The Detroit times. [volume], May 15, 1909, FIRST EDITION, Image 10

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The Truth, No Matter
Whom It Helps or Hurts.
Ehssevelt, (he Killer,
E Assails Tolstoy,
H The Christian
Bth* Outlook Lets Its Associate Ed
Itor Shoot Holes Into the
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f ml . n* I* »n ultra Ibr ciur »* H h a i-rrlnln i * p«- ul in* *|l<ml iinlm.
u !■ him * dark *lrruk ** hlrh Irll* I Inn »l«ir
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llttlr ditmugr la %iurrlra. fur ll ** uulil apprul uni* In ilrrmlr nl* i r\-
U It eould lin*r rtiutr uni.* front u in.tu »* hn. bun r* rr lilpli lir him «
ll 111, |l|'(|'||l WWUMtI I* rrrtnlu rr*pr«-t*. hit* lu him i-r rl il tu I tiiiullllr* nr llir mum I
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The subject of this arraignment —an arraignment unjust, cruel, false
cowardly—is dying in Russia among the peasants to whom his life
HHHto been devoted with singular purity and unselfishntss.
■V. The writer it in the African jungle, where a horde of native and
beaters are driving wild beasts within range of his gun to be
A finer delicacy, a fairer consideration will be shown Tolstoy even
||||& the country whose iniquities and barbarisms, whose massacres and
atrocities against his people, and whose tyrants of the royalty and
|||BHiristocracy he has assailed with a powerful pen. levelling'at them the
drawn from the Christ-life.
MM More consideration will be shown this dying seer there even by those
hate him for the truths he has written and spoken against them.
on his death bed he will be spared the pain which would come in the
Knowledge that a life of such unselfishness, such hardship and torbear -
HHtaoe directed in the interest of a bleeding and suffering people, and raan-
Kind in general, had brought no better word than this and from one who
beld the high position in the eyes of the world as president of the
Bfcrited States, and who professes the faith that commands. Thou shah
bear false witness.'’
WEB This attack upon the dying Tolstoy, this gentle, unresisting man. is
HHnrom the pen of Roosevelt, the killer and the jingoist.
Tolstoy is not a man or beast killer and he abhors war.
Hot as one who feared war tor his own body's sake, nor as one who
■told no man has been able to see war as he saw it and so described it. he
MMiaked to be reassigned on his return to Russia from the Caucasus and.
showing his bravery to the division on the Danube face to face with the
Turk.
HE He was present at the siege of Silistra From there he went to the
HHprimea and the besieged Sebastopol, the center of the war. where for
HHpieiren months he served at the "fourth bastion and was subjected to the
fires of the allied armies.
|K What impressed him most was that men in war could shoot each
&L-rEft|rtk«T down and yet have nothing against each other as men. and what
him most was the devotion of the men on either side of the battle
country.
Tolstoy never had the blood-thirst and he was not a man glorying in
Dreadnaughts. for he did not like the sight of blood.
ilillE* He had looked upon war beyond its gold braid, its flags, the inspir-
Mi bugle and the quickstep of the band. These he thought all very fine
HB|k themselves, but most deplorable as incitements to slaughter.
But war to him was battlefields running red with blood, terrible with
HBishe cries of the injured and the moans of the maimed in the hospitals.
HEL He wrote against war. the pitting of brother against brother with
in their hands to shoot each other down at the command of sel-
Jsh, brutalized rulers, and this is the teaching, according to Theodore
which is fit only for feeble and fantastic folk.
Wm This attack upon the dying Tolstoy, whom all Christendom has
*TnjlMTllTrfl to love and respect, is from the pen of Roosevelt, the pen he
EBBhtokef up while giving his deadly nile a rest —and it is truly Rooseveltian.
both in ego and object.
