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Mr. Adams Inquires Certainly there can be no hesitation on the part of Senator James E. 'Watson when he reads the questions propounded to him by Thomas 11. Adams, the vigorous Vincennes editor who is running against a field of nine other candidates with an increasing probability of obtaining a majority. The questions of Mr. Adams refer directly to the “new deal” in Indiana, of which Watson was nominated as leader and champion by those two ardent organs of reform, the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News. True, the appeal to Watson to Save Indiana and the Republican party has been forgotten since the primary activities began, but the record is there of the drafting of the senior Senator to restore and redeem the party of Lincoln and save it from its kidnapers. Don't laugh. It’s serious.

Silence on the part of Senator Watson might suggest that there is now some grav'e reason for not giving to the voters his clarion call to arms against the enemy of corruption. There might be those who will be mean enough to interpret silence as confession. If Senator Watson fails to answer, the voters will do well to remember these questions. And because they are important and reach to the very foundation of every issue in the Republican primaries, The Times again prints these queries from Mr. Adams: 1 Will you join me in demanding the resignation of Ed Jackson, Governor which over 200 churches in Indiana has done? 2. I earnestly urge that you join me in demanding that State Chairman Kitzelman take charge of the election machinery in Marion County and remove County Chairman Coffin from control, as he has the legal right to do. on the ground of his unsavory record with Governor Jackson in attempting to corrupt the Marion County Criminal Court? 3. Will you join me in demanding that Schortemeier bring in the State employes and put them to work on the State business and remove them from his political ring? . 4. Will you join me in my protest agamst the domination of the State committee by Lawrence Cartright, who is head oi the Indiana crushed stone interest, now doing very large crushed rock business with the State highways? 5. Will you join me in the denunciation of that infamous “corrupt system” which inspired Clyde Walb to say to poor old man Weaver, “You plead guilty I am a good friend of the court and I'll help you to get off with light punishment,” or a thought to that effect? Also that said by Jackson to McCray that if he accepted the offer to appoint a prosecuting attorney he would see that he would not be convicted in any court. 6 Will you join me in denouncing a practice of "peddling” State funds by machine politicians for commission to pet banks in Indiana? 7. Will you join me in the clean government •ampaign I am making at this time? Os course, if there is any real desire for a new deal, the voters know how to get it. They will answer the Adams questions by a vote against the machine which gave the State a Robinson, a Walb, a Jackson, a Duvall. They will supplant the statute of limitations with the Bill of Rights. The people of Illinois threw off the burden of shame and humiliation. It is interesting to note that in that State the candidates who were defeated had the same sort or indorsements as are given the machine in Indiana. The Anti-Saloon League h&d indorsed the beneficiaries of the system there, as it has in this State. Ohio has had her revolt and its people have asserted themselves. It is difficult to believe that State lines can prove a barrier to waves of decent sentiment. At the Side of the Old Trail Capt. William Smith, who commanded deep sea clipper ships half a century ago, and was for years one of the country’s best known sailing men, died the other day in New York. He had retired a number of years ago, and had built a home near the entrance of New York harbor, so that he could sit on his front porch with his glasses and watch all the ships that entered and left the port. Day after day he sat there; he had a system of signals arranged, so that he could exchange greetings with captains he knew. That sounds to us like a pleasant, peaceful old age. To retire with the memory of a useful and satisfying career, and to sit where the panorama of familiar ships can pass before your eyes each day, waving your hand to skippers who go down the trails you no longer follow—there is something appealing about it. It was by all odds the best end for an old sailor. California Governor A1 Smith has put to rout his long-time .political enemy, William Gibbs McAdoo, in McAdoo’s Home State, and it is now difficult to imagine any development which will prevent Smith’s nomination at Houston. _ Smith and McAdoo met head-on in California's primary and Smith emerged an easy victor. McAdoo lead a ticket pledged to Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, a dry, and opposed Smith with the argument that he was wet. Senator James A. Reed alfso was candidate, and showed surprising strength, finishing second on early returns. Smith’s victory means much more than the acquisition of delegates. It means the elimination of McAdoo as an effectual factor in the selection of a candidate. The movement of which he was the leader has received a setback from which it cannot recover. Smith has demonstrated that his appeal to the rank and file is not a matter of geography, and that the wet argument is not effective against him. ' He has destroyed the principal threat of a disruption like that of 1924, and has provided a convincing demonstration to wavering politicians. So far as the Democrats are concerned, it would seem that the pre-convention campaign is just about over. Dainty little parasols for men are becoming fashionable, says a dispatch from Paris. Fifty million Frenchmen must be wrong, after all.

