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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1917. The Om'aha Bee DAILY (MORNINO-EVENINO SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered t Omaha poitofflea as seeond-claaa matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Br Canter. By Mall, otiiy and Ron 4r par nooto, ssc pMmi,K W Ditlr WttbOttt Sunday,..,,,,, " 4M ' 4.00 RttDf and SumUy.... " 40o COO fowling without Sunday Sfta M 4.00 Juoday Bta only M MM M 100 Datl an! ftantU Bm. thrM Twut la l4tuM I1I.M Bend notice of chants of addraai Of Imfularltj la tali my to Osuvs He. uruui iMpunmu. REMITTANCE fUott ty draft txpretj or pottai enter. Only x-eant atusH takes ta ijnt of mall accounts. PtrMU) flbeak. aotpt ea Oaaae and m ft era eichanaa. ot uorpUd. OFFICES. Oman-Bm Building. Chic Ptopft! Ou Mldlng, South Omaha Sill N St. Nw Tort td flfta aft. touncll Bluff 1 N. Ualaflt St. Loula K B'k. of Comowroa, Lincoln LltlU Building ffMhlnitwi-TM 14th ,,,,.,, W CORRESPONDENCE Addnug Mnoranlflttlflni reining to aava and edHnrtal aiatttf to (miha Boa. Editorial DcpartatesL FEBRUARY CIRCULATION 54,592 Daily Sunday, 50,466 Awraia otrculatloa ft Um monta, mlMcrlM and fwora to bj DwtfM ivmiana, Clraulatloa afanaaar. Subacribara having tka city afcoaM km THa it suited to tfcoaa. Addraas chanfW mm ofta, mm rauaata4. Statesman's rule of thumb: denounce the newspapers." "When in doubt, The spring garden drive is now on, with spades rampant and rakes cheerily rakish. . Where, does the Nebraska legislature stand en the issue of the hour? Don't be t claml Speak upl : ' ' ' - Do we want the United States ruled by czar? Emphatically, nol But who is trying to put that across? Stilt, in view of what happened to Ciar Kick, It is absurd to say a sane American would at tempt an imitation of the role. ' Record-breaking prices persist. The greater the speed in that direction the quicker will the boosters achieve fractures of the spine. " Look what have we here! Municipal home rule permits bearing the approval of state liw makeVs. For small favors, much thanks! Field Marshal Nivelle is doing his bit hand, somely on the west front. Governor Neville manifests some of the same spirit, though uncer tain on strategy. ,., Advance reports on the coming organization of the house of representatives visions between the lines the deft efficiency of the pie counter as a vote catcher. - Our amiable contemporary descants' at length on "common sense and fanaticism." Well, since they are comparative, we have to have both or we would have neither. The chart shows an excess of moisture here abouts for March, but for the winter season we are far behind, A good rainy month of April is what Nebraska farmers want, ' " Perhaps the purpose of that sortie into Mex ico and the six months mobilisation of the Na tional Guard down on the Texas border was not .to "get Villa, dead or alive" after all. . Nebraska voted to put the saloon out of busi ness and it will go out of business at the appointed hour May 1 no matter what kind of a "dry" bill, or no .bill at all, is passed by the legislature, ' The best proof of the patriotism of American newspapers ia the prompt and unanimoua re sponse to Secretary Daniel's appeal for their help to recruit the navy to full strength, Sena tor Norris, please take notice! f , What keeps our health commissioner almost constantly in hot water is not so much what he he does as how he does it. Just a little more tact and diplomacy would produce far better re sults with much less friction. ' Considering the persistent efforts made by President Wilson to keep the country Tionorably out of war, Senator Norris' assertion of White House czarism reflects little, credit on the sena tor's common sense. .'. tt is difficult to gather from the telephone re port whether a free line or a pay line ia most efficient in getting an earful on the legislative line. These minor details are necessary to grasp the artistic ensemble of private converse. The only woman member of congress (un married) is to have a seat close to that of Ne braska's bachelor representative from the Big Sixth. White Uncle "Moae" Kincaid is supposed to be immune, you can't most always sometimes telll ' ". .; v. Age Barrier Attacked. ' Miaaaaaalla Jwniil Chicago business men appointed a commit tee to study the unemployment of competent men over 45 years old. This committee, after in exchange of views, sdvertised fof men between 43 and 75 years, mentally and physically fit, who were unable to find work by reason of age. Three thousand men answered this advertise ment Two hundred trades and professions were represented. Some of the men were highly edu cated, had held responsible positions acceptably, and had many years of work and usefulness in them still. But their gray hairs, or the desire for "young blesd in the business" had thrown them out, and they seemed unable to get another foOtllold. C '.',' v - : The committee began at once to call the at tention of employers to the availability of these men. Numbers of firms thaV had set up aged bar riers were persuaded to take them down, on the ground that such barriers were unreasonable and unfair, and deprived the firms themselves of good men. , ' 1 Through the efforts of the committee, practi cally every