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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
WHY TIE COURTS
FAIL TO Sa1ISFi
Or. Charles W. Eliot Calls FCI
Higher Standards.
.FLAYS EXPERT TESTIMONY,
Bias OF Trained Scientific and Pro-.
tess'onaI Men, He Ayers, One of the
Causes For PubIic's Dissatisfaction
With courts-Minor Errors Shouldn't
Defeat Justice.

Boston.-1n an address before the
Massachusetts Bar association Dr.
Charles W. Eliot. president emeritus
OF Harvard university. scathingly ar
ralgned many of the practices that now
obtained in the courts and declared
that the ethical standards among sci
entific and professional men needed to
be raised much higher.
1T ought to be disgrace for an en-
glneer. a chemist, physicist or a ply
slc1an or surgeon to appear in court
Tor money. to set forth so much of the
truth as tells in favor of one side of
the case while suppressing all parts of
the truth which support the contention
OF the other side said Dr. Eliot. 1T
ought to be made clear in all these pro-
LESSONS that honor requires their mem
bers to appear in court only as i'm
partial expositOrs of scientific truth so
far as it is ascertained. .y..,
1.-The responsibility Of the medical
profession in regard to the plea of in.
sanity in criminal cases is heavy.
Members of the profession are largely
responsible for giving so called expert
testimony which goes quite beyond the
limits of present knowledge concern
ing mental diseases and for invent
ing exculpatory terms-such as brain
Storm, for instance (which are mere
verbal insinuations drawn from OBJ
scure regions where facts are few and
theories vague. In these shadowy re-
glons it is easy to procure opposing or,
indeed. contradictory medical opinions
in great abundance. and INSCRIPTIONS
lawyers are all too ready to avail
themselves of such facilities.''
DR.. Eliot had been invited to speak
on ."The Causes of Dissatisfaction With
the Courts He considered that s.the
passing Of the judge. the disappear
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03

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tention of assisting his daughter and
the young duke in defying the two SOW
origins is an extraordinary position for
| an ambassador accredited to one Of
| them to take.
The emperor and empress in Berlin
| are very much agitated over it, but
Emperor Francis Joseph is more philo-
sophical. Not so, however, is the Duke
of Croy's aunt, Archduchess Isabel.
wife of the emperor's cousin, Archduke
Frederick. She was responsible for
the peremptory order transferring the
duke from Potsdam to Vienna. as she
hoped to bring him under her direct in
fuence and persuade him to break off
the match. ...
Should it be consummated according
to the plans announced by Ambassa-
dor Leishman. the bride will be in ex-
actly the same position as the Ameri-
can born Countess Gasquet James. who
married in England Duke Henry Bor-
win Of Mecklenburg-Schwe a cous-
In of the German crown princess, but
who has failed utterly to have it rec
ognized in Germany because it was
made without the emperor's consent
Miss Leishman could not under any
circumstances be received at the Aus
trian court, as it's severe laws do not
confer upon the wife any privilege of
the court through her husband. but
only those she inherits from her own
ancestry. For this reason Gladys Van
derbilt has no position at the Viennese
court. although she is on friendly So
cial terms with the archduchesses. who
receive and visit her But the hostility
of the Archduchess Frederick would
make Vienna. intolerable for the Duke
Of Croy's American wife.
He has large estates in Westphalia.
but they are heavily encountered and
have to yield large incomes for vari-
GUS members Of the family who have
an entailed share in the revenues. His
mother. a German princess. is still
alive. and he has two young brothers
and sister whose marriage portions
will come out Of the estate. His father
heavily mortgaged his resources to OBJ
tain suitable dOWry for the brilliant
marriage Of his sister Isabelle to the
Austrian archduke. while the fathers
second sister is now a widow and has
to be taken care Of by the Croy es-
.tates.
The Leishman Paris residence has
been on the market for some time. and
it is limited that they have suffered
many financial reverses during the
past few years. Under these circum-
stances it is difficult to see how the
ambassador can give his daughter suffi +
Client dowry so that she and her hus-
bard can live ont Of the reach of the
ostracism Of his relatives and also go
to the extreme length Of compromising
his diplomatic position by urging a
marriage which has aroused the oppo-
sitfon Of the emperor
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
QUAKER CITY MAYOR
WILL GO TO. SCHOOL
To Learn How to End Ho|dup
. Of City Finances.

