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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
sOLONs DIFFER
ON SCOTT GIFT
Aid. Owen, Allan and Schultz Among
Those Opposed To Accepting Gam ?
bler's Money Tor Fountain.

There is wide difference OF opinion
among the members OF the common
council as 10 the acceptance by the
city OF the legacy lett by the late
Jim Scott Tor the erection OF a
fountain on Belle Isle to be surmount-
ed by statue of himself From
talks witt the aldermen, il would
seem that about third OF them have
not yet made up their minds as TO
whether they wish to have the city
erect such a monument To the mem
DRY OF "A man who was not a. conspicu-
Gus citizen. even though the fountain
would be great ornament 10 the
city.
II am not in favor OF the plan
says Aid. owen. III such fountain
were built. the first inquiry OF visi-
tors to the city who saw IL would be
IA To what manner of man II was who
gave the money for II and whose
statue they saw. and we would have
10 tell them. II would be bad thing
for our children to be brought up TO
such ideas.
Il do not approve of the statue
provision, said Aid. Allan.
Il am not In favor OF accepting the
gift" declares Aid. Schultz,
IF we accept the Scott fountain,
We should also take the Carnegie
library" SAYS Aid Field. Il am in
favor of accepting both.
While | know nothing as TO what
manner of man Scott was. ! am IN
clined 10 think that we might better
take broad view and erect the foun'
tain as he wished remarked Ala.
Korte
II think II will be beneht TO the
city" assented Aid Burton. Anyone
who wants to give fortune for the
qualification of his city should be
allowed 20 do So"
Aid Heating. Konkel Wing ana
Trevor also stated their opinion that
the Gift should be accepted. Aid.
Gilman. president OF the council. is
one of those reserving judgment
Capt. William Thorne, bailiff in the
federal court. was lifelong acquaint-
ance Of Scott. having gone to school
with him.
Scott told me that he never dealt
a card in "A gambling game states
Thorne "EIe was sent east 10 school
and before he was of age he became
rather wild and got in with lot or
gamblers Then he came into his
fathers money, and put up the cash
To back the gamblers He furnished
capital for faro banks in several
cities"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
Van Camps Germless Milk

In five states, every day, We milk 20
600 cows
Each OF these Cow is Inspected. 50
are the men who milk jhcm. so tubcr-
cular COWS. no diseased milkmen-couvcy
their infections 10 Van Camps Milk
Our diaries are sanitary. Cleanliness
everywhere Is carriedtto the eXtUvme
Cur buildings where the milk is cvap-
grated. are built without wood
Then the milk Is sterilizcd after the
can is sealed This makes il certain that
not germ can exist in it.
Science guards every step.
Not So with your milkmlu's milk In
every drop there are myr.ads Of germs.
and you never know what. germs they
are.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
HOLMES JURY DISAGREES.
Out All Night In Suit for Salary
Against H. n. n. Grape Smith.

The jury In the case of John =.
Holmes against II. II. II. Grape Smith,
the lumberman, announced at noon,
Saturday, that ii was unable TO agree,
and was discharged.
The jury retired Friday afternoon
and was out all night. Saturday morn
ing at the opening OF court the jurors
came in, and the foreman announced
that they had not agreed. but he
thought they would. Juror WittlaG-
fer spoke up and said he was sura
they would never agree. They were
sent back, however. and at noon an
nounced that the case was hopeless
II is said the jury stood II TO / in
favor of the plaintiff, and that the
one holding out was Wittaufer.
Holmes brought suit for $4,000 al
legged To be due him as back salary.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
WOMAN ADMITS FORGERY.
up Against H." Grace Prices Excuse
to JudQe PheIan.

