Richmond Palladium (Daily), 25 January 1902 — Page 6

ItlCIIMOKD DAILY PALL VDIUM, SATUltl'AY. JAXUAltY 23. 1!)02.

AH AMUSING DECISION.

West Virginia Jurist Delivered One Devoid of Technicalities. GEM moil STATE'S HIGHEST COUET fho'.rr t'.xtrarf From Jmlirf Ilrnt'a Jodirial I'blluaopbr Rendered I n u lane 'Which Orllclnalril In the Caoatr of Itandolpb and Waa In aiitaied by a DaoEhlrr Aicalnx Her Father. Jmlfre Mnrmailuke II. Dent has sent lout from that august and sedate body, the West Virginia supreme court of appeals at Charleston, a gem in the .way of a ele-eision wherein he departs from the traditionally technical and gives an exitomtion of law so refreshingly tsiinple and amusing that he who runs may read and laugh, says a special diKpatt-h from Wheeling to the New York World. The decision has caused a mild ftensation among the lawyers and has brought the judge bo prominently before the people as a Jurist that, although he Is the only Democrat on the supreme bench, he lias been elected president by his Republican colleagues. The case In point originated in Tiandolph county. Eli Moore made an assignment for his creditors, but hojwd to reserve something from the wreck. Accordingly he got his father-ln-la w. the Ilev. Anthony Mustoe, to Invest this secret reservation In lands for his daughter Clara, wife of the assignee. But the reverend sire neatly bought the land at a low Ogure and kept It. His daughter brought suit in the circuit court and lost. She appealed to the supreme court and won. the lower court being reversed. Here are some bits from Judge Dent's judicial philosophy: This Is a suit from the peaceful shades of Randolph county instituted by Clara. Intermarried with Eli Moore of Montrose, u gainst her pa, the lie v. Anthony Mi:stoe of Hrletz. near the tiappy land of Canaan, the neighboring county of Tucker. "Eli entered the contest badly disfigured. The baekboue of his evidence bad been broken by the obstruction put In its way In the execution of the deed f trust and note uuder seal solemn acts which caiiuot be easily explained way and by wtiii-u he is estopped from telling the truth, and not a great hardship on EH. In addition, a number of bis neighbors, notably among them two of his brothers-in-law, pa's sons, who are in a position to know, say his repu tation for truth and veracity is not the best, and they do not hesitate to declare that they would not believe him under oath. "The evidence tends to show that iwhile Pa Mustoe does a little preaching, trying to gather the lost sheep into the fold, and has one eye on the pearly Kates, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest, he keeps the other to windward in an endeavor to make friends with the mam mon of unrighteousness. While trying to serve iv. masters, he gives his pres ent ullogiii.u-t to the one he can see, taste, h;;r. feel and smell and puts the other off with a little preaching and the promise of a more convenient sea eon. "lie makes a big effort to outswear evcral other witnesses. His attain inents in this direction will hardly win him u crown when he presents his cre dentials at the golden gate of the New Jerusalem. The good look saith there 4s a place without for whosoever loveth end maketh a lie and they shall in no wise euter therein. "Therefore the money that Eli succeeded in bluffing his creditors out of must ream la the money of his trusted father-in-law. lie justly punishes Eli by keeping it. The fowler is caught in Lis own snare. "With Clara It is somewhat different. She must suffer for the company she keeps, yet the sins of both father and husband should not lie imputed to her. Woman has always been a favorite with equity, and it always throws its willing arms around her to protect her from the imjortunIty and duress of her lmiecuuious husbands. "If pa is to continue preaching and It Is to be hoped, for from the conduct of this suit and the testimony of the witnesses Ell is not the only one in need thereof he should cultivate a greater regard for the truth and try to overcome his lust for the fleshpots of Egypt. "As to this one-half acre lot. pa must be held to be the holder of the legal title In trust for Clara. The decree complained of, must therefore, be reverses a no tnis cause is remanded to the circuit court, with direction to secure Clara, the wife of Eli, the legal title to the one-half acre tract, retaining thereon a lien for any unpaid purchase money, if her pa exacts it, subject to the credit of $97.10. with interest to the costs of this suit and any Other just demand she may show herself entitled to, except the "bluff money, which If not really belonging to pa. corning from a corrupt source, would pollute her otherwise chaste home." Wants 91O.OOO to Fickt Moaqoitoei. Professor J. B. Smith, state entomologist of New Jersey, said the other day ait the annual meeting of the State Agricultural society in New Brunsiwiefc that he intended asking the legislature for an appropriation of $10,000 to investigate the mosquito question and to begin to exterminate the pest. XYofessor Smith thinks he can annihilate the whole mosquito tribe in a .couple of years if be has money tuougu at bis command.

