the old law professor
save his class If you have the lawon
your side stick to that If you have the
evidence. harp on that; and If you have
neither law nor evidence boiler like
y Well it's the same about this
thing of appearances in court It's the
duty Of a lawyer to make the most of
every detail he can command, and
have no doubt that many lawyers on Oc-
casion coach their clients about dress
ing for the jury. as it might be called.
But there is almost always the dan
ger of faux-pas in making up for the
part. Once. | recall, man sued cor
poration that | was representing for
damages for the loss of his wife in a
wreck. On the crucial day the plaintiff
came into court dressed most solemnly
in black. with even a crepe band on his
hat His face, too, was dressed in a
most woe-begone style mouth down at
| the corners. eyes sad, with far-away
look and real or well gotten-up pallor
| But he neglected his necktie. which was
a most vivid and aggressive red. / was
able to completely spoil his whole
mourning get-up by pointing to his gay
necktie, and exposing his shallow at
| tempt to work upon the sympathy of the
/ jury. got verdict which threw him out
of court
But there is less danger of a break
when the client is a woman. Women
are.better actors than men. and they are
strong on tears. Now if that little WON
an the other day had been man. the
\ heliotrope boutonniere would have been
brazen and impudent-no matter what
garb he wOre-but with the little WON
an every juror would say to himself:
Poor little thing. she is trying to brave
1t out with that little fowerl No law
Eyer ever got her up. 1t was a woman's
wit that did that. 1t was too subtle for
a man. or if a man he was drawing on
some experience he had had with a
woman. Chicago Record Herald.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-13
CRUSHED"

fact that he was in court all but defense
less. He had but two witnesses; one
was large motherly woman who told
how she had cared for the little woman
whSp she was a motherless orphan. The
other witness was the defendants pastor
who said he had ''ministered to. her
spiritual wants" on one or two occa-
sions
After all the witnesses had been he ard
the prosecutor made his. appear to the
Jury, heaping up the damning evidence,
il seemed almost needlessly high, and
wound up by warning the jury not to be
swayed by the innocent appearances of
the defendant It's all q shaIu." he
cried. she is brazen and wahton
malefactor,"
As he shouted the last words, stand ing
almost directly over the small defendant
and shaking bis big finger almost in her
face. she looked Up at him for Just the
fraction OF a moment, while two big
tears started down her cheeks. Then
her eyes sought the floor again.
Her own attorney never mentioned
the evidence except in a general and
deprFcatory way His half hour was oc-
cupigd in telling the jury how he came
to take. the Casa duty to his con
science, he said it was She had told
him all about her life and she had not
failed to tell him of the circumstances
that would show UP against her. But
in the face of it all be knew she was in
noesnt--else he would not be there, End
his faith in human nature was 20 great
that he was willing to give her case into
the keeping Of that jury-each man to
Judge her as his heart might dictate
The jury retired. 1t was not neCes-
sary, but it looked better. In quarter
OF an hour the jurors filed in. handel a
paper to the clerk. who read: we, ~he
jury, find the defendant not guilty. and
the little woman followed her attorney
out of the courtroom and into the street.
on the very same day New York pa
per published the following special te'le-.
gram:
Springfield, Mass.-Mrs. Ethel Ken
nedy the young Brooklyn won an
forgsr, whose smiles and bushes snd
faultless attire made deep impression
upon the authorities, to-day was re-
leased upon probation by the superior
court Her husband, destitute of good
locke and possessing Only q moderate
wardrobe, was sentenced to the Massa-
chusetts reformatory,"
These two cases are types that have
been Of unwritten interest to lawyers she
world over ever since the law came TO be
a science-or art They are types OF
what London paper recently called
dressed for damages"
While there is no chair" in any we'll
regulated law school set apart to dis
cuss millinery. or tears, or fair, sad
faces, yet every lawyer recognizes the
potency OF these little incidentaIs in a
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-13
CLEVER SCHEME OF JAPs.
Gable Rates Circumvented by Them
During the Portsmouth Peace
Conference.

