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HARRY THAW SUES WIFE FOB
OIVORCE.
Files Pptifion ChaPjrins Misconduct
With Former New York Newspaper
Man,
Pittsbui'S, Sept. I.—Harry K.
Thaw, through attorneys, Sled a peti-
tiori in (.ommon piease court here to
day asking a divorce from Evelyn {
expressed surprise when informed
here tonight ihtt he had been named
as eqrrespondent in Harry Thaw’s
suit for divorce. “1 hsve net seen
EveJyti Thaw in three years,” be said.
Francis, at the time of the shooting
of S.nnfnrd White, v.-as a reporter on
a Aew York noivspaper.
AFTSK TOE ARABIC
TAFT ADVOC^ OF STBOKG DE
FENSES.
we
“Ye nittit not murderer!” tho«
1 ■ ■ sent ■ \
I Our warnings oversea.
“To your mad gods all violent
' We shall not be;^d.the koee. |
Too long, too long-our vrrath lay '
i And now we cry, ‘Be still!"
.Arid the answer came,
From a mouth of Same,
"We kill as choose to .k.iU!”
HSS NOT NATinUliLT LAZY.
Ex-I^«ciiient Speak* «i PrcparedMW
at “taft Oar” Bxetoaes at Ex'
boy is 1a^, it i« tlwy hav* iMita
him so.
’T\vist te«th that snapp^ like claish-
; ing steel
! We spevi the message hot,
“To your crazed gods we shall nor
i kneel—
! Spike-crowned and misbegrot!
; Ye mist r.ot make the whole world
I ' reel ■ ■
1 Like stars ggr.e drunk at play!"
} And the answer flew
} ,In the tongue of U,
“We slay as we choose to slay!"
I
"Ve must not strike at babes afloat!'
I We spread our word abroad.
"Theiv ship must be a sacred boat
1 That keeps yc overawed.
Ye shall not.cut an infant’s throat
I Jsor beat his mother down!”
-And. the answer rose
I From the seo-hid foes,
"Wc drown as we wish to dro^!''
God of the Seases! we cry in vain
I To you, O puny thing!
i
San Ftsncisco, Sept. 2.—William H.
Taft advocated preparedness for war
and detailed means for its accom
plishment in an address today at-the
Panama-Pacific exposition.) delivered
at “Taft Day” e:£erci^3.
In ceremomes preceding the ad
dress Sir. Taft, using the silver spade
with which, while president, he broke
ground tot the expositidn four years
ago, planted e Califdrniai redwood tree
in “Taft Circle.”
He also. reviewed portions of the
; Utii^d States coast artillery at the
Presidio of San Francisco. silver
loving cup, inscribed, “In grateful i-e-
memberance of his unfailing friend-
'ship and the fulfillment of his con-
■ fidence that ‘San Francisco knows
how,” was presented to hiw by the
e.xposition officials.
I Lauds Wilson's Stand,
K In be^nning hii^'address Sr. Taft
' declared Germany’s; acquiescence ■ to
the United States’ contention for the
rights of. Qon-eoiubatants bn commer
cial liners “should be the cause of
profound rejoicing by every patriotic
American and the occasion for con
gratulation to the President.”
i ‘!it must relieve the strain between
SLEEP WAS BETTER.
(By H, AUdiXkgton Bruce.)
Scientists cannot lay claim to in
fallibility. Being human tliiey ast li
able to wake mistakes. One inistake' I "">**
which Biany of them make is to as- laat Sunday," mused the fellow
sume that everybody is born lazy. a^Mom goes to church, accord-
Over and over again we find, this Columbus, O., Dispatch,
erroneous doctrine enunciated. .Only • sise, I u|6t an alumni catalogue
the other evening I carae across it selwtol and in lookisff
in the pages of aA-ecent aud aiithori- A^rough. it I found that one of tny
titiva writer bn business psycholoty. plaaaniatea wAs the pnstor a Cleve-
“I-4ibDr or exertion,” he gravely af- chureh. So I called him up. .and
firijted,“is naturally distasteful.” said tljat he was still preaching.
As a matter of fact, it is far neiarer ^ want^ to meet .him I
the truth to assert that there never come to church on Uie iollow-
was a boi« ino the world who ^ Sunday morning, which, I did.
wa.s born into it i.izy, j introduced me to his wife, and
In proof whereof, one has only to l'*ritife the sermon I got very
point., to the abounding energy and nodding in the middle,
positive;'passioii. for exertion shown *^f the sernion, u-i'd the parson's wif^.
by nearly all little children, , touched me on th.; olbow.
