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i2 TTIK OMAHA DAILY DEE: SATUKDAY, MAKCII 23, 1007. SPUING CARESS ARE SCARCE 1 a Lo.luca ana Other VeeetaVei Miuice from Groom' Hacks, ENERAL SUPFLY IS SUFFICIENT, THOUGH MurkM Offers Enough that la Trm,t In to Make tiooA Dinner and Prices Are Comtnw Down. ntia f nrrot Top. 'TIs the sir of vn And the hnlr of you. With Its wnndri'is golden sheen. 'Tin the eyes if you Aril surprise I'f you, (Ami th lien nf you, my queen!) 'Tin the fnre of you And the rare of you, n which the lad are keen Tut the heart of you Ih the part of you Tint I love, Mavourneon. Exchange. Notwithstanding the positively gorgeous appearance of the grocers' racks thla week, there tins been an almost serious shortage of some of the green vegetables. And thla shortage Is not entirely over yet, either, but southern Illinois will begin shipping In a few days anil that will replace the Varieties withdrawn when the shipments from further aouth ceased. Head lettuce baa not been procurable for several days, except In small shipments of a few doxen head, and these have sold as high as 20 .and even 28 cents each. Ftrlng beans and asparagus have not been plentiful, either, ' but are coming tn, the former selling for 20 ccnta a quart and the latter at 26 cents a bunch. Except for a few scattered bush eln. sweet potatoes are practically out of the market. Pew of the grocers hud them at all Friday morning, and these few were high, selling for GO and 60 cents a peck. Nice looking cauliflower sells for 30 and 40 rents a head. Tomatoes are 20 cents a pound and are nice. Wax beans are 20 cents a pound. California cabbage Is In and the heads are large and the leaf green. These sell for 6 cents a pound and the either cabbage, which Is much whiter and more waxy, sells for 4 cents a pound. Cu cumbers are from 15 to 26 cent each, ac cording to slse. Another carload of Florida celery has come In and Is selling for 6 and 10 cents a stalk. KhuWrb Is still 10 cents a bunch, but the price started low on this and will probably continue at 10 cents for a while, possibly until the home-grown comes In.- Wax beans are JO cents a quart, spinach SO cents a peck, Spanish onions 10 cents a pound, new turnips, beets, radishes, carrots and parsnijm are S cents a bunch. New spring onions are two bunches for S rents. Leaf lettuce Is plentiful enough and sells for S cents a head. New potatoes are 10 cents a pound or three pounds for 26 :ents. Old potatoes, are SI a bushel. Strawberries sold for 40 cents a quart Friday morulrg and they were not of extra fine quality. A few specialties In the way of plums and peaches from South Africa ! .and other fur distant places are being of fered by a few dealers at from 10 to 20 cents each, but aside from these, the mar ket affords little more than It has. Orangos are 30 and 40 cents a dozen, lemons 20 centa a doxen, bananas from 16 to 35 cents a doxen, according to where one buys them, tha quality being about the same. Fine ' pineapples are In again this week and j ell from 20 to SO cents each. Grape fruit j la nice looking and sells for 16 cents each ! Figs and dates are to be had from 16 to 20 cents a pound. Creamery butter has dropped from 35 to 30 cents a pound thla week, but the dealers say the reduction Is only temporary aud the price will probably advance again the early part of next Week. Other butters dropped, of course, with the creamery and the best dairy butter sells for 26 cents a pound. It will be well for housewives to keep In mind that this butter. If care fully selected, Is quite equal to the creamery In quality and much better than some of the brand of so-called first-class creamery butter. Kgga are still at 18 cents a dozen, or two dozen for 35 centa Chickens are scarce and high priced In proportion, selling at 13 rents a nonmt wholesale. Friday morning and retailing ! from 14 to ltl cents a pound. Capons aro 0 and 21 cents a pound and broilers 60 cents each. The hena are luying now and with eggs at 18 centa the farmers are not lhlpplng chickens as they did. Duck la lfl cents, goone, 14 cents and turkeys from 20 to 7i cqnts a pound.. Squabs are 50 cents each. THRIFT AT THE HELM lloplss I'lr tares of Digans Likely to Become Early . . Realities, Days How many people outside of political rey OlutlonlsU have dreamed of a time when poorhouses, homes for the aged and pov erty In the' home would be reduced to an inheard-of minimum, almost unknown. In factf Such t'toplan pictures have been drawn by wrUora of the More and Bellamy order have been painted from the pulpit and elaborated In the school room but always Baker's Cocoa and Chocolate 47 ABSOLUTELY PURE Beirl stared Made by a scientific blend ing of the best Cocoa beans grown in the tropics the result of 126 years of suc cessful endeavor. nao fc.al.