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5 THE WASHINGTON P03T SATURDAY JANUARY 27 1912 Gbe TCttasbinaton Jpost Publication Office Pennsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by Carrier In Washington and Alexandria Dally Sunday included one month 0 70 Dally Sunday Included one week 20 Dally Sunday excepted one month BO Dally Sunday excepted one week IB By Mall Postage Prepaid Dally Sunday excepted one year J6 00 Dally Bundav InHiMed nnn vaar 8 40 DatW Sunday excepted one month B0 Dally Sunday Included one month 70 ounaay one year All Subscriptions by Mall Tayable In Advance rtemlttancc should be made by drafts checks postodlce orders registered letters or express orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington Entered at the postofflce at Washington as second class mall matter fast from other centers of the United Kingdom bent on Seeing the outcome of Churchills visit although the date of the uprising is two weeks distant Foreign Advertising RpreaenttlTe PAUL CLOCK 0 Fifth Avenue New Tork Steger Building Chicago Fremont Building Boston SATURDAY JANUARY 27 1912 Bryans Hand in the House The Cullop amendment to a House judi iary bilj requiring the President to make public the indorsements of applicants for Federal judgeships before appointment Is made is heralded far and wide as proof if the potency of Brians hand in legislation The congratulations which the Nebras Kan is receiving on the score of having had his publicity scheme favorably considered the House hardly come from persons acquainted with the fact that the amendment is plainly unconstitutional that it stands no chance of passage in the Senate tnd that the members who voted for it knew that it was a loose piece of business the veriest buncombe Reprevcntathc Hherley reminded his pait blleafues that the Constitution nested the power of appointment in the President and Senite absolutely and it was generally admitted that there was not the remotest posMbilitj of the amendment receh ins favorable consideration higher up Still the ense of propriety did not rise to the point of outweighing the ever present desire to play politics and so a cratuitous slap at the President was registered as embodying the legislative merits of the crowning sample of Bryan buncombe Vanquished With a Hatpin A plucky woman and a steel hatpin made short work of one of the negro footpads with which the streets are infested Her victory over brute strength and desperate resolve was so signal and complete that it looks easy A jab in the face in response to an attack and demand for her purse did such good execution that the miscreant released his noia ana nea But the little womans pluck did not end there A moment and the woman was at the fleeing negros heels intent upon his capture Her calls for the police carried her voice to the ears of a policeman a block away and resulted in the arrest of the fugitive She had turned the tables completely the footpad who had thought to make her his prey was in turn her victim That the prisoner had to be clubbed into submission affords abundant proof of the effectiveness of a steel hatpin as a weapon in the hands of the righteous feminine Doubtless Judge Wright himself a terror to the footpad fraternity will have a word to say expressive of public admiration and appreciation for the prosecuting witness whose presence of mind and self reliance under trying circumstances entitle her to more than passing notice made effective Canada has directed the TOMBS OF ROYALTY oucuuuu ui me worm 10 ner resources She has exploited her fields and forests her mines and ranges and the ever alert American has listened Investigated and moved over The Canadian propaganda indeed has extended as far south as Panama where thousands of employes of the canal who will soon be out of work are looking around for business openings Several measures are pending before the Senate designed to lighten the conditions of homestead entry in the Northwest No doubt they will prove effective as far as they But the northern tier of States which are losing their citizens because they can And cheaper lands across the border must compete with Canada and use the same weapon that Canada has so effectively used publicity Already some of the States are alert Wyoming has an efficient bureau of immigration which is now pointing out to home seekers the advantages to be found in that great State and the efforts are already bearing fruit Other States are awakening Our Northwestern States possess resources in many respects superior to those which Canada can offer while as for climate the advantage is all on this side of the border Energy and intelligent advertising should keep our citizens at home Cleaning Up Baltimore If the plans of the Womens Civic League aio aimed out the delegates to the Democratic national convention Baltimore will find that city next June to be so clean that to usi a homely phrase they may be able to eat off the floor The move to clean up Baltimore is de seiving of commendation It is planned to have all the citizens join In a general housecleaning and street cleaning crusade and the municipal authorities havp promised to give their full support to the effort 1o clean the city from center to circumference While tin isiturs will be duly impressed Baltimore will be the chief trainer Any cit that has cleanliness as its chief object will take a long step tcward eradicating disease One of the most gratifying tendencies of modern times is the effoit of government State and municipal health authorities to ed uoate the people to the dangers of un cleanliness It has been pioved that rats flies and mosquitoes aic among the chief agents of disease and if their breeding places are destued the percentage of disease is decreased The example of Baltimore in cleaning up the town might be followed with profit even by cities winch hae no expectation of entertaining delegates to a national conention Hot Headed Warrior Politicians