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 New Tunes, New Crimes. and was arrested, but, as the story ran, his offense was covered by no statute, so he es caped scot free. Doubtless in a year or two the automobile will be figuring in pur country's legislation as prominently as the bicycle. Then we have the new laws of train and trolley car; statutes regarding track ob struction, ride stealing, and getting on and off the cars while they are in motion. Also numerous enactments against discrimination in the matter of passengers, extortion in rates and what not. The development of anaesthetics and the temptation to the misuse of these blessings, have evoked many new statutes. In New York any person not a physician or surgeon, having in his possession any narcotic or an aesthetic with intent to administer the same to another, without his consent, unless by the direction of a duly licensed physician, is liable to imprisonment in the States prison for any term up to ten years. In Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana and Massachusetts no one may sell cocaine except on prescription from a licensed surgeon or physician. The fines for such an offense are not uniform in all four States, however, but range from $50 in Mas sachusetts to $300 in Colorado. The law against doctors and dentists prac tising without a license is well known. Chi ropodists, embalmers and nurses are likewise so restricted in certain parts of the country. As an instance of the care nurses have to ex ercise nowadays to avoid penalty, in Cali fornia should one neglect to report the fact of a baby's eyes becoming inflamed within two weeks after birth, she would be liable to six months in prison. In Minnesota no barber can legally engage in his art without first passing the test of an examining board. Modern adulteration of food is another matter that has been dealt with. Certain nutrimental combinations have to be plainly labelled and tagged by the seller, and the purchaser undertakes certain obligations in buying such. Thus in Virginia, a boardinghouse keeper must, if he uses the article, put

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up a sign with ''Imitation Butter Used Here" printed in large Roman letters not less than one inch square. If he neglects to warn his boarders thus, he lays himself liable to a six months' imprisonment. Discoveries in connection with the public health and general welfare have made their demands upon the legislators. There are laws to protect shop-girls, miners, motormen, and statutes prohibiting the sale of liquor and cigarettes. There are milk laws and meat laws. In Maine the bodies of ani mals that have died of disease must be thor oughly injected with kerosene oil. The ob ject of this treatment is to protect the selling of the meat. Elsewhere there are impure ice laws—the adjective of course describing the ice, not the laws—and in Wisconsin a baker who sleeps in his bakery pays $50 for his first night's lodging, $100 for the second, and $250 for the third. The same State again exhibits its care for the safety of its people by enacting that if anyone should lose his life from the explosion of a lamp or other vessel containing oil which has not passed the legal test, the seller of such oil shall be deemed guilty of manslaughter in the third degree. The various slot machines which have been invented are responsible for certain new ing gambling devices and those exhibiting improper pictures. The automatic ballot machine is guarded by a special law. In New York to tamper with one of these machines renders one liable to five years' imprison ment. The boom in advertising is another mod ern thing which has exercised the gray mat ter of our law-makers. For a few examples, in Pennsylvania trouble is prepared for the man who prints his advertisement on a pic ture of the American flag. In New York it is an offense punishable by imprisonment for one to drop unaddressed advertising circulars into one of those new-fangled letter chutes. In New Jersey it is provided that should art advertiser stick his ad. on the Palisades, he may be put away for three years or less for
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