-.U)lr !l)rot4 IccM Rook annt f WALTER rtXER & U)H Ltl EitafcRthtt mO DCRCalSTtR, KASS. USED ROUND THE WORLD (n Highest ",3 Award o Hwk in H Wtt Europe f jjfu and if America 1 m i ru- ii , i 1 1 1 1 1 ii u i i sxk m mm E2-n H Ad HO. lfl Free List FREE! Saturday Only On Taney China Piece free with every 1 pound of our high grad-i Java and Morha Coffee 3So Cn 1 pound high grade Tea, ary kind, regular 75c seller, for 80o 22 pounds Pure Cane Granulated Sufar for 11.00 free, 1 package Boston Candy Bis cuits, sells for 16c, with every large ran Preserved Chunks Pineapple, at ao0 1 can Oil Bardlnea Free with every 1 pound Maple Syrup ISo Codfish, per pound THo 1 loo naokag-s Dates Tree with every Jar French Prepared Mustard ... 100 1 loo packare Polished Hardwood Toothpicks rree with every 3-pound can Haked Roans, 10c slse, for.7Ho 1 package lOo sis Pancake Flonr Pre with every quart bottle Mapi Syrup 3UO BSo Olives, per quart . The Lange Grocery Co. 24th and Cuming. Tel. Doug. 1530. dependent upon change In the social and political system. Hut now such a condition seems actually promised not through a substitution of co operative rule for the Individual form of government, but through the tendency of individuals to think more seriously of the future. By easy evolution we have be come a nation a world of savers. The world's "stocking for a sore foot" Is stuffed almost to bursting with money. Firmly has the "rainy day fund" Idea taken a hold on the times. Almost every one has the "laylng-by" hatblt. In the United States savings bank de posits last year were $206,407,000 more than In 1905. In Great Britain and Ireland one person In every four and a half has a sav ings account. France Is teaching the sav ing habit In the public schools and has helped peasants to own 16.000,000,000 worth of government bonds. Italy and Holland have postal banks for small savings; I'ncle Sam has given the same Institution to the Philippines, and his peopte'jatj jjome are demanding It. Banks In some American cities have ar ranged to remain open all night to suit the convenience of depositors. Farmers all over I'the country are establishing grange banks American teachers are aiding public schsol children to run accounts. A boqfblack the other day announced that he had $6,000 On deposit all saved from his toll. Building and loan societies have Increased their membership 100,000 In four years. Is It difficult to foresee poverty finally routed by this growing knight, thrift? For It Is laying the foundations for the for tunes of the morrow Philadelphia North American. SMASHED JAP MYTH One of New York' "Finest" Tnrna m Trlelc on n Jta Jits Expert. One venerable weaknas ot cultured peo ple Is that of standing In awe before any thing hailing from east of Suei and adorned with a Joblot of oonaonauu and vowels. Not long ago It u somebody like Bwaml- vlvlconundrum that terrified the "brainy." Then It wa a Buddhist priest from Japan, The awe soon spread beyond the narrow confines of the Intellectual world and crept insidiously Into the hearts of men that la, ordinary cltlxens so that Jlu-JItsu found the western world prepared to receive It with the servility and credulousnesa de manded by oriental potentates, real and figurative. Jlu-jltsu osme. It stood In tha same re lation to Anglo-Saxon fisticuffs and catch-aa-catcu-can as the Grand Lama of Thibet does, or did, to an African Methodist ex torter. It was held to be as superior to wrestling and sang-bagglng as a Japanese cloisonne vase la to a Jersey City Imitation. Strong men went down before It In para lytic terror of Its misty origin and name. Babes and cripples pitched giants pros trate upon the mat with Its rules. And then the fear of a Japanese Invasion smote the Pacific coast and sent the land stagger ing Into the throts of an earthquake. There val only one way by which the spell could be broken; some Innocent must be lured Into the game, somebody who had never rtled to spell "Yokahama" or pro nounce "Banshal." If you ever want to lose money on four aces at poker, sit down with somebody who doesn't know a spado from a diamond. If you ever want to have your variation of the Ruy Ixpe opening In chess sent scurrying off the board in a panic, find an opponent to whom you have to teach the name of the pieces. So, too, if you ever want to feel the full force of the argument against the solar