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SPRING MADNESS Within the last week five metropolitan papers left off their comment on the tariff and talked about the spring. The spring poets have not neglected their opportunities in this matter but none hag arisen out of Egypt to lead us out of the wilderness of the spring house cleaning Beason in the effect on the general unhappiness. One editorial writer waxes eloquent on that perennial spring phrase of Browning, "God's in His heaven all's right with the world!" He says: "They are days which make one feel that all must be well with humanity, that In such a perfect setting, gloom and discouragement and unhappiness have no place." r Nonsense! It would be very gladsome in this time of the year to think so. But as a matter of fact we doubt whether the human race is any happier at this season of the year than at any other. Can it be that the poets and the editorial writers, are leading us astray in ' this matter. ' ' , ' -V.:-.; ' v "What is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days." So mechanically recited the - high school ; youth ' from ' the prescribed "Vision of Sir Launfal." And here he Is cooped up in the house with the chalk dust and the examinations. Life isn't so perfect at this time of the year, he broods over the situation. It is a fact that more suicides and catastrophes of . a malignant nature happen in these spring months than at any other period of the year. And this you will find borne out "by the statistics on the subject. - About a year ago George Kennan published a great deal of data in the McClure's magazine showing that melancholia euperindued by looking at the fine spring weather undoubtedly ' caused the high rate of self destruction during the brightest days of the year. The ancients believed that gazing upon the moon was responsible for the crazing of the population. It seems probably that scientific investigation will prove that the subtle and lnsiduous spring breeze will be the more guilty. The same warm day that inspires the poet to blossom forth with the spring hepatlca and blood root will also make mad the man who broods on the iniquity of the happiness of others. Where will the spring breeze come into the mortality tables as a factor in the unhappiness of the world? ":''V . Spring madness will soon be given Its proper place. . . - -

CRIMINA L BA THOS , So the Jury that found Hains guilty of murder came around a day or two later with a petition for his clement treatment by the court. Where will this atop. Perhaps we shall have a new fashion set by the courts of saying: we are sorry to find that the prisoner is guilty of every crime on earth but his intentions are good and his purposes in the future are excellent. He killed a man but let him go. Where will this criminal bathos stop. The attempts to tamper with the courts are bad enough when they are moved " by monetary considerations. But when sentimentality comes in "that is a thing which cannot be prosecuted.

all to the returned Croker where is a typical democrat? And call to mind the noble senators who have been voting in accordance with the tenets of their party with Aldrich. Are these men democrats or are they died in the wool republicans? Can.it be that a radical democrat is a stand-pat republican? - What is a democrat any way?

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BY OPIIOII LAW WORKING ODDLY

Heart to Heart 7 alks. By EDWIN A. NYE.

Copy.isht, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye

'"WHAT IS A DEMOCRAT?" Once the democratic party was large and great it had splendid traditions and could even be admired when it was wrong. - No wonder that today the New York . World asks "What Is a democrat?" From Henry Watterson to William Jennings Bryan from Gov. Johnson 'o' Senator Tillman from Gov. Marsh-

WHAT A MERE MAN DID. History repeats itself. There Is the old story of Darby and Joan. Husband and wife, each dissatisfied, exchanged their labors for a day, with salutary effect. In St. Louis William O'Day and wife made a permanent exchange. Mr. O'Day, plain and fancy cook, dry starcher, housekeeper, etc.. did the work in the home, while Mrs. O'Day fared forth as the family breadwinner. O'Day's daily schedule, as told to the police judge, was as follows: 4 a. m. -Arises and prepares breakfast, making biscuits and pancakes, frying eggs, meats, etc. 5:30 a. m. Wakes wife, gives her breakfast 7:30 a. m. Wakes his three sons and after giving them breakfast sends them to school; eats his own breakfast. '". 7:30 to 11 a. m. Cleans house, sweeping, dusting, washing windows. 11 a. m. Goes marketing, buys for the whole day and breakfast next morning. 12 noon. Prepares dinner for children and self and puts things in order. 1 to 4 p. m. Mends children's torn stockings and clothes, makes trousers for sons, makes pies and cakes for evening meaL 7:30 p. m. Finishes with supper dishes and after reading and talking goes to bed at 9 p. m. There, now! In William O'Day's strenuous program "woman works from sun to sun, but man's work Is never done." William got the worst of the swap. However, there's a sequel. 1 William had been doing this work for how long? Eighteen months! He got tired. Who wouldn't get tired man or woman? Be It said furthermore there was a boarder at the house, besides the home

folks. - Well, William got so very tired of his tin pans and dusters that one day he got drunk and chased the boarder a woman out of the house with his butcher knife. 4 ' That i was why William was in po lice court. . - - ?i ; ; C He told the judge how he volunteered, being out of work, to become the' family housekeeper while Mrs. O'Day assumed the wage earning position. And for a year and a half he patiently cooked, mended, did the family washing including the boarder's starched, ironed, swept and finally grew weary. And this court fined William O'Day!

