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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
To Parents, Teachers
and Young Men.

OF young men of a recent public utterance.
A president of our republic is something and
greater than business manager or head of political
party lie is leader champion of the rights of all men,
great moral force In such exalted position his words
and acts oft become fixed principles which young Amer
acans accept and build character upon
We have had great teachers among presidents
Who shall say that the lives of Washington, jefferson
Lincoln and Roosevelt mods in which cast
many of the highest ideals of patriotism and good citizen
ship known among today? Have we known any greater
teachers than these men! In school and at the fresde
children build character from the text books written from
the public acts and words of American presidents.
President Taft sung by personal criticism the other
day sent out to the of the nation idea which
is false in principal You remember that public
wants, Pnchot, Price, Shaw and CLAWS, discovered
burglars in Uncle Sans house. These young turned
In police alarm, and dissatisfied with the action Of the
slow-footed government cops did little policing their
own account The thieves, big rascas full Of power
frightened Off failing to land the swag.
The president of the United States these four young
mon not employed police officers only clerks,
and had no businss chasing thieves So as everyone
knows. Taft fired them ALL The fact that they had
ceeded their authority in splendid cause, of remen
deus Importance to young men and future generations
was not considered by Taft. These young try
ing to save for the people coal lands that estimated
to have almost much value the wonderful coal fields
of Pennsylvania For their pains they lost their jobs.
Young men, do not permit your minds to accept this
false principle! Read history and you will find that the
men behind progressive movement, fighting in good
work did not hesitate to violate convention rule and dig
nity that their Jealous determination to accomplish good
end swept away unmportant the mere to that
end.
Uncle Sam needs Pinchots, Gavises Prices and
Shaws in his service and fewer suppebacked officeod
who work given number of hours day for stipu
lated sum- and possess neither sense OF duty patriot
ism. We need more young men in public office who
willing to drop their bookkeeping and do police service
when police service will best the interest Of the peo
pie And, in the end the people will reward such fine
sense of duty Presidents may fail appreciate it, now
and then, but the peope-NEVER!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
In Little Old New York
BY NORMAN

NEW YORK, Jan. 21-Several
years ago H. J. w. Dam, a we'll
known writer of short stories,
turned out little -tale called The
Transmogrificatio of DAN" and
sold it to the Smart Set. 1t was
about rich miner who married
into society and allowed himself
to be bullied around by his wife
and his mother in law until a son
was born, after which he asserted
himself and became the head of
the house. Dam got $50 for the
story. which was copyrighted by
the magazine.
A year or two afterward Dam
went to see a play called THE
Heir to the Hoorah," and was sur
prised to find that it was a drama
tization of his story. The play
was written by Paul Armstrong
and produced by Kirk La Shelle.
Dam got the Smart Set to assign
him its interest in the copyright.
and brought suit against the Kirk
La Shelle company.
La Shelle died and Dam died,
but the suit went on. Now the
United States circuit court of ap-
peals has decided that the adapta-
tion OF the story by the playwright
constituted an infringement of
copyright, and that the widow of
Dam, the actress, Dorothy Dorr
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
HOW LONG SHALL
JAILS BE CRIME
SCHOOLS?
BY PROF. CHAS. COOLEY.

BY PROF. CHAS. COOLEY. |.
(Of the department of socoIosy
University of Michigan, who i'll
terested himself in Robt. McCor
mick, the boy murderer) III
Jails and prisons are apt to be
places where, crime is fostered, If
the prisoners have access to each
other. or where there is any
chance for communication among
criminals. Discharged convicts in
this state are not watched closely
enough after leaving the reforma
tories. In Switzerland they have
prisoners aid societies, where
discharged prisoners are given
work and each prisoner finds him
self under patron. This system
has diminished crime from 25 per
cent to per cent among ex-pris-
oners.
Reformatories should be sep
arated into separate institutions
for the young and for the hard
oned offenders. There should be
an educational system.
| suggest an indeterminate SEN
-tence and a release on probation
with adequate surveillance. The
use of the probation system for
first offenders should not be
stopped at 16 years. First offenders
might be released on probation,
and this is done in Massachusetts,
with excellent results. In the Ell.
mira, N. Y, reformatory no pris-
oner is released till place is found
for him to go to work. and then he
is kept under surveillance for six
months.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

