aOOSSVZLT AIDS HEALTH MOVE.
-President Promises to Make Hecom-
ancndition in Next Message.
That President Uoo-'cvell has agreed
to recommend to ( 'ongn'.ss his ii''Xt '
message the passage of a Xnw io conserve -
servo the public health , similar to the
one proposed by the American Medical
Association , was the statement made in
tin address before the Nc.v York Acad-
Cjny of M < dicine by Dr.'Charles A. L.
iJoul of riiicinnati. cl'airman of tl- "
association's committee on national
uiodicai legislation. In speaking on the
campaign for national health laws , Dr.
Reed said :
' on the heels of the various steps
fonvnrd I am gratified to be able lo
-assuue you that the President has au
thorized the statement that he will for-
JiiuJale definite proposals and transmit
them with his indorsement to the next
Congress. It now devolves upon the
1:5,000 dMli.rs in the United States not
only to ha ! ; the President in his work ,
but to anti - ] ; those actions by a per
sistent campaign isi behalf of this fun-
ilnmcnlal feature of the public welfare. "
Speakii g of the pollution of streams ,
Dr. Hoed referred to the Ohio water
shed a a "thousand miles of river and
a tliousii d miles of typhoid. "
Over ; r. ' < ! o persons die every year
of ranci-r. he said , and the death rate
from that cause is increasing by leaps
and bounds.
i If only one-half of the persons who
tiJie or are incapacitated as a result of
tuberculosis and typhoid were saved ,
Dr. Heed declared , it would mean a
saving in money suflicient to maintain
* * a national board of health , pay for
the army and navy , fortify our coasts ,
duplicate our armament on the seas ,
deepen our internal waterways and _ in
ten years pay for the Panama canal
end wipe out the national delt. ' '
TWO PACIFIC PIRATES.
Belgian and Boy Forced Captain and
Mate to Walk the Plank.
C. C * . Alexander , acting Attorney
General for the Fiji Islands , is on his
way to Callno. Peru , .where he expects
to dig up a story of piracy that \\ill
i-ival the daring deeds on the Spanish
] Slain. Two men , J. Mortelmans. a
Belgian , and T. Skonvtt. are being held
in Sorvhi on the unsual charge of pira-
ey. and it is alleged they forced the
en pt a ill and mate of the schooner Neu-
vre Tiirrc to walk the plank. Then they
changed the name of the vessel to
White IJnse and sailed the South Seas
until they were washed on a reef on
Anampama Lagoon , in the Gilbert Orei-
lis group , where the stolen ship now
lies , high and dry.
According tothe story the ship sailed
from Callao last November with a crev
.f four : : ion , the captain and the mate
bt-inir Italians. Skerret , who se-ks tr.
Di row the Maine on his companion , says
that after two days out Mortelmans al
to eked the Italians with n meat chop
per and chased them to the rigging.
TTlien he threatened to shoot unless they
would jump overboard. This they did
; jil being far from land it is certain
t'lev wore drowned.
Sourli Dakota university won her second
end football game from Huron college
l > y a score of 11 to 0. The game was
played at Vermillion.
In the auto races at the Montana State
fair. Blaim's white steamer made five
miles in 4 minutes 51 seconds on an or
dinary circular mile track.
At Aqueduct track , New York , Ben
F.an. carrying top weight. 115 pounds ,
-easily won the Woodmcre stakes , selling ,
sir seven furlongs , the feature.
Frank Mount Pleasant , formerly of the
Carlisle Indian football team , will play
quarterback on the Dickinson College ;
eleven. He is a junior at Dickinson.
At the Brockton ( Mass. ) fair , George
C. and Major Delmar were sent on' trial
lieats against time in. an effort to break
the track record of 2 rllVt- Neither was
successful , but Major Delmar , in his trial ,
made the mile on the half-mile track in
2:12 fiat.