.. If you- have children of your o«*ii, ^ seem sleepy;” she answered,
fil’d if they still are quite young, you ^*^ry some of my snteili:'.g salts.’
w:ll be well aware that you "have little ^ “No, , thank you, says I, ‘I’d . rather
need to prod them into activity. You ^
aro more likely to feel that they are ' ^ .—•
altogether to energetic. j QtjICK WITH THE ANSWER,
Tlipy forver insist on “doing
things,’? They perpertually ply you
v.’itH questions. They ceaselessly- ex-
- Vour saili of sonls sink in the main, the two countries. The shadow of a
\ Guiped by a braken- king!
We pray you for an end of pain,
•Safe from the mad shark’s wi!!—
Still the answer sweeps
From the depths of de«ps,
“I kill as 1 choose to kill!"
—John O'Keefe, in N. Y. World.
THE BASE-BAJ.L PI.AYEB‘S PRAY
ER.
Lord, help me to play the game.
serious breach passes,” he continued.
I “It should not however lead our peo
ple away from their duty of reason
able preparation. The incident,
j though closed, as we all hope, except
as to indemjiity for the lives of those
already drowned, shows how near, as
neutrals, we are to the war. It shows
that We must be careful to insist upon
our rights as such as that we ought
to i>e reasonably prepared to defend
against their invasion by any bellig
erent powers."
periineht with doorknob, watch^ ink
well or tin can, in the endeavor to
gain knowledge,
I Mistress—Brid|jct, how many times
must I tell you not to answer me
back?
i Bridget—Shure, mum, an’ jist as
many timss as ye go sassin’ me in the
It matters not to you whether I am
talented- or poor in natural gifts; [ ~
vjcalthy or starving; a leader GERMANY OFFERS TO REFER U-
rocn or a simple follower, so that I' B0.4T CONFAB 'M HAGUE.
play the game as you would have it | —
'played. Kelp me to keep my eye on! Berlin, Sept, 2.—Germany, accord-
the ball, that the curves of tempta- '”6 Count Bemstorff’s instructions,
tion not deceive me. Keep mv feet offers to submit the claims for com-
in tlie path Of righteousness, that I pensation arising out of the Lusitania
may touch second and third on my ®»d Arabic cases to the Hague.
wr.y round the bases. Help me Jto I
bci'.t out my bunts, and hold me t&f ^ Washington, Sept. 2.—Gerniojjiy is
I stray not too far from base when desirous of ila’^ing the claims for com-
the catcher is ready to peg me. Count pensation arising out of the sinki.i^
not my foul balls against me. 0 of Lusitania and .Arabic .submit-
Lord, for the batting eyes sometimes t-cd to the Hague. The instructions
goes wrong, ’though the intention is ’sjued to Count Bernstorff, she Germ.-'.n
right. Help me in the piches, Lord, Ambassador at Washington, accord-
bccause a gooj bingle mi.?ht bring >ng to a Berlin dispatch, authorize
my brother home. Let not the music him to make this offer to the Ameri-
of the fans keep my eye from the jean government. .At the same time
bail, nor the enticements of the slab- immunity from attack without warn-
man draw me away, from the need of >ng to passenger steamers is provided
a clean single with a man on second. ’ f“r-
Help me, O Lord, to bat over 300, be- j Official circles in Berlin are report-
c.iuse my eyes are on the big league ed to be optiinistic with reference to
for eternity even while I sojoarn here the successful issue of the ncgotia-
amon)» the bushleaguers. ] tions between Germany and the Unit
ed states respecting the German sub
marine policy.
The chances are that you will be place.-Boston Transcript,
tempted to curb them. Also, most un
fortunately, the chances are that you
will curb them.
The moment you begin to do this,
that moment you will have set in mo
tion a process which may in the end
make them colossally lazy.
Here th*n, is the truth of the mat
ter: !
ONE OF THE PREVAILING FASH
IONS.
_____ i
We haven’t got much hopes of that
fellow who is going around tovfn
wearing one- of his sister’s iow-neck
shirt-waists.^Anderson Mail.
Nattjre intended men to be- alert,
active, iiiqniring, industrious. Acci
dent, in the form of a fault upbring
1 “Did your watch stop when you
dropped it on the floor?”
“Sure; you didn’t think it would
ing in early life, defeats as a rule through, did you’” Yale Re-
the intention of nature. cord.
Ill health also piays a part in the
development of the acquired disease THE NATION SPEAKS.
of laziness. Anything which lowers
the vitality^of a gro-wing child teiids Liberty, awake!
to slow up his mental and physical ordered ranks your places take!
Nesbit Thaw, charging misconduct
■with John Frr.ncis, of New Vcrk."
