Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

The Sugar Trust Indictments. The coming trial of the sugar trust officials, recently Indicted by a federal grand Jury sitting In New York, promises some interesting developments. The Indictments were the result of an Investigation by the grand Jury of a $1,250,000 loan which the American Sugar Keilning company, generally known as the sugar trust, made on Dec. 30. 1903, to Adolph Segal of Philadelphia as a part of a plan whereby control of Segal's Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company was obtained. The corporation and eight individuals, including the president of the company. were indicted. The trial will probably take place In the fall. Tin- Indictment charges the Individ* tin 1 defendants with a conspiracy to

violate the Sherman anti trust act by restraining trade and commerce among the states. Washington B. Thomas, the president of the American Sugar Betlniug company, succeeded the late Henry O Havemeyer us head of the trust on the death of the latter. For years pre vlously he had been a director of the company and influential In Its affairs. Mr. Thomas is a New Englander bybirth and resides in Boston. The indictment consists of fourteen counts, and the penalty prescribed for each offense is a fine of sf>,ooo or one yeat In prison, or both. , If*?!:-. U***" Th* Real Work. Some people have an idea that a humorist must be bubbling over with fuu all the time, which idea Is Incorrect. of course, because a humorist cannot afford to crack jokes or te7T funny stories when he needs th? money they might bring to him when sold. Instead of appearing funny, therefore, he is a lugubrious sort of wretch with big ears. However, sometimes a humorous re mark will fall from his lips, but be always sells It later on. if he’s lucky. John Kendrick Bangs was greeted by a gushing young lady not long ago. “Oh, I’m so glad to meet you,” she told him “I have wanted to ask you If it la hard work to write Jokes?’ “Hard work to write them?’ ho murmured. “Not at all. The real .-hard work comes when one tries to think them into being.”

WASHINGTON B. THOMAS.