The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 March 1913 — Page 6

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse, - - Indiana FIRED FOR GRAFTING GOVERNOR SULZER REMOVES DR. RUSSELL, OR. ROY L LEAK APPOINTED To Fill the Vancancy Temporarily— The Superintendent Had Anticipated the Action and Telephoned In Hit Resignation—Other News ol the Day. Albany, N. Y„ Feb. 28.—Without waiting for a report from his committee of inquiry, which has been in-' restigating the Thaw scandal, Governor Sulzer yesterday sent a letter to Colonel Joseph F. Scott, superintendent of state prisons, directing the removal of Dr. John W. Russell, superintendent of the Mattewap state hospital where Harry K. Thaw is confined. Colonel Scott said he had not yet received the letter. Action by Colonel Scott was made anneeessary, however, by the resignation of Dr. Russell, which was telephoned yesterday’ afternoon from Mattewan. The .esignation was accepted at once and Colonel Scott designated Dr. Roy L. Leak, first assistant physician at the hospital, to take charge s»f the institution temporarily. The governor sent a second letter to Charles S. Whitman, district attornew of New York, together with a copy of the testimony taken by the committee concerning the offer of <20,000 which Dr. Russell says was made to him by John N. Anhut. a New York lawyer, if he would aid in releasing Thaw. The testimony which included Anhut’s denial that his counter charge that D. Russell to know where he came in on the $25,000 which Anhut admits he received from an agent of Thaw as a “contingent retainer” to free Stanford White’s slay? «r. [This information the governor tays he expects the district attorney to lay before the grand jury. j.' Governor Sulzer’s Life Threatened. Albany, N. Y., Feb? 24.—Governor Eulzer has been informed of an alleged plot to assassinate him. The governor last night related that on Friday a man, with head swathed in bandadges, called at the executive chamber and was referred to Owen L. Fetter, his legal assistant. To Mr. Potter the man, whose name tlie governor would not divulge, said that on Thursday night while in an abandoned mill, he had overheard two men discussing a plot to kill the governor. When the conspirators learned cf the presence of rhe governor’s informant, they assaulted and robbed him. Aged Woman Burned to Death. Covington, Ind., ’ Feb. 25.7-Mrs. Ellen McGinnis. aged severity-six years, wife of William McGinnis, was burned to death in her home here yesterday. Smoke was seen coming ' from the little frame house, where the aged worftan lived, and neighbors found her body lying on the floor, burned to a crisp. It is surmised her clothing caught fire from the cook i stove or from her pipe as she was j an inveterate smoker. Nothing in the ' house was burned except some bed-1 clothing, on which the charred body j ’ay. Threaten an Exodus. Boston, Mass.. Feb. 26.—An exodus of Massachusetts women to some state granting them suffrage, was declared by Dr Harriet E. Clark at the annual hearing before' a legislative committee to be inevitable unless the word |“male” was stricken from the provision of the state constitution covering the qualification for voters. Others who spoke in favor of woman suffrage were Louis D. Brandeis and •Jospeh Walker. Several anti-suffrage speakers opposed the proposed constitutional change. New York Police. New York. Feb. 26.—Three committees, one appointed by the state , legislature, one by the board of aidermen and an organization of citizens Joinedjn a culminating effort to reform the New York police force. The result of their labors probably will be legislative bills providing for sweep- - 1: ght.

