Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1908 — Page 6

| Mystery of alost Ring! ICoWrtgM. Mog, by Amerlcan pres , Asso . elation.) The main incident of this story was given me for a fact. The loss of Sophie Brock's engage ment ring was a mystery. Less than a week after Clarence Howes had given 11 J® h er Bhe went t 0 one night with it on her finger, and when she ln the morni ng it was gone. The bedding was searched and shaken: the bed was taken apart, but the ring did not appear. There was no evidence of burglary except that the sash of a window in Sophie’s room, which had been closed when she went to bed, was found in the morning raised. The persons in the house besides the servants were Sophie's father, mother, a younger brother, aged ten. and her cousin, \y inifred Loomis, about her own age. Sophie and Winifred were the only i>ersons sleeping on the floor from which the ring had disappeared. Winifred was an orphan and had beer taken in for charity. She was stifdying to become a teacher. There w.h no possible explanation of the ring's loss except Winifred had taken it < fl her cousin’s finger while the latter slept. But this did not account for the open window. Besides, Winifred was regarded by all who knew her as an upright, conscientious girl. As to the theory of the theft by a servant, it was impossible, for the doors leading from both Sophie’s and Winifred s room were locked and bolt ed, though the two rooms communicated and the door between them was open. \\ hen Sophie told her lover of her loss she intimated she believed that for some unknown reason Winifred had coveted the ring and had yielded to a temptation to take it off her finger while she slept. Howes remonstrated against throwing suspicion upon any one without proof, especially Winifred, whom all loved and respected. Indeed, so earnestly did he enter upon Winifred's defense that Sophie took his action for a clew. It suddenly appeared to her that she had a rival in Winifred —that her rival could not endure to see her wearing a ring on her finger which had been given her by the man she (Winifred) loved, and this was her motive for stealing it What we fear we are apt to bring to pass. Howes was a manly fellow, and the moment suspicion, which he considered unjust, was thrown upon Winifred he became interested in her and in the solution of the mystery by which she suffered. He questioned Winifred closely upon every detail, and one day Sophie came upon the two unawares while engaged in an animated conversation. Sophie's glance at the couple caused both to blush. She passed on without a word, and the result of the encounter was a new complication. Sophie was now sure of her explanation of the mystery and was doubly sure that Winifred had captured her lover. Os all, social conditions the most, ex-

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asperating is one involving things known and not spoken. Howes knew that he was suspected of being on terms with Winifred that were not acceptable to his fiancee. Winifred knew this and that she was sSspected of having stolen the ring. Sophie knew that both the others were aware of these things, and yet all this knowledge was ignored between the trio. On the surface Howes and Sophie were lovers: under the surface HoWes and Winifred were fast being drawn together by an irresistible power, sympathy in one. gratitude in the other. Howes received a brief note from Sophie breaking her engagement without giving any reason. It drew color to his cheek and a dash to his eye. He replied, accepting the situation without comment. Winifred remained a member of the Brock household. Why shouldn’t she? No one had openly accused her. No one treated her any differently than before the mystery. Nevertheless she lived a wretched life, counting the days till she should be equipped to earn her own living. One night she awoke suddenly from sleep. The full moon was shining into , the room, and by its light she saw her cousin in her room standing before a : mirror combing her hair. Winifred asked her what in the world she was doing that for. There was no reply, and in another moment Sophie passed into her own room. There she threw up a window and leaned over the sill, looking out. Winifred, realizing that i she had to deal with a sleepwalker | and not daring to leave her at the win-; dow, led her to her bed. Sophie lay down without awakening, and Winifred watched beside her. While Winifred lay awake she thought. The loss of the ring must be in some way connected with this somnambulism. Might not her cousin have dropped the ring in the room or out the window? The next morning she revealed what she had seen. Sophie, regarding the story as made up to exonerate Winifred, received it with silent scorn. Winifred searched her cousin’s room when Sophie was absent and found—nothing. Howes searched the grounds, also without success. This was in midsummer. One day in October the gardener was pulling up some withered vegetable stalks in the kitchen garden in the rear yard and found the missing ring. It recalled to him that one night while standing at his door he had seen some one throw something from a window of Sophie’s room. Sophie had thrown the ring from her window while asleep. The explanation came too late to effect a reconciliation between Sophie Brock and Clarence Howes. He married Winifred Loomis. LOUISE C. FARRELL. Crazy. “We find the prisoner not guilty by | reason of insanity.” "But the plea was not that of In-; sanity,” remarked the court. "That’s just the point we made,” re-' joined the foreman. "We decided that' any man who didn't have sense enough ' to know that an Insanity plea was the I proper caper must be crazy.”—Phila- i delphia Ledger. >

