some of them would have been burned to a crisp.

A shell of wood is very poor "protection" for human lives."

SPECTACULAR JUSTICE.

STUDENTS of human nature

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strange environments were particularly interested in reading the accounts. of how Mayor Schmitz was sentenced to States-prison in a San Francisco court.

He had been convicted of extorting $1,175 from the keepers of French restaurants, by the payment of which they were allowed to defy the law. There were four other indictments against him for extortion, and some for other crimes.

The judge ordered the distinguished personage to stand up. He did so-his face white as a sheet, his lips pushed tightly together, and his whole manner defiant. He threw back his shoulders and held his head as high as if he were to receive honors instead of degradation.

"Eugene E. Schmitz," the judge began, "you have here.ofore occupied the highest office that the city of San Francisco can confer upon one of its citizens. You were elevated to that position because of the confidence and trust reposed in you, by the mass of the people❞—

"I am here", broke in Schmitz, "to receive sentence: and not to hear a lecture for the newspapers to report.

The other proceeded with his "lecture". It is always considered one of the perquisites of a judge, to make a little oratorical display when sentencing a prisoner of any importance. He has generally been hearing all sorts of rhetoric, through the trial, from the different attorneys, with very little opportunity to air any of his own forensic graces. So the judge went on: but was

soon interrupted by attorney for the prisoner, who restated the fact that a sentence, and not a lecture, was in order. The judge threatened to put this protesting attorney in jail for contempt if he did not subside immediately: and the requested subsidence occurred. Then the judge went on throwing harsh words at Schmitz:

"You stand before those who believed in and honored you-morally naked, shamed, and disgraced", he continued.

"I deny that!" shouted the prisoner. "The people of San Francisco know I was railroaded through!"

Mr. Schmitz did not labor under the same disadvantage as his attorneybeing already in jail, so to speak, and not fearing that sort of medicine-being already full of it. So the oratory of the sentence had to be struggled through as well as possible under the circumstances -the prisoner frequently interrupting.

As soon as it was over, the crowd in the courtroom sent up a tumultuous cheer. "Good for you!" they shouted to the judge; and some threw their hats in the air. Confusion reigned so entirely, that the scene must have resembled the bleacheries at a baseball game when the local team succeeds by a close margin. Added to this, were explosions from a number of flashlight cameras, which reporters had brought into the courtroom.

An appeal was of course taken by the prisoner's attorney, and an attempt will be made to have the whole weary business tried over again.

And meanwhile the convicted and sentenced man announced that he was a candidate for Mayor in the coming autumn elections!

More sensational court-scenes may have occurred, but they do not happen every day in the year.

FINING RAILROADS.

A CORPORATION is fined as a corporation, for granting rebates, or some other illegal act, while the men who really "did the bad deeds" are, personally, let alone and go free.

This is, virtually, punishing the stockholders of the company, instead of the men who are really to blame. Every person that holds a share, when the company is fined, has the value of his property diminished proportionately.

If a railroad is fined, all its owners, though not personally to blame, are also fined, and made particeps criminis. How absurd!

Let the men who are guilty of breaking the law, be punished: and then we shall have something that tends more toward reformation.

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS.

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of which her poems are constructed, came more from reading than from observation: but she had within her mind and soul, a world of thought and feeling, which constantly sought and obtained expression in her poems.

Some of the most famous of her lyrics. will be remembered by our readers, as "Casabianca", "The Graves of a Household", "The Treasures of the Deep" "The Better Land", "The Homes of England", "The Lost Pleiade", and by no means least, the above-mentioned "Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers."

THE TEN CENT THEATRE.

GRADUALLY it is coming to be un

derstood that histrionic entertainment should not be monopolized by a lot of play-house magnates, whose minions. sit on the high thrones of a box-office and sell the wor:t seats available each

one of the sweetest and sanest poets that ever dealt with the English language: and we give her the post of honor upon our front cover-page.

Mrs. Hemans was the author of large numbers of poems which won the respect and love of our race. She especially endeared herself to Americans, by her noble lyric, "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers."

She was born at Liverpool, September 25, 1793, and carried in her veins the blood of three races: the German, the Irish, and the Italian. Her life was almost entirely spent in Wales, among the hills and beside the ocean. While her environment was a peaceful and tranquil one, it lacked the variety and incident that most authors seek and obtain, between their days and nights of contemplation, and the outside material

have not time to primp and go to the theatre at eight in the evening or two in the afternoon, are getting their chance, and can run in most any old time, get as much as they want, and be off home.

The vaudevilles-many of which are perfectly respectable and clean-have done much to break up the ice; and the ten-cent theatre is doing more.

This innovation is not only to be found in the big cities, but in villages; where moving-picture-shows, sentimental and comic songs, and other attractions of the sort, make a goodish entertainment for any one who can take a little time to run in and see them. Few hamlets of any size in the more thickly ettled parts of United States, but now have these attractions, and they are apparently doing no harm (the authorities must look out for that), and much good.

mystery at which you yourself can laugh meanwhile.