* Over the shoulder of this blameless and consecrated saint, whose
fjjjjjjPof life are running fast, the ex-president strikes as one mightily j
miffed, at the candidate of the Democracy in the last national election.
m Tolstoy saw in Bryan the man of peace and for that, when votes for
BL |ds aelf-appointed successor were threatened. Roosevelt quickly takes i
of an associate editorship to lunge with that familiar ferocity
. K af Ria at one whose religion is to turn the other cheek, who will not strike j
Pfetok, and who is now too feeble to do so were he less of a Chnstian.
hailed everywhere as a righteous man. repays Tolstoy for
HEfPlVlaehing peace and love among men. as one who "has in him certain
dreadful qualities of the moral pervert.”
B Theodore Roosevelt has here, with his propensity when armed with a
B| ahot fun, seemingly gone hunting for big game with his reckless pen.
|B; The czars, the grand duke of the beauracracy and the gTeat-bellied
\ BLag&tocrats will hail and cheer their Bwana Tumbo. Every puny despot
BEKtorary decaying monarchy will receive with ecstacy this verbal flogging
HKfcßth%]nHeni Elijah at Yasnaya Polyana But there will be no sign of
HHEfiMtotixom the peasants or the persecuted Jews of Russia or those "feeble
Sill toll fantastic folk” here who are weary of the doctrine of force and
BTStoitiim. It was to these that Tolstoy appealed, the gTeat brotherhood
Br4|i.which be has lived and written as one whose code of life was based
■Wh the fundamental principles of Chnstianity.
Outlook today stands sponsor for this outrageous depreciation of
Tolstoy by its associate editor.
f fit was The Outlook, however, which published a truer estimate of
way of Edward A. Steiner's ‘ Tolstoy the Man.” for Steiner in his
says:
*fpTrtrt»y*» philosophy I* nut cIeMT to Ol HElt'l. * * * Hr ha* h mr«*n*r
Bktkr world whfc-h Ur lutrnU* *luill drl*r mil 11 rl* I Urn I lon lin*rd upon bnr
- DtoplMM Pad cruel I* t u pblloaoph* of llfr v»hlrb. n* hr *rr* It. I* ftin.liim.nl-
OppoMi-d tw thr In*** «r niiturr. and « rrllulim *»hlrli lia* rrdorrd (.«i|La»'
BEF’tibf ot m Hii*«liih monari'b. ilritrmlrtl Ibr '«»lnr Into n iiiaclrlin and Ibr
IlMr Inin a frtNb Hr inrun* to bring In n cnlturr **hlrh *hnll hr frrr from
-f nrlmrUM, n phlloaophy of llfr **lilrh »hnll br In burinon* t*lfh Ibr trarhlng*
■ [ Jtim, Mild n religion **bl«-h *hnll nuitirr to Ihr prompting* of ibr aout.
jjgjE. Bomewhat at variance, isn't it. this appreciation with the slander
; The Outlook prints now.
But let us go on and see what else Steiner finds in the man:
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lE' H* U|*co\ rml In thr hrrmup on the Mount lltr ln**a which hatr hrromr
rrnlr for ftiltb nnd roadurt. and which lir l»elle\e» **lll taring thr kingdom
God Into mm* brnrt*. anil plorr bnpplnr** upon thr rurtb. The lir la**a
bp unmmnrlme* I bn*:
BE “Live at prnrr with nil mrn itml do not rrgurd any our n* your Inferior."
to tor **Pn make the beauty of the b»ml> an oeenalon for lu*t."
■ 1 man should bn*r only one *»lfr iMul e»ery nomun only onr Hu*-
■Be hand, nnd they should not be dl*orred for hm> rraotn.”
j.v' r*- **Dn not Itveage youraclf autl do not piinl«li berniiar you think * ourself
11 fnanlted or hnrt. inffrr all wriiac, and do not rrpay e%ll with e*llt for you
nr# ehtldren of one Father.**
la "SfVtf break the peaoe In the name of patrlotlam.**
BE These are the rules which guided the life erf a man whose wTitings we
Br'to* told m dangerous, and yet they ARE FROM THE SERMON ON
B THE MOUNT.
