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At the present time three of the
United States supreme court justices
tre eligible to retirement, and within
■ he period of the incumbency of the
lest president two more will reach
Hie age limit when they may retire
upon pension if they so wish to do.
This opens up an interesting condition
-md brings within the scope of possi
bility, if not probability, that the suc
cessor to President Rocsevelt may
nave the privilege of filling five va
( ancles, which constitutes a majority
>f Ihe membership of the highest ju
dicial body in the United States. If
such were the privilege of the next
president and he were Democratic in
stead of Republican it would change
completely the political character of
the tribunal, and for the first time
since the civil war give the Democrats
a majority.
Politics is not supposed to cut much
figure in that high tribunal, but po
litical parties, none the less, have con
siderable pride and concern in seeing
men of their own faith wearing the
"rmine, and the close decisions in a
number of great legal and constitu
tional questions within the last de
cade make the personnel of the court
a matter of concern for the future.
Three of the nine members of the
court are now Democrats—Chief Jus
tice Fuller, appointed during Mr.
( "leveland's first term; Justice White
and Justice Peckham, both appointed
during bis second term. Five of the
justices will be eligible for retirement
before March 4, 1913, when the next
presidential administration will have
come to an end. All but two of these
—Justices Fuller and Peckham—
were appointed as Republicans.
There is a double qualification essen
tia! for retirement, involving not only
70 years of age. but ten years of serv
ice on the tribunal. Chief Justice
Fuller is 75, and has been eligible for
retirement since February 11, 1903,
out, being devoted to his high office,
he has never indicated any intention
>f relinquishing the honor.
Justice Harlan, the ranking associ
ate, who has been a member of the
court over 30 years and has just
, passed his seventy-fifth milestone, has
been eligible for retirement since June
1, 1903—more than five years. Justice
Brewer has been eligible a year, hav
ing passed his seventieth birthday on
June 20, 1907. Justice Peckham has
now served on the court 13 years, and
will be 70 on November 8, 1908, so that
on the Sunday immediately following
the coming presidential election there
will be four members of the tribunal
who may allow either president Roose
velt or his successor to designate their
successors.
The fifth member of the court who
will be eligible for retirement under
he president to be chosen in Novem
ier is Justice Holmes. Although he
:s one of the newer members of the
•ourt, being President Roosevelt’s first
appointee, he will be 70 on March 8,
1911. and will have rounded out his
enth year on the tribunal on Decern
>er 4, 1912. He will therefore possess
he right of retiring just three months
>efore the end of the next president's
erm.
As a rule, members of the supreme
-ourt are not prone to retire the mo
nent they have a chance. Most of
he justices have died in harness.
Since the civil war only seven justices
have taken advantage of the retire
ment clause, although there have been
26 appointees. There are now only
two living in retirement—Justices
Brown and Shiras. When eligible for
retirement each member of the court
becomes a law unto himself. A no
table instance was that of the late Jus
tice Field, who spent 34 years on the
supreme bench. He could have re
tired any time after the middle of
Cleveland's first term, but waited until
the first session of the court after the
inauguration of President McKinley, in
1897. and then gave way for the ap
pointment of Attorney General Mc
Kenna. This was Mr. McKinley’s only
selection to fill a vacancy in the court,
and it placed a Republican jurist in a
Democratic seat on the bench.
Justice Field was a noted Democrat,
who had several times been spoken of
as a possible candidate for the presi
dency, and the statement that he did
not want a Democratic president to
fill his place by appointment may
seem strange. Nevertheless. Justice
Field, just before his retirement, gave
his friends to undestand that he did
not purpose to allow President Cleve
land to have the pleasure of appoint
ing his successor on the bench if he
could help it. Justice Field and his
friends believed that he was badly
treated by President Cleveland when
Chief Justice Waite died. Petitions
came from all parts of the land and
many legal organizations passed reso
lutions asking that Justice Field be
made Chief Justice Waite’s successor,
but President Cleveland passed over
him and chose the present chief jus
tice. Except for this Justice Field
would undoubtedly have resigned to
ward the end of Cleveland's second
term, and there would now' be four in
stead of three Democrats on the su
preme bench. Justice Strong, who
was appointed by President Grant in
1S70, though eligible for retirement in
1883, retained has place on the bench
nine years longer, until his death, in
1S92.