PRESIDENT URGES BUOGHSrSTEM In Special Message Taft Sets Forth Its Advantages. IS BASED ON COMMON SENSE ''Bureau of Central Administrative Control and Congressional Budget Committees Recommended by the Chief Executive. i Washington, Feb. 27. —Congress ou i Wednesday received- from President Taft a special message urging the adoption of a budget system and con1 taining a statement of the condition ■ of the country’s finances. “The tact that ours is the only great nation whose government is dc- ! Ing ‘business without a budget,” said i the president, “has not been a dominant reason for departure from 123 years of precedent. Such procedure ■ is based on common experience and ! common sense. It is supported by the best judgment and experience that has obtained in the management of corporate bodies, both public and private. The message continues, in part: “The advantage to the congress of getting before it a definite concrete • statement and proposal, one which is ■ submitted by the responsible head of the administration, must also be apparent. Such a statement will greatly facilitate the adoption of a procedure by the deliberating branch of the government whereby the gross amounts to be appropriated may be determined In advance of decision as to what amount will be allowed for each detail of the governments business, rather than to leave the relations of income and outgo to be computed after action had been taken on the many matters which are brought before the congress for determination. “First 111 the list of proposed changes in law setting forth what leg- ! islaticn should be enacted in order to enable the administration to trans- * act the public business with greater economy and efficiency is a recommendation for the establishment cf a bureau of central administrative control, with a controller at the head who would be responsible to the president and to congress. Concretely the pro- | oosal is to consolidate the six auditors’ offices as well as the office of the comptroller of the treasury and the other central accounting offices of the government in one executive bureau. “While it is with much hesitation that I suggest any change in committee organization in congress, it seems to me tc be highly desirable to have some provision such as has been frequently suggested by members on the floor, whereby a budget committee may be established as a final clearing house through which all the recommendations of the committees having to do with revenues and expenditures shall pass before they take the form of a definite bill.” P. O. RECEIPTS ARE BIG. Expenditures and Amount Received ' Now Are Nearly Balanced. Washington, Feb 26.—The daily receipts of the postoffice departmeiU have reached the enormous total of 52,43'f.000. which is more than $300,000 greater than the combined receipts of the government from all other sources. The figures are set forth ‘in the quarterly financial statement of Charles A. Kram, auditor for the department. So nearly balanced are the receipts and expenditures that now the surplus or deficit for an entire twelve months rarely amounts to as much as the receipts for a single day. TWO EXPLORERS LOSE LIVES. Members of Mawscn Expedition to Antarctic Region Die. Sydney, N. S. W., Feb. 27.—A wireless message received here on Tuesday, from Adelie Land discloses the fact that two more antarctic explorers have given up their lives in the Interest of science. The message says: “Doctor Mawson and several of his men missed the Aurora, which has returned to fetch them. This happened under unfor tunate circumstances. Lieut. B. E. S. Ninnis and Doctor Merz, who was ski champion of Switzerland in 1908, are dioth dead. All the Others are well.” Poet No Will. Oakland, Car, Feb. 27. —Joaquin Miller, the “Beet of the Sierras,7 who died here aJnveek ago last Saturday, left no wipt His widow has filed application.for letters of administration. She fijjps his personal property at SI,OOO/'and the real property “in excesaz of $10,000.” Miller’s estate in the' Piedmont foothills has been at $75,000. In addition he ■eaves copyiights on his work. I German Army Aviator Dead. ■ Muelhausen, Germany, Feb. 28.—A ■German military aviator, Sergeant ■Helfersnider, was killed and his companion, Lieutenant Linke, seriously I injured hpre Wednesday. Their aeroI plane fell during a flight. Earthquake in New Zealand. Wellington, N. Z., Feb. 28.—With a report as of artillery discharged, a heavy earthquake shook this city, terrorizing inhabitants, shaking down I chimneys and damaging many houses j Wednesday. Nobody was killed. L Acquit John Beal Sneed. I Vernon, Tex., Feb. 27.—John Beal [ Bneed, a wealthy Texas ranch owner, ■ was declared not guilty Tuesday of ■the murder of Al Boyce, Jr., at Ama■rillo, Tex., last September. Sneed shot ■Boyce oil street. B Flies Paris to London in 3:05. B London, England, Feb. 27.—A new Knd notable record of three hours and Kve minutes for a flight from Paris to ■London was made by Marcel G. Brin■dejonc des Moulinais, French aviator, ■ Tuesday

COURT OF HONOR FOR INAUGURAL PARADE This is the court of honor constructed in front of the White House for the inaugural parade, with the grand stand, the central portion of which, to be occupied by the president and his party, is enclosed in glass.

