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amung mth( biles blowing chauf this is truly an un ce has been almost entire d of the charge of harbor germs. . These little pets de feet. Somehow we can't get real good and scared over the announcement a new counterfeit $100 bill is iz ~circulation. It cost an Ohio farmer $14.25 for at tepting to kiss his neighbor's wife CNear kisses are as costly as one peal jed and delivered. The population- of New. York state is nearly 10,000,000, but there Is stil plenty of room to get around there without touching elbows. Nutwithstanding the fact that uppel erths are to be lower, It will be neo to use a iadder for the purpose 71f get~ng into one of them. Japan Is going to buy herself a S0000000 warship. This ought t< p tate- another war scare amons nervous contingent. The Aght which a Pennsylvania Iuiber! buyer had with a bear may in recognition of Bruin as one o1 leaiding conservationists. There is one merit which the air hip can boast. It leaves the streets for pedestrians to walk without ear of being.run down by speeders. A man In New York, fired 'upon ox - ffhestreet, was saved by the opal pir his necktie. This qught to lift the of il luck from that unluck3 istone. There are indications that the reo rd for hunters who were mistaker or deer will be broken this year. It remarkable year for broken reo More sfie t< as they come, werei o . thefact -that most of th: W I~gathat come are not worth wail for. _ _ _ New York Is erecting a buIlding 12 fet higher than the Singer building lfthis goes on, aeroplanists are go ngto protest against the obstructior -. i-s' announced that the govern Fnt is going to substitute dollar bills ~or billa of $20. and more. That' od;It will make it easier to flas) large rol. When the ocean liners take some ~t~gof their size for collision pur pssthe results are different fron Jioeachieved when .they run int< ~cks. - A schoolboygga irected to writs an essay about cotton, and he begar it by saying "it is chiefly used in ma ~king woolen goods." That boy keep: ihis eyes open. Hobble skirts hinder business, I: the conclusion of -the Atlantic Cit: shop keepers. Maybe the Atlantil City girls can show speed In othe ways than walking. An Ohio man offers $5,000 for at 'airship ride. If that sum is to be es tablished as the regular fare the ai (mosphere will not be crowded for long time to come. A Wellesley student has been em pelled for getting married. It. wa probably .decided that she took an ur fair- -advantage of the:. many Massa ~husetts spinsters who/are looking fc 'sel will be complete without a .gol course, a portecochere and outdoo sleeping porches. -The councilmen of several of th cities are legislating against the ion biatpin. 'If they were wise they woul * ssue their commands to their ow: wies first, .to ascertain what measur * of submission they are likely to mnee ~with. The school 'board of Pocahontal TVa., has issued a rule forbidding th schoolma'ams of that place the rigi ito attend dances. What has becom of .southern chivalry ?. - Prince Henry of Prussia has mad several f!'ghts in an aeropiane. Bi the prince had convinced Amiericar some years before the aeroplane th?z be was a pretty high flyer. All cities that have aviation mee: soon discover that nione of the biri men are fing inr their health. IVES MILLIONq ~~I Andrew Camegie. to which eventually he will devote Siethod by which the annual income c Mr. Carnegie entirely In the hands o Mr. Carnegie's gift of $10,000,000 something like $180,000,000. The end in size only to three others of his-the ment of teaching made in 1905 and In 000,000 endowment of the Carnegie in: fund for the establishment of the C Carnegie's gifts to libraries during t1 $36,000,000 for the United States and 'WH ITE NOW( Chief Justice White. Chief Justice White has been on the the oldest justice in commission wh< White graduated from Georgetown iun In Louisiana he was a sugar planter. as a senator, served for a number of:3 and subsequently was elected to the his first term In that body when Pre Supreme court bench. THE NW SOi 1 Frederick ..W. Lehmann. view to acquiring the necessary fun after day he rode after the herds, a "q ain the other, reading while the stock Mr. Lehmann was a member of th: Exposition company and chairman c world's fair. He is a member of the sas well as prominent in the St. Louis IGovernor-eect H-ooper. Xmies. But although he was not a fig nessee before his nomifnationl, M!r. Ho Twenty years ago he represented h His chief claim to distinction was, ho ., -opn in the Sanish-Americanl' TO. END WAR The hundreds of millions of Andrew Carnegie, which he has declared he will give away before he dies, will be come, it is believed, a perpetual power for the good of mankind, a fund con trolled by a self-perpetuating board of trustees, the income from which is to be used through the centuries to aid human beings in ending war and com bating all other evils that stand be tween them and the good of a perfect civilization. This belief is based on the broad terms of a deed by which Mr. Carne gie has transferred to a board of trus tees $10,000,000 in five per cent. first mortgage bonds, the revenue of which will be