There are not many people who
can get ahead of a telegraph COM
pany," said correspondent who came
hack to Washington from Portsmouth,
but | suspect that the Japanese cor
respondents managed it during the
peace conference. You know that
cables rates to Japan are pretty heavy,
and there was as much as $l.25 a word
paid on some of the urgent messages,
while about So cents was the lowest
press rate. The correspondents were
sending a lot of matter, and, of course,
the japanese messages had to be
translated in a way before they could
be sent. The Morse code cant cope
with the $1,000 ideographs that the
Jap language is made up of, so the
Jap correspondents used to write the
messages Theoretically in English
characters and send their messages in
that way. They were read off and
transferred to Japanese type in Toxic.
or course, the telegraph company
could not read them, and as the limit
in size for a cable word is 10 letters,
the Japs used to divide their mes
sages up regularly into English letters
III blocks of Is. No word was ever
longer or shorter than Is letters, and
the cable company had to take it that
way and stand for it.
1.-THE chief operator used to kick
and complain occasionally, but he
could not go back of the explanation
that each of the Is letter groups was a
japanese word spelled phonetically.
But he swore Japanese was the most
aueerly regular language he ever saw.
OF course, the cable bills were pretty
high at that.
But the cable company probably
made less out of the Japanese than
they did out of any of the other COR
respondents. The Russian alphabet is
made up of English letters, but It
can be sent in Morse, and there were
some operators who could do it.
though the most of the Russian mes
sages we're written either in French or
English"
1T is a wonder to me-" said a state
department clerk, who was listening
to the story, that the Japs did not
use their code book At least there is
one in China, and l suppose there is
one in Japan You know the Chinese
characters cannot be cabled any more
than can the japanese, but they get
over that difficulty by having in every
Chinese telegraph Office a simple code,
in which the message Isl written with
numerals. Each page of the code book
is divided into SO squares, numbered
in sequence, and in each square is
Chinese word, the commoner words
coming among the lower numbers
When the telegram is written the
sender simply puts down the number
of the square in place of the word It
contains, and the message is decided
i'll the same way at the other end.
There are 1899 words, and that is
enough for the average vocabulary of
the man who wants to send tele-
gram. l do not know whether this.
method would have been cheaper than
the 15-letter scheme of the CORE
spondents, but it is possible IL they
bad used code the company would
have cut them down to five figures for
each word as that is the limit on code
messages" /,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-13

ngle heliotrope in the lapel of her
close fitting coat During all the long
hours that Increase was before the court
she scarcely looked up once, and never
once did her glance stray about the
room. She seemed absolutely crushed.
She was the defendant against long
and formidable array Of charges that
contemplated moral perversity of an un-
rsual nature. The testimony as it was
poured out by witness after witness was
quite as formidable as we're the charges
themselves. Yet all the while she sat
with downcast eyes, a living picture OF
inr Ucenee ard woe.
The jury seemed almost brutally big
ami mas sive and masculins to try so
wee woman.
Hen attorney, one of the sblest at the
Chicago bar, appeared obli'ious Of the
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-13
Dressing for
Damages
A Story Of Law and Lawyers

N enc Of the Cook
county courts the
other day sat an ex.
quisitely dressed
woman. Her gown
was a dead black
cloth. She wore the
daintiest OF black
bonnets. A white
tie. her white lace.
the aristocratic lit
tie hands uagloved
and a small white
lace handkerchief
only served to en-
phasize the pitt
ableness Of the lit
tie and, oh,
vesl She wore q
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-13

I'm FACT EVERYTHING USUALLY KEPT IN A
4 FIRST-CLASS GROCERY. CALL AND SEE US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
buginess method of the eorporation.

