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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12
OBSERVATIONS

HERE is Aldrchs plan of salvation: Let the regulars
In the senate mind him unit Could anything be more
smpei
MANY people are disturbed by the figures
Especially those who were ''scOOped'' on them.
FIREMEN, with a hand extinguisher, detailed to
follow Taft in St Louis. Why? He's setting rivers
afre.
CANADIAN gunboat has seized an American fishing
schooner in Lake Erie. A lot of supposedly unnteigent
fish lured the Yankee the boundary and had him
caught.
= STENOGRAPHER asks $3.50 900 for work in the Henze
Environment, doubt Wall street newsboys will
soon be asking $50 for one-cent paper.
PEARY'S medal is for being the first and only human
being who led a party to the pole. Thus the British
donors carefully not to deliberately off all polar
bears huskies musk and arctic eas from claiming
the stake.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12
Horoscope
1.-THE stars incline, but do not
compel"
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1910.
Dark is the sign for greed.
The faithless i'll shall speed.

On this 1880 day Neptune is
in ecliptic conjunction with the
Moon. The Sun is in sextile
and benefic aspect.
The day is brilliant for hon.
ors, ideals, lofty ambitions,
generous deeds and sympathy.
1t is dark with evil for
greed, mercenary motives, self
ishness, intolerance and un-
ness.
Men who are false to women
are under evil ausuries.
Workers should find the day
helpful toward success.
Persons in authority will do
evil to grant favors, help sub
ordinates and show mercy to
wrongdoers.
The time is excellent for
seeking employment.
Travel is likely to be of ben
eft.
Uranus is in a position that
is held to threaten quarreIs be-
tween married persons.
There is danger, also, of en-
tangIements and errors in any
dealings that are involved or
that are based on imperfectIy
understood matters.
Persons dealing with figures
must exercise unusual care.
Druggists must concentrate
their attention in making up
prescriptions, and all persons
handling or using chemical
mixtures or anything made up
by formulas will need to be
much more careful than ordi-
nary.
According to herbal lore, the
day is good for cabbage, cress,
cucumbers, lettuce, pumpkin
and wintergreen under the
moon.
In the household the sign is
favorable for baking, stewing,
preserving and anything con-
nected with fish.
Persons with this birth date
are under aspects that usually
grant great powers for thor
ough investigation, but there
will be danger of going into
speculation without first using
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

THIS is the machlnlst There are 1U36
skilled laborers Of this kind whose av-
,rage wage is only 1875 cents an HOUR)
who has to work only 1912 HOURS, SIX
DAYS a week regularly, EXCEPT over
lime and extra work on ONE or MORE
Sundays a month. The machinists went
IN strike after three comrades were
DISCHARGED for protesting against
the "speeding-up SYSTEM" work under
pressure, Sunday work and overtime
work.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12
MOST Anything
Fun
Facts
Fiction
Froth
Fads
Folly
Josh Wise Says,
when we begin ter eulo-
gize tn Twin, it's a sign
we're already resigned ter
see 'em dead"

Well it will be easier after this, y
answered the debtor I'm going to
move two blocks nearer your
office"
There is still upon the pension
rolls one daughter of a soldier of
the war of the revolution.
Plenty of soap and water go well
with a low neck waist.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

(By United Press Leased Wire

GLASGOW, KY, May 12.-That
J. c. Yates is injured, with A. Hol-
land Forbes, when the balloon Vic
toria fell to the ground from a dis
lance of several hundred feet, will
probably not recover, is the verdict
of physicians attending the injured
aeronaut. Forbes is so badly in
jured that he cannot be moved
from the farm house near Center,
20 miles from here, where the acct
dent occurred.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

This is the man who owns Bethlehem
Steel Co. stock. The Aldrich tariff bill
the one Mr.. Taft says is the chest
ever'-has doomed the stock and boost
ed the dividends, and now the stockhold-
er wants MORE and is asking a SHIP
SUBSIDY bill. And the water in the
stock would float battleship.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12
TWO-MINUTE VAUDEVILLE
BY FRED SCHAEFER.

