The Detroit times. [volume], January 14, 1909, FIRST EDITION, Image 8

About The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920

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The Truth No Matter
Whom it Htlpt or HurU.
Over IN Misers
Blows to Atoms!
Bat How Many Moles?
The Mule le More of a Lose To the
Mine Owner Because When a
Mule Gets Killed He Has To
PAY for Another One.
Os course, the more workmen buried, the greater the force of
the explosion, the more debris must be gotten out of the way before
the owners can resume the digging out of coal.
These mine fatalities are most unfortunate because they in
terrupt the operation and cause delay.
They are therefore expensive.
It is to be hoped that the dead may be soon thrown aside or
carted off so that the owners will suffer as little loss as possible.
It seems too bad at times that it is really necessary for the mine
owners to have to wait until the mine is cleared of the dead in cases
of explosions or cave-ins before work can be resumed.
And the question is presented:
Should a mine owner be expected to suffer financial loss
through the inactivity of his plant just for the sake of giving ONLY
A MINER a decent burial?
And should those weeping, wailing wives and mothers and
tons and daughters and brothers and sisters be permitted to crowd
sround the opening to get in the way of the men who are working
•t top speed to get the shaft and mine in order again for mining to
be resumed, the coal on the cars, the cars to market and the money
for the coal in the pockets of the owners?
Distracted widows and fatherless children, it must be admitted,
are a nuisance around where there is work to be done.
Not that their pitiful moans and sobs make any difference to
the mine-owners.
That isn’t it.
The room they take up is needed to expedite getting things to
ruxming again.
NEVER MIND THESE BROKEN HEARTS, BRING HAM
MERS AND NAILS AND BOARDS TO PATCH UP THIS
BROKEN SHAFT AND LET’S GET TO DIGGING COAL
AGAIN.
And you step one side, little damp-eyed fellow.
Run away and grow and get good and strong on the little you
will have to eat now that the bread has been taken from your mouth
through the death of your father.
Tell your mother to pitch in and work and do the best she can
to fill your stomach and keep your body warm, to save you for us.
And when you are big you can come here and work and be
blown to atoms as your father was.
That isn’t exactly what the mine-owner says, BUT THAT IS
WHAT A LACK OF LAW IN THIS COUNTRY SAYS FOR;
UTU
THAT IS WHAT IT SAID TO 35.000 FATHERLESS
BOYS IN THIS COUNTRY LAST YEAR—TO 35.000 BOYS,
WHOSE FATHERS MET DEATH WHILE ENGAGED IN
WINNING BREAD.
Jr *
The country isn’t shocked very much by the loss of these hun
dred or more lives.
It expected this disaster, or, at any rate, should have expected
It, the same as the men killed should have expected the horrible
|xte they met.
There was an explosion in this same mine only two weeks ago.
Fifty miners were killed by it.
I NO ONE WENT TO JAIL.
There was no law to hold the owners of the mine responsible
and liable to the families of these men who were blown to pieces.
There was nothing in the law to make the owners of this mine
•top and consider the lives jeopardized in the accumulation of their
/dividends.
There was nothing in the law to bring the loss of those first
jo lives so forcibly down upon the mining company as to impress
upon it the necessity of preventing a recurrence of the disaster
through the installation of a ventilating system to carry off the
gases that form in mines.
WILL THERE EVER BE LAW TO BRING THE EM
PLOYERS IN THIS COUNTRY TO A REALIZATION OF
THE VALUE OF A HUMAN LIFE AND TO MAKE THEM
SUFFER WHERE A HUMAN LIFE LOST COULD HAVE
BEEN SAVED THROUGH PROPER SAFEGUARDS AND
PRECAUTION?
Why do men work at such dangerous pursuits? we ask our
•elves at times.
The answer is:
TO LIVE;
To obtain food for their own mouths, for wives and babies:
They have to choose being crushed under falling rock and blown
r pieces to STARVING to death.
