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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-03
RACES AND GYMKHANA
FIRST DAY, March %, 1910

RACE ONE-One-quarter mile and repeat. for
qualified polo ponies. Top weight 170 pounds
of winner.
RACE TWO-Three- quarters OF a mile. for
galloways. Top weight 10 pounds, weight for
lncnes Cup TO winner. scarfpin 10 second.
RACE THREE-Ladies' plate. one mile over
six lights. Hurdle race for galloways. Three
1i0 pounds. weight for inches Ponies to be
nominated by ladies' First prize, silver cup; sec
ono prize, brooch. Cup to the rider Of the
New-York tribune., 1910-06-21
CALL STUDENT SLAYER
Police Cannot Find His Wife and
Baby.

1oroos+er Penn. June 2o-J. c. Grfce.
, r,en,bar of the senior class Of the Mil
JersviIle Normal School and resident OF
Sharpsburg, Md, was arrested mere las'
night on suspicion of having murdered his
wife and two-weeks-old baby Grlce Is
TWENTY-FIVE years old, and his wife, VINO
was Miss Ellen Dorsey, also of Sharps-
burg, is twenty years old.
The couple have been boarding in this
city. On Thursday evening Grice hired
carriage. saving he was going to take his
wife to the railway station to send. her
home The last seen of the woman and
the baby was when they entered the car
riase. A storm was raging at the time,
and neighbors expostulated with Grice
against going out in such weather. Grice
said It was none of their business.
His actions aroused the suspicious of the
neighbors and the police were notified. An
investigation disclosed that the woman did
not arrive at her home. The police say
they found that no one answering her de
scription got on the train, and no tickets
were sold that. night to Hagerstown or
Antietam. the points from which she could
reach her home.
Grice insists that he put his wife and
child on the train and sent. them home.
mere 10 SOLlS pci4els tAIS poAASS- say, tAicSN
Mrs. Grice is alive. Neighbors who saw
the couple enter the carriage say a pack
age or box was thrown into the vehicle.
They did not see the child.
While Grice lived with his wife here. his
marriage was not generally known. Some
time ago the school authorities promised
him scholarship at the Johns Hopkins
University provided he accomplished GER
tain work and this scholarship was earned.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-21

$1,000 would have to pay tax OF Sl9o upon I.s
it. It was because of precisely sucn ais-
ordinations as this that the f1rst Pr9
gressive Inheritance tax law. passea ~
Wisconsin in 1899, was declared uncopsti, ~
tutional, and while il perhaps cannot pe
claimed to be unconstitutional In TINS 800
such a state of affairs is certainly uhJo's
and to be avoided
The reservation by the Supreme court
of the United States of its decision upusi'
this important constitutional question an.
fords, in our opinion, controlling reason ,,
why the method which the supreme C9ue 31a
has declared to involve "prSefounaq sna why.
quality should not be adopted: anu Inei VIZ;
on the other hand. the method app ,la ~ ~, ~q
by the Supreme Court, and WHICH we NO"
advocate should be adopted nav
There is another reason, Whlcn We HSS
perhaps call sociological one, 1oI tue auTp ,isy
ton of the plan which we advocate, ns,1,
the calculation OF the tax upofi upsninient lent rather
than Upon the entire estate. The result 20. OF
this plan is to make the tax someWha ,nS5 80 .
severe where an s,a estate Is ai.,ni ,han in cases
where IL is left TO single legatee: !"
think 1t will be generally agreso sto,,Id
be widely distributed, and not hanoed oowd VA
to single recipient, to be 1ncredssu 80 an
constantly to grow 10 even +e5 e. the law of
primogeniture. We believe there dsrri Is
strong public opinion in favor OF . sns ot1 ~ -
sion of estates: We believe tnea o,r,y, sndefi
bV red,icing to some extent the tax 70 pc
ns IA tyhare a large estate is divided aIloilS
many recipients, will tend IN some lsoI,
OF Ieast IN the diffusion of the enormous
wealth which has been heaped up py sohio
of our more successful fellow citizens.
The introduction of the plan OF efauIds
the tax by the size of the estate IeduS
to these inequalities, and is IN our p4be
ion. a sufficient reason for changing @ eno
plan of computing the tax upon the en-
fire estate, which has existed In New
York for several years. For these reasoiiI, M ;,
therefore, YOUR commission recon1rnenoS
that the tax be assessed and computeu
upon the individual share receiVeu ia'iiei
than upon the whole estate
The approval of the bill which has passed
ths Legislature. with the inequalities IN
volved in the practical operation OF tie
law. would. I believe. lead to such generai
dissatisfaction as would speedily bring
a about its repeaI, even if it's validity were
upheld.
On the other hand the passage OF Dill
for a progressive inheritance tax, Win
suitable method of graduation which "ouio
anpeal to the common sense of harness.
might solve. in some degree, ana perhaS
altogether. the question of procuring the
needed increase in revenues. The extent 10
which il would afford additional income ls'
of course difficult to estimate with pre-
cision.
I do not wish to withhold from you the
of other means OF rdl9hls
revenue but submit to you the entre mat
ter. urging upon you the necessity OF max
ing immediate provision to meet the OUT
laws that have been authorized
CHARLES E. HUGHES
New-York tribune., 1910-06-21
MISS WARREN's LONG ROW
New York Woman Goes Out to Sea
Alone in Skif.
[By telegraph TO The Tribune. !

