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The Detroit times., 1911-08-28
FRUIT SEASON STARTS.
Ashley & Dustin Steamers VIII Carry
Big Loads.

The fruit canning season will soon
be in full swing, and already peaches
and grapes are beginning to come In
in large quantities. Most OF the
peaches that come to Detroit are from
the islands around Put-in-Bay, coming
In by way of the two steamers.
Frank Z. Kirby and Put-in-Bay.
Beginning today the steamer Kirby
starts on regular fruit schedule,
leaving Detroit every morning instead
OF at o'clock in the afternoon. The
famous grapes from Put-in-Bay and
peaches from Catawaba Islands and
the other islands of that section or
the lake will be brought In by these
steamers I'm enormous quantities. AS
the steamers are primarily passenger
boats, at first only the lower decks
will be used but Liter, as II becomes
cooler, more space will be given over
to the fruit shipments.
"All the fruit seems to be very fine
this year and is very plentiful" says
o. S. Dustin, general passenger agent
OF the Ashley & Dustin steamer line. Il
look for prices to be decidedly lower
this year, and jam and marmalade will
fight the high prices OF butter.
The Detroit times., 1911-08-28

Business-iike Printing. No russ and
10 feathers. The plain. neat kind that
looks right Times Printing Co., is
John R-st. Pm. Main 1923. or City $685.
The Detroit times., 1911-08-28
MRS. E. sT0CKBRIDGE DEAD.
wife Of Late Senator Was u Years
Of Age.

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich, Aug.
2S.--Elizabeth Arnold Stockbridge,
wife of the late Senator Francis o.
Stockbridge, died here yesterday, at
the home of her brother, George T..
Arnold, aged II. Mrs. Stockbridge
had been an invalid from nervous
prostration for over 10 years, After
the death OF her husband she closed
her palatial home in Kalamazoo and
spent several years in travel, but re-
sided here continuously for 10 years.
Funeral in Kalamazoo.
The Detroit times., 1911-08-28

F1andera 2
LIABILITY penalty
driving flandsf
defeating een
Hitcnel1 ford
than completely Disqualified.
Dealers enthusiastic
Following three perfect
oldden
14uo nilea9
minneapolis
fortysven
the St city Reliability UNIV every
has defeated many price.
CORPORATION.
II
The Detroit times., 1911-08-28
Hint Van Pelt Is insane.

SHELBYvILLE, Ind. Aug. 2s.--It
is considered practically certain to-
day that Plea Of insanity will be en-
tered in behalf of Edward Van Pelt,
81, the civil war veteran who shot
and killed Charles Tindall, supreme
court director of the court of honor
here yesterday. Entering plea CT
guilty at his preliminary hearing, Van
Pelt was bound over to the grand
Jury. but today stories are being cir
culated by the accused mans friends
as 20 his strange actions within the
past few weeks. Van Pelt appeared
unconcerned today and offered no
further explanation Of the shooting
than he made yesterday John Tin
dali. a cousin OF Van Pelt's victim,
said he was threatened by Van Pelt
Business-iike Printing. No russ and
M feathara The plain. neat kind that
The Detroit times., 1911-08-28
FIND WRITINGS OF JEzEBEL

Correspondence Of Elisha and Queen
Unearthed In Ahab's Palace.
CAIRO, Aug. 28.-The newspaper
El Mokkatam says recent discoveries
In Ahab's palace In Samaria include
pottery and tablets inscribed with the
correspondence of Ahab, Jezebel and
Elisha.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
HOUNDS IN CRIMINAL TRIALS.
Court Declines to Set Aside Murder
Verdict Based on Trailing of Dogs.
From the Omaha World Herald.