South America is taking a hand in the war game thus making three zones of hostilities on the map situate in Europe Asia and America The nations of the southern continent are the most warlike on earth and it seldom happens that the sun rises on a prospect wholly peaceful The admixtuie of Castilian and Indian blood seems to heighten the martial spirit of both races All efforts to make the ballot box the last word in politics have failed for the most part The process is too tame and slow for their warrior politicians as distinguished from our lawyer politicians An appeal to arms is their first as it is our last resort Naturally all the big politicians in South America are generals while our greatest politician of military renown is a colonel The hair trigger style of carrying on politics domestic and foreign finds a good Illustration in the quarrel between Argentina and Paraguay just now come to an acute stage It does not appear that the Argentine warships fired on in Asuncion harbor by Paraguayan rebels suffered any damage yet the moment the crisis had passed and certainly be fore the reinstated Paraguayan government could get its bearings the offended power was at the latters throat with a demand for reparation Receiving no immediate reply to his precipitate note the Argentine diplomat shook off the dust of Asuncion and betook himself aboard a warship thus severing relations between the two countries without interchange of communications on the subject of dispute if dispute there was According to our philosophy it would have been wiser and better to wait a few days or until such time as might be required for Paraguay to right her internal affairs and be better able to discharge her obligations According to the South American code the next step involves a declaration of war Is it any cause for wonder that Mr Roots Pan American get together proposals got scant consideration at the Buenos Aires conference Ireland and Imperialism The men of Ulster still hotly refuse to lend an eai to home rule for Ireland under the guise Of a movement ostensiblv aiming at unification of the people of Ireland as a step toward imperial solldarit throughout the British dominions But the threat to hoist the Hag of revolt and precipitate civil war appears to have no terrors for Churchill He is not to be deterred from going to Belfast in his determination to reconcile the conflicting elements in Ireland preparatory to the establishment of the liberal plan of local government Perhaps Churchill has become convinced in view of the implacable feeling of hostility betwten Orangemen and home rulers that nothing short of a shindy will serve to break the ice It has the appearance of being a desperate expedient at hot but then the government is amply piepaied in any event to quell a demonsti ation Moreovei Churchill may apprehend that when the pinch comes the men of Ulster will not be found rallying to the support of their caute A xeai ago tliev llunked after having threatened use as one man against the use of American millions in the parliamentary campaign The agitation in Belfast at that time had the sympathy of the English opponents of home rule and it was bruited abroad that the clans had been armed with smuggled weapons and were secfetly drilling for eventualities The election went against Ulster but it transpired that the army of insurrection was as mythical as the American millions Anyway the first lord of the admiralty means to put the malcontents to the test and as additional cause for provocation he plans to take John Redmond the leader of the home rulers with him to Belfast The men of Ulster are loyal to the crown so long as the specter of home rule is not hovering over their part of Ireland and doubtless they are enamored a of the idea of imperial unity and a pull all together but they are not to be made to see that their domestic quarrel is a factor in the equation Why should they be asked to make all the sacrifices the plan of conciliation calls for Are similar feuds in other parts of the empire being composed in the interest of the heaviest battalions as in Ireland or can it be said that the only sore spot is Ulster There is something to be said on both sides as we Bee it and the seething point in the controversy 4s at its height It is reported that many persons are bound for Bel Unmasking Spring Wijh the earth carpeted with snow one is apt to believe almost anything about the season of the jear called spring It is with particular eagerness therefore that the people now plodding through the snow will receive the announcement from Paris that spring is not all it is cracked up to be It is all right to call the season obuds and sproutlngs by the name of spring hut after years of research Prof Muntz of Paris now announces that the phenomena of springtime are the direct result of violent bacterial activity in the soil not due to the sun but to a law of periodicity inherent in certain microbes This activity highly multiplies the ni trogen in the soil which in turn makes seed germinate and vegetation grow Thus the old theory that the increased warmth of the suns ravs worked the miracle of springtime is brutally exploded If the announcement came while the season of spring was in full swing it might have aroused resentment Just now however the public mind is in such condition that criticisms of spring are welcomed There was always a faint suspicion in scholarly minds that spring was a delusion and a snare While the poets sang its praise schoolmasters were wont to berate its influences on the minds of the young Bojs and girls who ordinarily weie in good standing became stupid from gazing out of the windows to the fields and dreaming of the land and of love Young men and young women who ordi narily were sensible became irresponsible and moon eyed and lovesick It is well that spring has been shown up in its true colors Microbes That is what spring is microbes No wonder everybody becomes lovesick and wants to