SLAPS BROWNSON
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AIRS HIS
VIEWS ON THE CASE.
SAYS ADMIRAL WAS CHILDISH
Resignation Likewise Reprehensible In
ExtremeDeclares That Admiral
Gave Way to Personal Pique
and Deserted His Duty.
President lloosevolt's attitude ou
tho question of the command for the
hospital ship In the navy, which re
sulted In the resignation of rear ad
miral Wlllard H. ftrownson and Inci
dentally some caustic observations on
that incident and the controversies
among tho naval officers and their ad
herents as to the details of naval con
struction and methods of training,
were made known when Secretary
Metcalf gave to the press two letters
from the president, addressed to him
on those subjects.
In the first of these letters Presi
dent lloosevelt, without mincing
words condemns in unmeasured terms
the act of Admiral Brownson, declar
ing It to be unseemly and improper.
Tho question as to which Admiral
Brownson took issue with tlie navy
department, the president declares, is
one as to which there can be entirely
legitimate differences of opinion, but
lie added, "There is no room for differ
ence of opinion as to the gross im
propriety of the admiral's conduct in
rosigning rather than carry out the
orders of his superior officers in such
a matter. The officers of the navy
must remember that it is not merely
childish but in the highest degree rep
rehensible to permit either personal
pique, wounded vanity or factional
feeling on behalf of some particular
bureau or organization to render them
disloyal to the Interests of the navy
and therefore of the country as a
whole."
POWERS JURY DISAGREES.
Ten to Acquit, Two to Convict and the
Twelve Discharged.
After being out more than forty
eight hours the jury at Georgetown,
Ky., in the case of Caleb Powers, tried,
on a charge of complicity in the mur
der of William Goebel reported for the
second time that they were unable to
agree upon a verdict and were dis
charged by Judge Morris.
After the discharge of the jury court
was adjourned until afternoon when
the defense's motion for bail was
heard. The jury stood ten for acquit
tal and two for conviction. J. L.
Price, the foreman, and J W. Renaker,
the Harrison county juror, held out for
conviction. Powers was showered
with congratulations.
There came near being an anquital.
Mr. Renaker made the proposition to
Mr. Price to vote for acquital. Mr.
Price held out, although a sick man,
and Renaker said he would vote with
him. C. J. Marshal first voted for con
viction, but soon changed.
In his appeal to the court to grant
bail, powers pleaded that he was not
in good health, and that in view of the
fact that the jury could not agree as to
his guilt, he should be allowed to give
, bail.
PETTIBONE-FOUND NOT GUILTY.
Orchard Now Only Man In Sight to
Pro'secute for Murder.
A Boise, Idaho, January 5", dispatch
says: Tho eud of the prosecution of
tho men charged with the murder of
Governor Frank Steunenborg, with tho
exception of Harry Orchard and Jack
Simpkins, came yesterday with the ac
quital of George A. Pottlbone. George
H. Moyer, president of the western
federation of miners, was formally re
leased in the afternoon at four o'clock
and will return with Pettibone in a
few days to Denver.
The case of Orchard, the self con
fessed assassin of Steunenberg, is In
the hands of Prosecuting Attorney
Van Duyn of Canyon county. No
statement as to the procedure In that
case has been made, but it will be
-called during the next term of court at
Caldwell, when It will probably be fin
ally disposed of.
Land Sale Is Blocked.
The council of the Russian empire
upholds the refusal of the senate to
sanction the proposed sale of large
parcels of naptha bearing land in the
Bakku district to big producers in
cluding M. Nobel the proprietor of
extensive oil fields in the Caueausus,
on. the ground that it would encourage
a great monopoly against the Interests
of the consumer.
Dense Fog in England.
Fog Is seriously impeding shipping
on the Birtish coast, and It is especial
ly dense In the regions of Glascow
and Liverpool. The Carmania should
have sailed at 5 o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, but was held over until
Sunday afternoon.
THE SMALLEST HUMAN BRAIN.
Proof That Size of Organ Does Nol
Measure Intellect.
What Is believed to bo the smallest
brain over found In a normal human
being was revealed as a result of an
autopsy performed at the Now York
city morgue upon the body of Danlol
Lyons, a watchnmn, employed In the
Pennsylvania tunnel excavation.