SPITE WALLS. . Ever see a "spite wall" or "spite fence?" This is how it sometimes comes about: The dog belonging to John Jones persists in loafing over the lawn of Tom Smith, Jones next door neighbor, and digging real holes for imaginary gophers. Besides. Jones keeps chickens, and Smith has a garden. Neighborly comity is strained. Finally Mrs. Smith calls on Mrs. Jones to suggest incidentally to Inquiring after the health of the familythat the dog be tied and would they kindly fix it so the chickens would not care to wander from their own firesides. Mrs. Jones agrees in perfectly good faith that the dog is a trial and the chickens have an itinerant disposition difficult to restrain. She smilingly mentions the fact also that the Smith children are a little careless In their distinction between mine and thine. Moreover, Mrs. Smith good bumoredly calls attention to the fact that Smith's old tomcat is a disreputable character and given to dissipation, whereupon Mrs. Jones, in perfect good humor, also pledges reform. Time moves on. There is little love lost between the Smith and Jones family, neighbors. One day Smith is caught In the very act of wringing the neck of Jones' predatory rooster. When Jones comes home that night he protests because of the assassination, whereat; Smith volunteers advice concerning the keeping of roosters at home. And Jones retorts about "dirty children." Perhaps there is no clash of fists, but Up goes the high spite fence! Wo are not all of us like Jones and Smith, but most of us build spite walls, not of boards, but of words and acts.- v Some of us the exclusive onesbuild our fences so high our neighbors cannot see us or we them. t , Some of us less exclusive, but grouchy build our walls just high enough to serve notice on the neighbors that we are a little bit better than they are. Spite walls of narrow prejudice! Spite walls of cold uncharitablecess! Spite walls of crass selfishness! Down with them! Down with the spite walls!

Saloon s Keepers in Various

Parts of the State Are Af

fected in Various Ways by

Temperance Act. SOME SCARED GOOD;

OTHERS SCARED BAD

In training Its cavalry recruits, the German army is making use of a machine driven by electricity, in which all the movements of horses are simulated.

MASONIC CALENDAR. Friday, May 21. King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Work in Mark Master's degree. '

Logansport Saloonists ' Are

Said to Be Disregarding

Their Election Promises, to

Reform Businesses.

(Special Correspondent.)

Indianapolis, Ind., May 20. Fear of

the effects of the-county local option

law is working both ways with saloon

keepers in various parts of the state.

Some of them are being scared into being good and obeying the laws. Oth

ers are afraid the law is going to put

them out of business anyway, and they

are paying no attention- to the anti-

liquor laws but are going ahead doing

as they please.

Before the local option election was held in Cass county the saloon men of Logansport made great promises of

how good they would be if the people would only vote to allow them to re

main In business. Logansport has long been a saloon ridden town, and there was a widespread feeling there that the saloons should be put out for good. Promises Were Made. But these promises were made and the people took them at their word and

voted the county wet. It is charged

that now, the saloons are firmly rooted for at least another two years, the saloon keepers are just as bold as ever and just as reckless about their disregard of the law. It is said that conditions at Logansport are about what they were before the local option

election was held. This makes a good

many people wonder whether the saloons and the breweries that control

most of them throughout the state will

ever be good; and many persons are more firmly convinced than ever that they will not, no matter what favors are shown them. Lafayette presented an entirely different ,. condition when Tippecanoe county undertook to vote on the question of driving out the saloons. Lafayette saloons have not been trouble makers. They were conducted on a plane higher than the average saloon, and the result was that when the wet and dry campaign opened the anti-saloon people had to face the saloons, the breweries, the business people of Lafayette and "a pretty-well defined public opinion in favor of the continuance of the saloons. And Tippecanoe county went wet. Now the announcement comes from Lafayette that the women of that county have organized a Woman's Civic League, the first of its kind, in the state, which proposes to see to it that the promises made bj the wets before the election shall be kept. These women have elected Miss Carolyn Shoemaker, an Instructor at Purdue, chairman of the committee to draft a constitution and by-laws. Other members of the committee are Mrs. George Dexter, Mrs. J. C Smalley, and George A. Jamison. The Women's League. The women's league will work in connection with the Civic League of Lafayette, which is composed of business and professional men. They expect to wield considerable influence in making the liquor dealers keep their promises and be as good in the future as they have been in the past It is believed, too, that the Women's Civic League will be an example for women of other .cities and that other organizations of the same kind will be formed in other places. , . Not only have the women- of Lafayette taken this stand, but the Tippeca- j noe county taxpayers league, which conducted the wet campaign in the recent county option election, has sent to the Lafayette city council a communication stating that the league made certain promises to the people before the election that it proposes to fulfill. The league asked the city government to require a stricter observance of the saloon closing laws, to order saloon keepers to keep out of their establishments all women, to keep all chronic loafers, minors and questionable characters out of their saloons, to not sell to minors or drunken men, and to assist in a general cleaning up of conditions surrounding the saloon business. Another communication to the Mayor of Lafayete from the same organization expresses approval of his attitude in- law enforcement and requests him to revoke the licenses of all saloon men who violate the law. Sentiment Here Same. ; In Richmond the saloon business has been conducted on what might be called a respectable basis, and "it was this fact that was largely responsible for the county of Wayne going wet at the election. Since the election the report is that the saloons are going ahead as they always did and that public sentiment Is with them about as much as ever. In Logansport the saloon men were scared before the election by the prospect that Cass county would go dry. That was why they made their promise that they would be good if allowed to remain in business. ; In Delaware county the saloon men were scared over the prospect that they would be voted out of business. They made all kinds of promises to be good and obey the law, but the people of (1 uncle had been fooled enough by " i' i I- '- w , ., -

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them and they voted the county dry in

spite of the loud promises.