one of the three thousand applicants will obtain work. One express company took six of the men on trial, and soon sent for twenty five more. - ' ' In many cases an age barrier is the result of pure prejudice. Judgment experience and stability ipay well be matched in values with en thusiasm, energy and youth, and not come off many points short - This Chicago committee has .done something, but why should not the old men themselves co operate in solving their own problem? In a city like Minneapolis, for example, there are enough men who find themselves in this predicament to form an association and to appeal to employers with the same force which the appeal of the com mittee of Chicago business men carried. They stilt have the values in themselves and they know it This age barrier fetish wilt crumble before a reasonable attack. Meeting a Great Emergency. The American people is facing today a crisis more grave in some of its aspects than any ever presented. Possible effects of the entry of the United States into the European war reach out beyond our national experience and may hold re sults that wilt affect the destiny of the nation in ways that can scarcely be more than surmised. Leaders of the country's thought realize this and for that reason appreciate the deep gravity of the moment. Such steps as are taken wilt have the sanction of the utmost deliberation and fullest counsel and will rest finally on the earnest con viction of right and justice, consistent with the high ideals of our institutions. The spirit that animates the people in this hour of trial and under which they approach the great emergency is to tally different from the ordinary mood of happy-go-lucky dealings supposed by foreigners to be characteristic of the American people. The sub stratum of sober sense, on which our institutions are safely founded, is manifest, and under any exhibition of seeming frivolity may easily be de tected the deeper devotion and steadfast pur pose that has made the United States a nation and a power. Our destiny may now lead us over unknown ways, but the way will be followed with firmness, confidence in the cause our country has espoused upholding freemen in the assertion of their rights and their abounding regard for the rights of others. Lansing's Latest Note to Germany. Secretary Lansing's reply to the suggestion of the German government that treaties with Prussia dated in 1799 and 1828 be revived and extended to govern present conditions amounts to the sternest indictment of German policy yet made by our government. Mr. Lansing calls Dr. Zimmermann's attention to the fact that the course of Germany has been one of continued violation of the treaties now sought to be applied and sug gests that it is too late to undertake to rectify matters by writing into the old treaties new provi sions, 'the letter and spirit of which steadily have been ignored by the Germans. Most recent of the violations cited is the fact that since the breaking off of friendly relations with Germany American citizens have been' pre vented from removing their personal effects from the country, an act that only can be interpreted as an intention on part of the kaiser's government to ignore the provisions sought to be revived for the benefit of the many German subjects Resi dent in the United States. The course of the United States steadily has been consistent with the obligations of neutrals and in its present re lations with Germany it has scrupulously ob served all the, requirements of courtesy. In event of war it is pledged that humane consideration will govern any sequestration or internment nec essary for national protection. Our efforts to maintain relations of neutrality and friendliness have been useless in face of the activity of the agents of the German government in this country, as welt as by the general policy of the. central powers in conducting the war. Secretary Lansing shows ample justification for the break with Germany and for declining at this time to revive obsolete treaties, the advantage of which would redound chiefly to the benefit of subjects of kaiser domiciled within our borders. Chemically Pur Legislators. , Senatorial Investigators have just returned a report on the telephone mystery that has scan dalized lawmaking 'circles it Lincoln for some time. ' It ia of a character as will give assurance to the public and restore wavering confidence in the probity and rectitude of Nebraska solons. The inquisitors find there is reason to suspect that some weak member, now sitting in the legislature, may have so far forgotten his obligations to hu manity as to "mooch" a free talk. So far as ac tual facts go the committee was unable to dis cover that any member used the phone without paying for the service, but some may have es caped the toll and defied the detection of the leg islature as well as of "central." Faithful to the fundamentals of "safety first," they ask that a law be passed to cover the point and deal with any future offender who may surreptitiously talk. It Is well. We cannot be too careful and the morals of our legislators must be protected at all hazards, even from the temptation of a possible opportunity to escape paying tolls on long dis tance conversations. The time yet may come when antiseptic gauze