business method of the corporation.
I'VE can learn much from a careful
! examination of this law, although
some of its provisions may be deemed
too paternal for our differing con-
ditions of business and political life
or Objectionable as leaving too much
to the discretion of the insurance de-
partment.
1.-THE funds of insurance companies
should be sacredly safeguarded for
the policyhOlders by the state and
every element of personal gain elm
/ mated from their management. To
accomplish this result it has been sug-
gested that large amounts ought for
the safety of the insured as Well as
for the good of the community to be
Invested in bonds secured by mortgages
on real estate at conservative value
that deposits with or loans to mOuied
corporations should be subjected to
suitable restriction; that the control
of subsidiary companies should not be
permitted; that insurance directors
should have no conflicting business
connections that investment in corpOr-
ate bonds should be regulated so as to
prevent speculation and loss from an
attempt to float doubtful enterprises;
that policies should be of standard
forms so that the abuses arising from
ambiguity, cOmpleXity and incompl etc
| ness of the contract may be eradicat-
ed and the contract made definite in
( form and substance; that a uniform
/ system of audits and accounts should
be prescribed by the insurance depart
ment; that full publicity to policyhold-
ers should be assured: that deferred
dividend policies should be prohibited
I or greatly restricted; that policies
should be further safeguarded from
forfeiture; that an equitable distribu-
ton of the gains of the company to
1 the pOlicyholders entitled thereto
should be required; that policyhold-
ers should have an effective voice in
/ the government of the companies and
that the discretion of the directors
should be subject to judicial or ad-
ministrative review"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
IS BAD FOR YOST.
Seven Crack Athletes Register at Chi
cagO University.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-University of Chi
cago athletic authorities made one of
the richest hauls of prize athletes in
the history of western athletics yes
terday with the opening of the winter
quarter.
Seven of the most talented men in
this section of the country registered
their names as students of the univer-
sity.
The new acquisitions are Prince,
formerly captain of the Shattuck Mil
itary academy, who weighs 210
pounds, and is declared to be a com
bination of a Shaker and a Bezdek.
Taylor, who weighs 200 pounds for
merly a star all around athlete at Des
MOines, and is fullback strongly
heralded: Maddigan, the 2O3 pound
guard and all around athlete from
Englewood high school; Moody, a star
baseball, football and track man from
the University of Maine; Dickinson, a
pitcher from Tufts; Comstock, a half
miller from Princeton, formerly a star
at Hyde Park high school, and
Rudolph, a pole vaulter from Grown
Point, Ind, an interscholastic cham
piOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
CITED FOR CONTEMPT
Right of Assistant Attorney General
TO Hold InquisitiOn Questioned.

Information was filed in the district
court this morning by Attorney Cen
eral C. c. Coleman charging c. F.
Shaffer with contempt, in refusing to
answer a summons issued by Assistant
Attorney General T. F. Carver. The
case has grown out of the liquor prose
cutions in this county by Assistant At
torney General Carver, and his at
tempt to force witnesses to appear be-
fore him and give evidence against the
joints and drug stores.
A summons was issued and served
on Shaffer by Sheriff Lucas on the 2Sth
of December, citing him to appear be
fore the assistant attorney general to
answer such questions as should be
asked him regarding the illegal sales
OF liquor in certain buildings in To
peka. The witness refused to obey the
summons on the advice of his attorney
who holds that the assistant attorney
general is not empowered to enforce his
demands. The question involved is
one that has never been passed on.
There is no doubt but that the county
attorney can issue subpoenas and
compel the parties served to answer,
but the law is hot plain as to other
officers who are subordinate to the
county attorney or wISo are appointed
to temporarily assist him ia conduct
ing the affairs of his Office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
SHORT OF COAL.
Representative Cones Says There May
Be Suffering in Western Kansas

