Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 14

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Communications relating to news and ed- itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, #s.: MT B. Tzechuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and mplete coples of The Dally, Morning, vening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1902, was as follows: 1. EURNRBRERNREES Net total sales. Net average sal . . GEORGE B. TZ ; Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to November, before me this Mth day of November, 4. (Beal) tary Public. Only four days' respite before swears ing-off day. All those holiday bargains will look like 80 cents as soon as these annual clearance sales get under way. When Governor Mickey steps behind the ple counter he will find a hungry crowd of ple biters six rows deep in front of it. SEp——— The danger is that the Venezuelan trouble will be all patched up before we have learned our new geography lesson thoroughly. E——— Attorney General Knox won't want for financial resources for the legal fight upon the unlawful trusts. But neither will the trusts' attorneys retained on the other side. EEE——— The 144 revolutions that have oc- curred in Venezuela are not to be taken too seriously, but rather the Latin- American expression of the Jeffersonian doctrine of frequent rotation in office. e— ‘Whether Dr. Lorenz came to this country to make more mouey or more fame, or both, is immaterial. Sufficeth to <know that he has relleved a suffering humanity and made many people happy. S — Governor Mickey has very good rea- sons for planting himself firmly against the claw-bammer coat. David Butler, the first governor of Nebraska wore a claw-hammer coat every day, but he was Impeached and removed from office, emmme—— Whatever yet remalns to render Mar- coni's method commercially available, it has gone far enough to raise an agita- tion in Great Britain of the need of government supervision of all wireless stations, very suggestively the proposi- tion Is first put forth by the naval au- thorities. p ——— The legislature of New Hampshire has voted to submit a woman suffrage amendment to the people of that state, Just to keep the suffragist agitators busy. They will not be so busy, how- ever, as to prevent the sisters in Ne- braska from besieging our legislature for a similar concession. Em————— It would not be strange If the re- ports were true that President Roosevelt 1s beginning to show the physical effects of the strain to which he has recently been subjected. It would mnot be strange either If President Roosevelt would begin to show visible signs of the fact that he is not as young as he was when he occupied the executive mansion at Albany four years ago. EE———— After all, was there any real ueed for the precipitancy of England and Ger- many in blockading Venezuela and es- tablishing a state of war? Why should not all this negotiation about arbitra- tion have been carried on and concluded before overt acts of hostility were com- mitted, especlally as those acts consti- tute the greatest embarrassments to ar- | bitration? It is a most serious business that England and Germauny bave en- tered upon and it is to be hoped that they will not get out of it without being lmpressed with the necessity of going somewhat slower next time. e President Schurman's suggestion that we will make a mistake if we try to im- pose the English language upon the Filipinos willingly or unwillingly is eliciting several notes of dissent, but it 8 none the less dictated by prudence. ‘We have sections of this country where English is only an alternative language apd have only by slow degrees suc- | ceeded In making it the accepted lan guage. In the Philippines the transfer process Is bound to be still slower. It will be the part of tyet for us to wmake the Filipinos want to learn the English language In preference to the Spanish or mative tongues to which they are accus tomed. If they can be brpught to that polnt the other obstacles in the way ‘will be easily surmounted POSSIBLE FUTURE DIFFICULTI While the agreement to submit the Venezuelan dispute to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal gives assurance of a peaceable settlement and makes a most jmportant precedent for such con- troversies, intelligent students of con- ditions In South and Central Ameriea and of the relations of the United States to the southern countries see the possi- bility of future difficulties which it may not be practicable to submit to arbi- tration, as in the present case. So far as the payment of thelr just debts to foreigners s concerned, it seems a reasonable expectation thet hereafter at least such of them as have a stable government and sufficient resources will make an hounést effort to meet thelr obligations. The Venezuelan episode should certainly impress upon them the expediency of doing this. They must now fully understand, if they did not hefore, that the United States will not shield them from the responsibility in- curred by repudiation or a persistent neglect to pay what they owe. This country does not propose to protect those who willfully practice dishonesty toward creditors. But the financial obligations of the southern republics to foreigners, al- though