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WiCHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, FEB. 3rd, 1908.
Wichita Daily Times
—Published Daily Incept Bunday.
The Times Publishing Company.
(Printers and Publishers.)
FORECAST OF THE WEEK.
V Published at
Times Building, Indiana Avenue.
The Tmes ran be found on sale at
Ralph Darnell’s, 704 Ohio avenue.
Ed Howard...
B. D. Donnell.
.General Manager
......City Editor.
Wichita Falls, Texas. Feb. 3rd, 1908.
is a man Insane who does what the
law requires of him, i. e., protect from
slander the woman he has married?
According to the verdict in the Thaw
case, when he does such a commend-
able act, he must plead insanity in
order to escape a long term in the pen-
itentiary or perhaps death. The wo-
man Thaw married was not as virtuous
as she might have been, but before
marrying him she told of her past life
and her relations with Stanford White.
Thaw loved the woman and in the face
of what she had told him. married her.
It was then nothing but his plain duty
to give her all the protection that any
man with a spark of manhood In him
could White, who was a married
man, persisted in his attempts to re-
new his relations with this woman
after her marriage to Thaw, and-as a
result was shot down like a dog. For
this, the same law which requires a
man to love and protect the woman
he marries must suffer the same penal-
Many Interesting Events, on Tapis
With’ Portugal in Stage Center.
The coming week will be rplete with
interesting events at home and abroad.
Including the development sof the se-
rious political situation in Portugal,
the passage of the American fleet into
the Pacific ocean, the renewal of the
fight for Irish home rule In the British
House of Commons, the formal inaugu
ration of Vice President Fairbanks'
presidential candidacy by his home
State, Attorney General Bonaparte’s
inauguration of the Federal suite
against the so-called Harriman Pacific
railroad merger and many other lesser
events.
Congress promises nothing sensa-
tional during the week After devot-
ing part of the day Monday to bills
taken up under suspension of the
rules, the house will continue its con-
sideration cf the Indian appropriation
bill, and It Is probable that it will be
before the house until the middle of |
the week, if not longer. Among the 1
bills which probably will be passed
tomorrow under suspension of the
rules is the measure increasing .wid-
ows' pensions to $12. It is expected
to go through after a brief discussion
although it will involve an additional
expenditure of $12,000,000 annually.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill will be reported to the senate on
Monday and will be taken up on Tues-
day.
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common murderer, or prove
himself to the satisfaction of the court
and jury that he was insane at the
time of the commission of the act
In this respect the verdict is unjust,
but owing to the inconsistent law was
the best for the defendant that could
be returned. The fact that Thaw kill-
ed White should have been an evi-
dence of-his sanity instead of the re-
verse. He would have been a fool to
have not taken the course which he
did.
People themselves will do things
which they know to be wrong and
which are in violation of the law. Not
only this, they will even stand for In-
juries to themselves and their proper-
ty, which could be abated were their
neighbors to observe the law. This is
as true as gospel itself, and until some
man, a preacher for instance, who is
expected at all times to practice what
he preaches, and tread in the straight
and marrow path, falls into the same
habit of violating the law, then and
, not until then do the people who have
so long stood for nuisances, discover
the fact of their injury. This is one
way in which preachers are a benefit
to any community and the Times sin-
cerely trusts that our city authorities
will not allow their efforts to abate
nuisances stop with the arrest of one
of our prominent ministers. There are
others and they should have been
stoppe dmontns ago.
A short time ago the esteemed Abi-
lene Reporter referred to Wichita Falls,
as being a town of about one-third the
population of Abilene These figures
will have to be revised now, according
to the poll tax record. There were
just 727 people who paid this tax in
Abilene in time to qualify as voters,
while 662 did the same thing in Wich-
ita Falls—a difference in favor of Abi-
lene of only 65.. At the same rate of
increase, the difference one year from
no wwill tie In Wichita Falls' favor.
1 Sappho.
Sappho was born in Lesbos about the
end of the seventh century B. C. lu
antiquity the fame of Sappho rivaled
that of Homer. She was called “the
poetess;” he was called “the poet.” She
was styled “the tenth muse," "the
flower of the graces," “a miracle," “the
beautiful." But few fragments of her
works are preserved, and these only
incidentally by other writers.