President’s Message (Continued from Page One) its most effective effort In the shape of an appeal to the old doctrine of states’ rights. The proposal to make the national government supreme over, and therefore to give It complete control over, the railroads and other instruments cf Interstate commerce is merely a proposal to carry out to the letter one of the prime purposes, if not the prime purpose, for which the constitution was founded. It does not represent centralization. I believe that the more farsighted corporations are themselves coming to recognize the unwisdom of the violent hostility they have displayed during the last few years to regulation and control by the national government of combinations engaged in Interstate business. Labor. There are many matters affecting labor and the status of the wageworker to which I should like to draw your attention. As far as possible I hope to see a frank recognition of the advantages conferred by machinery, organization and division of labor, accompanied by an effort to bring about a larger share in the ownership by wageworker of railway, mill and factory. In farming this simply means that we wish to see the farmer own his own land. We do not wish to see the farms so large that they become the property of absentee landlords who farm them by tenants nor yet so small that the farmer becomes like a European peasant The depositors in our savings banks now number over one-tenth of our entire population. These are all capitalists who through the savings banks loan their money to the workers —that Is, in many cases to themselves —to carry on their various industries. Postal savings banks will make it easy for the poorest to keep their savings in absolute safety. The regulation of the national highways must be such that they shall serve all people with equal justice. Corporate finances must be supervised so as to make it far safer than at present for the man of small means to Invest his money in stocks. There must be prohibition of child labor, diminution of woman labor, shortening of hours of all mechanical labor. Stock watering should be prohibited, and stock gambling, so far as is possible, discouraged. There should be a progressive inheritance tax on large fortunes. Industrial education should, be encouraged. Protection For Wageworkers. There is one matter with which the congress should deal at this session. There should no longer be any paltering with the question of taking care of the wageworkers _who,, under .our

present industrial system, become killed. crippled or worn out as part of the regular incidents of a given business. The object sought for could be thieved to a measurable degree, as far as those killed or crippled are concerned, by proper employers’ liability laws. As far as concerns those who have been worn out, I call your attention to the fact that definite steps toward providing old age pensions have been taken in many of our private industries. Pending a thoroughgoing investigation and action there Is certain legislation which should be enacted at once. The law passed at the last session of the congress granting compensation to certain classes of employees of the government should be extended to Include all employees of the government and should be made more liberal In Its terms. In this respect the generosity of the United States toward its employees compares most unfavorably with that of every country In Europe—even the poorest. The terms of the act are also a hardship in prohibiting payment in cases where the accident is in any way due to the negligence of the employee. It Is inevitable that dally familiarity with danger will lead men to take chances that can be construed Into negligence. I renew my recommendation made in a previous message that half holidays be granted during the summer to all wageworkers in government employ. I also renew my recommendation that the principle of the eight hour day should as rapidly and as far as practicable be extended to the entire work being carried on by the government The Courts. I most earnestly urge upon the congress the duty of Increasing the totally Inadequate salaries now given to our judges. On the whole, there is no body of public servants who do as valuable work nor whose moneyed reward Is so inadequate compared to their work. Beginning with the supreme court, the judges should have their salaries doubled. It is earnestly to be desired that some method should be devised for doing away with the long delays which now obtain In the administration of justice and which operate with peculiar severity against persons of small means and favor only the very criminals whom It Is most desirable to punish. At the last election certain leaders of organized labor made a violent and sweeping attack upon the entire judiciary of the country, an attack couched In such terms as to Include the most upright, honest and broad minded judges no less than those of narrower mind and more restricted outlook. Last year before the house committee on the judiciary these same labor leaders formulated their demands, specifying the bill that contained them, refusing all compromise, statlug they wished the principle of that bill or nothing. They insisted on a provision that In a labor dispute no injunction should issue except to protect a property right and specifically

