Life — August 11, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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A Bad Case of County Option HERE are some things that are r almost as bad as drink. For ex- r Newark is in Licking County, jo. Ohio has the form of deprivation led county option. Licking County nt dry, but the county decision was well enforced in Newark, which robably has a local majority that is indulgent to rum. vark clamored for enforcement of the y law and got in outside detectives pass it.* Along with them came jetective Etherington, a lad of sev- en, who in helping to close up an wful saloon impulsively shot through head its keeper, a popular citizen that evening, or the next evening, mpany of five hundred citizens took r, impulsive young Etherington out he jail and hanged him prodig- scandal. Next, Governor Harmon soops down and suspends the Mayor the inefficient Sheriff. Next will d Jury, who will look into r of the lynching and 1 ke trouble for some of the five hundred Iynchers. ich this case and sce what, if any- it, and observe, finally, ¢ result is favorable or other- wise to county option in Ohio. Laws that provide drastic liquor re- ns for communities in which a iajority is opposed to them are make trouble. They hard to enforce and demoralizing when y pos- comes of are very “Ts THAT My BERTH??? The drys in” The Thin One: violated. That is the objection to State prohibition and in a less degree to county option. Nervous natives. Effete easterners. Woolly westerners. Yon Yonsons. Odd orientals. Rich rogues. Kaleidoscopic kettle. Exrrarence is the best chaperon. A New Storm Center in London BRITISH Academy of Literature is projected, to have forty members. The Times (New York) said of it last month; At present there are only twenty-seven original members, who include Alfred Austin, Austin Dobson,” Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hordy, Henry James, Andrew Lang, Lord Morley, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero and George Macaulay Trevelyan. Those are good names, and we read that Maurice Hewlett and A. C. Benson have been added to them. But where is R. Kipling? Doth Rudyard sulk on Table Mountain? Where is Hall Caine? Where Marie Corelli? We welcome this prospect of a British Literary Academy. Over here we have had a prize-fight and much acrimonious discussion of it by moralists and others. The thought of corresponding discussions in London and vicinity ought not to be consoling to us. but somehow it is. THANKS, OLD MAN! YOU'VE SAVED MY LIFE Monkeys for Vivisection Rockefeller Institute Takes 200 Out of a Con- signment of 500 Two hundred of the five hundred chattering monkeys taken from the hold of the Hamburg-American liner ( Waldersee on her arrival yesterday from Hamburg are ned to the Rockefeller Institute, they are ¢ be used for experiments in the inten of science—meaning, of course, vivi tion, According to the men who mal a specialty of importing animals, the Institute is a very good customer, and hundreds of monkeys go there each year. Those taken there yesterday are to be used, it was said, for “studies of the braii _ The principal demand for monkeys just now comes from showmen, but in winter, according to Louis Ruhe. the animal dealer of 248 Grand Street, the demand for monkeys from the Rockefel- ler Institute is strong, and it is hard to import enough to meet the demand, —N. YY. Times. Children and monkeys are the rial’ preferred by vivisectors. Ch dren are found in the orphan asylums, babies in maternity hospitals, and the above extract explains the monkey sup- ply. mate- Equipment ‘M going abroad. What ought I to have on the boat?’’ motor car, a letter of credit, a thoroughbred dog, a bridge set, a sound stomach and patience. HE fortunate man is generally a sceptic. Perhaps it is because he has sufficient leisure for self-analysis, comicbooks.com