Lillian R. , owned by David Shaw of
Cleveland , made her first race start of
llic year at Columbus , and astonished the
grand circuit talent by showing speed
onongh to beat Margaret O. , the favorite/
To di ) this , Lillian R. had to take a rec
ord of 2 :
English Featherweight Champion o-
was too clever for Eddie Dlanlon oit *
San Francisco in their twenty-round
hour. Hnnlon , who had an advantage of
sibout eight pounds in weight , showed
t-ome of his old-time cleverness , however ,
i\nd stayed the limit with the little Eng
lishman. the latter being awarded the de
cision on points.
An usher this year at the Boston Amer
ican League grounds , a first baseman
with the New York Americans next sea
son that is the rise of Daniel A. Barry ,
; \ 19-year-old office boy who has been :
signed by Arthur Irwin , scout of the New
York Americans. Barry is said to be a
iialnml player and Irwin says he has
found a second Hal Chase.
As Tiubo Waddell , the big ball tosser.
loft : i ( heater in St. Louis the other night
lie snw Detective John Finan engaged in
ii desperate fijht with Kdward Burnett , of
St. Louis. Rube quickly put both of the
combatants to .sleep and then took them
to a hospital.
T-he faculty of Wisconsin University
tyn.
TUAV School decided that Ewald Stiehm ,
the crack Wisconsin center rush , could
not fake a special examination to clear
upJeficiencScs incurred by his leaving
Kuntcncr school witihout taking examina
tion , . This mifins Stiehm is ineligible ate
play'Tootball this season
Albany labor unions.fcivo crofted and
opened a Tuberculosis 4t lion.
The liucii industry Ti Ireland gives em
ployment to about 70/OUO people.
Inn-ing August . ' ! 20 people were injured
in industrial accident in Canada , and 115
died.
died.At
At Lethbridge , Canada , with a popula
tion of ' 1 , ( ) ( ) . there are 1,000 members of
trades unions.
Yorkshire ( England ) Miners' Federa
tion is continuing its crusade against non
union workers in the collieries.
Boston ( Mass. ) Cigar Makers' Union
has levied an assessment of $5 on each
member to advertise the blue label.
Delegates from the Bricklayers' and
Stonemasons' unions met at Guelph , Can
ada , to form a provincial association.
In 1SK5 ! there were only thirty-seven
labor unions , in New Zealand , now there
are olO with a total membership of 45-
4c : : .
The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters has rejected Uie overtures for
amalgamation of the United Teamsters of
America.
The American section of the boot and
shoe workers' international body now has
more than $100,000 in its emergency fund ,
according to report.
Union men of Walla Walla , Wash. , will
ask the Board of Education to submit to
the 7 > eojle at the next election the propo
sition of free text books.
A maritime federation , which will era-
brace about twenty different unions en
gaged in the shipping industry of Aus
tralia , is in process of formation in Syd
ney.
'
The lockout at the Vulcan Shipbuilding
yards at Stettin , Germany , ended by the
return of the 8,000 riveters , the men hav
ing agreed upon the compromise proposi
tions.
The book and job scale of the San
I'nincisco Typographical Union has been
increased from $ ! to $24 a. week. All
employers have accepted the new scale
under an agreement.
The Massachusetts State executive
board of the Steam Engineers' Union de
cided upon Lowell as the place , and Sun
day , Dec. 1. ! , as the date for the engi
neers' annual State convention.
The International Cotton Spinners'
Union has recently presented Samuel Ross
of New Bedford , Mat-s. , its veteran secre
tary , with a silver service containing
fifty pieces , as a token of appreciation of
Jiis faithful services.
Payment of old agu pensions of mem
bers of the International Typographical
Union whose claims have been approved
began on Aug. 29. AJjout 450 applica
tions have been made so far from various
parts of the country.
Millinery ranks fourteenth among the
pursuits in which women arc engaged as
breadwinners in America. It is distinctly
a woman's occupation and it is estimated
Uiat 91.4 per cent of all milliners in the
United States are women.