The important bearings of this
year's presidential election upon the
personnel of the court revives the fact
that there was a somewhat similar
condition during the last national cam
paign. Chief Justice Fuller and Jus
tice Harlan were both eligible for re
tirement in 1904, and it was then evi
dent that before the end of President
Roosevelt's present term three other
members of the court—Justices Brew
er, Brown and Peckham—would like
wise possess that right. One of these
five eligibles—Justice Brown—did re
tire, making way for Mr. Moody's ap
pointment, but the four others have
remained.
Wanted Incubator Baby.
Manager Knight of the Scottish na
tional exhibition at Edinburgh has re
ceived the following from a little girl;
“I have heard you hatch babies in in
cubators. Do you give any away? It
you don't. I'd like one about 3s (7o
cents); one that has been hatched for
a week or two, I would like a fair
haired and blue-eyed little girl; one
that is nice and healthy and does not
squeal much. If you have no fair
haired at 3s. a brown-haired and
brown-eved will do. It must be healthy,
and a girl. I will not have a boy.”
Valuable African Fruit.
The fruit of the karite tree is now
being handled in fair commercial
quantities for the production of a
'heap type of vegetable grease, useful
fcr the manufacture of soap and can
dles. The natives of Africa hull the
nut, which somewhat resembles the
chestnut; mash and boil the kernels,
skimming ofT the floating grease, which
lias also food value.
Definition of Whisky.
The eminent British surgeon. Sir
Victor Horsley, not only enjoys the
reputation of being one of the leading
pathologists, but he is also known for
his wit. Entering his club, the Athen
aeum, one day, sa>-3 Tit-Bits, a friend
said to him: "Halloa, Horsley, can you
tell us what whiskey is yet?" "The
most popular poison in the world, my
dear sir,” was the retort.
Philippine Coinage.
The coinage for the Philippine
islands during the fiscal year just end
ed included more than 25,000,000
pieces valued at $18,121,825, or more
than the total silver coinage for the
X’nited States.
Teach Children in Open Air.
At the last meeting of the Saltasb
and Callington distr’, ;t education com
mittee it was complained that there
w ere man) school buildings so situ
ated and so constructed that .although
every effort had been made to pro
vide proper ventilation, the air in
them during school hours was very un
I healthful. The chairman remarked
! that there could be no reason why the
walls of a school should be the boun
dary of a child's place of instruction,
and the committee agreed to inform
all head masters and head mistresses
that as often as possible the children
should be taken into the open air
for reading and oral lessons.—London
Evening Standard.
Knew Many Famous Men.
With the death of John Salked of
London there has passed away one of
the last of the old school of booksell
ers, whose premises were a favorite re
sort of literary men. Mr. Salke'V who
was 81 years of age, had dealings with
Macaulay, Carlyle, Gladstone and
others.
! URMNG AMERICAS <§FIN§
With DMra-DEFfTNG *
THBlkbBRS
taking a trip on
A THRILLER
O-OW, whee-ee-e, oo-ooo,
gee-e—whi-lz, but that was
a bump!”
It was our friend from
the sand dunes of Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Ohio.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, or
any other state with plen
ty of farming districts.
trying out a thriller at i
Coney Island. Atlantic
Ciity, one of Chicago's big
four amusement parks or
for that matter at any city or town
which supports these summer devices
for extracting coin of the realm from
thme plebeians.
No matter how stolid he may he In
life’s ordinary pursuits or how emo
tionless in an interurban wreck, his
spine curls, his sympathetic nerve
system tickles and he is compelled
to give himself up to thrills. You can'
find him in every resort where there
are scenic railways, roller-coasters,
velvet-coasters, figure-eights, shoot
the-chutes, dip-the-dips, leap-the-gaps,
ticklers and scores of other modes for
shooting the electric currents up and
down the spinal cord of the laughing,
howling public.
He is a source of amusement for his
tutored city brother who tickles the
day ledger with a pen during daylight
and cavorts about on amusement de
vices throughout the summer evenings.
The city pleasure-seeker has much of
this sport and the thrills fail to rise
up In his anatomy the way they do in
that of the man, woman and child who
are taking their first turn at the
came.
Statisticians claim that there are so
many actual thrillers of different cali- j
her and variety at work daily in the
United States that if one should travel
on every one of them, just once, the
trip would take all summer. There
were more this year than ever before.
If all of the rides were strung out
they would reach clear across the con
tinent, high browed scientists claim.
But that only goes to show that
America Is amusement-crazy. The
populace and the elite, too, can’t get
enough thrill. Not long ago, an Illi
nois man with an idea proposed to in
stall an automobile in the parks of the
country and this device was scheduled
to run down an incline, turn a double
somersault and alight upon its wheels
again. America’s thrillers are terrific
and getting more so each year, but
the man from the middle west was
perhaps a bit premature with his
death-defying machine. Sometimes it
didn’t alight a3 per program.