forget work and loll about with a novel and a box of chocolates Ah the world owes much to its men of science who rip open our illusions and let the sawdust out It Pays to Advertise It seems probable that Congress will deal in some way at the present session with the problem involved in the great drift of emigration across our northern frontier but it is doubtful if the Federal government can entirely stop the drain upon our population in the Northwestern States by an process of legislation The question involved is an economic one and in the opinion of those who have studied it can best be met by the application to rt of modern business methods Canada has enticed away from us thousands of our most desiiable citizens not only be cause of the opportunities she has offered but because she has gone about getting these Americans in a systematic method ical and practical way Canada has done what every modern business concern has found it must do to prosper she has advertised In all the Trays that advertising can be Stubborn Old 3en The old men of the country with a persistence that Is puzzling seem bent on reading Dr Osier out of the party of common sense Instead of going about lecturing Ur Osier really should talk to some of these old gentlemen and show them they are using bad judgment in staying In harness after they have reached the age of forty Apparently the old men of the country find it difficult to learn that they are dead ones They insist on working twelve or fifteen hours a day building railroad selling goods practicing law and making reputations regardless of the alleged assertion of Osier that all men over 40 should be chloroformed George Baer president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway is the latest well known man to defy the Osier theory As he will be seventy years old on September 26 it is clear according to the Osier theoiy that he has outlived his usefulness by thirty years It was reported that he would retire on his birthday because of the provision in the Readings pension system providing that all employes reaching that age must cease active work Mr Baer however finds that the rule does not apply to the officers of the company and as lie is In perfectly good condition he intends to continue at work Evidently Mr Baer is one of the multitude of rebellious men who refuse to pay any attention to the law laid down by Dr Osier He says himself that he did not begin to live until he was over forty Until then he was a corporation lawyer and few persons had ever heard of him He fought the railroads for his clients and most of his work was naturally critical rather than constructive Then the Reading Railway Company made him president He reorganized the system and put it on a paying basis In fact he made the company what it is today There are scores of striking examples that might be given to show that up to the age of forty a man spends most of his time struggling for position and power while after forty he has the leisure and the poise for constructive work The younger men may be the backbone of the nation but the older men are at the helm is gettina lot of indorsements these days from the vice presidential eligibles Sartorial note Ladies hats next season will be high Pocketbooks will be flat as usual Its a wonder they didnt hold that Lake Champlaln celebration at a Broadway lobster palace How the vlvisectionists must gnash their teeth over the escape of that little Equitable guinea pig Ex Gov Black has decided to be a farmer as he has been able to make only 1000000 practicing law Almost as many persons are starving in China under the republic as in the good old days of the monarchy New Tork boasts a greater indebtedness than Uncle Sam but we havent got through with this Congress jet If Mr Smoot is looking for senatorial dead ones he might make a list of insurgents who are running in Taft States A whole string of polo ponies on Long Island are mad They must have caught a glimpse of the costumes their riders wear We do not note the Constitution of the United States in the list of books which Mayor Gaynor says have helped him most Do doubt his royal highness was duly impressed by the military trimmings we are now wearing on our democratic simplicity A Zangwlll play thrown out of London on the ground of Immorality was immediately shipped to New York where this kind of a knock is a boost Anna Held is the latest lovely lass to get into the divorce class and Nat may have an opportunity to add another beauty to his garden of roses New York surgeons have given an injured man a celluloid jawbone We trust that hereafter he will avoid the danger of Indulging in incendiary talk The president of Princeton savs that one of his graduates is worth 6 a week Did you ever notice how optimistic a man is when he is just starting out on a new job The pleasure with which Woody Wilson received the indorsement of Nelse Aid rich is calculated to make Col Harvey feel that his former protege is lubbing it In We herewith take back everything we ever said about the ground hog and trust that these few remarks will be conveyed to him with renewed assurances of our esteem When the egg trust hears that another ton of gold has been dog sIedded out of Alaska we shall expect to hear of an additional boost in the price of cold storage fruit OFTEN DESECRATED I are letters that imply an invocatlorfto Providence that the body beneath the tombstone or monument upon which they are inscribed may be permitted to rest in peace This pathetic prayer seems seldom to find any hearing where the bodies of the anointed of the Lord are concerned People in less exalted spheres of life may expect when they die to be permitted to repose undisturbed until tlfe day of judgment But no ruler or scion I of any of the reigning dynasties of the Old World 13 able to share this comforting thought For he knows full well by sad experience that there are hardly any royal tombs in existence that can be secure from profanation