Philadelphia. Blankenburg,
the reform mayor of this city, and
the members of his cabinet have decid-
ed to go back to school to take
course in political economy. so that
they may be more competent to admin
lister the affairs of the city,
The mayor and at least two mem
bers of his cabinet have arranged to
go to Madison Wis. to attend course
of lectures at the University of Wis
cons1n. The course, which is short and
theoretical. is designed to solve the
problems that confront modern munich
palities. When the mayor and his d.
rectors return they expect to be able
to ride roughshod over some Of the
municipal quagmires which have all
but engulfed them to date.
The most trying difficulties are mat
tiers of finance. the mayor being de-
sirous of getting enough funds to run
the city. and members of councils hav-
Ing conveniently blocked every move.
The mayor acknowledges that if the
lecture course will answer the question
of how to whip in line belligerent
councilmen he and his directors will
feel that they have been amply repaid
for their trip west
Not only will Mayor Blankenburg
and his advisers take the lecture
course-which is to be jammed into
three days-but the entire membership
OF the City club. an uplift organization.
VIII probably accompany the officials. !
The special lecture program arrang-
ed to assist Mayor Blankenburg and
his directors to run Philadelphia is
very comprehensive one It has been
arranged by the University Of Wiscon-
sin faculty and takes in every phase
of municipal existence. even telling
what shall be done with the waste or
unoccupied lands \ in city. to say
nothing of the broad subject Of taxa
ton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03

ance OF great courtroom advocates, the
popular distrust of courts and the dis
position Of rich business men and cor
porations to avoid litigation and beat
the law so far as they safely can, and
even farther" have constituted vi
ciOus circle of evil tendencies which
have had deplorable influence on pub
lie opinion e. =
Many failures of justice have result
ed from the dismissal of suits because
of flaws in the indictments, and these
failures are peculiarly exasperating to
the intelligent public TO it's thinking,
an insignificant error in spelling or
grammar or in describing a place or a
person should never be allowed to block
the course of justice An Indictment
need only have the degree of accuracy
which will enable sensible man to
understand what is charged against
the accused.
Counsel do not seem to the public
to be officers of court seeking for
truth and justice. but players of an I'M
ethical intellectual game The Judge
seems to regard himself-often per-
force-as a mere umpire between con-
tending parties and not as all agent OF
the commonwealth to settle controyer-
sizes on their merits. The American
public has lost some of its old faith in.
the judge ASA protecting agent for car
rying out the substantial requirements
of law and justice.
Much of the injurious PRONUNCIATION
of testimony. cross examination and ar
gument in the American courts is due
to the fact that the judges have been
deprived of effective control over coun-
sci. The judge should always be the
principal person III the courtroom. He
is in England: often he is not in this
country. The American practice of
electing judges for short terms has Sc
riOusly Impaired in many states the
quality Of judges and their position in
the community. The very voters that
elect the judges easily acquire habit
of distressing them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
MESSAGE HIDDEN IS =.
YEARS AGO IS FOUND
Son When Small Boy Hid 1t to
Save Mothers Feelings.

Menosha, Wis.-Y Dung Stephen Brown,
whose family moved away from Wis
consin fifteen years ago, recently came
back to his old home in Neenah on a
visit.
He requested the young man with
whom he was Staying to take walk
with him to the lake shore.
= The friend thought the road was
rather muddy. but went without COM
ment.
When the men arrived at a certain
spot Brown turned over a large stone,
looked eagerly under it and exclaimed
in low voice, by George, here it isv'
He drew. out a moldy, wet, discolored
envelope. evidently containing a tele-
gram.
The paper within bore this message,
most of which was obliterated. but a
few words could be deciphered here
and there: wallace Brown died last
night at midnight
It was sent from Detroit and bore a
date fifteen years old.
The young mans eyes filled with
tears as he told his friend the story
of the telegram
Fifteen years befo Browns father
had died suddenly while in Detroit on
business. The telegram announcing
his death came while Mrs. Brown was
away from the house, and the boy. then
little child, opened and read it.
With some childish idea of saving his
mother from the distress he knew the
message would cause her he. ran as
fast as he could and hid the telegram
under stone and did not tell Of its
arrival.
He remembered that his mother faint
ed when She heard the news later and
died few months afterward. leaving
him and his brother friendless orphans.
He had forgotten all about the tele-
gram until his first visit to his old home
recalled it to mind. and the tears came
often as he recounted forgotten men,
cries resurrected at the sight OF that
widowed paper.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03