was a felon till I broke out-and
then | was running sore.
Slap-Are you cured?
Thud-Yes, I had some swag
planted, and I'm we'll heeled.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS-The subscription
expires the address label of each When that date
arrives, paid advance
is taken the list change of date the address
S a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

This coupon is good for $40 II pre-.
scented before May 10 as first pay
ment on tuition at Standard Com
mercial College, Spokane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

Sixty-one pounds Of sugar per
capita are consumed annually in the
United States.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

This is the laborer (2322 of him) work
ing TWELVE HOURS day, SEVEN
days a week, who earns only TWELVE
AND ONE-HALF cents an HOUR. In
all, 1921 men at the South Bethlehem
Pa, plant earn LESS than SIXTEEN
cents an HOUR. And this lilliputan sti-
pend is for labor that is herculean
labor that saps the vitality Of the most
brawny, and the kind of labor that ex-
acts an annual toll of manned limbs and
yiOlpnt deaths
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

Over the whole body there are 10
miles Of pores, skin deep.
Lawyer-And how near a relative
was this man to your deceased hus-
band?
Woman Witness-Well, he wasn't
near enough to invite to our we'd
ding and not distant enough to have
any excuse for staying away from
the funeral.
Herodotus mentioned an oil we'll
on the island Of Zante which is still
in existence, after 5000 years.
What is your lodge distinguished
for?" asked the man who had been
asked to join.
why. our lodge" said the men,
Der proudly. lis the only one in the
country that hasn't the oldest living
Odd Fellow"
!, You have to be careful with this
hair grower" said the barber, wrap
ping up the bottle.
fWhy?' asked the man who had
been induced to buy it.
T. Because | got some of it on a
| billiard ball the other day. and grew
SO much hair on it that it was of no
earthly use"
81 am dead tired of coming 10
blocks every day to collect this
! bill" protested the collector.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12
$1,000

We guarantee positions to our
graduates. Catalog is free. 602 Col.
umbia building.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12

A side show man had a poster
painted to illustrate a polar scene
TO advertise a white bear. There
was an icy desolateness shown.
Here, I'm not going to waste all
that space" he protested to the art
list. Put in some snakes and birds
of paradise"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-12
THE BEST BILL EVER!

NEWS ITEM: After an investigation of condition at
the mammoth plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co. the
plate and ship building trust, report has been made to
the United States senate by the United States bureau o.
and labor showing the circumstances under
which the 9S4 persons the January payroll abored
This is the laborer (262S of him) who
x12 is regularly required to work SEVEN
days week Besides this. there
90 APPS employees whose positions require
TWELVE MORE hours of labor
n~ DAY. And this such labor
handling steel ingots, wheeling Stag,
moving molten metal and every task that is arduous
Many of the men have to work amid intoerable heat,
Strinnnd % the whist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
Crippen's Arrest.

IL has been often declared that mode rn
inventions would rob the world of ro-
nance and narrow the field of adventure
and render commonplace the experiences
of humanity. Yesterdays happenings In
Canada, eliminating in the arrest of two
fugitives from English justice. charged
with murder. prove conclusively that on
the contrary that most modern of de-
vices, the wireless telegraph. has served
rather to heighten the dramatic values of
life. From the fugitives point of view
the wireless has in this Instance played a
most mischievous part. 1t has prevented
an escape which otherwise would have
been easily effected. with all the conse-
ouences that will probably follow. No
capture o. an accused person was ever
accomplished under more intensely inter
estiDs conditions. The world was wait
ing for the word that certain individuals
borne across tho Atlantic on a slow
steamer and suspected of being the ones
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
No Third Degree.