The latest instance of this kind is furnished by the discovery some two or three weeks ago of children just outside the great St Marks Cemetery in Vienna playing ball with a skull complete except for the lower jaw Careful investigation by the cemetery authorities and by the police led to the discovery that the tomb or rather mausoleum of Prince Alexander Kara georgevitch one time ruler of Servia and father of King Peter had been broken open ami the body removed From the appearance of the tomb it was evident that an attempt had been made to steal the entire body or rather skeleton but that the ghouls had been disturbed and had bolted off with the head leaving their crowbars and tools there and carrying with them the skull which tViey dropped in their flight Since then it has been ascertained that the outrage was the work of individuals who intended to blackmalPKing Peter possibly too the Austrian government by holding the remains of the dead prince for ransom Building a Memorial Church King Peter has been building for the last two or three years a memorial church at Tobola in Servia the original home of his family with the idea that all the members of the latter should find a place of rest within the walls of the sacred edifice Many of his relatives are already interredx there and a very handsome tomb is now on the point of completion to which the remains of the kings father were to be conveyed in a considerable amount of state next summer This plan will be carried out and in view of the deep concern manifested by the Viennese court and government that such an indignity should have been offered to the remains of foreign royalty on Austrian soil it may be taken for granted that the military honors organized by Emperor Francis Joseph and his ministers In connection with the transfer will be of a far more imposing character than originally projected These military honors to Prince Alexander Karageorgevitch will serve to recall that during his lifetime he was not an object of any distinction on the part of the imperial government which indeed went so far as to expel him from its territory in 1868 when he was accused of having abused the hospitality which he had enjoyed on Austrian soil to Instigate the conspiracy which resulted in the peculiarly cowardly murder of the ruler of Servia Prince Michael Obrenovitch the assassins not only killing the prince in the park of Topicher in the suburbs of Belgrade but seriously wounding his sisters who were with him Died a Fugitive In Paris Hungary indeed went still further and taking advantage of the fact that Prince Alexander had some estates in the Magyar kingdom caused him to be placed on trial at Pesth Acquitted by the lower court he was on appeal convicted by the higher tribunals and sentenced on January 14 1871 to ten years penal servitude which he evaded by flight His Hungarian property was thereupon confiscated He died in Paris and if his remains were taken to Vienna for burial it was in order that he might rest beside his wife in the small mausoleum which he had caused to be built in the cemetery of St Marks Incidentally it may be said that the real patronymic of the dynasty now reigning in Servia is not Karageorgevitch but Czerny Its founder was George Czerny who by reason of his particularly dusky complexion received the nickname of Kara George which means Black George It was as Black George that he first obtained fame as the leader of the rebellion against Turkey and his descendants in consequence thereof assumed the name of Karageorge in lieu of that of Czerny However the fate of the former Servian rulers remains and the loss of his lower jaw are thoroughly in keeping with the treatment of those of far more celebrated monarchs Thus the lower jaw of Charles XI of France is preserved in the church at Clery a place on the left bank of the River Loire some 10 miles west of Or leans That remarkable monarch whom Sir Walter Scott so graphically portrays in his novel Quentin Durward caused the church to be built as a resting place foi his remains andhe was duly Interred there Coffin Made Into Bullets His tomb was broken open at the time of the revolution in 1703 his leaden coffin and that of his queen were melted down into bullets the bones being thrown ig nomlniously into a corner of the vault No special care of them was taken until a few years aero when the lower law of the king constituting all that was left was placed in a glass case from which however it is extricated several times a week to be shown to visitors who are permitted to handle it in return for fees that largely add to the income of the chinch It has one mokfr still embedded in the socket and the verger never falls to make his little joke to the effect that It was probably la dent qull a garde contre le Due de Bourgogne who was Ms particular foe It is impossible to describe in print the shocking treatment to which the terrorists of 1793 subjected the artificially preserved bodies of those kings and queens of France who ere entombed at St Denis and not long ago the curators of the Paris Louvre were experimenting with saw and razor on the hardened heart of the Egyptian King Rameses XI who died more than twelve centuries before the birth of Christ Still more singular was the fate of the heart of Louis XIV of France At the time of the wrecking of the Churchi of St Louis and St Paul it was sold by one of the terrorists at the end of the eighteenth century to Lord Harcourt who happened to be in Paris at the time He took it home to Nunham his country seat on the Thames in England where incased in a crystal box it was kept as a curiosit Once whn it was being passed around the dinner table for inspection at dessert Dr Buckland the dean of Westminster a divine famoua for his eccentricity put the heart which had dried down to about the size of a large walnut into his mouth presumably In a fit of absence of riiind and before any one could interfere swallowed It Marquise de foKtenoy