The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-04-08
BIZ THE WAY


The contest between the fly and the
swatter now begins. The swatter has
flys rush in where angels soon will
tread
Sheep men in North Carolina have
developed plan to send their wool di-
rect to the WOODEN mills, which has
proven satisfactory to the grower and
the manufacturer.
1888
Mrs. Hartung sobbed her story while
she held her baby close TO her breast
in Chicago court where her husband
was held for burglary. My husband
was out Of work; we had spent all our
earnings. and were hungry. We appeal
ed to relatives but got no help; and
fearing that our baby would starye, we
put the baby in the carriage and |
watched outside the homes while my
husband went in and rifled the ice box
es for food" Her story was verified BY
the police who stated that the home
which he had entered were not modest
ed, excepting the food that was stored
in the ice boxes. SIX months in Jail.
Next!"
1893
How the law can be twisted and un-
twisted to suit, was demonstrated in
New Orleans last week. The City had
entered into contract with the street
railway for the use of its street for
stated term Of years anil at stated
price. The agreement was entered in
to between the City and the street rail-
way company, that no charge for pas
senger rates should ever be more than
five cents per mile. Now the courts
have decided that the City was all
wrong; that it had no right to tell the
street railway company the price Of a
fare about the City streets. The courts
decides that, although the City is a
'rate-making body" still the city can
not make rates. Beat that if you can,
Mister Reader!
Il want good book, some knitting,
rocking chair, and house full Of
children" said Mrs. Leonora Medeora,
a woman LAWYER of Chicago, who has
been in politics for the past ten years,
and was public welfare commissioner
under Mayor Harrison of that city. |
''For the glamor Of public life | gave
up my home, my husband and my chill
dren," she said. 1T doesn't pay. |
am going to abandon this life and take
my god-given place within the family |
circle. Perhaps | am bit old-fashion-
ed; but am going to quit the law
and the practice of politics that goes
with it, and go home and bake apple
pies for the kiddies. To hear them say
Come home, mamma, won't you, is
me that | am not, nor have
been, doing my duty to these babes of
mine. So farewell to public life. " were
her parting remarks.
s. s. !: *
There is a religious war in Ireland.
The North and the South hate each
other with an intensity that defies de-
and nothing seems to appease
the hatred that has been engendered
here. This comes from systematic
began centuries ago by in
erests now long since obsolete-but it
bays some people to keep such thing
going. And you will always find the
nan who will tell you that the other
fellow is no good for this or that rea-
ION; because his ancestors many years
ago shot your ancestors, or some 9TH
,r foolish nonsense that should have
been forgotten long ago, if we humans
are to live with each other on this
planet in peace with each other. Watch
out for the man who will set your mind
against some other man for personal
1883
Who has not heard of the million
,ire Hobo" or tramp2 Few have be-
ieved that such person ever existed.
yet here we have the statement of Mrs.
Graham Duffield of Chicago, who had
,ome to New York finally to see if she
:ould not locate her l8-year-old son,
Who had decamped from private
chool some six months ago, and had
lot been heard from since. She en-
oloyed the best detectives that Chica-
% had and they soon located her boy
linging hash in cheap Bowery hash
louse, where he got $40 week and
BOARD for his services. When pressed
0 go home with his mother, he declin-
ID until she informed him that he was
! millionaire in his own right, and