very large, are mnot the = only thing out of which future trouble may arise. The fact must be recognized that colonization by Europeans of the coun- tries of South and Central America wili go on. Many subjects of European nations are already settled in those countries and it is certain that within the next half century their numbers, in the temperate zone of South Ameriea at least, will be enormously increased. As a recent writer points out, should fric- tlon arise between the Buropeans and the governments under which they live, the story of the ultlanders in South Africa will be repeated. In that event foreign governments would interpose in behalf of their subjects and then would arise the grave question as to the course of the United States. It is éasy to con- celve of circumstances in which arbitra- tion could not be invoked and the only settlement would be through war. Another thing out of which future trouble may possibly grow is the fight for markets. The question is not so much the acquisition of Spanish-Ameri- can territory as the control of Spanish- Amerfcan markets. Where FEuropean capitalists have penetrated, there American capitalists are sure to fol- low. Competition has already resulted and collision Is only apt to follow, es- pecially as the countries in question are excitable republics. European capital- Ists are vigorously supported by their respective governments. Shall Ameri- can capitalists be left to shift for them- selves? It is held by somg to be an implication of the Monroe doctrine that a working method for guaranteeing to European powers adequate protection to the personal freedom, lives and property of their eitizens in the Spanish-Ameri- can countrles must be devised. Will the best efforts of the United States to se- cure such protection be satisfactory to the European governments? If not, interference, even to the extent of hold- ing territory indefinitely, is not unlikely, Obvlously the dnty or obligation the United States has assumed regarding the independent countries of the west- ern hemisphere is not so simple as most people are apt to think. We have maintained this relation for more than three-quarters of a century without hav- ing any very serious trouble, but we cannot be sure that we shall have none for a like period in the future, MODERN CIVILIZATION, In an incisive article in the current number of Harper's Magazine, compar- ing and contrasting conditions and ideals in the east and in the west, former Chinese Minister Wu Ting-fang gives expression to some terse declarations on the subject of civilization, which carry Instructive lessons. “There is a disposi- tion in some quarters,” he says, “to con- found civilization with political ascend- ancy. Civitization does not mean merely the possession of the most powerful battle ships or the most effective guns. It means rather the victory of an over his environments. It is a curious fact that those nations which have coftrib- uted most to civilization have fallen a prey to their less civilized foes” And further on he defines civilization again as “the sum of man's efforts to advance from a lower to a higher level.” “Every {mation,” he adds, “has had problems to solve in the course of its history, and in reckoning buman achievements the contributions of each people should be taken into account so that the experi- ence of one should inure to the profit of all.” What Minister Wu seeks to emphasize is what we ave too apt to overlook, namely, that people may enjoy a high degree of civilization without suceumb- ing to one particular brand of civiliza- {tion. For example, Minister Wu frankly admits that the Chinese bave much to learn from Oecidental peoples, of which he considers us Awmericans the | most advaneed type, but he would like this coupled with an admission on our part that we can, perbaps, find some thing worth learning from the peoples of {the east. The idea that to ecivilize the Orient we must Americanize its inhab- itants he would repel as just as unten- able as the suggestion that we might never attain teo true civilization until we should adopt all the Chinese tradi- tions und customs The pith and point of the whole wat- {ter then Is simply this: We are )n-t bonds that confined our vision uational limits, yet in within reaching out ilosing sight of the achievements other peoples in an effort to impose upon them in a day Institutions it took priding vurselves on having broken the and institutions. The very fact that civilizations other than our own have survived is proof conclusive that there is substance in them-—had civilization been constantly at a dead level all the world over, it is morally certain none of the great nations or races would have made as fast progress as they have or have reached the polnts of vantage now occupled. Sg———— ANERICAN CAPITAL IN MEXICO. How much American eapital has done in the development of Mexico Is shown in a statement by the United States coneul general at the capital of that republic, who estimates that $500,- 000,000 gold is the amount of American capital invested In Mexico. This amount has practically all been invested Within the past quarter of a century and about one-half of it within the past five years. The development of the rall- road systems