The Oklahoma mining law has gone
into effect , and is a measure to safeguard
dfe and property. This measure , which
is the direct result of the efforts of the
mine workers' union , is said to be the best
law of its kind in any State of the Union
Under the new law , which went into
effect on Oct. 1. the authority to enforce
the child labor law in mercantile estab
lishments in cities of the first class in
New York was transferred from the local 1
health authorities to the State depart
ment of labor , acting through its bureau
of mercantile inspection.
Pharmacists of Minnesota will ask the
Legislature to appropriate $100,000 for a
new pharmacy building at the State Uni
versity.
The Prussian government lias now de
creed that the higher schools for girls
shall be placed upon an equal footing
with the corresponding class in the boys'
schools and that women may matriculate
In taking charge of the new Y. M. C.
A. building in Philadelphia Walter M.
Wood , formerly of Chicago , is to develop
the new policy of what is known as sup
plemental education , which means giving
the man or the boy another chance to '
make up for the deficiencies of bad or in
complete early training. This will be carried
I
ried out by the establishment of night
classes and by the admission of students
who are unable to pay a lump sura in
advance.
Supt. Maxwell of the New York public
schools , in addressing the recent convention
if
tion of the Playground Association of
America , asserted that from a moral and
idf
hygienic point of view the usefulness of
the Carnetrie libraries "is small compared
rv
ed with the advantages that would flow
from the benevolence of him who shall
11ol
increase tflic number of public school
elk
baths. " His opinion was that New York
*
is in greater need of playgrounds than
any other city in the country , owing to
the density of the population , but his experience
sLd
perience had shown that simple play and
Ldn
amusement soon pall upon the children
and that directed games and athletic
events "are most enjoyed and produce the
IBc
b-st results when mixed witih recreative
work. "
The authorities of Charles Mix county ,
South Dakota , -have inaugurated a campaign
nu
paign for the enforcement of the com
pulsory education law. Tdie first victim
of the crusade now beinc waged to com
pel parents to send their children of \
Fchool age to school was Steve Elaine , a i
Yankton Sioux Indian living near the '
town of Wagner. Blaine was sentenced
to jail and remained there a day or two
before he relented and agreed to send his
children to school in future. Several
white parents are booked for the same
fate unless lihey send their children to .
school. I
PLAGUE 01 ? LOCUSTS.
Vast Area : ; in South America Ara
Beinj ; Ravaged by Them.
Vast regions ii : Suuta America are
being devastated I y locusts. This is
the third succe.-sivo season in which
they have appeared in counthss swarms
and every vcsl'go of vegetation on
which cattle and sheep subsist is being
destroyed. The countries chiefly affect
ed are Argon tin i , Bolivia , southern
Brazil. Paraguay and Uruguay. In
these countries the swarms have been
steadily increasing for a number of
years. They are supposed to originate
in the southerly part of the Amazon
basin and in the Chaco of Bolivia and
of novthern Argentina. They had come
from the north in clouds that sometimes
darken the sun and some of the swarms
have been oslimaled lo be 00 miles
long and from J2 to 15 miles wide. But
these billions of flying insects are only
the forerunners of the greater mischief
to come.
They make desolate the area in
which they settle , hut often jump wide
areas in their flight. Before they take
to the wing they lay billions of eggs in
the warm earth which in a few weeks
become hoppers.- is this young , voracious
cious brood , before it can fly , thai ut
terly strips Ihe land of everything
green as though it had been burned
over.
All the governments are fighting Ihc
evil. Two years ago the Argentine gov
ernment organized a commission for
the destruction of the locust. Last
year the Argentine Congress placed $4-
500.000 at the disposal of this commis
sion. Sub-committees represent the
general commission in every depart
ment exposed to I hose invasions and
they extend from the northern limit of
agriculture in the republic to the Neu-
queii river , almost to Patatronia. Ev
erything possible is done to minimize
the damage.
