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Show K greatest he item NEWS SUMMARY or Jtwelry la confbuyinR Diamond lict In th paoplo with whom you trad. 3Umus tit tlir iUaiuii ljat Alima (Hrittttttate in tarape offar you th faeilitiia of trading with i firm doing buainaa eontlnuoualy on honor tor noarly forty yoar. Los iy By ANDREW 170 There is constant compluint of the failure of juw tice in criminal cases, llefornm have Wn attempted, but, for the most part, they have been of a minor na- I . tal ture and have given but little relief. Changes in the constitution are difficult to make, but if deemed that they should be made the sooner the tsteps are taken the better. There is one proposition that would require a change in the constitution, although on strict analysis it might seem that an intrepretation of the constitution should suffice; that is, that no one shall be placed twice in jeopardy for the same offense. As interpreted thus far, this provision of the constitution protects the accused if found not guilty, against a second trial entirely regardless of tha manner in which the decision in the first trihl was brought about ; that it to say, the accused, whether in person or through his attorneys, may be guilty of the most flagrant abuse, of the most unfair methods, indeed, of direct bribery and corruption, and, nevertheless, should he in any manner, by hook or crook, obtain a verdict of not guilty he forever is protected against another trial for the same offense. It would Becm the part of prudence to shape the constitution and the laws,- even the construction if it can be, in such a manner that the accused shall not profit by his own wrong, nor by the wrong of his representatives, and that a verdict in his favor obtained by illegal means should be as readily displaced as he in turn may have a verdict displaced, which, by error or otherwise, was improperly obtained. There is another rule that no one shall be compelled to incriminate himself that is, to give testimony against himself, which, also, originally was a protection against tyranny, inasmuch as the victims were subjected to torture until they would give testimony. Of course in modern times no such thing as such torture is known, and we readily might dispense with such provisions, leaving to the calm and fair judgment of our courts the extent to which an accused may be interrogated. Here again the fallacy of the present situation is recognized, and we have statutes whereby the accused has-thright to testify, but should not be compelled so to do. The ostrich is said to stick his head into the sandK and then harbor the belief that no one can see him. This provision of the law has a similar effect, inasmuch as, with few exceptions, the jurors trying cases are present in the courtroom and observe that in some cases the defendants testify and in others they do not. From this they clearly learn the defendant has the right to testify if he cares to do so, and, consequently, when sitting in the next case in which the defendant does not testify the jury knows as well as if so told by the court or counsel that he did have the right to testify and failed to do so, and they will draw the same inference from his silence as above suggested. Under this anomalous constitution it would seem the part of wisdom to brush all this rubbish aside and subject the defendant in criminal cases, as he is now in civil cases, to the obligation of testifying should he be called upon by the prosecution so to do. Many cases are known in the courts where, although guilt is most apparent, conviction fails by reason of the absence of witnesses upon some, perhaps, minor point in the case. Commercial frauds especially, and all sorts of financial confidence concerns, wildcat insurance, fraudulent banks and guaranty companies, are aided by the present condition of the law. Our country is so great, and state lines so numerous, that offenses of this kind flourish by reason of the extreme difficulty and expense of bringing witnesses from a distance. In many of these and similar cases a few well directed questions to the accused would suffice to establish the offense beyond the shadow of a doubt Fortunately, even under our present system much valuable information ia obtained from No the commendable police method commonly called the sweat box. afforded often has while has been it ever innocent person injured thereby, the only means of conviction in most heinous cases. The interrogation of the accused at all stages, even at the trial itself, should be allowed, as it is now with much efficiency in continental Europe. ST. , LAKE CITY. UTAK ;$ALT PI. NTS. BUKOS. Rent on mrtli, Fim catalog liitrrn'l Mtirirrlra, Colo. Agouti Wanted. IliaSaV I'.uT.r, if laN 1DINQ THE SOUTH SEA de SURR. ilon oi jthora Daacription Makes Ont Long to Participate. e, on 0 and ely a 1 shall never forget the first big them ave I caught out there in the deep alive ater. 1 aaw It coming, turned my the ack on It and paddled for dear life, aster and faster my board went, until teemed my arms would drop off. In loalon that was happening behind me 1 seems mid not tell. One cannot look be have od and paddle the windmill stroke, taken beard the crest of the wave hissing three id churning, and then