has been to a large extent done with American capital, which rep- resents about 70 per cent of the total Investment in railroads. The mining in- dustries of the neighboring republic have drawn a large amount of capital from this country, estimated to be $80,- 000,000, while a very considerable amount is invested In agriculture and manufacturing. American capital is going steadily to Mexico and finding there profitable em- ployt™nt, It is at present especially active in developing the agricultural and manufacturing industries ard the progress made in the last few years gives promise of great results in the near futge. Mexico offers a fine field for enterprise in these directions, the agricultural possibilities, particularly in being great, while manufacturing, though as yet in its infancy, gives promise of good returns under the pol- {ley of protection and the liberal en- couragement of the government. It goes without saying that American influence in the financial and business affairs of Mexico is strong and steadily growing. It dominates most of the rail- road interest and it is felt in otler ways, manifestly to the material ben- efit of the country. It appears not im- probable that within the next quarter of a century most of the industries and a large part of the commerce of Mexico will be controlled by Americans, the | tendency at present clearly pointing to thie. * RAILWAY PENSIQNS. Pensioning rallroad employes prom- ises to become general! and it is a pol- icy that is to be heartily approved. With the beginning of 1903 seven rail- way systems will have egtablished pen- sion funds for the benefit of the men who have given long terms of years to faithful service. All the pension plans adopted are reasonably liberal, but the most generous of them as a whole is that of the Canadian Pacific. This pro- vides that all officers and employes of the company who have attained the age of 65 years and been ten years or longer In service shall be retired and pen- sioned. The pension allowance is to be for each year of service 1 per cent of the average monthly pay received for the ten years preceding retirement. Thus if an employe has been in the service for forty years and received an average for the last ten years of $30 a month, the pension allowance wonld be 40 per cent of $50, or $20 a month. In the ciredlar issued by the president of the Canadian Pacific announcing the new departure it is said: “The com- pany hopes by thus volumuarily estab- lishing a system under which a con- tinued income will be assured to those who, after years of continuous service, are by age or infirmity no longer fitted to perférm their duties and without which they might be left entirely with- out means of support, to build up among them a feeling of permanency in their employment, an enlarged interest in the company's welfare and a desire to re- main in and to devote their best efforts and attention to the company's serv- fce.” It is not to be doubted that this will be realized. Every rallway com- pany that has adopted the pension sys- tem will, it can confidently be pre- | dicted, find it advantageous in the di- rections indicated by the Canadian Pa- jeific’s president. It will prove an in- centive to faithful service, to a desire to remain with the companies and to a disposition to maintain peaceable rela- tions. The policy is wise and commend- able from every point of view. ——— FRAUDULENT USE OF THE MAILS. There will be general approval of the vigorous effort of the government to en- force the law against the use of the United States mails for fraudulent pur- poses. During the last two years the attention of the Postoffice department has been especially devoted to this class of cases, and a great number of prose- cutions have been successfully carried {to conviction. The cases have covered |80 many phases of the federal statute | that its broad effect may now be ascer- tained from the decisions of the courts | and it is of far-reuching importance. Cowmparatively few bave any ade- quate idea of the enormous extent to which the mails have been and are used for fraudulent purposes within the meaning of the law, for it Is only recently that the postal authorities have devoted such systematic and compre- hensive effort to its enforcement, but the fact rewains that any scheme or dev with the inteut to defraud in which use is made of the mails regders the offender liable not only to debar- ment from the malls, but also to impris- onment and heavy fines. What makes ter and correspondence of which the mails have been loaded for years, and which have been the means of robbing ignorant, unwary and susceptible peo- ple of unnumbered millions of dollars. A large proportion of these schemes are violations of the express terms of the la The range of circnmstances, such as false representations regarding the officers of the companies, their property and capital, their profits, etc, which the courts hold to constitute a fraudu- lent and therefore criminal undertaking 1If the mails are used, is very wide and renders any attempt thus to make gains by deception exceedingly dangerous. The fact that the mails are absolutely indispensable to the highest success of most of these schemes to defraud is certain with the continuance of the