The process of starting a thrill
through the pleasure-seeker's frame
consists of laying out a device which
combines both speed and the unexpect
ed. This subject has been studied
by every amusement manager in the
United States and they can’t get the
jumps, drops and bumps long enough
or fast enough to attract your shekels
from your bank account to their coffers
with the desired rapidity.
“Say, by heck, I’m afeared to ride
on thet shebang. It don't hev a safe
look, to me.”
Well, hurtling through the air faster
than an aeroplane in working order
certainly doesn't look safe, but at the
same time the visitor to the city who
made that remark did not know where
of he spoke. Every single device, no
matter how small, how large or how
“safe-looking,” is required to undergo
a rigid test by the building commis
sioners, before being allowed to accept
the public’s dimes. There must ba a
block system of lights, much the sarae
as that used by railway systems, also
stoppage devices on every incline to
prevent cars, chairs or other seating
vehicles from sliding backwards down
an incline.
i The framework of the device is test
| ed for its strength and made to sup
port far heavier weights than are ever
i
A CROUP or THRUIFRS
after made its burden. On the curves
of riding thrillers there is the usual
horizontal track above the wheels of
the vehicle to prevent it from leaving
the scheduled pathway. Persons pos
sessing weak hearts are forbidden the
thrills and few accept the chance to
test th"t organ when in bad condition.
I’here are also straps, chains, guards,
?tc., to hold the patron in the car and
if he or she fails out it is little short
of a miracle and only once or twice
i season are accidents reported, so
rarefully do the amusement managers
guard the lives of those who provide a
method of bread-winning.
Perhaps the scenic railway is known
more generally to those who would
line their interiors with momentary
thrills. This ride consists of a series
of cars strung together. There are
brakes between each car and the
levers are manned hv strong-armed
ooys from the railway yards. To them
there are no thriils. It's monotonous
is driviftg the cows home from pasture
for them. Even catching a pair spoon
ing while the train is running through
the blackness of a mimic Canadian
forest, can't make them feel weary. It
happens on every trip.
The average scenic railway runs up
i 45-degree incline or rather is hauled
ap by a chain and you are ready for
the first dip. The brakemen release
their levers and down the cars go
faster than the New York-Chicago 18
hour limited. If the uninitiated puts
his head between his knees he is apt
to kick himself in the face on the
journey up the hill which follows
every dip. Therefore if you haven’t
yet been bounced around in this man
ner, hang to the iron guard, stick your
hat under your arm, grit your teeth
and make up your mind not to care if
your hair does get mussed.
After the train has completed {he
first series of dips there is usually a
journey through a dark recess, tragi
cally known as the ‘'cavern,” this
being installed to give the spooners a
chance to gloat over their nerve. The
rest in a repetition, generally.
Next in line as a death defying con
trivance is the coaster. There are
fewer cars and not so many seats in
each vehicle. Then, too, the coaster
needs no hauling up a second incline,
for there is only one, the difference be
ing noticeable in the length of the de
scents. In some parks in both east
and west there has been a tendency of
late to turn the coaster into a semi
loop-the-loop, that is to say, the cars
drop off the top of the runway onto a de
scent at an angle of about 70 degrees,
dropping about 80 feet, and then start
up the ascent at an angle which is not
quite so abrupt. Some coasters have
only one of these terrifying dips, while
others have about 20—it seems to the
first-nighter. Well, one isn’t so bad,
but about the third jump you begin to
calculate that the seat must have
slipped out the bottom of the car_
you’re so high in the air most of the
time.
Passing on to another part of the
resort you strike the figure-eight
Every hamlet has its figure-eights
these days. That contrivance is fash
ioned like an "8” and much resembles
the coaster, except that the cars follow
the lines of the figure, the dips are
smaller and you naturally don’t get
so fussed up. It’s tamer in fact and
for that reason graduation from the
figure-eight entitles you to prestige,
which should carry you fearlessly over
the jumps which the coaster takes and
allow you to blandly hand the “second
THE SCENIC RAILWAY.
ride-lady" 20 cents for another trip for
yourself and friend.
Then there’s the tickler. That’s a
new ride just put on in the west this
season. You get into a round car and
the device is dragged up an incline for
the downward thrill. Starting down it
enters a labyrinth of rails, the car re
volving in one direction and the de
scent carrying it in another. This
gives a remarkable opportunity to
learn how it feels to be jerked in two
directions at the same time.