my board was ted and flung forward. I scarcely saster iew what happened the first half a the mute. Though I kept my eyes open, rlylng could not see anything, for I was t Vlr- - irled la the rushing white of the est. But I did not mind. I was Fay-- t defly conscious of ecstatic bliss at ivlng caught the wave. At the end the half minute, however, I began earn see things and to breathe. I saw :at three feet of the nose of my board Jr the as clear out of water and riding on I and e air. I shifted my weight forward id made the nose come down. Then s not lay, quite at rest In the midst of the lid movement, and watched the if life West lore and the bathers on the beach n to ow distinct. I didn't cover quite a iarter of a mile on that wave, be of luse, to prevent the board from dlv four g, I shifted my weight back, but r em-?- o bitted It too far, and fell down the to ar slope of the wave." Jack London rough the Woman's Home Companion. Greek ended Proof That Oysters Have Brain. day. William R. Travers, the famous min-ti- e ammering New York wit, once met dinner a pompous Englishman who imeri as "doing" the States. He had let rs attesting his Importance letters from Gladstone, Dllke, Sails He had talked jry and Churchill. e Ar-- erybody tired before the dinner besaw visions of a an, and Travers id meal when he discovered the Eng. hman to be his neighbor at table, llams here was never a stop to the fellows orlty. ague. When . the oysters wers mond ought on he began: "Now, It Is a fight estlon whether or not the oyster i the is brains; scientists dispute the itlves ea. certainly have lately me," retorted Travers. Your proof, r," challenged the Briton, eager for blow gument sir, the ater knows to shut up. Pitts - Mo-arll- ; i s re o-- o the was 1 fare heek. De r. iy. ig as les. States y at ouble the 1 com thetlc to or by rsday le skull Iward and lies nenry , ip the a,. 5 two s old. i old. They claro mur Hun- i and lessor being I, mown lately proad alien, y five ndred Preachers. Long-Winde- d J. H1RSCHL. The seventeenth-centurpuritan eachera talked for two hours .or ore, not "by the clock," but by the At least one of them irned the glass to humorous account e found himself no further than the Iddle of the sermon when the Bands, id run out "Drunkenness" was hie ibject, and, reversing the horologe. Let's have another glass," said he. r Roger L'Eetrango tells of a parish erk who sat patiently until the s eacher was through s second glass, and the majority of hearers had quietly left the church, pause, hs ilng at a convenient iked the minister to close the church or when he had done, "and push e key under it, as he and the few at remained were about to retire. three-quarter- j Were a strict census taken of the most general form of the result would Does This Hit You? probably show immense One trouble with a good many men that they treat their faults as If preponderance of perey were their best friends. Ex sons pluming themselves ange. on being extraordinarily Eyelashes and Eyebrows. sympathetic. It would There Is much beauty in long, silky, also be discovered that Men are proud of rved eyelashes. aetllng brows fringed with fierce their chief support in the harsh battle of life is the reassuring rememistles. They fondly believe that brance that Kind hearts are more than coronets. obBut subsequ oh features indicate force of charfew of them are so invinter backed up by Immense brain servation would undoubtedly prove that only a excellence as they profess to beof orgy. In Circassia, Persia and parts cibly dependable in their own line India one of a mother's earliest lieve and would have us imagine. res Is to promote the growth of her ildren'e eyelashes by tipping and reMany a time and oft are we, their associates, brought up with a point iving the fine, gossamer-Uksudden shock of discriminating surprise at finding that their renowned th a pair of scissors when the sympathy is not nearly so comprehensive as we had charitably conjectured. ungsters art asleep. By repeating Some memorable instances of the failure of the credited sympaia every month or six weeks the dies heroine long, close, finely thetic person to act up to a privately erected standard must be fresh in rved and glossy. This practice la in fact, they flock to the mind, not the experience of every id to bo very, useful in treating In mimntlon of the eyes, or granulated singlo spies but in battalions, to tear down from its proud eminence that Is. Shaving will muke th eyebrows too boastful ensign. ick end heavy. There is, for instance, the chairman of a certain society for the bene Short Honeymoons. at of the distressed, a man whose eloquence moves wealthy rogues and Honeymoons are going out of fashirrogunt despots in various walks of life to most unexpected benevolence ; and will probably eventually the enormous succcis of his unremitting labors at present, they are often i man who ortened to four or five days, or on behalf of the poor creatures to whom he is pleased to devote his fino n a paltry week end; and. after all, himself on his fitness ae protracted wedding trips, though mental endowment cannot fail to congratulate distinction such ho with holds a and, of woman's life, for the post incidentally, with a lerally the event ow often boring to