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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
ELECTRIC WIRES
TAKE TWO LIVES
Babe Electrocuted in Home and 49,
Year-0ld Boy Meets Death While
Swinging on Broken Guy.

Death In the guise OF an electric
current has broken two family circles
within as many days. Lloyd Long
worth Cleveland. eight-months-old son
OF Grover K. Cleveland, No. 20 Elm-st.,
Is the latest victim. Playing with an
electric cord that connected with u
reading lamp, In his home, Sunday
morning. his tiny fingers touched an
exposed end OF the wire. At the same
time he CHANGED TO place his other
hand on a radiator close at hand, thus
forming a short circuit. Death was
instantaneous. Mr.. Cleveland had
left the little boy playing with his
twin sister, Mildred, but few min
utes previously. About 100 volts
passed through the child's body.
John Schramm, 13-years-old, Of No.
1345 Medbury-ave.. was electrocuted.
Saturday evening. while swinging on
broken guy wire that hung from an
electric light pole at Frontenac and
East Grand Boulevards. The wire
had been broken for several weeks
and children Of the neighborhood had
swung on II until the wire. II Is sup
posed, wore the insulation off the
feed wire with which II came In con.
tact. When John swung on 1t he re-
ceived a full force Of about 1900
volts. The body was discovered by
Arthur Laycock, an employe OF the
Packard Motor Car Co. The victim
was the son Of Charles Schramm, an
oil dealer. Fourteen years ago. Mr..
and Mrs. Schramm's son Kirby was
killed by a street car while return
ing from Sunday school.
Saturday morning, while riding
with his uncle J. e. Krieger, Of No.
ALB Waterloo-st., Johnnie Schramm
witnessed the killing of a child on
Jones-st., by a street car
II hope nothing like that ever hap
pens to u.s." he said
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
ALLEGED ASsAILANT NABBED.
jackson Girl Is Attacked by Man In
Deserted Section.

JACKSON, Mich, April "A man
VINO gave his name as Benjamin Bee
leg has been arrested in connection
With an assault made on Clara Verro,
%, daughter of John Verro. 1909
Mitchell-sr., in deserted part OF the
city, Sunday night.
Miss Verro had been visiting at the
home Of a friend on Page-ave., and was
on her way home She noticed a man
following her, but did not pay much
attention at the time.
As she started across the railroad
the fellow rushed up behind her, grab
hing her by the throat. She started
to scream, and the man threw her to
the ground striking her several times.
Rudolph Kapff and Joseph Macpink,
who happened to be passing by, rushed
to the girls aid, and the man jumped
tn his feet and ran. Kapff took after
the fellow and captured him after d
short chase.
The girl was taken to nearby house
and cared for.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
NEW BOOKS IN
PUBLIC LIBRARY

The following new books have been
received in the Detroit public library:
r. w. Alexander, "Alexander's Writ
ings On Practical Bee Culture; Fred
A. Baker. Duration OF Municipal Street
Grants" Alexander NJ. Broadley. Doc
tor Johnson and Mrs. Thrale;" Fred j.
Brownscombe," state Control OF Courses
OF Study" Ernest A. Bulge, The Book
OF Opening the Mouth" ancient lore OF
Egypt; Richard G. Cabot, Social Ser
vice and the Art Of Healingi" Charles
F. Dole. The Ethics OF Progress
Richard H. Edwards, poverty; A. 70.
Garrett. The Periodic Law" Charles
J. Holmes. Notes On the Science OF
Picture Making" W. S. Ibbetson, The
DRY and Practice OF Electric Wiring;
Edward " Lucas, "A Wanderer in
Paris" F.. Rausenberger, Theory OF
the Recoil OF Guns with Recoil CYL
Roads. Tar Macadam;" Charles Sickle,
The Church and Labor" Chung Hu
Wang, Anthony. Its History. Chem
istry, Etc" James Winran, Violin
Playing and Violin Adjustment" Chas;
Il. woodruff, Expansion OF Races.
olive M. Briggs. The Fir and Palm"
Warrington Dawson, The Scar" ro-
nance OF the new south; Clarence Il.
Milford, "Hopalong Cassidy" Henry B.
Newbolt, THE New June" an English
story; Mary l. Taylor, caleb Trench;
Marie Van Worst, The Girl from His
Town"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
CORONER PROBES DEATH.
Conductor J. L. Carey's Body Found
Beside Michigan Central Tracks.