Grace Price, alias Grace Ethel. alias
Mabel Hale. who recently passed
forged checks on several Woodward
ave merchants and then escaped tC
Chicago, whore she was arrested
pleaded guilty before Judge Phelan
Saturday
She sad that she had been III
against it," when she forged the
checks. She told the judge that eight
months after she was married she
heard that her husband was big
aInist, ami when \she confronted him
with II. h. deserted her, leaving her to
hes own resources
She has served time for forgery in
Columbus prison. and is wanted foi
false pretenses in Cincinnati. the police
SAY
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
Madam, Do This
Try Van Camps Milk cooking Note the results that


The fact is this: Not a housewife
among you would cook with raw milk, if
she knew what she missed by not using
Van Camps.
BE one OF those who know.
II you seek convenience, here you have
a COW i'll your kitchen.
Ii you seek economy, here is whole
rich milk for less than you pay for half
milk.
II you seek goodness-why, you don't
know how good milk dish can be- Raw
milk can't compare with Van Camps.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
Thinks HUSBAND Was calls Victim.

Mrs. Emiline Russell. No 3G2 Fore
Ct west, believes that one OF the two
men who went over Niagara falls in
a rowboat March was her husband
John. who left here a week ago Friday
I'm the hope OF securing work in Tho
walls She think3 he became despon-
dent and took this means OF ending
hie life, entering into "a death pact
with some other unfortunate She mas
heard nothing from her husband since
he left and is without means Of sup
port,ng herself ahd four small chr
dren. The family came here fror.
Rochester, y. l. about six months
AGO. The bodies NJ the men who went
aver the falls have not been recovered
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
HOLDS UP CHARTER CHANGES
Aid. Rosenthal Would Have CounciVs
Sanction Reconsidered.

Aid. Rosenthal OF the Fifth ward,
has given notice OF reconsideration
of the vote by which the council Tues
dav night adopted the report of the
committee Oh charter and city legis-
lation relative to charter amendment.
Rosenthal favors replacing the police,
park and public works commissioners
BIZ boards composed of several men.
we have 70 reconsider this vote
20 get rid of the one-man boards,
said Rosenthal u want 10 see the
board system instead OF the single
commissioners
Aid link is expected To back up
Rosenthal as far as the police depart
ment control Is concerned.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
TO TEST COUNTING BOARD LAW
Friendly Suit Against Controller
Started In Circuit Court.


a friendly suit, brought TO decide
the constitutionality OF the act Great
ing the central counting board, was
filed in the circuit court, Saturday
The suit Is brought by the common
council against Controller Frank f.
Doremus 10 compel him TO certify on
the contract with the owners OF the
Light Guard armory, where the board
meets, that the city has the funds on
hand to pay the rental. Without
this certification the contract is void
and the controller, for the purpose OF
the suit refuses to make the desired
certification He claims the act con
shutting the board il unconstitutional
and. therefore. the city has no right
70 spend money for a hall In which
the committee shall meet. He is re
CURED TO show cause on March 10
why a mandamus should not issue
compelling him TO make the certifica
ton required
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
Body Of Jim" Howe claimed.

The body of Jim" Howe, tree trim,
mcr, who was found dead in bed at
Kings hotel. No. 1874 Jefferson-ave.
Friday, was claimed Saturday by a
brother, from Mt Bridges. Ont.
Ilowe's brothers are well.to-do farm.
ers and will have the body shipped
there for burial.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
TO SIGN NAME 10000 TIMES.
New Bond Issue Means Big Job 70
County Clerk.

County Clerk.
The board of county auditors has DE-
decided to issue bonds 10 the extent OF
$1,000, 900 for the purpose of retiring
IN old debt
The issue will he made in bonds OF
81 600 each. and the new law provides
that the county clerk must sign every
coupon Each bona will have Attached
TO IL 80 coupons On which County
Clerk Farrell will be required to at
tsch his name This makes 30,00G
Slaces 70. him To ailiX his signature.
The auditors declare that the provision
is ridicul rus, ami will ash the opinion
OF the prosecuting attorney as TO the
necessity OF complying with IL.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
BIG INCREASES IN REVENUE.
Both Michigan Central and Lake
Shore Had Prosperous Year

