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

Every automobilist knows that when
his car approaches a hen, instead OF
calmly stepping To the side OF the
road and safety, III nine cases out OK
ten she runs along ahead in hystertcal
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 1t often causes their
wholly needless death, the usual ex'
! PLANTATION of it 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.
II 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 flight 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
men mistake Is not IN running alOnB
the road, but In assuming that the au-
tomobile wants to catch her and will
do so II 1t can. That assumption Is a
perfectly natural one, and every living
hen is the descendant of innumerable
| generations of hens that acted upon
il exactly as she does. The other hens
did not have any descendants, and or
course their strain died out.
Certain particularly and abnormally
adaptable hens will in time develop a
different impulse Of flight, 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 II 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 a fox.
The chances Of that, however, are very
small. Had hens possessed such yer.
satility as that, even in a potential
form, they would have ceased to be
hens long ages ago. The apes that
had II did.-New York Times.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

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 a
thousand. Napoleon at the summit OF
his power did not carry an equal num-
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 Is consider.
ably greater than an army OF 1000, 900
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 e 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 midwlnter
Il SHOULD unfold tale OF human for
titude and human suffering TO which
Il would make the heart bleed to
listen.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

General Washington had just cross
ed the Delaware and was about to
land. y.
Just a moment. please" he said
Before this thing proceeds further
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 live
stock.
Say, old man, want some advice.
I'm in love with a girl, but l don't
know how to find out what she thinks
Of me-"
That's easy. Marry her and inside
of month she will tell you most EN-.
phatically just what she thinks OF
you"
The frst bale OF the cotton crop OF
1910 sold in Houston, Tex, at public
auction for 1875.
DO you remember that Amy Corn
snoogles got a needle in her waist
two years ago? Where do you think
II came out?"
"Where?"
"It worked itself out Of 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, Il 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
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 to attain
the successive corners OF a quad
rilateral arrangement Of pathways in
a circuitous manner before the ball
shall have been handled in manner
to preclude II. Should he accomplish
return TO 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 score" II net,
1t 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:
1--WE would have spiked the scalps
OF the Green Sox to cur barn door
with brass-headed tacks had not
Schnitzenbender purveyed his GUS
tomary Whit at crucial 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 Eks enjoy themselves
Gov Conner a runaway
BEING
The latest in many
before crow?
Chicago
tcac complexion OF his ward
under conditions.
Qrumm
4as. we presume, looked in the cuspdor
Corbett the is
Of the calling
Is cross he in
n,t be surprised shortly column
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 a law on Aug. 5, 1909. II,
on that day, 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. II the elections
next November do not constitute 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

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 who
is not on the other side, armed with
a weighty stick OF wood. To him the
pitcher serves a ball TO strike at with
the bludgeon. The ball, possessing as
It 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
THE MOTHERS HELP.

BY Percy Shaw.
The mother bird
Sat on her nest,
Three small children
Under her breast,
An aeroplane
With swish and whir
Swept into distance
over her.
Straightway she chlrped
In. her own bird tongue,
Things were not thus
When | was young.
Il really seems
My marriage vow
Will set a tTifle
Lighter now.
my children. look;
When you want 10 fly,
Watch the men folks
Sail the sky,
AS a mothers helper,
II seems 10 me
This things the prize
OF the century"
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. did
"Oh, well, then, II 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 Is
about $4,000 year That means $780,
600 two-cent stamps a year, or 695I
stamps to lick every day. The rest of
his time Is devoted to the solution oil
the country's pressing issues.
The military education of every
Russian army officer costs 1880.
Say, BERTHE, I'm in a neap of
trouble"
What's the matter, Cholly?"
After proposing to Miss Stungerl
seven times as a matter of form, sheI
has finally consented to marry me-"
England's total exports and imports
for the past four years are valued at
s21. s75, 100000.
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 Tor
half an hour yet. and a brisk walk
on al empty stomach will do you
good
Klabber (feebly trying to smile)-
Take a walk on yours, If you like,
chappie. Mine isis entirely too
Tribune.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
Certain Sections
Whence Fight Pictures
Should Not Be Opposed
Fer Instance, From Newspapers
That Gave Their Front Pages
20 Columns Of Detail and
Pictures, Besides - And
Why suppress the
Fight Pictures Alone7

