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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
HENS ARE NOT STUPID.

Every automobillst knows that when
his car approaches a hen, instead OF
calmly stepping to the side of the
road and safety, In nine cases out oil
ten she runs along ahead in hysterical
excitement, doing what she should
have done in the first place only when
completely exhausted, and then only
by accident, apparently. Other domes-
tic animals have the same annoying
habit, and as II often causes their
! wholly needless death, the usual ex-
PLANTATION of 1t is their stupidity. That
is an unfair criticism, for neither
birds nor animals are ever stupid
never are, that is, about meeting ex-
igencies which their ancestors were
in the habit>of meeting.
1t is the lesson OF immemorial ex.
perience for all these creatures that
from the pursuit of an enemy that
cannot be fought there Is safety, II
anywhere, in straightaway fight at
topmost speed. Motion in any other
direction would give the pursuer a
fatal advantage by enabling him to
"cut corners" and cover a shorter
| distance than his selected prey. The
| hens mistake is not in running along
the road, but in assuming that the au-
tomobile wants TO catch her and will
do so If II can. That assumption Is a
perfectly natural one, and every living
! hen is the descendant of innumerable
generations of hens that acted upon
III exactly as she does. The other hens
did not have any descendants, and of
course their strain died out.
Certain particularly and ahnormally
adaptable hens will in time develop a
different impulse of fight, which they
in turn will transmit to their chicks.
Said chicks will be credited with SUI
perior intelligence by the AUTOMOBILE
lists of the future, but If a fox gets
after them he will--or might-exclaim
over their stupidity. A few hens, the
intellectual giants Of their race, may
learn to run in one direction from an
automobile and in another from fox.
The chances OF that, however. are very
small Had hens possessed such YER
Isatility as that, even in a potential
form, they would have ceased to be
hens long ages ago. The apes that
had Il did.-New York Times.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
Famous Gems of Prose
HEROES OF THE SEVEN YEARS WAR.
ny EDWARD EVERETT.
From a Fourth July address at w orcester in lsSs

the seafaring inhabitants who enlisted
or were impressed into the British
navy; and in addition to those who
enlisted in the regular British army
who amounted In one year to near
thousand. Napoleon at the summit OF
his power did not carry an equal mum.
Der of the French people into the field.
An array OF 1000 compared with
the population OF Massachusetts, In the
middle OF the last century IL consider.
ably greater than an army OF 100000
for France In the time OF Napoleon. III
| were TO repeat the names OF all the
distinguished pupils in this great
school OF war | should have to run
over the list OF 6 large proportion or
the officers of the revolutionary army.
Among them were Prescott, Putnam,
Stark, Gridley, Pomroy, Gates, Mont
gomeTy, Mercer, Lee, and above all,
Washington. II I were TO undertake
to recount the heroic adventures, the
incredible hardsbips, the privations
and exposures that were endured in
the frontier wilderness. in the war
fare with the savage foe-on the
dreary scouting parties in midwinter
II should unfold a tale OF human for
titude and human suffering TO which
II would make the heart bleed TO
listen.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

Let us say the combat Is about to
begin. The players who are on the
other side range themselves about In
graceful positions with ready hands
and willing feet, preferably facing the
home platter
Comes now one OF the athletes VINO
is not on the other side, armed with
a weighty stick OF wood. To him the
pitcher serves a ball 10 strike at with
the bludgeon. The ball, possessing as
Il does, marvellous resiliency-aye,
even more thsn bean bag-may
come In contact with the sctick and
be impelled toward those who are In
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

