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HWBMfflPI - . . '"T'ir';? " '"J- VS.V SCr ! XlP- ! THE DAY BOOK JV. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 600 SO. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILI. Telephones Circulation, Monroe 38$1 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chicago, 30 centi a Month. Br Mail. United Btafea and Canada. J3.09 a Tear. Entered as second-class matter April 21. 1914. at the postoffiee at Chicago, 111, under the .Act -of. March 3. 1879. HOW IT WORKS. Ohio has a compulsory employe's insurance law. Not long ago a driver for a Cincin nati brewery, during high water, was told by a saloonkeeper to deliver a keg of beer by rolling.it into the back yard instead of putting it into the cellar. He reached his hand through a hole in the gate to unhook the latch and a bulldog grabbed'his hand. The industrial commission of Ohio has just decided that since the work man Tvas injured in the course of em ployment he is entitled to compensa tion for his .injuries. Before the former workmen's com pensation act was in force Miller could have sued the saloonkeeper and the saloonkeeper would have said, "Miller assumed the risk." Under the later workman's compensation act Miller could not have recovered from his employer, the brewery, because his employer had not been negligent If he was successful in either suit his lawyers would have paid the expens es of the trial first and then taken out their half of the verdict. Under the state insurance -plan, Miller, who was really hurt, gets full compensation and the lawyers get nothing. result The aforesaid ordinance de mands a nice, leather-cushioned, comfortable seat for every jitney rid er. Now a lot of street car patrons of Houston propose to attack the or dinance on the grounds that it is an unjust (iisoirnination. They want 3 guarantee of a seat just as comforta ble in the street cars for their jit. Some boomerang, THAT ord BEATS THE ELEMENTS The compilations of vessels lost at sea during the first three months of thift year by Lloyds' Register has been is sued. It shows that of a total tonnage of 323,694 lost 200,800 was sunk by warships or mines. For destructive ness the elements take Becond place to man for the first time in the his tory of the world covering a like period. DISCRIMINATION, ALL RIGHT. There is a new drastic jitney ordi nance in Houston, where a Boston corporation owns the street car lines and other things. . But it has had a most unexpected SHORT ONES Pshaw! Now we must wait. until Col. Roosevelt decides when the time for peace arrives. i uaa, is ix noi, xnai some or iness enterprising newspapers have not employed Old Doc Cook to report the war? The boy who believes he cannot lift himself by the boot straps without trying it seldom lifts himself in any other way. Dr. Lyman Abbott says it is easier for a man to get rid of his wife than It is of his cook; but who wants to get rid of his cook? They still claim there is nothing In a name, but you will note that Ed Holler turned state's evidence and convicted all those Terre Haute vote buyers. The sorest fellow we know is one who ordered an automobile in Janu ary, paid personal property taxes on it, settled his wheel tax, and up to date has secured an absolute promise that it may be delivered inside of thre weeksj ' "-' ..iaiCiS...