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Show His Mistake A careless pipe-smoker has been fined $200 in Jersey City, N. J. for persistent smoking on a ship, after several warnings from Coast Guardsmen. The man evidently had the idea that the laws of the municipality muni-cipality were for the regulation of others and that he could do as he pleased. The chances are that he now realizes his mistake. Every community has a few citizens who suffer the delusion that they are above all regulations. regulat-ions. These people are not bad, at heart. They just over-estimate' 1 their own cosmic importance. |