B 7 *** they are 111168 which ins P irf,(l th e peasant life and the deathless
!» r literary work of Leo Tolstoy in the interest ot all men. “for all ve are
jag brethren.”
/ -A* official of the government, a veteran of the civil war. who
Bl.toto boltop into the court room upon a cot to protect his good name from
toriwu accusation df President Roosevelt's, was acquitted bv the
tfttwua only to be made the subject of a fresh attack by Roosevelt, who
4toiani that his escape from conviction was purelv technical.
•*.addressed a protest against this indignity fiom his sick
anyone with less self-sufficiency than Theodore Roosevelt would
■nEßklf to his dying day The aged official s letter contained this
Bilrtftt liar “I about t 0 * oon - sir. to meet a higher and more
Xt%a than yon.”
rSm Tolstoy does not fight with carnal weapons We doubt if he
tke f™* l lion-Killer’s cruel thrusts if he were permitted
BWiMrWB tha ex-president of a nation for which he has cherished the
i tgHtol Mpm* had treated him.
! OiMlh ha would not be disturbed, for he has been berated bv the
too often for that.
K wmm E* noniMtr that he has listened to attentively, and to
' Vtproofs he has assented That accuser is his own soul
B njflll tha Great Hunter, with til of his prowess, be brave enough to
B- m iMhf
Out o fthat realm of savagery
and slaughter, Darkest Africa, comes
this latest Rooseveltian onslaught,
via the highly religious Outlook:
Slross mru may gala aumriblag from
Tol*lu>‘* Nior«l Irai-blug *. but ouly ou
rondlflMM Ilia I fhry arc *lmss i-uough
nud (Sur cauugb to bv rrpvllril It*
flioM- part* of hi* tmi-Ulng* ** hl« h ar«-
fooll*k or luiiiiorul. Ui*uk prraou* nr«*
hart hy thr tmchlui*.
Hr »rr not IlMblr «o tvrlalu kinds ul
»* li-krdnr** **bl«-h SfcWS l> rr«l d«nn#r
of hla v* riling* I lieu I •*>( 11 og i for It I* ■
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IIIPTIST.
Th»- ch’.iri fi will be handsomely de* o
r-.it>-.1 with and iut fio\\+-T* and
.til friends are cordially Invited.
The Beulah B iptiat Bible school will
celebrate Its tifl-enth anniv. i sary.
Tuesday evening. May j". with a ban
-14 uet.
The Kev. Maurice Penrteld Kikes l» i
11. of tne Woodward ave _ Bapt si l
church, will speak Tuesday eVenin# in
the V M C A. in the interest of the
Young People’s Missionary conference |
to be held in Lake Geneva. Jutv J-ll
The Kev. W. W DesAutels. formerly ;
of this city, writes that he Is prosper
ing in Ids new work in Salt Lake « tty. |
and baptised 15 the first Sunday In
May —Mm. - IwnAnrels W, • 1 join her
husband very soon.
Tire members of the Scott#n-ave
Baptist chur h are making plans to
completely renovat. and remodel their
thurcti Tho old building will be moved
back on the lot raised, and a basement
put under it equipped for Sunday school
! and gymnasium The building will also
be redecorated.
Preparations .vre being made by th»
members of the North Bapt.-t church
f..r th> first service which will be (.• Id
in the--new church. Woodward and Pin
*re*.-4v es . Sunday. Joseph W Towell.
of Buffalo. will deliver an address be
fore the men of th* church.tn the morn
ing at 1* o’clo* k. speaking of the
Brotherhood wc*rk. The Rev Thomas
W l uung. XL L». pastot of the chur> h.
will preach u sermon at 10 o’clock, and
Mr. Towell will also deliver a short ad
dress !*pe< lal music is being prepared
for these services, under the direction
of Kov W Anger, and will be presented
by a large chorus. The Sunday school
will meet at 2 45 o’clock In the after
noon and the \our.g People a meeting
will be held at C 30. at whh h Mr
Towell will speak. He will also speak
at tiie evening service and Mrs Towell
will sing The handsome new church,
w nich when completed will cost in the
neighborhood Isj.wOO. exclusive of
th>- situ, is ready for occupancy, with
the exception of the auditorium. The
' Sunday school rooms will be used for
; preaching purposes until the audito
rium Is finished, which it Is expected
will be In about five or six months.
