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Show ' to sound whistles or ring bells on the approach of their trains tcT crossings constitutes no excuse for failure of travelers on the highways high-ways to discharge their duty to exercise reasonable care to look and listen effectively to avoid collision before they enter upon railroad tracks." In judging pure foods, the same court in the case of the Lay-ton Lay-ton Pure Food & Drug company against the Church & Dwight company, com-pany, an Iowa suit, said that the "evidence of the eye is more persuasive per-suasive than any other." SOME QUEER DECISIONS. "It is no more in the exercise of ordinary care to look and listen when and where looking and listening are useless than it is to fail to look and listen where looking and listening would be effective. A new trial is granted." The United States circuit court of appeals at Denver handed down this decision in the case of Marion Bennett, who in the lower court seevred a verdict against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad for personal injuries. Then the court added some more in-t in-t cresting reasons why Bennett should have looked and listened where looYr v j'-- .vm have been effective. It said: "The ncj..i.ie of the servants of railroad companies in failing |