_ ... ._i ■ provided that the right to carry on > business should not be construed as a . property right, and in a second pro- • | vision their bill made legal in a labor > \ dispute any act or agreement by or , between two or more persons that . ! would not have been unlawful If done . > by a single person. In other words, > ■ this bill legalized blacklisting and boy- ■ j cottlng in every form. The demand i I was made that there should be trial ■ I by jury in contempt cases, thereby I most seriously impairing the authority .I of the courts. All this represented a . i course of policy which, if carried out, t : would mean the enthronement of class . J privilege in its crudest and most . | brutal form and the destruction of . ! one of the most essential functions of ,j the judiciary in all civilized lands, j I The wageworkers, the workingmen, > , i the laboring men of the country, by the , . j way in which they repudiated the ef- [ i fort to get them to cast their votes in . response to an appeal to class hatred ■ j have emphasized their sound patriotism . I and Americanism. L Courts Imperiled by Judges. i But the extreme reactionaries, the j ’ persons who blind themselves to the j -I wrongs now and then committed by | • the courts on laboring men, should > also think seriously as to what such a ■ I movement as this portends. The ■ courts are jeoparded primarily by the s action of these federal and state • judges who show inability or unwill- > Ingness to put a stop to the wrong- - doing of very rich men under modern industrial conditions. i There are certain decisions by va- • rious courts which have been exceedi ingly detrimental to the rights of , wageworkers. This is true of all the . decisions that decide that men and women are by the constitution "guaranteed their liberty” to contract to enter a dangerous occupation, or to work an undesirable or improper number of hours, or to work in unhealthy surroundings, and therefore cannot re- ’ cover damages when maimed in that i occupation and cannot be forbidden 1 to work what the legislature decides Is ’ an excessive number of hours, or to carry on the work under conditions I ! which the legislature decides to be unhealthy. 1 There is also, I think, ground for ' the belief that substantial injustice Is 1 often suffered by employees in couse- ■ quence of the custom of courts issu- ' Ing temporary Injunctions without no--1 tlce to them and punishing them for ' contempt of court in Instances where, ' as a matter of fact, they have no knowledge of any proceedings. Pro- > vision should be made that no injunc--1 tlon or temporary restraining order ■ issue otherwise than on notice, except : where irreparable Injury would other- ' wise result, and in such case a hear--1 Ing on the merits of the order should f be had within a short ffixed period, ' and if not then continued after hear- ' Ing it should forthwith lapse. Decl- ! sions should be rendered immediately and the chance of delay minimized in every way. • The courts are to be highly comf mended and stanchly upheld when 1 they set their faces against wrong- ’ doing or tyranny by a majority, but they are to be blamed when they r fall to recognize under a government like ours the deliberate judgment of the majority as to a matter of legitimate policy when duly expressed by the legislature. The people should not be permitted to pardon evil and slipshod legislation on the theory that the court will set it right They should be taught that the right way to get rid of a bad law is to have the legislature repeal it and not to have the courts by ingenious hair splitting nullify it People Themselves to Blame. For many of the shortcomings of justice in our country our people as a whole are themselves to blame, and the judges and juries merely bear their share together with the public as a whole. It is discreditable to us as a people that there should be difficulty in convicting murderers or In bringing to justice men who as public servants have been guilty of corruption or who have profited by the corruption of public servants. The huge wealth that has been accumulated by a few Individuals of recent years, in what has amounted to a social and industrial revolution, has been as regards some of these individuals made possible only by the improper use of the modem corporation. Corporations are necessary instruments of modem business. They have been permitted to become a menace largely because the governmental representatives of the people have worked slowly lu providing for adequate control over them. Real damage has been done by the manifold and conflicting Interpretations of the interstate commerce law. I Control over the great corporations doing Interstate business can be effective only if it is vested with full power In an administrative department, a branch of the federal executive, carrying out ■ a federal law. It can never be es- • fectlve if a' divided responsibility is I left In both the states and the nation. I It can never be effective If left In the hands of the courts to be decided by, lawsuits. The courts bold a place of peculiar and deserved sanctity under our form of government Respect for the law Is essential to the permanence of our in-1 stitutlons. and respect for the law is’ largely conditioned upon respect for the courts. But we must face the fact that there are wise and unwise judges, just as there are wise and unwise executives and legislators. When a president or governor behaves Improperly or unwisely the remedy is easy, for his teim to short The same is true with the legislator, although not to the same degree. With a judge who, being human. Is also likely to err, but whose tenure is for life, there Is no similar way of holding him to responsibility. Under ordinary conditions the only forms of pressure to i