BOTH HOUSES PASS ACT FOR LABOR DEPARTMENT Senate Follows Lead of House in Vote for Measure Adding a Member to Cabinet. Washington, Feb. 28. —After less ate ou Wednesday passed the bill creating a department of labor and adding another member to the presi- * dent’s cabinet. The measure had previously passed | the hcuse, but amendments in the senate will require its perfection in conference before it is presented t<s President Taft. One amendment would put the new children’s bureau under the direction of the secretary of labor. The division of immigration and naturalization would be separated into two bureaus and the present bureau of labor would be known as the bureau of labor statistics. The division of information of the present department of commerce and labor also would go into the new department. ’ . The twe battleship program favorably reported by the house naval committee was defeated in the house, sitting as a committee of the whole. An amendment to appropriate for one battleship only went through, 144 to 133. A majority of the Democrats voted lor the amendment, while the Republicans were almost solidly against it. TRIBUTE IS PAID CULLOM. “We All Love You,” Says Bacon; Senator’s Portrait Ordered. Washington, Feb. 23. —Senator Shel■d>y M. Cullom of Illinois, the aged chairman of the committee on foreign relations on Wednesday, ,wao paid an affectionate tribute by his colleagues on the committee at the last regular meeting over which he will preside. Speeches were made by Senator Stone of Missouri and Senator Bacon of Georgia, who will succeed Senator Cullom as chairman. “We all love you; that’s as much ag anyone can say,” said Senator Bacon in conclusion, slapping Senator Cullom heartily on the shoulder. The committee unanimously adopted a resolution thanking Senator Cullom for his fairness as a presiding officer. Then, on the motion of Senator Bacon, it did something the committee has never done before. It passed a motion providing that Senator Cullom should sit for a portrait, which will be hung ip the committee room. HILLES GIVEN LOVING CUP. President’s Secretary Honored by Employes of Executive Offices. Washington, Feb. 28. —Charles D. Hilles, secretary to President Taft, on Wednesday was presented a silver loving cup by the employes of the ■White House executive offices. The presentation speech was made by Col. W. H. Crook, disbursing clerk at the White House, who has served under 27 secretaries to the president and has been connected with the White House since Abraham Lincoln was chief executive. MRS. PANKHURST IN PRISON. Suffragist Is Refused Bail and Threattens a “Hunger Strike.” Epsom. England, Feb. 28. —Mrs. Pankhurst was detained in prison, bail being refused because she would not agree to refrain from political activities pending trial. The prisoner informed the magistrate that she would forthwith begin a “hunger strike.” She added: “If lam still alive when the assizes commence. It will be a dying woman who will be tried,” Millicns Go for Pensions. Washington, Feb. 27.—The senate passed the $180,000,000 annual pension bill in the record time of twentyfive minutes and withdess than fifteen minutes of debate Tuesday. It is the largest amount yet given. Brings His 20 Children to U. S. New York, Feb. 27.—Mynheer Row of Holland tipped the eastern edge of Hoboken on end when he got off the brave ship Noordam with his twelve children and eight grandchildren in tow Tuesday. v Earthquakes Are Felt in Ecuador Guayaquil, Ecuador, Feb. 26. —Se»eral earthquake shocks were felt here Monday. A violent earthquake extended all over the republic, being especially severe in the provinces of Leja and Canar. Houses were wrecked. U, S. Seizes Butter. New York, Feb. 26. —The United States seised 10,000 pounds of decomposed butter on board a steamship Monday awaiting shipment to Porto Rico. The department of agriculture declared the butter “fllthT."

