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Evening star., 1909-02-14

and you can't go far wrong if you pick
the right kind of lawyer
IVY will jury fall for the unwritten
law cuff when it's simply a case of cold
booded killin'?'' inquired the Hotel
Clerk.
well it's customary for a jury to fall
for something, Larry said the Hotel
Clerk. land 1 suppose it might just as
well be nice poetical. romantic, charlotte
russo plea, such as the unwritten law
that takes all the pressure off the brain,
instead of complicated defense like emo
tional insanity or dementia praecox, that's
full of words that sound like the names
of sleeping cars and requires more or less
thinking. Anyway. there's something
about getting on jury In a murder trial
that appears to upset the human intellect
and leave it in the deplorable state Of a
capsizeu cup custard. You take the
average juror before he gets to be juror
and let him be in his real estate Office
or his shoe store or his delicatessen shop,
or his what-not, transacting the ordinary
affairs Of life. And then let a gentleman
step inside in a frock coat with law
book under his arm, and as a preliminary
to buying a lot or a. pair of felt insoles
or a hverwurst or something, let this
gentleman lead off with two-hour ora
tion touching on the inherent love Of
home and country which burns in every
human breast, or should do so, unless the
f1ue is defective. and then go on to speak
of the flag, the ger-and old fer-lag and
the bilfowy blue canopy of heaven and
the bill of rights. Paul Reveres ride and
the last days Of Pompeii. and few
other perfectly pertinent topics. What
would the proprietor of said premises
do? Would he stand for it? He would
not. He'd either call for the watch or
else he'd slam the young man eloquent
in his vociferating map with some Of
the portable desk fixtures.
But when he's up for jury service, it's
different. A deputy sheriff wearing a
made tie comes round and summons him
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SHERIFFS OFFICE.

ticket, and are any Of his children red
headed, and other similar questions; all
this being done, dye understand. with d
view to ascertaining whether he ought to
serve in a murder trial. But after suf-
fering great pain for awhile, he quail
fies, and the judge tells him that he is
performing the highest duty of citizen
ship, and that q great trust has been
imposed upon him. and then, to show he
means it. orders the sheriff to lock him
and his eleven fellow -malefactors up very
tight and keep an eye on them night and
day.
We'll, after eight or nine weeks the
prisoners available cash begins to run
low and his learned counsel decides it's
time to close the case. So he makes
the same summing-up speech that had
long gray hair when the late Coke began
the study Of law We've had improve
ments in everything else in the world this
last fifty years except the speech that 4
lawyer makes to jury in murder
trial. Probably 1t gave satisfaction the
first time, and nobody has seen fit to
change 1t since. It's partly the language
of flowers and partly the defendant's s
little child and partly the fora and fauna
Of this hemisphere and partly the declara-
ton of independence, and at rare inter-
walls little something maybe about the
case itself. To you or me. Larry. sitting
at a safe distance. 1t sounds like the dis
tressing symptoms Of a man who's swal-
lowed Webster's unabridged and has then
been seized with violent nausea. But if
we're on jury, We sit there in the jury
box our faces aiar and oIlr orhs hu0oed
out, wearing the bright. intelligent ex-
pressions of a school Of goggle-eyed perch
and just sopping it up through every
pore.
80 the Judge charged the jury in
language that was expressly thought up
by the Supreme Court with view to keep
ing anybody from understanding blamed
thing about it. Now comes the moment
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THE CASE.

LIE CASG.
ing cold from the draught that blew
through some pistol holes in him, or that
he succumbed to a chronic affection Of the
heart with which the mere incidental fact
of your having shot large ragged crevice
in his diaphragm had absolutely nothing
to do.
Eyes, sir, Larry, the unwritten law cor
rects these defects in the old-fashioned
style of defense. 1t covers all the con-
tingencies 1t wouldn't do to try to write
it now, because with all its phases prop
erly treated 'twould make a volume like
the record in government suit against
the Standard Oil Company. There are
so many different methods of execution,
too, and that commends it to the care
full and discriminating killer Some Of
the leading authorities favor catching
your victim while he's sitting on a roof
garden looking at a play, and some in
sist that you can get the best general
results by surprising him when he's in
bathing suit armed with nothing but
the key to the bathhouse door. But
there's at least one old-fashioned firm
who say that If you can slip up behind
the other fellow when he's talking to q
lady on the street, and plug him in the
rear collar button with a soft nose bullet,
it's just the same as NEEDING a hundred
to pay your money and take your choice,
Evening star., 1909-02-14