According to a letter received by the
state board of railroad commissioners
from George B. Cones. representative
from Meade county, there is danger Of
loss of life and much suffering in vest
ern Kansas owing to the shortage IN
the coal supply.
All through the fall the railroads seem
to have neglected the coal business, ac-
cording to Mr.. Cones statement, to han
die the grain. There has not been
enough motive power to move the i'm
mense uainloads of grain, and as grain
can't be hauled in coal cars, or coal
in grain cars, it has been necessary for
empties to travel both ways.
Mr.. Cones says in his letter to the
board:
I'VE are in a serious condition in this
county. There has been only or
cars of coal come in this winter, and
the average citizen has not to exceed
500 or 500 pounds on hand, and some are
out. People come here for 20 or 80 miles
south and cannot get coal II a biz
Zard was to come western Kansas
would be in a serious condition and act
ual loss of life would occur on account
Of this coal matter"
The blizzard of which Mr.. Cones
speaks with fear, seems to have arrived,
and the people in Mr.. Cones vicinity
are no doubt In bad shape for fuel II
Mr.. Cones statements are accurate, II
1
/ ing will soon begin to come in from the
southwestern portions of the state.
There is only one line of railroad in
/ Meade county-the Rock Island. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Cones, the Rock Island
/ absolutely refuses to ship in coal from
/ Dalhart, Texas, and charges 81 per ton
extra for handling cars over the Denver
/ & Rio Grande connection.
! It seems doubtful whether the board
of railroad commissioners can afford
Meade county any relief. All the coal
used in that section Of the country
comes from outside the state, and the
board has no jurisdiction over such
shipments. The Rock Island does mol
reach the Kansas coal fields.
As no complaints of coal shortage
have been received from counties reach
ed by lines which have Kansas ccal
fields, it is presumed that the shortage
is limited to the western part Of tbs
state, which gets its coal from Colorado
/ and New Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
WILL SPREAD OUT.
Topeka Bridge Works to Be Re
organized.

The Topeka Bridge & Iron company
will reorganize and increase their CAPT
tai stock from S25, 600 to $4,000. The
board of directors will have a meet
ing within the next ten days at which
time the increase in the capital stock
will formally be made and the new dl-
rectors elected.
George Skene, manager of the COM
pany, said: eve expect to secure
larger backing of a financial character
in order to expand and cover the ter
ritory more thoroughly and complete
". We don't expect to enlarge the
buildings at this time but will add
more machinery. A number of new
parties will be added to the director
ate. I don't care to state at this time,
however, who they are
Fred Cole. who has been connected
with the hardware firm of Wolfe
Brothers & Cole, acknowledged that he
expected to become interested in the
bridge company. ''I will probably
sever my active interest in the hard
ware business and devote all of my
time to the bridge company. There
are a number of others who expect to
become likewise connected but I don't
care to give out the names until the
directors meeting.
1.-THE company is growing rapidly
and more money is needed in carrying
it on" said John r. Mulvane who is
one of the directors. 1.-THE territory
tributary to the bridge company is
something immense. 1t has not even
been touched yet and there are spendid
prospects for building up large plant.
The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and
Oklahoma furnishe a stretch of terri
tory that it will take many years to
exhaust -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
NEGROES GROW WORSE
Declares Governor Vardaman in His
Annual Message to Legislature.

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 3.=Governor
James K. Vardaman in his annual
message to the Mississippi legislature
again took a strong stand against
spending public money for the educa-
ton of the negro. saying in part:
LAS a race the negro is deteriorating
morally every day Time has demon
strated that he is more criminal as
free man than as a slave, that he is
increasing in criminality with fearful
rapidity, being one-third more criminal
in 1890 than he was in 1880. In the
he is growing worse every year. You
can scarcely pick up a newspaper
whose pages are not blackened with an
account of an uncomfortable crime
committed by a negro brute and this
crime I want to impress upon you, is
but the manifestation of the negrO's
aspiration for social equality, encOur-
aged largely by the character of free
education in vogue which the state IS
Ievying tribute upon the white people
to maintain. 1t is your function to
put a stop to the worse than wasting
of half million dollars annually
men and women of Mississippi-and
devoted to the main purpose of trying
to make something of the negro which
the great architect of the universe
failed to provide for in the original
plan of creation.
Vetoes Railroad Merger.
Jackson, Miss, Jan. 3.-GOvernor
Vardaman vetoed house bill which
legalizes the merger in Mississippi of
the Mobile & Ohio and Southern rail-
roads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
YERKES' SUCCESSOR.
Edgar speyer Made Chairman Of Lon
don Underground Company.