THAW HALTS OUIZ ON BRIBE CHARGES Refuses to Testify Before Sulzer Inquiry Committee. SAYS HE ACTS “ON ADVICE” J. N. Anhut, Accused Lawyer, Denies He Offered $20,000 Bribe to Superintendent J. W. Russell of Matteawan. Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., Feb. 28. — Governor Sulzer’s committee of inquiry was unable to secure any testimony from Harry K. Thaw relative to the alleged conspiracy to obtain Thaw’s release from the Mattea wan state hospital because Thaw refused to testify. The commission came here on Wednesday from Albany after hearing John Nicholson Anhut, a New York lawyer, testify that he had received a $25/100 fee from an agent of Thaw io obtain his release. Anhut also testified concerning his re lations with Dr. John W Russell, superintendent of the Matteawau hospital, denying the later’s accusation that he had offered the doctoi - a $20,000 bribe to aid in securing Thaw’s freedom, and making the counter charge that Doctor Russell had said “he wouldn’t do anything for Thaw unless he got money for it." Thaw was brought into the chapel of the institution to give his testimony. He was not sworn. As soon as he had given his name, without waiting for further questions, he explained his position. “I have been advised not to answer any questions,” he said, “unless it is in the same room in which the other witnesses appeared, so that there shall be no distinction apparent. Confessing that it was powerless to punish Thaw for “contumacious conduct,” in view of the fact that the witness was already incarcerated, the committee decided to adjourn the hearing. WHITE SLAVE ACT IS VALID. U. S. Supreme Court Rules Traffic in Women May Be Regulated. Washington, Feb. 26.—0 n the theory that traffic in women in interstate commerce may be regulated by legislation as well as the traffic in drugs, foods or cattle, the Supreme court of the-United States on Monday upheld the validity of the federal white slave tiaffie act of 7910. It had been contended this question of morality was reserved for action by the states. The supreme court upheld the state of Illinois in the application of its taxing power, when it held that grain in transit, when placed temporarily in elevators, is subject to taxation by the state. • PEACE PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN. Reassuring Statement on European Situation by Austrian Premier. Vienna, Feb. 27. —Optimism in regard to general peace has been intensified by a statement of the Austrian premier to a deputation of Bohemian deputies. He told them that he had reason to belive that the hopes for a general settlement of all the questions at issue arising out of the Balkan war are well founded. London, Feb. 27. —There is absolutely no news of fighting anywhere in the Balkans. The weather in the fighting zone is very stormy. Building Falls; Firemen Killed. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 28. —James I. Gillespie, a fireman, was killed and a dozen others narrowly escaped death when the buildings at 140-142 Whitehall street collapsed here Wednesday afternoon. Wilson Declines Club Membership. Washington, Feb. 28.—Presidentelect Wilson declined membership Wednesday in the Chevy Chase club, to which former President Roosevelt, President Taft and officials of the government belong. Instrument Maker Suicides. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 27—Seized withlan obsession while at work in his surgical instrument shop, Karl Schneyder, fifty years old, one of the best known instrument makers in the city, committed suicide Tuesday. Injunction Bill Is Passed. Washington, Feb. 27.—Senator Crawford’s bill to restrict issue of interlocutory Injunctions to suspend state laws and orders of-state administration boards were passed by the senate Tuesday.