Gus moment when the fate of the ac-
cused is put in the hands Of his twelve
jurors see any reliable newspaper head
line The jurors retire The prisoner en-
dures the frightful strain as best he may
by taking refreshing nap in the sheriff )
office, and the alert young reporters.
ever upon the qui vive to catch the faint
est rumor, go off somewhere and play
twenty-fve-cent-limit poker. And thus
the brcathtless world awaits the verdict.
And what do the conscientious and in
telligent jurors do? I'll tell you what they
do, Larry. They go into the jury room and
after the foreman has looked at his
watch. to see when he can catch train
for home, somebody says: why should
we mix into this unhappy affair? The
prisoner at the bar never did anything
to us. They say hanging is painful in the
extreme, and the chair not much better.
Besides. deceased might have been dead
anyhow by now-he lived on an auto
mobile road and took patent medicine
as the evidence showed So it being none
of our business anyway. 1 move that
we just let the matter drop But how'll
we 90 IL asks one OF tfl0Se OVerly-par-
ticular jurors who sometimes keep a
murder jury out for as long as an hour
and a half. Wen lay it on the unwrit-
ten law says the quick-witted foreman.
Fine says the first speaker. Let us
now give three cheers for the dear old
unwritten law And in fifteen minutes
from that time, Larry, the acquitted man.
with the glad cries of the local populace
ringing in his grateful ears and the tears
of vindication still damp upon his cheeks.
is on his way to the nearest hardware
stores to see what improvements the
Smith & Wesson people have thought up
while he was in JAIL"
Sometimes it seems to me like It might
be good idea to lynch few murdererp."
said the House Detective.
''Or few jurors" said the Hotel Clerk.
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vagrancy and each time he appeared his
Wife appeared, too. She alternates in
telling me what worthless sort of fellow
he is and then how much she loved him.
1t invariably ended in her pleading to
have him given another chance.
Several weeks ago he appeared before
me. after six-day drunk, with about
two cents in his pocket, an Overwhelming
thirst and a consuming affection for his
w1fe-this affection was always manifest
when he was getting over a spree. Mrs.
Jim was there, too, with a heart-rending
story. 49,
"'What have you to say for yourself?'
I asked
Nothing came a whispered response.
The fellow seemed utterly ashamed of
himself In view of past promises.
Your child is desperately ill with ty-
phoid fever. your wife tells me, and you
on a sfx-day drunk
'''The moment l mentioned the child
name the head sank down and he seemed
ready to collapse.
Jim I sa d. you've lost your police
job through drinking, you've lost dozen
other jobs in the same way, and you've
made yourself so poor that your family
don't know where the next morsel of
food is coming from. You've broken a
dozen promises to me, and now I'm go
ing to give you just one more chance.
Stop it for your little daughters sake,
get a job somewhere and don't come back
here again except to see me and tell me
how you are getting along.
Mind. 1 continued. the next time
it's eleven months and twenty days.
with hardly a word the fellow left the
courtroom: accompanied by his wife. went
out and got laborer's job during the
day at 13 cents an hour. He's been in
here now five times, and has apparently
been straight The daughter is pretty
sick yeti think there were complications
but 'Jim's' doing his parental duty. l
believe the fellows going to profit by the
realization which came to him in the
courtroom and If he ever does drink
again it will be infrequently and not in
Washington.
Probably one of the most amusing ex-
periences since have been on the bench, -
Judge Mullowny continued. was one st.
Patrick day. You know there are COM
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"The Moment I Mentioned the
Child's Name His Head Sank"