PORTLAND. Ore. Jan. 22.-Mrs
La Refine Helen Baker of Spo-
kane, one of the most noted and
widely quoted social equality work
ers and lecturers in the United
States, gave an exclusive interview
replete with sensational statements,
today.
Mrs. Baker celebrated her thir.
tieth birthday yesterday in Tacoma.
81 refuse to be called suffrag-
ist,' said Mrs. Baker. II am some
thing more than that. I am not
fighting and giving my life up to
women alone, but to mankind.
my pet contention is that We
live too much in the physical. and
that as soon as we learn that our
spirits and minds are everything
worth considering, We will have so
cial equality.
women do not desire to take
mems places in the world They are
simply tired of walking behind. She
doesn't want to walk in front but
only by the side of the man, with
her hand in his.
Slaves for Mothers.
"And we can never have fire,
women while we have people born
of slave mothers. You men are re
tarding our growth by keepins
women in submission.
Don't think ] hate men. | d.
not. They are our fathers. and ou
husbands, and our brothers. and ouI
sweethearts. And our friendship
should be free as Gods sunshine
allowing one and another to NEE
on an equal basis. when they fine
their souls are attuned. Then we
will have equality of sex.
"Do not think that the mere fact
of the vote will put women on the
same plane as men. We are living
lives of evolution, and ], unlike
many of my fellow workers. feel we
can never expect much of men and
women whose characters are fully
developed. We must begin with
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
TAKES SOME "PZEN" To KILL
LITTLE KANSAS PRAIRIE DOG

MANHATTAN, Kan, Jan. %
Everybody has heard of the Kansas
prairie dog, the little brown animal
| that pops out of its hole and coughs
in derision at passing railroad
trains. The farmers of Kansas
have at last declared war on the
53,O79,624 prairie dogs that are be-
lieved to inhabit the soil of the
bleeding state.
The dogs have destroyed thou
sands of dollars worth of crops and
planted seed during the last year,
and the state agricultural college
here is helping the prosperous Kan
sas farmers cause many funerals in
the prairie dog family.
Director Edward H. Webster OF
the school here has put on the mar
ket a cough syrup" for the little
animals that is destined to take its
place beside other famous sirups of
Mrs. Winslow and DR.. Pitcher. The
difference in the remedies is great,
however.
Prairie dog sirup, as Mr.. Web
ster calls it, was invented by Theo.
II. Scheffer, one of the state zoolo-
poison that there is hope even now
that the prairie dogs will soon all
be dead. These cold winter days
make the little dogs ravenously
hungry. They pop out of their
holes when the sun melts the snow
and eat everything they can find.
The farmers smear grain with tie
strip, and the prairie dogs, after
| devouring it, soon turn up their
| toes.
Nearly every farm house is sup
| piled with cans Of the prairie dog
cough sirup," guaranteed to make a
gopher stop coughing in an hour
Here is the way the cough sirup Is
made and administered:
Take one ounce Of strychnine
one ounce of potassium cyanide
one and a half ounces Of alcohol
and pint Of good thick sirup. One
ounce of green coffee berries Is
mixed with the white of an egg and
allowed to stand at least IA hours
The strychnine is dissolved IN a
half pint of boiling water. The cy
anide is dissolved In quarter pint
Of hot water and allowed to cool
A little warm water is added to the
coffee mixture and the cyanide Is
mixed in. Then the whole is
strained through coarse sieve into
a vessel and the strip is added.
| The alcohol Is mixed with the
hot solution of strychnine and the
whole mess stirred together well
1t is sure death to the little cough
ers. At present the state is selling
the cough sirup for $1.10 can.
| When the farmer wants to give
his prairie dogs the last dose OF
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is entitled to the entire profits OF
The Heir to the Hoorah." AS il
was a very successful play, Miss
Dorr will get a lot of money-ii
she can collect.
Benjamin Moss and John Klein
field of East New York, on their
way to work before dawn, stopped
suddenly in front of a new building
Across the street was Detective
Burton, guarding a shirtwaist fac
tory against possible attack by
strikers. He had orders to allow nc
enc to loiter in the vicinity.
Move on, you, over there!" he
shouted.
You come and make us move
on" returned Kleinfeld.
"Ha, Ha!" laughed Moss and
Kleinfeld. Burton blew his police
whistle and summoned Detective
Lloyd.
Lloyd, warned Of the peril that
threatened him, came not too near
but got a plank and shoveled the
other three loose.
Boys had knocked the tops out
of six barrels of tar Steam pipes
had been run through some gravel
to keep it from freezing, and the
heat melted the tar. which was five
inches deep when the three men
were caught in it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
HOLY ROLLER
DENIES ALL
RESPONSIBILITY
(By United Press)