A line of 100 pesos is imposed upon
any settler failing to report to the sub
committee in his district the presence
of locust swarm's or hopper eggs on his
land. An organized service embracing
thousands of men is in readiness at any
moment to send a force to any place
where danirer is reported. The most
effective war is waged against the
; . oung hoppers.
The official report is that as many H3
. ' 2.000 hopper eggs have been counted
in a space less than three and a half
feet square. A prodigious number of
tin- young insects are destroyed soon
nflor hatching by means of sprinkling
carts filled with arsenic water or other
poisonous liquids. Still many of them
iseape and the country they cover is
too vast to be entirely treated with the
> prinkling process. Fortunately the
young hoppers have a habit that facilio j
lifc.the destruction of millions more' ' '
of them. . By the time they are two
weeks old they have developed an enort
ir.oiis appetite. But they do not set (
oi.l to eat up the world in thin array
.
or scattered detachments. They collect
hero and tin-re in compact masses to
move forward on the food , and when
.in army of hoppers advances from one
space to another there is nothing left
to eat on * the ground they have dei
period. They ' -annot fly , they move 3
forward only roui 400 to GOO feet a
EVANGELIST IS TTTOTFTI .
Georgia Court of Appeals Affirms
Former Conviction.
The Kcv. Walt Ilolcombe , a sou in-
law of the late Sam P. Jones of Carj
lersville , Ga. . must pay a fine of $500
(
for using improper language in the pul [ -1
pit when there were women in the coni J
'
,
gregation. The Court of Appeals lute
week affirmed Hie verdict of the lower
t
court. I
In affirming the conviction the Court *
of Appeals said : "It was not the ribaldry -
baldry of some low-grade comedian in a
second-class theater ; it was the inde
cent jest of a minister of the gospel ,
made in a house devoted to the services
of God , in the presence of some 3,000
worshipers , aimed at a female member
of the congregation whose excess oi
adipose happened to excite his aften-
tion.
lletlin'.s Greatest Discovery.
A summary of the important discoveria
made by Sven Iledin. the Swedish explor
er , during his latest journey into the for
bidden land of Tibet , according to a
Simla interview telegraphed to the Lon
don Times , is as follows : lie found tin
true sources of several important rivers ,
iuchu'fng the Brahmaputra and Indus
and twice crossed the Province of Bon ba ,
which had never before been visited by a
European. But his greatest discoverj
was that of a continuous mountain chain
wihich. taken as a whole , is the most mass
ive range on Hhe earth's surface. Al
though its peaks : ire from -1,000 to 5.00C
feet lower than Mount Everest its passe *
average . ' 5,000 higher than those of tlu
Himalayan range. Not a tree or a bust
jtrows on this range and there are nc
deep cut valleys , for ruin is scanty. Iledin
proposes to call this range the Trans
Himalaya. At first the explorer tried tc
conceal his identity from tihe Tibetai' and
Chinese officials , but when discovered lit
boldly dared them to harm him. at th <
same time warning them that they woultf
be made to suffer if they did so.
Oil Trssst Ii3iiicr.s Steel.
At the annual' meeting of the stock
holders of the Colorado Fuel and I rot
Company it was announced that a-policy
of expansion had I.-en decided upoc
which would enable the company to sup-
ply most of the railroad equipment wesl
of the Missouri river. At the same Unit
it was undorsroocl that the Gould interests -
ests had withdrawn from t'he control ol
the company and that John D. Rocke-
feller had been asked to name the man-
apers. This is taken to mean that th <
oil trust is about to wage battle wit )
steel trust.
iRCIAL
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CIA ! ;
CHICAGO.
The Weekly Review of Cliicago Trade ,
published by R. G. Dun & Co. , says :
Statistical comparisons now begin with
die week a year ago when the depression
started. Further evidence of sustained
recovery is furnished by increasing pay
ments Uhrough the banks and a commercial -
cial mortality which is lower than the
corresponding weeks of 1907 and 1906.
