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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
Tbe QnsrrupulOus
Corporation Hamper
By LEVY MAYER,
Noted Chicago Lawyer.

ors of corporate misdeeds is ~deploratle.
I regret to have to admit it, but l believe and know it to be true
that, if the bottom facts could be revealed, it would be found that
there is not a criminal prosecution of a business corporation under
way to-day at the instance of the government on charges of violation
of the interstate and antitrust laws that is not primarily due TO the
def work of some corporation lawyer who expended his legal in
genuhy in the task of finding ways to violate and defy the spirit and
purpose of the federal laws.
Those are strong words. But I mean what I say-mean every
word of it. There can be no doubt that the pathway to immunity
real or f%anced-has in every case been hewn and cleared through the
investing jungle of the criminal laws.
1t has always been to me a remarkable and wholly inexphcable
paradox that lawyers who never would be guilty of dishonorable or
dishonest conduct in private life, or In their relations with an ord
nary business firm should so easily and so completely cast morality
to the winds when acting for large business corporations.
l know many such lawyers. One, whom 1 have in mind, was the
very soul of honor before he became the leading counsel for a large
corporation. Then he suddenly not only permitted and connived at
violations of the law by his corporation, but he expended the money
of the shareholders in securing the enactment of venal and corrupt
legislation.
1t is time to call a halt. An aroused public sentiment. is calling
for reform, and there is no reason to despair of a remedy being found
for evil. 1t rests in a special sense with the young generation of law
yers to aid materially in destroying the source and fountain of the
inspiration for corporate lawessness-which is the corporate law de
partment.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
Uses Of Water.

Jim Jeffries never swallows water.
He rolls it around in his buccal cavity
and elects It. / know a physician who
never drinks water. He merely washes
OFF his tongue when thirsty, using a bit
of clean sponge tied to the bowl of a
l~Ong-nendled spoon. Externally, water
has a stimulating effect upon TIE skin,
either hot or cold, and by either direct
Or reactionary means. Properly used,
cold water is an excellent anti-pyretic;
that is, it is a febrifuge. Men with
sunstroke in the last few yearz have
been Hurled in cracked ice and their
lives saved. Hot water increases the
circulation and produces diaphoresis;
that Is, pers2iration. I%nternally, water
IS a diruetic, 1t is the most useful Of
all the solvents in pharmacy.-N. Y.
Press.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
SAVES YEARS OF M
Figures That Will Surprise Even the
Inveterate User of the
Telephone.

The intimate association of the tel
ephone with every form Of daily liv-
ing is completely, Enthusiastically
American. 1t grows while you watch
It; for every day it absorbs, at the
smallest possible estimate, more than
5000 new telephone instruments, part
of them going to replace instruments
already worn ont ia service, but a
good proportion going to new sub
scribers, and the further humiliation
of time and space between seventy-odd
millions of people scattered over the
United States. That it saves time for
these millions goes, of course, without
saying, but in the past years the total
amount saved annually by the average
reduction of four seconds per message
affected during that period by the Bell
systems, presents one of the most
startlingly curious examples of time
economy that the world has yet wit
messed. In a single year these four
seconds saved on each telephone call
count up to a grand total Of IA, 1888. 992. =
900 seconds-in other words, to 445
years of time-a link in the chain of
eternity that would carry us back AZ
years before the discovery Of America.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

family is well known and there will
be no difficulty in establishing my line
age and right to a share of that great
property"
AS to the amount of brakes for
tune none of the authorities available
presents the figures. He had so much
however, in his day that it was meas
ured in chestfuls. 1t dated from his
early raids on the Spanish treasure
fleets and On several occa-
sions he secured so much booty that
his ships could not carry all the gold
and precious stones. He scattered
enough treasures among his roister-
ing friends to a run a thousand coun-
try printing Offices and an opera COM
pany.
BY 1872 Drake had discovered the
secret sources of the vast wealth pour
ing into Spain by shiploads. 1t came
from the treasure of Peru and
other mining countries in South Amer
ica. Temples and storehouses, vaults
and palaces were paved with slabs of
gold and silver and tons of pearls of
monstrous size lay in heaps and piles,
often kicked about as so many oyster
shells.
Heir to $50, 1000, 900 in her seven
teenth year, with the discovery of the
estate in California. is the cheering
news that makes Mrs. Freda Vein
stock the happiest woman in Ludlow
street, New York. She is a nurse and
for more than a quarter of a century
has been seeking her share in the es-
tate of her uncle, Solomon Herowitz,
who came to America years ago and
won a fortune in California gold
mines.
Mrs. Weinstock was born in Wit
tipsky, Russia, of Hebrew %parentage
She was brought to this country by
relatives when a child. One of heI
earliest re~collections was Of her ia
theirs youngest brother, Solomon Her
owitz, a wonderful singer in the thirty
ing Austrian city of Lemberg. where
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
Red River ~PrOspectOr
manning to occultism.

