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nection with the firm of George E.
Howard &. Co. "While this connection
was not an ideal relation for a gov
ernment officer to have with a firm do
ing business with the department, I
am convinced that Dr. Salmon never
intended to profit by work done by
Mr. Howard for the department of
agriculture and that he has never
been connected with the Howard
Label company or received any hene
fit from the contract of that com
pany with the department. . They do
not se.em to call for further discip
linary action."
The new battleship Vermont was
launched at Qiiincy,' Mass., August
31. It Is one. of the largest and most
powerful of the American snips of
war.
The Commoner.
15
WHY FAT MEN SHOULD SWIM
A swimming cure for obesity is ad
vocated editorially in Modern Medi
cine (Battle Creek,) which warns
patlentshowever, that a short dip
in the surf will not be sufficient; the
swim nlust last from one to two hours
daily. Not only is the exercise ef
fective but also the low temperature
of the water, which burns up the sur
plus tissue. Says the writer:
"Exercise accelerates the movement
of the blood, and thus stimulates the
consumption of tissue in the muscles
and other parts, while the low tem
perature, acting through the temper
ature nerves, stimulates heat produc
tion. A person taking active exer
cise in water at the temperature of
ordinary sea-water in summer-time,
burns up his tissues three or four
times as fast as one who is sitting
quietly in the shade, fanning himself
to keep cool. ,The rational diet, that
is, the cutting off of a large part of
the carbohydrate foodstuffs (starch
and sugar,) combined with swimming
for one or two hours daily, may re
duce the flesh of a corpulent person
to healthy proportions."
A very fat person, we are told, can
swim -easily, since he need only take
a little pains to keep his balance, and
ho can easily float on the water. The
fat acts like a life preserver; and if
he can not swim he can walk or lie
in shallow water and make active
movements, with his arms and legs.
To quote further:
"If conveniences tor swimming are
not accessible, an ordinary bath tub
may answer the same purpose. The
bath may begin with water at a tem
perature of 102 degrees. The patient
sits in the .bath tub, which is filled
within six inches or the top, and
makes active movements with his
arms and legs, rubbing the legs and
trunk with his hands until he finds
himself perspiring freely. The cold
water is then turned on so that the
temperature of the bath may be
gradually reduced to 75 degrees or
even TO degrees. Just at the' close of
the bath, a lower temperature of 65
degrees or 60 degrees may be per
mitted for a few seconds as a means
of producing a good reaction; or the
bath may be terminated by a cool
shower bath of ten or fifteen seconds.
The duration of the bath may be
fifteen of thirty minutes if reaqtion
is good, but the bather should never
remain in until shivering or decided
chillness is produced. Cold hands or
feet after the bath is an indication
of defective reaction from too long
contact with the cold water." Literary
Digest.
of the quantitative value of money, to
see their views now upheld by those
who so bitterly denounced them dur
ing those two bruising campaigns.
In the American's "Wall street letter
published Monday, August 14, the
writer uses the following significant
language in explaining the cause of
the present high values of securities:
"It began to be evident to close
observers before the begining of the
war in the Transvaal that a vast
change was making in the world's
economic matters on account of the
Increase in the production of cold.
A gold inflation of values was taking
place owing to the decline itf the
.purchasing power of gold caused by
the enlarging quantity of the metal."
Here is a plain acknowledgement of
the contention of those who claimed
that an increase in the money supply
would result In higher prices of com
modities and consequently in "cheaper
money." They were ridiculed for this
very contention and their opponents
claimed that an increase in the money
volume meant falling prices with its
attendant hard times and panics.
Further on the article says: "Gold
is worth lesB than it was before, and
it takes more gold than it did to
buy commodities anir securities; that
Is to say, the price of commodities
and securities is rising, and as not
only the Rand but our own and other
countries are largely increasing their
gold production yearly, no end to the
process of inflation thus described
can be said to be In sight."
Could there, be any plainer -recog
nition of the quantitative theory of
money than this? If the increase in
the supply of gold money has brought
prosperity does not that justify the
contention of the Bryanites? It is
begging the question to say that Bryan
advocated more silver.