WILSON QUITS AS THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY Resignation to Take Effect Saturday, Leaving Him Three Days’ Freedom From Office. Trenton, N. J., Feb.. 27. —Gov. Woodrow’ Wilson on Tuesday tendered his resignation as chief executive of the state of New’ Jersey, effective March 1. The governor wrote his resignation in hand and sent it by Secretary Tumulty to David S. Crater, the secretary of state. At the same time he sent a message to both houses of the legislature, notifying them of his act. t “I shall have the pleasure of being a private citizen for just three days,” remarked Mr. Wilson. i; l think,” h« added, with a smile, “I shall celebrate the fact by turning a handspring just to show that I have no dignity of office to maintain.” President-elect Wilson revealed the state of his mind with respect to the formation of’his cabinet and recommendations for legislation at ths extra session of congress to be called April 1. “My thought of the persdbnel of th© administration,” explained the presi-dent-elect, “is to get the best force. Impetus and snap into it, so that it will be a group of men who will do team work.” Mr. Wilson said he had not yet been able to complete his cabinet and that he realized the time was growing short. He said it would be completed by March 4. MARSHALL REFUSES $4,300. Vice-President-Elect Will Not Accept Mt?ney for Expenses. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 26.—Former Gov. Thomas R. Marshall, who on March 4 will be installed as vice-presi-dent of the United States, has refused $4.500. . That amount was carried in the regular appropriation bill to reimburse Mr Marshall for money spent for house rent, fuel and light while he served as governor. Although the vice-president-elect, la a poor man ana is going to Washington without funds, he refused the appropriation on the ground that he did not believe it constitutional. “GOLDEN RULE” CHIEF OUT. Mayor of Cleveland Removes Fred Kohler —Charges Are Filed Later. f Cleveland, 0., Feb. 27.—At his own request to save the mayor embarrassment, Cleveland’s “Golden Rule” chief of police, Fred Koehler? was suspended by Mayor Newton D. Baker. It is understood that he was first given an opportunity to resign. Subsequently charges attacking Koehler's conduct was filed with the civil service commission. The specific charges are that he was guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and subversive of-the good order and discipline of the department, and of gross immorality. FRANK JAMES NEAR DEATH. Brother cf Outlaw, at Sixty-Seven, la Victim of Consumption. Spokane, Wash., Feb. 23. —But a shadow of his former self, Frank James, brother of Jesse James, now a helpless victim of the w’hite plague, has sought the wilds of the Coeur d’Alene mountains to die. James, six-ty-seven years old, gray haired and feeble, walked to the altar at the meeting of the Volunteers of America, where he professed faith. “I want to go to the mountains, where people cannot see me,” said James, “into places similar to those in which we lived dui> ing the years we were outlaws.” Ship Afire In New York Harbor. New' York, Feb. 28. —The steamship Richmond of the Atlantic Coast Lumber company, with a cargo of lumber from Georgetown. S. C., caught fire in the East river Wednesday and was beached above Brooklyn bridge. Cistro Welcomed to Havana. Havana, Cuba, Feb. 28. —Gen Cipriano Castro, former dictator of Venezuela, arrived here Wednesday on board the steamer Saratoga, from New York, and was greeted enthusiastically by the populace. Lee Kin Is a Suicide. Washington, Feb. 26—George W. Lee, a descendant of Gen. Robert E. returned home Monday and found his wife, Mrs. Laura B. Lee, thirty-eight years old, a suicide. The motive is a mystery to the coroner. Wells Wins Twenty-Round Go. London, Feb. 26.—Matt Wells, the English lightweight, won from Hughjs Mehegan, the Australian champion, at the National Sporting club Monday night. Wells won on points, the fight coin* 20 rounds »

SUSAN’yiRST JOB Her Bit of Sociological Work Turned Out Happily. BY JANE OSBORN. It was a day of surprises from the beginning. Susan Megs was a senior at Grayton college, and though that Institution was only two hours from Susan's home in the suburbs of the large city, week ends away from college were out of the ordinary run of events. Susan was planning on thi|s particular Saturday morning a day bf great achievement. ishe was going t@ do some much neglected studying, to do a month’s mending, to spend an hour or so at hockey, write letters. [ make some fudge, have an afternoon j tea party in her room for some freshmen and go on a long walk with a far i vorite instructor. It was at breakfast that her plana i received their first disturbance. She [ was summoned to answer a loug disI tanco telephone call. A man’s voice | spoke as she took the receiver in her i hand —a fact that was disquieting i enough at Grayton where one is suri rounded entirely by feminine voices: What is more, it was the voice of thalj j friendly young John Freeman whom) 1 Susan had met only a month ago at a [ classmate s ‘ house party. He had found excuses, flimsy pretexts, tci write to her on several occasions, and had asked the privilege of coming to see her at her home in her next vacation. “Susan,” he asked, using her first I name for the first time,” can’t you manI age to get off for a week end? I know i It is awfully abrupt, but it is a little; j house party at my aunt’s. It is just 1 the same crowd that we had at the 1 other house party and we must have 1 you. Aunt lives in the city am I at her house half the time, you know.”