CoDttiibt U1J by the Breitwoo Company WELCOMES KQQSEVEIT ISSUE Chandler Thinks Test Timely but Favors Hughes Concord Jan 26 In an open letter to Republican voters of New Hampshire William Chandler former United States senator and Secretary of the Navy says If Mr Roosevelt is nominated he will draw some Democratic votes but all other issues may soon disappear and the only visible and operative one will be that of a third termi and thereafter an imitation of Porflrio Diazs Mexican method of administering a republic so called Perhaps it is a good moment to have that issue tried out In the end it might have far reaching beneficent consequences if the people should suspend controversy on all other questions and de cide only one namely what kind of government they intend to have in the future and not how the government we now have shall apply itself at this particular time Mr Chandler pleads for an unpledged and uninstructed delegation to the national convention It is the privilege he says of Mr Taft to be a candidate for CONGRESS CONDENSED Senate The Senato was not in session yesterday ill meet Monday at House The House met noon and debate was began on the steel tariff reyision bill The general debate will close today and the bill may be passed late in the afternoon Samuel Vntennerer ot Nsw York testified before the rules committee regarding the domination ot the countrys money power by four groups of financiers Louis Brandeis of Boston discussed pending antitrust bills at the bearing before the judiciary committee The hearings before the rules comjnittee on the money trust resoluUon providing an inquiry were ended The committee will decide shortly whether to recommend an Investigation The House adjourned at 615 until noon today READY TO FLOAT THE MAINE Preliminary Test Shows Afterpart of Ship Is Watertight Havana Jan 26 For the first time since it was drawn off to permit of the renomirtation but he questions if there uncovering of the wreck water to a may not be greater chances of success depth of 9 feet was admitted today within with La Follette Hughes Cummins or the cofferdam surrounding the battleship Fairbanks as the candidate I Maine as a preliminary test to ascertain He thinks that La Follette better than whether the afterpart of the ship with any one represents the prevailing reform us bulkheads is watertight element of the party while Justice The test was successful and it is the Hughes is a wise upright and coura intention of Maj Harley Ferguson geous public man of a reputation unsur 1 engineer in charge of the work to grad passed in recent govcrmental events and uany admit additional water until the could be easily elected President nuu or tll0 ni fated ship floats within tp am He will then await orders from SHORT CUT IN APPENDICITIS Washington to break the dam and float lout the wreck Once outside the coffer Patients in Latest Operation Go Home dar instructions will be given from Washington as to the final disposition or in Twenty four Hours From the Ne York Press Operations for appendicitis thought to have been perfected several years ago when 1 1 2 inch indslons were found to be adequate have been still further simplified Description of the operation is given in the Cleveland Journal of Medicine which i bit probably will be cherished by the re explains that an incision of only three cipients as relics The articles recovered fourths of an inch is necessary consisted of a watch chain a medal aH A short incision is made over the ap stencil and two pipes pendix says the report No muscle or fibers are cut These are instead separated just enough to admit the introduction of the index Anger with which a careful examination is made of all the structures within reach After examination has verified the diagnosis the appendix is brought to the surface with the hooked index finger After the appendix is delivered the rest of the operation is easy The new system usually permits the patient to leave the hospital in twenty four hours the hull Lffort is being made by the Navy Department to trace survivors and the heirs of Maine victims In order to give them several small trinkets recovered from the historic wreck The articles are of no intrinsic value MRS FLEMING TO BE BRIDE INSPECTS MEMORIAL DESIGNS National Fine Arts Commission Takes Up Plan to Honor Gen Greene The national commission of fine arts held a session at the Lemon building yesterday afternoon and inspected twelve models submitted to it for the monument to Maj Geo Greene and his army at Guilford Courthouse and began a report for the guidance of the Secretary of War who has final jurisdiction in the matter A second report will be made on designs for the Perry memorial 50 models being on exhibition in the National Museum building since last Saturday About 1000000 is available for that memorial Congress has appropriated 30 000 for the Guilford monument Secretary Stlmson Senator Overman Representative Stedman and Paul Schenck of North Carolina are in charge of the Guilford memorial Widow of Col I Fleming to Wed Gen David Gordon Special to The Washington Post San Francisco Jan 26 Gen David Gordon at one time commanding officer at the San Francisco Presidio i3 to be married in New York tomorrow to Mrs Belle Fleming of Washington widow of Col Robert I Fleming Gen Gordon is a widower and close to SO years of age Mrs Fleming is a grandmother and under 60 Her husband was one of the leading architects of Washington Mrs Corea of New Tork is the daughter and it is at Mrs Coreas palatial home that she is to be married BENCH SEAT OFFERED KNOX NAMED FOR OLYMPIC GAMES Army to Send Team of Four Officers to Stockholm Preparations are already being made by the Fnited States army for pai tieipation in the Olympic games at Stockholm Sweden next July Five officers have been assigned to arrange for the trip though the team probably will be composed of only four Those selected are Capt Guy Henry cavalry First Lieut Ben Lear jr Fifteenth cavalry John