and sterilized containers will be called into service, but the quest for chemically-pure legislators must not be abandoned short of realization. Uncle Sam in the Caribbian 10People'and Their Needs By Frederk J. Hatkin Criminal Wastage of Food. Condemnation by the authorities of an im mense quantity of food found in storage in Omaha, where it had been held while its owners were forcing up prices, emphasizes a fact stated by The Bee weeks ago. The Inflation of food prices in the United States has been due more to manipu lation than to actual shortage,. Every sincere ef fort 'at investigation has proved this. The diffi culty Is that under our laws no way exists to reach the individual operators, to whose greed for gain the result is chargeable. It does pot speak well for our intelligence as a people that 260,000 pounds of a single article of food, the price on which has been doubted within a few months, should be permitted to rot in storage while ex orbitant charges are being exacted from the peo ple who eat, in order that its owners may have the privilege of exacting the tribute they have com pelled from the hungry. Destruction of the tainted food is not enough; some way should be found to reach the avaricious gamblers who are responsible. . . - Minority Rule in Apogee.' ' Control by the minority has reached its ab solute zenith in the house of representatives, where four. out of a group of five "independents" wilt determine the control of the body. So evenly is the representation of the two great parties di vided that the 'settlement of the speakership choice rests with men who arc In congress by the accident of peculiar conditions of their constitu ency and not because of sympathy with 'the greater principles on which the people of the United States have divided into political parties. This is a singular feature of the American politi cat system. The minority not only is secure in its right, but also finds the rights of the majority within its keeping.' These five members will hold the balance of power in determining who is to be speaker of the next house. After that ia settled they will gravitate to a position of lesser promi nence and may not again be heard from, but they are in apogee right now. Still, when the worst comes, much innocent cheer may be had by crowning Sisters Benson and Florence queens of May Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, March 16. Ihe Ihomians, although largely African in descent, are in spirit a most cosmopolitan people. For three centuries they nave Dern entertaining ine snips oi an ine worm and no nationality is a stranger to them. They know exactly what to expect of almost every crew that enters their harbor. When a certain British captain makes port they muster their resources in Scotch whisky and get ready to give a dance. A Dutch man-of-war came in the other day and the sailors and officers were just as cordially re ceived and even found people who spoke their own language. When an American warship anchors Here the old and cripple get ott the streets and the police disappear, but no hostile animus is shown in these precautions; they merely show an estimate ot the American temperament, wmcn is luily jus, tified by subsequent events .The Americans, in ef. feet, take over the town for a day or so and leave the Thomians breathless, grinning and heavily ballasted with small change. . The Thomian cosmopolitanism is shown in the way holidays are observed here. There is absolutely no partiality. The Fourth of July is celebrated just as enthusiastically as the birth oi ine uanisn King ana ine only occasions neg lected are those the Thomians never heard about, This effect of having occupied a prominent place in the shipping world is further shown in the names of young Thomians. Thus the waiters at one hotel include an Ivan, a Chauncey and a Hans, all having dark complexions and kinky hair. In the matter of religion, too. there is wide va riety of sects, including Roman Catholic, Angli can episcopalian, Moravian, Methodist, Wesleyan, Dutch Reformed, Luheran, Seventh Day Adven tist, Baptist and five different varieties' of He brew, including colored ones. In spite of his cosmopolitanism the Thomian will not have to be "Americanized." He knows all about the United States, speaks what he im agines to be the English language, has a great admiration for our republic and a complete and receptive willingness to become a part of it and to share in. the liberty, equality and prosperity for which we are famous. The Thomian thinks there is nothing the United States cannot do if it wants to. A small black boy was heard to re mark the other day that when the Yankees come to St. Thomas they will have snow here. If this particular wonder is beyond our powers we can nevertheless do wonders for the island people. The Thomians, like the people of St. Croix, with the exception of a few large prop erty owners, want a civil government, including a local assembly elected without any property qualification for the franchise. Their other most obvious needs are for a good industrial school and an agricultural experiment station. An agricultural experiment station would al most undoubtedly solve the problem of what to do with the unused soil of St. Thomas. This isl and, which once bore