Coroner Bennett Is investigating
the death of John l.. Carey. Michi-
gan Central yard conductor. whose
body was found lying beside the
tracks near the Roosevet-ave. cross
ing. at 8 o'clock Sunday morning.
Mrs. Carey, who lives on Beaver-st,
recently instituted divorce proceed
ings against her husband, and less
than two weeks ago. obtained an or
der from Judge Murphy. restraining
Carey from molesting her, or her
child.
In spite of the estrangement, Mrs.
Carey called at the county morgue,
Sunday night. and claimed the body,
stating that she would take charge OF
the funeral arrangements.
Railroad men. who identified the
body, are at loss to explain how
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
ITALIAN DRAWS GUN.
Fires Three Shots At Family Group
In Back Yard.

Mrs. Lottie Lepine. of No. 1872 st.
Antoine-st., her two nieces. Lucine
Lepine and Alice Keith. and Fred
Ross, visitor. were the targets for
three shots, fired point blank at them
by an Italian. who. with four of his
countrymen, had jeered at the quar-
tet as they sat in the back yard OF
Mrs. Lepine's residence. Sunday noon.
The five Italians made insulting re-
marks as they walked through the
alley. and Ross called out to them to
cut II out"
One of the Italians drew a revolver
and started shooting. One bullet
missed Miss Lucine's head by barely
an inch. and during the fusillade, the
party in the back yard. stampeded
into the house. No one was injured.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04

Latin-American countries and the
Orient were the chief contributors to
the s100.000,000 worth of hides and
skins imported by the United States
last year.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
CThe End.)

More than 200.000,O00 gallons OF
vodka are consumed in Russia every
.rear. there being more than 5000
breweries and over 27,C00 shops for
It's sale.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04

Something of a philosopher was
Otto Hugensen, the mammoth Swede.
While at work he unused over the
ways and wherefores OF life.
1T ban no use taking" he reflected
one day, keeping everlastingly at IL
ban brang sooccess."
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04

Carey met his death. A switch engine
passed the crossing at 4:30 o'clock,
and It Is thought possible that 1t may
have run Carey down.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
HIS DIsTRUsT.

Insurance Man: Well. | don't know.
I'm sort OF chary about having auto
mobile fire engines introduced.
Friend: Why?
Insurance Man: The flremen might
get ratified some night and pump gaso-
line on the fire instead OF water.
Fifty-seven unmarried persons COM
nit suicide to 43 married.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04

A web flament two and one-quarter
miles long has been taken from the
body OF a single spider
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
GOOD, HONEST, SQUARE-DEA|

Dr. R. of Buffalo,
IN prescribing them largely they do
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
THEN 1T HAPPENED"

(our Daily Discontinued story)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21

denying w. R. Hearst and his news
papers their prerogatives. They've
been printing editorials of late to the
effect that they secured to this nation
the right to fortify the canal. These
editorials intimated that Mr.. Hearst
and his papers would see to it that
the canal is fortified. And the people
generally are probably of mind to
let the Hearst forces go ahead with
their great work. What's the use of
taking millions from the federal cof-
fers for work that private parties
moved by an enterprising public spirit
are willing to undertake? In all Sc
robustness, though, why not make the
Panama canal absolute neutral terri
tory? Then there will be no need for
any one to spend millions and millions
of dollars on its fortification.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
IN THE NUNS, GARDEN.

In the nuns garden lean the lilies slen-
der;
In the nuns garden crimson roses blow:
And many flowers, old fashioned, fair and
tender,
Along the paths in rich profusion grow.
But sweeter than the roses and the lilies
That fill with beauty all the gay par
terres,
The virgin flowers whose JOYOUS dutv
still is
To watt to God the perfume of their
prayers
In the nuns garden, weary of his va
GRANGE
Often the wanderer comes his woes to
plead,
For In that place of purity and fragrance
Are gentle hearts responsive to his need
There mercy dwells amid the crimson
roses:
There no one knocks upon the gate in
vain;
For. like the door of heaven. it never
On human sorrow or on human pain
der
And many a flower adorns the gay par
terreS,
But sweeter far the souls so pure and
tender
Who watt to God the perfumes of their
prayers.
Denis A. Mccarthy. in the New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
PLAYING THE GAME.