* I Susan hesitated, then she accepted. She was to come to the city after lunch, and, John was to ipeet her at the station. But before Susan had finished her breakfast another long distance call came. This call was I from her mother. . “Susan, you must come home today. 1 Bridget has left and grandfather has got the gout agaifi. It isn’t that we [ need you, but you must come to the city and get a cook at the employment agency." Susan protested, but in vain. After ill, she thought resignedly, as she listened to her mother's entreaties, why should she go to John Freeman’s aunt’s house party? It was foolish of her to care especially about John when he probably knew a dozen other girls whom he liked quite as well as I lie did Susan. No, she would not . go. ; “Yes, mother,” she said. “I can i manage to get the cook, and as long i as I am near home I will come the ; rest of the way. Os course, I would i have to bring her cut; with me.” Accordinging Susan dispatched a teli sgram to John, saying that she could i not come, quickly dressed without-fin- : Ishing breakfast and sped to the sta- ! tion. In an hour she was at the em- ! ployment agency, where she was greeted with the news that Bridget i had decided to stay; that Susan’s mother had just telephoned from the sountry to tell the agent to tell Susan. Susan was irritated. She was not dressed for the house party, in tact she had dressed in such a hurry lhat she was especially dissatisfied : with her appearance. She was looking really dejected when she was sudienly surprised by the overbearing presence of a much befurred middleaged woman at her side. A “Can you wait on table?” she asked <n a cold, haughty tone. Susan looked up ready to laugh. “Will you come for twenty a j month?” asked the woman hastily. “No, mum.” said Susan. “Twenty-five then?” said the employer. , “No. mum, I take thirty-five or nothing,” said Susan, thinking she had named a prohibitive wage. “Very well,” replied the woman. “It Is exorbitant, but I simply must have lome one. Have you your uniforms with you? Can you come right away? I am in a desperate hurry.” * “That I have not,” said Susan, turning on her heel. “We can stop at a shop and buy them,” said the employer. “You are a pretty average shape.” She turned Susan around with a strong hand on the slight shoulder. “Yes, that will be all right. Come on, I am in a very great hurry. I won’t stop to see the agent about taking you. I can attend to that on Monday. Come on, I say.” Susan was ready to laugh. “I guess I won’t be coming,” she said. “But you must,” insisted the woman with an emphatic tap of the foot. “Now be a nice girl. See, I am in a dreadful fii. Company coming and my jather girl left last night. There is a cook and a man besides so you won’t have to kill yourself.” In the minute as Susan stood looking at the woman it flashed across her ffiind that this was a fine opportunity to do some sociological research on her own hook. “If you will give me a chance to send a telegram to my people,” she said, and later she sent word to her mother that as long as she was cot needed to bring home the new cock, she was staying in town to study conditions and would tell her about it Inter. ihe biack dress and apron and cap fought at the shop fitted perfectly and a few minutes after Susan had reached the house had transferred herself into a model waitress. She answered the doer among other things, and at the first call in that direction she opened to a well built, well overcoated young man—who brushed by her rather hastily and didn’t notice. But Susan did. It was John Freeman and in a minute more Susan realized that her employer was his aunt who was giving the house party which she had declined and for the sake of which she had been employed in such haste. She thought for a minute, and then came to the cook. “I am going to leave,” she said. “I wish you would tell the madam.” In a minute the “madam” was in the kitchen tn a combination of rage and petition, but Susan was flrm. Then the “madam" went upstairs and told her