But In the war OF 1856 the military
efforts OF the colonies were still more
surprising. II 1t Is said that they
were upheld by the resources OF the
mother country, let II not be forgotten
in making the comparison OF their
exertions In this war, with those Ia
the revolution, that In the latter they
have the powerful support Of France,
The seven years war was carried on
in America at the same time In the
extreme south against the Cherokee
Indians, than formidable enemy IN
the western part OF Virginia and Penn
sylvania, at Niagara, on the whole
frontier line FROM Albany TO the st
Lawrence and Quebec, in the extreme
northeastern par OF the country
where Nova Scotia and Cape Breton
we're retaken. in the West Indies and
ON the Spanish main.
The regiments OF New England and
New York In this war fought on take
Ontario and lake George at Quebec
in Nova Scotia, In Martinico, Porte
Bello. and at Havana. From the year
1854 to 1852 there were raised by the
single province of Massachusetts, 80,
900 ren; and for three years. success
sively, 1000 men each year, This
was an addition to large numbers Of
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
NED MERTON ON BASEBALL
III. THE GAME DESCRIBED.
The third Reader Boy" Explains the Sport.
BY FRED scHAEFER

readiness To embrace It Sometimes
one, sometimes two men will retrieve
the ball the others not concerning
themselves very much with that
The striker, or batsman as some
prefer TO dub him, essays 10 attain
the successive corners Of a quad
rilateral arrangement OF pathways In
circuitous manner Lefore the ball
shall have been handled in a manner
to preclude it, Should he accomplish
return 10 the starting point either
by his own efforts or with the as
sistance of battings by those OF his
henchmen who follow him, 1t counts a
tally for his side or a score" II net,
Ii counts an outing. When on each
side there are three such outings, II
Is an inning.
From the lucid description we
easily see that baseball is a contest
of surprising address, end calculated
to excite enthusiasm and curiosity as
TO the outcome of the innings as
we'll as TO the income of the cutters.
SOMETIMES SUCH A CONTEST is
PROLONGED INTO THE GLOAM-
ING WITHOUT A RESULT.
Then we HE homeward TO read
what has transpired in the evening
journals OF the day, and learn, what
we had already suspected while view
ing the same, that:
"We would have spiked the scalps
OF the Green Sox to cur barn door
with brass-headed tacks had not
Schnitzenbender purveyed his GUS
tonary Whit at cruical moment
when a mere boys size swat would
have pushed in two of our horny-hand-
ed huskies who were stranded on the
sachet bags waiting for transportation.
The argument remained deadlocked
until the adamant arbitrator yawned,
wound up the clock and sent all hands
to the shucks on account OF dark
ness"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
From Another Point of View

to tell the Elks enjoy themselves
GOV Conner Of
being goner
in
crow?
Chicago Johnson alderman
ca conn his ward
looksi like under conditions
Grummondave. advetises
hss, We presume, the cuspdor
# J. Corbett the pugl
OF the calling
Writer is to he in
1hntb from m
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
NEXT.

The country turns now to the cleo
ton OF a new congress. So far as
there is single issue involved. that
issue is the tariff. The Payne-Aldrich
bill became law on Aug. 5, 1909. III,
on that day, a plebiscite had been TAX
en-, nineteen-twentieths OF the Ameri-
can people would have condemned 1t.
Since then. the law certainly has not
grown in popularity. If the elections
next November do not constitute a re-
buke to the party which passed the
present tariff, IL will be either because
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
THE MOTHERS HELP.

BY Percy Shaw.
The mother bird
Sat on her nest,
Three email children
Under her breast,
An aeroplane
With swish and whir ..
Swept into distance
Over her.
Straightway she chirped
In her own bird tongue,
Things were not thus
When | was young.
IL really seems
My marriage VOW
Will set a trifle
Lighter now.
my children. look;
When you want 10 fly,
Watch the men folks
Sail the sky.
As a mothers helper,
IL seems TO me
This things the prize
or the century"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09