plexus blow, put on the boxing gloves with some greenhorn who thinks that John L. Sullivan la the man who writes those catchy operas 'Now, since the agitation for pure food laws has been started several unprejudiced Innocents have been experimenting with Jtu-Jltsu and have found It to be nearly as harmless as boiled rise. Annapolis, after trying It for awhile, caat It off quite Ir reverently, and several Jlu-jltsu dens In New York City have closed up because of the alarming decline of enthusiasm. But with the experiments made upon Patrol man Mead of the East Fifty-first street police station, Jlu-jltsu may now be defi nitely classllled as Innocuous. Mr. Mead was tested recently by one Moto Ishlyanla or thereabout a Japanese with Jlu-Uh blood In bl veins. Mr. Mead, having re ceived his education In Ireland and Man hattan exclusively, proved Immune to the hypnotic virus of the oriental name and did accordingly Hop the vassal of the mikado upon the damp, firm pavement of Forty-third street with much vigor. This flopping process waa kept up until the Japa nese scientist was thoroughly convinced that there are more things west of Sues than were dreamed of In his philosophy. May we be pardoned for remarking that we have always expected this outcome? We cajild never convince ourselves that Ccits and Yankee, who for centuries have been fighting amicably and otherwise at Donnybrojk' and county fairs and behind the barn on Sunday afternoons, could have overlooked any effective method of "doing up" the other fellow. Jtu-Jltsu feased our belligerent countrymen for awhile simply because It waa rougher than polite wrest ling, more polite than rough-and-tumble fighting and had been Imported with a strange label from a wonderful country New York Tribune. Maugum & Ue.. iETTliK SPECIALIST! n ri ttti Fanrv Prunes, per pound 5c 1 19o bottle Old Virginia Balad Dress. lag Tree with every basket of Washed Ftps ISo 60-pound sacks Purltv Flour 9So CIOABB. Crfod 6c Cigars. H for 85o Floradora Operas, 10c package, four packnges for 35o XX OUB BAI11T DEPT. We save you from 2nr to 40e On every dollar. No bluff, but real facts. We give you 2c back In spot cosh for every 10c purchase you make In our Bakery Dept., and 4e bnck In spot cash on every 10c bread you buy. So don't you think It pays to trad.i with us? MEAT DEPT. Plrloln Steak of cotnfed steers, Ib.lOo Rib Roast, per pound. 10c and 8o Leg of Lamb, per pound 9to Celery, nice and tender, per bunch. So SKILJACRUE ME SOLUTION Hew tha Household 8errioe ia to Ee Pro vided in Fntnrt. DOMESTICS TRAINED FOR THEIR DUTIES Instltnte That Will Give the Needed Attention to an All Important Toplo Get tome Dis cussion. Hitherto this column haa represented Mrs. Provldem as not only doing her own marketing, but also her own cooking. The duties of the mistress, however, do not always admit of her being also her own cock and then the question of getting someone to preside over Kettledom, that dominant and soul-harrowing question Is asked Individually and falls to be answered either by the one or the many. The news papers and magazines have articles about It, women's clubs write papers and carry on ' discussions concerning It, and Women everywhere, both mistress and maid, pre sent It in all Its phases to each other. By and by, out of all this study and discus sion and work, will come a solution and for a short time we shall settle down to the new order of things, until moulding cir cumstances again unsettle that and grad ually solve new phases. - Under the order Just passing the servant, as then destgrated. lived with the family for whom he or she worked, and In the first times was a member of the family, looked after and given many privileges of family life; later, as the Immigrant came to us from all ranks of life, but mostly the lower, and with different language and alma and desires, this became impossible, and gradually the servant, while obliged to spend most of her hours In the home where she worked, was cut off from its In terests other than the work to be done to make the mutual Interests of the family proper possible. Twelve or fourteen hours a day this servant tolled, with Thursdays and Sunday afternoons as her own, and as much more time ns her mistress chose to give. It was lonesome, all these hours practically alone, and gradually the brighter of them chose other kinds of work where they had tha society of their own class, and, the day's work of eight or ten hours over, could go home and do what they pleased. A very poor home, perhaps, but she was mistress of her share of It and of herself, even