Next Sunday will also be made memor
able by the reception of 40 new mem
bers. making a total of Letvve>-n 35" and
4uw on the rolls
CHOm TEH I % \.
I)r Lau will preach In the F««Yt
Wayne Presbyterian church. Sunday
morning.
The Itcv. Weston T Johnson will
preach In the Memorial Presbyterian
church, Sunday evening
Homer Warren will address the men s
meeting in the Fort-st. Presbyterian
church. Sunday morning at t> «T 1 o clock
Instead of the regular Sunday even
ing service, a 4 o'clock vesper s. rvic*
will be Inaugurated in the Jefferson
ave. Presbyterian church Sunday.
Kighteen new members will be re
o-lve.l into cnur< h membership in the
Newberry chapel n-xt Sunday after
noon ut 5 o'elcx k. the Rev. P R De*
T’arlo to liave . bar* of the service
Tiie Rev Marcus Scott of the Central
Presbyterian church, will go to Hum
About time to change >m.
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Those mutiueera peraist in hanging-around Constantinople.
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F Augustua Helnze haa been indicted ugain, but what of tha'.
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There ia one aatlstactlou. nevertheless; he la a good golf player.
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We will know by the time they have struck the' tariff whether taik Is
cbtap. ’
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Senator Money not oul> talks bpt he aa>a something and appears to
mean it. •'
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There la, at any rate, no love of Senator Money on the part or tne
Hoot ot all evil special Interest conne rtions.
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There is a great deal more certainty aa to wheie the Boyea are than
there wav in the minds of the Whitla for a time concerning their son.
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Wouldn't It be most appropriate if it were Senator Money to kick out
a few- senators whom money put in their seats
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When it tomes to the price of wh**at. the farmer should remember that,
he is simply the man who raises »t amt buys Hour.
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While Kermit Roosevelt was lost In the Jungle, why didn't he inquire
the way back of someone of the animals that gnu. For, which we beg par
don.
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Autos for army officer* In Frisco have been talmoed by the govern
ment. The order states, however, they will still ride In horseless carriages
—behind mules.
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-Since a man by the name of Herring Is working on an airship, it is not
ice! tha* the flxli-xhaped mac hine nas been passed up for flsh-shaped names
1 for tlie inventor.
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< «rl I.utnholtz. the ethnologist explorer. Is going Into Mexico to study
the Papagos. the Cor-ops* and tiie plmni. Ami sfter he gets through with
jthem he might take « little flyer into Michigan and see what he thinks of
[the Warners, the Kellys and the Campbells.
In Detroit Life Is Worth Living
KT. KEV. JOHN S. FOLEY,
Bishop of Detroit.
IN THE DETROIT CHURCHES
From Another Point of Vievr
. ilturT. Uhl. f.■ 00 upy the nulpit with
the Rev I* \V. Riiilpott of Dial city.
S inday evening Tiie Rev J f*te s*t«w
-*4l ♦•{' . ; Wa .. vs.uu Mr
Scutt * pulpit Sunday morning
Since the coming v>f tiie Rev Join IT
Bs>> J. I > 1». tu the pastorate of ti e
First Presbyterian church, a year agi>
li«t January. 200 mw members have |
been received During the last year,
the total gifts from all sources
amounted to s2S.o<"j.