Court Declines to Set Aside Murder
Verdict Based on Trailing of Dogs.
From the Omaha World Herald.
The rating Of the bloodhounds in
American criminal Jurisprudence is not
settled. it appears, despite the able and
exhaustive opinion derogatory to the dogs
rendered by Judge Sullivan when on the
Supreme bench OF Nebraska
That opinion was SO favorably regard
ed and was shown such respect by courts
in other States that its character as a
precedent seemed to be fairly we'll estab-
lished. But now an opinion of precisely
the opposite import has been handed
down by so near tribune as the Su-
preme Court of Kansas. The ruling Is
that the Testimony OF bloodhounds is
something that may be properly consid-
cred, especially in connection with other
evidence concerning the competency of
which there is no dispute.
The court refuses to set aside a verdict
of murder against man convicted sole
ly on the evidence Of shoe prints and
the trailing Of footsteps by hounds. The
dogs took the trail from the tracks
around the body OF the murdered man
and followed II for six miles to the home
Of the man, who was then accused and
later convicted. The shoe tracks around
the body and the home of the man ac-
cused corresponded with the shoes he
wore. It was contended that II the trail
ing by the hounds were eliminated from
the evidence the evidence from the shoe
prints alone would not be sufficient for
conviction on a capital charge. but the
court held that the testimony Of the
hounds was competent to corroborate
that OF the prints.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
The Tariff Board.

If the wool bill should reach the
President and he does not want to ap-
prove it, let him veto it upon emphatic
and straightforward grounds. Let him
characterize it as a mongrel piece OF
legislation, the result of a coalition be-
tween low-tariff Republicans and tariff
for-revenue-only Democrats. Let him
condemn it as a measure not IN accord
with the principles of the party which
he represents. These are good, honest
and sufficient reasons. The plea that
nothing should be done until the tariff
board makes its report will be regarded
by the country as mere subterfuge.
The tariff board is composed of es-
timable gentlemen, but it was created
with the view of postponing tariff re-
vision as long as possible. 1t was the
buffer which was suddenly interposed
between a popular demand for lower
duties and a disinclination on the part
OF the high protectionists to amend the
Paync-Aldrich law. When one recalls
the past, the devotion now shown to the
tariff board seems remarkable. The
Mckinley law was framed without the
help of a tariff board; the Dingley and
the Payne-Aldrich laws were enacted
by Congress alone. Not until the DEM
ocrats came into power and reform
legislation became possible through a
combination with insurgent Republi-
cans did the Republican leaders dis
cover how valuable and important the
opinion OF tariff board might be. The
wisdom of the House and Senate, sufi-
cient when the Republicans were in
control, has suddenly become totally
inadequate. and the tariff board is the
only safe and sure guide TO proper
schedules.
There was a tariff board in 1882 1t
was composed of protectionists, but it
was compelled to recommend a reduc-
ton of duties to quiet popular revolt
against high taxation. 1t made a
lengthy. report 10 Congress. but the
facts and figures which it spent months
in obtaining were simply pigeonholed.
There is no reason TO believe that the
present tariff board will be given more
consideration. Congress always has been
and always will be jealous of its right
in framing tariff laws.
1t may be that the wool bill ought
not, from a Republican point of view,
to become law. To assign 4 future
report of tariff board as reason for
disapproval is, however, an excuse too
fimsy to be regarded with serious con-
sideration.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
A Blessing for American Girls.

If the decay of the British peerage
cures Americans of the foolish craving
for titles for their daughters to marry
there will be little reason to bewail the
snufing out of the Lords as far as this
country is concerned. The elimination
of the importance of the House of
Lords in the British political system
will probably cause no great amount of
regret to the average American, but to
the title hunter it will be calamity.
Now that British titles enjoy no dis
tinction in the legislative system of the
British empire, and have become of
little more practical value than the
French or German titles, it is safe to as
sumo that their money equivalent will
diminish materially in the American
matrimonial market. In England itself
title is not nearly as important as the
name behind it, but the fine distinction
was generally lost on the ambitious
American parents of more money than
brains. With the British peerage greatly
cheapened, it is to be hoped that our
rich American girls, or rather their par
ents. will be more discriminating, and
either be satisfied with good American
husbands or make sure that the British
nobleman who becomes a candidate for
matrimony is of the genuine variety.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
WAGES FOR STATESMEN.