though ahe had not so much of money to pay for her day's work. The "servant" phase was not a part of the new work, either, and that was another sore trial of being a cook or a housemaid. Mistress Is learning;. So the supply of servants grew less every day and the mistresses had to preside over Kettledom themselves, or else give up their noines and board. Though they hated tt lose the home life, If they devoted them selves to the entire care of them they must renounce most social life, reading and atudy and outside philanthropic or other work. The only service obtainable waa that which was hired by, the hour, and in this gradual substitution of work by the hour for that by the week will come In part the solution of the Intricate prob- Chocolate Bonbons Always Delicious Pure Wholesorre Digestible One Box will make A Happy Hornet Erery Sealed Package guaranteed Freao. and Full Weieht Fancy Bazas mt4 Baiktti la azcJusvn SM'fst-to Oiftt THI WALTER M. LOWNEY CO. Makers of Cocoa sad Chocolates BOSTON, MASS. m m InUBsUWIIHIIM IWISMWBXasBxJISBWISJMIIil Mlllll llHssSJWsnTJsMnlfo rrfl Ad Ho. 10 CHICKENS 13ic This la the time of yeir when se lection of meat and poultry for th Sunday dinner becomes an Important problem. This Is especially true If you Intend to have a chicken Ulnm r Sunday. There are three good les sons why you should buy your poul try of us. The first Is cleanliness -a visit will convince you on this point. The second Is quality Bath quality means highest quality all the time. And last, but perhaps most Import ant, Is the manner In which our poul try la handled. At the Bath Market you get pure, fresh, clean fowls dressed by ourselves and prestrvoi In a cold room, hung where the air circulates freely it's vastly different from the careless, don't care manner, where poultry Is thrown In a neap on Ice. or in Ice cold water, to become soggy, water-soaked and tasteless. Better buy from Bath. Jos. Bath's Cash Market 1931 rarnam Street. Sommer Bros. Saturday Specials Extra Choice Tomatoes, . .10c 25c . ..25c 3-11). can Bartlstt Fears, two S-lb. cans Bed Salmon, two 1-lb. cans So, 1 Xilpton Tea, TO. IL-lh fa n w w Knox's Oslatlne, 10c per pkg Creamery Butter, 7Rn rr in - Strlotly rrssh Xggs, 16ic per dox SOMMER BROS. ExroxrzzrTS or ooos litiho 28lh and Farnam Sis. lem which has been forced upon the home mal'.er. The women employers are learning by hard experience the value of work by the hour, and realizing the fact that with few exceptions the domestic worker was ex pected to give longer hours than In any other kind of service. They are also learn ing a number of other things, one side of which they had disagreeably realized be fore, aa, for Instance, the unpleasantness of having some one not In sympathy with the home life continually connected with it. Now they found by systematizing things they could hire outside help for certain hours who would get the work done and go, leaving the home in the possession of the family. They also found that ' they could dispense with a good many things they once thought necessities, and so shorten both their own hours of work and that which they hired at such a seemingly large price, and still havo -Just as much comfort for all. They further learned that by a distribution of certain duties among the members of the family they entailed no hardship on the children, but rather a benefit, teaching them to do the right things as a habit, which will be of In estimable value to them later. The mistress, moreover, is relieved of the ever present thought of some one who must be guided, directed and sometimes watched during all the twenty-four hours. Sklljarrne the Solntton. One of the leading magazines la devoting a good deal of straight talk to this problem from Its readers, and here Is one solution of the problem a sklljacrue. It does not sound good, the name, at any rate. "A sklljacrue la a house for the acemment of skill." And accrument being a new word to many Is a little confusing. But a con densed description Is about this: Children of the age of i and upwards are taken Into a home, the family from which they come Is given $1 a week nnd the child Is clothed and educated, given a school course and lessons In cooking and household duties. Hach class should have honors and awards. The sklljacrue should take In work, afford ing employment for Its students and profits for the Institution. It should supply trained workwomen, who should begin work at 15 and be full workwomen at 18; they should work by the hour, returning to the sklljacrue to live. The mistress hiring does so from the