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The Commoner.
one of the children, In this instance
numbering three daughters and two
sons, have been affected in this way.
The phenomena of synesthesia are
known as associated sensations, by
which is meant constant and involun
tary subjective sensations associated
with actual perceptions. Among the
rarest types of synesthesia is that
known as 'sound seeing.' It is the
constant and involuntary visualiza
tion of color associated with some
floflnito sound. For instance, the
sound of the vowel 'a carries with it
to one person affected with synes
thesia a sensation as If he were look
ing at a red object. The same sound
vis blue to another and black to a
-third. The deeper vowel tones usu
ally suggests the shades and the high
er vowel tones the tints of colors. In
the case of the clergyman, Dr. Smith
reports: 'The clergyman, aged 49
years, is a man of high attainments
but of a retiring disposition Ho
statos that since his early childhood
ho has associated the sound of each
letter of tho alphabet with a definite
color. The letters f, j, k, f and x are
a reddish brown; o and e are snow
white; a, d, g, n, s, q and u have the
appearance of glycerine. The re
maining letters are of a dull lead color
shading down to black. When a lit
tle boy ho was laughed at by his old
er brothers and sister because he anx
iously asked them why a certain bay
horse was given the white name of
Charlie.' "
Robert W. Criswell, editor of the
Now Yorker, a weekly journal, com
mitted suicide August 3 by throwing
himself under the wheels of a New
York express train. Criswell was re
cetly held to the grand jury on the
charge of criminal libel. . He had
charged Congressman Rhinock of
Kentucky with having introduced the
president's daughter to undesirable
persons.
A dispatch to the Chicago Record
Herald under date of Anderson, Ind.,
August 3, follows "As the result of
being deprived of cigarettes since it
has been in Indiana, five days, a ciga
rette smoking chimpanzee of a trav-.
eling show died in this city tonight.
Physicians were called to conduct an
autopsy. They reported that they
found the trachael muscles rigid and
contracted, and also tho intercostial
and abdominal muscles in a condition
showing they had been deprived of a
sedative produced by other narcotics.
The owners of the animal have been
unable to secure cigarettes in Indiana,
and Governor Hanley refused to allow
the owners of the animal to give It
cigarettes to smoke while in this
state."
Wisconsin Rendering company for the
purpose of obtaining for the company
a valuable contract from the city of
Milwaukee for disposing of garbage.
It is alleged that the money was not
so used and that Mr. Pflster converted
It to his own use. Pfister has issued
a statement declaring the charge ab
solutely false.
Advices from Nome, Alaska, are to
the effect that the people there are
up in arms against government offi
cials and their alleged actions in filing
upon valuable mining claims. It is
charged that a ring composed of pub
lic officers is reaping large profits.
the ice fields of the north, and the
Desert of Sahara. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Tho federal government is taking
cognizance of the yellow fever situa
tion In Louisiana. Surgeon General
Wyman has enlisted in the campaign.
Nebraska's attorney general has
commenced proceedings against the
elevator trust, and has retained John
J. Sullivan, formerly chief justice of
the Nebraska supreme court, to aid in
the prosecution.
TIN CAN TRUST
The American Can company is manu-
James R. Carnahan, major general
; of the uniformed rank Knights of
Pythias, died at his home in Indiana,
August 3.
A Cleveland dispatch announces
that creditors of Mrs. Cassie L. Chad
wick will receive a total dividend of,
about 7 mills on the dollar.
, Secretary of War Taf,t and party
have arrived at Manila, where they
were given an elaborate reception.
Charles Pflster, one of the wealth
iest citizens of Milwaukee, has been
indicted on the charge of ombezzlinc
$14,000 belonging to the Wisconsin
Rendering company. It is charged
that on March 30, 1901, Pflster was
bailee . of $14,000, that amount hav
ing been deposited with him by the
NAKED NERVES
Cover' cm up quick with Dr. Miles' Nervine,
or they will suffer from exposure find friction
and will none und pain you. Dr. Miles' Nervine
will malco you fat, strong, hearty, and oblivious
to nerve trouble. At druggists. Money bade
if first bottle falls to benefit.
facturing cans at the rate of .100.000.
000 a month, or 1,200,000,000 a year.