Britain One of the Few Countries to
Maintain Unsalaried LaWgivers.
From the cleveland Plain Dealer.
Another radical proposition long dis
cussed and now indorsed by Premier
Asquith Is that members of Parliament
be paid yearly salary. Asquith sug-
gests a40O Cs2.000). Hitherto the Com
mons have received no pay, and It has
been almost impossible for men not pos
sessing considerable wealth to secure
elections. In fact, men in straitened
circumstances have not even sought elec-
tion. for they would be unable to serve
If elected. The Conservatives in Parlia-
ment have consistently opposed any sug-
gestion to pay salaries to themselves and
their fellow-members.
Great Britain is one Of the very few
countries that maintain an unsalaried
legislative body. Americas $500 a year
stands at the opposite extreme. Even
the seif-governing British colonies decline
to follow the British example, and pro-
vide pay for their legislators, though in
some cases II is rather paltry in amount
The salary OF the German legislator is
$50 year, and the member Is docked
$3.50 a day for absence.
Mr.. Asquith is right In his suggestion
OF legislative salaries. Without some
cannot be truly representative of the
people. Besides, 1t may be considered a
shrewd political move. and might re-
dound to the permanent advantage Of
Mr.. Asquiths party.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
Montgomery's Blue Laws.

The best way to eliminate an objec-
tionable law is to enforce it. The sher-
if of Montgomery County in compell-
ing strict observance of the old blue
laws is taking the best method of deter
mining whether those laws should be
brought into disrepute
When Montgomery County went to
bed last Saturday night in the full en-
joyment of the rights and privileges of
the twentieth century, and awoke yes
terday morning to find itself in Puritan
New England of several centuries ago,
there was, to say the least, widespread
objection to the change 1t seems
strange in these modern days to be
prosecuted for manual labor on Sunday
when that labor consists in repairing
an automobile by the roadside, or for
indulging in sinful pleasure when the ex-
tent of the offending is dinner of fried
chicken.
Glen Echo was, of course, under lock
and key. This deprived thousands of
people of a pleasant rendezvous for
Sunday evening, but added largely to
the attendance at other resorts For
people will spend their Sunday after
Moons and evenings in the pursuit of
recreation, even though they bring
condemnation upon their devoted heads.
Instead of going to church or to prayer
meeting, they demonstrate the perversity
of human nature and seek the cool
breezes on the river or listen 10 the
music of the band at the suburban re-
sort.
It will be worth while to watch the
effect of the new regime IN lMontgom-
cry County. II the population Is sud
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
Lengthening Ocean, Steamers.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
The Cunard company has revised the
plans for its newest steamship. the
Aquitania, now building at Clydebank.
Originally designed for a length of SIS
feet, she will now be extended to 900.
This surpasses not only the length of the
White Star Olympic, which Is $50 feet.
but also that of the forthcoming Ham
g-American Imperator, which IS $50
feet. The Cunard company will thus
possess not only the fastest trans-At-
lantic steamship, but also the largest.
This is good business and good psy-
chology. Nine-tenths of the Cunard pa
irons are Americans. The notion Of big
ness still rules them. 1t is little that
the Mauretania still holds the record for
speed II the Olympic or the Imperator
dwarfs her at the North River piers.
True, the Cunar6company cannot claim
to combine the two records in one boat,
yet it will, for a time at least, hold
both-a fact that has its influence on
those travellers with whom size and
speed are all.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
King Georges Health.

The report from London that the
King of England is unable physically to
bear the strain already imposed upon
him will not only cause anxiety among
the Britons, but will invite speculation
as to the future effect upon the foreign
policy of the British government should
the modicum of restraint on ministerial
policy now vested in the throne have to
be reduced
If it really be true that the corona
ton exercises, the journeys to Ireland,
Scotland, and Wales, and the parlia-
mentary crisis were such tax upon the
Kings strength as to make the admin
istration of oxygen necessary, it is quite
possible that a more serious physical
crisis yet may be the result of the Mo-
roccan embodiment and the aggravated
problems of domestic administration.
The latter will not terminate with the
victory over the Lords in the matter of
their veto power, but will continue in
still more trying phases in the discus
sion of home rule measures and an i'm
perial policy.
1t is not generally known that when
the present ruler became the heir to the
British throne, through the death of the
Duke of Clarence, it was his grand
mother, Queen Victoria. who in family
council expressed the fear that he was
not physically strong enough to shoul-
der the responsibilities of wearing the
crown. 1t was her emphatic ultimatum
that sent and kept the young prince on
the water as an officer of the British
navy in order to build up his constitu-
ton through the invigorating influence
of salt air. The wisdom of her action
now becomes apparent King George
never was robust He has not inherited
the strength and the red German blood
OF his sturdy grandparents, Queen Vic
toria and her husband, the Prince Con-
sort.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
Political Rainbow Chasing.