Distribution of finished products and
general merchandise exhibits a wider vol
ume , although variable weather retards
a seasonable absorption in leading retail
branches here and at the interior. Ag
ricultural reports are more gratifying ,
corn being in good condition and rainfl
ample for the completion of winter wheat
seeding.
The markets for the principal grains
show decline in values and the aggregata
movement here is smaller , but flour sales
remain exceptionally heavy , and there la
strong buying of botQi provisions and live
stock on improved supplies.
Wholesale markets disclose a lighter
attendance of outside buyers and house
dealings in the staples are less active ,
although the comparison with this time ,
last year is not unfavorable in textiles i
and fabrics , clothing and footwear.
Manufacturing generally advances aa
well as expected , especially in iron and
metal working , but the underlying condi
tions form a healthy basis for improve
ment in t'he ' near future.
Delayed contracts were closed this
week for considerable tonnage of struc
tural ' steel and rails. Rolling stock la i
now in better request , more cars being
requisite to meet the expanding freight
offerings.
Money is in abundant supply and rates
for commercial paper average- about 41/ { |
per cent for choice ncea . The outgo of
currency to move crops has slackened ,
and there is quiet in investment opera
tions , commitments being mainly sus
pended until the election is over.
Bank clearings , $2T 0,023fi74f : are G.5
.
per cent under those of corresponding
week in 1D07. Failures reported in Chicago -
cage district number IS. against 21 last
week , 2S a year ago and 21 in 1900.
j Those with liabilities over $3,000 number
'
5j against 2 last week , ( J a year ago and
7 in 1900.
NEW YORK.
Retail trade still reflects the influence
of warm weather and the approach of j
election breeds conservatism as regards
heavy buying and t'he ' projection of new
enterprises. However , there is more do
ing and more confident buying of raw
material by manufacturers , who apparent-
.
ly forecast a change for the better in the
latter part of this year or the early part
of next.
The large movement of wheat to mar-
ket is responsible for the optimistic
tenor of reports from distributive centers -
ters in the Northwest. Effects of the
drought are shown in almost total suspension -
sion of steamboat traffic on the Ohio
river and its tributaries , the holding up
of large quantities of coal along that
stream , t3ie prevalence of destructive for-
est fires and t'he ' low stage of water sup-
plies. Reports as to collections vary , be-
ing i best in the Northwest and poorest in
the South.
The situation in textile lines is inter
esting and not without encouragement.
While jobbing trade is confined largely to
small immediate shipment or filling-in
orders , there is fair activity in the Chicago
cage district and farther west , where tha
breaking of the drought lias helped senti
ment.
ment.More
More interest has been developed in the
iron and steel market , and considerable
new business has been done in the Escst
in i basic pig.
Business failures in the United S'tates
for i the week ending Oct. 22 number 231 ,
against 244 last week , 220 in the like
week of 1907 , 184 in 1900 , 178 in 1903
and ISO in 1904. Business failures in
Canada ( for the week ending with Oct.
22 number 81 , which compares with 29
last j week and 39 in this week last year.
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Chicago Cattle , common to prime ,
$4.00 to $7.00 ; 'hogs ' , prime heavy , $4.00
to $0.00 ; sheep , fair to choice , $3.00
to $4.40 ; wheat , No. 2. OSc to $1.00 ;
corn , No. 2 , 70e to 71 c : oats , standard ,
46c to 47c ; rye , No. 2. 74c to 75c ; hay ,
timothy , $8.00 to $1:5.00 : ; prairie , $8.00
to $11.00 ; butter , choice creamery , . * 23o
to 2Gc ; eggs , fresh , 23c to 25c ; potatoes ,
per bushel , 52c to G2c.