AS far as the dispatches from Father
Point and Quebec have gone DIR. Grip
pen and Miss Leneve, though formally
accused Of the crime of the murder of
Crippen's wife, have been subjected to
no such sharp examination as that
which usually follows an arrest by
the American police for such an
offense. II is stated that Immediately
after their identification they were
questioned briefly in Crippen's cabin,
but that no effort was made TO apply
third degree" processes which are
strictly forbidden by the English laws
In this respect the English police sys-
tenn differs from the American, and
judging from the records of the Brit
ish courts there is no failure Of justice
as a result. There Is at this time in
progress a congressional investigation
into the manner in which accused per-
sons are Intercepted by the police OF
the United states, it having been as
serted that inquisitorial methods are in
vogue comparable with the physical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01

tortures of the past devised for the
extortion of confessions from prison
erS.
however pointedly accused of crime, is
guilty. In practice. however. in the Amer
lean courts the reverse seems now to be
the established doctrine. Pei sons accused
of crime are subjected to the most search
ing investigation, without the advice o.
counsel. The police proceed, in most in
stances, upon the assumption that the
prisoner in hand is necessarily guilty, and
they endeavOr to break down his de-
malls Of completely by every known
means Thus placed at disadvantage
from the outset, even an innocent person
may easily create an impression of quit
in the eagerly suspicious minds of I'M
feeling fnterrogators, whose chief interest
it is to make a case and thus to
maintain prestige with the public.
AS far as it has gone the Crippen case
affords an instructive parallel to the
proceedings in the average American
quest for an accused person. When he
is placed on trial the defendant in this
case will, under the English system, have
confessed If at all in circumstances to
lead to no possible doubt of the truth
and validity of the acknowled gment. Many
an American trial has turned upon So
called confessions Of which the public
haA had grave reasons to be suspicious,
but Which have, nevertheless, played an
important part in shaping the minds Of
jurors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
Back From Gettysburg.

The members of the District National
Guard nave returned from Gettysburg
after nearly fortnight OF camp duty
which has given them wide variety OF
experiences in the closest possible siniii-
tude to the actual conditions of war
fare. They have bee.s drilled in the rOu-
tine of camp life and Injured to its
hardships and discomforts. They have
been trained I'm the duties of camp SAM
tation and policing. which are of vital
Importance to the welfare of an army in
the field. They have also been given in
structions i'm actual soldering, in work
ing out maneuver problems calculated to
test their capacities individually and as
a whole. They return better soldiers for
their experience, more trustworthy as
potential guardians of the public peace,
the country in consequence of this drill.
They have found this camp work far diff
ferent from the old style of midsummer
militia outing. The guardsman who takes
his self-appointed role seriously, who con-
siders his service in the militia as part
Of citizens duty, is doubtless strength
ened I'm his resolve to continue in the
service a result of this work at Gettys-
burg. On the other hand. the miltiaman
who has joined the guard for social rea-
sons or for diversion or as a novelty may
feel that he wants no more. Thus the
summer camp as at present conducted,
is effective in wedding out the poorer
material which inevitably drifts into the
organization IL is to the great credit
of the District Guard that Ii suffers a
negligible percentage of such defections
after these annual experiences In the
neid. In addition to the high marks
scored by it at Gettysburg the District
organization holds its own in the months
that follow as one of the most capable
and best organized militia forces in the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
Gov. Harmon and Pensions.

The Ohio republicans challenged their
democratic opponents on what Is called
the dollar "a day pension proposition. They
did not declare against it, but doubted
the sincerity of the democratic declara-
ton in favor of it, and asserted that no
bill covering the matter had been intro
duced in the Fifty sixth Congress by an
Ohio democrat.
This plank in the democratic platform
is a bid for the old soldier vote, which is
large and influential in the state. Ohio
contributed literally and brilliantly to the
ranks of the Union army, and her Grand
Army posts are large and well organized
Even had it been left unchalenged, the
bid might not have accomplished its OBJ
ject Politics is barred in Grand Army
circles, and though politicians in both
parties have sought at various times for
party purposes to influence the organiza-
ton by one overture or another, very
little success has ever attended the eff
forts. The Union veterans have re-
spected themselves and their ballots, and
voted according to their appraisements
of national issues in general.
AS The Star stated the other day, if
Gov. Harmon is reelected this issue will
enter into his campaign for the demo-
cratic presidential nomination. Friends
of the issue will claim that it brought
votes to the state ticket, and will assert
that if incorporated into the democratic
national platform it will perform the
same service, in Ohio and elsewhere, for
the democratic national ticket. Thus
the dollar-a-day pension project will be
bracketed with the Harmon presidential
boom.
Will the project help the boom? Will
the south, where the Harmonites are
looking for delegates, be the happier
into law, the project would increase the
appropriations for pensions by an enor-
nous amount. The Countrywide south
uncomplainingly paying her share-with
the best of reasons has voted large sums
TO the survivors of the host that saved
the Union. Niggardliness in dealing with
the subject would have been an outrage
not far removed from a crime.
But does the country-any section of
the country-really desire that the sums
be increased as advocated by these demo-
cratic politicians in Ohio? Is it alto
gether seemly that the political fortunes
of who has so many legitimate
claims to consideration should be linked
with appeal to veterans who are
banded together upon non-political lines,
and would consult their own best in
terests by keeping politicians and the
boomers of politicians at arms length?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
A High Old Time.
gone to the country