Lyons became ill suddenly while at
work, andr having had no medical at
tendance, his death came technically
under the Investigation of the coroner.
Dr. Philip O'Hanlon, who, with Prof.
John E. Larkln, of the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons, mado the au
topsy, found that the brain of Lyons
weighed only 24 ounces, although tho
normal weight of the human cerebrum
Is from 48 to GO ounces.
Lyons was 40 years of age, live foot
five inches in height and weighed 140
pounds. Those who had known him
for many years testified that he was
of nverage Intelligence. The causo of
the man's death was Inflammation of
the kidneys. The. man's brain seemed
in every way normal except as to bIkc.
"It Is one of the most vemarkablo
brains I have over seen," said Dr.
O'Hanlon, who hns made thousands of
nutopsies, "and It shows that the size
of tho brain does not necessarily
measure tho Intellect of man. Lyons
was, from all that I can learn, Intelli
gent and capable. The quality of tho
brain, and not the size of it, counts.
Ono of tho smallest bruins known to
anatomists was that of Gambetta, at
ono tlmo president of France, and a
brilliant and forceful thinker."
Comparative tables of the weights
of human brains bear out the idea of
Dr. O'Hanlon that there is little con
nection between the weight o( the
brain and the power of the Intellect.
One by Admiral Evans.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans told
the following story apropos of justice
as administered in tho American court
at Shanghai:
"Four men wero In the dock," said
the admiral, "when his honor mounted
to tho bench. Three wero Chinamen
and the fourth a sailor from my ship.
The judge said to the first Chinaman:
" 'What Is your namo?'
" 'Ah Ling,' was the response.
'"What was the matter with you?'
asked the judge.
" 'Dlunk.'
" 'Thirty days, and get out of here,'
sentenced his honor. 'Noxt. What's
your name?'
"'Ah Sung,' responded the second
Chinaman.
" 'What was the matter with you?'
" 'Dlunk."
"'Thirty days, and get out. Next.
What's your name?'
"Ah Lee, replied the third China
man. "'What's your troublo?' aske'd the
Judge.
" 'Dlunk.'
"'Thirty days. Next. What's your
name?'
" 'Ah, h 1, give me 30 days and let
me go,' was the prompt reply of the
American sailor." Chicago Record
Herald. Do It Better.
This is a short squib from the pen
of Afiiert W. Shaw, which a boy might
store away in his memorandum book
for daily reading. It is tonicky. It
has a bracing, spring atmosphere
about it, healthful for the laggards.
Mr. Shaw writes:
"Do it better!
"Letting well enough alone never
raised a salary or declared an extra
dividend.
"And what was well enough for yes
terday is poor enough for to-day do It
better.
"Rescue that little task from the
maw of dull routln do It better.
"Sek out the automatic act of habit
do it better.
"Put another hour on the task well
done and do it better.
"Strive not to equal strive to sur
pass. 'Do It better!"
Help Near at Hand.
Gyer What's the matter, old man?
Voii look as mad as a March hare.
Myer Mad! I'm so mad I can hard-,
ly see straight.
Gyer That being the case, I'd ad
vise you to visit that bottling estab
lishment just around the corner.
Myer What for?
Gyer Why, for the purpose of
bottling up your wrath.
Saliva Antl-8nake.
All men possess In their bodies a
poison which acts upon serpents; and
the human saliva, it is said, makes
them take to flight, as though they
had been touched with boiling water.
The same substance, It is said, de
stroys them the moment it enters their
throat.Pliny the Elder.
Queens.
"You may not believe me," said the
conceited beau, "but I called on four
ladles last night."
"What!" snorted the poker flend,
"you must be a quitter. I'd keep on
raising all night if I had a hand Ilk
that."
FINDING THE PIVOT
GOOD ADVICE FOR YOUNG MEN
WHO WOULD SUCCEED.
LOOK SQUARELY AT THINGS
In Considering a Business Proposl
tion, 8earch for the Foundation
Upon Which It Rests Get
That and Win.
Are you a dreamer? Do you look
squarely at things, and make It your
aim to find the meat of the nut? Have
you the tact to get at the point of
things, at tho mnln object, and do you
mnke it a practice to aim squarely
at tho bull'seye?