Beginning Sunday, the Woodward*
ave Pr sbyterian church will hold ser
vices in tiie Thor as Normal Training
School building, Woo<l ward-ave and
the Boulevard, until the completion of
tne new church. New members will be
received Sunday morning
j T4»«* Rev, John Briiun i'la.rk. X)—
: pastor ot Westminster Presbyterian
| church, underwent an operation In
Harper hospital last week but is rr-.
I poTted as recovering nk-elv The pas-'
1 t'>r s class for young people bus been
I discontinued on account of his illness.
HKTIIODHT.
T»r L E Lovejoy, of Pontiac, will
present a paper on ‘Tiie minister as
a pa.stor. ” l efure tne members of the
Met : oil is t Ministers assoclati'Vn in the
Central Methodist church next Monday
morning
Bishop Joseph Berry will preach
Sunday morning -and evening in ttve
North Met nudist Episcopal church. The
evening service will be In celebration
of the twentieth annlversarv* of the
Kpvvorth I>agu* Saturday* evening, a
reception will he tendered th>- bishop
by the Men’s club In the church, and
It Is expe ted that he will speak about
the woi k of the Methodist brotherhood.
CATHOLIC, 1
The Rev John M hrelber, pastor
of St Boniface < nureh, will take a trip
,to Europe in June, and during hi*
absence the Kev. Anthony C' Schneider
will be In charge. Fr Schreiber has
Just returned from Baltimore, where he
took a post-graduate course In the
seminary.
\I)VE\T CHKI9TIASL
The Rev F. 1 M Murra, of Boston,
will deliver a stereoptlcon lecture In
th,*. Advent r’hrlstlan church. Sunday
evening at 7 30 o’clock, on -China and
Its people * \lr. Murra will also preach
in the morning
PtftSBVTEKI A V
Th- Rev. Robert Maxwell, formerly
of Michigan, and for the last ten years
representative of the United Presbv*-
terlan church in British India, will
speak in the First United Presby
terian church, Grand River and Alex
andrtne-av es . Sunday morning.
Y. M. f. A.
The Kev. A S. Gregg, one of the lec
turers foi the International Reform
bureau, will speak In the V M C A ,
Sunday afternoon on 'Lobbyists. law
makers and lawlessness ** He will
occupy the pulpit of the Inimanual
Baptist churef) in the evening
The first aerial pleasure yacht, an
airship of the Farseval type. ha» been
r rdereri by several residents of Berlin.
vi mt tuns
The meeting ulght of Lewis
Vicar) a 1 lass in sotigx luterpreta
tion has been changed from Fri
day to Monday. The first meeting
was held last Friday nud was pro
pronounced a complete success by
tlu*a« preaeut. Z. The songs sung were
criticised and analyzed.
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The follow lug pupil* took part in
the regular Wednesday concert of the
1 hrtroit Conservatory of Music; Mis*
Ltessie Swegles, Way 11 e; Mias May tne
Foreman. Findlay, O.; Mlaa Georgina
I Parker. Miss Florence Hearing. Ann
Arbor, Miss Marjorie Cleiand. Miss
KoAcila Bower, Miss Alma Pauser.
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Miss Elsie M. Houghton, organist,
pupil of Mr. York, of the Detroit Con
servatory of Music, will give her
graduating lecital Thursday evening.
1 May -0, lu the Cass ave. M E church.
>She will t»e assisted by Miss Elizabeth
Emery, soprano.
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Miss Lillian liresser, plaulste, pupil
of Miss Johusou. of the Detroit Con
fservalory of Music, will give her grad
-1 eating recital, Tuesday evening. May
IS. iu the Y. W C A. hall, asslstetl
Iby Herbert A. Mllllken. Miss Char
lotte McDonald, violinists. W. R Otis.
I viola, and Miss Emma McDonald,
cello.
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Mess Florence Strelau. pupil of Miss
Frances Van Vllet, will furnish sev
eral solos for the eutertaiument to
be given by the Protected Home Cir
' cle, May lti.
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The last of a series of three recitals
Iby ChurttMi Frederic Morse w til be
I given iu Temple Beth El. Sunday af
jternoon. May 16, at 4 o'clock. Hans
J Welssmann, violinist, will be the as
sisting soloist.