a man. ho all men of solid emolument. Curtly may blameslessly pose ns tho human embodiment of sympathy! Soldierly Quail1. Ms, John Corporal "Oh, yes; 1 feel But apply to his office underlings, his clerks paid at the lowest rato ire that Willie is going to be a sol few days absence from cr. There are certain signs which practicable for their retention, who in case of a "ver fall." Mrs. Jack Sergeant their desks through illness find their months salary docked of tho miserWhat particular sign have you no able sum for which they have not actually toiled. Small sympathy red?! "Why, the diar little darling there for the needy invalids difficulty in paying for medical treatment ti am Wild of dirt he cua gt." oud necessary remedies! But it is eminently typical of tho man of him who insists on the constant presence of his monk little wife every Jangerous Youngster. "You'dWtter be kind o' careful how evening whilst he obscures his august person by outspread newspapers u talk i me," said Tommy, doubling Wu i small and glaring at the other Htid almost impenetrable clouds of smoke, In spito of tho fact that long y. "I' got the artistic temper', hours of siloipai bore her, and the smell of tobucco makes her head achl. nt, andv got It bad!" e world-citize- - fill-pe- n; But Why Didnt He? Great Racers. vi "Do they have any fast horses over "There you go again, Tom. You ar In the old country, Larry?" a regular bear! "Well, no wonder. Did you ever They do thot, sor "But they don't have any fast horses see a bear perfectly happy when he like we do over here. Why, our couldnt hug something?" horses run so fast they cant stop. REGRETS. "Thots nothin'. Th' horses In th ould country run so fast tbot they her to stop to keep from catching up wld awn running over thor own tails! Chicago Dally News. Why Hs Wss Thers. Gyer was standing on the sidewalk as a wedding party came down the church steps. "What are you doing here? queried his friend Myer, who happened along Just then. an"Watching the tied go out, swered Gyer, with an open-facegrin. Chicago Dally News. d Query. Will somebody kindly explain why it Is the barber always puts warm lather on your face and cold lather on the back of your neck? Milwaukee Sentinel. Senator Gore of Oklahoma has introduced a bill providing for the election of United States senators by popular vote. The Fllplnos are to have their representatives In Washington within a month, Just as the Porto Ricans are represented by Delegate Larrlnaga. Tho Bank of Mendenhall, at Mendenhall, Miss., has been placed In tho hands of a receiver. It la a small state bank, with a capital stock of S18.BOO and deposits of $ 10,000. Van Leer Polk, one of the editors genof the eral at Calcutta, and grand nephew of President Polk, died suddenly at Memphis, Tenn., last week. By an almost unanimous vote the Republican committee of New York county refused to adopt a resolution endorsing Governor Hughes for the Republican presidential nomination. At a meeting of the nut and bolt manufactures of the United States, held In Pittsburg last week. It was decided to reaffirm the prices which have ruled for 1907 for the next year Thinking It unloaded, John Meyer, a farmer boy living near Holy Cross. Iowa, pointed a shotgun at his sixteen-year-olsister and pulled the trigger. Her head was blown from her shoul News-Sclmlta- r, d ders. Senator Scott has Introduced a Joint resolution providing for the Bppolnt Bill Yus, when m man's been In went of a committee of three sena to in quod wunst, 'is name Is mud ever tors and three representatives coa In recent the explosions vestlgate after! Freddie True, true. Bill, tine done mines. ' A. A. Wilson, a prominent merchant cannot be undone. shot and killed Bud Doughty, Judgment of Posterity. wealthy planter, In the formers store Teacher (of night Bchool) It i at Shaws, Miss. It la claimed that scarcely necessary for me to say Doughty was using Improper language that Tennyson ranks deservedly ai before women. one of the greatest of English poets. Joseph II. Choate, In an address at Sure. He Shaggy Haired Pupil annual meeting of the State Charthe the only man that could rhyme "onIn New York Aid association ities ward with "hundred, and make It to the old adherence' advocated City, go. Chicago Tribune. h of all propMosaic law that erty be given to charity. His Own at That. anJudge Ball has adjourned the shouted sisters! "Thank goodness, Central Illinois the of nual meeting the suffrage leader, "our sex doesnt ' Railroad company to some day in Febhave to use razors. ruary next, the day to be determined My wife uses s razor, spoke up th later by the attorneys representing little meek man In the last row. Mr. Harrlman and Mr. Fish. Uses a razor? What fort" with." Edward Clifford, aged 25. was to pencils sharpen man "Why, with A wireless tragedy the News. Chicago Dally hanged at Peoria, 111., on Friday for with a nose for news as a victim. murdering his father, November 25, AN AUTUMN NOTE. 8hort and 8weet. 1906. Clifford walked to the scaffold "They say when you proposed your with' a firm step and repeated a Lest girl gave you a short answer," prayer, led by Father Samon. remarked the bosom friend. Professor Anlchkoff, who holds the "Thats what she did," laughed the chair of literature in