St. Louis Cattle , $4.50 to $7.25 ; hogs ,
$4.00 to $0.00 ; sheep. $3.00 to $4.23 ;
wheat , No. 2 , $1.01 to $1.03 ; corn , No. 2 ,
64c to G5o ; oats. No. 2 , 45c to 4Gc ; rye ,
No. 2 , 72c to 73c.
Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $3.50 j
hogs , $4.00 to $3.90 ; sheep , $3.00 to
$3.75 ; wheat. No. 2 , $1.01 to $1.03 : com ,
No. 2 mixed , 73c to 7Gc ; oats , No. 2
mixed , 4Sc to 49c ; rye , No. 2 , SOc to S2o.
Detroit Cattle , $4.00 to $4.50 ; hogs ,
$4.00 to $5.40 ; sheep. $2.50 to $3.50 j
wheat , No. 2 , $1.00 to $1.02 ; corn , No. 3
yellow , 77c to 79c : oats , No. 3 white ,
49c to 30c ; rye. No. 2. 7Gc to 77c.
Milwaukee Wheat , No. 2 northern ,
$1.03 to $1.03 ; corn , No. 3 , G9c to 70cj
oats , standard , 50c to 51c ; rye , No. L ,
73c to 74c ; barley , No. 1 , G3c to G4c ;
pork , mess , $13.50.
Buffalo Cattle , choice shipping steers ,
$4.00 to $ G.30 ; hogs , fair to choice , $4.00
to $0.25 ; sheep , common to good mixed ,
$1.00 to $4.75 ; lambs , fair to choice ,
$5/10 to $ G.50.
New York Cattle. $4.00 to $3.50 > ;
ho-s , $3.50 to $5.85 ; sheep , $3.00 to
$3.75 ; wheat , No. 2 red , $1.07 to $1.03 * ;
corn , No. 2 , 7Gc to 77c ; oats , al
white. 50c to 52c ; butter , creamery , So
to 27c ; eggs , western , 21c to 25c.
Toledo Wheat , No. 2 mixed. $1.00 to
$1.02 ; corn , No 2 mixed , 70c to 71o ;
oats , No 2 mixed , 49c to SOc ; rye , No.
2 , 77c to 7Sc ; clover seed , October , 4.95 ,
GAY LIFE BANKS' DEATH.
"Great White Way" Declared Cause
oil Epidemic Oi ! Failures.
Gotham's Kialtothat portion of the
white light district of Broadway which
begins somewhere along I'Hh street and
ends somewhere the other side of Long
Acre Square came in for a instigation
it the hands of Edward P. Moxey. ex
pert bank examiner for the United
States Department of Justice. Mr.
Moxey's business is to Hit about the.
country and peer unexpectedly over
shoulders of cashiers of national banks
here and there in order to tind out if
their cash balances are all right. M.\
,
Moxey recently found a number of
these gentlemen \vith cash balances all
wrong and put them in the peniten
tiary.
"Von mean Mio 'Broadway. ' New
York ? " he was asked when he sad said
Now York wivs the couse of it all.
'I mean the 'Broadway. ' New York. "
he answered , quietly. "I mean the gor
geous hotels and restaurants , the bars ,
gambling houses , the of theaters
" myriad
f- < l. HUM ill i i l < 7 li iTM. " % I-1V. * * * * * * * * * - ' * * * V-
ters , palatial apartment houses , turning
night into day. I mean the flood of
mon y in New York upon which this
life is borne along , the craving for vast
incomes by which alone such a life can
* je lived.
that even a bare majority
of the lens of thousands of men who
nightly swell the crowd of amusement
crazed spenders , who live in $5,000
apartments and whose touring cars con
gest the streets , are doing this with
money which is honestly theirs is ab
surd. They are not earning this moih
ey ; the- are either juggling oilier pee
ple's cash or they are gambling with
their own.