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Campaign Funds This newspaper admits a complete lack of sympathy with those persons who are assailing the Senate for its decision to check up campaign expenditures during the presidential contest. The Senate’s action is condemned in some quarters as a part of what is termed an orgy oi investigation. It is contended that the projected Inquiry is not rightfully a part of the Senate’s job, and that it is the business of that body to legislate and stop there. The right of Congress to inquire into matters affecting the national welfare is well-established, particularly when there is a likelihood that bad conditions can be remedied through legislation. The election of a President certainly is a matter of national concern to which Congress has every right to give its attention. No one will deny that the investigations of 1920, disclosing huge sums spent to influence voters, was beneficial. For one thin?; it seems to have prevented huge sums being spent in behalf of Frank O. Lowden this time. Nor can it be denied that the revelations in 1924 in Pennsylvania and Illinois reacted to the public good. The net result of the investigations has been to serve notice on politicians, and those who use politicians, that public offices are not for sale. Witness the present campaign, and the care exercised by every candidate to avoid suspicion that lavish funds are oeing used in his behalf. There is no apathy among the voters, as the large votes in various primaries has shown. But it is men and issues, rather than money, that is swaying public opinion. It seems probable that it will be some time before we again have a condition where politicians and their manipulators believe that offices belong to the highest bidders.

Always a Way Out A world monopoly of rubber seemed to have been achieved by the British. Secretary Hoover was disturbed He intervened and issued a solemn warning against international monopolies. The British are to give up their claims to a monopoly in November. Fine. But Henry Ford has been telling something to the British pressmen. “Do you realize,” he asks, “that my good friend Thomas Edison has solved the problem of synthetic rubber?” Gosh! That is some news, Henry. Why didn't you tell us over here? But that's how It goes. Just as cables and telegraph companies seem about to monopolize communication along came radio, making it possible for the next door neighbor's boy to make a rig to permit him to listen in on all the outside world. Just as the railroads seem to have got a stranglehold on commerce along came the automobile and the good roads, and commerce is released and speeded up. Just when the strap-hanger is at his last gasp, along comes the jitney and the family Ford. So no doubt when Rockefeller juice is cinched into family control and gas goes to 50 cents, someone will disclose the formula for making auto fuel out of water and a few teaspoonfuls of common rock crystal, and we will all speed up again. Probably there is some way to make two bodies occupy the space now occupied by one; and that would solve the parking problem. After which we could work on the task of making synthetic coffee, sisal and quicksilver. Synthetic silk we already have, and Ford already offers a substitute for the stable manure which his tractors refuse to produce.

David Dietz on Science Mars Makes His Bow

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SATISFACTORY studies of the planet Mars can only be made when the planet makes a close approach to the earth. These close approaches are rather rare. This is why they cause so great a furor in astronomical circles when they occur. The accompanying diagram will help us to understand the situalion. Both the earth and Mars revolve around the sun in paths or orbits which are flattened circles, known technically as ellipses. The eartn is the third planet from the sun, the order being Mercury, Venus, earth. Mars is the fourth

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ference is not great. Mars, however, has an orbit with great flattening or eccentricity, to use the technical term. When nearest the sun. Mars is 128,000,000 miles from it. When farthest from the sun, Mars is 154,000,000 miles from it. The variation, it will be seen, amounts to 26,000,000 miles. The point where Mars is nearest the sun is known as perihelion. The point where it is farthest from the sun as aphelion. Now Mars and the earth move with different speeds, but their motions are such that every 780 days what is known as oposition occurs. That is, the earth and Mars are so situated that a straight line drawn from Mars to the sun would pass through the earth. The accompanying diagram shows this. These are the close approaches of the two planets and occur a little over two years apart. The average distance between the earth and Mars at opposition is 48,600,000 miles. It varies, however, due to the eccentricity of the orbit of Mars. It is greatest when Mars is at aphelion. Then it is 61,000,000 miles. It is least when Mars is at Perihelion. It is then 35,000,000 miles. This is the closest which Mars ever comes to the earth. Such an opposition took place on Aug. 22, 1924. Astronomers concentrated their observations upon the planet at that time. Interpretation of those observations have engaged astronomers until the present year. Next we will have a look at those observations.