Decisiveness Is ono of the essentials
to success. The man who goes along
In a half-hearted, semi-conscious way,
his mind wandering from one phaso of
a subject to another without the abil
ity to sift out tho chaff, Is not likely
to got far to the front. Keep your
mind on the main point. Get right
down to hard work, and probo evory
proposition deep until you get at tho
germ, the kernel that Is the life of
the thing. There Is a pivotal point to
everything. Find the point, and stick
to It.
What ever you undertake to do,
be sure that you use your brain, and
use It rightly. One man will fret and
Btew over a task, and spend days in
worrying about little things that are
unimportant, while another man will
notice the main point in an instant
and without apparent effort will do
what the slow and vacillating one per
haps could never do.
Only a short time ago a mining en
gineer conceived an idea of perfect
ing a machine for washing gold. He
appllod to tho government for a patent
and it was refused because they
claimed that such a machine could not
be constructed according to his speci
fications. Experts tried to work out
the problem. All gave It up. By acci
dent tho engineer met a mechnnlc and
explained what he wanted. The me
chanic said: "I'll make It for you."
He started to work. He did coinpleto
the machine that government experts
claimed could not be made. The fel
low discovered the main point. He.
was trained in the right way. His
thinking apparatus was all right, and
his seeking the "point" was the means
of making him a wealthy man, and
the mining engineer as well.
A few years ago a young electrical
engineer was experimenting in a Pitts
burg steel works. He noticed that
certain substances when intensely
heated produced a substance that he
was not familiar with. He kept ou ex
perimenting. He got out a patent on
the new product. He named it corbo
rundum, a substance almost as hard
as the diamond and now extensively
used in polishing gems and steel and
used instead of emery. The young
man saw the point and to-day is sev
eral times a millionaire. It Is seeing
the "point," discovering things that
are essentials, that make the men.
The noted John D. Rockefeller several
years ago had brains enough to see
the great future of petroleum. He set
about to got control of the Industry.
He succeeded. Had he not. the quality
of "getting at the moat of the nut" he
would have done as hundreds and
thousands of others, let tho opportun
ity pass.
There is nothing like keeping your
brain focused on the main point. Con
centrate all your energies on what you
have to do. Sift out the chaff. Get
rid of tho worthless, the immaterial
things, and get at the chief proposi
tion. Don't spend time nnd brain
power In little worthless prospecting.
Bore right into the heart of things,
and discover where the point lieu.
Then work right. Don't lag. Bend
every energy to win, and succobs will
be yours. Keep your eye on tho
bull'seye.
Home Patronage Lesion.
The west is the section that pro
duces the wheat that supplies the na
tion with bread. In almost every
wheat-growing section there are flour
ing mills. Yet how often do we find
that people of these districts demand
flour made in a foreign place. This
principle is wrong. There is a loss
to the district. When wheat is shipped
from one state into another or from
the district where It Is grown to some
other district and then made Into
flour which is returned to tho people
for their use, there is a considerable
loss to the commuulty. Thero is the
commission to the grain dealers, the
freight paid on the wheat, and the
freight paid on the flour back to the
place, nnd not least Is the employment
of labor in the manufacture. There Is
much to be gained through the pat
ronage of every home Institution,
whether it be a manufacturing enter
prise or a mercantile concern. The
community is made wealthier by
keeping in it all tho dollars that are
the result of the labor of the people.
The negro republic of Liberia has
22 species of rubber trees.
A WEALTH-SAPPING SYSTfcM,
New Public Utilities Managed In a
Way That Retards Progress.
It should he borne In mind that tho
Investment of outside capital, the
ownership of public and Boml-publlc
utilities by others than residents of n
.community, Is u serious thing for tho
people residing In tho place. In west
ern cities there are hundreds of Illus
trations of tho working out of this,
plan of securing public utilities. There,
is need of a water-works. Outsiders
come into the field with a proposition.
Tho city or town council Is approached
and the final result la that a franchise
covering, 25 to 50 years Is granted.