' which he is in any way amenable are public opinion and the action of hi fellow judges. It la the last wNch to most immediately effective and to which we should look for the reform of Forests. If there to any one duty which more than another we owe it to our ch ‘ ldre “ and our children's children to perform at once it to to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most Important element in the conservation of the natural resourees of the country. Shortsighted persons, or " persons blinded to the future by desire to make money In every way out of the present sometimes speak as If no I great damage would be done by the ' reckless destruction of our forests. It ; is difficult to have patience with the arguments of these persons. Thanks to our own recklessness in the use of | our splendid forests, we have already I crossed the verge of a timber famine I in this country, and no measures that I we now take can, at least for many I years, undo the mischief that has alj ready been done. But we can prevent J further mischief being done, and it would be In the highest degree repre- , hensible to let any consideration of j temporary convenience or temporary cost Interfere with such action, especially as regards the national forests, which the nation can now at this very moment control. [The president here cites in support of his contentions the great destruction wrought In China by the denudation of the forest areas.] What has thus happened in northern China, what has happened in central Asia, in Palestine, In north Africa, In parts of the Mediterranean countries of Europe, will surely happen in our country If we do not exercise that wise forethought which should be one of the chief marks of any people calling Itself civilized. Nothing should be permitted to stand In the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well being of the whole country in the future. Inland Waterway*. Action should be begun forthwith, during the present session of congress, for the Improvement of our Inland waterways—action which will result in giving us not only navigable but navigated rivers. We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars upon these waterways, yet the traffic on nearly all of them to steadily declining. This condition is the direct result of the absence of any comprehensive and farseelng plan of waterway improvement Obviously we cannot continue thus to expend the revenues of the government without return. It to poor business to spend money for inland navigation unless we get it Such shortsighted, vacillating and futile methods are accompanied by decreasing water borne commerce and Increasing traffic congestion on land, by increasing floods and by the waste of public money. The remedy lies in abandoning the methods which have so signally’ failed and adopting new ones in keeping with the needs and demands of our people. In a report on a measure Introduced at the first session of the present congress the secretary of war said, “The chief defect in the methods hitherto pursued lies in the absence of executive authority for originating comprehensive plans covering the country or natural divisions thereof” In this opinion I heartily concur. Until the work of river Improvement is undertaken In a modern way it cannot have results that will meet the needs of this modern nation. These needs should be met without further dilly-dallying or delay. The plan which promises the best and quickest results is that of a permanent commission authorized to co-ordinate the work of all the government departments relating to waterways and to frame and supervise the execution of a comprehensive plan. The time for playing with our waterways to past The country demands results. National Parks. I urge that all our national parks adjacent to national forests be placed completely under the control of the forest service of the agricultural department, instead of leaving them, as they are now, under the interior department and policed by the army. Pure Food. The pure food legislation has already worked a benefit difficult to overestb Secret Service. Last year an amendment was Incorpwated in the measure providing for ' ec F e " service which provided that there should be no detail from the pcITis “t—fer therefrom |it Is not too much to sav th-t ■ | amendment has been'of tnefi‘oS ; and could be of benefit only to criminal classes. The amendment in i ? Ue t s , tton of benefit to no“ne ex ' cepting to criminals, and It seriously ' kampe ‘’ s the government in the ton of crime ana the securing of jusi ce. It prevents the promotion of cm P oyees in the secret service, Ind ttto further discourages good effort In its I “ “ In the public Interest