vig- orous policy of the department to give the public a protection which It has not heretofore had. The people of Nebraska will be gratified to learn through the Lincoln Journal that “a large number of the mémbers of the incoming legislature are getting tired of the assumption that they are branded with the name of a corporation and some of them are ach- ing for a chance to show that they can get out of the pasture and kick up their heels any time they want to.” This is doubtless true, but the corporation managers are making ample prepara tlons for corraling all the mavericks and high kickers by the distribution of a generous supply of complimentaries that will permit the bearer to travel without pay in first-class style on every passenger train conveyed on rails within the state of Nebraska. If there are any more trusts and mergers organized in the year 1902 there will be no chance for a poor little trust to squeeze in anywhere during the year 1003. E— An inspection of a map on which are marked Admiral Dewey's disposal of his fleet, shows that he has established a genuine blockade around the Euro- pean cordon in Venezuelan waters. He has stationed about fifty warships of all degrees in a vast crescent whose horns rest at islands on the coast of Venezuela, the array including the most powerful battleships in the United States navy, and it is placed in the precise strategic position that would be occupied if hostilities were anticipated. Upon the whole Uncle Sam's fleet strikingly symbolizes the Monroe doc- trine. S——— The Chicago city council is wrestling with a public nursery ordinance, de- signed to regulate places where infants are received, or retained for hire or award while under the age of 3 years for nursing and maintaining apart from their parents for a longer period than twenty-four hours. The proposed regu- lation of Chicago baby farms is very suggestive of twentieth century evolu- tion. In olden times wowen were ex- pected to take care of their own babies without the aid or consent of a city council. e — Negro colonization in Hawaii and the Philippines is only another form of the colonization scheme that has been re- peatedly proposed as the solution of the negro problem and as repeatedly re- Jected as impracticable. The negroes of this country, north or south, no mat- ter how much dissatistied with existing conditions, would prefer to bear the ills they have than to fiv to those they know not of. The megro problem will have to be worked out right here in the United States. Grave Question Unsolved. Indianapolis News. The army board has decided on blue fac- ings Yor officers’ uniforms, though there is a strong sentiment in favor of white fac- ings, and the end is not yet. Looks like another case for The Hague tribunal. L3 the Chicago Record-Herald. A trolley line has been opened in Porto Rico. This thoroughly disposes of any dan- ger there may have been of Porto Rican revolutions. The people wili be too busy dodging the cars hereafter to engage In po- litical disturbances. . A Fact Worth Rememberi Detroit Free Press. All those people who delight to talk about Latin degeneration might do worse than to remember that the gentleman who is now sending wireless telegrams across the Atlantic ocean is not an Englishman or an American, or a German, but an Ital- fan. Hesitated on the Brink, Chicago Chronicle. We were upon the point of lauding as most upright, wise and learned a St. Louls judge who has enjoined a boycott until we learned that the boycotters were members | of & plumbers' supply trust. This, of course, puts another face upon the matter. The St. Louls jurist will have to be impeached Another Peril Bobs Up. Minneapolis Journal. The la‘est American peril discovered by an Englishman Is that there are too few children in the United States. He fears the approach of a thae when a handful of Americans will be lost on a great conti- nent, as the Indian were before them. Our population increased 14,000,000 in the last decade. Growth of the Drug Habit, Boston Glob Inquiries from physiciaas in all sections of the country show how rapidly and how flercely the appetite for stimulating drugs is growing. Hospitals and sanitariums now derlve B0 small part of thelr patronage through the treatment of victims of them Physicians in private practice discover these secret drug habits among their pa- tlents and specific drugs whose uses are understood universally are openly adver- tised broadcast. The slaves of drugs are multiplylng everywhere and the wrecks are driftiog dangerously near the shore the matter more serious is the re- sources of the departiment for develop- inte wider fields we are in danger of lug the legal proofs of the offense and of |of the federal courts for securing con- vietions. The most notable recent vindications centurles for us to develop. Civilization |of the law have been in the get-pich- Is but relative—it is the concomitant of | quick propositions and in Traudulent evolution through the survival of the | mining, ofl and similar schemes with fittest in laws, custows, arts, industries | the prospectuses and other printed mat- Cuba's Debt to Ameriea. Philadelphia Record Few things reflect greater credit the United States than the fact, » by General Wood before the Amerl