OHUTt 1du FTUsptTUUS TtdT.
The annual statement OF the Wander
bilt lines, just issued in New York.
SHOWS sratifSi ing increase in the
operating revenues OF all the roads III
the system, including OF course, The
Michigan Central and the Lake Shore
The operating revenues of the Michi-
gan Central for 1903 We're $27 49,
1920, As against S24.222 1920 IN
1908. an increase OF $3l93.32S. while
the operating expenses increased only
$1.715.760.
The Lake Shore. regarded as the
gold min" OF the Vanderbilt system,
shows operating revenues of S45,lli.
e9T. as compared with $39,066.94l III
1908
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14

The rapid spread OF an epidemic o.
humps in a Pennsylvania town re
Gently was attributed to cat. when
caught the disease by eating food
handled by one of the earliest patients
and gave il to other family pets.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14

ATLANTA. Ga. March l4.-Therc
Are exciting ioX hunts and eXhilaratins
deer hunts and dangerous wolf hunts
but did YOU ever ste a good pack OF
dogs hunt a man?
They nave man hunts In Georgia
quite ofteu-wheaeve convict Obeys
the dictates OF nature and breaks 10:
liberty
Newspaper crusades cleaned out
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14

Petroleum has been found in paying
quantities about 400 miles northeast
of Edmonton. Alta. by Canadian pros
pectors, the wells averaging , 900 feet
deep
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
Woman Dies Suddenly.

Mrs. Mary Hotta, As years old, of
No 339 Sixth-st. died suddenly OF
heart disease Friday night. Corone"
Burgess found that She had suffered
from heart disease for several years,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14

most OF the brutalteS OF the old con.
Wet lease system, taking the convlctS
away from the mines and turpentine
camps of private lessees and putting
them on ihe public roads under direct
control o. the state But when a cor
Wet gets owaN-and they break their
CHAINS aau leave camp frequent y
when the guards are not looking-tl g
same old chase by bloodhounds is be
gun. And the convict seldom gets far.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14

The fire losses OF the country for
the past six years have been at the
rate Of about $500 a minute.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-14
Van Camps for Children

Two-third> the mortality 81 children is
due to the germs in raw milk
Van Camps avoids those dangers.
Raw milk Is just rs unfit as raw meat.
Give your children sterlzed milk that IS
safe
They will Ike Van Camp better than
raw milk For that shghralmond flavor,
~Gle To sterilization, is itself a delicious
taste And Tie iact that Van Camps IS
NOT germ-laden makes i; seem doubly
good
Van Camps Nilk comes ms and 10
cent canS-at your grocer's. Try one
can and you will want IL always Then
is is cheaper to buy by the case-also
more convenient
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-11
WORDS OF WISDOM.

All art is in its origin connected
with religion.-Ulrici.
He that plants thorns must never
expect to gather Poses.-Pilpay.
1t is not the oath that makes US be-
lieye the man, but the man the oath.
-Aeschylus.
To be conscious that you are ignor-
ant is a great step toward knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli.
Moderation is the silken string rum
ming through the pearl chain OF all
virtues Bishop Hall.
knowledge and timber shouldn't be
much used till they are seasoned
oliver Wendell Holmes.
A quiet woman is like still wind
which neither chills the body nor
blows, dust in the face.-Nicholas Bre-
ton.
Adversely is sometimes hard upon
man. but for one who can stand pros
perity there are hundred that will
stand adversely. Carlyle.
A straight oar seems crooked in the
water: it does not only import that
we see the thing, but how and after
what manner we see it.-Montaigne.
Our ancestors are very good kind OF
folks, but they are the last people
should choose to have visiting ac-
uuaintance with. - Richard Brinsley
Sheridan.
Ignorance of the law excuses no
man. Not that all men know the law,
but because It's an excuse every man
will plead, and no man can tell how
to confute him.-John Selden.
TITS the common vice of nature that
we at once repose most confidence,
and receive the greatest apprehen-
sion, from things unseen, concealed
and unknown.-Julius Caesar.
He has spent all his life in letting
down empty buckets into empty wells,
and he is frittering away his age in
trying to draw them up again. sgd
ney Smith.
The ugliest of trades have their mo-
ments Of pleasure. Now, If I we're a
gravedigger, or even hangman,
there are some people could work
for with a great deal of enjoyment
Douglas Jerrold.
Is it SO bad, then. to be misunder-
stood? Pythagoras was misunder-
stood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and
Luther, and Copernicus, and Calico,
and Newton, and every pure and wise
spirit that ever took flesh. To be
great is to be misunderstood -Emer-
Gan
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-11