Tho works arc built. Peoplo are thon
compolled to pny highest rates to
moot lntorest on bonds and wntored
stocks. Tho company perhaps pays
faxes less proportionately than tho
residents of the town are compelled
to pay, and the only monoy loft In
tho community that Is earned by tho
operation of the plant are tho taxes
paid, tho wages of tho few laborers
employed, and the salaries that a fow
"straw" officers draw. All the profits
are drawn to the owners of the plant
In some other city, generally Wall
street, Now York. Thus Is built up
a system that draws tho monoy earned
in the community to some other plnce.
It Is the samo with street-car sys
tems, electric and gas lighting plants
and all other semi-puhltc nnd public
utilities under private ownership, and
In which outside capital Is chiefly In
vested. Should thoso utilities be owned by
homo capital, all the earnings would
bo retained In the community, to seek
Investment in other improvements and
tho peoplo would receive a general
benefit. There is no argument that
can prove that foreign ownership of
any ontorprlse is good for a commu
nity. Any system, It mntters not,
whether In a commercial lino, llnanclnl.
or other branch, that takes from a
community tho oarnlngs of tho peoplo
and uses them for the enrichment of
other Bectlons, Is a wrong system.
Let business men of every town got
these facts fixed indelibly In their
heads. Let commercial club enthusi
asts settle down to the fact that when
through their work any enterprise Is
built up that means continual drain
on tho resources of the place, it is
bettor there be no commercial club.
If there are any enterprising citizens
enough In a place to Invest In their own
town In this way, tho town should
have no difficulty in stimulating a
municipal ownership sentiment nnd
have the good work carried on. Com
mercial clubs are all right, but it is
often that they are operated all wrong
than all right.
Against a Common Enemy.
The careful gardener closely
watches the weeds that spring up to
strangle the growth of his profitable
crop. In early scriptural times evil
disposed persons sowed tares among
the wheat of their neighbors, causing
much trouble and dlscor!. A like con
dition is found 'to-day. Troubleaomo
weeds have sprung up, and now there
is a wecdlng-out process going on that
is essential to the welfare of the na
tion. With sturdy, dutiful men to
carry out tho work of protection, thero
is little danger of obnoxious weeds
causing ruin. Every good citizen can
assist in the work, which is part of
the task that goes with his good citi
zenship. Encourage those who havo
taken up the labor of uprooting the
common evils that oxist, and prevent
as far as lies in your power the "sow
ing of tares" in the great public gar
den the nation. Raise your voice
against every effort of the enemies of
tho common people to sow weeds
broadcast. Do your part toward les
sening the power of trusts and com
bines. This you can do by prevent
ing concentration of great capitalistic
powor in large financial centers. Keep
from sending your money away from
the community where It is earned.
Give your support to the home trade
movement. Stand by your homo
town.
For Greater Harmony.
Squabbles between business mon
and their customers, discord and" the
lack of harmony, prove detrimental to
all interests of a place. Never was
thero greater need of harmonious ac
tion on the part of the merchants and
the farmers than now. These classes
nhould discover how closely inter
twined are their interests with all tho
interests of tho community where they
reside. Farmers, laborers and every
class of workers should pull hand In
hand with the tradesmen for tho
building up of the town. Surely every
ono in a community should feel that
any project that is for the building up
of the placo is u thing -that ho is In
dividually interested in. This Is tho
sentiment that means harmony and
cooperation, and not back-biting,
throat-cutting competition and Ill-feeling
that are so detrimental to a
town.
Cold Day in Billvllle.
"Coal is too high for us," says the
Billvllle Banner, "and the timber trust
puts wood out of our roach, but we
have a few extra bales of cottoa with
which wo can feed tho flro."
JESUS AND JOHN
THE BAPTIST
Ssaiay School Lema far Jaa. 12, INI
Specially Arranted forThli Ppr
LESSON TISXT.-.Tohn l:l!-34. Memory
VotHfH. !!!. no.
GOLDI0N TBXT.-"Uohold the Lamb of
God, which tuUoth away the nln of tins
world." John t:2!.
TIMIi. John tho Huptlst began to
preach In the summer of A. I). X He
preached nix niontlix Ixiforo Christ ap
peared on tho weno. Ilu continued a
year and three months preaching while
Jchiih preached; till March A. D. 1 Jchuh
watt baptised January, A. D. 27, IIIm
temptation January nnd February. Hln
rtrst disciples In February. The doleu
tlon of thn Phnrlneea February.