SEATTLE, Jan. 22.-Thomas H
Gourley, head Of the Apostolic
Faith, or Holy Rollers, who was
held responsible by citizens at Lyn-
den for melting a frenzy which led
to the death of the Pestot baby
when the family repaired in a nude
condition to the roof of their home
to await the coming Of the end of
the world, was found at Ballard
Beach today. He denied all knOwl-
edge of the affair.
Although | was In Lynden just
before it happened, l knew nothing
about it," he said. THE Pestot
family do not belong to our church,
but are members of some Holland
society. The members of our
church do not believe in such rites,
anyway"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
LADY'S HOSIERY AND
CARRIERS SUIT THIS
HORSE IN HIS WORK

BRISTOL, Pa. Jan. 22.-Annoyed
beyond measure by the repeated
straddles, slides and falls of his
old horse on the sleet covered
streets, Ebenezer Hunsicker, a
Third ward huckster, lit upon a
remedy. If burlap bagging on some
of the hoofs he saw prevented slip
ping, why not women's stockings,
less difficult to fasten on the
equine legs?
He got two pairs, carefully drew
them over the hoofs of his motive
power, adjusted improvised garters
and started out, cautiously leading
the faithful nag, to test the exper-
iment. -
His lesson was soon learned for,
as the hosiery wore through at the
shoecalks, there was less resist
ance than ever to the glare of ice;
the old horse turned a flipflop
and Ebenezer, the first to struggle
back to his feet, found that heg1ad
broken arm and badly cut head.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
A VAIL

(From one of the Old Guard to the
Late Emperor in Exile.)
Hi. Theodore; say, have you heard
What they have done to me?
They've trounced me and they've
flounced me,
I've received the fine G. B.
That big fat man you left in charge
And told just what to do
Has lost his headlines raising Ned
With all us old time crew.
When you were on the job, old man,
l used to saunter in
TO crack my joke or take a smoke
Or have little chin.
You told me 1t would be the same
When you went on your jog;
tried it, Ted, and WOW, my head!
Guess something slipped a cog.
When certain parties crossed my
path
l tried to stand my ground;
That big fat cuss got in the muss
And I've just hit the ground.
| thought that I could run the game
AS in the days gone by;
l tried 1t, Ted; l went ahead.
And you should see my eye.
Alas! there's nothing you can do
He doesn't care fig.
He's got the bit; he thinks he's
"It";
In fact. he's grown too big.
simply wall my little tale
Because it's time, you know.
Don't you get gay or else he may
Be doing things to you!
PAUL WEST,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
ART OF OVERLOOKING

Nobody can live long in the
world and not admit that the
words Nothing for nothing" con-
tain sad amount of truth. He is
of course a fool who does not count
the cost so far as the future is con-
cerned; but scarcely less a fool is
he who does not overlook past
costs. If we have any good or de-
.ightful thing in this life. at all
hazards let us not faint our enjoy
ment by considering what we gave
for it. Was it more than we could
afford? Never mind; we have az
forded it, we have made our pur-
chase. Let us take off the ticket
with the price and burn the re-
ceipt. There are items In life's
ledger which must be overlooked
unless we would spend all our days
in balancing closed accounts
London Spectator.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
Declares Woman's Suffrage
Will Accomplish Great
Reforms in Family
Relations.
TOO MANY BABES NOW
THE RESULT OF
LUST.
No Standing Army in Coun-
try When Women Are
Put on Equal Basis
With Men.
= SOME OF MRS, BAKERS Z
q VIEWS, 4