The petition is very brief, covering
less than one typewritten page. Thaw
slleges that his wife was guilty
misconduct at 31 West :Ust street,
Xew York, in December, 1909, and
January, 1910, and at various other
places and times. Thaw also de^^res
she deserted him in July, 1909.
New York, Sept. 1.—John Francis
“Lone and weary through the streets
we wander.
For we have no place to lay our
heads;
Not a friend on earth have we for
both our parents now are dead,”
A. V.
A clergyman rise.s to remark that
Reno divorces will be no good in
heaven. Well, what if they are not? ' The mother of a family that had
.-Vre «e not assured on Scriptural au- just moved to a small Oklahoma town
thority that in heaven there is no | "'“s being sympathized with by a visi-
manying or giving in marriage? tor bacaui^ of the distance of the
; i house from the creek which furnished
j If there could be any reason why j t*'® 'for household purposes.
Woodrow Wilson should have another | “** “P""
four years it would be to correct the !
' large family,” her visitor suggested.
mi.stakes of this four years, and that
he wouldn’t do.
KEPT HIS WORD.
No man holding appointive ofSce in
Kansas is to be allowed to smoke cig
arettes, The average cigarette smok
er would rather work than to hold
office under such conditions.
j Bride—Tom, didn’t you vow to give
□p smoking on our wedding day?
i Tom—Yes, I did.
Bride—But you are smoking now-
Tom—Yes, but T didn’t smoke on
your wadding day, did I?
“Oh, I d^n’t mind,” was the cheer
ful reply. “Besides, I gave 'em all
a good v-’ash before- we left Texas."’
—^Lippincott’s.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman C.ntt is quot
ed as saying that half the husbands
are unsatisfactory and disappointincr.
May we venture to inquire how many
husbands the now Mrs. Cett ha.?
tried
activity.
Indigestion, malnutrition, lack of
outdoor, exercise, the breathing of
foul air, eye strain, ear trouble, tooth
decay, adenoid growths—these and
other unhealthy physical conditions
often share in the miiking of the
i:-.xibones.
But the part they play is unusually
quite secoadary to the part played
hj- p.-^renta) repression and neglect.
Ir.stead of taking nature’s hint, and
utilizing the child's innate induatri-
ousness to form in him Isating habits
of intelligently directed effcrt, too ,,
many parents deliberately deaden the
energy and chill the curiosity of their
.'hildren. They bid them “keep quiet.”
They even rcproach them for their
incessant questioning. '
Also being themselves products of
faulty training—^they fail to set their
children a proper example of zealous
endeavor. They waste time reckle.ss-
ly, they even "kill time*’ in all man
ner of slothful, useless ways.
-AilI of thi.s t|je child observes and
all of this he unconsiously imitates.
Beginning life with the best of in
tentions, he gradually acquires a
“don’t care” attitude and lamentable
killing propensities.
These first come plaiidy in evidence
when he attends school. They wonder
why he has to be driven, to acquire
knowledge. '
They forget that there was a time
when he longed for knowledge above
everything else, and that they dis
couraged this Jon^ng because its man
ifestations annoyed them. j
They forget that in their own lives.
Where Freedom’s sons have blazz«d
tb* trail.
Shall you, their leal descendants, fail
To hold in trust the ideal pure
I'iiat is their heritage secure ?
Agr.inst the hour you would know
how,
I^arn yc to serve me—learn it now!
You, who from forms of bondage
drear,
Have soiight and found a refuge here
Who reap the fruit of bitter tears
And patriot blood of former years,
Taking the most that I can give,
’Learning how God meant men to live
You promised fealty. Vour vow,
Was pledged to me, I need you now!
1 need you now, my sons! Why vrait
Till an invader storm.s the gate?
Your desperate resistance then
Might not avail, A host of men
Untrained, undicip’ined, are less.
In time of peril and distress.
Than half that multitude would be,
Verised in the arts of soldiery.
C-h these, my chi'dren! So .secure,
So confident, so oifer-sure, ^
While Europe dies, with learning writ
In blood across the face of it!
Valor, I doubt not, warms your'heart
Discretion ii- the better part!
Lest to the scourge your neck hgtu.st
bow,.
Be ye prepared! I need you now!
—Beatrice Barry, in N. Y. Ti|nef.
PAW’S EXPERIENCE.
Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what
decs it mean when a lawyer takes a
they had set him an example-of lazi- ^ contigent fee?
ness, instead of forcing themselves
to be industrious and energctic, if
only for his sake.  wins his client gets rioth-
They forget, in a word, that if their i„g._cin^nati Enquirer.’*
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