Academy of Political and Social Science, that there has not been a case of yellow fever in the east end of Cuba for three years, and none in Havana for moge than one year, though “the disease bad vever been absent from Havana a single day in years.” The immediate result of this 10 @s s that for three years there bas upon been no epidemic of yellow fever In our southern states. The last epidemic is es timated to have cost the country in busi- ness al least $100,0000,000. Happily Cuba is disposed to preserve the condition cre- ated under General Wood and (he lower branch of the Cuban Congress has just voted $400,000 to aid the city governments in maintaining good sanitary conditions. WIT, HUMOR ND SATIRE. Ment Gifts Rarely Poss ®ether by One Person. Portland Oregonian. A real humorist is a man who without spasmodic effort uses his gifts as mere con- diments to the expression of his happy thought; but your quack humorist is one who strings his jokes like beads, not ma- a Te. his quips and quirks constitute the whole burden of his empty speech. This effortless power of humor, which wraps some gifted men like an atmosphere, is a very rare Bift. It has been possessed by none of our notable public men in any large measure save Mr. Reed and Abraham Lincoln. Great wit and power of satire have been exhibited in many of our leading statesmen, but fine humor has been denied to them. Fine wit impliel a keen intellectual vision; fine humor {mplies more than this, for human earnestness and sympathy underlie humor, while fine wit does not date from moral sensibility, but not seldom from Intense eynicism of spirft. The humorist belongs to the land of sweetness and laughter and light in litera- ture, the land to which we may fairly elalm our own Hawthorne, Lowell, Bret Harte and Holmes belonged, for they all had wit mingled with wisdom, sense warmed and lighted with feeling, moral sweetness and humane sensibility married to intellectual light. Your true humorist is the man who es the body and form and juice of all sound and lasting literature; he is the fel- low whose colors are always fast; he Is the philosopher of the permanent as separ- ated from the transient in human feeling and action. Your mere satiriet is a differ- ent being. Your humorist is an optimist; your satirist is a pessimist. Your humor- fst is the prophet of the permanent, while your pessimist is the prophet of the tran- sient, the present; he feels nothing but the chill fog that obscures but never ex- tingulshes the orb of day. In life or in literature your satirists, your prophets of pessimiem, are, when sincere, morbid men, the pure flame of healthful genius black- ened with the gloom of a diseased spirit. Humor is always the slgn of unspoliled spir- ftual health, while satire is the symptom of spiritual malaria. — TITLE OF OUR CONGRESS, 1 it Simply “Congres: Go at That. Baltimore American. Several of the papers are discussing the use of the expressiop, “The" congress, which there seems an'inclination to sub- stitute in some quarters for congress. Periodically the expression bobe up and when it does It is generally used under the mpression that it is superior to the plain word congress, both grammatically and in elegance. There is an assumption, more- over, that authority is to be found for its use in the constitution itself and the early custom of the republic. These people have evidently read only one part of the con- stitution. That document speaks of congress in both ways. “The” seem: to be used when s imntended to designate congress as a distinct and separate branch of the gov- ernment—that s, to distinguish it from any other comgress—while in other in- ances the article “a” is used or both of them are dropped. Writers contemporary with the adoption of the constitution, or figuring shortly afterward, do not use the ‘“‘the”—men such as Jefferson, Chancellor, Kent and Bancroft—and it is ridiculous to suppose that they would have dropped it had it been the custom to use it. The aes=mption that there is superior wisdom or elegance in the use of the phrase “The congress” appears to be gratultous. This does not contravert the right of a person to use such an expression. It is merely intended to show that there is absolutely no reason for preferring it to the usual method of speaking of congr As there are fully 75,000,000 of American citizens who speak of congress and not of “the congress,” it is a matter of some im- portance for them to feel that when they do so they are committing no offens against good taste. Congress will surviv whether It be called ‘““the congress,” ‘‘a congress” or ‘‘congress,” all of which epithets are bestowed on it by the consti- tution, but to call it simple congress will not convict anyone of a capital offense. nd Let it WEALTH AND LONGEVITY. The Former Not Incompatible with the Latter. Philadelphia Record. One of the compensations of poverty has been the belief that a scarcity of food and the absence of luxurious and evem of comforts promote long living. while un- timely death is the common e of those who can afford costly foods and drinks, soft beds and whatever a luxurious taste can suggest. Statistics have sustained this view. A German statistician has gathered from the census returns of the various nations