Newport. R. I, June 20.-AIiss Constance
Warren, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Henry Warren. of New York has stirred
Newport by her courage and strength dis
played on Sunday, when she rowed from
Hazard Beach to Sullivan's Wharf in this
city, a distance of four miles. It was a
long row. but that was not the feature that
has excited the admiration of the young
won1an's friends. It is that Miss Warren
made the trip alone in a fat botton1ed skifr
and that the route for part of the way is out
in the ocean. The day was fairly calm,
but the pillows were dashing angrily
against the ragged shore Miss Warren.
however. kept in the safe course. and was
none the worse for her experience when
she reached the wharf. She stepped into
her carriage ard drove to her fathers villa.
It was not till this afternoon that Miss
Warren's feat became known. and 1t was
the talk of all the cottage colony.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-21

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-21
VENDING HELD IN TEXAS
Indicted in Louisville-Governor
Stems Reouisition.

Louisville, June @.-The grand jury in
dicted Joseph Vending, the missing Louis
vile janitor, to-day on the charge Of muir
dering little Alma Kellner. Vending is
reported to be under arrest in Texas.
Governor Wilson issued a requisition at
Frankfort on the Governor of Texas Sat
urday afternoon for Vending, but 1t was
not made public until to-day According
TO advices received by the Governor de-
tective from Louisville has positively iden-
titled Vending in Texas
New-York tribune., 1910-06-21
MR.. TAFT OPENS EXPOSITION.

Detroit, June 2o.-In accordance with a
promise made on his recent visit here
President Taft at Washington tonight
pushed a button, formally opening De-
troit's Industrial exposition Thousands
Of electric lights strung aloug the river
were illuminated. The exhibits. It Is es-
tir1ated, exceed $780, 900 IN value.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-21
WIFE SHOOTS EDITOR TO DEATH.

Houston. Tex. June 20-A charge 0f
murder was preferred to-day against Mrs
T. z. Streight, Of McGregor, Tex, by
County Attorney Nef- Her husband vho
vas editor of THE =BEcGrezor News vas
shot and killed in his home on SATURDAY
aight Mrs Strefght says her husband
Ntacked her with a razor and that she
shot him to save her own life
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
The Old Mems Complaint.

There was no prodigal among the four Miller sons. now four rich old men who have met in reunion al Bridgeport, Conn. All of them pros pered. And they are convinced that they should prosper even more if they were to begin their climb all over again in this present day and genera ton. ''If," says one of them, i've were to start out today as we did, the four brothers of us, with $700 apiece, the chances are that we would be worth in the same time considerably more than we are today"
 Familiar sayingi Sentences well wornl For who has not noted how in the last few years the complaints of the younger men have been drowned out by those of the old CT ones. The young man com plained because the new times were not like the old, not so easy to get rich in. The old men complain be- cause the old times were not as good as the new. They wish that they might begin at the point where they were compelled to leave off. And they have repeated their convictions so often and SO earnestly that the young man is almost afraid to dwell upon his own sad prospect. if indeed he has not begun to doubt whether 1t Is so sad after all.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
EvADES THOSE WHO SEEK Happiness Comes Only at Her Own Will--Best Plan Is to Let
 Her Alone.