The natural resources in the earth have to be gotten out of it
somebody has got to go down in the earth for that puipose.
These men who work in mines are therefore rendering a valua
ble service to their country in helping to develop it.
L' They take their lives in their hands to render this service.
Their country is very grateful to them.
So grateful it refuses to compel those whose privilege it is to
exploit the country by selling to it that in the earth which was put
there for ALL of us to have, SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE, to
protect those lives or to compensate those who were dependent
‘ttpon those lives for their maintenance.
r We sympathize with the mine owners in the loss of several
mules in this explosion.
When mules get killed in a mine the mine-owners have to buy
jßbers.
When men get killed there are plenty of others who are hungry
Enough to take their places.
The loss of a mule falls directly upon the mine-owners.
Consequently the mine-owners are more careful of their mules
Khan they are of their miners.
Alto Armigerous.
Hrk m Tou den* rib** your hero." .-ommei.t
Hb tk* editor, "as being porphyrogen* "
Jgß<Wel|. M demanded the poet. «hat»
Matter with that?”
Ml Mat confess that I don t know
KyHMttt porphyrogene rawni."
An explosion in the mines of
the Lick Branch colliery in West
Virginia has snuffed out at least
100 lives.
This is regarded as a conserva
tive estimate of the number dead;
many more may have been killed.
Whatever the number, it is safe
to say that THE COMPANY
WHICH OWNS THE MINE
DOESN’T CARE.
• Nor will any one else.” retorted the
bard, triumphantly, "without digging
up a dictionary. 1 dJdn't expect tills
from you. I thought you understood
the requirements of modern tnaga
tine \erse." —Philadelphia Bulletin..
Aluminum la now being rolled thin
ner than tinfoil, which It Is expected
to replace by reason of Its being both
lighter and cheaper to manufacture.
Editorial Page of the Detroit Times
NEW COP GETS INSTRUCTIONS FROM CHIEF!
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\To keep that Busch) / /yjim ! W* v 'rC?
/. IN anj> make 1 • I {'mu •
j EDITORIALS HI Tilt PEOPLE
Ten Fares f°r a Quarter.
To the Editor of The Times: 1 have
been advocating 10 tickets for 2 .7 cents,
no transfers for two years past, the
I). U. H to do paving between track*
and pay their right proi>ortion of tax
es; also, keep the streets sprinkled
between tracks. I believe this would
be a fair settlement for fifteen years.
WM. A. H -VINES.
7G Grand River-ave.
Right Must Prevail.
To the Editor of the Times: We
like your paper and wish you success.
We like your straightforward way of
standing for right and truth. Right
must prevail.
B C. DAY.
Quincy, Mich., Jan. 7, 1)09.
Identified.
“James, as 1 passed the servants'
hall today I saw you kiss one of the
maids.'’
“Yes. my lady—when would that
have been, my lady?"
“About 4 o'clock.’*
“Oh, yes. my lady —that would have
been Jane, my ludv.’’— Punch.
An extensive deposit of coal on the
island of Bpttzbei*en, which lies with
in the Antic Circle, is being devel
oped with American capital.
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From Another Point of View
Indigestion caused by eating pigs feet should not be taken to a chli'oi»o
dist.
• • •
There is some consolation for people with corns in the fact that they are
not centipedes.
• • •
If you have a little money and want it to go as far as possible, lend it
to your best friend.
• ■ •
~ A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but you couldn t get
the bird to take that view of it.
• • •
Time and tide wait for no man. but there's many a w/e who has waited
until a scandalous time for a man and a tide.
• • •
Economy is a good thing to practice, but when a man with bigger feet
tries to make his neighbor's rubbers do. that’s stretching the point.
• • •
It seems that the fool can get along sometimes better without the money
from which he is soon parted thau the money can without the fool.
• • •
The president rode 98 miles on horseback and leaped from the saddle after
17 hours in without a sign of fatigue. But at that we are disappointed Wo
expected to see him coming back carrying the horse.