Montgomery Seventh cavalry Ephraim Graham Fifteenth cavalry and Second Lieut Quekemeyer Fifth cavalry Capt Henry and Lieut Graham recently represented the army at the horse show in London Four of these officsrs are at present at the Army Mounted Service School at Fort Riley and Lieut Quekemeyer has been ordered to that post from Honolulu BISHOPRIC FOR CHIDWICK Report Says That Chaplain of Battleship Maine 7s to Be Elevated New York Jan 26 An unconfirmed report has it that the Rev John Chid wick who was chaplain of the battleship Maine when it was destroyed in Havana harbor i3 to be made bishop of San Francisco Father Chidwick is president of St Josephs Seminary at Dunwoodle It Is understood the appointment to the vacant bishopric was brought from Rome by Cardinal Farley but has not yet been announced Secretary Could Have Had Justice Harlans Place Says Report It was reliably reported here yesterday that President Tft before considering any other candidates offered to Secretary of State Knox an appointment to the Hupieme Court bench to succeed the late Justice Harlan Circuit Judge Hook still is supposed to be the leading candidate considered by the President at the time but the delay in announcing a cnoice has given rise renewed rumors that Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel may finally be selected EMPERORS EXCHANGE SPIES Russian and German Officers Condemned to Imprisonment Given Liberty Berlin Jan 26 Emperor Nicholas and Emperor Willfam today made an exchange of spies The Russian Emperor at the interces sion of the German Emperor granted a 1 pardon to Capt Werner von Stuenzer who was condemned at Warsaw yesterday to three years hard labor and Emperor William in return released Baron Vlno gradoff a lieutenant in the Russian navy who was condemned on January 18 to three years imprisonment for a similar offense DIES OF RARE DISEASE Woman Victim of Malady of Which hut Seventeen Cases Are on Record Lebanon Pa Jan 26 Mrs Alice Besh ney of Hebron this countyt died today after an illness of over nine months from what is said to be one of the rarest disease known to the medical profession pemplugus vegetans Physicians say that it is an exceedingly painful skin disease that has its inception with blisters which appear over the entire body and is incurable It is said that there ate only seventeen cases of the disease on record In the United States Germany and England CADET FAVORITISM CHARGED ARMY ORDERS Education Board Membefc to Decide Case of High School Boys Evidence that Irvin Frank and John Eckert Business High School students should have been made captains instead of first lieutenants in the high school cadets has been submitted to the military committee of the board of education and a decision as to whether or not favoritism has been shown in se Col ORIX MITCHAM ordnance department 111 proceed to the Springfield armory Spring field Mass on official business Lient Col THOMAS CRUSE deputy quartermaster general will make two Tlslts to Lee Mass and two Tllts to Hartford Conn on official buslnes Mai ANDRE BREWSTER inspector general ill proceed to Chicago 111 and report to the Cm7Ur nIrs3Wr ilcctin cadet officers is expected within detailed as a member of the examining board at a few days Fort Leavenworth Kans Capt James Oyster Daniel Capt CHARLES PATTERSON coast artillery ani Horner members ot the corn corps will report to the Judge advocate general wl dedde the of the army First Lieut CHARLES A BETTS medical re serve corps will proceed to Fort William Henry gTJEg MACVEAGH FOR 100000 Harrison Mont and report to the commanding officer of that post First Lieut WILLIAM MORRISON Second Ex Customs Collector Of Cleveland field artillery is detailed as a student officer at iir ii i the school of Fire for Field Artillery Fort sill Charges Secretary With Libel 0Uik Cleveland Ohio Jan 26 The taking First Lieut LEON GARCIA medical corps I will return to Ms proper station in the Philip of depositions in the suit filed by former pines division Collector of Customs Charles Leach First Lieut JOHN HAMMOND is assigned against Secretary of Treasury Franklin to the Fifth field artiUery MacVeagh for 100000 damages for al Sergt ALBERT FAUX hoptUl corps will wag here tofl be sent to the General Hospital Fort Bayard c6t Mex for treatment i Leach claims that the charges of lr regularities under which he was removed NAVAL ORDERS Capt SALISBURY home and wait oiders Lieut TV FRIEDELL home and wait urders Lieut JENSEN home and wait orders Lieut ROOT to Naval Academ Annapolis Md from office were untrue SEA CLAIMED 196 LIVES Little Bobbies Pa i William FKlrk in th New Tort American was reeding in the paper yesterday sed Ms that the Duke of Connaught got lost away from hla crowd lor a whole hour yesterday Isent that kind of mis terious Not at all sed Pa not at all It is jest a good joak The Duke simply ducked away from the crowd He galv them all the slip Whare in the world do you suppoas he went sed Ma Well sed Pa I will tell you It was thl3 way But beefoar I go any farther sed Pa Ljnust sware you to compleet confidence You will not reveel a word ot what I am about to say to you re garding this matter I will not sed Ma Or you eether Bobbie Pa asked me No Pa I sed I wont say a word Vary well sed Pa the facks in the case are these You see the Duke me was old pals in the old days We shot big gaim together Pa sed together we was entertained in all the finest salons of the continent Deer deer sed ma I never thought for a minnit that you had been in a salon It is barely possibel sed Ma that you mite have ventured into a saloon now and then but I dldent think you cared for salons Nevverthelcss Pa sed the Duka I was old time pals he sent me a littel note the other day telling me that he was tired of beelng bowed to salted It wud be a grand thing he toald me sedPa if you me cud sneek away have a quiet gaim of bilyards up to McGraws so sed Pa me the Duke went up to McGraws plaed for a hour Nobody knew him