used first to "hasten the aboli tion of international war and establish a lasting world peace." The lofty purpose expressed by the ironmaster to make this foundation a continuing force for reform suggests the probability that this $10,000,000 may be only a starter in a movement the greater part of his riches. The f $500,000 shall be expended Is left by f the trustees. brings the total of his benefactions to owment recently announced is second $10,000,000 foundation for the advance reased to $15,000,000 in 1908, the $16, stitute in Pittsburg and the $12,000,000 rnegie institute in Washington. Mr. Le last twenty years are estimated at 17,000,000 abroad. ',*HIEF JUSTICE 1j Edward Douglas White, whom Presi dent Taft has appointed- chief justice of the United States Supreme court, is a native of Louisiana. He was born in the parish of La fourche, La., in November, 1845. In his early youth he attended the school at Mount St. Mary's, near Emmits burg, Md.; later he entered the Jesuit college in New Orleans, and finally he went to Georgetown college of Wash ington, D. C. Justice White served in the Confederate army during the civil war and practised law among the people of Lousiana. In 1891 Mr. White became a national figure. A senatorial contest was waged in Lduisiana and Mr. White entered the race. He had managed the cam paign of Governor Nichols for re-elec tion and had been prominent in the reform element of his state. He had fought in favor of the anti-lottery movement. The legislature finally chose him to succeed Senator Eustis. upreme bench for sixteen years and is >se age is less than seventy. Justice iversity. In addition to practising law He served in the Louisiana legislature -ears on the state supreme court bench United States senate. He was serving sident Cleveland appointed him to the' Frederick W. Lehmann of St. Louis has been appointed solicitor igeneral of the United States to fill the vacancy caused by thd death cf Lloyd W. Bowers. Mr. Lehmann was born in Prussia in 1853. He came to this country with his parents when a child, his father settling in Ohio and subsequently re moving to Indiana. There, at the work bench, while .his father was en gaged in cobbling the brogans of a farming community, was laid the groundwork of Fred Lehmann's educa tion. By the aid of a primitive Egyp tian lamp-a woolen rag floating in a saucer of grease-the youth devoured such hocks as came into his posses sion. A short time in the little red school house and he-started for the west, de termined upon acquiring an education without the aid of which he could not hope to achieve success. On the plains of Nebraska he herded cattle, with a is to carry him through college. Day, airt" In one hand and a book of classics grazed. e directo'rate of the Le'iisiana Puirchase f the committee on ethnology of the Mercantile, University and other clubs, Bar associatIon. Politics aside, the case of the new governor of Tennessee goes to prove tat the (lay of equal opportunity has not entirely passed 'in this country. The new governor signs himself "Ben jamin W. Hooper, but what his real name is, no one knows. He does not know himself, and although now near ly forty years of age he does n'ot know who his parents were. He was found on the streets of Knoxville and committed to the care of an orphan asylum, whence he was taken ten years later by Captain Hoop er of Newport, Tenn., who gave him his name and educated him. From orphan asylum to the executive man sin! From nameless waif to gover nor of a sovereign state! The way would seem always open in this coun try to those who work and strive. It is said that Mr. Hooper, the law yer from the mountains of Tennessee. was nominated because he hadn't a record, and, consequently, few ene ure of commrnandin'g proportions in Ten oper is not without political experience. is constituncy in the state- legislature. wever, the fact that he had commanded Is Life mp Worse fha m HEE are times when a hush, ' a stillness that is awful in its intensity, falls 6ver a court ? room. The trial has dragged out Its painful length, the. evi dence Is in, the pleas have been made and the jury has returned a verdict expressed in that one short Anglo Saxon word, "Guilty." The convicted murderer rises to his feet at the com mand of the judge. He stands up to receive the measured sentence of the law. Every eye in the courtroom Is turned upon him and every ear Is strained to catch the words that will mean life or death to the unfortunate who stands upright to meet the blow. If you stood in his place would you hope for those ominous , words, "Hanged by the neck until dead," or would you welcome a sentence of "life Imprisonment?" If you knew that "life Imprisonment" meant just what it is supposed to mean and that there was no hope of escape, no hope of pardon, nothing but the long months reaching Into drab monoton ous, loathsome years of loneliness, would you still choose to cling to the life that was in you? The legal world was shocked and. the public was horrified by the plea of Albert A.' Patrick, convicted muir derer of the millionaire, WiUam Marsh Rice, who demanded death rather than life imprisonment/ In a remarkable document he trieda