crops, today supports noth ing but a few cattle and does not even produce enough fruits, vegetables and poultry foe its own consumption. The land is held by a few large owners and no tax is paid upon uncultivated land under the Danish law. Some of the negroes rent small patches, but it is said that possession under a lease is not secure enough to make much im provement worry while. Hence St. Thomas pre sents the Strange spectacle of an arable island which is a waste, although 12,000 people live upon it, and many of them are in need of food. - Now St Thomas could certainly produce its own fruits, vegetables and poultry and it could probably produce a profitable crop of some fiber plant, provided the people are'put upon the land. American Consul Payne, who has been in St. Thomas twelve years and is a careful observer, says that if given a chance to own land the people would be very glad to cultivate it. Maximilian Trepuk, a very intelligent Hebrew merchant, and other prominent business men agree that the people wouict make good cultivators ano tnat to put them back on the soil would make St. Thomas self-supporting, help business and make the isl and a much more pleasant and inexpensive place to live for the Americans who are to be sent here. Of course, the practicability of giving the Tho mians what they want in the way of self-government and an opportunity to own land depends upon these people. A commission is to be sent by the State department to investigate the islands and its real problem will be to determine how intelligent and responsive the people are. The island negroes are poor and for that rea son they go bare-footed and often dress In rags.- runncrmorc, li is iruc mat uie vvesi juuidu is not a systematic worker. He demands leisure for the enjoyment of life. He may not have a pair of shoes, but he lives like an English lord, never theless, scorning to worry about material things, cultivating the art of life. Just Among Ourselves Boatoa Transcript Do Americans love their nation as intensely as their forefathers did? Do the 100,000,000 love it as the 3,000,000 did in the war for independence, or the 30,000,000 in the war for preservation? These questions we are asking today just among ourselves. Men whose opinions are valued and influential apprehend that American patriotism .has lost something of its passionate quality, that the hot blood-surge which formerly reacted alike to question of one's nation as well as question of one's lady has abated somewhat; in other words, that there is too much of reason and too little of romance in Americanism, We advert to these questions not because we are among the doubt ers, but because it is the time for revivifying the faiths of those whose faiths have been shaken. There have been surface indications here in America that the old spirit did not flame quite so readily as of yore. Since August, 1914, we have repressed ourselves. Witnessing; the great struggle overseas and weighing its issues, our first impulse as a people was to make known our sympathies and to throw our influence, at least our moral Influence, on the side of the right; but we repressed ourselves. Witnessing the infamous deeds which were committeed against unpro tected peoples and nations, our impulse as a peo ple was to protest against these deeds and if necessary to range ourselves with those nations with whose ideals and purposes our own had kin ship; but we repressed ourselves. Suffering our selves at the hands of the ruthless power of cen tral Europe, we felt the same impulse tugging at our hearts, but again we pushed it back. Again and again we were brought to the pinnacle of decision, and halted there. The prevailing policies and propaganda nf the time supplied a gospel of repression. So much was said of the horrors of war that some persons whose weak wills always required leadership were misled into the opinion that war and not weakness was the great sin. Phrases like "too proud to fight" and "peace at any price" were coined out of the tarnished metal that plated our patriotism. Partisanship and hyphenate propa ganda made subtle appeals; the call to sacrifice was dimmed by the consciousness that we were more prosperous than ever before, that the physi cal side of. life here was more resplendent; the moral protest against inaction weakened each time it failed; and so the alterations were made in our national feeling which the Stones and the other skulkers mistook for an essential diminu tion of patriotism. . '' But the fault never went below the surface, and there never was a time when leadership could not have swept all the clouda aside. That was proved-in the last week, when, at the behest of the president's statement, the most powerful pres sure ever exerted upon a .house of congress was brought to bear in behalf of the cloture propositi. The president turned to find the giant at his el bow asking only leadership; nay, at last com manding that he take the forward course. It is to be a year 'which will entail sacrifices, but it will be a golden year for patriotism, a year when the spirit of America again is to be welcomed into the company of the shining spirit of France. Could we ask a finer inspiration, "among ourselves?" ITODAV1 Health Hint for the Day. Damp clothing Is injurious, not