The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22

| | four of relator's children died and
 were buried in appellee's cemetery in single burial places separate from each other, relator not owning a lot Later the corporation passed a reso- lution that after December 31. 1907, the cemetery would be maintained for the fnterment of the remains of
 persons of the white race only, but
 the remains of co1ored persons own ing lots in the cemetery and their di-
 rect heirs should be admitted for bur l ial in the lots owned by them. On
 March 16, 1912, the wife of re1ator
 died and he applied for space for the
 burial of her body, and permission was refused solely because it was the body of a colored person. He was ready. willing and able to pay the fixed charges for the accommodation asked for, but the privilege was denied, and the reason was explained in a letter stating that the officers had no person al prejudice nor i1l-wflI toward the colored people, but there had been so
 much trouble and objection that it was
 for the best interest of the cemetery to
 exclude them. This proceeding in
 man damus was then brought to com
 pei the cemetery corporation to re- ceive for burial the wife of relator. On
 appeal to the Supreme Court of IlIin-
 ois, the court holds that a cemetery fa not included within the terms of the
 statute which declares that all per-
 sons within the state shall be entitled to the equal enjoyment of the accom-
 modation and privileges of enumerat-
 ed places of public accommodation
 and amusement. It is also held that
 the refusal of the cemetery corpora
 tion did not infringe any of reIator's
 rights under the state Constitution.
 Judicial Knowledge of Poker
 Should a court judfciaIly know tIaat
 wifi 7S-
 it is a game of chance? In State ys
 Solon, 153 Southwestern Reporter.
 1923, defendant was charged with
 gaming. On appeal the Supreme
 Court of Missouri looked in vain in
 the record for some testimony that the game of poker alleged to have
 been played upon the table in aues-
 ton was played with cards, The proof simply showed that a table GOV cred with cloth constituted the plane surface upon which the game of po- ker was played. No chips or other parapherna1ia and no cards were of- fered in evidence, or shown by the 1 evidence to have been used in play ing the game of poker. The court l holds that some proof should have 1 been adduced, either orally or by of fering the cards themselves in evil dence, that cards were used on the l table in playing the game, "but there 1 IS not one word of proof as to the | use of common playing cards or any other cards on this table. In the ab- | sence of a showing that the game of poker was played with cards, we will not take Judicial knowledge that po- ker is a game of chance.''
 Liability of Wife for Husband,s Beer.-The defendants in O'NeiI vs Cardina, 40 Northwestern Reporter 196, are husband and wife, who were f in the habit of ordering beer through the agency of the plaintiff, and are now sued for balance of indebted ness so arising. On the trial the court excluded evidence that Cardina. l and his wife were both in the habit 1 of drinking beer, and instructed that 1 the wife could not be held liable for the purchase price of the beer as upon a claim for family expenses. Plain tiff assigns these rulings of the court 1 as grounds for reversal. The Su- preme Court of Iowa holds that the rulings are free from error. Quot ing the court: There is a sense in which extrayagant raiment, jewe1ry, and numberIess other articles not l classed necessaries may yet be 1 deemed family expenses, and as hay ing some place in maintaining mem 1 bers of the family in accordance with I tn cir actual or assumed station in life | But none of the reasons which have been thought sufficient for so holding 1 has any application to the purchase ] of intoxtcants, unless it may be pur- chases made for strictly medicinal purposes. Whether this suggested exception exists we need not now de- eide We are not willing to take the step which appellant demands, and thus make it possible for the liquor dealer to compel a wife to pay for the drink which has demoralized her hus- band, and cast upon her the burden of standing alone between her family and starvation.''
 FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS SUCCEED l