It would be cynical to say that hap piness is like the snakes of Ireland, for each one of us, at some time or other, has had glimpses of her in the distance. But, at any rate, she is more secretive than the wiliest serpent, swifter than the deer, more cunning at escape than the fox, and, indeed, if we pursue her to the end, she will never be caught alive; when we hold her, at last, it is but to find her dead. But occasionally, of her own free will, she drops down upon us by chance in her light-hearted, casual way, and we have a taste of what her companion ship might mean. It is the patient and the hopeless and the bravely destitute that happiness chiefly affects; as if she knew all too well where she was most needed and most appreciated. It is not the despairing she visits, but those who have learned to renounce with a certain ease of spirit and de tachment. After all," she seems to say blithely to these, when she fiut- ters in upon them, you thought I never come, but I do; only not too often" For she is a goddess, happi- ness, one of the old pagan goddesses, naughty and capricious and willful. and rare and exacting visitant.
 The old way of teaching children that happiness is a reward to be won finally in heaven, after an arduous service to virtue in this life, is no longer fashionable, and we see the young people of the present day out on perfect ro..t chasing happiness or, as they familiarly call it, "a good time." And they never catch 1t De spite of all the noise and the parapher- nalia and the rush and the expense and the moving from mountains to seashore, and motoring over foreign lands and bedecking and bedizening themselves for luncheons and dinners and games and tournaments, happi- ness, whom they pursue, is just as shy of them, just as far distant, as if no means had been taken to pursue her. She pauses only for her elect, occa- sionally, and not all those who call upon her shall find her-Harper's Weekly.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
BIG SHIPS INSURE COMFORT
Immunity From Rolling and Pitching Puts Premium on Large Vessels
 Like the Mauretania.

Notwithstanding the beneficial ef- fleets which many receive from sea voyage, making the slow boats de sirable for that reason, there is no doubt that the passenger steamer from this time on will be the large. fast boat The immunity from roll ing and pitching, which is scarcely noticed on a ship like the Mauretania, where the 20,000-ton and less vessels would experience a rough passage. puts a positive premium on the big boats. Then, aside from those pas sengers who are naturally poor sail ors, are the constantly increasing number who cross once or more each year on business, and to whom time and comfort are essential features. For travel, the big ship will eventual ly supersede the smaller ones, as fast as they are retired, although the cost in weight and fuel consumption makes it unlikely that any substantial low ering of speed is to be expected.
 Before vessels of greater length than 1000 feet can be used, there must be new docks, as present dock ing facilities, on both sides, have al ready reached their limit thou sand-foot ship today would project 150 feet beyond any pier in New York where such a ship could lay-H- H Windsor in Popular Mechanics.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
ALIGHTED FROM CAR SAFELY
Imperative Woman Lets 1t Be Known She Is No Daddy LongIegs" and
 Gets of Uninjured.

An unusual sort of woman was about to leave a car. It was a new car and its seats were so high in the air that as the passengers climbed UT to them their efforts would have made a star feature of comic supplement sheet.
 The unusual sort of woman made elaborate preparations for her depar ture. First she caught the attention of the conductor; then she arose from her seat, raised her hand and turned slowly around; then she called out with loud imperativeness that com manded the interest of every passen- ger in the car:
 T want you folks to take notice of what I do, because I may need you on the witness-stand before I'm through You driver, do you hear me?"
 AS the car had stopped and the man at the crank was as motionless as if he were blue granite instead of blue cloth, the unusual sort of woman must have taken it to mean that he heard, for she went on:
 "If you start this car before I get off I'll sue you for damages and prove 1t by these people. I want you to understand I'm no daddy longlegs-'
 She landed in safety, to the hilari. ous enjoyment of the passengers, and when she had waved permission fol the car to resume its duties the mo- torman moved on.-Washington Star.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
AnnIes for Halloween.