sklljacrue, writing the menus and the work she desires done on blanks furnished by the sklljacrue, getting thus a trained helper In any line and deal ing with the sklljacrue. I.lfe In the skllja crue should be made sufficiently attractive ! t0 bold those entering; thty should be encouraged to marry, and the person en titled to return temporarily in dlntress or re-enter in widowhood. W ho will start a sklljacrue to nil local needs? Whoever Is daring enough to start this most desirable method of furnishing help and educating those who most need It in that which Is most needed, and at the same time over coming the greatest objection to domestic servlte, the social standard which has been set ao arbitrarily low, will confer a great benefit, but have a good many difficulties to overcome. But the Joy of service In tliis world is the overcoming. Don't call It a sklljacrue, invent a more euphonious word. KIrtf In Many Forma. Old Mother Hubbard doea not go to tha cupboard these days, but Mrs. 1'rovldem doea go to the refrigerator, and she found there again the remains of some tlsli ami so. ne cold meat and bones which latter i she covered with cold water and set in the i stove to slowly simmer, adding, when It j came to the boll, an onion sliced, half a ' rmall carrot sliced, a bit of bay leuf, a few ' P ppercoi ns and some scraps of celery and EES. Wm leuvts which she had carefully saved. She ( and existing rather as fabrics of the lmagl I had rice, a very nice kind, that she wanted ! nation than as facts. i to try In different ways, so she decided ! her dinner and luncheon should te largely I of dishes containing rice, and yet, that the 'eaters thereof should hardly rec gr.lie It In its various guises; a chicken ai pur chased, an abundance of milk provided and a packago of seedless raisins. risn anu Macaroni ri-rui an me oonea, Skin and apparently waste pieces of fish on to toll In water to cover; let cook ten minutes, seasoning If neo-sHary; drain off the water and use it to make a fish sauce by cooking together a tablespoon of butter and one of flour, then adding the stick thinned if necessary with hot water to make a cup full, and stir over the stove until thickened, season and when ready tj serve alii e In a couple cf hard bulled eggs at.d gently mix then In so they will be In small pieces through the sauce. Break In inch pieces a cup of macaroni, boll twenty minutes in plenty of salted water, drain, pour over cold water and drain aga'n; butter a pudding dish, flake up the remainder Of the flU arid put a layer In Easter Nearly Here And as usual you will find this store headquarters for Easter Novelties. It will be a pleasure tp the old as well aa the young to see the dis play of Easter Goods. Rabbits, Chickens, Ducks Eggs, etc., In great variety and every size. Handsomely decorated Easter Bon Don Boxes, in Egg and Lily designs. GOLD MKT AL CHOCOLATES A M'LKM)II GIFT. BALDUFF 1518-20 Farnam Ht. bottom, then a layer of macaroni, dotting over with blta of butter, and over the macaroni a little grated cheese; alternate these layers having cheese on top. Bake until browned in a hot oven. Serve with saude. This was the principal luncheon dish. ( Rice Cream Early In the morning a quart of milk was put on In the double bollor and two rounding tablespoons of rice stirred Into It, cooked quickly for a half hour and then very slowly until half an hour before luncheon. It waa then poured Into a buttered baking dish, three round ing tablespoons of sugar, a half cup of seedless raisins, salt and a bit of cinna mon, If liked, stirred In, and the mixture was cooked In the oven, stirring down the brown scum rising two or three times and stirring up the raisins from the bottom. Just long enough before serving to pro duce It, the pudding was allowed to brown over and was then served at once. It waa a rich, creamy dish. Just thick enough to hold the raisins through It, and with a caramel flavor from the crust that had been stirred into It. Risotto: To the stock, which was made with the meat and bones, was added half a can of tomatoes, three onions sliced and fried in a tablespoonful of fat. Cook tot half an hour, have a cup of rid washed and put In a saucepan large enough to hold rice and stock prepared; strain the stock slowly over the rice, stirring all tha time; then let cook very slowly until rice Is tender, stirring frequently; add, just be fore serving, a rounding tablespoonful of butter, a half teaspoon of paprika and a cup of any preferred cheese. Serve very hot. Chicken en Casserole Boll a cup of rice in two cups of milk or water until