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w. y wwtipiHiPigpigH sgggwsggwcgw 1 mm A LOVER WORTH WHILE Jennie Johnson is a fortunate girl. Jennie, out of work and hungry, forged a check for $8 in a city in Wisconsin some months ago, to get a pair of shoes and something to eat. She wasn't a vicious or a depraved person, Jennie wasn't; had sheTbeen, she wouldn't have needed to forge a check to get shoes and bread she could have clad herself in furs and diamonds and dined on terrapin. She was just a poor, untutored girl, thrust by fate into the stress of life's battle without adequate preparation for honorable self-support. She worked as long as she could find work to do and broke the law only when the odds wore down her untrained scruples. So they brought Jennie Johnson before a judge, she pleaded guilty and it was only the judge's leniency which kept her from being sent to a prison. The judge a wise man, who wasn't disposed to consider an $8 damage to property rights a worse offense to society than the damning of a human soul admitted her to parole; and a good woman took Jennie under her wing and promised to be the friend in need. Up in a lumber town in Northern Wisconsin is a husky carpenter who had known Jennie in a happier time had Ichown her and had loved her. He heard of Jennie's plight; and like the big-hearted chap he is, decided -that that was his cut to butt in. He took the first train to the scene of the incident; and soon there will be the sound of wedding bells. No, the good Samaritansiaren't all dead. o o " DECIDES THAT THE WOMEN CAN WORK AT THE POLLS Foes of women's suffrage who are opposed to the newly-enfranchised voters acting as clerks and judges of elections recently thought they had seized upon something that looked promising. They said women could not work at election polls as such work would necessitate a violation of the 10-hour law. State Factory Inspector Inspector Oscar F. Nelson then asked the at torney for his department, John P. Reed, for an opinion. And Reed de cided that women can work at the polls. "After due deliberation," reported -Mr. Reed, "I am of the opinion that the state department of factory in spection has no jurisdiction or au thority in this matter, as the ap pointment and confirmation of fe males as judges and clerks of elec tion make them officers of the coun ty court, and the Board of Election Commissioners and court can not be looked upon as their employer; and, that, if the court was called upon to construe the enactment of what is commonly known as the woman's ten-hour law, as passed, it would in all probability hold that to enforce the said law in the matter of the appointment and confirmation of fe males as judges and clerks of election would be to deprive any female of the right to hold any appointive or elective position to which she would be eligible as a citizen, under the law, if the incumbent of such office would be required 'to work more than ten hours a day." o o The late Lord Young was respon sible for enlivening many a dull case. On one occasion counsel urged on behalf of a plaintiff of somewhat bibulous appearance, "My client is a most able man and holds a very re sponsible position; he is manager of the waterworks." After a long look at the client Lord Young answered, "Yes, he looks like a man who could be trusted with any " amount of water!" . C 1, taJ--Jdt -