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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
REFORMED PICKPOCKET
is GIVEN FREEDOM

Judge Connolly decided 10 take n
chance in the case Of James Barnum
the reformed pickpocket, who pleaded
guilty six months ago TO a. charge
of larceny from the person. and.
Thursday morning. released him on
parole In charge OF J. Morris Fisher
You will not be sorry, your honor ="
said Barnum. Il will show you by
my conduct that am sincere in my
promises to lead an honest life. |
have learned a bitter lesson. aud I
intend TO profit by IT,"
- hope you WILL returned the
judge. 1T is up 10 you. Barnum.
And remember. If you fail in your
promise you will be brought back here
And II send you 10 the penintentiary
/ have no doubt they VIII keep you
for the maximum period allowed by
law, which Is I'VE years in your case ="
Barnum says be will look for a Job
and try 10 live down the past.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15

Many comedies look like tragedies
from the stage managers viewpoint
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15

The death rate among the miners
is less in Belgium thap I'm any other
country v
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15

Be careful when IL comes to3endins
money or borrowing trouble.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
BELT PULLS OFF HIS LEG.

PORT HURON. Mich. May IA
While az work in the Home Manufac-
turing Co. plant Frank Aichhorn. aged
rs. was caught in belt and whirled
10 the ceiling. One leg was pulled
from his body and he was otherwise
badly mangled. His father was at
work in the plant and was nearly
crazed by the sight OF the body
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
POLICE COURT DOCKET

Robert Lyon. drunk; adjourned 10
May /.
Joseph Edwards, drunk; sentence
suspended.
George Springman. disturbing the
peace $40 or 30 days.
August BouChard. drunk. sentence
suspended.
William Kemp. disturbing the peace;
$40 or 80 days
sadie Kemp disturbing the peace.
discharged
Nlic, Dolsn. drunk. discharged
Hugh McDermott. drunk. sentence
suspended
Jacob Knapp. drunk: adjourned 10
May IL.
Patrick Hsmon. drunk $40 Or 30
days.
Joseph Kolnpgs. drunk. $50 or 90
days
John Labby, disturbing the peace.
sentence suspended
John schwartz. drunk: sentence sus-
pended
Dr. l. 4. Anderson, disturbing -the
peace, adjourned TO May lC.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
|EDG|NG TOWARD
THE PIE COUNTER
sNuoeLE UP TO
MAYOR WHO HAS JOBS TO
GIVE OUT JULY I.

Mayor Thompson is having a very
social time OF II these days. talking 10
LDersons who desire 10 recommend
1riends for positions in city employ.
There will be quite a biz OF pie to
cut July /, and the hungry are al
ready siding toward the counter.
Chief among the appointments to
:be made are those OF corporation
5counsel and assessor. Each OF these
>xiIl have the appointing of a number
Ia other men as subordinates. p. j.
zM Hally is expected TO be corporation
counsel while Ed. Keusch is most
fominently mentioned for assessor.
The mayor will also indirectly have
large say In the selection OF the
ocretary and other employees OF the
IN building commission. Several
ood Jobs are included in this list.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15

Virtue is a short aIShor-Latln.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
Not knock[na AnYhodY

Lawyer-The defendant in this case
is a lazy. worthless fellow. isn't he?
Witness-Wel. sir. / don't want TO
90 the man an injustice. won't go so
far as TO say he's lazy. but IL II re-.
quired any voluntary work on his part
TO digest his victuals he would have
died OF lack OF nourishmeht fifteen
years ago-Chicago Tribune
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
APRIL FOOL JOKE ON IIzzIE

JACKSON. Mich May l4.-tSpe-
cial.j -Lizzie Maxwell. colored. was
today sentenced TO the Detroit house
of correction for from one to FIVE years
for robbing John whalen. of Union
City. In colored resort here. April
Fools day.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
CAST @ n y a.
" 1Ihs Kind You Hsm llNays Bovgt
: Ns<zzMx

|ttoris Dsy--crsnd Trunk ny. sys-
6<er1---csradian Points--ore Fare.
Dates Of sale. May 20. "a and 25.
Icfprn limit. May &C. ~ 4
CITY Tlcfet once. l24 Woodward.
~ Telepkcne ~. 10.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15
ofctoc x

that Brig Gen Chas w. Harrsh. OF
Detroit. has completed his special
duty in the ordnance department and
is now retired from active service In
the Michigan National Guard
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15