TO BEAUTIFY THE CAPITAL

pii For WaahlaartOB Blade by the Special loniinlsaion. The preclal commission appointed draw np plans f .r mnking Wast;;nt'i'the most leauttfu! nation;) I nipti.l . the world has co" !i ted its v. rk sir; made public a rtfort. It will t:t!; years to onrry out all tl.e inij r- vi tm-ni jr poscd. but when the m rU is -i! pleted riot even the !! r t:. rojK ji cities v.'iich are fa mors f- r ilie-ir atistie architectural effects w'.ll te !::; finished, says the "l:i;ito Khi I'ewt. Parks, putilh- l.uiliiinjs !rways, walks, fountains ami montim.'. have been carefully mapped o Among the principal features of tli plans are: To erect on three slJes of the t'nite. States eapitul public bulhlin ; of beaut: ful architecture anil imp -s:r appear ance. thus giving the lii,l Has h:C many architects have uVc!.irel to be th noblest In the world a s fing commensu rate with Its dignity and importune which It now sadly lacks. To remove the railway station frnm th. government park or mall, which now e tends west from the capitol to the Wash Inston monument: to beautify this pari and to flank It with pu'ilic edifices. thu forming a great national plaza nearly t mile and a half tn length To adorn the Washington monument bj tTe"tiii a beautiful terrace of marble a: its base, thus adding vastly to the at tractions of that unique and noble shaft To reclaim the Potomac tiat tying: wesi of the monument, thus exten linK tti. t--reat park nearly a mile farther and jpv Inn oi'iKirtunlty to place at Its westerr end. upon the bunks of the Potomac anc in direct line with the capitol and th Washington monument, a suitable na lioiial memorial to Lincoln. Ill us linking together in artistic structures the twe greatest names in American history. To vxtend this great national park ant boulevard across the Potomac by meant of the memorial bridge to Arlingtot cemetery. To connect the beautified and extended mall by means of an embankment 01 boulevard along the Potomac with tht driveway which is to come down the picturesque Rock Creek valley from the National Zoological park and the Kock Creek park. To erect around Lafayette square, directly facing the White House, a series ot beautiful structures of a government ot an artistic character. The commission was composed ol Daiajel II. Hurnbam of Chicago. CUnrle F McKim of New York. Frederick Law Olmstead of Itostoti and Angus tils St. Caudens of New York. Thej visited the principal cities of Europe and America, making an exhaustive study of the subject before drawing uf the plans. A RAILROAD INNOVATION. r-merarene.T Medicine 'henl Designed i'or ChiesKii and Alton Kintl. Consulting Surgeon Howard Crutch er of the Chicago and Alton road hat designed a surgeon's chest to be placet on every passenger train on the road says the Chicago Tribune. It is radical ly different from the chests enerallx used iu that it weighs only sever Itounds and measures 1 foot by 0 by "1 inches. Heretofore 1 he cases have beet unwieldy. The case planned by Or. Crutcher it intended to contain everything a physi cian may need to perform a simple op eratiou or to dress an injury before tht removal of patients to a hospital. Tin contents will include antiseptics, chlo rofortn. a full set of hypodermic iustru nietits, antiseptic bandages and gauze and a powerful emetic to be used it case of Internal poisoning. There wil also be u scalpel, spud and a couple ot forceps. At the same time a first aid package has lie-e-n prepared for the use of al train hands, yard and switch men. Thil Is an innovation in the railroad work made at the suggestion of i'residen; Felton. The package will contain a tit box, 0 by 3 by IV. inches, cotitainiug an tise'ptle powder, bandage, cotton ant! gauze nece-ssary to bandage a slight abrasion or a serious wound while awaiting the arrival of a surgeon. The package will be hermetically sealee and when once opened will be replaced by a new one. It Is also planned to put in the buf fct cars of all through trains such sitn pie household remedies as a lavtnarj can use without danger. It is not in te titled to tit trains with the elaborate paraphernalia carried by some south ern lines, but rather to provide against Injury to passengers from inability te find a physician at om-e or in case of serious wreck to enable any traveling surgeon to assist iu the work of reliel prior to the arrival of regular assist ance. There is hardly a point on the Alton road where a physician or sur goon cannot be obtained after an bour'i run. The authorities of the road decline to discuss the matter at this time, probably on account of the agitation ovet train wrecks, but acknowledge the matter has been receiving serious at tention. Witi Warm Hotel Bedelotblnc Congressman Charles F. Scott has received, according to the Kansas City Star, a demand from a Kansas woman for the passage of a law "to compel keepers of hotels or sleeping rooms to keep on each bed four quilts and one blanket, each quilt to contain not less than five pounds of cotton batting (not coarse hairi and to be covered with at least fourteen yards of cloth, seven yards on each side, two and one-third yards long and at least two yards wide, and the blanket to weigh at least two pounds, this covering to be kept on the beds from Sept. 10 to May 1." Street Sprinkling With Oil. Oil is I vein g used on the highways of Texas instead of water for laying the dust, says the Baltimore Sun. Half a barrel a mile is sprinklexl each day and is expelled from the carts hot. It cements the dust without creating any mud and packs under heavy use and on properly graded roads acts like the roof of a building from which all rainfa II run off.