suppression the films be the initial toward
phcaon put before the public for its entertainment in
udng play well good and wish the movement
cesl
IT. however fight pictures under ban which
cOgnzance morals exception of all that
bconabe filthy twentieth century drama fail
70 point reasoning the justice in it.
newspaper front page the
opinions experts recording slightest detail from the
daily illustrations including the of the principals
8 hundred times OF more the first
newspaper guilty printing story fight by rounds
faithfully record the number of times that of the spit blood
preach the pictures should
not be shown
the pictures should be banhed they
also decide against the for giving publicity these
affairs will find
Tor one, their side cooperating faithfully.
question stop be made consistently at
reproduction meeting butes while being
public oral leading pyhouse and by the
leading actors of the country
good prohibiting pictures
u the standpoint o feeling existing
readily appreciate would be
dangerous They altogether that
aions great problem
We very any bloodhed up this way
At for can't why there should be-
men at their game
We always did like the fellow who picked win
johnson didn't urge this
THE WHITE SIDE MADE FIGHT
going country breaking speed and
% but paying his fine time and mndng his business when
white promoters told him they had who could lick him. and
pulled him ring.
And yesterday greeted his old the Chicago home which
h viii have leave anyboys washing with smiles and
brought bacon which
brings him somewhat from the plane of white fighter
We don't believe there would be any riots in Detroit
say whites who would have
tart the riot if there
don't believe average citizen of Detroit to dtin
kuish between brutes the side of color
the noble game about ready concde they recall Dixon Wal
and find the worlds heavyweight championship
questioned Langfod coOred that supremacy
b the prize ring belongs to the Negro.
fight pictures would believe emphasize this fact and
public thereby aiding the good work that
dissertation natal day and the victory of black
gorilla over death kne of pugim a recog
mixed American sport.
Bring pictures and those who encouraged the uggng
nsensy defensee white falling under the
blows O black burly, and get their I'LL of it.
It win time may Almighty be praised before there will
he any of them
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09

Gayly humming a merry roundelay,
Lionel Leatherlung, the popular ly.
cenm lecturer, stuffed hunk Of sick
limburger cheese in the pistol pocket
Of his pants.
Twill make 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 Enid
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 TO a 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

That civil service. board failed 10
upset the 10 commandments in Cleve-
land. Fred Kohler is still chief OF po-
lice. and the golden rule still rules.
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
II battles the average voter. Neither
condition Is likely. When the Chicago
Tribune" took it's 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 2,6S6 were against it.-Mark
Sullivan in Golfers.
Travellers can now make the trip
from Buenos Aires TO Valparaiso in
about 80 hours through the Trans
Andean tunnel.
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

....nsnxcs Of kosher bakeries in
...-- l.<to city IA the United States
r.nada are being organized into
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
OBSERVATIONS

the outcry Edward Frazer seaman who In Buffalo
which
Coulby president steamship
a employing
Frazers indignant
~ OF this joint that and I'm
II fellows who copied
IL beong to
4 Couby "A it, amt his for keeps
apprsed had
picked that he
think 1t
exhibit
sensible
him. something
kindred
in IN and lie
entirely
the
the government IL
belonged
The interest all conferred
his threatened iost
the ear was
precedent that makes the
personally when II belongs In
site tina it,
altos Their o overlook this.
his dage; (Cries OF Ear! EarD
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 a 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

union men; listen
Let me out
going to get II n
IL belongs to me.
Coulby "A present
l-toaI nunar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
PECK SMOKES AT COLUMBIA
Also Reads Novels, Since Class
ical Work Is Forbidden.

Professor Harry Thurston Peck spent the
greater part OF the day yesterday at his
Office in the East Hall, Columbia Univer-
sity.
Although I am suspended for the time
being he remarked last night 81 am still
Antnon professor of Latin literature All
the suspension means is that I must not at
tend TO any academic duties. can go over
to my Office and read novels or smoke Gig
arettes. but I suppose if I were to read up
my classics that would be against the rul-
ing urder which I am suspended. OF
course. my academic duties for the year
were finished on June 1.
Does the suspension mean the stopping
Of your salary as professor?'
No. sir, it does not If 1t did, that
should have been stated in the resolution.
and no reference is made to it. There will
be nothing done before the autumn, when
the trustees reassemble. Then the whole
thing will be thrashed out This Quinn suit
will be tried or dismissed by that time, and
then [ do not see what charges can be
brought against me, as I am confident that
the trustees will not take the ground that
a man who has served the university faith
fully and well for twenty-eight years is to
be dismissed without & hearing on a ridic-
ulous charge like that made by Miss Quinn
In her suit"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
BIG VOTE FAVORS STRIKE
Think Cloakmakers Likely to Go
Out Before Order Is Issued.

An official canvass Of the vote of the
Brotherhood of Cloakmakers on the ques-
ton of a general strike made by the ex-
ecutive committee of the union yesterday
showed that 1871 ballots were cast for and
$50 against a strike. 1t was estimated that
from six thousand to seven thousand ar
rived at the polls too late to cast their
ballots.
The strike committee Of forty-fve. it was
stated, will issue the demands to the fifteen
hundred manufacturers to-day, and then
the executive committee will fix the date
for the strike. It was thought there was
a possibility that the cloak1nakers would
leave the factories without waiting for a
strike order when the result of the strike
ballot was announced.
Abraham Rosenberg. president Of the IN
ternational Women's Garment Workers
said last evening that more manufacturers,
with the view Of heading off a strike, had
discharged their employees and closed down
temporarily.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
HIGHER PAY FOR TRAINMEN
The Increases Granted in Southeastern
Territory.