= We have grown abnormal in I
= physical way. and have for I
= gotten that sexual intercourse Z
= is only for the propagation of I
= mankind. With suffrage, we 4
. are going to learn how to live 4
= in the mental and spiritual, 4
= and to affiliate mentally and I
= physically without thought of Z
. lust or physical qualification. I
. We all know Yuletide and I
= Christmas has become bore. 4
81 never trade gifts with 4
. friends. Christmas is only I
= beautiful in the spirit of giving
= which surrounds it. I
q Two-thirds of the men and
. women in the United States
. are married physically; only 4
. one-third are really married. I
= Children are too numerous, be- 4
. cause they are the babes of
. lust, not love.
= With the perfect equality of
= sexes will come the time when I
. we can sit here and talk truths
= about ourselves and get away
. from the false modesty that is
q doing more to ruin the world
. today than anything else.
q When women are put on an
= equal basis with men, the
. United States will no longer
= have a standing army. Ameri-
= can mothers have grown tired
= rearing children only to have
. them put up and shot at
. q q o q q q q q q q q q q q I
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leaned forward and in no uncertain
tones calmly babe the chauffeur
to ignore all speed laws.
When the French foreign office
learned of the approach of the
pretender, M. BRAND. premier, ran
rings around himself until it oc-
Cured to him that the policeman
might be able to put a quietus to
the daring dukes advance.
This the cop did with great neat
ness and dispatch, escorting his
royal highness to the Belgian from
tier with the same nonchalance
characteristic of one used in lead.
ing hayward hoboes to the city
limits.
But worst Of all, the duke missed
his date to take a very charming
Partisan out for bit of supper
which was, it now appears. the real
purpose of his famous ride from
Brussels to Paris.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

SHORT SHAVINCS

If Carl II. Rock of 1856 e. Fifty.
fifth street had any ambition to go
into vaudeville, all he would need
to do would be to commit the usual
| little opening speech: Ladies and
| gentlemen, | claim your kind in
diligence while | introduce to you,"
etc, etc. The Rock family cat would
do the rest.
! The cat was STRAY" and came
to the Rock family when kitten.
1t was thin and cold and hungry.
Could it have food and shelter? 1t
asked in news. 1t could, Mrs.
Rock said Then Rock and his wife
began to teach it tricks, and now
people come miles to see it per-
| form
"Tiger''-that's his name-jumps
the rope, lays down and rolls over
like puppy, following instructions
as to rolling to the left or right,
speaks for his food. plays dead"
and does lot of things that even
cats in vaudeville do not do.
u used to have pet dog that
followed me wherever l went and
for which l would have refused
$500, but l had to sell it," says
James Hopwood, father of Avery
Hopwood. the playwright.
"Ope day | attended meeting
of butchers held in hall over a
saloon on the west side. The dog
went with me. AS l entered the
room I noticed a smile on the face
of every one of the $50 men.
BILLY Eirick was in the chair
Hop he said said as | came in,
are you going to buy?'
"For the gang? asked. looking
around. 4 should say not
"'Dusty,' he said. looking at
tough specimen of humanity stand
ing nearby, do your duty
"The fellow, who had been hired
to carry out the plan, grabbed my
dog and started away.
Here yelled. what's he going
to do with Fido?'
"'Kill him.
"Ill buy I said, and did. 1t
cost me $40, and I decided that
keeping a pet dog was too ex-
pensive."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
DREAMED THAT
SHE WAS SHOT

CHICAGO, Jan. ga bit of
steel in corset worn by Miss Ethel
Eitelhuber of No. 356 Wendell
street DETECTED bullet that en-
tered through a window, causing
her dream of the previous night to
come true in every detail.
The young woman was standing
near window of her bedroom
when fired at. Her shadow on the
window shades served as a mark
for the assassin.
Running into the dining-room
where the other members of the
family were seated. Miss Eitelhu-
Der cried: Il am shot; am shot"
Michael Griffin. her brotherin-
law. hurried out for a doctor. He
said that when he reached Orleans
street he saw man running away.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
THE PRESS
FUNNY BONE