General washington had just Cross
ed the Delaware and was about to
land.
Just a moment. please" he said.
,, Before this thing proceeds further l
want to inform you that | will expect
53.7 per cent of the receipts from the
fight pictures"
After some further haggling over
the royalties, the fight went on.
The population OF japan Is so dense
that every average tract OF 40 cult
waited acres supports 142 persons, be-
sides seven horses and other i've
stock.
Say. old man, want some advice.
I'm in love with a girl, but | don't
know how to find out what she thinks
Of me-"
That's easy. Marry her and inside
OF a month she will tell you most en-
phatically just what she thinks OF
you"
The first bale of the cotton crop OF
1910 sold in Houston, Tex, at pubic
auction for 1915.
DO you remember that Amy Corn
snoogles got a needle In her waist
two years ago? Where do you think
IL came out?"
"Where?"
1T worked itself out CT the arm OF
young Ezra Husker, living two miles
down the road"
About one In ten letters passing
through the Russian postoffice Is open
ed on general principles.
Sir" said the youth, II am In love
with your daughter and she says that
she loves me-"
Lets see," said the father. you
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
TOO EMPTY.

Bonney (morning of the second day
outcome. old boy, let's go out on
deck. Breakfast won't be served for
half an hour yet, and a brisk walk
on ali empty stomach will do you
good
Klabber (feebly trying TO smile)-
Take a walk on yours, II you like
chappie Mine isis entirely toe
empty-Chicago Tribune.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

Gayly humming a merry roundelay,
Lionel Leatherlung, the popular ly-
ceum lecturer, stuffed hunk OF sick
limburger cheese in the pistol pocket
of his pants.
Twill make a pleasant lunch when
the audience has ceased applauding
my talk" whispered Lionel to himself,
as he strobe before the footlights.
Even as he held the mighty multi
tude breathless with the beauty Of his
words, Lionel reached behind him to
draw forth his handkerchief Not
visiting what he did, he grabbed some
thing soft, pulled 1t out and
(The End
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
MOST ANYTHING

met her down at the summer resort,
didn't your"
Yes, sir. I did
"Oh, well, then. IL it's merely one OF
those summer resort affairs it's all
right. feared II might be serious"
T. r. says his bill for postage In
about $4,000 q year. That means $780,
600 two-cent stamps a year, or sos
stamps to lick every day The rest or
his time Is devoted to the solution of
the country's pressing issues.
The military education OF every
Russian army officer costs 1880.
Say. BERTHE, I'm In a heap Of
trouble"
What's the matter, Cholly"
After proposing to Miss Stunger
| seven times as a matter Of form, she
has finally consented to marry me-"
England's total exports and imports
for the past four years are valued at
$21 ,S75, 100000.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09


the suppression the films be the initial toward
ruzhcaton put public Its
abiding play good
IT, however fight pictures alone under ban which
cognance the effect the exception of all that is
Questionable filthy century drama fail
+ b detect the point OF reasoning the justice in
any newspaper gave page
opinions experts recording slightest detail
hg camps daily illustrations including the mugs of the principals
4 hundred times cast the first stone
Let guilty printing the story of the fight by rounds
faithfully record the number of times that the pugs spit blood
not be shown
the authorities decide that the pictures should banished they
D also decide against the giving publicity to these
nh affairs both before and after and the authorities will find
Az one, their side and cooperating faithfully
question morals stop made consistently,
ne reproduction meeting bru being
e the public with analysis the leading psyhOuses and by the
leading actors of the country
There would be good prohibiting the pictures from
ne standpoint Of feeling existing.
We readily appreciate that South instance would be
dangerous exhibit them They altogether that
cons great problem
We doubt very much would any boodshed up this way
At for can't why there should be-
looks black had fooled lot OF white
mm at their game
We always did like the fellow picked on,
Johnson didn't urge this matter
THE WHITE SIDE MADE him FIGHT.
going country breaking speed and
hare but paying his fine time and mnding his business when
white promoters told him they had who could lick him, and
pulled him into the ring
yesterday greeted old nanny Chicago home which
e viii anybody washing with smiles and
tears and had brought home the bacon which
rings him somewhat from the plane Of white fighter
We don't believe there would be any riots in Detroit
whites who would have
tart the not if there
We don't believe that the citizen of Detroit to disn
Suish between brutes the side of color.
themselves cassed follow
the noble about ready conced recall Dixon Wal
Cans the worlds heavyweight championship in
Johnson questioned Langod also cooed that
IN the prize ring belongs to the Negro.
The fight pictures would believe emphasize and
the dissertation of natal day and the victory black
ora sounded the death kn pugism
mixed American sport
Bring pictures encouraged the smuggling
nnsbity witness deness white falling under the
blows o q black burly and get their fill of it
time may the Almighty be praised before there will
" any Of them.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