Pa sed beekaus he went incognito but as everybody tharc knew me it made a pritty good average The Duke wud have stayed a littel longer Pa sed but I beat him three gaims in a row sent him to the cashier so regular that he beegan to yawn sed Pa It docsnt matter what stashun in life a man bee longs to sed Fa or wether he is rich or poor I have always notised that wen he beegins to lose reglar he looks toward the duor yawns Wether jou are a Duke or a dog sed Pa you doant want to be all the time gitting kicked in the shins All the time Pa was talking Ma was looking him oaver kind of careful Pa caa talk pritty fast but Ma can always look at him about ten words farther than wha he is saying Ma has vary good eyes so Ma sed that is youre alibi for beeing down to McGraws as long as you were I suspected as much you think that little Bobble me are idiots enuff to beeleeve that a reglar duke wud go anyware play bilyards with you Easy easy sed Ma doant make me Iaff today I have a split lip as the comedians say Then Pa got mad and went in his room after he had went Ma toald me newer to say to my wife if I ewer git one that I went sum place ware I dident go But I am going to jest the salm PEOBLEM TINi HOTEL LOBBIES DR SIMON CHIDES YOUTH Urges Young Folk of Congregation to Improve Their Minds The Rev Dr Abram Simon spoke to the young people of his congregation last night at the Eighth Street Temple on The Pride of Youth Dr Simon said that youth was not a poetical Illusion but a serious Teality He quoted the Bible taking as his text Rejoice Oh Young Man In Thy Youth Youth stands fpr activity said Dr Simon activity and requirement In religion In matters of money and everything pertaining to mortal life He implored the youth of his congregation to band together and promote societies for the young folk The purpose of Dr Simons lecture was to encourage the development of societies among the oung people of hi6 congregation The societies which Dr Simon advocates will have for their aim the advancement of culture the acquisition of knowledge and the study of literature Self culture is what we should all aim for he declared This week plans will be formulated for the organization of several societies for the youth of the congregation PRESIDENT TO AID ALASKA Promises Westerners He Will Urge Legislation for TeTitory It was announced at the White House yesterday that Sherman McPherson would be reappointed United States district attorney at Cincinnati A delegation representing chambers of commerce In Seattle San PYancisco Los Angeles Portland and Everett Wash requested the President to send a message to Congress calling attention to the need of Alaska legislation The delegation learned that the President would suggest new homestead laws the government construction of a railroad the building of more roads lighthouses and fish hatcheries and a new leasing system for coal lands GIFTS FOR TWO COLLEGES Educational Board Makes Conditional Offer to Nearby Institutions Xew York Jan 26 CondTttinal gifts of 100000 to Washington pd Jetfenton College at Washington Pa toward a 500 C00 fund and 00000 to the Emory and Henry College of Emory Va toward a 230000 fund were voted at a meeting of the general education board of the Rockefeller foundation here today Frederick Gates was elected chairman and Wallace Buttrick tcretary of the board for 1912 REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR From the New York Press Ideals before breakfast are very frazzled by bedtime i A man who can keep a good resolution never has to make it Even a woman that snores can object to the smell of a pipe jn the house What makes a girl know it isnt flattery is she calls them all compliments The more money a man puts into raising a family the Jess he can get out of It POINTED PARAGRAPHS Movements of Naval Vessels Arrived ilonaghan at Ouanlanamo Portsmouth 325 Vessels Also Lost During the Fiscal Year of 1911 The sea claimed the lives of 196 persons and destroyed 325 American vessels dur at Norfolk Decatur at Shanghai St Louis at I jng the fiscal year of 1911 according to Tlburon Justin at Corinto Commissioner Chamberlain of the bu Sailed Caesar and Brutus from Hampton Roads lor Guantanamo Smith from Nacsau for Quan reau of navigation Department of Com tanamo Portsmouth from Hampton Roadg for I merce and Labor Norfolk Buffalo from Amoy for Hongkongr Albany from Nanking for Shanghai St Louis from Mare Islana for Tiburon Nero from San Diego for Mare Island Yorktown from Guayaquil for SantaElena Eyr stuuor The loss of sailing vessels principally ty foundering resulted in the death of 107 persons In all 159 steam yessela were Ait From the Chicago News The flatterer never lacks an audience Worry is probably the most relentless enemy of success Enjoy the good things of life but dont be one of them A man seldom Improves his time by tinkering with his watch Many a woman gets what she wants by saying that she doespt want it And lots of married men act though they wished they were widowers Ever notice how much more interesting things are that you dont understand Truth may he stranger than fiction but magazine writers find it less profitable A fast youne man doesnt get very far unless his father is willing to pay his runnlng expenses Women are naturally of a clinging na nro nd sa are some men iUdEtasr bir the way they hang on to their money That Col Roosevelt will soon makf an announcement declaring he will accept the nomination for president if tendered to him is expected by Bome Republicans in Washington and that this is believed by President Taft waa the opinion expressed yesterday hy RE Williams Ite publican national committeeman from Oregon who is a member of the subcomT mittee on arrangements for the convention Mr Williams has been Jn various parts of the country in the last few weeks and not long ago sawCoL Roosevelt at Oyster Bay The friends of President Taft are not worried about Col Roosevelts candidacy said Mr Williams at the WiUard It