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY THERE will be no tax reduction this year unless appropriations are held to a minimum and unless the Senate eliminates a third of the revenue cut passed by the House. This fight between the President and Songress will be carried to the Senate floor tomorrow. President Coolidge will not permit Congress to depart from his original program of economy in expenditure and rapid retirement of the public debt. Unless Congress meets the President’s demands, it is probable that the revenue bill will be vetoed so late in the session that there will be no tax cut of any kind. The maximum tax reduction possible in the President’s judgment is $210,000,000. The House bill, passed in December, provides a reduction of $290,000,000. For four months that measure has been held up in Senate committee. Yesterday the committee reported out a $203,000,000 bill After losing their fight in committee, the Democrats now will carry to the Senate floor their demands for a $325,000,000 cut. The main issue is the corporation tax of 13Vi per cent. This was cut by the House to 11 Vi per cent. The Democrats want 11 per cent. The Administration - controlled Senate committee made it 12 1 i per cent. The Senate bill and the Coolidge policy vigorously are opposed by the United States Chamber of Commerce. The chamber demands: 1. Reduction of the corporation income tax to not more than 10 per cent. 2. Repeal of the remaining war excise taxes on particular businesses. 3. Repeal the Federal inheritance tax. non Harry f. Sinclair belatedly admitted to the Senate Teapot Dome committee what it had discovered for itself, that he got $757,000 as his share in the notorious Continental Trading oil deal. Like that other oil man who participated in the deal and who also is under Senate contempt indictment, Robert W. Stewart, chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, Sinclair professed almost complete ignorance of the Continental affair. About all he knew was that he took the money. He meant to give the bonds to his company. He just has done so, together with 3 per cent interest. Why the secrecy all these years 3bout the transaction, and why had he delayed so long in turning the bonds over to his company? The committee wanted to know. H. M. Blackmer had asked him to keep it a secret, and Blackmer was the person who knew the details of the deal about which he was ignorant, was the answer. This was practically the same answer given by Stewart. a a a Following the reported capture of Tsinan-Fu, capital of Shantung province, by Chinese Nationalists (southern) forces, renewed efforts will be made to get American missionaries out of that civil war area. Though repeated warnings have been issued by American Minister Mac Murray, an unknown number of Americans are remaining in the trouble zone.

Let Mr. Flxlt, The Times’ representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Flxlt at The Times. Names and addresses which must be given will not be published Cleaning of an unsightly street light at Brookside and Eighteenth St. was assured today following a complaint to Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: Am writing a request you to have the street light at the corner of Brookside and Eighteenth St. and Tacoma Ave. washed. It is indeed unsightly, and does not give the bright clear light it could if cleaned. CLEAN LIGHT. The Indianapolis Power and Light Company which maintains the lights promised Mr. Fixit to give the light an early bath. Dear Mrs. Fixit: When we put trash in the alley between Tabor St. and Raymond St. the ash man fails to collect it. Please see what you can do about it. MRS. J. S. The city sanitary department collects only garbage and ashes. Other trash is not collected by the city. The collector’s attention has been called to your complaint, however.

planet in order, the one immediately after the earth. The earth is approximately 93,000,000 miles from the sun Due to the flattening of the earth’s orbit, it is closer to the sun in some parts of its orbit than in others. The flattening is not much, however, and so the dis-

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Why are brides advised to wear “something: blue” when they wed? The idea is borrowed from the ancient Israelites. They were bidden to put on the borders of thenfringed garments a ribband of blue —blue being the color of purity, love and defility. What is the value of a Confederate SIOO bill, issue of 1864? A bill of this date with the bust of Mrs. Davis on it is worth only 2 cents. What started the World War? The immediate cause was the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian student. What is the correct Celtic spelling of the name Aileen? Either “Eileen” or “Aileen.” It is the same as the English Helen and means “light.” W’hat is the record climb of Pike’s Peak in an automobile? The record was made by Charley H. Meyers, driving a Chandler Special, In 17 minutes 48 2-5 seconds.