and June and that make navigation a
simple matter. Between the months of
June and December a transatlantic
aerial trip would be impossible owing
to the prevalence of cyclones. But for
the rest of the year the region Of the
northeast trade wind is free from
winds of more than ordinary velocity.
Behind him all the way Brucker ex-
poets to have breeze of twenty-three
miles an hour to blow him along. :.
Starting in April will help to escape
the sun somewhat Atmospheric con-
ditions make it advisable for the diri-
gible to keep near the surface. Of the
water all the way over The effects of
the sun in warm weather would tend
to stop this plan. Its warmth at every
sunrise would expand the hydrogen
used for imitation and tend to send
the balloon up to extremely uncom-
Portable heights. '.-.s.
The balloon in which the venture is
to be made. the Suchard H., has d.
ameter of eighty feet and gas ca
pacity Of 100000 cubic feet. Two as
sistants will accompany Brucker on
the voyage and probably several cruis-
ers and yachts will precede and follow
him on the trip for emergency pur-
poses, although Brucker is said to have
added a new device to his balloon
which. he declares, will render the
voyage free from all danger. This de-
parture from the ordinary details of
an airship is the addition of a powerful
motorboat, with mast on the
swivel, allowing it to be raised or low
cred at will
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
HUSBANDS LEARN TO SEW.
Are Training For the Time When
A Wives Vii. Vote.

wives VIII Vote.
Picture Rocks, Asserting they
We're fearful lest the ballot will be
granted to women3 and the husband,
will have to do housework. the able
bodied men Of thiaplace have formed
an organization known as the Mems
Sewing Square.
: At their last meeting they brought
sewing bags and their wives stock
ings to mend and began the task Of
plying the needle il order to ascertain
if darning was as hard as thew had
always been led toSbelieve.
The Rev. |. N. Earle, pastor of the
Methodist church. who was elected
chairman of the f'square,' presided,
and some Of the work that the men
performed is declared by their wives
to have been far better than they
could have imagined.
The men prepared supper without
women's aid, which. they say, they ate
with relish and were all home before
II O'Clock. The Square will meet
once each week. ..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
BY AIR ROUTE
ACROSS ATLANTIC.
Brucker Will Follow Course
Taken by Columbus.
TRADE WINDS WILL HELP,
German Aeronaut Expects to Have
Twenty-three Mile Breeze at His
Back During Entire Trip-Danaer
From Hot Sun-WiII Carry Powerful
Motor SaiIboat.

from hot Sun-WiII Carry Powerful
Motor SaiIboat.
New York.-.Across the Atlantic by
balloon-that is the contract Joseph
Brucker, the German-American avia-
tor, means to undertake. From the Ca
nary islands to the West Indies or
South America in five days is the pro-
gram Brucker will start out on on
either April II. - or ID. and he is now
on his way from Berlin to the starting
place for his startling trip. .-5
Many other aeronauts have claimed
that the project was feasible, provided
the right sort Of dirigible balloon was
used and favorable weather conditions
were seized when they came. The right
course. too. was an important thing to
be taken into consideration.
Brucker purposes having his balloon
follow nearly the same course taken by
Columbus caravels when they sailed
to the shores of the new world in 1892.
BY so doing he will take advantage of
the mild trade winds and ideal atmo-
spheric conditions prevalent in that
part of the ocean between December
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
AUTO CHURCH DEDICATED.

Seating Capacity Of 200 When Tent 1t
Carries Is Spread. T.
Chicago.-The first motorcar church
to be used by a religious society in
America. was dedicated here on the
lawn Of St. Xavier'sg academy by the
Right Rev, D. J. Dougherty. bishop Of
Jaio, Philippine Islands,
The car, which is called ST. Peters
Motor chapel, is the gift of a Califor-
MIA woman in memory of her husband.
The equipment will be shipped to
Brownsville, Tex. and two Oblate IA
theirs will take it through the south
west for the next year.
A large tent, carried on it's top, sur
rounds the car when it is used as Il
church and seats 200 persons.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03

SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DANIELS.
work is to try it and see, and appre-
ciate, from the technical side, the ad-
vantageS. that the officers of the fleet
will gain on long cruise of this kind.
where various maneuvers can be car
ried out at sea and many experiments
In communication between ships and
similar matters carried out under &C.
tual service conditions
But what seems to me equally if not
more important is the educat ional value
of this trip to the men behind the guns
! hope before my administration is
ended that the public will have clear
understanding of the splendid training
in mechanics which the modern battle
ship offers to enlisted men. No man
who has served in the navy leaves the
service without being far better equip
ped to earn his living than be was be-
fore he enlisted.
The navy is a great and expensive
institution which must be kept always
ready for times of war Why, then,
not use it as a great technical training
school for our country in times of
peace?"
The battleships which it is planned
to send on the educational cruise" are
the Wyoming, Florida. Arkansas. Della
ware. North Dakota. Utah. Vermont.
Louisiana. Michigan. New Hampshire.
South Carolina. Virginia, Georgia. Ne
braska. New Jersey. Rhode Island.
Minnesota. Connecticut. Idaho. Kansas
and Iowa. The tonnage Of this squad
ron of ships is 364,5OO as compared
with 22350O in the trip around the
world in 1908.
The tentative plans call for Gibraltar
as the first stop. 1t may be that the
fleet will make one or two stops en-
route. 1t will divide at Gibraltar and
make a leisurely tour Of the Mediterra-
mean in divisions. stopping at practi-
caIly every port Of Importance.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
BOY WORKS HIS WAY HOME.
Lad Gets TO Workers by Short Stages
From Wilson's INAUGURAL.

Lad Gets 70 Yonkers by Short Stages
rom Wilson's Inaugural.
Yonkers. N. Y.-Leo McGrath, thir-
teen, son of Patrick McGrath, a con-
tractor, of 80 Morris street. this city,
who left, unaccompanied. for Presi-
dent Wilson's Inauguration March 2
and had not been heard from since.
has returned home. d.
The lad said that he met a body of
troopers from the Fifth Massachusetts
regiment and after the Inauguration
worked his way home by doing odd
jobs mostly as Office boy. at different
places along the route. ..,-'e:
He never knew there was so much
pity for youngster like him, he said.
He found no difficulty. he said. in pro-
curing enough to eat
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
MAY GET ARTS DEGREE AT Is.
Young Sidis. Mathematical Wonder,
r, Entered Harvard at Eleven. --r-

o. - -. - W. i
Cambridge. Mass. William James
Sidis. fifteen, gives promise of obtain
ing Harvard bachelor of arts next
June This youthful mathematical
wizard entered the university at eleven
as specialist in mathematics. Mean
while he has included sufficient other
courses to make his college schedule
an evenly balanced one
Young Sidis is the son of DR.. Boris
Sidis. one of the foremost psycholo.
gists in the country His younger
years were spent at the knees of his
father. where he imbibed the rudi-
mentary knowledge of mathematics
which was later to make him known
as one of the scholastic marvels of
the country. At eight he entered the
Brookline high school, and two years
later saw him at Tufts. where he re-
NAMED for one year before entering
Harvard. r...-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03

Marriage Of His Daughter to
Duke Of Croy Opposed.
NO RECOGNITION FOR BRIDE

William II. and Francis Joseph Both
Declare Match Would Be Undesir-
able to Them = Nancy Leishman
Would Be Ostracized by German and
Austrian Courts.
Berlin.-Ambassador Leishman's an
nouncement that his daughter Nancy
was to marry the Duke of Croy in the
race OF Emperor Williams strong op-
position to the match has created much
gossip in court circles here. It NAV
even lead to embarrassing diplomatic
complications if the American ambas
sador maintains the stand he has
taken.
The Duke of Croy lives in Germany.
but bis title is Hungarian. and as he
belongs to the small number of medi-
atlzed houses of Europe recognized as
having an equality of birth with the
relgning families he cannot make 4
marriage that will be recognized in
his own country without the approval
of the German and the Austrian sover-
eigns.
Both the German and Austrian en-
perors have refused to sanction any,
thing but a morganatic marriage in
this case, and Mr.. Leishman's open in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
TAFT TO ADDRESS LAWYERS
Ex-Presjdent Will Read Paper at Bar
Association Meeting.