• • a
Owner- of pet parrots are advised by medical authorities to dispose of
them because they spread tuberculosis. Say "good-bye. polly.
Getting Even.
Autoist (who has paid l>oy to bring
assistance) Did you give the fanner
my message, boy?
Boy—Yep; I told him ther' wui four
automobeeh rs stuck In a driff an' cud
dent git out.
“What did he say?"
“He said ‘Hooray,’ an’ gimme an
other quarter.—Life.
The Hallroom Boys
* A4S ON ’ Joseph
O'BRIEN
( a uovelUatlon of t h*> play now running at the Criterion
Theater, bv Henri 11 erneteln. author of ‘The Thief" anti
"I»raei. M published by permission of Chgi l«s Prohman.)
CHAPTER XV— (Continued.)
mDO not wish to be disturbed
by any one " Anne-Marie said,
as siu* koi ready for ued. if
my im»iher ot father or Mon
sieur Max telephones or call-),
say that 1 will set them this alter
noon."
"Yes, luadanie.”
C'lothilde drew the curtains over the
windows through which the atrotiK
morning lighi was flooding, uiul left
hei mistress in bed. Anne Marie,
thoroughly worn out and exhausted
by the terrible events of tit** night,
was soon uslei p
• • • •
Hnu hard 'walked from his home to
the Hotel Kit* through tin* gray dawn.
To lhe night clerk, sleepily amazed
to see brut hard, who was well known
to trim, at such an hour, lie ga\e terse
orders:
"I wish a suite overlooking the
Place Yendome and Quite secluded,
he said. "1 shall not register, and do
not wish my presence here to b»*
known, even to employes of the hotel
1 will give you a note to send to my
valet. Jean, at my house in an hour,
and he will come to me here. Have
him call me at it o’clock, is that all
clear?"
"Yes, monsieur."
In his rooms bruchard spent a busy
hour, before going to bed for a few
hours’ sleep. His plan of action was
well thought out. He would tight Go
vain, and would crush him, but not
with a toy sword or a puny pistol. The
weapons would be his own.
He prepared cable dispatches to he
sent to London, ns soon as the cable
office in the hotel was open. Then lie
went through his telephone book and
got the telephone numbers of Grace
Kutherford and Govaiu.
"Time enough to call them when 1
awake." lie said to himself. "They
will be sleeping it off then. Now they
are doubtless still making merry at
my expense."
There was still the story of that
midnight supper that he must hear.
He resolved to know every detail und
to plan his revenge accordingly. Grace
Rutherford, he surmised, was one of
the party. He knew her foolish in fat*
1 uatiun for Govaln. and that she fre
quented the after midnight society of
I Haris, because it was only there that
she could be sure of finding him.
She was a widow of 35. well born,
and was still received in gwl so
ciety, although not so cordially as
formerly. She had been desperately
in luxe with Govain and hail sup
plied him with money from time to
time until he met Bruchard.
The millionaire had uses then for
Govain; It was in part through him
that he reached Anne-Marie and her
family. He also loaned Govain money.
' taught hitn safe speculation, made him
j rich. Then Govain repaid Grace her
1 money and broke ofT what she con aid
: ered their engagement.
I Since then she hail pursued him
! through his excesses, losing ground
all the time where she sought to re
gain a foothold. The pursuit was fol
ly. for Govain s nature was incapable
!of love, and she was of use to him
jno longer. *
• She will tell me the pretty story,
brachard muttered as he made a note
iof her telephone number. "She may
not wish to. but she will. ’
His thoughts were busy. too. with
Govain. His betrayer had developed,
.under his tutelage, into a shrewd spec
j ulator. Cowardly at heart and intense
ly fearful of losing his money, he
watched the market's every flutter,
ready to fly to cover on an instant a
warning of impending trouble.
brachard knew that at the slightest
indication of impending storm. Govain
• would unload and protect himself.
••[f he sees disaster coming, or even
a hint of it, he will save the fortune
I have made for him." he reflected.