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Is This That Gentle Little Thing , Spring?

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Artist’s Change to Pagan Subjects

'T'HAT gentle remonstrance of the S artist with the monk was an admirable symbol of the growing pride of art in the face oi the religion of which it had once been the humble servant. Though the outer subjects still remained religious, the substance anu spirit were secular, and ultimately pagan; heaven and hell were pictured less, earth and humanity more; instead of shadowy angels and saints, human beings, of very visible actuality and flesh, came to dominate the canvas that now increasingly replaced the church wall as receptacle of the pictorial art; figures were clothed no longer in the cassock-like garb of Dante and Giotto, but in gay robes that speak of the spirit of the time; bankers, warriors, wine-merchants and aidermen competed, as subjects, with the Mother of God. Anew delight in color and form for their own sake, anew marveling at the persistent miracle of the body, filled the artist’s soul and played a part in the vivid drama that put an end to the Middle Ages. The finest figure of this transition is Sandro Botticelli. His real name was Alessandro dt Mariano Filipepi, but he so loved his teacher Bctticello that he took and immortalized his name. No one could nortray religious subiects with profounder piety; the “Chigi Madonna,” the “Incoronata” and the “Madonna of the Magnificat" melt with tendeiness and devotion. Pope Sixtus V loved these pictures so well that he called Botticello from Florence to Rome to adorn the Sistine Chapel which this Pope had built, and which took its name from ; him; there for two years Sandro worked side by side with Ghirlandaio and Perugino, earning large j sums which he at once squandered, j “living without care, as was his j habit.” He was not without humor and wit; wften the occupant of the house attached to his installed a weaving machine that shook Botticelli's rooms, the artist placed great stones on his own roof, which sloped high over that of the weaver’s home and bade the weaver shake and be destroyed. *

8 8 8 A PASSAGE in Vasari indicates one source of Botticelli’s change from the Christian to the pagan style: “For many houses in the city Botticelli painted nude women enough.” At all events, the flesh began to rival the spirit in his pictures. “The Calumny of Appelles” shows black robed Calumny shrinking from the naked Truth; and the famous “Venus Rising from the Sea” (which Pater never ceased to praise), reveals the goddess unstintingly. Subtler and finer is the artist’s “Primavera”—spring; never did any but Leonardo paint more delicately. The central figure is probably Venus again; but there is a certain sadness in these faces, as if the lover was already a philosopher, and sensuality was passing into satiety and. regret. The picture prepares for Botticelli’s end: he heard Savonarola, and was convinced—as late in life as he could manage; he abandoned painting to be a Piagnone, or Mourner; and became so careless of his . physical needs that he was near starvation when Lorenzo descued him. He died, after a long illness, at the ripe age of seventyeight, in the year 1510. By that time the passage to paganism was complete. Leonardo’s “St. John” is another Apollo, a son of joy rather than the grim visionary of the Apocalypse; Guido Reni’s “St. Sebastian” is frankly a study in the beauty of nude youth; it belongs to the paleastra rather than to the martyrology. In the “Stanze” of the modest Raphael scenes from Greek mythology mingle unabashed with Bible episodes and church histsory. Signorelli draws naked young men as back ground for a picture of the Virgin Mother; Della Porta places the potraits of Guilia Bella—au naturel—at the feet of Paul 111 on the marble sepulchre which he carves for that Pope; Pinturiochio paints a picture of Guilia Farnese, the acknowledged mistress of Alexander VI, as the Madonna being adored by