A CLEVER TRICK. flow a Ynn n Lawyer Saerombed to Ills Hlial'a Strrnaounrii. "My first attempt nt making a start f r myself was not successful." laughed the attorney who is well known in the city as a leading legal lisrht. "When ! gradv.nted from the taw school, 1 hadu't the- slightest hte-a where to locate, so when 1 chanced to see a news item to the e-STect th;:t a small but pros- reus town in the central p;irt cf the state was in need of an attorney at

law I 1-Miked upon it as heaven sen and decided to go there at once. But : s.-onT bad 1 tacked up my shingle th;. 11 I discovered that another young lawyer 'i;td seen the same iteuij and that he. t o. had UxtkeM ujion the iki formation rs 1 hsg especially prepare! for his benefit and had opened an office in the town. I realized that there vfouM not 1 e r fJtn for both of us in so imall a place, so I called a meeting to jforni a community of interests. " "Now," said I, 'you know as wfll as I do that there is not business enough he-re for 1-oth of us and that sooner or later one will have to quit and go elsewhere. Such being the case, I propose that we enter Into an agreement that the first one who succeeds In getting a client shall have the field to himself, the other seeking greener pastures. "lie agreed to the plan, and we drew tip and signe-d a paper to that effect. "The next morning I chanced to look out of my ejffiee window and saw a man delilx rately walk up to another man and knock him down. Realizing that here was my chance, I seized my hat and rushed out. " "Se-e here.' said I to the aggressor. "I saw you knock that man down without provocation, and doubtless he will have you arre-sted for it. Now, I am an attorney, and if you will let me have the case" "'I've got a lawyer," he growled, pointing to a doorway where sto..d uiy grinning rival. "I kept my part of the agreement and left town. Years afterward I learned that the whole tiling was a put up job of my eeimpetitor, who had given the aggressive party $10 to knock down the man. against whom he had a grudge, promising to defend him in court and pay all ex penses." Detroit Free Press. Economy of Labor, "He Is one of the most resourceful lazy men I ever knew." "Why do you say that?" "I'.eeause. instead of writing out bis good resolutions, he cuts the page for Jan. 1. l'.Hll. from his oM diary t.nd pa st enl it in under K502." Chicago Post. M'.m Ofenxe. Missionary My friend. I that you :o not realize The afraid em the dread fulness of the drink eil. The Farmer Why. ma'am, I never tech a droti. ine Miesioimrv Rut you raise hops. - -3 udi:? The St. Lawrence. Vessels of 4,(kni tons can ascend the St. Lawrence river to Montreal, a distance of a thousand miles from the aea. Only one other river in the world, the Amazon, is navigable to such a dis tance for craft as large. He is a good physician who adminis ters lueelicine to the heart in the sbajt of wit and humor. Chicago News. Botterfly Brerdlift a Craxe. Butterfly breeding seems to be the latest craze that fashionable folk have taken up in London. The originator of this pretty pursuit, which is more scientific than fads usually are. is believed to be Miss Baden-Powell, the sister of the hero of Mafeklng. Miss Powell. I am told, writes