Washington, July IF. P. Curtiss, vice
president OF the Order Of Railway Con-
ductors, has announced the basis Of in
crease Of pay to be given to conductors,
fagnen, brakemen and travelling baggage
masters of railroads in southeastern ter
ritory involved in the controversy just set
tied by the n1ediators under the Erdman
act. The increases will be allowed in two
instruments. The first was dated back to
take effect from July and the other is to
go into effect on April 1, 1911. The follow
ing is the increased new scale on the basis
of one hundred miles:
Conductors Of passenger trains from 81 20
to 81 80, and on April l, 1911, to be raised
to 81 rs
Travelling baggage masters from 81 10 to
81 35 and later to be raised to 81 So
Passenger fiagrnen and brakemen from 81
to 81 so, and later to be raised to 81 80.
Conductors Of through freights from s. Is
to So So, and later to be raised to So Is.
Brakemen and fagmen on through
freights from 81 rs to 81 IS, and later to be
raised to 81 so.
Conductors on local freights from s. so to
s. Is and later to be raised to 81 Is.
Brakemen and fagnen on local freights
from 81 80 to 81 So, and later to be increased
TO s. Is,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
CHICAGO ELEVATED MERGER
n. A. Blair Says Banking Conditions
Here Have DELAYED Financing.

Chicago. July 4-Henry A Blair, who is
trying to merge the elevated railroads of
Chicago, returned from New York yester-
day, where he has spent the last two weeks
in conference with Eastern bankers who
are to finance the deal. Though confident
that there will be no hitch that will inter
fere with his plans, the merger negotiations
have been temporarily delayed because of
the condition of the money market.
Last night one of Mr.. Blair's legal adj
visers gave out a statement. in which he
said:
Conditions in the financial market dur
ing the last week have caused Mr.. Blair to
delay negotiations for a short time. as he
considers that in deal of this size more
favorable money conditions should be at
hand in order that he may be able to real
ize better prices and less expensive rates
of interest in financing the proposition Ac-
cordingly he has arranged to return to New
York on Thursday of this week. by which
time il is hoped, banking conditions will
have become more settled and will permit
of a more favorable contamination of the
Olau."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
MORE QUEENS INDICTMENTS
High Officials Expected To Be Involved
When Grand Jury Ends Recess.

Before the end of the present week IL Is
expected that the Queens County Graho
Jury, which has been Investigating charges
of corruption against public orfcialS III
that borough, will bring in several lndlcc-
ments involving officials high in the affairs
of that borough. 1t was thought that these
indictments would have been returned De-
fore this, but, owing TO the death or ire
father OF Henry T. Weeks, foreman OF the
grand fury. last week, that body adjourned
until tomorrow
At the time they took the recess they
had under investigation the charges made
public by Commissioner of Accounts Eos
dick, who charged that despite d warning
from Municipal Justice Alfred E. Denton
who was then acting as Commissioner OF
Public Works of Queens. Borough Presi-
dent Gresser signed vouchers for certain
contract work in which former Under
Sheriff John NJ Phillips was interested, and
which cost the city in the aggregate S4,OOo-
It was alleged that this was much more
than the work was actually worth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
FIRE SCARE IN HOSPITAL
Smoke from Nearby Blaze
Alarms Post Graduate Patients.

Doctors and nurses had their hanos Iuli
for half an hour last night caiihihs INC
patients in the Post-Graduate f1oSpi.a'
during a fire In the adjacent ouiloins' w.
s54 Second avenue
when the smoke from the burning build
ing porred into the upper wards OF the
hospital three convalescents were so oadly
frightened that they left their beds on Ihe
third floor and fed down the fire escapes
on the 10Th street side They reached tiie
street In safety, but few minutes id'ei
they were taken back to their ward
The fire started in restaurant OH 'Ho
ground floor while two paperhansers were
at work there 1t swept up through 'ne
small brick structure, but did not exteho 10
the neighborfng building and soon yieldeo
to the efforts Of the flremen, but not untii
it had filed the hospital with smoke ana
so caused a near-panic among the pa
tents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
FOURTH WEARIED PRESIDENT
Chief Executive Had Stirring Inde
pendence Day in Boston.

Boston, July 4.-President Taft spent q.
busy Independence Day in Boston and the
three adjacent cities of Everett, SomerviIIe
and Cambridge. Motoring up from Bev-
erly he made a hurried call at Everett,
where he saw a thousand school children.
Continuing to Somerville he reviewed
typical Fourth of July parade only to have
his enjoyment of the day somewhat marred
upon learning Of the death of Chief JUS
tice Fuller. During the day he found op-
portunity of expressing his grief over the
nations loss and sent a message of con-
dolence to the family.
Hurrying into this city he saw Boston's
effort toward a safe and sane" Fourth,
and Endorsed the movement in a character
istic speech in which he expressed the hope
that 1t would spread throughout the Union.
After luncheon at the City Club he
rlotored to Cambridge, where he was the
guest for an hour of President Lowell OF
Harvard His speech to the National Ed
ucatfon Association in the Harvard Sta
dunn closed the public day. and ii was
somewhat tired official that climbed the
steps OF the summer capital at Beverly at
shutdown tonight