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her exalted lover as the Mother of 1 God. Christ and the Virgin still hold their places as subjects calling out the depths of the artist's feeling and power; but alongside of them come the bright procession of ancient j deities—Aphrodite and Narcissus, Apollo and Mars. Pan and Fauns, Adonis and Galatea, Phoebus and Daphne and Aurora. Art achieves what morals and philosophy have never yet attained—the synthesis of body and soul, of joy and idealism, of paganism and Christianity. Let us look at two figures in the change, born a few years apart, studying under the same master, and dying in the same year (1523): Perugino and Signorelli. Luca Signorelli was the most pagan of them all. Not that he did not paint holy pictures; on the contrary, his “Holy Family” is the most charming representation of Mary, Joseph, and the child in all Renaissance art; and his pious frescoes at Orvieto are rated among the masterpieces of the fifteenth century. 8 tt tt BUT Luca painted these pictures for the church; portraying the spirit in order to keep his body fed; his real interest was in the visible marvels of the flesh, and even the panels at Orvieto are full of naked men. drinking and dancnig and twisting themselves into strange attitudes, solely that Signorelli might experiment with every muscle and study every pose. When his son died, the artist bared the body and sat all night beside it, drawing every line of the dear flesh, as if these lineaments were the soul that he would cherish in memory. His most characteristic picture is “The School of Pan”; here among the ancient gods, rather than with the saints, Signorelli found himself most at home. It was he, says Vasari, “who, in the fundamental principles of design, more especially in the nude form . . . laid open to all succeeding artists the path to the ultimate perfection of art.” From all these unclothed figures Michaelangelo drew inspiration for

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the scandalous nudes with which I he filled the “Last Judgement” behind the attar of the Sistine Chapel. Perugino comes last because he was the teacher of Raphael, and the greatest of those who came before the great, and because in him the conflict between Christian piety and pagan scepticism reaches its zenith in clarity and scope. He was born at Perugia (whefice his name) in utter poverty, and he lifted himself—by making masterpieces—to great wealth, so that historians disliked him for his too complete success. But he worked hard for his victories. "He did not permit himself,” says Vasari, “to regard cold, hunger, fatigue, or privation of any kind; nor was he ashamed to perform any work which might help to promote his object, which was to obtain the power of some day living in case and quietness. It was his went to say . . . that after bad weather the good must come; and that when it is fair weather a man must build his house, that he may be under shelter when he most needs it.” He was a resolute, masculine fellow, always ready to do is own thinking. He studied side by side with Signorelli at Perugia, and then side by side with Leonardo at Florence; but no man's style remained long to doihinate him He was among the first to abandon the use of tempera for oils; and his success in the new method made him so popular that he set up studios in several cities, hired many aids, and made money rapidly, much to the scandal of respectable people who thought it a disgrace that an artist should have enough to eat. Michelangelo, who was more of a warring Michael than an angel, and cared nothing for the goods of this world, disliked Pietro; the two quarreled with the fierceness of rival talents, and Perugino was dismissed from Florence. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1928, by Will Durant)

BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. 1028. bv The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY VV. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A —ce; K—klnit: Q—queen; J —jack; X—any eard lower than 10.) 1. What is the quick trick value of A K J? 2. What is the quick trick value of A K Q? 3. What is meant by the spade convention? The Answers 1. Two and one-quarter. 2. Two and one-half. 3. That the informatory doubler, whether ofa suit or no-trump bid, must be prepared to accept a spade bid of four cards by partner.

This Date in U. S. History

May 2 1785—Thomas Jefferson made American minister to France. 1851—San Francisco burned; 2,500 buildings destroyed; loss, $3,500,000. 1863—Stonewall Jackson accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va. 1865—President Lincoln proclaimed a reward of SIOO,OOO for the arrest of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. 1890—Oklahoma organized as a territory. 1912—Postoffice appropriation bill provided $750,000 for experimental work with parcel post system.

! Daily Thought

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.—Prov. 24:33. SLEEP is pains easiest salve, and doth fulfill all offices of death, except to kill.—Donne.