This is an increase in eight years of
500,000,000 cans in the annual out
put. This Is a wonderful record when it
is remembered that previous to 1850
comparatively few cans were manu
factured in this country. The civil
war gave impetus to the canning in
dustry, but even then with the great
armies in the field It was not believed
that much food could be trusted to
tin cans. In the decade after the war,
however, experiments were made in
every direction, ana meats, fruits,
vegetables, fish and other American
products went in cans to the remotest
parts of,the earth.
In the beginning of the Spanish
American war, in 1898, there were 2,
000 canneries in the United states,
which put up annually $72,000,000
worth of canned goods. Most of the
canned goods were consumed at home,
but the year before the war we sent
abroad canned fruits to the value of
$1,346,281 and canned meats to the
value of $2,000,000.
Since 1892 we have been manufac
turing our own tin plate. The pro
duction of tin and terne plates in
creased from 42,119,000 pounds in 1892
to 894,411,000 pounds in 1901. This
home manufacture of tin plates gave
great impetus to the manufacture of
cans, the bulk of the American tin
plate product going to the can manu
facturers. Ingenuity and activity in canmaking
ran parallel with the invention of new
machinery- and new processes for tho
preparation of products for canning.
Under new processes nearly every
food used by families was put into
cans ana became an article of mer
chandise. This led to snefilnHp,i i
dustries suited to the handling of pro
ducts grown in particular neighbor
hoods and to the exploiting of crops
and fruits suited to canning.
For example, about 3,000 fishing
vessels and 25,000 fisherman, and 2,000
oysterboats with 20,000 men, are em
ployed on the Atlantic coast by can
ning establishments, and the salmon
canneries of the Pacific coast consti
tute one of our great industries.
The tin can has not only contributed
to the comfort and convenience of the
house-keeper at home and abroad, but
it has led to a revolution in the grow
ing of vegetables, great plantations
being devoted to the growing of peas,
beans, etc., to be canned green.
. The tin can has much to answer for
but it has almost eliminated the sea
sons from the consideration of the
cook and has made it possible to
servo the most succulent of vegetables
and the most delicious of fruits in
FEDERAL LICENSES
In advocating federal licenses as a
remedy for trusts, William J. Bryan
draws a distinction with reference to
federal incorporation. The distinction
is a true one, and completely meets
the objection to centralization. We
quote him:
"The license adds a federal remedy
to existing state remedies without de
priving the state of any remedy it
now has. Federal, incorporation would
interfere with state regulation or
control, and for that reason is desired
by the trusts."
This is correct. National corpora
tions would end in the total destruc
tion of local government. By absorb
ing the business of the country, they
would make practically all business
interests superior to local legislation
and local adjudication. The states
would be powerless to control a cor
porate creature of the federal govern
ment. But if no state corporation
were allowed to do business outside
the state of its creation without a fed
eral license, as Mr. Bryan proposes,
and not then if the invaded state ob
jected, the license would amount to
no more than permission to cross state
lines, which is really the only authority
the federal government ought to have
over domestic commerce. Whether or
not the federal licenses would destroy
trusts, is another question. The first
consideration is whether they would
destroy home rule. Mr. Bryan shows
in seven lines that federal licenses
would not destroy home rule, and that
federal incorporation would. Louis F.
Post in The Public.
. LOW IDEALS
When the student steps from school
to everyday life a thousand 'barkers"
forr-low. Ideals, .and for sham success
assails Ms ears with their clamor. He
finds the pulpit apollglzing for "taint
ed money.' He finds high government
officials willing to leave their posts of
honor to enter the service of public
plunderers. He finds men whose
names he had come to respect active
ly engaged in or passively cloaking
vulgar schemes of robbery. A thou
sand writers upon "success" and self-
appointed guides to business prowess
din into his ears the dull story of mil
lions amassed, so often slurring the
disgraceful "how." New York World.
HE WAS NO ORNITHOLOGIST
Witmer Stone, one of the heads of
the Philadelphia academy of natural
science, has gathered together what is
probably the finest collection of stuffed
birds in America.
Mr. Stone was showing these birds
the other day to a Pittsburg million
aire. There were thousands of life
like feathered creatures, ranged in
line on lines of cases, and Mr. Stone
could not help praising them with
much ornithological warmth.
J'Yes," he ended, "this collection of
stuffed birds is worth some thousands
of dollars."
"It Is possible?;' said the millionaire.
'Why what are they stuffed with?"
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