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Piano pupils of Miss Doty and Miss
Joniiny, of the Detroit Conservatory |
of Music, assisted by Miss Sara Carr, j
contralto, will give a musieale, Friday
evening. May 21, lu Conservatory hall.
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Miss Bertha Hausbury, plauist, pu
pil of Miss Johnson, of the Detroit
Conservatory of Music, gave a concert
in the Y. W. C- A. hall, lust Thursday
evening.
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Miss Mary Katherine Hudson, pi
anist, pupil of Mr York, of the L>e
troit Conservatory of Music, gave her
graduating recital in Conservatory
hall, last Tuesday evening, assisted
by Mrs. Chas. H. Clements, contralto,
aiicf L. Renwtck. accompanist
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Miss Edith Maurer, of the Detroit
Conservatory of Music, played last
Friday night at a concert iu Cathedral
hall.
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A piano recital will be given by the
pupils of Miss Anna Koehn. lu Im
manuel Presbyterian church, Boulo
vard and Porter-sts . Friday, May 21-
Mi*s Keohn will be assisted by Miss
Olive Temple Carr, reader. Mrs. J.
Russel, soprano. Miss Charlotte Mc-
Donald. Miss Bernice Harrigan. Glenn
Stock. Edward Hradeeky. William
\ Dunlap and Jerry Masak. violinist*.
''Miss Emma McDonald. Miss Ethel
Harrigan. cellists, and Frank H. Liu
derman, accompanist.
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J Henry Francis, organist and choir
director of St. Andrew's Episcopal
church, has resigned and gone to
Charleston, W. Va_ Mr. Francis has
done a great deal of composing while
ln Detroit, and several of his more re-'
cent compositions will be brought out
by the Lagatree Publishing company
of this city. They are very attractive
numbers and Include a Suite Melo
dieuse, "Chant dti Soir," "Le Reve,"
"I,e Matin Joyeux.'* and ‘ Feu Follet."
a caprice, and ;’Fruhhngstraum," a
tone poem.
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Splendtd program has been ar
ranged for the final concert this sea
son of the Detroit String quartet in
Temple Beth El, Thursday evening.
I May 20. In addition to the qnartet 1
numbers. Hans Welssmann. the viola
player of the organization, will make
his first appearance as a soloist at
theese concerts, playing Sitt’s Con
certo In A minor for the viol* This
instrument Is not often heard in solo
work, and Herr W’eissraann's appear
ance is arousing the liveliest interest
among music lover*. The aslsting so
loist will be William Lavin. the well
known tenor, who will sing the aria
"Hilda vierge u pale sourlre,” from
Reyer's opera • Sigurd." and a group
of aongs. "Possession" (Llghtner);
"Dondel de I’adleu" (De Lara), and
"La. Bnlser" (Thomas). The quartet's
[contributions will include Men-
I delssohn's quartet In D flat major, and
the following excerpts: Largo, from
i Haydn's quartet, No. 14, and the Ro
' manza and allegro from Grelg's quar
tet. The program will begin promptly
at 8:16 o’clock
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In Society
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Mr. and Mrs. Weir A. MeCollagh
and daughter. Mlfs Sarah E* of ttils
city, have gone to Ireland to take
( harge of an estate that recently came
into their possession. They will make
their future home in the Emerald Isle
| Detroit Lodge, No. 52. Degree of
Honor, will give a pedro party Thurs
day evening, May 20. in the home of
Mrs. Duyer, No. 468 Bellevue-ave.
Mrs. F. W. Stevens, formerly of De
troit. now of New York, has presented
Ito the public library as a memorial
lof her mother, who died recently, a
number of books which have been
mad* up into flee separate collection!
and named "Mary E Brewer Library
lor Invalids." These have been put
.Into neat oak cases, and the library
i will deliver oen # of these cases of a
half dozen books free of charge to ani
1 person requesting the same. As the
books were selected by an elderly lady
for her dwn reading, they are believed
to be interesting to snch elderly per
,eon». The library is soliciting ajr
I'Titations for these books, which arc*
now reaily for delivery.