The Potsdam railway is a practical
device, "made in Germany,” which
runs on an overhanging rail and which
magnates among the Teutons threaten
to make a conventional mode of travel
there within a few years. The thrill in
this consists of hoping it won’t fall
off this trip.
Amusement-loving Americans also
have the aerostat. Cars are suspended
at the ends of leng cables, you are
locked in and the device is started. It
is like a Maypole, except that the
cables don’t become interwined around
the pole. As the speed increases the
cars rise higher at the ends of the
cables and, inclined, speed through
ether far out over the heads of the
multitude. Anyone who is susceptible
to sea-sickness might possibly become
immune by this treatment for the
blues of everyday life. The giant
swing, while it is not much like the
aerostat, gives the same feeling to
some.
Then there is the airship, which ma
jestically winds about the outside of a
tall tower and then winds down again.
Merry-go-rounds are numerous and
despite the fact that this is the father
of all thrills, it still has its patrons
among the children.
Among the time-honored creations is
the shoot-the-chutes, which consists of
a slide down a toboggan and a few
bounces after the boat strikes the
water of the lake at the bottom of the
chute. If you’re wise you’ll not sit
in the front seat There’s where the
big bump comes and the occupants of
the bow of the boat feel the leaps over
the water most.
Having traveled on rides enough to
stimulate an appetite for something in
a different line we steer our down
state friend into the stationary de
vices for the same purpose. These are
of every variety. You step into one
at random. The floor starts to move
with a circular motion toward the top
of the room. If it moves backwards
from you, intuition tells you to step
forward. Don’t step too speedily or
you'll find yourself walking on the
ceiling, head down. Finally an open
ing is reached. You step out onto a
floor which bounces up and down as
you meander along. A moment later
yon walk upon what seems to be the
top of an airship, loosely inflated. By
that time, if you’re one of the fair
sex, you need protection. The recess
es are all pitch dark.
Then, perhaps you are swayed by a
wave-like motion of the entire room,
which very naturally elicits very prop
er screams from the women folks.
Freed from ocean-liner imitation, you
are immediately introduced to a 200
miles-an-hour cyclone, coming from the
floor, ceiling, walls and in fact from
all sides. The floor begins to move
sideways with a quick-jerky motion.
You try to steady yourself on a rail,
just perceptible in the blackness.
Ouch! It’s charged with electricity.
Ahead are several staircases and you
feel rather relieved to think you’re
out of it at last. Reaching them safe
ly you start up when, without warning,
the whole contrivance begins to move
backward and forward, compelling
you to grab the rail for safety. In
darkness again, you try to make your
way through a typical labyrinth of
rooms. Feeling along the wall with
one foot ahead of you to ascertain the
nearness of bottomless pits, etc., for
your mind’s eye sees lots that don't
exist, you bump your nose against a
few barriers and eventually push
against a wall, which gives way and
you find yourself alone in a turnstile,
inclosed on all sides. When your ter
ror has reached a burning point some
one else behind pushes the wall as you
did and you are liberated, only to
again find yourself In the midst of
weird ghostlike cries and see skele
tons darting hither and thither (on
pulleys). A little scream just at this
moment might be appropriate. Just
to get your mind off the terrors of the
place, the next few turns are tame,
when suddenly your feet slide out from
under you and you find yourself shoot
ing down a chute in a sitting position.
Daylight ahead and once again, before
you have time to think it over, you've
landed among the crowds outside,
thanks to the manly strength of the
spieler, whose arms received you
where the chute ended.
COW BROKE UP BARN DANCE
Of course, realism is all well enough
in its way, but it can easily be carried
to an excess. Here, for instance, is
the cace of that barn dance in the
east, where an actual barn was the
scene of revelry.
And in the midst of the fun a blood
ed cow broke away from her stall and
took an active interest in the proceed
ings, ripping the shirt waist from a
college youth and hooking a roomy
hole in the big fiddle. After which
she pranced up the middle with hei
head down, and six girls and three
boys crawled onto the feed box and
fell off in a shrieking heap, and the
athlete of the party, with wild yells,
broke the record on a quick climb to
the hayloft, and four girls hid under
the straw cutter, and there was the
merry mischief to pay. The cow
quickly had her gambol out, and then
backed into her stall with a satisfied
moo and immediately resumed her
cud.
But the barn dance was effectually
broken up.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
BIRDS SHOT WITH WATER
Shooting a hummingbird with the
smallest birdshot made is out of the
question, for the tiniest seeds of lead
would destroy his coat. The only way
in which the bird can be captured for
commercial purposes is to shoot him
with a drop of water from a blowgun,
or a fine jet from a small syringe.