+ Much excitement was caused in the
~ hall by the temporary inability
p the assessors clerks to find certain
ower assessment rolls for sewers laid
Fairview Contractor Porath de-
nnded his money on the work and It
came necessary 10 look up the rolls.
Hey were fnally located I'm the city
MINERS Office. where they had been
Ken for reference. Almost all the
tosmenfs had been paid.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-15

Every time young man sees a
pretty girl purse her lips he wonders
- there is anything in the purse for
him
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

The Omaha Bee attributes Bryan
gains in Nebraska to 1.-THE fact that
for the first time he has failed to make
a tail-end tour of his home state on
the day before election"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
what brings the crowd, who has earned
the fat purses7 The driver in the
peaked cap or the man in the overalls?
STAY YOUNG IF YOU CAN.

Stay young if you can and as long
as you can This is the only world
you are likely to live in during this
life and your individual likes and dis
likes are not changing it rapidly Don't
get an old mans crouch against 1t
simply because you didn't make it and
are not permitted to make it over.
You'll be good and lonesome If you do.
You can't associate with the other
grouches for the crouch isn't sociahle
and the rest of the companionahle
smiling world will pass you up for
moro agreeable company. Don't get cid
and cross and dissatisfied simply be-
cause you see others doing things you
forgot to try.
Consider the young and their ways
They have the best time, the most
friends and the happiest faces. Be one
Of them Don't swell up with import
ance because you have succeeded in
business or have a position OF respon-
sibility, and take on an air of carrying
the universe You don't You might
die this afternoon and the sun would
set as usual and in the morning some
other and perhaps more competent
man would be on your job. The world
misses an individual less than it does
a shower of rain.
Stay young. Retain your pleasure In
little things, for when all has been
said blade of grass is higher and
more enduring than the Washington
monument. The real things of life are
the little things. The biggest enjoy
ments are the most common ones. The
reason the young are happy is because
they accept the little things at their
full size. They haven't fooled them
selves into feeling that the universe
should be part of them. They are con-
tent to be part OF the universe.
There is happiness in common things.
The commonest, plainest, most every
day things are the only breeders of
happiness Keep In touch with them
Stay young. Play, hope. work, look
ahead There will be Time enough for
memory between times. There is no
time for vain regret or dissatisfied AMI
bition. Life is too short. Stay young
as you can and as long as you can
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
ITS A BAD BARGAIN.

| A Minnesota firm of brewers Is about
| to start the canvass of two or three
Iowa counties for petition of con-
sent 1t is said that the canvass will
be pushed with vigor and that funds
! to conduct it thus will be plentifully
Forthcoming.
| 1t will be a great pity IL the beer
makers and purveyors succeed. No
community need permit itself to be
befooled by the argument of revenue
derived from saloons. That revenue. is
the costliest ever raised. For every
81, 700 paid into the treasures by sa-
looms, $4,000 is diverted from useful
purposes and from legitimate trade.
One thousand dollars is a drop in the
bucket compared to the actual cost of
a saloon to the community it curses.
Anyone who knows the simplest arith
metic can figure it out for himself.
Every merchant that sees $4,000 to
nually and thence to brewing firms,
knows that outside of few dollars
paid in wages to employees, none
| of it finds its way inside his door.
1t is q plain fact that, the man who
buys beer does not buy shoes, cloth
| ing and groceries with the same mon
ey. Aside from the increase of crime
and poverty, an increase so certain that
an actuary might give figures almost
as accurate as life insurance tables the
saloon is a tax and a burden on every
other retail trader. 1t is as expensive
to the city as an automobile to it's
owner and infinitely more dangerous.
| If county desires to tax itself, why
not build a county high school. The
! anrua. cost of the saloons in county
and &c y four schcr's
one in each 10y NJ build
good roads? The cost Of fifteen saloons
would pave with brick sixteen and one
i half feet wide, fortyfiva miles of high
way, at $1.75 a square yard nearly
| three miles to a township. When it
was done every acre of land along the
paved road would call out five to ten
/, extra dollars from the Illinois buyer.
| The county that insists on saloons
pays the price. To sign the petition at
| the behest or beseechment of brew
ing company is to pay cash rent on a
bigger farm than Ex-Governor Boies'
ACREAGE of $500, to the benefit Of the
| brewer, the embarrassment of law and
the degeneration of men for each sa-
loon thus made possible.
| When it is looked into the saloon pc
tition is very expensive document.
| Better look into it before signing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
WHO DESERVES THE MONEY!

