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of everything, as tho people wanted
as many silver dollars worth 100 cents
as they had received pesoa worth fifty
cents for articles sold. Discussing
tho necessity for the coinage system
and tho agreement by which the Uni
ted States agreed to maintain parity
and tho associated oanKs agreed to
supply silver to the commission, Gov
ernor Magoon said that the new cur
rency becamo so popular that it was
almost immediately absorbed by com
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United States should not establish a
sub-treasury on the isthmus to furnish
tho necessary silver. Governor Ma
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A bloody contest is on between the
fighting organizations of the revolu
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dreds in Russia. Several bombs, have
been thrown and a number of lives
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Tho London Statist says that Pres
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situation in the Alxeciras conference
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Reports from Venezuela say that
the people there would welcome the
overthrow of Castrtj.
Unrest is noticed among the people
of Peru and the government there
fears a revolution.
E. H. Harriman has secured val
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of railroads in Mexico.
O. C. Ellison, one of the founders
of the national irrigation congress,
died at El Paso, Texas.
Nebraska democrats will participate
in a "dollar dinner" at Lincoln on
Maroh 6. The speakers will be Gen
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Iowa, Mayor Rose of Milwaukee, John
H. Atwood. of Kansas, G. M. Hitch
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Berge, W. H. Thompson and P. E.
McKellop of Nebraska.
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T. In the issue of The Commoner of
January 5, 1906, on page 5 we find
another reference to what is improp
erly styled Dr. Osier's theory of
dotage.
It occurs to tho writer that since
the press was so eager to publish an
extract from Dr. Osier's address it
should be just as eager and it should
bo deemed binding upon it that -it
should put itself to even greater
trouble to correct the erroneous im
pression which it has seen fit to give
such wide publicity, heralding to the
four quarters of the earth as literal,
what was intended, as any one enter
ing into the spirit of the address
should be able to recognize only as
burlesque.
It all follows from the eagerness,
anxiety or frenzy of the press for start
ling or sensational news. As long as
the press confines its depredations to
subjects that it is familiar with in
this breezy, windy world the public
is capable of putting a pretty fair
estimate upon its genuineness, weigh
ing its importance and sifting out the
dross to a greater or less degree and
ordinarily there is but little 'harm
done. But when it undertakes to pose
as critique and offer its internretation
on obstruse subjects as treated by pro
fessors grounded in medical lore it
is out of its domain and is as incapable
or giving a proper interpretation of
the contents of an address as the in
dividual who would assay to discuss
astronomy by glimpses .of the stars.
Dr. Osier was addressing an assem
blage of cultured people schooled in
the medical science ...and who were
capable of weighing the infent of each
thought or suggestion, advanced and
giving to each its proper import.
With such an audience he did not
hesitate to relieve the monotony of
what at best in ordinary 'hands is
a dry subject by injecting into it a
pleasantry, little realising that it
would be so shattered and torn from
its connections as to be made to an
pear different from what ho had in
tended. Had he entertained any other
belief, he, doubtless, would have aban
doned any effort at overcoming the
prosy side of his subject by levity
or ho would have put himself to the
trouble, for the benefit of those who
were incapable of "taking in" the gist
of the subject matter by diagraming
the joke. But the press .reporter Nas
there and he was there for news and
that much of the valedictory address
he could "take in" He could under
stand chloroforming and its associa
tion with old age and that made an
excellent news item for the morning
paper thrilling and startling.
fills scientific and very able analysis
of the different stages and periods of
usefulness of life as given from his
view point. And those who have
passed, or are passing, the meridian
or high-tide of life which includes
the writer recognizes the force and
accuracy of his remarks. Our men
tal energy and perspicuity essentially
depends upon the gray matter of thp
brain, and this is not independent of
but a part of the body. That may be
just as receptive, clear and lucid as
it ever was, but when the body is
wanting in vigor or vital energy,
the intellect is short in the element
of force to crowd these ideas into suc
cessful execution. There are excep
tions to all rules but ordinarily speak
ing the body is an exponent of the
, brain, and of course, the converse is
irue.
Often we see minds whose mental
energy far surpasses their vital pow
ers but their sphere of usefulness is
necessarily circumscribed by the death
of vitality. A case in point, without
seeming to be personal, is the editor
or The Commoner (but. he's in China)
The public is qulteasniuch indebted
to Mr. Bryan's -'imrifense' physique and
recuperative powers as 'to his mental
endowments and scholarly attain
ments; for had he not the constitu
tion of a battleship he could not span
continents and make rear-platform
speeches many in aday from speed
ing xoaches. Then his forensic abil
ity would be shorn of a vast amount
of its usefulness. But should he be
so fortunate as to survive the age of
sixty and the country to have him in
lieu of making flying speeches and
receiving committees on improvised
platforms it will be on his spacious
and commodious verandas.
As man begins to age he finds as
the body lags the brain lags. Ofteii
the force of habit and an indomitable
will power, which is generally backed
by a well-kept, superb or a wirey
Physique, drives men way on beyond
their time. But the old adage,
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