figures which show that there are | proportionately many more centenariang |among the poor and uneducated than among peoples whose educational average is high and whose plane of living is exalted. The census returns have been ac- cepted as accurate, or at any rate, as the only source of official information. Socio- logists, therefore, have drawn impressive lessons concerning the rewards of invol- untary virtue. No doubt many of those | whose poverty compels plain living would | be glad to accept a shorter span of life, with better opportunities for enjoyment, in Meu of a century of hunger and hard- ship; but having no choice in the matter | vity. | Very recent social statisties of England | show, at least, thawa long life is not fn- | compatible with riches. Of 206 persons in that country who, in dying this year, left each an estate valued at more than §500,000, 80 years and the average was 73 years. | This 1s far above the average of an equal | cumber of poor people taken haphazard. | It is explained that a considerable propor- tion of these long-lived rich men inher- ited their wealth and had lived from in- fancy to death in Juxurious circumstances. As far as known not ong of the group bad the alleged benefits of a meager dietary. | a hard bed and the constant anxiety about the immediate future which is common to the centenarians who close their days of destitution in the almshouse. Perhaps the late Prof. Owen's investiga- tions and conclusions offer the true ex- planation of the seeming inconsistency of the statistics. He found that in no single case was there any documentary proof a5 to the real age of the pauper centenarian and he Inferred that most of the very aged among the permanently destitute are with- out any accurate knowledge of their ages; that sometimes in ignorance and sometimes in order to become the center of unusual attention the uneducated poor give to the census taker ages which he has mo means to verify. Perhaps the rich do eat 100 much and meet (00 few hardships, but this is probably less dangerous to life than is contioued half-starvation and ex- posure. terially to fllustrate thought, but to make | six were over 90 years old, fifty were over THE NEW BLOODLESS SURGER Graphic Pen Pleture of the Re) at His Work. some LO-rens, “rens, some LAH-rents, some Lah-RENTZ. It makes no difference. The Viennese is no glant. I expected to see a Goliath: He was a very tender little street Arab, play! the vielin for crowns and florins. The exercise of finger- ing the strings must have given his left hand its power of manipulation in blood- less surgery. In his immaculate te togs he looks less ke a butcher than many eminent masters of the scalpel and saw. His arm, bared to the elbow, brown ry. His wrist is flat and broad, a wrist for strength. His hair, once reddish-brown, genuinely Cisleithan, is fringed with white. His beard is not nearly so big and bushy it appears in his pictures. His modest habit of looking down has given his neck a forward set and his Bhoulders a stoop. He is nelther imposing, impressive nor commanding, says Victor Smith in the New York Press. You would not turn to look at him a second time in the street. In the operat- ing theater 400 eyes critically observed him. The benches, made of structural steel, slate and gaspipe, are in tlers so steep that thelr occupants presented an almost vertical wall of faces. ned A tew well-gowned, midale were there, besides half cut, white-capped, white dozen clean- proned nurses. The visiting women may have been doc- tresses. Dr. Virgil P. Gibney, who Is as strong as a bull moose and as hardy as a red roller in a steel mill, made a bluff and hearty master of ceremonies. When he escorted Dr. Lorenz into the oit there wi an enthusiastic round of hand-clap- ping, which being ended, he said, swing- ing his arm in a half circle: ‘“‘Gentlemen (and ladies); HE needs no introduction!" Dead silence followed. The good doctor had almost overlooked the women. Dr Lorenz addressed “Gentlemen” only, tak- ing no notice of the women. After a short preface read from a for- midable mass of typewritten copy Dr. Lorenz's first subject was brought in upon a table by two white-robbed attendants and transferred from that to the operating table. It looked like the corpse of a little girl. Her bair seemed very black and her skin very white, excepting her face, which was flushed. Her stertorous breathing be- neath the ether cone, held by a young doctor, findicated the fast approaching end of her struggle against the anesthetic. Presently, with a sigh, she paesed into that state of temporary death which knows no paln. Then Dr. Lorenz, remarking quietly, “Gentlemen, we have no time to lose,” laid down his manuscript and set to work. At times I felt like shooting the Vien- nese. It was beyond my bellef that a deli- cate, crippled, siek child could hold to- gether under the flerce twisting, bending, stretching, hauling, crushing and wringing of two powerful men—Lorenz and Mueller. It was like a breaking on the wheel. It was like a crucifixion. To follow the demon- stration required every ounce of moral courage and will power that I possess. And those critical surgeons sat there with hap- piness lathered on their faces. Fifty of them were past 45; the