II costs large city $4,000 to $780,
900 to secure a national political con-
vention of either of the great parties.
A grand lodge meeting in an Iowa town
costs somebody at least $500. Even a
carnival company asks for a guaranty.
And we pay.
Golfers Weekly sententiously points
out that the grand prize of the Omaha
corn show is $500, while the winner
of big horse race finds $4,000 wait
ing at the wire. Something about this
remark of Golfers smarts Perhaps the
sting is in the truth of it and the real
ization that we deserve it.
At county fairs the best ear of corn
wins perhaps IS or $40. A winning
hog, horse or other animal, the per-
lection Of its kind, may equal the SO
or $40 winning. The best painting may
bring the high financial encouragement
Of 50 to the artist, a beautiful speci-
men of needle work be rewarded with
30 cents. however, an OullaWeu run
ming horse, utterly without practical
usefulness, may win $50 in fifty sec
onds; $500 to $500 is hung up for trot-
ting races and l1obbled PAGERS; even a
foot race draws more money than the
prize ear of corn. No wonder Golfers
turns It's sarcastic pencil toward the
cornlands.
1t has taken all the years since the
Pilgrim Fathers, bought maize Of the
Indians to produce the perfection of
that winning ear. Alone it's productive
kernels are capable of such infinite
reproduction that within decade they
might furnish food for nations. The
draft stallion whose owner is content
with his pitiful prize, ha. an untold
value compared with the understood
gelding that PAGES in hobbies a mile for
500 or more, a minute The past and
future of the west is in the ear of corn.
And we give the man who hippodromes
from place to place 800 minute to
develop a racing machine and the corn
grower a dollar month to produce 3
gold mine, a guaranty of plenty and
the pledge OF innunlerable larvests.
Who deserves the money. outside OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

"Cumminism is republicanism, as 1t
is understood not only in the Eleventh
district, but all over Iowa." asserts the
Sioux City Tribune. Congressman
Hubbard's Judgment as to this is vim
dicated, and those who reviled and
scandalzed him for it are rebuked."
"While walking away from the poll
ing place. after marking thirteen indi-
vidual crosses to vote for president
and vice president, each voter might
well have put to himself the question,
Would anything he lost by restoring
the party circle to the Australian ball
lot?" suggests the Sioux City Journal.
at is all over" admits the Des
Moines Tribune. tdem). "The apathy
that could not be explained meant sat
isfaction We understand now" The
Tribune sticks to it that "W. j. Bryan
is still the greatest living American.
He has not lost friend nor made an
enemy by his campaign. He made a
tremendous fight and a manly one. He
is the one man who can survive de-
feat"
at Is more agreeable to crow than
to eat crow" concludes the Keokuk
Gate City.
The Des Moines Capital says Gov
ernor Cummins is fairly and honestly
the republican nominee for senator 1t
is the duty of every loyal republican to
support him."
''From present Indications Iowa will
have eleven republican congressman.
You cant lose Iowa." concludes the
Clinton Herald.
"Business enterprises that have been
held up pending the election Will now
be pushed forward with all the neces-
sary yigor,' says the Davenport Times.
Bankers, railroad men, manufacturers
and merchants are certain that there
will be an enlargement of the volume
of trade because of the confidence
business men and buyers have in a
fairly continuous governmental policy,
now that Taft is elected
The people have spoken. Evidently,
they liked the Roosevelt policies well
enough to want a continuation OF
Them" admits the Davenport Demo-
crat. "Mr. Tafts hand is at the helm,
and he will have full scope, and the
loyal support of every good citizen,
inguiding the ship of state thru the
breakers for the coming four years.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil thinks
"The American people do not dislike
BRYAN. They simply believe that he
is not cut out for the very responsible
lob Of chief executive Of the nation.
1t was so easy for them to reject him
with a. man like Taft as the alterna-
tive"
Condemn Bryan's politics as we
will. there is probably no man in the
United States with more personal
popularity unless it be Roosevelt and
Taft" asserts the Waterloo Courier.
The Omaha Bee attributes Bryan
gains in Nebraska to 1.-THE fact that
for the first time he has failed to make
tail-end tour of his home state on
the day before election"
The Burlington Hawkeye says "The
result is one that will give the Amer
icar people much satisfaction. Even
the democrats, as a rule, will not wear
mourning over Mr.. Bryan's defeat
and while you're shouting don't for
get to let out u few for Governor
/ Cummins, who has won what was
rghtfully his any way, after heaven
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