This is just the time for the girl who lives in a country home to mar ket her apples for Halloween. And she must not delay or 1t will be too late. Cut out in paper the initials of each guest who is to be invited to the Halloween supper. Paste the letters upon the apples that have not yet turned and will not be picked until late in the season. The name should be placed on the side of the apple that faces the sun and which will in conse- quence turn the reddest. Later, when Halloween arrives, the paper may be washed off and the name will appear in green upon the rosy cheek of the apple.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
The Normans.

The Normans were Mortimer, or to be precise, the descendants oi Mortimer, who had been expelled from their native Norway in conse quence of an effort on their part to subvert it's institutions and to make its lands hereditary, instead of being divisible among all the sons of the former owner. A band of expatriated outlaws and robbers, they won and held the fair province of northern France, which they named Normandy. When they invaded England they were Frenchmen only in the sense that they had lived for some genera tions on French soil. In blood they belonged to the great Germanic breed, along with the Anglo-Saxons, Danes and other Scandinavian and German peoples.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
Beer and Flowers In Germany.

The Germans are a proverbially thirsty nation. This fact has just been strikingly illustrated in the farming out of the various departments of a new theater to be erected at Berlin. The rent for the refreshment depart ment in this theater is s15.000 per annum, while that for the cloakrooms is s1O,00O, for the playbills, $2.500 and for the florist, s5.O0O. It has been ascertained that in a theater with 1,400 seats a thousand glasses of beer are sold on the average during each performance, but that the sale of sand wiches and other light refreshments is of no consequence. It is beer first and foremost that pays the piper" and after the beer the flowers. This also is characteristic. - Montreal Standard.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18

Lake Lonely course, waiting for the word to start them in a race which has been the talk of the sporting world for several months. These veterans were James Ten Eyck, whose portrait is shown, 5S years old and father of the first American winner of the Diamond Souls at Henley, and James Riley, aged 63, holder of the worlds record for two miles. The race was witness ed by Saratoga's smart set and the horsewomen present for the seasons races, and Mars Cassidy, the famous Saratoga starter, sent Ten Eyck and Riley away. As one horseman re- marked as the doughty oarsmen sent their shells through the water: Its dollars to doughnuts that Mars never sent two stouter-hearted thoroughbreds away from the barrier"
 Ten Eyck was the favorite in the race, not because of the disparity of five years in age, but because of the fact that through coaching at Syra- cuse university he has had to keep up his profession since he ceased racing himself, while Riley only rows occa- sionally for his health. For three quarters of the three mile course Riley kept the bow of his shell on even terms with his rival, but after that Ten Eyck pulled away, finishing six lengths ahead in 23:1315, while Riley was clocked in 23:31.
 Jim Ten Eyck is the father of Ned Ten Eyck, winner of the famous Dia- mond Souls and last years coach at Wisconsin, and of young James, who stroked the Syracuse eight-oared crew, of which James, senior, is the coach Ten Eyck has a father SS years old, living at Fishkill Landing, who still earns an honest dollar by rowing ferry across the Hudson river. Mrs. James Ten Eyck was sister of Ned Hanlan, the famous sculler. Young Jim and Ned, therefore, come from famous oarsmen on both side of the family.
 Jim Riley was a worlds champion oarsman in his day. In fact, Riley's two-mile record of 13:211k made in the memorable race against Ned Han Ian and Pop" Courtney in 1876, still is standing. It never has been ap- preached.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
Boston Schools Less Democratic.

Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, the able woman who revised the system of the Chicago public schools during her one year as superintendent. and who was in Boston recently, was asked what she thought of the public schools of the Hub, and, after a pause in which she seemed to weigh her answer care fully, she replied: "The Chicago schools are more democratic than those in Boston" She said she re- garded this as an advantage, but she would not go into details concerning the Boston system. She pointed out, however, that many school systems were tending to make great ma chine out of the schools, and that thus the individuality of the pupils was lost sight of 'I believe" said she, that the minimum salary of any school teacher should be $1,500 year, and at that salary am confident that we should have class of women who could cope intelligently with the ques- ton of individuality" She said she would pay teachers of cooking that salary.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
To Make a Home.