"When you can go into a restaurant
at 2 o'clock in the morning and behold
$00,000 worth of women's gowns at the
tables and $3,000 worth of food in pro
cess of consumption , something is
wrong. And when you observe $50,000
worth of automobiles waiting to take
this one supper crowd to their homes
or elsewhere you may be sure there is
queer bookkeeping somewhere. "
"It is not onlv this sort of life In
Now York but in a more sinister way
the | sight and example of it which -ire
bringing | about a degradation of sense
of common honesty throughout the
country. That American asset , the 'New
England conscience , ' has become an oh-
ject of jest. And , as I said , New Yorkv
is to blame.
"The young banker and business man
of the smaller community comes to New
York. lie is taken in hand by his husi-
ness acquaintances here and shown
about town. Ills hosts spend money
on a scale which dazzles him.
"He wonders how his friends manage
to share in this prodigality , and bit by
hit he finds out. They tell him funny
stories of transactions , which , reduced
to a proper financial analysis , are defal
cations pure and simple , or at best
plain gambling. 'Everybody does it , '
they say ; 'it's a part of the game , ' and
back to his home town goes the young
banker filled with dreams of sudden
wealth and all the gay life that goes
with it.
"Too often this person starts to lead
a gay life before he has got the sudden
wealth. lie sees the rich customer of
his hank riding up to the door with a
big deposit or to get a letter of credit
for a trip abroad. Perhaps , he tells
himself , It isn't the customer's money at
all. Why , then , shouldn't he manipu
late it for his own gain ? Why isn't
it anybody's to play with who can get
his hands on it ? The life he has seen
and the methods he has learned are de
stroying his sense of property.
"He is somehow getting it into his
head that this money placed in his
keeping is a sort of common property ,
and that as long as he can keep his
books looking technically right he may
juggle with it for the benefit of his
own personal pocket. lie really comes
to believe , seriously , that this is so. "
WOMAN A COOK , NOT A VOTER.
Falconio Says She Should Get Busy
with Home and Children.
"To bo able to mind her own business
and get busy. " is the panacea , some
what briefly and laconically expressed ,
for the restlessness and disquietude of
American women , according to his ex
cellency. Mm' . Diomede Falcono , apostolic
tolic delegate to the United States , ex
pressed at Archbishop Glennon's resi
dence in St. Louis.
"Do you think the modern woman
would be happier were she to become
more of a fact" " , politically and pub-
lir-ly. in order that she may rear better
statesmen and men of affairs ? "
"I think she should attend to her
husband's home and take care of her
children and see that their dinner is
well cooked. If she will see to her own
business ami be bus } * in her house she
will be happy. "
Prohibition Ciii.s Arre.st * .
At the recent meeting of the League of
American Municipalities , Mayor .Toyner
of Atlanta save fiirures from the court
: > iMl police records of that city , showing a
falling off of more than 50 per cv.ir in
the number of arrest' ; for drunkenness
and misflenie-mors attributable to drink
since the fMnnirshmeut of prohibition.
Doctor * TeMinj ; Coiulemnetl Food.
It has jr.st been learned that .1 most
exhaustive tidy of the effects of the use
of deadly acids in the preservation 5GVf
canned foods lias been coin on in New
York City for the past four months.
Three physicians and an expert chemist
have subjected themselves to experiments
soon to be made public. The men re
Doctors Lucas. Ringer and Harvey id
ide
Chemist Edward O'Brien. They have >
each taken GO grains of the much-talked-
d10
of benzoic acid , yet show practically no
ill effects so far
The friends of Jan Pouren , the Rus
sian revolutionist who has been held at
New j York for some time by the federal
authorities upon the demand of Russia
for his extradition as a criminal , arc
rejoicing over the news that Secretary
,
of State Root hns requested a rehearing
on the strength of affidavits tending to
show that Pouren was sought for po
litical rather than criminal offenses.