to protect criminals in any the public service, and * have again and again during th!* ** seven years prosecuted and conn** such criminals w ho were in the five branch of the my belief we should be giv ea .’ * means to prosecute them if the legislative branch. But If thto * not considered desirable a special * ception could be made In the law * hi biting the use of the secret force in investigating members otS congress. It would be far better to*s i this than to do what actually w aß a * and strive to prevent or at hamper effective action against ertau I Inals by the executive branch of rt, government. Postal Savings Banks. I again renew my recommend ■ for postal savings banks, for d ew »it Ing savings with the security O s tto ' ! government behind them. The object I to to encourage thrift and economy fa ; the wage earner and person of I ' erate means. It is believed that in th» j ■ aggregate vast sums of money would ‘ be brought Into circulation ’through I I the Instrumentality of the postal saw I ■ Ings banks. Postal savings banksarj j now In operation in practically all the I great civilized countries with the ei . I ■ ception of the United States. Parcel Post. In my last annual message I Wn >. j mended the postmaster general's tw. ' I ommendation for an extension of the . parcel post on the rural routes. Tbe establishment of a local parcel post on rural routes would be to the m®. tual benefit of the farmer and the country storekeeper, and It to desirable that the routes, serving more than 15,. 000,000 people, should be utilized to the fullest practicable extent. Education. The share that the national government should take In the broad work of education has not received the attention and the care It rightly desenes. I earnestly recommend that this m. fortunate state of affairs as regards the national educational office be renedled by adequate appropriations. Census. I strongly urge that the request of ; the director of the census In connection with the decennial work so soon to be begun be complied with and that the appointments to the census force be placed under the civil service law, waiving the geographical requlrementa as requested by the director of the census. The supervisors and enumerators should not be appointed under I the civil service law for the reasons given by the director. Public Health. The dangers to public health from food adulteration and from fnany other sources, such as the menace to the physical, mental and moral development of children from child labor, ! should be met and overcome. This na- , tlon cannot afford to lag behind in the . worldwide battle now being waged | by all civilized people with the micro- | scoplc foes of mankind. The first leg- ! tolatlve step to be taken is that for the I concentration of the proper bureaus i into one of the existing departments. Statehood. I advocate the immediate admission of New Mexico and Arizona as states. This should be done at the present session of the congress. The people of the two territories have made it evident by their votes that they will not come in as one state. The only alternative to to admit them as two, and I trust that this will be done without delay. Foreign Affairs. This nation’s foreign policy is based on the theory that right must be done between nations precisely as between individuals, and in our actions for the last ten years we have in this matter proved our faith by our deeds. We have behaved and are behaving toward other nations as in private life an honorable man would behave toward bto fellows. Latin American Republics. The commercial and material progress of the twenty Latin American republics to worthy of the careful attention of the congress. No other section of the world has shown a greater proportionate development of Its foreign trade during the last ten years, and none other has more special claims on the interest of the United States. Panama Canal. The work on the Panama canal is being done with a speed, efficiency and entire devotion to duty which make It a model for all work of the kind. No task of such magnitude has ever before i been undertaken by any nation, and no task of the kind has ever been better performed. The men on the istbnms, from Colonel Goethals ana his fellow commissioners through the entire list I of employees who are faithfully doing their duty, have won their right to the ungrudging respect and gratitude of Ocean Mail Lincs. I again recommend the extension of the ocean mall act of 1891 so that satisfactory American ocean mall lines to South America, Asia, the Philippi oß3 and Australasia may be established. The creation of such steamship lines Should be the natural corollary of the voyage of the battle fleet It should precede the opening of the Panama canal. The Philippines. Real progress toward self government to being made in the Philipp' oß Islands. The gathering of a Philipp^ llß legtolative body and Pniiippiue asso®' I bly marks a process absolutely new m Asia, not only as regards Asiatic co oi nles of European powers, but as regards Asiatic possessions of other As , atlc powers, and Indeed, always ex cepting the striking and wonderful ex ; ample afforded by the great etnpl re 0 ■ Japan, it opens an entirely new de-