What do you include when you think of housekeeping? If you take it tc mean merely the work of the house which could be accomplished by a hired servant. then perhaps it does not matter that you should miss such things as opportunity for thought, daily reading, etc, says Home Notes. But if you make housekeeping mean home-making and housekeeping, the formation of a home into a center for the life of the soul and spirit as we'll as of the body, then you must culti. vate your mind, not keep it always to the level of the mundane things of life.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18

in the class of 1S41, he spent the customary years in study for a profession in which it is prob able he was never likely to achieve pre-eminent success, and graduated in due season from the Divinity School.
 It was evident that nature never in tended the future author and soldier for the peaceful and uneventful paths of theological work and ministerial duty In those early days he was more at home in the ranks of the anti-slav- cry battalions, whose work it was to prepare the way for the freedom of the negro in America.
 At the outbreak of the Civil war several New England clergymen enlisted; among them was Hig- ginson, who was, in the early days of the war, appointed colonel. He was seriously wounded in a skirmish on the Edisto river, and in October, 1864, was honorably discharged from the service, for disability.
 Enthusiastic and distinguished as n soldier, still it is in the quiet and peaceful pursuits of literature that Higginson has achieved his widest and fairest renown. MT Higginson's ear Hest recognition by the reading public as an original and charming prose writer was by means of a series of essays contributed to the Atlantic Monthly. They were afterwards col lected and published in 1862 under the title Outdoor Papers.
 MT Higginson is of Puritan descent; his father, Stephen Higginson, was a Boston merchant known, it Is said, by reason of his charitable disposition and philanthropic tendencies. He was the sixth descendant of Rev. Francis Higginson, an English clergyman, who exchanged his easy berth in the bosom of the old church for the hard life and toilsome experiences of a New Eng land Puritan minister. He was set tied over the first parish in Salem and in his day was not unknown as an author.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-18
KILLED THE HORSE
EXCITING STEER-ROPING CON- TEST AT A FLORIDA PICNIC.
Capt. Thomas Lindsay, the States Cowboy King, Became a Hero, but Lost His Famous
 Horse.

Trenton, F1a.-A picnic was given at Fort Fannin on the Suwanee river the other day and steer-roping con- test was advertised as part of the days entertainment Capt Thomas J. Lindsay, who is known as the cowboy king, and is the champion of West Florida, was to contest with Bill Sykes, the champion of Levy county.
 Captain Lindsay arrived promptly at ten a. m., mounted on his famous pony, Greasy Streak, but Sykes had not yet arrived. Many cheers were given for Captain Lindsay, and hisses given for Sykes. but Lindsay pointed out that something might have hap pened to prevent Sykes attendance, and proposed to wait 30 minutes for his arrival. After waiting 20 minutes, a messenger arrived and reported Sykes was too sick to attend This was a great disappointment to the crowd, but Captain Lindsay deter mined to give an exhibition of his own.
 He went to the corral where large herd of fierce bulls had been penned. and turning them out, headed them for the river. Captain Lindsay thought that when they reached the bluff that they would turn and circle the en- closed side of the picnic grounds, but the day being warm, and the bulls fretted by their confinement in the corral, they plunged over the bluff in- to the river. Captain Lindsay was just in the rear of.a large bull when the leaders went over, and threw his lariat with unerring aim around the big animals horns
 All would have been well, but when the captain stopped his pony. he was going so fast that the animal skidded on his launches to within three feet of the edge of the bluff and when the bull struck the water the treacherOus bank gave way, throwing both horse and rider into the river. Captain Lind say is an expert swimmer, and would not have been in any, danger If his he was carried under with his strug gling pony. Two men were in a boat fishing near by, and went to his as- sistance. Lindsay succeeded in cut ting loose just in time to escape drowning. His friends were uneasy about his condition for quite awhile, but he came around all right in an hour or so. and is in as good shape as ever. Tho people, however, regret the loss of the captains fine and famous pony.