He advocated the "free and un
limited coinage of both gold and sil
ver" without ' discrimination against
either, but the main contention was
for "more money."
All the silver is now on a parity
with gold, or so it is claimed to be,
although, it is clearly a false con
tention. "Bryanites" are willing to be robbed
of the credit for being sound econom
ically if others maintain prosperity
by putting their theories into effect.
But it is high time to call things by
their right names when even Wall
street does.
If gold keeps on increasing in out
put and consequently cheapening in
value, silver may soon be the dearer
metal. Then the "goldbugs" will
switch off to the white metal, for it
is scarce money and the prosperity of
the few they want.
When the next congress meets and
the financiers show their hands by
proposing to retire the greenbacks,
the people will see their discontents
with the prevailing general prosperity.
It don't suit them for it to be so
general.
THOMAS O. CLARK.
tainty. That tliero oro noble ox
amples of the moot strict sobriety
is well-known; that there aro some
officers who are Intemperate we may
safely affirm; the proportion between
the two wo do not know. Public re
ports from time to time indicato that
there Is moro Inebriety than should
bo permitted. A case of an army offi
cer who has brought hlo own domestic
affairs before the public of late seems
to Indicato that intemperanco and
dissolute living have greater proval,-
uuce man wo were ready to believe.
There was a strong opposition on the
part of officers to anti-canteen legis
lation and thoro has been great slow
ness in carrying out tho wise pro
vision of recent legislation ror the
benefit of tho soldiers. And wo draw
tho conclusion that a largo propor
tion of tho officers are not opposed
to all use of intoxicants. Aro we
now to conclude that an officer may
lead a dissolute life and not lose
standing in tho army? We know that
theoretically there is a high stand
ard as to "conduct becoming nn offi
cer," but is it supported by a moral
and social sentiment that matron it.
effective?
It is useless to attemnt to maintain
a high moral standard among the
soldiers without a like standard
among tho officers. It is impossible
to maintain the efficiency of the army
without the example of officers un
der complete self-control, for efficiency
requires moral character, and moral
character cannot be maintained by
discipline alone. Tho public right
demands soberness, soberness in tho
highest degree, among all in com
mand of others. The lives as well as
tho character of the soldiers aro at
stake, tho safety of the country is
at stal. The voice of the country,
heard by congress in the canteen agi
tation, should bo so loud and clear
for absolute sobriety and unriehtness
of life that every officer, from thn
highest to the lowest, will hear it
ana exmoit a character worthy of
tho nation and of bin responsibility.
United Presbyterian.
. THE QUANTITATIVE THEORY
The following letter recently ap
peared in the Baltimore American:
To the Editor of The American:
The American's Wall street reports
are of great value and interest and
its articles from that financial center
are plainly the work of an expert.
It is therefore alL the .more gratify
ing to those who during the Bryan
campaigns, contended for the theory
QUEER DOINGS FN NORWAY
In Norway on pay days saloons are
closed and savings banks open until
midnight. Servant girls hire for half
a year at a time by contract at public
registry offices. There Is a telegraph
box on every street car. One writes
the message, puts on the right num
ber of stamps, and drops it In the
box. Farmers can borrow money from
the government at 3 per cent. Tliere
are practically no illiterates. The
average wage earnings, are $88 a year.
There are more reindeer than horses,
more sheep than cows. New York
Globe.
INTEMPERANCE IN ARMY CIRCLES
To what extent does intemperance
prevail among our army officers?' Is
it true, as has been sometimes as
serted, that it prevails very exten
sively? We cannot answer with cer-
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
Wayne MacVeagh who was attorney
general in President Garfield's cabinet
and later consul for the United States
in the Venezuela case at' The Hague,
writing for the United Presbyterian
says:
Congress now presents the unwel
come spectacle of devoting a far
greater portion of Its time to con
siderations affecting war directly or
Indirectly than to any one of tho ser
ious and threatening domestic prob
lems which confront the country and
demand solution. It is not at all nec
essary to believe them guilty of wil-
full misconduct in acting as they do,
nor aro they much more to be blamed
for doing so than is the general pub
lic for acquiescence in such conduct.
