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Show This Week h Arthur Brisbane Some Leave, Some Stay An island for Snakes Comfort in a Gold Mine Marriage a Comic Strip Smith Keynolds, only 2J, worth many millions, died of a buliet wound In tae temple. His young wiie, second that he had married, was near. The coroner is "satisfied it was suicide." Of all man's acts, suicide is perhaps the strangest. Wealth destroys itself, while poverty hangs on. One, eager for notoriety, jumps into the mouth of a volcano, another burns the Temples of Diana at Ephesus that his name may be remembered, an old Greek philosopher stumbles and falls on leaving his class room, then kills himself. him-self. Napoleon, unable for many years to rise in the French army, was divided divid-ed in his mind between suicide and marrying an elderly, prosperous widow. wid-ow. He avoided both. . .' : Some struggle to leave this world, others struggle violently to stay here. Mrs. Barney, accused of killing a man in London, was freed by a jury while thousands crowded around the - court room. The judge told the jury that Sir Patrick Hastings' speech, defending de-fending the accused woman, was "the finest he ever had heard in a court of law." The woman said she had lived with the man killed by a revolver shot In her bedroom, and had supported him. Before that experience, she married an American, vaudeville actor. Her lawyer told the jury: "Her life was tragic, tied to an American brute whom she could not divorce." He asked for sympathy on that basis, and got it. The American in this instance may have been "a brute," but if an American- jury acquitted an American lady partly because she was married "to an English brute," some Britons might consider that an indication of prejudice. pre-judice. In New York's Bronx zoo, the snake manager has a good idea. Snakes in cages discover that life is simple. Some one brings live mice, or whatever what-ever they eat, at regular intervals, no one disturbs them. So they lie down, make no effort, and do not amuse the visitors. Also they get no exercise. A small zoo island has been arranged, forty-two forty-two snakes let loose on it. If they swim in the water, they cannot escape because of a rim around the outside of the water. They are expected to crawl around and entertain students of snake nature. How, like ourselves, in our unnatural unnatur-al city life. The baker, butcher, milkman milk-man bring bread, meat, milk. The employer em-ployer brings his payroll, the public school brings knowledge, takes charge of the children, the movies bring excitement. ex-citement. The average American, in prosperous times lives much like the aoo snake, making little mental or physical effort. Someone runs his government. Why should he exert his precious gray matter? We need a "snake Island" for humans to compel useful activity. This depression may supply that island. Canada, the second largest gold producing pro-ducing country in the world, last year produced fifty-five million dollars worth. Britain is the golden empire, its territory supplied five-sevenths of all last year's gold, almost eleven million ounces. British South Africa is the greatest gold country. Of gold there can be, uuder our monetary system, no "overproduction." "overproduc-tion." And with government experts to Instruct them, tens of thousands, now Idle, could make a decent living "panning" gold within United States borders. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy Hudson, mother moth-er of Almee Semple McPherson Hut-ton, Hut-ton, kuown to millions as "Ma," described de-scribed modern hasty matrimony better bet-ter than it has been described hitherto. hither-to. She has only friendship for her husband only recently married, but finds that her romance has "turned Into a comic strip, funny and getting funnier." She adds that she will be responsible respon-sible for none of her husband's debts or other obligations. Human beings are not, usually, as bud as you think them. Two German flyers, Bertram and Clausemann, forced forc-ed dowu lu a wild part of Australia, almost starved to death seeking to evade "savage natives that might be cannibals." Finally natives fouud them, gave them a big fish, brought other food and fresh water, killed kan garoos and supplied fresh meat. If those Australian natives had lauded, unable to speak a word of the local language, in this or some other "civilized" country, they might not have been treated us kiudly as they treated the ragged, half-starved tier man flyers. This year the Fourth of July lulled 215, last year 600. The kind of palrio tlam that calls for loud explosions seems to have been subdued by the depresslou. Also unemployment, loss mouey lu the houte, probably meant fewer "giant crackers" in the hands of children. The increase iu letter posU'e from 2 to 3 cents will cost New York Ct alone $UO,000 u day. It disturbs banks and brokers. The iucreasea iu registered regist-ered nitUl charges are a heavy tax on those that ship articles of great value. One concern, that sent a registered package from New York to San Fran-Cisco, Fran-Cisco, paid 5135. Before the new rate. It would have cost less than $8. (1,1912, bv K iiihi l-aiute indite, lac.) |