His wifes gone to the country.
He sings in accents light
OF pastimes gay throughout the day
And social games by night.
But spite of all his joking,
Inspect him close enough,
And you will see, 'twiXt you and me,
His Sayety's a bluff.
He simply goes on working
Like any other man.
When day is gone he sits out on
The front step with u fan.
His hosiery needs mending;
His buttons, too, are lost.
The morning meal is an ordeal,
And dinner is a frost.
He goes out every pay day,
And mails his earnings hard.
And without fail each mornings mail
Brings him q picture card.
And yet the playful neighbors
Come round to him and say
Enjoy yourself. you giddy elf
Your wife has gone away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
A National Health Department.
the Baltimore Evening Sun.

From the Baltimore Evening Sum-
No long argument is needed to show
that good sense Is in the campaign for
the establishment of a national depart
ment of public health, with an officer of
cabinet rank at it's head. Under the
present absurd system of local health de-
partments very little is being accom-
pIished. An efficient and diligent health
officer in one town sees his good work
destroyed by the neglect of an ignorant
or corrupt health officer in the next
town. There is no concentration of eff
fort no intelligent cooperation, and as
result, the war upon typhoid fever.
tuberculosis and the other great infec-
tious diseases makes but slow Roadway.
In Baltimore, for example, the absolute
sterilization of the water supply would
not obliterate typhoid, for cases would
still continue to be imported from the
nearby counties, just as cases of ma
lsria and smallpox are now imported.
What is needed IS a strong central or
ganizaton, with authority TO trace in
lection to its sources and to stamp it
out completely, without regard for the
feelings of ignorant communities and the
dignity of local Dogberries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01

wanted in London for crime of peculiar
atrocity were identified as the accused.
After the sailing of the ship from Europe
word came from midocean that among her
passengers were two who, despite dis
guses. were believed to be those for
whom the most famous detective bureau
in the world was searching. To make
sure of proper Identification a representa-
tive of that bureau was sped across the
sea on faster ship that he might meet
the suspects on their arrival In every
detail the matter was admirably man
aged. The fugitives were taken un-
awares before they had reason to think
themselves suspected They were ar
rested before they could communicate
with one another or make away with
themselves In few moments the word
that they had been at last found and
that their identity was confessed had
been flashed to millions of people await
ing this verification. There was no lack
of the dramatic in this arrest
The case against DR. Crippen rests now
wholly upon circumstantial evidence. HIS
wife's disappearance, his belated an
nouncement of her death following
tardy explanation to friends that she hao
departed on mysterious errand across
the ocean and the American continent,
was followed by his own with COM
panion whose interests were Identified
with his. His flight would have directed
suspicion toward him without the finding
in his former home of fragments of what
it is believed is human body, extraordi-
narily dissected and almost entirely dis
integrated Memories of the Leutgert
case are revived by this crime. 1t Is
confessed in London that it will be eX-
ceedingly difficult to establish the actual
fact of Mrs. Crippens death through the
absence of corpus delicti.' If Grip
pen is disposed to resist conviction he
may possibly escape through this techni-
cality unless the British government is
able to establish the fact of death by eX-
pert testimony, as that fact was estab-
lished in the Chicago trial through
single fragmentary bone which identified
the contents of vat in Leutgerts sausage
factory as human remains.
The part played in this case by the
wireless biography is important in mar
rowing the possibility of escape from the
clutches of the law. Justice has found
most potent instrumentality to lessen
the chances of criminals to avoid arrest
and trial. Henceforth fight over seas
in anything but sailing ship will be an
invitation TO detection and capture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
John G. Carlisle.

