The National tribune., 1911-01-05

and baled. The good bags are packed
In bales of 100 each and the torn or
The damaged bags are mainly utilized
by filling them with sand for the con-
| struction Of dfkes. To show how small
| things mount up, it is stated that the
bags are shaken before they are placed
in the baling press. and the sweepings
resulting from this amount to so or
more barrels a day. 1t takes force of
20 to 80 men to sort these bags. and
the sweepings from this great number
Of bags pays tho wages of the force
employed at the sorting shed.
| Brig.-Gen. c. L. Hodges, ir command
of the Department of the Lakes, with
headquarters at Chicago, will be ap-
pointed a Major-General Jan. 13, upon
the retirement of Maj.-Gen. VIM. p.
Duvall who is now in command of the
Philippine Division. Gen. Hodges Will
serve until March 13, when he will be
retired, aftef which Brig.-Gen. Arthur
T. Murray, Chief of Coast Artillery, will
be appointed a Major-General succeed
ing Gen. Hodges.
Senator "L4afe" Young, of Iowa, when
he had been a Senator just six days,
had introduced 26 bills, occupied the
presiding officers chair for the space
of half an hour and on the seventh day
addressed the Senate on the subject.
the tariff" which certainly is going
some" for the staid old United States
Senate. The older members of the Sen
ate. like Hale and Cullum, are shocked
at a rank interloper, who had been
holding his seat in the Senate Chamber
a week, making a speech. 1t is sup
posed that member of the United
States should hold his tongue for at
least a year after entering that august
body. But old times are changing.
The Treasury Department has issued
regulations regarding the sick leave
and absence of its employees that cut
down the annual leave on account Of
sickness to 10 days, to go into effect
on Jan. l, 1911. For years the Gov
ernment has allowed Treasury clerks 80
days sick leave as well as 30 days va
cation. and both with pay, and if the
employees did not use all of their leave
in the year. the unused part was placed
to their credit for use in subsequent
years if needed. Now the Treasury De-
partment declares that it's clerks have
very badly abused their sick leave and
that greater stringency is demanded on
the part of the authorities. so they have
cut the sick leave down to 10 days. 1t
is said that clerks had been in the
habit Of taking their sick leave simply
because it was coming 20 them and
getting credit on periods of imperative
or enforced absence on sick leave ac-
count. The Department says OF this
new regulation: 1T will correct abuses
and will not. in the opinion of the De-
partment, to any appreciable extent,
work a hardship upon deserving en-
ployes."
A man may be too old to work, but
it seems as tho he never passes the age
limit for marrying. Albert Brown
Chandler, of New York, is one of these
examples. He has a record as tele-
graph operator during the war, and
was a personal friend of the late Thos.
T. Eckert. and has been identified with
the Postal Telegraph Co. since its or
ganiZation in 1884. Comrade Chandler
is 20 years of age, and recently mar
ried Miss Mildred Vivian, 80 years of
age, of Lexington, Mo. She was en-
stenographer, and it was while acting
in that capacity that she met Mr..
Chandler.
Now, what do you think of this?
illustrating his talk by demonstra-
tions with opium layouts, morphine,
cocaine ana other dope" devices, DR.
Christopher Koch. of Philadelphia. Vice
President of The Pennsylvania Board cf
Pharmacv. argued before the House
Ways and Means Committee for lcgis-
lation to restrict the traffic in habit
forming drugs.
DIR. Koch declared that 10 per cent
of the retail druggists of the United
States are engaged in Illicit business,
that nearly 80 per cent of the criminal.
class are dope fends," and that the
habit Is extending to the professions,
particularly lawyers, physicians and
trained nursas
Most of the crime in the South he
attributed to cocaine. on the ground
that negros have an especial fondness
for the drug. OF the Chinese in this
country, he said 50 per cent smoke
opium.
More than 400, 900 pounds of opium
are brought into this country annually
and he asserted that the debauchery
from opium in China in the old days
was no worse than the present opium
conditions in this country.
Representative John J. Fitzgerald, Of
Brooklyn. was stricken with appended
tis while in Panama with the Congress-
men who were there to hold hearings
in the Canal Zone. He remained in the
hospital there for a short time. and got
well enough to come home. His con-
dition was not considered serious was
why he insisted on making the trip
home. on his arrival here he was in
such serious condition that the oper-
alton became necessary.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that a woman cannot bring an
action and recover damages for assault
and battery upon her person by her
husband. This opinion was given in
the case of Mrs. Jessie e. Thompson
against her husband. Charles Y
Thompson. She sued for $1,000 dam
ages for a beating which her husband
gave her. The Supreme Court of the
United States has decided that a hus-
band may pummel his wife all he
pleases, and she cannot sue him for
damages to her person. II her hus-
band tries to get her property or to
damage II, she can sue him and recover,
but he can beat or kill her and she has
no recourse whatever Chief Justice
Hughes and Justices Harlan and
Holmes dissented from the Judgment Of
the court The decision was thus made
affirmative by vote of four to three
DR.. Harvey Washington Wiley, Chief
Of the Chemistry Division. Department
Of Agriculture, and lord high chancel-
ENJOY YOUR MEALS.