much trouble to make the things pos
itively clear to me, but dear, it was
not needed. My faith in you is so
great that I should never have ques-
toned your decision, whatever it had
been. understand all you say about
the things that are done in business,
but am thankful beyond any words
of mine to express that you will not
lend yourself to these methods, and
that you will suffer rather than lend
your countenance to dishonest prac-
tees. will suffer with you gladly,
John, and be proud of it, and am
sure the children, If they were asked,
would say the same.
But, happily, think there will
not be any need. Who do you think
came to see me to-day but Uncle Ed
gar, from Bristol. without word of
warning, and he did not seem to mind
cold meat lunch? He was so nice,
so different from any time have ever
seen him before, that couldn't quite
make it out. He is aging, too; can't
help thinking that God has spoken to
his hard heart, and that he is begin
ming to realize some of the things he
has missed in life. He was lovely to
Ted. and brought him a great parcel
of books, new books, from the
Stores; think of Uncle Edgar being
guilty of such Extravaganza! He
asked very kindly about you, and he
said I was beginning to look rather
old and tired, and that must take
better care of myself. and couldn't
we have a holiday together at More
Gamble at Easter.
Finding him like this. and want
ing desperately to tell somebody how
proud and glad I was about you. /
gave him your letter to read. He took
long time to read it, and blew his
nose several times over it, and was
little gruff at the end. Then what
do you think he said all of a sudden?
Your husbands fool, Lucy, as
the world counts folly, but shouldn't
wonder that he's chosen the better
part. Tell him I said so, and If he
comes home next week, as he seems
to expect, out of a job, bring him to
Bristol for the weekend, and we'll
talk things over. i need somebody
at my place can trust, who won't
buy and sell me the moment my
backs turned. could trust your
John Wakelyn, so bring him down.
or course, said / would. / hope
your interview with your firm won't
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-11

be very disagreeable, dear, but II 1t
is, never mind. Come home. Never
have you been so welcome as you will
be this time to the happy and loving
woman, who is so proud to sign her.
self, Your Wife,
Wakelyn's lips t'vitched as he
turned the sheet to read it all over
again, and JOY filed his heart so
great as to well-night overwhelm
him. The part concerning Uncle Ed
gar did not greatly uplift him. 1t
was the knowledge that he had his
wife's sympathy and trust that filled
and covered his whole horizon; moth
ing else matteYed.
There occurred in his memory, as
he sat there in the silence, passage
he had read from Isaiah before he
slept the night after the momentous
letters had been written.
"And an highway shall be there,
and way, and it shall be called, The
way of holiness; the unclean shall
not pass over it; but it shall be for
the redeemed; the wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein.
And again, sThey shall obtain joy
and gladness, and sorrow and sigh
ing shall fee David Lyall, in
British Weekly.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-11

