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IN BARBAROUS AMERICA By Robert Hunter. And now one last word about the institutions of our beloved and enlightened country. The most barbarous thing, per haps, about barbarous America is that America is not even frank about her barbarism. When the court sees a crippled workman come into the ante room the court doesn't hurriedly announce to him that he has no hope there. If the court would only say quickly and frankly to the in jured: "We are very sorry. We see you are crippled. We feel for you, but the law is a rigid, un bending thing which we are oblig ed to uphold. And the law says you have no chance. "You won't understand what we mean, but the doctrines of Assumed Risk. Contributory Neg ligence and Fellow Servant make it improbable that you should ever recover damages. "For that reason we would sug gest that vou lose no time, but go out NOWr and with a few boxes of chewing gum or some shoe strings begin your career. "We want to be kind and frank, It will save vou time and money It will prevent your needlessfy paying court fees and shyster fees and witness fees. And by selling chewing gum you may, crippled as you are, be able to support your wife and children. But the court doesn't say that. it tempts tne poor devil. It se duces him to try the gamble. And the poor devil, believing that courts sometimes bestow upon misery some justice and mercy, takes a chance. And then the judges and clerks and lawyers and witnesses and stenographers, and sheriffs, and doctors, and messengers, and good God what not, have their harvest. And very often something like this happens something like this : "On the 11th day of July, in the vear 1S90," savs William Hard, "the steamship Tioga made port at Chicago and came up the Chi cago river as far as its dock at the foot of Randolph street. "It carried 320 barrels of ben zine, nephtha and gasoline in its fantail hold. On top of these bar rels it had a lot of bales of cot ton-waste. "And just near the combing of one of the hatches leading down into the hold, it had two lamps. There was an explosion, and twenty-five workmen were killed. That was in 1890. "Last vear, in 1907, seventeen years afterward. Wirt E. Hum- has not yet been given. After that there will be an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals. And after that there will be an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. How have all these years been spent? Not in relieving the dis tress of the human beings who were impoverished by the acci dent, but m trying' to find out iust where the technical legal blame lay for the accident itself. Not in helping the widows and orphans, but in laboriously en deavoring to fix the personal re sponsibility for the character of the cargo and the location of the lamps. The years when compensation was really neeaea nave now passed. The widows who were forced to beg, have begged. 'The children who failed to get an education, have failed to be ed ucated. The wrong of the case has been done. The human misery of the case has been endured. Everything is all over. Except in the courts. "Everything connected with the case is finished. Except the case itself. The only thing that sur vives is that thin legal emanation from the dead body of a human problem long since resolved into its elements. "The ghost. of the Tioga af fair still goes soft-footing along the corridors of the Federa Building, but the Tioga affair it self breathed its last warm, htr- man breath many years ago. NOTICE TO NON-REWOENT DE FENDANT. Iemetrts Baradawich. defendant. wH! take notice, that on the 5 day of Sep tember. 1910. Akulina Badawich, plain tiff herein. fUed her netiMon In the Dis trict Court of Lancaster " unty. Nebras ka, against defendant. tie object mi prayer of which are to c um a iivor--?e from him upon the jctoutvi that deien-l- ant has been guilts? of extreme cruelty toward the plaintiff, without any cause or provoeaUon; that he as wantonly, and cruelly failed - and refused to sup port plaintiff, notwithstanding the fact that he is a man of sufficient ability to provide suitable maintenance foe her. Tou are required to answer saia peti tion on or before the 30th day of Janu ary. Mil. - - AKULINA BARA UAWHJn. By T. S. AI.T.KN" & E G. MAGGI. Her Attorneys. 40-4 . NOTICE OF PETITION. Estate No. 2S2 of Jacob Beam. De ceased, in County Court of. Lancaster County. Nebraska. The State of Nebraska. To all persons interested in said estate, take notice, that a retitJon has been filed for the appoint ment of Alexander Beam as administrator of said estate, which has been set for hearing herein, on January z. 1911. at 10 o'clock A. M. Dated December 54. 1910. P. JAMES OOSGRAVE. ISeaL) County Judge. By ROBIN R- RETD. Clerk. 41-4 In tie District Court of Lancaster County. Nebraska. Anna MatMso- Plaintiff, vs. Frank Mattison. Defend- phrey, commissioner for the fed-' take noUce that Anna Mattison fUed her taae notice mat Anna aaaiison mi cer netition in the District Court of Lancas ter County, Nebraska, on the S4th day of September, 1910. praying for divo.tse from the said defendant upon the grounds of desertion and non-suprort and pray- insr for the custody of tneir minor cnu dren. named as follows, to-wit: Albina, Paulina and Theodore, and. for such ether equitable relief as the court may deem just and proner- Now unless you answer, tbis petition on or before the 13th day o BeSroary, 1910. the- same will be taken as con- axna. jrvrrtsoN. By F!&NK.1 tTRREXX. Ber AttofWy. 40-4 eral courts in Chicago, handed in a preliminary report on the sub ject of the Tioga accident. "Together with his report, he transmitted to the judges eleven volumes of testimony, six of which had been contributed by witnesses for the dependents of the dead men and five by wit nesses for the steamboat com pany. "The verdict in the lowest court Named Shoes are Often Made in Non-Union Factories. Do Not Buy Any Shoe no matter what the name unless it bears a plain and readable impression of this Union Stamp. All Shoes Without the Union Stamp are Non-Union Do not accept any excuse for absence of the UNION STAMP WORKERS UNION no. Boot and Shoe Workers Union 246 Sumner St, Boston, Mass. JOHN F. TOB1N. Pres. CHAS. L. BAINE. Sec-Treas. CAPITAL COAL High Grade Coal At Moderate Price $1.75 per ton Is Worth Saving MJTCHINS & HYATT CO. g. r :ntv(s iSbffs " " liV FORfflT Finiraislhed IRoomms Rooiiis aed Braird The above signs, neatly printed on heavy cardboard, for sale at THE -WAGEW0RKER 1705 "0" STREET