Can your little boy come over
and play wild de gang on de lot?''
asked Tommy Finn, as he DOTTED
his ragged cap.
Elm not sure that Homer
can stand rough play" responded
the fashionable mother cautiously
on, he won't have to play rough.
Well be de ones to play rough"
Gracious. And what game are
you going to play?"
Teddy in Africa, an Homer can
be a lion or an elephant"
Most southerners are gallant. An
exception is the Georgian who gave
his son this advice:
MY boy, never run after a
woman or a street car-there will be
another one along in a minute Or
two."-Everybody's Magazine.
Il don't know much about buying
meat" admitted the young hus-
band. How do prices rum
According to the location" ex-
planned the dealer.
Then gimme two pound roast,
best you have in the orchestra cir
Gle. "-Courier-Journal.
The late Chief Justice Chase was
noted for his gallantry. While on a
visit to the south, shortly after the
war, he was introduced to a very
beautiful woman who prided herself
upon her devotion to the 'lost
cause" Anxious that the chief Jus
tice should know her sentiments.
she remarked. as she gave him her
hand, "Mr. Chase, you see before
you a rebel who has not been recon
structed.'
Madam" he replied with a pro-
found bow, reconstruction in your
case would be blasphemous. -
Everybody's Magazine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
CHILDREN ARE TOO NUMEROUS
SAYS MRS. |. /. BAKER

our children and teach them right.
II don't think we can have uni
versal suffrage today or the next
day, but the men and women and
children of tomorrow will give it to
us. We must teach our children
truths. When child is old enough
to ask questions it should be told
erything-every truth" 81
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

medicine they will ever take In
their lives, he takes half bushel of
corn for every quart of sirup. mixes
it well, and puts teaspoonful of 1t
in front of each gopher hole. The
gopher never takes seond dose.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

The one man whom the Detroit
Tigers want to land and the one
man whom Hughey Jennings thinks
will insure them the 1910 pennant
is Catcher Carrigan of the Boston
Red Sox. Carrigan is crack bats
man. as we'll as acapable receiver.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

Street Car Conductor (extending
his hand toward strap hanger)-
Fare, please.
The Latter-Nothing doing. Can't
you see I'm ?-Brooklyn
Citizen.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

The high price Of living has had
bad effect upon the drama. There
are more rotten shows since there
are fewer eggs permitted to become
rotten.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
Graft With a Or

Graft With a Drawback.
"How did Congressman X. come
to write discriminating letters?"
Because having his mail sent
free was such temptation to him
to write letters"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
KIME1eF FRANCE INVADES FRANCE;
COP LEADS HIM BACK TO FRONTIER.

PARIS, Jan. 21-'Twas only a
few nights ago that France was in
yaded by the pretender to her
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

The purpose of this edi-
torial is to counterfeit, so
far as it is within the power
of this newspaper to do so.
4bo offn.+ ,,,oo +bo minds
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22

TO MAIL SUBSCR1BERS-The iate when subscription
expires the address label of When that date
arrives subscription again been paid in advance
taken from the list change of date the address
label Is q receipt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-01-12
BONUS OF S6O,OOO
 HAS BEEN RAISED
Memphis, Paris ard Huli i> Now t..
 sured for Philadelphia.

Philadelphia. Jan. 10.-The commit tee in charge of the work of raising
 the honns fer the new Memphis. Paris and Gulf railway has amour cpd that it has secured supscriptions for the S60,ooo which was pledged at q recent mass meeting. Officials of the road were in attendance at the meeting and submitted proposition to come by here for bonus of $60,- GOO The raising of this amount prac- tically assures the road. At present the road is in operation from Tex arkana to Murireesboro and surveys are being made for the Texas eXten- sion. which will run to Dallas. The route east from here will probably be by Pine Bluff and Marianna to Mem phis.
 It is thought by some that the line will take over the old lumber road tf the Philadelphia Lumber Company, which runs through Dallas county for distance of about thirty miles. This road is of standard gauge and has been put in good condition during the past few months, which fact is taken by some to mean that it will become a part of the new line.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-01-12
Children Cry
 FOR FlETCHER'S C A 6 TO RIA
LYMAN TWINS HERE
 FRIDAY NIGH r

It is announced that the famous twin comedians The Lyman Twin Brothers will appear at the Elks Theatei. Friday night in The Prize Winners their latest and greatest musical comedy success. This eXcell- ent company with it's beautiful scenic equipment. numerous wonderful me chanical and electrical effects to- gether with one of the strongest casts today in musical comedy. comprising a pretty chorus. wonderful dancers and clever comedians producing origi- nal novelties will give one of the most pleasing entertainments of tAe sea son.
 The costuming is superb and to- gether with the dazzling effects used in the numerous sDecialties includ- ing the poppy girl dance, the country maidens, and the charming daisy girls, you are sure of an ovation sel- dom seen here.