Washington Former President Taft
has accepted an invitation to read a
paper on subject to be announced
later at the annual meeting of the
American Bar association at Montreal
in September.
Chief Justice White of the supreme
court OF the United States will pre-
side and will introduce Viscount Hal
dane. the lord high chancellor Of Eng
land, who will make the annual adj
dress. Senator Elihu Root of New
York will preside at the annual dinner
Sept. g.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
GOT HIS TRANSFER.
But It Led to Jail, Not Home, For
Hiqhhanded PASSENGER

Loulsy1lle.-When the street car COM
pany refused to carry Thomas Persall
from the car barn at Thirteenth and
Main streets to Shelby and Oak streets
Oh transfer because that line had
stopped for the night. Persall boarded
car. motored it out Of the barn and
started across the city with it.
Police in an auto. after an exciting
pursuit, caught the car.
The transfer is a written contract
emitting me to go the full distance.
and If the company refused to provide
a car to carry it out am entitled to
take one myself" said Persall.
He was arrested charged with dis
orderly conduct.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
ICELAND GOING "DRY."
No More Alcoholic Liquor There After
This Year. s.

No More ALCOHOLIC Liquor There After
This Year. &
Copenhagen. AT the end of the pres
ent year it will be impossible for either
natives or tourists to obtain alcoholic
liquors in Iceland Under the anti
spirit law permission was giYen to con
sumo the present stock Of liquors and
figuring on the per capita consumption
it will all be gone by the end of the
year.
The Danish government adopted the
drastic prohibition laws because it was
felt that the excessive drinking of the
1celanders was undermining the physi-
cal fitness Of the people,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
FIRST SMILE IN THREE YEARS
Convict Who Grinned Hasn't Spoken
In That Time.

Convict Who Grinned Hasn't Spoken
In That Time.
Stockton, CAL" Silent Carson. the
convict who was brought to this city
for investigation BY alienists and who
has not been known to utter a word
during the three years that be has
been under sentence of death for par
ticipat ton in a prison break, is reported
to have smiled at one Of the hospital
attendants, and this may break down
the obstacle that has prevented his
execution on a charge Of murder.
Physicians who have had Carson
under observation say this is the first
display of any emotion on his part Of
which they have any record and that
conclusions heretofore accepted as
proving him insane may be reviewed.
Carson is being subjected to a new and
original system of Investigation by sew
eral physicians
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
Drops Law to BeSa Farmer.

Kansas City-Benjam F. Whits.
for years practicing lawyer in Kan
sas City. has quit the law for the farm.
Recently he traded his home for a
farm IN Macon county. NO.. and is
writing back to his friends glowing
accounts of the venture
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
Court Closes When Doo n;..

Evans. Colo When terrier belong
ing to Judge James Trefoning refused
to answer his summons in the midst of
a suit that Judge Trefoning was hear
ing the court made an investigation
and discovered that the animal was
dead. Court was adjourned for the
day. The judge made a coffin for his
pet, and witnesses and jury as well as
spectators attended the funeral.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
SMALLPOX ReuuIafions Eor Ala.k.

Smallpox Regulations For Alaska.
Washington. Smallpox in Alaska
has caused the public health service
to decree that all travellers from the
United States to- the territory must be
vaccinated or show certificate not
more than five years old.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
SWAT FLIES FOR PRIZES.
Cincinnati to Raise $1,000 For War on
the Pests,

the Pests.
Cincinnati-"Swat the fly crusaders
have commenced hostilities against the
household PESTS and will spend hun
dreds of dollars in their fight on them
and their breeding places. according to
the plans made here by the food com
m1ttee of the Consumers league
1t is planned to raise $1,000 for prizes
to boys and girls who catch the most
flies during the masths the pests are
busiest spreading disease One plan is
to ask all the Women's clubs of the city
and mothers, clubs in the schools to
raise the smoney. Another plan pro-
posed is to interest the business men.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
Few Grizzl;es Now i az

Sacramento. Cal.-The grizzly bear is
last becoming extinct in California.
The state fish and game commission
reported that Of hundreds that used TO
roam the Sierras barely half dozen
are known to remain. The report says
that 10000 deer are killed annually In
the state. 10000 by mountain lions and
coyotes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-05-03
Sent to Jail by Wife at Ninet,


Selinsgrove, Pa.-David Verify, aged
ninety years. was sent to Jail here by
Judge Moser ION his wife's charge of
nonsupport. He is the oldest man
ever brought before the court.