At the beginning of each campaign we
are treated to roseate picture of politi-
cal possibilities. Just now the rainbow
is seen over Pennsylvania by the ad-
mirers of Woodrow Wilson
Ii has already been stated in The
Washington Herald that both factions
of the Pennsylvania Democracy have
Endorsed Gov. Wilson unanimously.
Last Saturday night some three hun
dred delegates of the Keystone party,
which is the insurgent Republican ele-
ment in the State, held dinner in Phil
adelphia. Among its guests were Sen
ator Clapp, of Minnesota, Republican,
and Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, a
Democrat In the course of the evening
a toast was proposed to Gov. Wilson, as
the deposer of bosses. and, therefore,
cur example and friend in the battle for
good government" The sentiment was
greeted with cheers.
The point of the story is that the to-
tai vote of the Democratic party and of
the Keystone party in Pennsylvania last
year was 10000 in excess Of the
straight Republican vote. Ergo. it is
now possible to take Pennsylvania out
OF the Republican column and give its
electoral vote to the Democratic eandi-
date
Maybe so. AZ any rate, the rainbow
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
A Street Railway Decision.

The Detroit United Railways has been
defeated upon every point which it
raised in opposition to the suit of the
Detroit city government. The latter,
when the railroad franchise to use Fort
street had expired, served notice upon
the company that henceforth it must
pay $500 a day for the use of the street.
The company protested upon the ground
that this was con6scatory, and also put
forward many other pleas, among which
was the contention that there can be no
termination of a street railway fran
chise except by mutual consent of
grantor and grantee AS to this latter
proposition, the court said that it was
difficult to deal in seriousness with a
position so manifestly untenable and so
at variance with right reason and with
established authority.
Having given the railroad company
ten days in which either to meet the
terms of the city's rental or be elected
from the street, the company appealed
from the Circuit Court to the State Su-
preme Court. This means, of course,
prolonged litigation, but the feeling in
Detroit is that the lower court will be
sustained, and that the right of the city
to fix a reasonable amount as a daily
rental for the occupation of the streets
will be upheld. The case is interesting
because it evidences a disposition upon
the part of municipal and judicial au-
thorities to regard occupation of public
streets as a valuable concession for
which the street railroad companies
ought to pay.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
WORLDS BIGGEST BABY.
Georgia Boy Is Only Two Years Old,
but Weighs 122 Pounds.

Georgia Boy Is Only Two Years Old,
but Weighs 122 Pounds.
From the Los Angeles Tribune.
In James Adolph Cody, two years and
three months old, Mount Airy. Ca
boasts the biggest baby in the world.
James Adolph now weighs 122 pounda
and is growing every day.
With the first Indication OF his abnor-
NAL growth. his parents consulted ply
sician, and James Adolph was put under
his care. All efforts to keep the baby on
a diet suited to one of his age proved as
unsuccessful as the physicians treatment
to keep down his growth His measure
ments are:
Height, 80 inches: neck, IA inches; bust,
80 inches; waist, So inches: around arm
above elbow, L inches; wrist, inches;
across hand above thumb, IA inches;
around first finger near hand, 2 IL inches;
around thigh, . inches; above knee, 1a
inches; below knee, 13 inches; ankle.
inches; around foot, s 1-2 inches; length
of foot, l.. inches; across shoulders, Is
inches.
James sleeps well. is perfectly healthy
and very strong, his appetite is more
like a grown PERSONS than a baby's. For
breakfast he will eat three or four large
biscuits. with bacon, gravy, butter. and
sirup, two glasses Of buttermilk, and, II
allowed, will drink two cups Of coffee.
Between breakfast and dinner he will
eat two more biscuits with butter and
sirup. For dinner he will eat big plate
Of green's or vegetables. with boiled ba-
con, cornbread biscuits, whole pie, II
he can get II, and two glasses of butter
milk. He eats again between dinner and
supper and his supper is in keeping with
breakfast and dinner.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
SWAPPING PROVERBS.
Chicken Trial EnIivened by Aftor-
ney and Prosecutor.