makes no difference whether Col Itoosevelt declares himself as a candidate or signifies that he will Accept the nomination He is in bad any way he moves If he remains silent he will stir the hostility of the Presidents friends and if he comes out as a receptive candidate he will at once arouse opposition from Democrats who might be for Miv Taft and those Republicans who are of the conservative type The President will be the one to profit if Col Roosevelt announces his candi dacy and he would be stronger with the people in my opinion than before The Democratic press believing perhaps that Col Roosevelt might win would at once center attacks upon him and if he should be nominated the Democracy would name a candidate like Speaker Clark or Representative Underwood There is no way in which Col Roosevelts attitude whether he continues to wear the mask of the Sphinx or come out and declare that he will accept the nomination can injure the prospects of Mr Taft I believe Mr Taft is sure to be nominated Col Roosevelt by signifying that he would take the nomination would lay himself open to the charge of ingratitude and also of having been working for months to undermine the President I hope tho Democrats will nominate WOodrow Wilson for then Mr Taft will have no trouble in winning in the election Mr Taft Leads in Illinois President Taft is intellectually as radical and progressive In the interests of the people as is Col Roosevelt but he Is temperamentally more conservative and therefore safe This isthe estimate of the Presidents character expressed by Judge Hynes of Chicago attorney for Edward Hines in the Lorlmer case who is at the Willard I believe President Taft will be renominatedrenominated and reelected said Judge Hynes He is deserving of the nomination Of course the entrance of Col Roosevelt into the fight for the noniimv tlon would complicate matters considerably nut It is my opinion that Taft will win even if the former President comes out and declares that he will accept the nomination I think Mr Taft will get tho Illinois delegation The progressive Republicans have Indorsed Senator La Follette some Chicago papers have declared for Col Roosevelt but MrTaft has the strongest following in the State of any candidate or possible candidate Tha Democrats are almost as badly split as the Republicans The irlends of Mr ilearst and Mayor Harrison are strong in Chicago and In other parts of the State Those who are supporting former Mayor Dunne who represents the radical element seem to have a lot of strength Then there is the Roger fc5ulli van organization which is the old organization It seems to me that with Mr Hearst ahd Mayor Harrison working for Champ Clark the Speaker haa a good chance of getting the Illinois delegation The fight for Cook county which represents two fifths of the State will be a vital one Speaker Clark will probably get delegates from the southern part of Illinois Sullivan It is understood is for uov Wilson I am not in a position to speak for the Democrats and my opinions are formed merely from observation Judge Hynes formerly lived in Washington He was graduated from the Columbian University Law chool in this city in 1870 while hewas serving as secretary to Senator Rico of Arkansas He went to Little Rock sjnd was elected to the Fortj third Congjess on the reform Republican Democratic ticket and was reefected but retired from the House when his seat was claimed by a contestant He was born in County Clare Ireland and came to the United Stages when 10 years old His wife was a Wash ington woman Col Hepburns Gift a Surprise Judge Smith McPherson and Col Peter Hepburn who were members of Congress from Iowa and have tcen friends for many years met in the Willard Judge McPherson has been on the judicial eir cult of Iowa for a number of years For a long timb Judge McPherson and Col Hepburn were among the leading lawyers of Iowai and though fast friends they were arrayed against each other in many legal battles They dined together at the Willard and Judge McPherson told this story of his former colleague We traveled together in the same cir cuit in Iowa In November 1879 Hep burn and I were at the same hotel in one of the Western cities CoL Hepburn told me he wanted to buy a watch and chain for his son then about 16 years old and he asked me to go with hint to piclt it out Of course I went and he asked me what kind of a timepiece he ought tojuN chase I advised him to get a good watch not a cheap filled case and to select the best works he could buy It may be that the boy will Carry the watch during his lifctimej and Tie will cherish it I said Hepburn agreed that I wa3 right and he picked out tne hest watch he could btrr So with a chain I suggested that he get a solid gold one and Hepburn of course agreed Then when he had made the purchase he turned to me and said JWhyt dont you understand This watch and chain are for you I didnt understand until he handed it to me hut appreciated the gift And here are the watch and chain said Mr Phersonexhibiting a fine gotl timepiece and chain Souths Business Booming The South Is not complaining about the business situation slid Charles Dunkle of Raleigh at the Raleigh We are not faking politics so seriously in the South as jiefhaps the people of other sections of the country arcK doing Our principal efforts ire to Induce capital to invest in business enterprises and to develop our rich 2 minerals and agriculture In 1911 North Carolina made a grf ater cotton crop tharf it has had in many years The boll weevil did yep littte damage Afrcady there have been ginned close to jOOOOOO bales Ofcourse the growers arcnbt getting sa Mg a pricer for their Cotton as they did last yean and thecrop probably will not prove so profitable as that of the previous year But business In other Hnest isvgqoacand the farmers who havef gone in for diversified farming aro not complaining Neither are tneTgreat industrlal enterprlSes TV are all right5 iButheSouth I jfe5.