tender. Season with paprika or white pepper, salt. add a half cup of sultana raisins, and stuff a chicken with this mixture. Put a layer of minced onion and carrot In the bottom of a casserole or earthen crock, pour over a cup of hot water, salt and pepper, lay chicken on It, sprinkle over a rounding tablespoonful of flour, cover closely and set in a hot oven. Bake from an hour to an hour and a half, until the chicken Is tender, and then serve from the casserole. If a crock has been used It can be wrapped around with a napkin and set on a plate, HE WAS CHAMPAGNE PROOF Effort to "Lay Out" the Governor of Nevada Proved n Dismal Failure. There were many practical Jokers In the new territory. I do not take pleasure in exposing this fact, for I liked those people; but what I am saying Is true. I wish . could say a kindlier thing about them In stead that they were burglars, or hat-rack thieves, or something like that, that Wouldn't be utterly uncomplimentary. would prefer It, but I can't say those things, they would not be true. These peo ple were practical Jokers, and I will not try to disguise It. In other respects they were plenty good enough people; honest people; reputable and likeable. They played practical Jokes upon each othr with suc cess, and got the admiration and applauae of the community. Naturally they were eager to try their arts on big game, and that was what the governor waa. But they were not able to score. Thuy made several efforts, but the governor defeated these ef forta without any trouble and went on smiling his pleasant smile as If notnlng had happened. Finally the Joktr chiefs of Car son City and Virginia City conspired to gether to see If their combined talent couldn't win a victory, for tne Jokers were getting Into a very uncomfortable place; the people were laughing at them. Instead of at their proposej victim. They banded themselves together to the number of ten and invited the governor to what was a most extraordinary attentijn in those days pickled oyster stew and champagne- luxuries very seldom seen In that region. The governor took me with him. Ho said dlbpariiigly : "It's a poor Invention. It doesn't de. celve. Thlr Idea Is to get me drunk and I leave me under the table, and from their I standpoint this will be very funny. But they don't know me. I am familiar with BhampaKe an(i hav8 no prejudice against 1 jt ! Tll f ,h . . until , t o cUlck , tne mornmg.. At thftt hour the governor was serene, genial, comfortable. j contnte1 ,mpuv und ,ulwr ,ilnmjgh he 1 waa su full he couldn't 1'iugh without shed , ding champagne tears. Also at that hour the laat Joktr Joined the comrades under the table, drunk to the last perfection. Ths governor remarked: "This Is a dry place, Bam. let's go and get something to drink and go to bed." Mark Twain In North American Review. If you have anything to trade advertise It In the For Exchange columns of The Be Want Ad pages. SKETCHED MS OWN DOOM Toolhardy Crimioil EaUi Hit Tat with Carica'.nrM of Juror. JUSTICE AS IT WAS IN CHEVENNE Rtsiftratfl Likeness ot tha Fore Woman on the Jnry Dla the Bnsloesa and the Artist .tretehe4 He mo. "It seems to be accepted that a Jury of American men cannot be got to convict a young and good looking woman of a crime where the legal punishment Is death," ob served a man from Wyoming, who has been practicing In Cheyenne since territorial days. "I wonder how that thing would work out If we commonly had Juries of women? I know of one case. In which half of the Jurors were women, and In which the man being tried, a young and very good looking I chap, accused of murder, lost out entirely through the Insistence of the women Jurors that he be convicted of murder In the flrat degree. The victim, however, lost out for the reason that he had no better sense than to make fun of the six women on the Jury In his case. "It happened In Cheyenne. Cheyenne had then been In existence only six months as the terminus of the first railroad to bo built across the continent, and Its cltlsen Bhlp was of course ns motley as that of all the frontier towns In that day Chinese graders. Mexican sheep herders, gamblers and grafters of all ranks and degrees with schemes to make money in the town then known as the Magic City. It had no side walks or sewers, but from the very outset It had women voters and Jurors. A mem ber of the first territorial legislature had said, 'Woman suffrage would advertise us,' and hla Idea stuck, so the lawmakers passed a bill allowing women to vote, hold any office In which men were eligible and serve on Juries, even In the trial of capital