Condemn Bryan's politics as we
WILL there is probably no man IN the
United States with more personal
popularity unless it be Roosevelt anu
Taft, asserts the Waterloo Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

and while you're shouting don't for
get to let out a few for Governor
C,ummins, who has won what was
rightfully his any way, after heaven
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
Topics of the Times.

The result shows that the prophet
who trusts popular instinct will CONC
closer 10 actual r.a lit.cs than he who
accepts the results of the campaign
figures juggler.
They are growing bananas in Mary
land. viii some Marshall county farm
er please bring in a sample Of Iowa
grown bananas? Simply to show we
can do it if we will.
The moving picture machine seems
to be in direct descent from that fam
Gus tirebug, Mrs. O'Leary's Cow.
And another thing. the election ought
to be the final closing UP of the cleaV-
age in Iowa MISUNDERSTANDING
ton Hawkeye.
Come on in Bro. Waite, this progress
siye water is fine. Glad to have YOU
A rather funny story on a well
known man is suggested by this edi-
torial paragraph from the Des MONIES
Capital: "Father Nugent, who voted
yesterday morning and took the first
train for Lincoln, Neb., in order to
personally congratulate MIR. Bryan
upon his great victory is expected
home again soon.''
IT went down to the fire last night
and helped the boys carry out the
stock
81 thought you never went to fires. y
"This was saloon fire.
Plain Dealer.
dCummins played fair but not even
Cummins could save Pete Hepburn.
Missouri got the habit" when il
went for Roosevelt Teddy and the
real estate dealers are making a re-
publican stata out of "old Missouri
And Missouri is good enough as re-
CARDS strong citizenship to be counted
with the republican states.
The congressman-elect from the
Third Iowa will soon be coming home
from Washington to look after his
Pickett fences.
Should, as is predicted. Joe Cannon
attempt to block revision by the COM
| ing congress, some one ought to KNOCK
the block off"
Little rejoicing is manifest owe;
"Uncle joe Cannon's victory. Fact is
republicans look on him more as {
stepfather than as an uncle.
Surely nobody will grudge Mr.. Bry-
an Nebraska.
when you gifts mad at man cause
he doesn' agree wifi you,' said Uncls
Eben, you takes chance on gittin&
him all puffed up bout de Importance
of his on."-Washington Star.
| Hisgen says the Independent-Hear
outfit will be successful in 1912. How
ever. the chances are that STANDARD
Oil letters will be few. Hereafter moth
| ing win so short of mouth to ear.
| IL turkeys were as plenty as success
! full republican candidates, Thanksgiv
ing would look like a snap
The republican yield in Iowa wa:
about seventy bushels to the acre.
Republican candidates are all might
lily pleased with results. Had Governor
C'umnlins not called that special SEES
sion however, there would have beef
grimaces Of chasrin and 'disappoint
nent on faces now Wreathed in smiles
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
For Constipation.

Mr.. :. 81 Tarnham. prominent
druggist Of Spirit Lake. lows, says:
I. ;nuluberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are certainly the best thing on
the market FOR constipation" Give
these tablets q trial. You are certain
to find them agreeable and pleasant in
sffect. Price. Is cents. Samples free.
tor sale by all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

The Burlington Hawkeye says "The
result is one that will give the Amer
ica1 people much satisfaction. Even
the democrats, as q rule, will not wear
mourning over Mr. Bryan's defeat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Communism is republicanism, as 1t
is understood not only in the Eleventh
district, but all over Iowa." asserts the
Sioux City Tribune. Congressman
Hubbards Judgment as to this is vim
dicated, and those who reviled and
scandalized him for it are rebuked."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

The republican yield in Iowa was
about seventy bushels to the acre.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

Republican candidates are all might
lily pleased with results. Had Governor
cumnins not called that special ses-
sion however, there would have been
grrnaces Of chasrin and 'disappoint-
ment on faces now Wreathed in smiles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
His Marital Trouble.