One doesn't have to be a pessimist
to realize that in our national life we
have as grown men exactly the same
trouble we had as boys-that we are
all of us playing the game to win, and
that winning simply means overcoming
somebody else, write MCready Sykes
in the October Everybody's. The es-
sence of sport is really something very
different-to overcome difficulties of
time and space and all kinds of physi-
cal obstacles. Nature herself puts
plenty of difficulties n our way. The
man who first discovered that, with
sail closehauled and a rudder damned
hard against the opposing water, he
could sail almost into the wind must
have had one of the big primordial
thrills that come sometimes into the
hearts of men; he was advanced by
vast ethic intervals beyond the man
that had simply sailed his boat faster
than another man. For every winner
of race there must be a loser; and
when we shout ourselves hoarse at a
Yale Princeton football game it is not
so much because our team is nobly
acquitting itself or doing the thing that
is hard as because it is beating the
other team. So most of us become
''bleacher athletes sitting by and
watching the fight; and what counts
is not the game itself but the score.
1 wonder how much this is respon-
sible for the kind of game we play
when we are no longer boys, in after
life, when the whole point of the game
seems to be to beat some one else.
Suppose all of the Harriman's trans
cendent genius had been expended in
building up the best railroad system
that could be made, in vanquishing
time and space, and demonstrating
what could be accomplished by the
indomitable will and purpose and I'M
firing effort of the strong man.
Mightn't the net result have been
| something finer and better than Harri-
man ever attained, and mightnt he
have gone from earth with some finer
memory to take with him of the world
ne had lived In than the thought that
he had met Stuyvesant Fish and fought
| him and beaten him? Must a game be
| played for the sake of pelf?' as
/ Browning once asked. Can't our boys
| find something else to inspire them
than the hope of beating another boy !?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.7

We're gallant but we don't like to
crank automobiles for ladies.
You are always hearing of good fell
lows" but they are not very numerous.
Sometimes, when people put two and
two together, they get more than four
as result.
An Atchison young man is so lazy
that, instead of kissing his steady, he
makes her kiss him.
Time flies, all right, but it doesn't do
its flying when you are most anxious
that it should
A woman never feels very sorry
when a man kills himself for her. Had
she thought much of him, he wouldn't
have killed himself.
When a wife gets away on a trip
she expects her husband to write her
first, and write lot of good stuff she
can show the friends she is visiting.
An Atchison young man is going
with girl. His mother said to him
lately: She'll get you all wrought up,
as Cavalier did Mr.. Bob Chanler, AMI
rob you"
1t may be that women do not sus-
spect their husbands as much as they
seem to; that they merely think it is
a safe policy to keep the husbands
thinking they suspect.
If Colonel Roosevelt should recon-
mend patent medicine. everybody in
the world -ould take it; the few who
didn't take it voluntarily would have
their noses held, and compelled to.
Another thing that makes US tired
this talk about a man missing his
calling" When it is said a man ha
missed his calling" because he is no
account at whatever he does, it is a
sign he never had any.
People are always being advised to
use their spare time for this or that
purpose. Don't have any spare time;
devote all your energy to whatever
calling you are engaged in, and make
the higher walks of your line.
Atchison county people were insur-
gents this spring. They said there
would be no corn, and no apples, and
no wheat. But 10 and behold: this
fall, we are harvesting the best crop in
our history. (And it will turn out tina,
the old Republican party, which saved
the union, fought the rebellion to q
successful conclusion, and freed the
slaves is not so bad as has been rep
resented by the insurgents.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT.