London. Jan. AT the meeting of
the board Of Underground Electric
Railways company today Edgar Speyer
was elected chairman of the company
in succession to the late Charles T.
Yerkes.
Sir George Glib, general manager
of the Northwestern railway. was
elected deputy chairman and man
aging director of the Underground
company. and also chairman and man
aging director of the Metropolitan Dis
trict Railway. company vacated by the
death of Mr.. Yerkes. B. W. Perks
continues as deputy chairman of the
company.
The board passed a resolution re-
cording its deep regret at the death
of Mr.. Yerkes-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
1t Deals Largely With the Recent IN
surance Investigation.

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 3-Governor
Higgins message to the legislature.
which was presented to that BODY to-
day, was awaited with much interest
because Of what he might say regard
ing the legislative investigation of tn
insurance companies. The governor in
his message urged a drastic insurance
law and limited at the necessitv of a
like investigation of other forms of
insurance. The governor says:
THE eyes of the whole world are
now turned towards New York and if
this legislature does not produce an
insurance law which shall be drastic
but practicable, radical but sane in a
spirit which shall be courageous but
not hysterical it viii fail to meet the
expectations of those who have conf
dence in the ability of popular gov
ernment to solve its own problems as
they arise.
"Future effective action by congress
or the federal government is not prob
able and the possibility of such action
should not retard for an instant the
work of the state.
while life insurance has received
almost exclusive attention, it can not
be assumed that other corporations
dealing in indemnity and investment
contracts have been blameIess. and a
word of caution may not be amiss re-
eardfng assessment associations acci-
dent insurance companies, co-opera-
five ere insurance companies and the
like. Better allow free and unregu-
lated insurance than permit such con-
Germs to exist under laws which do not
rrotect our citizens, but enable the
nromoter of doubtful schemes to be
euile the investor to financial disap-
Dofntuoent and fatten himself on false
promises and deluded hopes.
aThe policy holder now demands
something better from the state than a
Guarantee of sOlvency. He has learn
81 that his Insurance viii be cheaper
and safer when the companies are
oomneIed to invest their assets for his
benefft exclusively and are prevented
from dfverting funds to the individual
undertaking of speculative directors
and to the payment of vast salaries
a7d exorbitant commissions, gratuities
~ men of influence and contributions
TOR nolitical campaign purposes. He
invoices the power of the state to
sbiefd him more effectively and tC
,c77~o the companies and their directors
nvou win be called upon to make a
~adfcal revision of the law for the
Lenaaf of investors in life insurance
end for the regulation and restraint OF
the enupanfes. We may well consider
ct mis- time the expediency of pro
--fzfre for mere thorough regulation
~ the department of insurance Tn
- fl,a new insurance law of Germany
-o+ onlv are thorough Investigation
80 publicity insured, but the govern
~oent director actually enters INTO fhe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
THEY WANT IN ALSO.
People in Heery and Norton School
District Knock for Admission.

Fifty of the new residents of To-
peka gathered in the school house in
Heery and Norton additions last even
ing to meet Councilmen SwendsOn,
Griley and Holiday, who were sent as
a committee from the council to meet
made by several of the citizens and
the councilmen present and a general
exchange of bouquets took place. The
most important development of the
evening was the fact thnt the tracts
of land south of these two additions
also want into the city. As it is now
the former school district is split in
two. Those who have been left out
wish the entire district to remain in
tact and for this reason they desire to
be taken into the city also. There are
possibly 500 people living in the por-
ton referred to which runs south as
far as the Santa F'e tracks and as far
east as the old starch factory.