I do not, however, in tne least under
value the difficulties of courageous
action in such matters. It is so much
pleasanter to swim with tho stream
than against it, so. much pleasanter to
be In the majority than in tho minor
ity. As loyal, devoted, patriotic Amer
icans, we owe it to the memory of
o.ur fathers and to the free Institu
tions they bequeathed us, not to fail
to discharge our duties in these re
spects. We ought on every proper
occasion, individually, if necessary,
to serve notice on president and
congress alike that we will no longer
submit in silence to an entire per
version of the principles for which
the revolution took place and of the
aims and purposes, for which our
government was founded. For a hun
dred and twenty years the republic
prospered beyond any poet's dream.
It was then a "world power" in the
true sense, because it represented to
all nations the strength and glory of
liberty and .peace.
Surely the most militant person
cannot doubt that our present army
and navy nro moro than ample for
our defense, as no country in tho
world Is In tho least danger of pro
voking a war with us. It Is, there
fore, not unreasonable to ask that the
preparations for warn which can
never happen, except by our own
fault, should cease, and that wo should
devote ourselves again to our true
mission, that of commending by our
example frco institutions to other na
tions; and -If wo have any surplus
treasure let u expend it In lighten
ing tho oxpensen of the burdens of
those whose days aro given to toll
and into whoso lives enters far too
Httlo of brightness and Joy.
Abovo all, we must demand that
every controversy In which our coun
try becomes Involved must bo peace
ably settled cither by agreement with
our adversary or by some form of
honorable and impartial arbitration.
Even if the controversy Is with one
of tho great powers, though great
powers now very seldom go to war
with each other, wo must Insist upon
this course; but if tho controversy
is with a small country, incapable of
nssertlng its rights in arms against
us--and It is chiefly against such that
great nations now wage war it is
far more necessary for our honor
and our dignity not to use our su
perior strength to refuse our ad
versary an appeal to a disinterested
tribunal, for such a refusal would bo
a confession of wrong done to a coun
try Incapable of punfsnlng us for
committing it, than which nothing
could be baser.
One of the consolations of tho clos
ing years of life Is a sense of fellow
ship not so much with the spirit of
the age as with tho spirit of tho ages;
and in that fellowship we may
cherish an unshaken faith that in
spite of all abatements.
The world out of night .
Rolls Into light.
It may move slowly, but It does
move, and in the right direction, for
we aro learning nobler standards of
life, moro elevating conceptions of
heroism and moro inspiring ideals of
civic duty; while we aro also learn
ing that the only true patriotism Is
rooted in reverence for the moral
law. To-assist, in however slight a
degree, in such an advance is a ser
vice which brings with it its own
abundant compensations, and we aak
none other.
TRIBUTE MONEY
It is extraordlnry how much abuse
the American people will endure.
Deprived of their due wages, im
posed upon by quasi-public corpora
tions, robbed by so-called insurance
companies, sold out by their repre
sentatives, cheated by party organiza
tions, yet all are too busy to give any
time to stopping the theft.
We aro convinced that, under just
laws effectually enforced, tho common
people would be at least twice as
well-to-do as they are. That is to say,
they could either live as well as now
and lay by an amount equal to pres
ent expenditure, or they could supply
themselves with double their present
comforts. "The State" Providence,
R. I.
THE NEWEST FAD
The idle rich have found an exciting
pastime if Evangelist Morgan has the
thing shaped up right. He speaks
of "dilettante church members fool
ing with heaven and frivoling with
hell." Neither Tom Lawson nor Wil
liam Jennings Bryan ever did better
than that. New York Telegram..
REASON ENOUGH
"Wy do you think she has no in
tention of marrying him? She per
mits him to spend all of his money
on her."
"I know It; that's why I think so."
Houston Post.
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