Manning to oecuitism.
A ES,eptical age; we do not believe
in rauch Of anything-unless, indeed
It lnars the trademark Of science
The Intellectual fashion is all for ma
terialism. For the rest there is onl.
an easy i%ncredulity. And yet, says
Everybody's Magazine-the paradox
is curious-never was the world so
ghost-ridden. Never has it turned 50
wistfully to the occult. Never has it
listened with an expectation so pain
full, a. that closed door behind which
mysterious silences stretch away-tho
door Of the tomb. l dare say it 10
natural enough. Always in epochs o.
unbelief, when the conservative forms
of faith are weakened, there is an i'm
mense growth of vague supernatural
ism. 1t was in the cynical eighteenth
century. when Voltaire had sneered re-
ligion out of fashion, that %sorcerers,
fortune %tellers. magicians-all the
Mesmers and Cagliostros-ruled the
world. Our new century, quite az
skeptical, is equally in love with the
marvellous. Only the fashion in wiz
ards has changed. The modern ma
gician m from the laboratory. He
speaks in the name Of science, for
there is a science Of the immaterial-
a science of witchcraft-a science
which has its professors and learned
SOCIETIES, its journals and maya zines.
The very ghosts that haunt the so
cieties for psychical research have
taken on a scientific air; they walk
no more in windy corridors, clanking
spectral chains; in a practical, mod
ern way they exhibit themselves to
scientific congresses. World over.
psychic phenomena are being studied
by trained scientists. Dismissing the
cries, they give themselves to the OBJ
~servation of scientifically established
facts. Their labors range from the
study of hysteris, of hypnosis and the
transmission of psychic forces, to the
time-old mysteries Of enchantment
and apparitions.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
Futility of Advice.

We invoke dear old experience as
though he were a god, fondly imagin-
ing that an honest impulse demands
that we appeal to him as an arbiter.
But when we have submitted our case
and listened to his verdict, says the
Reader, we express our thanks and go
away and do exactly as we please.
We all carry our troubles 60 The
friends whose sympathy we know out
weighs their wisdom. We want them
to pat us on the back and tell us
that we are doing exactly right. If
they by any chance are bold enough
to give us an honest judgment based
Oh real convictions, we depart with
a grievance, our confidence shaken.
We lean upon our friends, to be sure;
but we rely upon them more to bail
us out after the forts of folly have
crashed about our ears and we pine
in the d%onjon, than on their advice
that might possibly have preserved
us on the right side Of the barricade.
AEd l may note here that Of all the
offices that man may undertake, that
Of the frank friend is the most thank
less. The frank friend! 1t is he, my
comrade, who told you yesterday that
you were hooking wretchedly i'll. DR..
Experience had warned him, and he
was anxious to stop you in you head
long plunge-he felt a duty in the
matter. Tomorrow he will drop in
to tell you in gentle terms that your
new poem is-well, he hates to say
it-but he fears it isn't up to your
old mark! The frank friend, you may
remember. was DR.. Experiences IA
vorite pupil.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

beautiful Polish women speak half a
dozen languages and live In castles.
The great news of that day, which
made the young Russian singers eyes
sparkle, was the wonderful story Of
gold in California, where the noun
tains sparkled with gold, where the
farmers had to shovel it aside to cul-
tivate their gardens. The young man
took the first ship for the Pacific coast
and from that time he became lost to
his family and friends, except that
now and then they heard far-away ru-
mors that he was doing well and had
became a Roman Catholic. He
changed his name to Weiss and Bishop
Weiss was the title he vas known by
in California. While making a for
tune in the mines he preached and
he never married. This is the sub
stance Of what Mrs. Weinstock and
ar attorney have discovered.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

product and we're probably laid by
some aquatic bird. Two of them are
entire, but one had been broken. and
the escape of its contents appeared to
have corroded a part of the bottom Of
the basket. These eggs were honey
combed all over with shallow indenta-
tons, which would lead one to believe
that they had been originally blotched
or spotted over with some ~coloring
matter, and one might conclude that
the iodine or other matter which col
ors such eggs had eroded the surface,
only that there were similar indenta-
tons in the rim of the basket, though
fewer in number and less conspicuous
than those of the eggs.
Except these indented marks two of
the eggs seemed perfectly entire, and
the third one was also entire in the
upper part, the fracture being below.
Eggs and basket were now completely
soldered into one mass, so that they
couldn't be separated, and the whole
like what is usually found in chalk,
was converted, not into black flint,
but into gray flint, or ebert. This was
rendered quite plain by a small piece,
which was Clipped out of the side of
the basket, and which is shown at the
place marked by the letter A, where
the fracture is c|onchoidal like that of
glass, and the color is gray.-N. Y.
Herald.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