Census Office being Probed.
WASHINGTON. May 16 It was
, learned today that a general Investi
gation hy Secretary Nagel Into the
methods of Census Director North,
has been in progress for three days
tn the office of the secretary and it
Is expected that Nagel will file a re
port with President Taft at next Tues
■ day's cabinet meeting to substantiate
jhis tbarg#* against North.
Intimate Correspondence
From Washington
By RATH
WASHINGTON, May 14. ISMW
Dear Dad: There is un eigan grimier
down below sending up t(je sweet
strains of 11 Trovaiore. 1 like organ
grimier*—particularly the modern u|) ,
to date fellows with good lond rottttr- •
Inn, well-tuned pianos Perhaps w»*
ought to call them piano grinders
uow I encourage them to come around
—much to the disgust of some sour
Uvered tenants of our building—pea
tllieut iwpl. who do nut Know koo'J
music when they hear tt. bah’ they
are fit for treasons, stratagems und
spoils! My good Greek gives me mar
tial music, aud my heurt beats in
rythtii to his keys He gives me Mon
ey-Musk and Dixie, and it dances, and
then a piece of Chopin; tt Is. I think,
the Nocturne iu G There Is something
wonderfully reassuring iu the air that
runs through that nocturne. It sug
gests the deep fundamental harmony
that underlies the universe —the hap
penings of today as well us those of
yesterday, with their sharps or flats,
their minors or their major chords,
tlielr victories or their seeming fail
ures, their ups or their downs. It sug*'
gests the eternal laws of harmony
which remain and govern sound when
sharps and Hats have mingled in tin
empty air; when the current happen
ings fade from memory; It suggesis
the progress of eternal ruth ami the
working out of our lueals. in spite of
congress. In spite of Cannon. In spite
of Aldrich*—aud perhaps Taft' Is this
faith'* 1 say no. It Is understanding
! I know whereof 1 speak Here, faitn
i ful Greek, a dime for your patient
; grinding, and my thanks tiracla. Yet>,
my grada to you*
*. • • •
And now to our morning's tune, on
our faithful typewriter machine.
Did you happen to have noticed th *
geography of the Aldrich tariff bill?
Begin with Maine; run down the Af
lantlc coast to Florida; across the
states that border on the gulf, lnt»
Texas; then to California then up the
coast to Oregon. Run your pencil
down through the mountain states o'
the west Your pencil has marked the
states which will line up 4»»d give Mr
Aldrich the necessary votes. New Eng
land with its woolen and cotton sched
ules. and the re enactment ot the Ding
ley MU; West Virginia with its new
Don V Die All At Once; Die
Piecemeal And Get Rich
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To a man killed outright, $10,000; to a man killed piecemeal, $246,230.
Amount
Injury. Awarded
Head $ 18.000
Eye 14,000
Hearing 0.000
Nose
jaw 16.500
Shoulder 7.500
Arm 18.000
Wrist vV. 1.250
Finger* - 4.0')
Hand H •"**>
Side 10,000
Heart • 2.000
Spine 20,000
Bark 15.000
Rib 10.000
Hip 15,000
Thigh 10,000
Le * 30.000
Knee ’ <>.650
Ankle 4.000
Foot 16,000
Rupture 11,000
Total $246,230
Mark Twain aald, ’ If you would he
good, die.’’
The corporation lawyer has one
that'* better: “If you would collect
the most damage*, die piecemeal
No man la w’orth more then SIO,OOO
’MOST ANYTHING
Question: Do*** a Bwnna I umbo
rank higher than a Moro datta?
-Evidently people an> drowning this
yea\who n«*ver drtfwnmr before.
Turpentine trust found guilty. (>r
what? Vimmercial turplture?
