r/vE PPP< JUJTlCZ I JM HARLAJYY AOZD 75 \ fjz/jr/cs f D.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. Omaha Directory IW^HTIW AID P»IJRa Ilf PURE FOOD PRODUCTS * •WD table delicacies ' ffiT»wftwr|| MftAUCT BH I COURTNEY & CO.. Omaha. Nehr. 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