One or two trout anglers have taken
exceptions to the assertion in these
columns that trout invariably strike
the bait with their tail before deVour-
ing it. Mr.. Mcintosh, a lifelong OBJ
server of the habits of trout, declares
this is not the case. He says they do
a somersault act just before striking
the bait; that they sometimes come
up from below and devour the bait.
Trout are very quick of action, and it
ia not strange that opinions should
differ. Is 1t is almost impossible to
follow their movements under the
most favorable circumstances.-st.
Paul Dispatch.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
DattgrrnnH 8nrglar
81 tlrR Muir
BY INSPECTOR WIN. MCLAUGHLIN.
In Charge New York Detective Bureau.

is very little chance for him. That is shown by an incident that o-
CURED recently when a police magistrate discharged a man who was
in the Rogues' Gallery, and had been brought in by a headquarters
man on general principles, inasmuch as he had been warned to keep
away from town. The man told a straight story to the judge and
said as soon as his brother got we'll or died he would leave town again.
The judge. told the man he could go. He had not gone three blocks
from the courtroom when he was picked by another man from head
quarters and taken back to the court.
After he had been taken back three times he finally got away to
where he was going.
The man who is most to be feared is the man who, by some kinL
of circumstance, does a job of out-and-out burglary and finds that
it is easy to do. He may be a fellow who has been living respectable
life and never had a fair chance to fall from grace.
The undiscovered ~burgaries are the ones that are committed by
this class of men. Any man who will feYow up burglarizing can de
pend upon it that we will get him eventually; but in many instances
one Of the type of men / have described will do one or two Jobs and
get a conscience fear that he is suspected and move away from the
community where he has been guilty.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
SEEK VAST wealth
CLAIMANTS TO FORTUNES OF
MEN LONG DEAD.
Much Of Estate Of Sir Francis Drake
May Come to America-Poor
New York Woman
in Luck.

OF all the wonderful stories Of heirs
in poverty seeking millions Of long-de-
layed wealth none is more interesting
than the announcement that Sir
Francis Brakes vast estate Of $780,
0O0,O0 in England is to be divided
after being held up in tire court of
cnancery for more than 200 years.
And Albert J. Drake, a courteous,
g~ood-looking young clerk in a New
y Jrk hotel in the SOS, who was a
friend of President Arthur and knew
most of the big men Of the day, is n
o. the claimants to this fortune.
Said Mr.. Drake, in response to ques-
tions: There is no doubt that / shall
get a share in the Drake estate of
s250,000, 600, if It is true thet the Eng
lish courts have ordered a division Of
the property among the heirs. Our
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

The greatest men"
ace to this country to"
day is the criminal en-
croachment of p
tions upon the peoples
rights and upon the
popular means of sus-
tenance, That lawyers
should be the sponsors
connivers and counsel
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

San Francisco reports" says a CON
temporary, that a number of persons
who suffered from various ailments
previously to the earthquake and Are
in that city find themselves complete
ly cured. One paralytic. who for Is
years had been crippled by his dis
ease. is now entirely cured and nu-
merous other r%ecoveries have been re
corded" Nor should It be forgotten
that among the ailments cured by the
earthquake is c~elibscy. There is evi.
dence Of many we'll authenticated in.
stances OF San Franciscans earth.
uuaked into mstrimony.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
Eoos 700 A DID.
Found in London Years Ago, They
Are Believed to Date from the
Twelfth Century.

workmen ex~cavating in London 81
years ago found a basket Of eggs at a
depth of IS feet. 1t is supposed that
the eggs were deposited in the basket
in the early part OF the twelfth cen
fury. The eggs we're three in number,
rather larger than the ordinary hen
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

Justice Whitehouse tod a newspaper
man at Augusta recently hat in 1000
or more divorce cases he has never
had a club woman appear before him
for a divorce. The kind Of women
who belong to clubs" he said, ARE not
the kind Of women who have domes-
tic difficulties to settle in court"
And yet, II we are not mistaken, at
the last meeting Of the National Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs in Califor-
mia arrangements were made to pub
Iish a pamphlet giving women direo
lions for obtaining a divorce.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

The doctors vertically threaten to
leave us with nothing on earth At to
eat or drink. The latest raid on the
works Of the Almighty is by a Buffalo
doctor, who proclaims that the straw
berry, that most toothsome and deli
cious Of all the little fruits, is a breed
er Of insanity. which, he says, in
creases largely during the strawberry
season. Well, there are worse kinds
of insanity. so bring on the strawber.
ries.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
By CARDINAL GIBBONS.

