Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-16

Cheered on its square deal" policy by a
court ruling conden.ning the practice of
making butter cartons a part Of the weight
of the contents, the New York City bureau
| of weights and measures are giving retail
butchers a run for their skewers. An Off
cial of the bureau calculates that last year
$751; 662 pounds OF wood In skewers and
| spI eaders were sold to the ultimate con-
sumner at meat prices. Hereafter any
butcher found weighing in this wood win
be prosecuted. The activities of the bureau
has sent the retailers on a chase for now
! scales, thousands Of which have been pur-
chased recently This fact shows how ex-
tensive has been the use CT false weights
by many classes of retailers. High prices
and short weights aave in far too many
cases been the lot of the consumer.
Aviator Hamilton, hero of the flight from
New York to Philadelphia and reutrn, is
| a young man from New Britain Conn,
rivaling Paulhan in daring and skill. He
can make a biplene do things. Just before
shutdown on Saturday, Notwithstanding
driving rain and brisk wind. ne made
what has been described as e might attack
upon New York harbor --that-is, no showed
what an aeroplane, carrying u cargo of
| dynamite might have done in distributing
| condensed earthquakes. But the notable
! thing about his hour and -sX-minute flight
was the experiences and daring of his dips
curves and upflights One thrilled reporter
described 1t as Weird wild, gripping
Never before in the history of Now York
was there such a sight II set the magma
ton Attire" One of the thrilling tricks with
which Hamilton entertained spectators was
to Fly just above the water level directly
in the course of an approaching tug, main
! tanning the low course until the tug pilot
was almost frantic from fear OF an antici-
pated collision. Just when the collision
seemed inevitable, however, the pilot of the
airship would lift thirty feet higher and
sail above the water craft.
When a smoking car, with thirty-flve
passengers, on the New York. New Haven
& Hartford, near West Rochelle, on the
Boston lay express, jumped the track, a
railroad engineer in the car Off duty, yelled
| to the passengers to hang on tight" and
while the car turned over no one was hurt.
Hang on tight" is good advice in most
upsets The man who hangs on tight to
himself when his temper is upset will get
through without hurting either himself
or others The man who hangs on tight
to his earnings ends with a competence.
| Inc man VINO 'nangS on UBht' TO ms
place, when business upsets come, genor-
ally holds down the Job.
When Aaron Litzsky, who runs a second
| hand furniture store at 1913 Second ave-
nue.. was engaged with his wife in gliding
| picture frames a woman came in and
expressed violent disapproval of an Ice
box she had bought earlier in the day,
my money back" she cried TO Litzsky
| He could not see it that way. She raised
her voice to such pitch that several young
men ran in. When they heard her story
| they sided with her. Then Litzsky, losing
his temper, picked up a two-foot-hiEh can
of silt paint and hurled 1t at the woman
and her sympathizers.
| They wero shattered with the golden
fluid. A youth grabbed a second can of
the paint and poured its contents on Litz-
sky's head, 1t saturated him from head to
toe. All he needed was a horse and a mo-
ment's calm 10 look the statue of Sher-
man at the entrance to Central park. And
Mrs. Litzsky, rushing to her husbands res
cue soon looked just like St. Gaudens
bronze traffic policewomap on the same
pedestal.
The row finally reached such height
| that the police were called. The woman
who started the row faded away before
the peacemakers arrived, but the gilded
youths and painted boss were there
A short woman, wearing a white shirt
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