troubles to her good locking nepbew. t “I can fix her up all right.” he trying to brush aside his aunt’s anxieties in a word. “Seemed like a bright! faced, trim little person at the dporj though I didn't really look her over,"! and with that he descended two steps' at a time to the kitchen. He was de termined to keep the new maid and' he would beg her out of pity, or he» would bribe her to stay. Os course the house party was a failure now thaa Susan had decided not to come, but for his aunt’s sake he would do that he could. “Where is the new maid. Maggie?" he asked with easy friendliness of the old Irish cook. But for some reason' •the new maid had fled updhe back! stairs'’at the sound of his voice. Hei followed her two steps at a time. "Walt a minute,” he begged as shQ shot ahead of him. “Won’t you lis. ten?” She was in the hall of the servants’ quarters before he caught her. Then she turned her back on' him and covered her face with her hands. “Is Maggie mean to you?” he asked, thinking that the girl was crying. Then as he drew a crisp dollar bill from his pocket, “There, there, don’t mind her. Take this and forget it. Maggie is all right when you know her.” Susan tried to escape into her room, but he barred the way and with two strong hands he pulled her hands from her face and lifted that face to his own. “What can I do?” Susan said, looking appealingly at him. “Your aunt mistook me for a I thought it was so impertinent of her that I pretended I was just to pay her back. Then she ipade me come and I came. I never saw such a compelling woman in my life. Os course, I didn't know. I would love to bluff it through only I am afraid when she found out she would think I was dreadful. All I can do is to get away. Please help me.” It took several minutes to explain, and finally at John’s suggestion Susan decided to stay, and every jme was to be let into the joke and every one was to help take the place of the missing maid. The house party was a great success and John’s aunt was quite willing to laugh over her own mistake. “She is a mighty sweet little girl,” said the aunt to her nephew Monday morning after the guests had all departed, “though I don’t think much of her notions of studying sociology. John, why will such pretty i young women do such blue-stockingish things? If I hadn’t recognized at first sight that she was unusual I wouldn’t have agreed to pay her thirty five dollars a month. That is really exorbitant. She is the sort of girl, John,” went on the aunt, “that I should thmk you would want to marry, but you men are so hard to please.” “Os course I want to marry her aunt,” said John, beaming. “Tlqit is what I wanted to have this party for. so you could look her over and I could have a chance to ask her. lam glad you approve. And as for sociology, I think she has done about all the original research she will need for the career she is going to follow.” (Copyright. 1913, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Spring of Risibility. A woman called police headquarters early one morning and Leonard Crane, police captain, answered the telephone. “Is this the police station?” inquired the woman. “Yes, ma’am,” replied Captain . Crane. “What can I do for you?” “I’d like to speak to Superintendent Hyland.” “The superintendent is not here." “That’s funny,” answered the woman in an angry tone. “J know it’s funny,’ replied Captain Crane. “I’ve been laughing about it nearly all night.” Captain Crane waited for an instant. The woman hung up the receiver.—lndianapolis News. Very Mistrustful. A group of brokers were talking about the late James R. Keene. “Keene,” said one, “had a cynical humor. He was also mistrustful —especially mistrustful of his associates in pools. “Keene once pointed out to me an action on the part of a pool associate that he deemed suspicious. I said there was nothing suspicious about it But Keene laughed and said: “ TH tell you the kind of man I am in these pool deals. I’m the kind of man who, when he finds a spoon in the hall after he has given a dinner party, says: “ ‘Aha, cgie of my guests had a hole lr his pocket!”’ As He Read the Sign. The mother was at the zoo with her little boy. and the boy said: “Mother, come and see the dangeroos!” The mother corrected him, saying: “Not dangeroos, dear —kangaroos!” j “No, mother, dear,” said the boy, “they are dangeroos; come and I’M show you.” He led his, mother to where thfere was this notice on the cage of some animals: “These Animals Are Dangetous.” Engineers Confident of Success. The clay core hydraulically depos-ited-in the great Gatum dam at Panama is of such smooth and water-re-sisting material that it Is expected to solidify the whole mass of rock and earth into 1 a wall, every part virtually cemented to all the rest. And In the end the clay itself is likely, the engineers hold, to turn into the blue rock which is common on the isthmus, along the line of the canal. Her -Bluff. “Why so glum?” wife threatened yesterday to go home to her mother." “Oh, well, probably she won’t ga" “She didn’t." For the Tennis Racket. Rub vaseline over the strings of your tennis racket and you will find that they have not broken in the spring as they so frequently da H a man shall do a piece of work incomparably better than his fellows, the world will make a pathway to hta door, though he lire in a forest—Emerson.