which comes under my observation is the
result of drunkenness on the part of the
man, and consequent row, usually
brought on by women attempting 10
quiet them or prevent spectacles in the
streets. The average result is a badly
battered face for the woman and not iin-
commonly severe bruises about her body.
"A man who is guilty of such thing
deserves to be soundly lashed. and sta
tistics have shown that the whipping post
reduces assaults of this sort to a con-
siderable degree.
OF the large number of assault cases
where wives have appeared against their
husbands, heard by Judge kimball in the
past twelve months one in which the hus-
band appeared as defendant in no less
than one threats case and two assault
cases ended in a brutal murder of a fe-
male relative not more than several weeks
ago in South Washington.
Last year this particular defendant
served ABOUT six months in Jail for as
saults upon his wife and threatening to
do her bodily injury. The testimony show
ed that every time he became intoxicated
he either beat his wife or abused the
female connection of the family. In COM
mitting the murder the man welded an
az. and literally chopped the body to
pieces. The details of the crime are no
doubt still fresh in the minds of the read
ers of The Star.
In other cases defendants have gone
along with penchant for smashing their
wives unQer the SnSnteSt pToNOcatioI ui-
til charges of assault with dangerous
weapons or assault with intent to kill
have been lodged against them and long
penitentiary sentences have resulted.
1T is a condition which needs atten-
tion." sad Judge Kimball, land sterner
provisions should be made for their pun
ishment.
During a recent interview. Judge Kim
ball expressed his contempt for the
chronic thief who steals small things and
whose appearance i'm the Police Court is
usually controlled by the length of the
previous sentence imposed.
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paratively few Irish here-and the brogue
with the decorations of the day is rather
a novelty. A few are on the police force
and some are typical of the Emerald Isle
even to the minutest detail of the COM
position.
We'll. this particular st. Patrick's day
morning, disorderly conduct case was
called. and both the defendant and the
complaining policeman were Irishmen.
An may it phlase tn COURT testified
the complaining one. this mick gifts orful
wild his mouth last night afther havin'
dhrank sivin an thin some more drinks
dowl, on Missoorri avenoo. He wuz loud
an byOSteruoOs on tn strhate.'
Oysters did you say? I interrupted.
The fellow had a horrible brogue.
Not on tn loife ev yez, he retorted,
rather irritated, and then proceeded to
spell Wy hoosr Te4ts it, sd sirfs
lawn th' halv' av it, the prisoner an
nounced. 'Ofll be afther teilin' yez TIL
whole thrauble. ON an Orangeman, yer
homer. AN thot's the gospel thruth, yer
homer
And the funny part of it is the police
man and the prisoner are fast friends
except in March and july"
Judge Mullowny smiled when asked to
relterate his view upon the "inalienable
rights of wives to delve into their hus-
bands pockets when they are asleep
connpbial doctrine expOunded from his
bench last November during the progress
of a threats case.
1T only shows how much they love
YOU said the judge. and all hope of Il
possible discussion of the subject disap-
peared with the announcement
''One Of the worst evils we have to
deal with here" said Judge Kimball,
speaking generally of cases coming into
the Police Court, ARE the wife and
woman beaters. and from my seventeen
years of observation on the Police Court
bench I am thoroughly convinced the
whipping post is the only thing which will
put a stop to this form of assault
1T is cowardly, brutal and unnatural
practice Of some men, and should be Wig
orously dealt with. Almost every case
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varied punishments are administered to
the petty offenders. The offenders tried
range anywhere from the common disor-
derlies arrested on the streets to the man
who threatens to exterminate his wife
or family because they fail to condone
laziness or intoxication. The sentences
imposed may be as low as one day in
the workhouse or Jail or as great as
eleven months and twepty-nine days. and
are usually due to q default of nominal
fne or bond. the invariable imposition of
which is provided for in the code laws
or the District ordinances.
That the men who administer justice in
a police court, and administer it wisely,
must be keen students of human nature
goes without question, else the whole pur-
frustrated. The one aim In dealing with
the petty offender is primarily to prevent
HIN from repeating the offense and to
successfully deal with the ''old-timer'
In such manner as to reduce his wrong
doing to a minimum.
With these problems daily before them
1t Is apparent that men of practical as
well as judicial minds-or. better post
fraiities-should administer the laws to
the confirmed vagrant. to the parentless
youth who becomes vicious through evil
associates. or the father who steals for
ldCk OF eu1piOymcut.f
+
The District OF Columbia may con-
gratulate itself upon possessing two good
men-Judges Ivory G. Kimban and Alex
ander R. Mullowny-who preside over the
Police Court here. and whose respective
successes in disposing of the thousands
Of cases presented before them have won
for each all enviable reputation. The SEN
lor Judge has presided over the two
branches of the court for the past seven
teen years. and his mind Is a vast store
house of the incidents of human short
comings. Judge Mullowny. the junior
judge. has served but a little over two
years of his first term. and although a
young man, within two score years he has
met with success especially In dealing
with young men. Incidents are nuiner
Gus where. through his personal contact.
self-respect and pride. and guided him
into a useful and self-respecting life.
The ordinary citizen looks upon the
Police Court more as centralizing point
for all the drunks. disorderlies and buns
rounded up In the city In the course OF
twenty -four hours to be disposed Of in
the most economical way. and where
humor and serio horse play run ram
pant. This is far iro,n the case. as even
the hardened attendants will attest.
The Police Court fun Is there. as 1t is
termed. but It is only small part of the
days proceedings, which can be readily
appreciated when one listens to tho vari-
GUS cases. The history Of almost every
case. were 1t traced to the end. would be
found to have beginning in some bitter
disappointment. the misery or poverty OF
home, disso.ute companions or the self.
fish disregard of parents.
1T Is all pathetic said Judge Null
1owny a few days ago when asked to
Evening star., 1909-02-14
TING OUT JUSTICE TO CUIPRITS IN THE POLICE COURT