Mr.. Courtenay Piles face Redeemed
very deeply.
so it's a very high hand you'll
take, Wakelyn? Whence all this new
tangled delicacy of conscience?
You've been in the building trade a
good many years, and suppose this
isn't the first time you've seen things
fall short of specifications. It's done
every day; you know that.
81 don't know it, but as said. !
won't be party to it, replied Wake
Ign, with the same quiet, imperturb-
aole air, which had the effect of rails
ing Mr.. Piles anger almost to white
heat.
There isn't anything so very bad );
it won't affect the foundations of the
house, nor its lasting qualities. idiot.
You must know that"
''There'll be trouble in about five
years time" was the reply. "But
that isn't the point-my point at
least. Lord Trammere is paying for
, something he's not getting, and be-
cause / know that want to quit the
job"
You're fool to yourself, Wake
Ign, if you do any such thing" said
Pile sourly. "Where'll you get an
other job? A word from us will GO
a long way, and we can't afford, as
business is in these days, to be SC
/ mealy-mouthed; nobody knows that
better than you"
81 can't help that replied Wake
Ign quietly. my minds made up"
Then Mr.. Courtenay Piles admir-
able composure gave way, and he
cursed his subordinate in no meas
ured terms. But it made very little
! impression, and two hours later Pile
had to return to town to report the
| i'll success of his interview, and tc
look out for successor to Wakelyn
The man who had faced a difficult
situation for consciences sake went
about the rest of his days work ap-
parently undisturbed. He had counted
the cost. That it was likely to be
heavy he had never hidden from him.
self.
Lucrative situations were not going
begging, and he was now middle
aged man; further, he had many
heavy private obligations wife and
family, including an invalid son. I
was for the boys sake he had done
this. If Ted Wakelyn had ever beer
tempted to rebel against the destiny
| that kept him tied to sick bed while
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-11
The English Cold Morning Bath 7sss ::
IA Snare and a DeluSiO1.
oe seeeeeec eeecssse coeed

Says "a plain American" in the
American Magazine:
Everyone knows about the ira
dition of the cold morning bath. All
Englishmen mention the fact in cas-
ual manner that they have one at
least once each day, but have Won
dered if they old not protest too
much. How can anyone prove that
they actually get into this aforesaid
cold bath? That a two-hundred
pound man can get into a zinc pan
eighteen inches ir diameter at the
bottom. or prance about the great
bilge keel which surrounds it, does
not seem reasonable.
after getting out OF fairly warm
bed many times, and trying to do
acrobatic acts in tepid water with
a damp atmosphere of about forty
degrees, in stone-walled room with
the concentrated cold of four hum
dred or more long years Theoretically
sealed in a musty old castle, | de-
cided to fake the cold bath, as l now
believe all Englishmen do.
''It's an easy game. and this is the
way to do it. Jump from the bed and
land, if possible, clear of the stone
floor on any old stray rug or piece Of
carpet. Dress hurriedly and COM
pletely and draw a razor over your
blue chop called a chin, staunch the
blood with your own pocket handker-
chief-dcn't use the bath towel; then
drag the zinc bathtub to the centre of
the floor, lay bath towel or two
spread out beside it, then throw the
soap as hard as possible into the
water six or seven times (this gives
the effect of a natural English bath
splash), slap the ends Of another
towel in the water, wet your hands
Ono matter if it does make 'em ache)
you must do this) and slap them
on the towels to represent wet foot
prints. This done, you can look the
world in the eye with bright and
shining morning face-the kind R. l.
Stevenson refers to-"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-11
JOHN WAKELYN'S WIFE. :


shanty that had been erected for the
transaction of business which re-
CURED attention on the spot. It was
quite comfortable within and warmed
by small stove which sent out a
bright glows Pile closed the door,
and his face hardened as he looked
straight at Wakelyn.
you exceeded your privilege,
think, this time, Wakelyn. I've stood,
we've all stood, good deal from you,
but this is the limit. What have you
to say for yourself?"
Nothing more than I put in my
letter, sir. l can't stop here and see
the work through on the present
lines. ! don't profess to be saint,
but the stuff that's being put into this
house is the limit, if I may borrow
your expression. It's dishonest, and
all the more so that Lord Trammere
is not here himself to overlook it,"
"a fat lot of good he'd be if he
were here. So it doesn't come ur to
specification?
mo, and you know it; when I
complained, the Garrods have as good
as told me they're within their rights.
according to the orders they've re-
ceived privately frcm you and Mr..
Gladwyn. l won't be a party to it,
that's all, and I'm quite ready to leave
at the end of the week. In fact, I've
SO made up my mind"