Because neither President Taft nor
Colonel Roosevelt have rushed into
print with verbatim reports of the de-
tails of the recent conference they in
dulged in, certain brand of politi-
clans and newspapers are drawing the
conclusion that the good friendship
and harmony which has existed be-
tween the president and his predeces-
sor is strained. They think an open
rupture between the two most promi-
nent men in the nation is inevitable.
Their thoughts are fathered by their
wishes because they have an idea that
a real break between Taft and Roose-
welt would help their personal political
careers. Ever since Colonel Roose-
velt's speechmaking tour of the west
they have been declaring that his
speeches showed he had broken away
from Taft. But it was only the other
day that Colonel Roosevelt made a
speech in New York state in which
he gave the service of Mr.. Taft in the
presidential Office quite as strong an
endorsement as can possibly be given
it. On this occasion, it will be remem-
bered that Colonel Roosevelt said:
"The president of the United States,
Mr.. Taft, has served his country hon
orably and uprightly in many positions
AS judge, as governor of the Philip
pines, as secretary of war, and now as
president-for to him, and the con-
gress acting with him, we owe the
creation of a tariff commission; the
adoption of maximum and minimum
tariff law, treaties with foreign pow
ers, the proper treatment of the
Philippines under the tariff, the in
crease in the efficiency of the inter-
state commerce law, the beginning of
a national legislative program provid-
ing for the exercise of the taxing DOW
er in connection with corporations
doing an interstate business, a postal
savings bank bill, the constitution of
a commission to report a remedy for
overcapitalization in connection with
the issue of stocks and bonds.'
Many of the important accomplish
ments of President Taft, as outlined by
Colonel Roosevelt, concern the putting
into law of several pieces of progress
sive legislation which were advocated
by Mr.. Roosevelt and which are popu-
larly referred to as the Roosevelt
policies" When Colonel Roosevelt
was urging the nomination and cleo
ton of Mr.. Taft as his successor, he
repeatedly stated that he believed Taft
to be better fitted to whip these poll
cies'' into law than he was himself.
And he surely hasn't had any good
reason to change his mind in this par
ticular. Nor does it appear, in view
of his endorsement of Taft which is
quoted above, that he has changed his
mind.
No one is likely to be so simple
minded as to insist that the Taft adj
ministration has been perfect so far,
or that mistakes have not been made
by it. On the other hand, though, it
is we'll within the truth to insist that
the excellent accomplishments of the
Taft administration have been many
and great. More constructive legisla-
ton of the progressive type has been
created under the direction of Presi-
dent Taft during the first eighteen
months of his term than has been
placed on the federal statute books
during the previous dozen or score of
wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

Every good talker carries it too far.
1t doesn't take a brilliant man to
shine in society.
Optimism is sometimes due to lack
of experience.
Only an active and muscular man
can afford to lose his temper.
Many man gets stalled in business
because he lacks horse sense.
A good time doesn't always depend
on the price you pay for it.
Shortly after woman marries her
ideal she discovers that she didn't.
Being run over by an automobile is
apt to give a man that tired feeling.
When Eve told Adam just what she
really thought of him that was the
original rib roast.-
Don't run for office unless you are
willing to let the family skeleton es-
cape from the closet.
Isn't it queer how the man who
boasts of his intellectual independence
invariably agrees with a pretty
woman?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Few men can ride a hobby without
occasionally taking a tumble.
Unfortunately a tombstone inscrip-
ton isn't a passport to heaven.
A girl can't very well keep her pow
der dry If she is always crying.
Any bartender will tell you that to
be tagged is a signal of distress.
1t sounds hshy for a man to say he
will put his whole sole into anything.
do what other people claim is impos-
sible.
1t is possible to be a man of many
headed.
Few men are as black as they are
painted, or as immaculate as they are
whitewashed.
It's when a fellow is too fresh that
everything he says should be taken
with a grain of salt.
The fellow who Is always looking
for trouble is generally the one who Is
blind to his opportunities.
An old bachelor can never under
tered by telling her the baby resembles
her.
B1obbs-Guzzler says he only dr;nLs
whisky because he has weak Iuncs
Siobbs-Well, for man with veal
lungs Guzzler has a mighty stron1
breath.
Muggins-$Sub bubs doesn't seen, q,
Know what he wants in the wav -
religion; he goes from one church -
another Buggins-"Yes. he's = 80 -
ular steeple chaser"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
HUNOR or THE DAY