In Lafayette the same kind of prom

ises were made and the people took the saloon men at their word. Now they propose that the promises shall be kept faithfully."

From St. Joseph county comes the

report that the saloon men of that county are scared over the fear that the county may go dry if an election is held, and that loud promises are being made. And it is said further that most of the saloons in South Bend are trying to show before hand that they are in earnest and mean to do the right thing. This, if true, may have an important bearing on the result of an election and it might cause the people of St. Joseph county to decide that they had better retain the saloons.'

Fort Wayne is apother place where

the saloon people have had a scare thrown- into them. They do not want a local option election held in Allen county if they can help it, because they do not know what might happen. True, they have Steve Fleming at their back.

but even Steve Fleming may fail some day to carry things his own way. Who

can tell? And it is said that the sa

loons of Fort Wayne are really making a show of obeying the laws. If the saloons of Fort Wayne honestly try to obey the laws and do not return to the

old habit of disregarding them there is

not the slightest danger that Allen county will ever vote itself dry. But if they return to the old game and get the notion that they can do as they please and "get by" with it the saloon

keepers will wake up some morning out of business.

As stated above, there are two kinds

of scares that have resulted from the

local option law and its operation. One is the kind that makes the, saloon keeper be good and the other is the

kind that induces him to be bad.. Re

cently one of the leading saloon keepers of Indianapolis was discussing an order given out by the police department that all saloons should remain closed on Sunday. This man said he did not intend to pay any attention to the order.

"Why should I close? he said. "I

am going to keep one the same as I have always done, and I intend! to get all I can out of my business. I know that it is only a question of time until this county goes dry and I will be forced out of business, and I do not propose to let anything get away from me as long as I am able to stay in business. You bet, I am going to get mints while I can, for after a while I will be out of it."

Other Kind of Scare. That is the other klpd of scare. It

seems strange that men will take such

a view of the situation when they

know that to do so is to add fuel to the flames that are sure to "devour them. , And ret, you cannot much

blame the saloon man who has always been in the habit of doing as he pleased and disregarding the law year after year. If he iecides that he had better get all he can while he has the chance.

"Bets are posted at Anderson that

Madison county will vote wet next week, ; ; Sums as high as JoOO even money are offered. There is a bitter campaign on in that county. ; Senator Proctor, of Elkhart. Clarence Darrow of Chicago, and Ralph Clark of Anderson, president of the Indiana Retail

Merchants' Association, were to be the

speakers at a big "wet" meeting at Elwood, Thursday night, but for some reason the meeting has been called off. The drys are counting this a' victory for themselves.

High School Notes

Prof. Russell of Earlham college, Tuesday morning, made a very interesting talk to the pupils upon the value of the Hague Peace Conference and what it' means to the World. He said "the day is not far off when May 18 would be celebrated by the American people and the world as the 4th of July is today.", Mr. Russell spoke highly of Mr. William Dennis, son of Prof, David Dennis, of Earlham, who is connected with the state , department, and who comes in contact with men that are connected with the Hague Conference. Misses Mary Seaton of Indianapolis and Ruth Gilchrist attended the morning exercises. Mrs. F. S. Lamar and Miss Eleanor Bates of Cincinnati were guests also. In a very appropriate manner Roy J. Horton awarded the following young men. ribbons for their excellent showing in the field meet at Anderson last week: Hiatt, Allison, Magaw, Wann, Brown and- H. Cotton. Had

the promoters known. Hiatt's ability

he would have been sent to the state meet. Hiatt broke the record in East

ern-Indiana for broad jumping and

excelled his opponents in many other contests. Hiatt has a promising career as an athlete. The following young men will take part in the state meet to be held at Lafayette Saturday: Carl Allison, Herbert Cotton, Paul Magaw and Ralph Brown. Mr. Paul Ketrlng who will graduate from the commercial department this June has accented a position with the Pennsylvania railroad as stenographer. Miss Theodocia Smythe of New Castle visited the school Wednesday.While in the city Miss Smythe will be the guest of honor at many parties to be given by her friends.

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In the highlands of Scotland and In Ireland the 1st of May was called Beltane. This was the name of an ancient pagan festival, traces of which have survived to this day. The name is still used for May day In Gaelic. Scotland. It is said that the Druids on that day used to make two fires with great incantations and - drive their cattle between them as a safeguard against disease.

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