the people have short memories or
because the machinery for expressing
the popular will is so complicated that
it bafiles the average voter. Neither
condition Is likely. When the Chicago
Tribune" took its poll Of editors west
OF the Allegheny Mountains, asking
them whether they were for or against
the Payne-Aldrich tariff, 1t found that
even among editors OF Republican
papers only S12 supported the tariff,
while 1855 were against it.-Mark
Sullivan in Golfers.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

Playing baseball is quite easy TO do.
All that Is required is a commodious
lot close 10 neighborhood which OBJ
jects to the noise, and is participants
to dispute the mastery and the UNI
pire. The ball, spherical object en-
cased In leather, may be regarded a
necessary adjunct to the game.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
THE SCIENCE OF KNOWING.

Next TO knowing what is true comes
knowing what isn't true.--New Haven
Times-Leader.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

That civil service board failed TO
upset the 10 commandments In Cleve-
land. Fred Kohler IL still chief Of po-
lice. and the golden rule stu rules.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

zrery day somebody discovers
1,e way to make a fool of himself
[hIcaeo Record-Eeraid.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

E,nnioycs or kosher bakeries ~
IrnfY large city IN the United States
.01 Canada are being organized into
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

Travellers can now make the trip
from Buenos Aires TO Valparaiso in
about 30 hours through the Trans
Andean tunnel.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
Zertaln Sections
Whence Fight Pictures :
Should Not Be Opposed

ror Instance, From Newspapers
That oave Their Front Pages
20 Columns Of Detail and
Pictures, Besides - And
Why suppress the
Fight Pictures Alonef
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
WHEN Is AN
EAR NOT
ITS OWNERS.

Thus the
picked that
machine
on by think
exhibit OF
n him and he
indeed element had been entirely
carried on to Wash
with authorities IL
that belonged
family
who had
the
perfectly
n to II
removed II
atogeth o
the reunion Of Frazer with
(Cries OF Earl Ear!)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
Saturday. July 9.
1910
OBSERVATIONS

to of Buffalo
n a o steamship
a employing
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

A two-fold object Is claimed by
those who are responsible for the agi-
tation that has been started for the
suppression of the moving pictures Of
the prize fight.
They are opposed from q moral
standpoint and, also, through fear
that they will excite race feeling and
lead to riot and bloodshed.
On the moral side, permit us to
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

The military education of every
Russian army officer costs 1880.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09


,S Let out OF this joint. want that ear and I'm
going to get and fellows who copied IL from
- II belongs me. don't II somebody did make
n Coulby a present OF II. II amt his for keeps"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

General Washington had just cross
ed the Delaware and was about TO
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-31
White Wife in Her New Nevada Home
Discusses Suit for Divorce
Against the Japanese
F+IVE LOST HUSBAND-GAINED BABY
think of It. at % I'm Pioneer Mother of Race
Problem, Declares Recent Bride as She
WeepS Over Her Little Girl
By HARRY DAVIDS
I Special Dispatch to The Gail ]

ARSON the broken threads of her lost
Emery daughter of Archdeacon
church wife of
phoopc
feminine it
tolerance striking hues of sngng cyncism and
logic and 1t is
after she had expounded it.
rather spoiled the effect of her
intellectual pouring food of love
tenderness her
the peexng international question
in knowledge books and
the of her
obtaining piece laugh from another
whim the
precision
display
whole but
brilliant intellectually hight
hopeessness Her mind refuses be
foies of her youth The vgor
vitality forces her to battle against the deadenn
sore wounded heart she stiles with
rufhI reason said
% old! 1t is not the fashion of % to
submit TO defeat
No Mercy Asked
PHILOSOPHERS Of this instance there is sign of pggsh
fboant conce Of blood She
6xrlained:
pharasaca thanks
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-31
CARS PACKED WITH PICNIC
CROWDS CRASH ON CURVE
AND MANGLE PASSENGERS
Conductors Negligence in Observing
His Signals Sends Two to Death
And Mains Forty
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