PLACK. The wilderness of Judea. The
Imptltun of Jchiih at Uethnhnro, on the
cast bank of the Jordan.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
John preached the things that were
nocesBary before one could entor tho
kingdom of God. (1) Repentance and
confosslon of sin. (1) A change of
conduct that proved tho repentance
to be sincere. (3) A public profes
sion of this change of life by buptlsm,
essential to tho proof of their sin
cerity, to permananco of the now life,
and to power for good. (4) Tho. king
dom of God is at hand.
This preaching led people to In
quire, whnt does all this mean? Who
Is coming? Whnt Is coming?
Tho Witness of John to Christ.
Vs. 19-34. The Christian wants proof.
The Ibhucb nre too Important for
credulity. We need to know.
The witness of John Is repoated,
reinforced, more and more clearly, all
down tho ages. Tho facts written In
tho history of 2,000 years confirm his
testimony.
First. John Witnesses That Jesus
Is the Christ, the Son or God. Ho re
fused to be cnlled the Messiah. He
was merely one who announced his
coming. And when Jesus returned to
Bothnhnra, John pointed htm out to
tho people "Hero Is the Messiah.
This Is the Redeemer from sin. This
is the man whom God by sure signs
made known to me as the Saviour."
Thero Is a great deal of evil In the
world yot, In the best of countries, In
the best, of people. But It is evil
fought against. It is gaining the vic
tory slowly but surely. The very
revelations of evil, the controversies
and conflicts, are signs that the power
of Christ is working upon the evil, a
never ending conflict till the good has
triumphed.
Second. John Witnesses lo Jesus
as the Redeemer from Sin. V. litt.
"Behold the Lamb of God." Jesus was
so named by John, because tho lamb
was used In three ways as a symbol of
tho deliverance which Jesus brought.
(I) John and his hearers were famil
iar with tho representation in Isaiah
(53:7) of the coming one, "as a lamb
led to the slaughter." (2) Still more
would tho Jew think of the PasBover
lamb as the type and promise of na
tional deliverance. (3) Tho dnlly
sacrlflco of a larnb was continually
before tho Jews, teaching them the
meaning of all the sacrifices, and con
tinually reminding, them of their
need of au atonement for sin.
It is woll worth noting that Jesus
died for our sins at tho PasBover
feast, and at tho hour of tho dally
sacrifice. "Which taketli away the
sin of the world." "To boar away
sin Is to remove the guilt and punish
ment of sin by expiation, or to cauBe
that sin be neither imputed nor pun
ished." Thayer's Greek-English Lex.
(1) The work of Christ Is to do thiB
Tor the whole world till this sinful
world is changed into the sinless
Paradise Regained. (2) Jesus pro
vides redemption for all the world.
(3) He pardons past sin, so that it is
no longer remembered by him, but is
blotted out forever. (4) He is, In
fact, removing sin from the world.
Wherever he comes, sin Is in the
process of removal from each hoart
that accepts him, and from the com
munity. Third. The Witness of the Holy
Spirit. V. 32. "I saw tho Spirit de
scending from heaven like a dove,
and it abode upon him." Ho descend
ed not only In the manner of a dove,
but In bodily shape of a dove (Luko
3:22). This means more than "It
was as plain to him that Jesus was
possessed by tho Spirit as if ho had
soon the Spirit in a visible shape
alighting upon him." It was neces
sary for his assurance, and that of the
people, that there should be aomt!
visible proof of the descent of the
Spirit, as there was at Pentecost, and
the results proved that the sigu was
accompanied by reality. It may be
that John saw tho effects "In tho de
meanor of Jesus, In his lowllnesB, and
sympathy, and holiness, all of which
camo to their perfect bloom at and In
his baptism." Exp. Greek Test. But
tho sign that accompanied this powor
waa givon to reveal the fact, "in let
ters that could be read from the
stars," that tho Invisible Holy Spirit
was actually presont; to make the
fact clear and unmistakable; to show
tho source whence the power and Us
effecta came.