"On what ground" asked the lawyer,
''does your Wife want a divorce? In
compatibility"
Something of that sort IL reckin."
answered the man. "My income isn't
compatible with her ideas Of com
4
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
VOTED FOR is PRESIDENTS.

Ida Grove, Iowa, Nov. 4, I9OS.
Editor Daily T.-R.
Praise God, have voted for another
progressive candidate for president of
the United States. This is number
fifteen, wing and republican. Was at
birth of the republican party, and have
now witnessed the marriage of the
republican party to Taft, The world
moves forward. Yours truly,
SAMUEL w. CARR.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06

and earth and the Internal regions had
been moved in the effort to encompass
his DOWNFALL suggests the Cedar Rap
Ids Gazette.
Viewed from any standpoint there IS
but one Interpretation to be given the
result. The masses of the people are
satisfied that the republican party is
the best equipped to administer the
affairs of government" declares the
Des Moines Capital.
The Sioux City Tribune argues THE
fall of Hepburn marks the passing of
the old men. even as Allison's death
did, and the entry of new hopes, new
ideas and new men to represent them"
Tho defeated, William Jennings
Bryan is still the greatest American
statesman, and like the true, consci-
'sntious, good and patriotic citizen that
he is, he will bow to the will of the
people and accord to his successful
opponent the loyalty that is, due the
president of the United States by those
whom he is elected to serve" declares
the TT. Dodge Chronicle (dem).
The Washington herald., 1908-02-22

II is a adaptation OF the text from ST.
John. iii:6. which reads: For God so
loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son that whosoever believeth in
Him should not perish, but have ever
lasting life" In accordance with his
wishes. il has been placed on his tomb
stone exactly as he wrote II The word
hath in the last clause is heavily un-
derscored.
The change may not read smoothly. but
Tod" Han told his family on several oc-
casions that the verse had proved so
much more comforting 20 him when he
made the change that he desired il TO be
placed on his tombstone just as he wrote
IT, The stone will be placed over his
grave in Loudon Park Cemetery in q few
days. 1t consists OF a head and foot stone
Of Italian marble. In addition TO the
epitaph. il contains names OF himself and
wife and the dates OF his birth and death
Tod Hall gave a personal application
OF texts to himself in other cases. In
every Bible he used he substituted his
own name in that text lie used red ink
10 underline those special words which
appealed to him. For those he did not
consider quite so important he used lead
pencil or black ink
The Bible which he used most is full OF
little thoughts, which the various texts
brought TO his mind. There is not a page
which does not contain AZ least a few
words. Many OF them are completely COW
cred with notes. The texts are under
lined and in some cases there is writing
between the lines. This Bible IS now one
of the most treasured possessions Of his
daughter
The Washington herald., 1908-02-22
WRITER'S WIFE GETS DIVORCE.
Mrs. BronSon-HOward Awarded yer-
dict i'm Baltimore Yesterday.

dict i'm Baltimore Yesterday.
SPECIAL to The Washington Herald.
Baltimore, Md, Feb. 2l--Mrs. Dossyrian
Bronson Howard. nee Skinner. of Nor
folk, Va, was granted an absolute di-
vorce to-day by Judge Gorter. in Cir
cult Court. from George E. Bronson
Howard, OF this city. Mr. Howard is a
magazine writer. and the divorce to-day
is the end of the sensational marriage,
which took place in November. 1906.
Miss Skinner came here I'm 1906 from
Norfolk, and while the guest OF friends
she met Mr.. Howard in a box az Albaugh's
Theater. After a few days courtship,
they eloped 70 New York and were mar
ried ct the Little Church Around the
Corner.
trip to Europe followed. and soon
several rumors of their separation came
across the water. They returned sepa-
rately. Mr.. Howard coming TO Baltimore.
while Mrs. Howard remained in New
York. II was reported that she had de-
cided upon a stage career. and there were
several denials 20 this rumor.
The divorce was granted upon testi-
mony to the effect that Mr.. Howard had
been unfaithful There were but two
witnesses. Richard c. MacTavish, of ZIG
Fifth avenue. New York, and Walter NJ.
Farber, young attorney OF this city.