to re ect cienitepcy that saved im from the eectric i~'Inlife im prisonment in the place of death. His petition recited this, as his principal reason: "Life imprisonment is a far severer punishment than death in any forni." This action of his has no parallel in the court records of the United States. It was a remarkable assertion made by a remarkable crim inal. It caused many jurists to won der if, after all, the deprivation of liberty ought to be allowed to take the place of the death penalty. Judge Kavanaugh's Opinion. A Chicago courtroom listened re cently to a strange address made by Judge Marcus Kavanaugh, Joseph Wel come, the prisoner at the bar, had pleaded "guilty"- to the charge of mur der. It was a crime of peculiarly ag gravating circumstances. Welcome had driven his wife from home. He followed her to the boarding house of Mrs. Mary McLean and a quarrel ensued.. Enraged by her avowed in tention of quitting him forever, he drew a revolver and shot her down. In attempting to save the life of the unfortunate woman Mrs. McLean was killed by a bullet from the degen erate's weapon. Moved by the plea of guilty and his appeal for the mercy of the court, the jury fixed Welcome's punishment at life imprisonment. When the prisoner rose to receive the sentence, Judge Kavanaugh said: "Welcome, you committed a terri ble crime. Your-punish'ment is'to be more, terrible still. When your wife sought to escape you shot her. It was no fault of yours that she lived and that you, in fact, then killed another woman who was making useful way in the world. You could hardly get sisonment in Deafh? twelve men in the box who would not inflict the death penalty upon you, yet it is the policy of the law to regard a plea of guilty in some meas ure of itself a mitigation. "The Instinctive, unreasoning hor ror of mankind regards death as the most severe punishment. This Idea is not correct. You are now to re ceive a sterner punishment. Your victim died but once. You will die a hundred- times. You will suffer more the day you put on your prison clothes than she did in her death. "After that there will be only the hopeless, painful years, from day t( day, from month to month, stretch ing out forever and In agony. I four or five years-the eternal solitude and silence will begin to crush im upon you like an- iron weight. "You are so elated now, at the thought of saving your life that yot don't realize all this. I want you and the others here In this courtroom tc understand it. You are not sorry yet for your crime. You have only a great self-pity. "There will be few worse men than you in that big prIson, but I may say the law has taken its full and ample [irevenge uon'y Welcome has now entered updn the monotonous round of the "Living Death" that Judge Kavanaugh de scribed. He is now a "thirig" Ix striped clothes, a number that has its home in. the heart of a great mass of stone and steel and concrete, watched by riflemen on forbidding walls, the great state prison at Joliet. It Is pos sible that he has already glimpsed something of the punishment that is to be his, so long as breath and rea son remain within his body. Was Judge Kavanaugh right? Is It true that life imprisonment isa more terrible punishment than the extinction of the criminal? Do mex die a hundred deaths where their vic tims died but one? His pronounce ment is new, so far as the bench is concerned. It has been debated. how ever, for generations by philosopheri and students. Cold reason tells the human mind that death would bE preferable to a life lived in the nar. row confines of steel cages and .stony corridors, but every criminal wel comes the alternative of imprison m ient all his days when actually con. fronted by the gallows or the electric chair. Judge Kavanaugh's speech tc the condemned man serves to awaker interest in that last and greatest of thie powers of the state, the right tc take human life. ' In all civilized countries In the world, with -one exception, the deatl penalty is exacted of the murderer and the traitor. Italy Is the single exception, but there is rarely an a' tempt to secure the commutation cd a murder's sentence in that country. When he Is finally sentenced, it is the end, for there- Is no hope of par don except .In the most undoubted cases of innocence, and thus far the prison gates of that country have never swung open to release a mur derer. In America there is always 'ope so long, as there Is life. 3 y WIR D. NES'BIT New uxur : ~ I ) M eon a~t 2Sc ........... .................5 l'os porterhouso at 28c .................... 84 -Mleatman's Sales Check. 3acon! Thy name was once as low . s was thy price: ve would not. in the long ago, . Think of thee twice. Thou wert not meet to grace the board -, Where pomp and pride meet-. In the dark smokehouse wert. thou. stored 'As common sidemeat. h. then the lordly porterhouse SWas chief of all 7he peer of quail, or duck or grouse ' In royal.hall. Thou wert with contumely cooked ' Lke other griddlings. Or in the musty cellar hooked. I As humble middlIngs. Then porterhouse was for th~e great, A food apart, And thou for folk of mean estate -Though honest heart. 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