Chicken Trial EnIivened by Attor-
ney and Prosecutor.
From the New York Sun.
Assistant District Attorney De Ford
and w. T. Jerome had another set-to
yesterday in the trial of the live poultry
trust, which is being prosecuted before
Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions for
having a monopoly. Mr.. jerome. who
had previously objected to conferences"
between the court and district attorney,
entered an objection to another confer
ence."
You know, Mr.. Jerome" said Judge
Rosalsky. that such talks between the
court and the district attorney are a
common practice. When you were county
prosecutor you frequently consulted with
the court Mr.. De Ford is a quasi-ju-
dicial officer"
THE gentleman may he quasi-judicial
officer" said Mr.. Jerome; very, very
quasi"
Mr.. De Ford jumped up. II may be a
quasi, very. very quasi-judlcial officer"
he said, but I'm not a quasi-district at
torney. I do not represent very small
portion of the people. but all the people"
Il will quote the gentleman a proverb
to which he might attend said Mr.. Je-
rome, 'Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.
"I don't pretend to understand French"
said Mr.. De Ford, but I can quote the
gentleman a good English proverb. which
might have been of benefit to him had he
practiced it both in his public and his pri-
vate life-'Honesty Is the best policy"
Mr. Jerome made no reply.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
UNION OF CHURCHES.
Dream Whose Realization Is Not
Within Range of Possibility.


The union of Christianity is one of
those dreams which are good to strive
for. though its realization is not within
the range of probability. 1t could not be
effected except upon the basis of a creed
SO broad that no denomination would be
required to abandon its peculiar tenets
and that each could retain a large part
OF its separate individuality. There
would come the difficulty, for each sect
would regard some doctrine of its own
as essential to the common creed and
some would insist on a closer union in
government than others would endure.
Great liberty OF action and thought
would be necessary in order to prevent
church union from producing stagnation
similar to that of the Middle Ages. At
that time, when the church was most
nearly united, it was most corrupt and
vicious. Reformation, which began dis
union, did more than teach new doctrines
or revive old and forgotten ones; it
taught right living.
Freedom OF thought is essential to
progress. It has produced many men
who were called heretics. but they have
been hailed as the religious leaders of
the next generation. If the churches
should unite, they should leave room for
the heretics, or they will drive out the
standard-bearers OF truth.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
A Popular Expression.

From the Boston Globe
The earliest mention of the expression.
I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show
me-" is found at the time of the great
march across the plains to California in
ls4s and 1850, many of the argonauts
procuring their outfits at st. Joseph. 1t
was a matter of comment that the Mis-
sourians engaged as teamsters disbeliev-
ed the stories of the gold found in Cali
fornia and returned light to their start
ing point to get another chance to earn
teamsters' wages. Later the same spirit
Of doubt was expressed in the phrase,
I'm from Missouri, show me-" and be-
ing brief. it caught the popular favor
and remains in frequent use. Like most
Of such sayings. it is impossible to trace
the exact origin of the expression, for
such rise in day and are spread broad
cast, their origin never being inquired
into until they have become wen known.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
Edward NJ. Shepard.

From the New York GlobeL
New York has lost a good citizen by
the untimely death Of Edward NJ. shep-
ard at the Comparatively early age OF
sixty-one, and the local Democracy is
minus a member It could I'll afford to
spare. Mr.. Shepard was one of the few
Democrats left in this region whose opin-
ions received and deserved respectful at
tention, irrespective of party politics. His
political career was governed bypersonal
convictions rather than blind party feal-
ty. He was of too high a type to be popu-
lar with the local party leaders, II fate
had cast his part on some other and less
frankly commercial Democratic stage, he
would probably have attained high po-
litical distinction.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-31
KANSAS CITY AERIAL MEET.
People Did Not Have to Pay En-
trance Fee to See Balloons Rise.


trance Fee to See Balloons Rise.
From the St Louis Republic.
Kansas \ City's balloon tournaments
have been disappointing in the matter
Of gate receipts. With a shortage of
about 5000 staring them in the face,
its promoters may now be able to un-
derstand why St Louis declined to be-
stir herself in active competition for the
honors which Kansas City hailed with
such pride and delight.
Two international contests have been
brought to this city by the St. Louis
Aero Club. The last one was anything
but a financial success. While over
looking none Of the educational and other
advantages TO be derived from such
events, 1t must be confessed that the
incidental financial burden presents a
problem to be reckoned with.
So long as the flights may be seen
without entering the aviation grounds
the public will decline to purchase tick
cts OF admission. This rule applies to
aeroplane and balloon alike, and in this
respect the people Of Kansas City are
not vastly different from the people of
st. Louis