When you see a thing in print, do not assume that it is true, but consider whether it is true.

If all the "tainted money" were burned, there would not be enough left for the people to use in conducting their business.

Nature sometimes puts the world into a frenzy, to get some desirable things done that could not otherwise be brought about.

Your mother was the sweetest and best woman on earth: but it is safe to believe that she was not perfect, and had her enemies.

If you want to get a right-down thoroughly uncomfortable time with your friends, analyze them, critically and relentlessly.

It is not the worst thing in the world, to lose your way: in finding it, you often run across a lot of other things that are useful to you.

Strength when in full force has a deceitful way of causing its possessor to think it inexhaustible: but nothing can desert us more quickly.

There are a great many people who wish that Satan, when he came to tempt Eve, had taken, instead of a serpent, the form of a mouse.

What good is it to go away from home for a "cure" of some disease, and then come back and resume the habits that caused the trouble?

If the bridegroom knew all the things

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the bride's relatives have said about him, he would feel like throwing their presents back into their faces.

Unconsciousness, when it is given us by Nature, is an anac sthetic, enabling our forces to gather themselves up for something worse coming.

Magic, if it were real, would be nothing but a question of time: doing things in a little while, that nature herself accomplishes in due season.

Parent-love-self-sacrificing though it looks, is really the most selfish in the world. An adopted child, if well treated, has most reason for gratitude.

When a husband and wife grow jealous of each other for the esteem and admiration of the world, they are each becoming less and less worthy of it.

When your body is paralyzed so that you can do nothing but think and remember what you have done in life-then your heaven and hell will begin.

As soon as any one wins laurels, the world wants to classify him and put him into its collection: and he must be strong-willed if he keeps them for him

self.

Sometimes, even after you have turned away wrath with the proverbial soft. answer, the wrath will not be satisfied until it comes back again and gets a poke in the ribs.

This should be the study of all those who must have servants: To treat them well enough, and not too well; to have enough of them and not too many; to know them enough, and not too much.

acy.

23-Concerted strikes broke out in Moscow

and other Russian cities, and many conflicts with the troops occurred. 24-As the result of a volcanic eruption, new islands appeared in the Tonga group, off the coast of Australia.

A rebellion was threatened in northern Korea.

25-Another plot to kill the Czar was discov

ered in St. Petersburg.

The Japanese and American officers of the visiting squadrons were hospitably entertained in Paris.

26-Sir William Ramsay announced that he had succeeded in turning copper into lithium, thus definitely proving that the elements are decomposable.

The Seminovsky Regiment refused to parade before the Czar. Revolutionary literature was discovered in the barracks. 27-Coney Island was swept by a disastrous

fire for the second time in its history. Over 35 acres of buildings were burned down, including the famous "Steeplechase" buildings, where the conflagration started.

28-William D. Haywood was acquitted at Boise, Idaho, of instigating the murder of Governor Steunenberg, after a spectacular trial.

29-Russia completed amicable agreements with Great Britain and Japan, removing all causes of dispute in Asia.

Caleb Powers, convicted three times for the murder of Governor Goebel, of Kentucky, commenced his fourth trial at Georgetown.

30- The Republican State Central Committee of Ohio endorsed Secretary Taft for presidential candidate by a vote of 15 to 6. The Independence candidates were returned

in a large majority as a result of the elections in the Philippine Islands. 31-Moroccan tribesmen raided Casablanca, killing the native guards and seven Europeans.

Seven thousand troops were hurried to Belfast, Ireland, to overcome the strikers. August 1-It was announced that the Emperor of Austria had intervened to settle the long-standing quarrel between Edward VII. and the Kaiser.

Fighting occurred in Seoul between the Japanese and Corean troops.

2-The Secretary of State of Alabama revoked the license of the Southern Railway, owing to its refusal to accept the 22 cents rate law. 3-Emperor William and the Czar met in the Baltic off the coast of Germany. Speculation was aroused concerning the cause of the interview.

Judge Landis, in the District Court in Chicago, fined the Standard Oil Company of Indiana $29,240,000 for illegally accepting rebates. 4-Canadians hoisted the British flag over Isle Royale, in Lake Superior, to force a settlement of the question of ownership. 5-French battleships bombarded Casablanca, killing many Moors. Spanish marines cooperated in the street fighting which followed.

Russian Social Revolutionists elected delegates to a Congress in London. 6-Six thousand Turkish troops invaded Persia, plundering and massacring. Disturbances were reported from many coast cities of Morocco.

7-The Turkish troops in Persia threatened to capture the city of Urumiah. Many Christians were reported to have been murdered.

A telegraphic strike commenced in Los Angeles.

8 The French bombarded Mazagan, Morocco, following on a massacre of Jews there by the Arabs.