only because It la liable to produce a cnui, but because it prevents the free evap oration of heat and moisture from the surface of the body. One Year Ago Today In the War. British steamer Empress of Midland sunk. British held newly won ground at at. loi, tnougn heavily bombarded Russians reported capture of two lines of trenches near Bcjana In lia llcla. Conference of allies in Parts agreed on stricter measures to cut off Ger man food supply. In Omaha Thirty Years Aso Today. Mrs. Maarane's social passed off most successfully, the music being fur, nlahed by Hoffman, while Haldurf at tended to the wants of the Inner man. Among those present were Messrs and Mesdames (Jeorge A. Joslyn, Euholm, A. J. Vlerling, Eugene Duval, C. J. Smyth, Matt Goodwin, W. O. Mat thews, I. W. Miner and S. J. Alvarez, At a meeting of the Omaha Typo graphical union W. H. Ounsolas and J. K. Lewis were elected as delegates 'o the meeting ot thtf internauoua. ''ypographlcal union In Buffalo. The "Big Muddy" is rising steadily and owners of property along the river front are viewing with serious alarm the prospects of a repetition of the troubles occasioned by the flood of '81. A four-story addition eighty feet long Is being built onto the Bacred Henri nnvoiil II will rnntnln (lrtr- mltory and study rooms in addition to a larger cnapei. Leonard Strang has left for Green River, to be gone three months. Mrs. J. M. Metcalfe, Mrs. 8. P. Morse and Mrs. Kitchen are at Hot Springs. The Missouri Pacific has opened its own offices at 218 South Thirteenth. It is in charge of T. F. Godfrey, as sisted by E. L. Tracy. This Day In History. 1 1834 The senate resolved that President Jackson had exceeded his authority In removing deposits from the national bank. 1846 American army under Gen eral Zachary Taylor appeared on the Rio Grande opposite Matamoraa. 1849 German national assembly elected the king of Prussia emperor; he declined to accept the honor. 1854 England and France declared war against Russia. 1858 Nicaragua placed herself un der the protection of the United States. 1871 The commune was proclaimed In Parle. 1883 Fourth centenary of Raph ael's birth celebrated In Rome. 1893 Edmund Kirby Smith, noted confederate commander, died at Se wanee, Tenn. Born at St. Augustine, Fla., May 16, 1824. 1894 United States warship Kear sarge, which had been stranded on Rondacoro reef, destroyed by Carlb beans. 1904 French Chamber of Deputies voted to debar the religious orders from teaching In France. 1907 Twenty-six persons killed In a railroad wreck on the Southern Pa cific line, near Colton, Cal. - 1910 Eight men were killed on the United States cruiser Charleston off Luzon during gun practice. The Day We Celebrate. E. H. Schuneman was born In Janesvllle, la., Just thirty-seven years ago today. He Is manager of the Rem ington Typewriter company here. Charles F. Schwager was born In Fort Calhoun, Neb., Just forty-three years ago today. He is president of the Alamlto Sanitary Dairy company. William J. Hunter, the grocer. Is Just fifty-two today. He was born in South Dakota and has been a resident of Omaha for twenty-three years. Arlstlde Brland, who has recently resigned the French premiership, born at Nantes, fifty-six years ago today. Jacob H. uaiunger, united states senator from New Hampshire, born at Cornwall, Ont, eighty years ago today. Norman Hangood, well-known au thor, editor and journalist, born in Chicago forty-nine years ago today. Jlmmr Barrett former well-known major league base ball player, now scout for the Detroit club, born at Athol, Mass., forty-two years ago to day. ,. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Several hundred women college graduates are expected In Baltimore today for the annual national conven tion of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. The democratic candidate for the congressional vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Conry of the Fifteenth New Tork district la to be selected today. A special convention or the Carriage Builders' National association meets at Cincinnati today to consider the high coat of material and means for reducing manufacturing expenses. Members of the ftew Xork Society of Restauranteurs who attend the fourth annual dinner of their organi zation, at the Waldorf-Astoria tonight, will have to pay $12 a cover. In re turn they will get according to the announcement "potatoes and onions and all the other delicacies of the season." Storyette of the Day. - An American stopping at a London hotel rang several times for attend ance, but no one answered. He started for the office In an angry mood, which was not improved when he found that the "lift" was not' running. Descending two flights of stair, he met one ot the chambermaids. "What'a the matter with this dashed hotel?" he growled. "No one to an swer your call and no elevator run ning." wen, you see, sir," said tne maia. "the Zens were reported and we wore all ordered to the cellar for safety." I" ejaculated the American, "I live on the fifth floor and I was not called." - well, you see, sir, you do not come under the terms of the employer's liability act."