Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-18

1911. Yesterday it was followed by
hail.
In the afternoon came second hail
storm and it was accompanied by a
flash of lightning and distant thun-
DER
Weather is not the only old COM
motion we can stir up either. Just
last week the novelist" suit was
tried out in our superior court thar
ever "noodled" the noodle of the
wisest legal upmpire.
A snippy boy Socialist wrote let
ter to one of our daily papers in
which he endeavored to tarnish the
'halo' of our own George Washing
ton, by accusing him of being mere
man subject to human infirmities and
yielding oftentimes to divers and sin
ister temptations to which all men
are prone to yield now and then and
sometimes more frequently.
Col. Joab is one Of the leading law
yers here, gentlemon of the old
school, in whom burns all the fires Of
'76 and in addition all the fire of
patriotism kindled since '76.
The high school boys diatribe
thrust at the halo of the Father Of
his Country, and the man for whom
our great state was named, stirred
the bile of Col Joab to such an ex-
tent that he swore out warrant
charging the young man with the
heinous crime of "mutilating the
memory of the dead" or words to
that effect.
Col. Joab assisted the prosecuting
attorney at the trial, and exhausted
all the dictionaries of all the lam
with which to overwhelm the culprit.
The jury brought in a verdict of
guilty" and the Col. rose to his feet
and invoked the blessing of the Faith
er on the men and women who had
indicated the "halo" of the Great
Washington.
To mere man "up tree" it IS
more consoling to think of the Inn
Mortal Washington, whose glorious
Nemoly no mans tongue, pen or
hand can tarnish, nor in the least
detract from, was mere man sub
iect to human frailtics, man who
in despite of human weaknesses
made his virtues paramount and his
name the greatest of all mere men.
Akin to this remarkable suit was
the recent suit in Chicago, where If
-he same principles are not to be ap-
Dled criminal libel of Shakespeare
vas upheld by Judge r. S. Tuthil
In 1867 r. s. Tuthil and Eugene
Cary, were so called carpet bag
gers" at Nashville, Tenn. Carey was
Judge OF the district court, and Tut.
nil attorney general, both elected by
the negro vote prior to the enfran
chisement of the whites.
In 1868 Carey was one of the judg-
IS who admitted the writer to the
practice of law, and soon thereafter
and in one of the writer's first ap-
pearances in court he was pitted
against Tuthil.
Soon after the white vote came in.
vogue again, after the war both of
these gentlemen, and they were gen
tlemen, left for Chicago where they.
each became and have at all times
been prominent men.
We are beginning to see evidences
Of the coming of the good times that
Ne have heard so much about in the
east for several months.
On the last of April, the combined
deposits of the banks of Tacoma
amounted to $23, ,7s6, ,329.2s, some lit
tie wad of gold dust.
Many new business blocks are be-
ing built and large numbers remod-
eled, while new bungalows are spring
ing up everywhere.
In this section irrigation is prac-
tically unknown, but project for the
irrigation of $4,000 acres of prairie
lands just outside the ely limits has
taken space and when in operation
will add largely to Tacoma's pros
perity.
The weather man is usually on his
vacation here in June, July and Aug
ust, and while be is off his job, these
prairie lands especially would be won
derfully aided by irrigation.
For the most part water will flow
by the gravity system over these
lands, but where it will not it is
planned to take it in overhead pipes
and apply it by sprinkling, a plan
which it seems to me would solve diff
ficulties in Colorado.
] think ! have before spoken Of
Tacoma's water and light plants,
which together with the stadium cons
stitute her greatest civic achieve