Hes mutt!' why. how is that; he's
nice looking and apparently very bright?
Bright nothing! That pretty Miss Stack
SOFT asked him to teach her to swim, and
he told her he couldn't because he didn't
know howl-Houston Post
AS Many Have Asked.-Dotty Dick (to
Jones, who has missed his globe five times)
What is the little white ball for. mister,
please.-The Taller
Disposing of It-Father Co his son, who
has fetched him some bcer)-You young
rascal! You've drunk half of II on the
way Son-Yes, father, you see 1t was
too heavy for me to carry ful.-Fiegende
Batter.
Corrected-First Woman-Look herei Did
you say 1 stole that tenner you lost? Sec
ond Woman-No, / didn't. / only said
that if you hadn't 'elped me to look for
it 1 might have found it.-Tit-Bits.
Not as Advertised.-Guide-Do there
through the cloud you can just see Italy.
thought it was in the shape of a boot
Journal Amusant.
II will say this for your place" remarks
the newly arrived scientist, cit is thor
oughly disinfected by natural Means
You think SOP" asks Mephisto. Ger
tainly Burning sulphur is simple means
of Sanitizing. Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
AYHAWKER JOTS

Women should have more modesty
than men, says the Jewell County Re-
publican, but they shouldn't have quite
all there is.
Miss Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg
News is of the opinion that most peo-
pie keep their consciences in the sub
conscious part of their brains.
Swat the bugs" is the latest war
cry to be sounded by the Emporia Ga
zette. 1t insists they are a million
times more annoying than the flies.
Cashier Flack ''got his start in En-
terprise, notes Charlie Blakesley, who
adds: And there is no doubt that he
took his enterprising ways with him
to Abilene"
The Salina Journal thinks that
Aviator Moissant, who took three
weeks to fly from Paris to London
must have received his engineering
training on the Missouri Pacific.
A Wakefield barber shop has been
selling tickets good for six baths for
one dollar. The Minneapolis Messen-
ger reports that the purchasers are
now hurrying to get the tickets used
up before winter sets in.
1t is reported by the Leavenworth
Labor Chronicle that "a Goosetown
Democrat whose hair is tinged with
gray and whose wide wealth of
shoulder blade has begun to stick up
ike a sore InuInD, says IL the country
goes Democratic he will ask some
shy young girl to be his wife. IL not,
he will go on down the stream of. time
with his suspenders hanging to one
button"
Two weeks ago a youth about IT
years of age went into the Union Pa
cific depot at Solomon, says the Trib-
une, and began gazing at the train
report blackboard. On the blackboard
was written: 'All trains on time Sept.
l." After studying the board a couple
of minutes the young man turned
around, frowning. "All trains on time
'cept one" he said. "I'll bet that
there one is the very one I came here
to meet"
man who has hardly been outside
his own township in eleven years
takes a trip to Kansas City or some
other big place, and on his return he
talks his acquaintances to sleep des-
cribing the great sights. Very prob
ably the listeners feel bored or anus
ed, and with an attitude of superior
knowledge let the talk pass over them
like rain off ducks back. That is
where they make a mistake and miss
some valuable information. The man
who does not see the city often takes
a thorough look while he can, where
as familiar eyes becme dulled and fail
to see what is before them. The wise
man can always profit by the eager
ness of the uniformed, and learn
from the questions of a child.-Min-
neapo1is Messenger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The individuals who make friends
easiest are generally least deserving of
them.
= y
Few are the men who do not think
they could shine in some other line OF
work.
\ !:
Perhaps if millinery were not so ex-
pensive the women would not give it
so much attention.
n
Persons who pose on their summer
vacations as being wealthy come out
of such dreams fast enough when they
get home.
4
Way down in their hearts, not many
men who are defeated for office have
much respect for the judgment of the
voters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
ArabeHa's Darling.

"Now, I wonder thought Alphonso.
what Arabella is doing at this precise
moment?"
(Arabella and Alphonso were mar
ried last May and Alphonso, being a
commercial traveller. was far from
home.)
"I wonder" he repeated. "what she
is doing?"
Then a brilliant idea struck him, and
he visited the nearest sciritualist me-
dunn.
what" said Alphonso. for the third
time, sis Arabella doing?"
"She is looking out of the window"
replied the medium, evidently expect
ing somebody"
''That is strange." said Alphonso.
Whom can she expect?"
"Ahi" continued the medium, some
one enters the house, and she caresses
him fondly."
'It can't bei' cried the excited hus-
band. my wife is true to me-
Now she lays his head on her lap
and looks tenderly into his eyes,
"Villain,' roared the Jealous hus-
band.
Now she kisses him.
Its false!' yelled Alphonso. "I'1l
make you pay dearly for this!"
The medium saw that he had gone
far enough.
Now he said, che wags his tall
T.it-Rits