Show No Noone one has hns been able to rehearse the details of o thc the pathetic scene When the th husband left I ft home the older I children were here playing and the twins were vere asleep When he h returned from work there W was wac C quiet and the cradle I empty I Mello Melk was almost overcome with I grief and horror but he found the I sheriff who took Mn Mrs Mello to the Martinez Jail the woman talking I qu qUe etly on the way viny about ordinary things She novel never before had given I any ny evidence of insanity i DRINKING MH EN I I PAY LICENSES I Over Collected Co m in Large Cities to Pay P y Gov Government I Expenses I WASHINGTON WASHl TON July 30 Over i forty fort million dollars in the largo large I cities of the United States Slates to pay lay pa I license fees and then some seine more moore The extent lo 10 c which the drinking I I men lUen help to pay the expenses of In the cities is Indicated by bya b ba a census report covering the finances of the tire country for 01 the tho year cal IOOS 1905 in inthe inthe inthe the cities having hw ng a n population of 01 30 I or more There wore at ut that I time imo t of or such cities but the time com corn complete I figures were available a for tor only I of thorn them and these figures show showed showed ed that In those places the license I In the time dunking dr places paid an aggregate aggregate gate gale of This w wis WIH s a gain I of If almost three millions from frona tho tire I I preceding year and of about eleven elon millions from front the tile year cal 1905 1005 Tire Tile I I increase was due to the tho large fees feed 1 exacted act d by most of the largo laro cities I I Of tho tire drinking places sanctioned by bylaw law has there are no fewer than 1 I and this Is a n decrease within throe three years cars of about four thousand The falling off was wa due dire largely largel to the fact faeL that a number of cities went W nt dry dr drOf Of the lie l S places 24 had bad become no license cities when the tire canvass was made The change was most moat marked In the tire South Atlantic states and rind least In the tire Rocky Rock Mountain region Tho Time states stales claiming the tIme largest number of oC saloons to the time population wore Texas Wisconsin and rind New Now NewYork York while Pennsylvania Massachusetts I I stats Botts and Nebraska claimed tho tire smallest number in in to the people to bo be supplied ll ston had one erie licensed bar to every Jas of or her hor people Milwaukee one lo to every ory HI and on one to every eory 1 iG In Iii Pennsylvania the tire freest fresI of largo large there was vas one drinking place c cI to only every eV l 7 8 e Lincoln I Neb bad bud one ono to every 0 elY US The rho rb report shows many m n In irr l facts concerning municipal finances Including the total receipts of oC the HiS IKS cities in question qU which for inOS 1908 were wore This Tills Jig fig UTe mire was made up from tax t x receipts borrowed many man and refunds Of or the tile I total amount 11 was her bor borrowed or rowed Liquor licenses and t formed more than lo 13 1 per cent of flip general revenues reY nUeH In tho thu th cities of Ohio and moro more than their 10 per cent In the tire cities of California Now Nu York City receIved receded I iS anti and Philadelphia froni fron this source Tire Tho only other cities s deriving tl more I than han licenses i were St L Louis Louls iris Cos ton Cleveland I San Son Francisco and Cincinnati CI |