the correspondent of the New York Herald, breeds a large number of butterflies in her drawing room. Mr. Lionel BotL" child is also possessed of this hobby, whose vo'.aries Include a number o other well known persous. When Prince Henry Comew. When Henry comes from "iTmany, We'll f re salutes am) things Ami (jive him royal welccme for The rness irres he brinpn: We'll tcv r at his evf ry sml1Ifave throns and thrills ecstaric A.nl quit the practice ffr awhile Of being liumoeralie When Henry comes frrm Germany. We'll errasp his princely hand And t.Iess him for the word he brln&9 I.'s from the fatherland: We'll dream of emperors and king's A still our blood relations. For. oh. we dote on royal things Despite our protestations. 3 E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald. can be relied upon always to make Real Mince Pie No work. No worry. No disap pointments. No indigestion. Almost no expense. tOc. a Package irjk5 two lar pies. Valuable prwaifurn Kt eot ocJ TiiffFe is o.- mncc rrat i-;e" N-'tw-Su "-" Y.Hr ckra.-e-i usH,ki ivc U. Tcil u u be oderi METCELL-SOIXE CO., Syncase. PL Y.

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Parfecf ticut and graduated in medicine at Ya'e His unusual talent soon brought him reputation and p-ominence am ng bis professional brethren. First he was elected to the professorship of anatomy and surgery in the Vermont University. Next he was appointed lecturer on materia mediea and medical botany iu Dartmouth College. The next year he was chosen professor of the chair then vacated by Prof Robby, ard occupied the cha'r, the most important one in the country, at the time when he formulated his most remarkable prescription. In view of the overwhelmir.r testi mony of the value ef Paine's celery compound that has recently appeared from men and women of national repitation, the picture of Prof. Phelps is particularly interesting. Paine's celery compound makes people well. It is the one true specific recognized and prescribed todav by eminent practiocers for diseases arising from a deiilitated nervous system, itoi. rneips gave to bis profession a positive cure for s'eeplessness. wasting strength, THE FLORIDA SPECIAL. Through Service to Southern Resorts via Pennsylvania Lines. Through paer.ger service to win ter resorts in Florida and the south over the Pennsvlvania Unes via Cincinnati. At'anta and Mern to JcksrDville ani St. Anguti"e bas ben resumed. Drawing room sleeping i , f-? . . . t . 'ara ieav rinsuu-gu inne morn,u " u-.. - wWtt. ,, lVt e,.K vi- ........ . u- -ve-u.og, . rom which point, tbev go through to' Honda in a solid train of e mposite club cr, sleeping ears and dioing cars. Only one nignt is spent on the way. The through schedule is given below: Leave Chicago, 12 00 noon; Logansport, H:10 p. m.; Kokorco, 3 4M p. m.; El wood, 4:13 p. m. ; Ander- j son, 4:4.5 p. m.; KichmoDd. f:u p. m. ; and at .baton, Ohio, at fc:2. p. m.: Hamilton, :Uo p.m.;Cincmnati. ! m.: II T-r - t - r . - - y .iju p m arrive Atlanta 10:3f a. in - Maron 1 00 r m - Jaf-Vsnn ' 8:10 p. m.; St. Augustine, 9:30 p.m.. next day. Returning, the through sleeping cars for Chicago. Pittsburg aid intermediate point? via Cincinnati and

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