cases. The first chief Justice of Wyoming sent out to the territory by the federal govern ment was nn easy convert to the woman suffrage idea, and at the first term of the court over which he presided the sheriff was Instructed to summon as many women as men jurors. When Women SerTe ns Jnrora. "The first real trial under regularly con stituted legal forms In Cheyenne sure did make a commotion, not only by reason of the novelty of the thing, but because women served as Jurors In the case. That first trial In Cheyenne waa. In fact, the case that I started to talk about. The man on trial was Jim Baker, charged with murder. Baker was an odd character, but in no sense a bad sort of chap. His father was an artist who had lived for many years among the Indians of the northwest. He had married a Canadian half breed woman, and this woman was Jim Baker's mother The boy had received a few years' education in eastern school but had drifted back west after the death of his father. He picked up a pretty good idea of faro bank, and there were times when he consumed an Inordinate amount of sagebrush whisky, but he was always a gentlemanly sort of drifter, and, notwith standing his habitual carelessness In dress, he was a most picturesque and attractive appearing fellow. He Inherited his father's talent aa an artist, and could sketch faces and scenes rapidly and skillfully. "Baker had quarreled with a freighter over a game of cards and had shot htm. Under ordinary circumstances he wouldn't have been bothered for this, for the freighter waa a bad actor, who had done a bit of killing on his own account. But the courts had JuBt been established In Wyom ing, and all hands wanted to see how they were going to work. The Cheyenne folks were as proud of their new court aa a small boy with a new red wagon, and they hankered to see It In action. So Jim Baker was arrested, charged with murder' a word that had a decidedly new sort of sound out that way and he was held for trial with a whole lot of rather pompous ceremony. The same desire of the Chey enneltes to put into Immediate service all the institutions of civilisation Instigated them to go civilisation one better and to call for a new kink. That's how It hap pened that, when the Jury to try Jim Baker was made up, it was composed of alx men and six women. 'Tp to the time of the rendering of the verdict the trial appeared to bore Baker most profoundly. He was both careless and reckless, and It ts presumable that he had no Idea that he would be convicted, lie figured It, I think, as a good many of the rest In Cheyenne did, that the trial was merely being pulled off for the pur pose of oiling the wheels of the machinery of Justice, and that at the finish he would he turned loose. "At any rate, the testimony of the wit nesses, the speeches of the lawyers and particularly their monotonous wrangling over legal polnta, were obviously most Irk some to Jim. Jim as ft Caricaturist. "And so to keep himself out of the dol drums and to pass away the time while the lawyers were showing each other how much they knew about legal points pur posely mude knotty, Jlrn, who was seated alongside his counsel In the storage ware house where the trial was held, began to do some sketching on slips of paper lying on his counsel's table. "Jim wasn't any slouch ss a caricaturist. I often come across worse caricatures than that poor devil could turn off. First he drew the prosecuting attorney with widely distended mouth and flacking arms. Then he made a striking pencil likeness of the Says I to myself saya I Uneeda Biscuit Says I to myself says I they only cost five cents a package. NATIONAL BlSCUrr COMPANY Judge, but smv the Judge the esri of burro. .Then he rapidly caricatured others of the officials about the court room. "Now, If Baker had allowed his sketching to go at that everything would have be'en all right. The sketches weren't designed to Be seen by anybody except his counsel. Hut having exhausted with M- po'"-l !! of the other countenances In the court room, Jim began on the female Jurors. Pome of these women's exteriors offered fertile sug gestions to the pencil of the caricaturist, Vim caught their shortcomings of form, feature and expression, and he transferred their likenesses to the sll) s of paper with all of their incongruities magnified a hun dredfold. The forewoman of the Jury waa i most excellent person, but she was af flicted with a very severe expression and a large nnd most pendulous nose. Baker gava her. In his sketch, the expression of a virago, and while he overdid the slr.e of her nose, the