Show inc dent exola ns why M jur st Is honored lawyers who practice be fore judge phillips of the federal dis branch have the highest respect for his honor in spite of his marked pec cliant es I 1 t long ago a young fellow who through ignorance had vio the un ted states statutes was brought benoie him and was sentenced to pay a fine of the father of the prisoner an old german who made his living by selling vegetables shortly appeared in court with a bas ket of s iver ns from dollars to dimes the old man explained that ohp coins were the savings of a long time judge ps called over the prisoners la berand said I 1 am going to reduce that fine to be cause of the boy s dad and I 1 sup pose he adad with severity that yo i will collect the thompson the lawyer declared that he would donate his services gratis whereupon father and son left the court campara lively happy ch cago chronicle FOR RAILROADS IN LUZON secretary taft urges development of the ph I 1 pp nes i secretary taft has asked congress to authorize the phil apine govern ment to borrow ten mill ons of dollars on 3 or 4 per cent bonds upon the guarantee of the united states for the I 1 aroi U bul IN alton purpose of build ng railways in the island of luzon and other parts of the archipelago and the newspapers tell us that he has had interviews with several capitalists in new york for the purpose of interesting them in the subject EDISON IMPROVES ON SAYING sends forth motto all would do well to heed francis baker crocker professor of electrical engineering at columbus university recently wrote to thomas A edison for a photograph of the lat ter large enough to hang in the office of the electrical department at the university and also requesting mr edison to inscribe the picture with some motto that might be helpful to the students in a few days a large photograph of the inventor arrived and at the bottom of it in the large strong well defined handwriting of ed ison was the following which as it has long done duty in advertisements does not say much for the famous man s originality things come to those who hustle while they wait chicado the ra iway center twenty five railroads center at chi cago excluding separate divisions ten of them eastern trunk lines ten southern of western trunk lines and five belt or transfer roads designed tor the interchange of eastern west ern and southern traffic within the district bounded by ohio desplaines and eighteenth street and lake mich igan an area of say 2 acres all or nearly all these trunk lines and their several lake carrying auxiliaries own or lease in and out freight stations this region is the chicago terminal here centers 25 per cent of the cotal mileage the country austral an statesman s R se john christian watson prime min ister of the ai st ralian commonwealth only a few years ago was setting ype in a sidnay newspaper office in 1901 was elected to parliament and soon became the of the hour because of the strength he showed in debate it is expected that the young premier will have some difficulty in inducing his followers to accept a modi rate and conciliatory policy dent Is costly A provision of has been made by the pans underground rail way out of its year s profits to meet liabilities arising out of the accident in august last year when nearly lives were lost decrease in engi sh patents the number of patents applied tor in england during 1903 was which is less than the number in the year preceding fifty new golf balls were invented during the year french fleet in an official report just drawn up tor the french parliament it is de dared that the fleet is at the height of efficiency but that the garrisoning and provisioning of several colonies are insufficient average wages of teachers the average wage of a male school teacher in the united states is about per year the average of a woman teacher in the united states Is about per year |