Mr. Carlisle, whose death is announced
today, filled for years a conspicuous
place in our politics, and had to do with
many important affairs. As a member of
the House, as Speaker of that body-serv-
Ing three terms-as senator from Ken
tUcky, and as Secretary of the Treasury,
he grapplcd with problems which brought
into play mental equipment of unusual
breadth and strength.
intellectually, i'm the DAYS of his activ-
ity, he was the foremost man of his
party. In tho House his equal in debate
did not sit on his side of the chamber.
In the Speakers chair, even while admin
istcring rules out-of-date and distorted
by vicious practices he made a record for
fairness second to that of no man who
had preceded him in the Office. In the
Senate he Immediately took the lead, and
If he failed in the Treasury Department
it was because OF connections and infiu-
enccs foreign to his past deliverances and
performances.
1t was an unfortunate day for Mr.. Car
Isle and for his party when he was in
duced To quit an arena for which he
possessed in pre-eminent degree every
qualification. In the Senate he was thor
ougniy at home from the moment he
passed the portals, His own side recog-
niZed his supremacy. The other side
paid him the tribute of genuine admira-
ton. silver and the tariff were the is
sues, and his record on both made his
words OF the widest interest whenever
either engaged his attention.
But, III advised, as some of his friends
have always thought, he left the Senate
for tine cabinet table at a time when the
change uI seats was attended with the
sravest embarrassments; and, like Bay
ard, and W. l.. Wilson, and Judge Gresh-
am, anu others, he died politically in the
shade of man whom he. as they, could
have taught the very rudiments OF gov
eminent. he lost everything-his seal In
the Senate, his mold on his home people,
and the ear OF the country completely.
And the loss was as great fer the coun-
try at large as for him and his party
Mr.. Cariisle's success IN politics was
extraordinary for more than the height
he attained. I'm a state where cratory mas
always exercised charm and power, ami
where the gilt has always been rewarued
Tar beyond its intrinsic value In practical
affairs; where personal address In men
aspirin; 10 high political office has been
fashioned IN hearuness, tins man, with
out d single oratorical device, anu re-
served at times almost TO tue point u
austerity, topped all the orators, and
put tue story t-iIers and the nandsnakers
INTO tna background. Like James Il. Beck
BEFORE INN, he won purely upon an in
teiIUe.udnts wnicn. If cold, was as pene-
traIing az d needle, and clear with the
Wmtest OF lights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
Moody.

Mr.. Justice Moody's decision is the COR
rect one The business of the Supreme
Court calls for a full bench next winter,
and then steady work for all the MEM
bers. Judge Moody might have been in
fettle and ready for his share. But he
might have been forced back to bed
again. With freedom from judicial cares,
he may regain his old form, and should
that come to pass all will rejoice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
Talk Well and Do Nothing.
From the New York Times.

Excellent as were the speeches made
and the papers read at the third annual
convention in Niagara Falls of the Ma
tional Good Roads Congress, one cannot
help feeling a little discouraged at the
present necessity for repeating pleas and
arguments that were unanSwerabe when
first uttered and have ever since re-
manned so. Nobody denies that bad roads
are frightfuliy expensive for all who use
them, or that good roads are worth much
more than they cost, and yet we go on
year after year doing nothing at all for
the improvement of most OF our high
ways, and when we do build a stretch of
road worthy of the name, in about nine
cases out of ten we allow it to 20 prompt
Iy to ruin for want of the constant re-
pairing which even the best of roads re-
quire.