Skillfully directed, the water stuns
him. He falls into a silken net and
before he recovers consciousness is
suspended over a cyanide jar. This
must be done quickly, for if he comes
to his senses before the cyanide whiff
snuffs out his life he is sure to ruin
his plumage in his struggles to escape.
Hummingbirds vary in size from speci
mens perhaps half as large as a spar
row to those scarcely bigger than a
bee. The quickest eye cannot follow
them in full flight. It is only when,
though still flying furiously, they are
practically motionless over flowers
that the best marksmen can bring
them to earth. \
Beet He Could Do.
“Sir," said the irate parent as he un
expectedly entered the parlor, "what
do you mean by kissing my daughter?"
"Excuse me,” replied the poor but
otherwise honest young man, "but I
desired to show my appreciation of
your daughter's lo veliness, and kisses
are the only things ,T can afford to give
her at the present stage of the game.”
A Poor Scholar.
The other day a professor leaving
the university was approached by a
seedy individual, who pathetically
asked:
'Won’t you help a poor scholar with
a dime?”
The coin bestowed, the learned
man said:
“You tell me you are a poor
scholar?”
“Sure,” answered the other. “I
never went to school in me life. So
long.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
BY THE WAY.
Few lives are better than Ihey seem
fo be.
We say cur conscience is good if it
suits ourselves.
Everyone will have his turn in the
co"rt justice holds.
The oftener people are in love the
less they know what it is.
Educating is making pupils able to
learn and to use what they learn.
No man is a nobody, but it may
take a great many men to furnish a
somebody.
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
It is extremely hard for a silver
toncued orator to be at all Interested
in golden silence.
When a man forgets bis own name
sometimes he isn't as absent minded
as he would appear.
If leap year doesn’t turn out to be
a match factory, there will be many
a cold hearth next year.
Anybody who is fond of us must of
necessity possess a certain amount of
taste and good judgment.—Nashville
American.
A Soporific.
Miss Gusher (who has just been in
troduced to the great author)—Ob.
Mr. Lyon, I am so enchanted with
your dear, delightful novels. I fall
asleep with one in my hand, every
night.—Sunday Magazine.
Content to Do Little.
Let us be content to do little, if
God sets ns at little tasks. It Is but
pride and self-will which says: “Give
me something huge to fight and I
should enjoy that; but why make me
sweep the dust?”—Charles Kinsley.
Practical Economy.
If you would succeed in business,
never spend a cent more than you
earn. No matter how small your earn
ings, you should master this art. I
use the word “art” advisedly, as so
many young men appear to fritter
away without so much as a thought
ail their earnings.—Marshall Field.
The Strong Thought of Self.
The strong thought of self Is in
evitably insulting—it is aa restrictive
of human contact as a live wire.—
Mary Stewart Cutting, in “The Way
farers.”
Forcing the Child.
Do not force a child unduly to prac
tice the piano, unless It acqaire a dis
taste for the study, which both child
and paretn may bitterly regret in
later years, says Woman’s Life. It is
little short of a crime to compel any
form of study in a child even though
it happens to have a natural talent
for a particular art.
Same Here.
One of the behests given the Japan
ese bride is "Do not talk too much."
The constant stress laid on this ad
vice Is a sure sign that it isn’t being
heeded.
Friends in Need.
What need we have any friends, if
we should ne’er have need of them?
They were the most needless crea
tures living, should we ne’er have use
for them, and would most resemble
sweet instruments hung up in cases
that keep their sounds to themselves.
—Shakespeare.
A Motor Servile.
With slight modification the hoy's
criticism in his essay on the horse
might be applied to the motor-omni
bus—namely, that “the horse is a
noble animal, but he does not always
do so." The motor-omnibus is the
servant of vast numbers of people, hut
it is sometimes allowed to beha’e in
a manner which is objectirnab.e.
East and West.
There is no longer any dOvtbt, our
Shanghai correspondent tells is, that
the old order of thought wh eh ha.<
guided the lives of countless mUlioEs
in the Chinese empire through a long
succession of centuries is passing
away forever. The movement in fa
vor of western education has become
irresistible.—London Times.
The Sense of Duty.
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It
is omnipresent like the Deity. If we
take to ourselves the wings of the
morning,and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, duty performed or
duty violated is still with us, for our
happiness or our misery. If we say
the darkness shall cover us, in the
darkness as in the light our obliga
tions are with us yet.—Daniel Web
ster.
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