The independent., 1907-03-07

| suit II you go about IL with VIII ana
become not weary in well doing.
The testimony of Expert Evans sounds
| like something paid for in advance with
promise of supplemental remittance
if it does the work desired. This may be
parent deuson,' but it is disasso-
ciated with anything like a settled melan-
choly.
/ Expert Evans says that. the love let
ters written by Harry Thaw to the wo-
! man he married show him to have been
mentally unbalanced when he wrote
them. II he could cast his expert eye
| over the letters We wrote to Mollie
thirty years ago, he would probably de-
clare that we were crazy as bed
| bug Beats the world how foolish lost
people become when they fall in love.
Ed Howe tells of a meeting OF the
! club women in Kansas City where the
subject under discussion was this:
| '.What is the best method to retain
husbands lover" After lot of married
women had had their say in long written
| and extemporaneous addresses, spin
ster member begged the privilege OF
expressing her views, declaring she could
I give complete answer in three words, as
which she did by saying, Feed the
| brute Her answer was voted prize
winner.
Prof Matteucci of the Vesuvian OBJ
servatory is viewing with some appre--
hension the approach of the great comet
| now headed in this direction. He thinks
| it quite possible that the tail of this
| aerial monster will touch the earth s at
mosphere. II the contact should cause 1t
| to ignite, there is TO telling how dire
! f.! results might be to life on this planet.
The visitor will be due in thirty days. We
ahave note maturing at the same time.
That fact helps to reconcile us TO any
thing the earth may suffer from the
prospective collision.
| Hon j. w. Deweese writes from Cor
pus Christi, Texas, of the bloom and
beauty of a spring that lasts nearly all
winter of fresh, green things to eat,
along with strawberry shortcake, and
| baked duck and other things that we
1 delight to think about but cannot af-
ford at this time of year But he tells
| of an island twenty miles out in the
gulf where millions of ducks and geese
| pass the winter months, and hunters are
| going there by hundreds to wantonly Kill
| these glorious birds for the mere fun
| of the thing This sort of thing means
! that in few years at the longest there
will be- no more wild ducks and geese
| on this continent. They are doomed to
suffer the fate of the passenger pigeons,
! and more the shame of 1T.
We who have passed life's meridian
|
and are beginning to wonder when, can
not fail to distinctly remember the
| great comet Of 1874. In June Of that
| year it trailed the northern heavens,
| looking like mighty brush broom OF
| the pattern used in barber shops for
| busting purposes. Then as now there
| was speculation as to what would hap
pen should the tail of the monster be-
| come tangled in the earth's atmosphere.
Scientists are now frightening the timid
| I,x,d ripo comet
! ing through space in this direction IS
| liable to enshroud this earth in its nebu-
losity, in which event it means destruc-
| tion swift and sure to every living
thing There is some consolation in
| thinking that if our worst fears are re-
| alized some of us may congratulate
| ourselves that this method of being
yanked hence is less frightfully tragic
| than meeting death in railroad accl-
| dent
| Mrs. Mike Mcdonald is coming to, so
| the papers say. and will be her own
| dear giddy self again by the time the
| court is ready to try her for the muir
| der of William Guerin. What life that
woman has led central object OF ad-
| age Married to a millionaire, With
| money to burn and not a thing to do
but burn ii. she gadded about like
butterfly, selfishy seeking the gratnica-
| tiOn OF every 1901 WTlHi. SHt loNSu hct
husband and some others. She seemed
! to be infatuated with the man she killed,
! followed him about and made him un-
happy by attentions that We're not IN
| vited When she found he was going to
! get married she went to his office with
| a loaded gun and made work for the
| undertaken. Now see what mess IL
| is The poor working woman who loves
| her husband and children and Is loved
! and trusted in turn is much more to
| be envied than the frivolous wife OF the
millionaire, who has pretty face and is
a fool
1t is told in a Minneapolis paper that
a lady of Grand Island went TO Des
Moincs TO marry a man with whom she
| had become engaged through matri-
monial agency but her intended failed
/ la appear at the appointed time and
place, and there was nothing for her To
4 do but stlfle her sobs and take the first
| train west. This may be true story.
perhaps II Is fiction. Anyway II should