Df'ga trXed a New York magistrate
on a lamp&ost. Make a beprh show
of hl;n? 1
Headline: “Cell door* yawn for kid
napers ”
Comment: Mention them again and
everybody else will yawn, too.
Saturday, May 15.
1909
corn.esalou ot 40 cents the ton ou coal
und aorne duties for Its Iron ores; the
raroltuas and Florida with the lumber
tariff, the sugar duties for the gulf
sugar states, a 15-cent tax on hides so-
Texas, tax fur citrus fruits and can
nod goods for Cullforuiu -and also
lumber; the lumber duties for th-i
states of the northwest, and finally the
protection of the wool, the coal an!
the Iron ore of the mountain states of
I tah, Wyoming. Colorado and the oth
ers See how Brother Aldrich rounds
it i.p? The deur consumer and the re
trailing Industries of the country may
all go hang.
• • •
1 am told—and I giies* It's true —
that the Illinois senatorship la on the
block. There are two bidder* In the
market at the present time— also as
I am told —Frank O. Lowden und Wm
Mi Klnley. Both are rich. Both are
members of the national house of rep
resentative*. Both—as I am told—
ure ready to spend a reasonable
amount of money In the perfectly
legitimate expenses which are Incident
ti the fracture of u dead lock in a leg
lelnlure. Mr. I.owden l» the Pullman
company, and Mr McKinley is the In
ttrurbau traction property of Illinois.
Both arc Cannon s shadows. Ixi us
hi pc It Is not true. Better Hopkins
the unspcakulde—backed by a small
majority In the referendum taken—*
than the Job put up at auction. Shame
on Illinois!
• • •
By all means let’s heal the breach
In revenues by a tax on automobiles!
(I haven’t otic, so I can speak with
out Interested motive*. ) This was one
ot the very first kind of ti xes levied
b> the federal government; only then
it was on carriage*. All vehicles kept
for pleasure were subjected to a tax.
and the first decision by our supremo
I court on the income tax was a test'
j case on this tax on carriages The
supreme court upheld the law Fine.
| says Senator Bailey (an excellent law
t vei gone wrong), let’s re-enact the tax
land lay it on the pleasure wagons of
the rich! Q, kJab aenator from Tex
as! U. good supreme-court’ Lets
have the tax. And the faster the
higher. Sincerely.
RATH
if he die all at once. No jury, in any
state. « an return a larger verdict for
his heirs.
Crippled, but not killed, however, a
man tna> get damages aggregating
$246,230 for injuries to various parts
of his body, providing they do not re
sult in death. A live cripple is worth
more than a perfect deal man.
it is cheaper—nearly 25 times cheap
er—to kill a man than to cripple him.
While the law ilxea a limit beyond
which Juries may go In awarding dam
ages for accidental death, it fixes no
limit to the amount that may be re
covered for injuries that do not result
In death,
Anew York court recently Awarded
a wife SIB,OOO for the loss of her hus
band's memory, brought about by in
juries. while the loss of an eye haa
been assessed at $14,000 by one Jury
end. Injuries to the spine were as
sessed at $20,000 by another. A Texaa
railroad man recently proved that but
for the accidental loss of an arm he
would soon have been promoted, and
the Jury gave him $14,000. A Wiscon
sin Jury some time ago awarded a
n.an $30,000 for the loss cf both legs
In a railway accident, while a Texas
laborer, earning $2.10 a .lay, collected
$4,000 for a crushed ankle.
Hanks are to Insure themselves
’ against failing Hut'need a bank fail?
1 hspatchcs tell of a policeman who
was given a heavily loaded cigar. It
1 was a poor joke. He didn't smoke It.
-
The fellow who writes kidding kid
naping letters Is running the rock-the
l*oat fool a mighty close race this sea
son.
Roosevelt will also go thundering
down the ages In natural history,
what?
Frankly, the object of that gambol
I tour by the Laiubs Is to make a mint.