His entire fortune now is Invested In
Egyptian copper, and he has a margin
lof ho francs. A drop of 100 francs
would wipe out his fortune and leave
him penniless, dependent again upon
the bounty of Grace Rutherford or
1 any one else he Is able to dupe.
I "But he must not anticipate the
| drop. The only way to make sure or
him is to keep him under my eye—
Thursday. January 14,
1909
under my hand—until 1 have finished
I him."
I He clenched Ills tlwtm as he thought,
and looked around the luxuriously fur
nished suite.
“I will bring Mr. Libertine here, with
his dainty ways, and entertain htru
while his fortune is being wiped out,’’
he concluded grimly.
Brachard felt his muscles grow
tense in anticipation. He knew that
he could take Govain ill those power
ful arms of his und break him. crush
him. as a child snaps a wooden toy.
He laughed aloud in the Joy of his
brute strength. He saw in antleiputlou
Govain, mad, delirious with excite
ment, while the shouts of the news
boys on tbe streets told of the break
in Egyptian copper, while his own
hands held his enemy by the throut
and made him listen.
Then he, too, went to bed and slept
like a docknian.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Story of the Supper.
Brachard was awakened at y o’clock
by Jean, his valet. He hurried through
his loilet, and while Jean was get
ting him rolls and coffee he culled
Grace Kutherford oil the telephone.
After some difficulty he compelled
1 her maid to awaken her, and she an
| swered him sleepily. With the same
I cuulion that he had used iu calling
Deveaux during the night he told her
l where he w as.
! "I want you to come to me immedi
ately- as soon as you can dress," he
said. "It is of the utmost importance
that you do not delay. My valet, Jean
will Ik* waiting for you and will con
duct you to my suite."
There was no doubt iu Brachard's
mind that she would come. Her cu
riosity alone would suffice to bring her
after the warning she had given him
last night, and which she now knew
he had heeded.
He next called Govain, having the
same difficulty in arousing that wor
thy from heavy slumber. From Go
vain tie finally exacted a promise that
he would be at the hotel at a quarter
past 11 o’clock. By that time he ex
pected to have finished with Deveaux.
an I started the train that would de
molish the fortune of Ills rival.
Brachard had not forgotten his bit
ter hurt In all the preparations for re
venge. From time to time, the mem
ory of the night forced itself through
his absorption In his plans, und he
clenched his hands In silent rage. But
to his valet lie presented a perfectly
calm demeanor, and after his light
breakfast he took a leisurely survey
of the magnificent apartments which
were to be the theater of Ills drama
for vengeance.
The drawing room was of splendid
size, wit 1) two lurge windows opening
out to a balcony that overhung the
Place Yendome. Adjoining the draw
ing room, and connected by double
doors, was a bedroom, which also
opened on the private corridor of the
suit*. In the corridor Jean waited,
so that Brachard and his guests might
be tree from interruption.
\t a few minutes after 10 o’clock
Jean knocked at the door and gave
I Brachard Grace's card. Grace herself
' was at the door, and Brachard step
ped past his servant to greet her cor
-1 dially.
"Ah. good morning, good morning.
I mademoiselle," he said formally. "I'm
j delighted to see you."
"Good morning. Monsieur Brach
ard." ({race said in her most formal
, manner. Then as Jean withdrew she
caught him by the hand.
“Well, Jacques, what is It? Has
' anything happened?”
j Brachard stepped to the door to
make certain that no one was listen
j irg. He did not answer at once, and
I Grace went on:
"Your telephone message got me out
jof bed. I dressed as quickly as I could,
and here I am. What has happened,
and what are you doing at this hotel,
1 for heaven's sake?"
Brachard smiled as he took in her
I close-fitting street gown and her be
j coming hat. reflecting that she looked
well after a night spent in revelry.
I After he had closed the doors leading
! into the bedroom, with elaborate cau
| tion, he said gayly:
(tontlniit-il Tomorrow.)