AKLAND May 30Two men are dead and 20 other persons
are either fatally injured manned for life seriously
the result of headon collision between speeding
80 o'clock this morning Fruvae heights the Leona heights
line of the California electric railway
On the shoulders OF according the officials
railway company the blame for terrible tragedy has
blghted of homes W. Holdor conductor
which with terrific impact said by these officials
admitted that his negligence alone made the accident possible
have accepted the awful burden Of responsibility.
CRASH ON SHARP CURVE
With unexpectednes that prevented all but the slightest
realization OF the impending calamity the heavy crowded
crashed together sharp canyon threquas
mile west OF California railway junction Fourteenth
Fuitvale Men, and children hurled manged
bleeding the ground the sptered
the outbound and carried with helpless condition.
backward l. 600 yards down grade without control.
Saddes of all the features connected with the accident
the mSming of nearly young children Boys
girls OF whom yet their the majority
those injured in the crash Feet legs and
feed in the calamity and single instant these victims
doomed to remain cripples for life
Metomaa Ga Ghrssnsou charge es the outbound CT -
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-31
GOULD JR. TRIES
10 CENT LODGINGS
Millionaire's Son Runs Away
From School and Lands in
Police Station

BRITAIN, Conn.,, May 3o.-Edwin
Gould Jr., son of Edwin Gould Of
Ardsley-on Hudson. and grandson
of the late Jay Gould, was found in
the street here early today and taken
to the police station. Young Gould ran
away from school In Pomfret Center
Friday and arrived here footsore and
weary. His grandmother, Mrs George
Shrady of New York, is on the way
here.
policeman Patrick Quirk was at
tracted to the youngster as he limped
along the street. The boy gave his
name and said he wished to have his
grandmother notified
The officer took Gould, who is 16
years old, to the station, where. after
a nap, he told the story of his advsn-
lures. He said he had been at the
Pomfret school for three months and
had got homesick. His parents had
promised to run UP and see him week
ago yesterday, but when they did not
come he concluded he would try to
walk to New York. He had rs cents
On Friday afternoon he struck out in
the general direction of New York
Friday night he arrived at Willimantic
and found a place to sleep near the
railroad station. He said hs did not
mind sleeping in the open. He got
hungry, though. On Saturday Gould
said he walked all day, making about
SO miles, and reaching Hartford at
night He went to Is cent lodging
house. Young Gould said
They put me in room with six or
seven colored men who were not clean
That was bad enough, but when I got
into bed ] found six or seven other
things there. I could not stand 1t. I
1T -
guess I went in circles Sunday even
Ing | went into farm somewhere near
a city, but the farmer turned me out.
Then kept walking and kept on going
until an officer spoke to me and took
me to the station house"
The police received word that Gould.
the lads father, was at Pomfret school
this morning and upon learning of his
sons absence started back toward New
York
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-31
FIREMEN OVERCOME,
BUT NONE IS KILLED
Score of Flame, Fighters Suffer
at Blaze in Denver

DENVER, Colo. May 30.-While try
ing to rescue persons from a burning
building late this afternoon a score or
more fremen and volunteers were over
come by smoke and were with difficulty
themselves rescued alive.
The most seriously afflicted is Ches-
ter Campbell, truck driver, who suf-
fered from convulsions~ caused by the
smoke. Among the firemen who were
overcome were Chief Terry Owens, AS
sistant Chief HALEY and Captain Louis
Goodman. E. r. Copeland. who was
aiding the fremen, fell into the burning z
building and was carried out barely in
time to save his life.
The fire, which ragged for more than
an hour in the wholesale grocery house
of Spratlin & Anderson, caused loss of
100000. The upper floors of the build
ing were used as a storehouse by the
International harvester company.