up, in far-away. indescribable sort Of
manner.
;. II you let me go this time I'll stop
1t. forever he said.
" DO you mean that?' asked.
Upon my word. do. judge he re-
piled. III do anything you ask me to-
let me go home and begin over again.
Il did let him go. and with the UNDER
would come to my Office here and let me
see how he was getting along. From the
Monday after he appeared before me un-
Ill not more than two months ago that
fellow called regularly every Monday
morning, stayed for a several-minute chat
and gave me a detailed account of his
weeks movements. Not once has CO.
caine, whisky or anything else come with
in gunshOt of him.
about two months ago he walked into
my office as usual and took a chair until
l finished signing several papers.
Judge he said. as / turned to him.
I've been made manager Of the
store
WHAT 1 exclaimed, surprised.
It's a fact, sir he answered.
II promptly came to the conclusion
that a man who could rise from the gut
ter to a responsible position like that in
Mullowny probation. 1 have since found
out that all the time he reported to me
he was supporting a sister and mother,
and now with an added income he is
educating a younger brother.
HE comes In here every now and then
to tell me how he's doing continued the
Judge with a smile. land he's pretty
decent sort of fellow in spite of his
past. He's just the sort of person that
six months in the workhouse would have
annihilated, and I was on the verge Of
giving it to him that winter morning.
X
Il have another fellow here now." said
Judge Mullowny in response to re-
quests for other cases which have come
before him. "He used to be policeman,
a big, husky good-natured. hard-working,
but hard-drinkng, fellow. Lately he has
been before me every two three
months on charges of drunkenness or
Evening star., 1909-02-14

and he goes to courthouse and sits in
a corridor, where the wind blows free for
a couple of days waiting for his turn.
Then he mounts the witness stand and
holds up his right hand, and a court at
tendant says three hurried grunts in the
Choctaw language, this being the solemn
ceremony called administering the OATH
After which he sits down in an exposed
place. where several hundred strangers
can look at him and wonder why he
wears that kind of ,whskers. And while
the sketch artists are drawing crimiDal
libels of him, the lawyers on both sides
and the judge take turns asking him if
he reads the papers, and If so, why. and
has he got any opinions on this subject
or any other subject, and does he keep
a cow, and did he ever vote the Hearst
Evening star., 1909-02-14

g TORIES OF MISERY, CRIME AND SOMETIMES
- OF REFORMATION ARE HEARD BY THE
JUDGES-ONE MAN WHOSE REFORMATION
WAS THORoUGH-JUDGE KIMBALL WOULD
HAVE WHIPPING POST FOR WIFE BEATERS-
SEEKING OUT THE LITTLE BIT OF GOOD THAT
IS IN EVERY HUMAN HEART.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
The Hotel Clerk Expands on the Unwrtten Law


alienists. because the best an alenist can
guarantee You is an indefinite trip to the
state bug and fish hatchery. You don't
even have to spend time and money prov
ing to the satisfaction of the jury that
the deceased came to his death by CATCH
Evening star., 1909-02-14


this here unwritten
law?" asked the
House Detective.
"Who Teddy?"
said the Hotel Clerk.
or do you mean the
other unwritten law
that's been adopted
as a first aid to
murder ?"
II wuZ meanin
the other kind" eX-
Evening star., 1909-02-14
FFECTION,

FTECTION, pity,
revenge, anger and
jealousy seem to be
the principal emo
tions which guide
the actions Of the
unfortunates who
appear as the chief
actors in the dra-
mas, so to speak,
daily enacted in
t h e Washington
Police Court, where
Evening star., 1909-02-14
The Apple on the Berry Bush.