MAT 2, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “If Business Dances to the Tune of Science, It Also Dances to That of Fads, Foibles and Notions Which Can Hardly Be Described Otherwise Than Peculiar”

Measured by waste paper, New York’s welcome to tire Bremen fliers, was not so great as that it gave Lindbergh. In this latest excess of tearing up telephone directories, bibles, Government publications and other books which we pretend to read, but do not, the warm-hearted people of New York only littered the streets to the extent of 1,500 tons and it only cost $16,000 to clean up the mess. Colonel Lindbergh will go down in history as the recipient of 1,800 tons. 8 8 8 Plans New Ocean Hop Having parked the better half o! “We” in the Smithsonian Institute, Colonel Lindbergh plans to make another airplane immortal by flying to Europe via Greenland, Iceland and then to the world’s principal capitals. He plans to use a Ford, all-metal, tri-motored craft and will have at least one companion, Probably Major Lanphier, with Henry Ford as backer. You could hardly ask for a more formidable team than Ford and Lindbergh. 8 8 8 X-Ray Eggs for Hens While science is making its most spectacular demonstrations in the field of mechanical power, it is doing no less wonderful things in the laboratory. After experimenting with 3,000 eggs over a period of three years, Dr. Dieffenbach of the New York Homeopathic Hospital discovers that X-rays have an influence on sex. Under ordinary circumstances eggs produce male and female chicks in about equal number. Though 98 per cent of the eggs treated by X-rays hatched, not a single male chicken was found. Some of the chicks were deformed, but the majority were not only wellproportioned, but of increased size and vitality. The female chicks born after the X-ray treatment began to lay earlier than usual and what is even more remarkable, their eggs produced male and female off-spring in the normal way. # While scientists regard this experiment as impressive because of its bearing on sex control, poultry breeders see in it the prospect of developing new and more profitable species of chickens. Outlets for Wealth If business dances to the tune of science, it also dances to that of fads, foibles and notions which can hardly be described otherwise than peculiar. The fashion of touring Europe, 'coupled with a love of dogs, ‘‘as decreed by those who have more money than they know how to spend wisely, gives rise to anew trade. We now have shops devoted to “tags for dogs,” and we have standards by which those togs are graded. If Europeans find it hare! to judge an American tourist by the clothes he or she wears, they may get valuable hints from the way the dog is outfitted. * 8 8 8 Going-Away Dog Togs Your first-class touring dog now requires two calfskin luggage cases, a raincoat, a rug, silk jackets, laced boots, towels, combs, brushes scented soap and a hot water bottle in case of seasickness not to mention a day bed and such other articles as properly belong to a well-bred twentieth century canine vriio is so fortunate as to have landed in the lap of luxury. As though this were not enough, there are “going away” gifts which a friend of the family may buy and donate to the entourage. Those economists who think that we have not learned how to distribute wealth should give careful consideration to this new industry. Whatever else may be said, it showy that we do not lack for inventors and promoters to help us keep money in circulation. 8 8 8 Dude Ranches in Vogue People who are irked with European travel, or who cannot get rid or their incomes fast enough by outfitting poodles, Spitzs, Terriers, Pomeranians and Pekinese, will find an opportunity in the • "dude” ranches with which the “wild west” is trying to help a bored and overburdened public dispose of its cash. Among others, one has just been opened in the Alpine territory of Texas, where the altitude is so great and the rainfall so little that most any one can kick up a dust. This ranch is genuine in all respects. Its corrals, bunk houses, cow ponies, chuck wagons and poker are faithful to tradition. Those who have grown weary of paved streets and Pullman cars will find everything exactly as it was in the glorious mid-Victorian period, except the bill. 8 8 8 Penalty for Rum What a come down it is to find one’s pleasant speculations regarding X-rayed chickens, tailored dogs and "dude” ranches interrupted by a news item which tells how a Michigan woman faces the possibility of spending her life In jail because she was caught with two quarts of rum. Somehow that does not seem to fit Into the picture. You just cannot square the idea of a bull terrier gadding about Europe with three trunks, a daybed and a nurse, while a woman, who might have been your second cousin, or great aunt, if not a closer relation, is doomed to look out upon the world from an iron cage during the rest of her natural life because two deputy sheriffs found her in possession of a quantity of liquor which our Puritan ancestors would not have regarded as enough to wash down a church supper.