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A highly entertaining series of reminis cences by the former head of Scotland Yard. Incidental], some attention is paid to the careers of owell and “Shrimps," the Channel boat thieves. Professional criminals of this 1claifs, says the writer, never turn over a new ea :— "During their spells of liberty they live in comfort, under the protection of the laws they systematically violate; and if and when they are convicted of crime, they receive a sentence of a few years’ duration,and are then let loose
upon society. How long will the public tolerate this scandalous and stupid system?" Sugar Trust. "The Secret of the Sugar Trust's Power." By Judson C. Welliver. Hampton's, v. 24, p. 717 (May).
"For twenty-six years one cryptic little phrase has been regularly written and re written into tariff acts as the real protection of sugar monopoly. The little phrase is this: ‘Not above N0. 16 Dutch Standard in color.’ . . . “ ‘Dutch standard’ is the sacred white ox of the industry. No lawmaker may dare the feeblest gelp to scare the precious bovine off the tari statutes. It is for‘ the Trust the essential part of the sugar schedule, for everybody else it is an insoluble riddle." Taft‘: Administration. "American Affairs." By A. Maurice Low.
National Review, v. 55,
p. 286 (Apr.). “President Taft has been in ofiice a year, and perhaps he regrets that his devotion to the public service caused him to set aside his ambition and decline the place on the Sn reme bench offered him by Mr. Roosevelt. n the bench his duties and his associates would have been congenial, his reputation as a jurist would have widened, he would have been freed from the anxieties, the annoyances and
the criticisms that fret the soul of a sensitive man whose ideals are high and who is trying to do his duty according to the dictates of his conscience. There is rhaps no more heart brealdng place than t e Presidency; there is rhaps no man less to be envied than the resident. . . . “There are grave dissensions in the party, there is an outcry against the high cost of living, there is that general discontent and restlessness to which reference has already been made. There is a feeling among Republi cans that the are about to experience a reverse, and t ey look forward with appre hension to the election for the House next November. Republican newspapers tell the President that he must be held responsible." Tarifl. “A Battle Royal in Wool." “An Answer to ‘Schedule K,’ " by William Whit man; “A Defense," by Richard Washburn Child;
“In
Further Rebuttal
Whitman," by Edward Moir.
of
William
Every-body's,
v. 22, p. 656a (May).
Mr. Whitman here meets and effectively disposes of critics who have sought to prove that the wool schedule of the tariff act is iniquitous. He sa s:— "I do not hold
hedule K as perfect, but
I do not believe that it gives the worsted manufacturer any important advantage over the carded woolen manufacturer, even'sup posing that the interests of the two classes could be differentiated. Modern improve ments in combing machinery, of which my critics seem totally unaware, have made avail able to the worsted mills a wide range of wools that were once regarded as fit only for carded woolen purposes. This process is certain to continue, and any change in the form of the duty on raw wool would efl'ect almost alike the worsted and the carded woolen manufacturer."
An Amusing Story “ AN amusing story is told of Mr. Sergeant Hill, who was not only the most ec centric, but also one of the most learned of the English lawyers of his time," says Francis S. Wellman in his "Day in Court." "He had the habit of be coming so absorbed in his profession that it rendered him perfectly insensible to all objects around him. He was engaged to an English heiress, and on the mom ing appointed for the wedding went down to his chambers as usual, but becoming immersed in business forgot entirely the engagement that he had for that morn ing. The bride waited for him so long that a messenger was dispatched to his
chambers.
He obeyed the summons, and having been married returned to his
- work. At about dinner time, his clerk, suspecting that the Sergeant had entirely forgotten the proceedings of the morning, ventured to recall them to his recollec tionI and sent him home to his dinner! "