Thrice is he armed who hath his quar-
rel just
1. He is armed with the consciousness
of the sacred right of property.
?. He is armed with the shield of an en-
lightened public opinion.
3. He is armed with the conviction
that his cause will be adjudicated by the
equitable decision of a board of arbitration.
This amicable system, while protecting
the rights of the weak, will not wound OF
humiliate the national pride OF the strong,
since it does not attempt to trench on the
sovereignty or autonomy OF the stronger
power.
I can recall at least four instances
within the last 20 years in which interna-
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

national conflicts have been amicably settled by arbitration. The dis
pute between Germany and Spain regarding the Caroline islands was
adjusted by Pope Leo XIII. in 1886. The Samoan difficulty between
Germany and the United States was settled by a conference held in
Berlin in 1880. A treaty Of peace between the United States and Mex
leo was signed in Washington at the close of Cevelands adminstra-
tinn. And a few weeks ago, a war between France and Germany, per
maps a general European conflict, was averted by the Algecras confer
ence in Morocco.
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far off when tue
reign of the Prince of Peace will be firmly established on the earth,
and the spirit of the Gospel will so far sway the minds and hearts OF
rulers and cabinets, that international disputes will be decided, not
by standing armies, but by permanent courts of ar~bitraton-when
they will be settled, not on the battlefield but in the halls of concii-
alton, and will be adjusted, not by the sword, but by the pen, which
is mightier than the sword"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

(which would you rather have on
these walls?" asked the agent of the
building" Calcimine OF wall paper?"
Neither" said the tenant OF the
third floor fiat. we need all the
room there is."-Chicago Tribune,
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

The burglar most
to be feared these days
is not the old-time pro-
fessional fellow who
worked in gangs and
was an institution.
We have that fell
low and most of his
kind so surrounded this
way and that that there
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

Mosely Wraggs-You used to move
in good society, didn't We?
Wareham Long-I never done any
movin' when l could help it, in any
kind O. s'ciety.-Chicago Tribuna.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
Hate.

81 hate that man.
What has he ever done 70 your"
Nothing, but he was present once
when ] made a fool Of myself."-CAL
cago Reoord-Herald
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26

its nest in the trees large enough to
accommodate 500 or more birds. The
nests are built of bushman's grass, and
are frequently 20 feet or more in di-
ameter. Nests have been found
which contain as many as $50 differ.
ent cells or individual nests.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
NESTS LIKE SMALL W
Habitations Built by the Grosbeak
Capable of Accommodating
Five Hundred Birds.

The %grosbeak. a bird common to
countries, frequently builds
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06

BALTIC
to slavery has partly exsted y orshadowed
ri II n as S sts be a '
spoke Of the ackcs falling from my wrists sometimes
e vs yo o u VA s o
clergyman often spoke Of his fathers while he
socned by gamor that possibly obscued the defects Of life
the plantation But often in depression and loneliness have
than endure the life have been called upon 70 lead
IN O.. Dorothy, don't tax kc that Or you'll make nc ery
the Begin Once time and then everything will be
al right ~ mater how narrowing such begins always
gorgeous uniform and gold lace and get the half Of his kingdom
n1ness chased away the gathering shadows from her face
little recory n little town near the Hudson River His family
had beentruncd bytc and when the plantation sold
elder only Ny father dreamy scholar and not
business hsbro,cr have been My mother had
died hcnIwasIa chd do remember her My father the
kndest and most patient Of and al know he taught We
and undertook the duties Of housckcepcr which
pcrformed.as well as was abs constantly learning BY my
failures But father material comforts that
way you might accomplishments they
OF strangely varied orda smattcring OF Latin and Greek
music excellent musician mcage income
ceased with fathers Ifs and had e choose what should
There appeared be three open could be
domestic drcsnake had already earned
INDEPENDENCE alone that line a eovcness e servant
But to do this I needed at least little capital.
Although there had been between the two
brothers for VI hadny inces address, and
acquanng him with 1efac Of my fathers asking
assistance business for myself promising repay
the advanced able
though father had said anything against his elder brother
somehow had OWNED rather than knew that he hard
and his answering letter proof that contained
Of regret for his brothers death Ny uncle declined
make the advance asked for saying that before he had
given father two hundred dollars which had been repaid
was thus compelled for the least give plan
opening dressmakng establishment the smallest scale
and obliged akea situation similar that which hold here
IN three years. able the hundred dollars, which
sent to uncle and promised to the interest if he would
tell me the OF the debt He replied giving the information
enclosing receipt for the principal, with avery
NAUTICAL statement Of the Of interest compounded
ally his legal right but expressing his readiness accept
simple interest, and give receipt in full"
The brue! calculated Katherine which remark brought upon
her mild rebuke from her mother language
We'll go on said Katherine, unabashed,
i merely mention this detail continued Dorothy object
lesson in honesty Never before the world began
such Of casting bread the sending
two hundred dollars Ny uncle have been
todical man e filed away letter which contained the
also typewriter Of his reply and when he died.
which Of thehegal firm who acted
for him myself for my had left Californian
Vor