From La Grande Observer.
TO those particularly interested in the
growing of apples an experiment made
at Delta. Idaho will be of value. In the
spring of last year Thomas and Francis
Hauck. two miners, who keep garden
and grow strawberries and vegetables.
experimental in grating scion of a
four-year-o!d appe tree into service
berry tree body. and TO their delight the
limb not only grew. but blossomed this
year and two we'll developed yellow ap-
pies ripened The tree from which the
scion was cut has never bloomed. yet
the scion when grated into a berry bush
blossomed and bore fruit the next year.
Evening star., 1909-02-14

There is not much hope for this class
of petty criminals" said Judge kimball
las they seldom seem to realize the neces-
sity of honoring the right of others to
possess and keep their property, no mat
ter how small the value. 1t is hard
Evening star., 1909-02-14
By Irwin s. Cobb.

-opp> n OF dye think about
Evening star., 1909-02-14

and you can't go far wrong if YOU pick
the right kind of a lawyer"
New-York tribune., 1909-03-28
By H. Irving Hancock

doubt that Nature intended we should breathe
through the That organ is fitted for keeping
out of our lungs much dust that we should breathe
in through the mouth. Moreover, cold air breathed
through the Is much warmed before 1t reaches
the lungs. his warming amounts to about sixty
per cent of the difference between the outer air and
the blood temperature Thus, if we breathe air that
stands fortyeigh degrees and blood IS ninety
eight degrees, the difference would be fifty degrees
Sixty per cent of fifty IS thirty. which added TO
tortv-eght shows that under such conditions air al
torty-eight would be tempered to seventy-eight de
grees before striking the sensitive lung surface.
Nasal breathing IS of the greatest value when
going into an atmosphere OF contagion infection
The moist fluid SeCreted In the has been much
examined laboratories, and It has been definitely
established that the fluid IS destructive of several
harmful bacteria. II would appear. in other words,
that Nature gives prime good geTuICIde 10
carry around with rs "a all times. ard that all we
have 70 do is to remember 70 breathe through the
nose.
Yet though the need OF oxygen IS admitted, why
should we breathe deeply: First. in order that the
blood may have at al moments all 1t may possibly
demand An equally important reason for deep
breathing is found in the structure OF the lungs.
The inner walls lie IL folds when filled with air
With people who breath lightly some OF these folds
are rarely increased Nearly eighty per of all
lung diseases. including tuberculosis, start AZ
near the apex Of one of the lungs This Is because,
without deep breathing, the upper portions Of the
New-York tribune., 1909-03-28
THE BREATH OF LIFE

lungs become inactive. and waste, impure t--.'''
acCumulates there
These tiny breathing cells of the lungs the -E5e'
number more than eight hundred millions III II
average adult The cells present combined breath
ing surface OF more than eIghrv-ore square tC-e7-
or about htty-tOuT times the outer surface ~ .LS
body All these alveular surfaces should have i~I
employment. which = impossible without lees
breathing for the movements OF The lung -.s
wholly passive. depending the NOV eueuts v- .Le
chest. Nhen the latter Is expanded and the .it7
thrown well out and upward air ruShes INTO me
hitherto unused portions OF the lungs
When the chest mas been permanently er-.rss-
by deep breathing and chest expanding exercises,
then the lungs take in greater gups of AR az ever.
breath. for they VIII take N all that the poSlt9i -
the ribs allows Hence. what call well @s
reaching the blood Deep breathing, a eotl~t@'-
habit. Is an important part Of the treatment "a
aneulia
Deep abdominal breathing Is open to the ourttti-A
that II does not sufficiently MI the apex of The .,i--
The lateral breathing OF the singer Is therefore 20 nc
preferred This Is done. without raising the 9no--
derS. by breathing IN deeply make the ribs eNi
sIdewlse. Ike "a bellows. y simple and etiet,l-
exercise for permanently charging the rib cage =
found by standing erect IL the open air at an II
window closing the mouth and breathing IN thro,-
the nose ty successive gulpS al the AR that can
drawn INTO the lungs-tO the very last guT- Ii.-+
thls ar II the lungs as long te done WITH SON
tort, then eNpel swiftly through the mouth FutttI
minutes day devoted 20 repeating this eNer,-~1
VIII give considerable increase u chest eNIaISf~
IL q few weeks