Spared Him.
His Wife-Are you going to ask that
young, Jenkins and his fiancee to our
house party?
Husband—Not much!
"You dislike him. don't you?"
“Yes, but not enough for that.”-Life
* . Baseless
* “Hear the story of the shaky build-
Ing?"
“Nope. What is it?
“Oh, there's no foundation to it.”-
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
There are no greater wretches in the
world than many of those whom peo-
ple in general take to be happy.—Sen-
eca. .-
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/The Attraction of-Chess Problems.
The mere player who has never ex-
.. I perienced the magnetic attraction of
The American battleship fleet has | problems cannot fully realize the feel-
now reached a decisive stage in its ing of joy and satisfaction from solv-
eventful trip. More than half the dis-ing some masterpiece, the work of a
tance has ten covered. After four I famous composer.
There can be no
days coaling at Punta Arenas the war- doubt that solving problems, especially I
ships will thread the remaining pas from diagrams, is an intellectual ।
sages of the Magellan Straits and by amusement and that the study of prob-
the end of the week they will plow lems tends to necurcy of analysis.
the end OW----—----1 quickens ■ the perception and strength-
into the waters of the Pacific- ocean ens the chess tanifies generally and
l may occasionally Impart some of those
The presidential candidacy of Vice
President Fairbanks will be formally
launched with the choice on Tuesday
next of Indiana's delegation to the re-
publican national convention. The call
provides for conventions for the thir-
teen districts of the State, but does not
include the delegates at large, who
will be selected at a State conventions
Two delegates and two alternates will
be chosen in each district. It is ex,
pected that all of the conventions will
indorse Fairbanks for president and
that the four delegates at large select-
ed later will also be for him.__________
sparkling ideas which are so sadly
needed in ordinary play.—Strand Mag-
azine.
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THE "TUPPENCE" HABIT.
It Has a Firm Grip on London and
Its Inhabitants.
Tuppence- -meaning, of course, two-
pence ami equal to the sum of 4 cents
in United States currency—is the dom-
inating sum in London. It to as much
an institution as the war debt, beer or
the game of cricket. Wherever you
go, whatever you do: Whatever you
sell or whenever you open your mouth
it is tuppence or a series of that sum
that is extracted from you. It more
than takes the place of the five cent
piece in America or the threepenny
bit in the British possessions.
; Tuppence is as much as a fairly well
to do worker can afford for his meal
at midday. In the poorer restaurants
that sum gets him two slices and a
big mug, or three slices and a little
mug, or a portion of cake and a drink,
or a fried egg, slice and small mug, or
a sausage with mash or bread, or a
rasher of bacon. In the next higher
class everything drinkable Is twopence
per cup, while pastry, pies, etc., are
the same sum per head. At the
“popular"—!, e., “no gratuities"— res-
taurants the waiters expect a tuppen-
ny tip (though it is advertised other-
wise by the proprietors), and the non-
tipper has a bad time. At most cafes
tipping to the usual thing, and tup-
pence is expected and la accepted with
the servile bow and pleased expression
that distinguish the English and con-
tinental waiter upon such occasions.
The tuppenny tube is well known.
You deposit that sum, and you get in
anywhere and get out anywhere else
you please. On trolley cars and buses
that amount will carry you for an hour
or two very often, usually to the ter-
minus. The railroad porter who car-
ries your rug a few yards or who says
“Yue" when you ask if the train has
stopped always has his hand out for
the usual fee, though he will carry
your two large bags and whatever else
you have for half a mile over high
stalls and low lines and accept the
same amount with the same satistae-
tion —------------
The cabby to whom you give coppers
over the legal fare salutes you respect-
fully. but if you pay double fare in a
lordly manner he wants more and is
apt to make disparaging remarks about
your breeding, as may the bootblack
to whom you give 1 instead of 2 pen-
- /nies. The cabby is the surer of the
two, however, for disparaging re-
marks, to which characteristic, I real-
ly believe, can be traced the advent of
the taximeter.—New York Post
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