An appeal made by friends of the Rus
sian had brought these affidavits before
Root. In a letter to Jacob Schiff of
New York , Secretary Root said : "Of
course , this government does nwt con
template sending Pouren or any one
else ; back to Russia or any other country
.
try to be tried for a political offense. "
In this connection it comes out that
Root has askedHhe Russian government
for a complete revision of the treaty
of 1S32 , under which naturalized Rus
sians in America arc still regarded aa
criminals if they return to their native
land. Notwithstanding this reopening1
of the case , the Pouren defense confer
ence was informed by William Knglislt
Walling thatPresidenflloosevelt had re
fused to accept the petitions of citizens
urging the government not to allow the-
'Jeportinent of the refugee.
An aggregate loss of $1,000,000 a day
during the months when forest iirea
have ! been prevailing in various parts
of the United States is estimated by
|
W. J. McGee , the erosion expert ef the
Department of Agriculture. The forest
ry bureau in a statement says that
probably in every instance thf devas
tating forest tires might have been pre
vented if the several States had 'pro
vided an adequate number of men to
patrol : the woods and arrest the fires in
their ] incipiency , and if lumbermen and
other users of the forests had been
careful to dispose of brush after log
ging so as to prevent the spread of
fires. Exclusive of salaries of forestry
officers ' , the work in putting down 11 res
in the national forests during Lhe last
year cost the government $ " 0.000 ,
which means protecting approximately
lt S,0 < K.000 acres. The statement says
tin- loss from timber destroyed in 11)08
will be larger than last year , but that
it is doubtful if the exact losses will
jver be known.
Flat 2-cent postage rates went into
effect between the [ "nited States and
Great Britain on Oct. 1. The past-
age rate applicable to letters mailed
in the United States , addressed for de
livery at any place in the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland , then
will be 2 cents an ounce or fraction
of an ounce. Letters unpaid or short
paid will be dispatched to destination ,
but double the deficit postage calcu
lated at the 2-cent rate will he col-
leced on delivery to the addressee. This
notable reduction in the postage rates
effected under a recent convention be
tween the two and promulgated in an
order of the Postmaster General some
time ago.
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The Navy Department has asked per-
nission to use the Washington monu-
nent as a telegraph-pole not a com-
non or street-disfiguring variety of
pole for stringing wires on , but as a
station for temporary experiments
with wireless telegraphy. It is Relieved
that from its top , 555 feet in tkc air ,
messages can be sent to warships three
thousand miles away. If this is f und
possible , an iron tower of the same
ueight will be erected in Washington
for a permanent wireless station. The
French government is using the Eiffel
Tower in this way. and from it has
sent wireless messages to Algeria and
Morocco.
*
The cruiser Colorado , which went on
the rocks at Double Bluff , Puget Seund ,
was more seriously damaged than at
first was supposed. An examination at
the Bremerton navy yard showed that
her forward plates were badly dented
in several places , and that the plates
weiv sprung. It will be necessary to
put the vessel in dry dock for perhaps
thirty days to make repairs.
The hoard of immigration insjiectors
held -a special session at Boston and in
vestigated the causes of about 100 Mor
mon women converts who arrived on
board the steamship Republic As a
result of the examination forty girls
were held for further inquiry , and two
will be sent back to Liverpool , England.
The chief engineer of the Panama
Canal reports the total excavation for
Setpember as : 5S.SSO cubic yards ,
making the toti ? excavation since the
United States took hold of the work
50,500,317 cubic yards. This leaves
91,49.j.GS" yards to be dug to complete
the canal at the 85-foot level.
The Octomer issue of the Army and.
Navy Life tells of a letter written to
the Navy Department by Commander
A. L. Key. of the Fore River ship
yards several months ago. which was
the moving cause in the summoning of
the war college at Newport. Speaking
of the Dakota , now building in that
yard. Key said that ships of that type
could not stand up against the fire of
12-inch guns for thirty minutes , 'owing
to the position of the 5-incb. armor.