the University ardent suitor. of St. Petersburg, has been sentenced "But you dont seem much worto confinement In a fortress for eighried?" teen months for being a member of "I should say not The short anthe peasant league of Novgord. swer was Yes. "Chicago Dally The annual report of Commissioner News. Capers of the Internal revenue bureau Solicitude. shows that for the fiscal year ended June 20, 1907, the receipts of this bu"Why are you so extremely solicitous about the preservation of trees?" reau were $269,664,022 85, an excess asked the art expert. of $20,561,284 over the preceding year. "Well," answered the man whose Eminent men in New York and tastes In sculpture are somewhat reother cities have begun a movement stricted, It seems to ms that trees for the release of Nicholas Tschalkov-skare frequently very desirable things and Catherine Breshkovsky, the for statuary to hide behind." WashRussian revolutionists now Imprisington Star. oned at St Petersburg for political reasons. BRUTAL. Horribly mutilated and her body riddled with shot, Mrs. Mary Nelson Horace How merrily the leaves a most respected woman, was found are dancing over the ground In the dead in Happy Woods roads, near breeze! Hammond, La. Suspicion has fallen Loralne Yes; they're about th upon a negro with whom Mrs. Nelson only things that the summer left preta quarrel. off. had well ty It has been announced authoritaReduced to a Practical Basis. Dawson will tively that Governor '1 suspect, said th observant citiwithin the next few days, call an exzen, "that people do not pay as much tra session of the West Virginia legattention to campaign speeches as islature to convene January 28, for they need to." the consideration of more stringent "They dont," answered Senator Sormining laws. ghum. "The business instinct Is perThe wife of Henry Clay Ward, meating the masses, and they regard of Pontiac. well known millionaire a campaign speech merely as a Mich., and son of the late David Ward, mortnote without any promissory has petitioned the court to declare her gage behind It" Washington Star. husband Insane. Mr. Ward Is well known In California, where he has Undoubted Proof. spent considerable time Millie Dose Jack lovs you as much Mrs. Nellie G. Cochran, who was as ever? found with a bullet wound in her head Tlllle Oh, quits; hs even gives the at the home of her sister In Chicago, cigars I buy him to his friends withdied at the hospital. It Is believed by out winking. the police that she was murdered by Charlotte I would like to give my An Explanation. M. L. Dillon, a salesman, whose dead Dance a surprise for his birthday. d&rk for what it gets "Papa, him You tell age! body was found In the womans room. your Kit might soon?" Indictments charging J. Dalzell Chicago Journal. "Because, my poy, winter is cornin Brown, general manager of the InsolLife. and it gets late early now. Happy Unions. vent California Safe Deposit and "Young man, balled the walking Trust company, and Walter J. Bart-netMAKING HIS WAY. delegate, "do you believe In unions?" a director In the Institution, "You bet I do," replied the young with two counts of embezzlement, man In the black suit and white tie. were returned by the grand Jury last "Glad to hear It On your way to week. work, I suppose? The woman who, on December 4. No; on my way to got married." made an unsuccessful attempt to kill Chicago Dally News. Lieutenant Juerschelmann, governor general of Moscow, by means of a But so Not Quit Poetic, bomb, was executed at Moscow on the Mrs. A. Your husband Is literary, I 20th. On the scaffold she said to the believe. "We will soon stop executioners: Mrs. B. Yes, Indeed. Why, he hangings. your writes a poem In my honor once Adders from Tutulla, Samoa, say week. the volcano In the Island S.tvall. that My husMrs. A. That's nothing. In Gorman Somoa, la working with band writes cheques la mine every greater activity than it has done since day. the first outbreak, and the eruptions are submarine and terrestrial. Much th Sams. Is flowing Into tho sea at the rate of tanI understand you married a 7.000 tons a minute. ner, said one woman to another, as A passenger train on the Son lino they met In after years. from St. Iuul was derailed at Kenan"Well, something like that, a Is husband sington, Minn. O. I,. Anderson, bagother. tho swered "My twengageman, was killed, and about country school teacher." Chicago wore more or lest cut News. passengers ty Dally or bruised. Tho derailment occurred embankment, became nn'a thirty-foo- t Hard to Understand. of a sagging track. We have never been able to fully The dead ho.ly of August Ahearnt, understand why men commit sulcldo, Wiggs Education helps a man to a title investigator, was found In the but when a man worth over 12.000,000 St. hath room of his residence In kills himself ths mystery deepens. mnko his way in the world. doubt no Is but there Yen, Diggs LoiiIh. Ahearns had stabbed himself Th statements that such a man was over the heart, rut an artery In one crazy at the time seem to b well that a little football experience helps car. street crowded a of him out wrist and swallowed poison, presumfounded. Detroit Free Press. mb' ably prussic add. He had been Ject to fits of mdaneltoly A SPARKLING INTERVIEW. one-tent- y t, |