-V-London Tit-Bits. "HOW DO YOU DO?" WIMUm 3. Klrhy. ' Buy, "How do you do," my brothor friend. Twon t cost you mucn to tnui oitona . A hand of frtendiblp Mtronv and truo, For It holpl a heap when oao Is blue. Soy, How do yon do." tbongh raso row . Bomo mother's boy h'o auro to bo. Your vrordo mmy itlll a tempeit lea, And guldo a soul throughout eternity. Say. "How do you do;" do It today, Don't wait 'til you are old and amy; "Old troucb. old trouch," thal'a want tneyu ear And then will tarn the other way. If sou'd keep young and iweet and truo. Juat learn to say, "How do yon do." The children all will follow you. They lovo the nan with "Bow do you do." Then, oomo aweet day, In that beyond. Each ono will faco and there reapond, wonder bow I'll atand (do youT) HOW many I've helped Will My "HOW do you do. 7&& Foreign Against Home Artists. Omaha, March 27. To the Editor of The Bee: I am inquisitive why Euro pean works of art sell for such out landish high prices when we have American artista whose works of art and ability are equal to any Dutch, French or German artists. I am posi tive we have artists in Nebraska as good. I for one am in for patronizing home talent. I will venture to say that If one of our local talent artists could get In his possession one of those so-called high. priced pictures, unbeknown to the public, and placed his own name In the corner of the picture and put the Dlcture on exhibition for sale, tne picture would not bring enough to buy a dozen cold storage eggs, ros. sibly the picture should have the smell of tne briny deep. A. GORTON. Progress Through Science. Cairo, Neb., March 27. To the Editor of The Bee: A writer in The Bee of March 23 tries to credit the Bible and religion with all the clvtllza- tlon and progress that modern man has made. Can It be possible this writer is so ignorant as to facts? All students of the subject know that for 1,500 years the creeds with Bible In hand fought science and progress at every step. And as the church was the state, they were for many cen turies able to strangle all progress. If a man with progressive ideas tried to teach them he was put to the torture and made to account, or if he did not account he was put to a most horrible death. This was the condition throughout Europe, and they extended this same religious intolerance to America, and these same creeds would still be Indulging In the persecution and torture of heretics if they had the power. At this time when so many people know the facts, to see a man groping around in ignorance and su perstition Is pitiful to say the least. The student of today appeals to science. K. H. KNIGHT. Antl-Vaccination. Omaha. March 27. To the Editor of The Bee: Replying to the alleged "evidence" In favor of vaccination, furnished by Dr. Connell, in your paper, permit me to say the doctor was unfortunate In his selection of Cleveland as a horrible example of an unvacctnated city. The alleged "evidence" purports to be quoted from a report of the "Cleveland Education Survey." Like a majority of the pro vacclnist's citations of "evidence," this so-called authority is masked in ob scurity. For 100 years pro-vaccinists have been on a continual still hunt for something to bolster up the waning faith of their confiding dupes, their credulity having been strained to the point of exhaustion, drastic remedies must be employed in an effort to save the day. For real evidence, both definite and enlightening, I commend to the thoughtful, intelligent reader of The Bee the following: From the report of Dr. Martin Friedrlch. health officer of the city of Cleveland, published In the Cleveland Medical Journal, Febru ary, 1902, he writes, "The valuable ex perience we have gained In our fight with smallpox should not be lost to posterity. Smallpox has raged here uninterruptedly since 1893. We relied upon vaccination afW on quarantine, but It doubled itself every year. In 1900 we had 993 cases and from Janu ary 1 to July 21, 1901, 1,223 cases. Last year the virus took altogether too well, fully one-fourth developed sepsis Instead of vaccinia, pieces of flesh as big as a silver dollar and twice as thick would drop out, leaving ugly sup purating wounds, and such a vaccina tion does not protect against smallpox, as I found out at 60 Louis Street, where three children developed small pox nineteen days after a seemingly successful vaccination." I have in my possession innumer able opinions of the same general character, by prominent physicians of every well known'medlcal school, from Maine to California, and Canada to the Gulf, and also from all of the great centers of population of all of the European countries, and all of them based upon careful investigation, per sonal observation and experience. Let the campaign of education upon this all-important subject proceed. Upon the overwhelming evidence At hand and available to the reading pub lic, when the same is considered, we are certain of a prompt and unani mous verdict against the practice of vaccination. H. E. COCHRAN. 1021 South Thirty-sixth street. LAUGHING GAS. "Some of Mabel's frifiuls am going to give her a silk shower. What will you con tribute?" "You nay lt'a. to bo a shower?" "YeB." "Would an umbrella be appropriate?" Louisville Courer-Journal. She Why, Colonel, I'm ft grandmother! He (gallantly) Well, helteve me, you don't look a day older than you always have. 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