likeness waa one that any body could Instantly recognise. Seated next to the forewoman in the Jury box was an elderly spinster who wore her hair In kinky, gingery ringlets, with a bunch of the ringlets suspended over each of her ears, and Jim made her headdress look Ilka that of a Kaffir without in the least spoil ing the effect of the perfect likeness. An other of the Jurots was an extremely adi pose woman who was keenly sensitive ott the subject of her stoutness, nnd Jtnt drew her as a circus fat girl, seated on a chair In a circus sideshow, with the living skeleton and the dwarf beside her In out line. Jnrors See the f'nrlentnres, "Jim had Just about finished amusing himself when the lawyers ceased their argu ments and the Judge began his charge to the Jury. Jim knocked off his sketching work to listen to the charge. The charge was pretty well on Jim's side, and It looked as If he would get off with a light sentence, If he were not acquitted. "Hut, unfortunately for Jim, when tha case was handed over to the Jury all the slips of paper upon which he had drawn his caricatures were, without Jim's noticing It, gathered up with some legal papers on his counsels table and taken to tba Jury room. "Before the sketches caught the eye of any of the Jurors several ballots were taken. Every last one of the women voted for Jim's acquittal. There were some stub born fellows among the male Jurors, how. ever, and these voted to give Jim the verdict of manslaughter. "It wns Just nt this stapo of It, whllo the preliminary ballots were being taken, that Jim's caricatures were discovered In tho mass of papers gathered from his coun sel's deak. There wasn't any doubt as to who had made tho sketches. All , hands of the Jurors suddenly remembered how busy Jim had been with hla pencil In the court room, and, anyhow, In accordance w!h artistic practice, Jim had placed hla name at the bottom of each sketch. ' "Wretch! Murderer!' were the Instant denunciatory terms with which the women Jurors adverted to the unfortunate Jim. The women gathered about the table In tha Jury room in a bunch and exp.mlned the sketches with flaming eyes. They didn't let the mule Jurymen see the sketches j except at a distance. The male Jurymen, I however, quickly found out what had changed the attitude of their female com panions on the Jury toward Baker, and they exchanged glances with each other. The One Best Bet. " I'm laying 10 to 1,' whispered Bill Mor ton to another of the mala Jurymen, 'that this here Baker ombrey la as good aa stretched.' "There were no takers. "Bill Morton's prediction was correct. The very next ballot showed six solid bal lots for murder In the first degree. Ballot after ballot waa taken, with tha aame re sult every time. "The men on the Jury expostulated. ex plained, argued and even pleaded, but tho women were Inexorable. Finally the men on the jury held a consultation. " 'It ain't no square deal for Jim,' said Bill Morton, "but here we are pulling down two wheels a day on a Jury when wa could be making t30 a day on the outside, and these women sure never will craw fish, so what's the use?' " 'Tep, and Jim's only a half-breed, any how,' suggested another male Juror. ' " 'Like as not the governor'll pardon him If we do slide along with the women, so we might as well cave and save time,' said another of the male Jurymen, "And it was all off with Jim. "The Indian blood In Jim gave him stolidity, and he took his medicine like a man, even though the verdict wns an Im mense surprise to him, as It was to every body else In Cheyenne and tha territory, Jim wasn't pardoned by the governor; and he waa hanged with all of the eclat and dignity that the officials of the newly-mad county could devise. "But the story of those caricatures of Jim's soon got out, and It had its effect. While women have voted and held office In Wyoming from the time tha territory waa organised, the trial of Jim Baker was the first and last In which women have fig ured as jurors." Chicago Inter Ocean. - Tho C'onrt Wnrnod. "Bill, old boy," aald the prisoner to tho Justice, "I want you to pay partlckler at tention while I'm a-making of this hero statement.' ' , "Don't address the court as 'Bill air," said the Justice, "or I'll fine you for coa tempt." "That's all right, William." replied the prisoner, "we wus g rowed up together an' I reckon you feel as dignified as a alligator on a log In a mill pond up thar, but et you decide this case agin me Lord help you when I ketch you in the middle o'. the road. Qo on with your proceedings." Atlanta Constitution. Mr I It' V; X i 1