rest, about 150, were between 25 and that age. To look at them you would have believed them capable of more concern at a cat fight. Dr. Lorenz speaks fair English, but is hard to follow. His demonstration was tedious because of his effort to explain the minutiae of every detail. His thirty min- utes seemed as many hours to me, because I feared he might kill the baby. At last the climax. Did you ever try to break a hambone across your knee, or across a billet of wood? There was a round-edged piece of maple on the table, about the size of a brick. When the child’s hip was placed upon this, and Dr. Lorenz, one hand on the abdomen, the other on the thigh, laid all of his pounds thereon, it evident that something must give way. Even thos blase surgeons leaned forward expectantly and ceased for the moment looking so weary and satlated. Then came to every ear a sound of a man throwing his ankle out of joint, and we ail knew that the poor lttle cripple's awful deformity was cured. The head of the femur had entered the cup- shaped cavity of the acetabulum, which had been denied it since birth. And those sur- geons who looked so tired of life actuslly clapped hands and said “Bravo!" Dr. Lorenz could have finished the dem- onstration in five minutes had he so d sired. But the labor Is terrific. It is a simple matter of hands and fingers and weight. The Viennese was greatly ex- bausted. It makes an ordinary person feel queer_to see this man correct in a few minufes deformities that have existed for years, and that by the mere “laying on of han The Viennese is mo hypnotist, megmerist or worker of miracles. He pre- tends to no divinity. But wouldn't you rather have his hancs than all the mii- | lions- of little old Carnegfe? Dr. Mueller works like & Trojan and | seems never to tire. His enthusiasm never flags. The Instant Dr. Lorenz' hands drop after the completion of the diarthrosis Dr. Mueller summons half a dozen nurses and proceeds to place the subject in plaster. His method is a liberal education in the plas- tic art. His rapidity is a marvel. The poor little thing's legs and body are hermeti- | cally sealed, so to speak, the limbs nearly | at right angles to the body, in which po- sition they are to remain for six or seven | months. How on earth the child recovers from the bruising and awful discoloration | of the tissues is to me a mystery. It I| |.were so abused my sufferings would be | { acute for many days—without plaster. Im- | agine your pain in a vise! Gods! Imagine the anguish of a child on recovering from the ether and its utter helplessness fn suffering! | Before the plaster sets Dr. Mueller cuts | certain openings with a hook-billed kuife, | tremble lest the blade go too deep and | butcher the child, But he knows his busi- | ness. He is a master workman. Dr. Lorens | | explains, while the plaster is being put on. | that the child will be able in a few weeks | to amuse itself by pushing across the floor | a small table or chair on rollers, sitting on either and using the feet as propellers I suppose that is nearly the limit of | amusement for moaths. Above the belt jts | movements will be unrestricted. Dr. Lorenz has all along insisted that & | patient who had been successtully treated should be instructed to walk without crutches, so that the limb could get a chance to develop naturally as soon as pos- sible and sustain its own weight. He thinks | too much dependence can de placed on crutches, and while demonstrating yester- day he told & story “When I was in Salt Lake City,” he said. “I was called downstairs in the botel to see a case. There sat a girl about 18, weeping, and an oldér brother was also in tears. 1 asked what the trouble w: * she said that two years ago she fell and { hurt ber bip and bad had to use crutches ever since. 1 cxamined ber later in a hospital and found not the slightest trace of injury. She had pain when she fell, two years before, and started to use crutches, and after tbat imagined she couln't get along without them. I threw them away l-na told her to walk and sbe did. That fs the only miracle ¥ Bave performed in lnmu' — Old age has Its sunrise well o8 su Self in the sermon Is like sand In tho seed. A siren’s voice In the cholr cannot cover A sinner's vice, He has a beggar's idea of prayer to whom it is only begging. No man becomes wise until he bas often called himselt. a fool. God will always set the plcture of cha acter in a worthy chambes Forethought 1s better th bht Innerthou; best of all. N You doti't need to treasure your sorrows; you will always find enough when you need them. 3- footprints on the sand of time all e at Jast to the great white throne be- side the tideless se: atterthought, — PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, The men who worked the turkey corner last week proved themselves prize gobblers, Colorado and Maine each possess & woman Jjustice of the peace. Heretofore woman has been m mere figure in the justice bus- iness. Every time silver drops 1 cent the re- public of Mexico loses $1,800,000. Nations as well as individuals often take a drop too much. Now is the accapted time to put the fin- ishing touches on new resolutions. The joh bas the merit of affording excellent mental exercise. roof of the theory of “lite is afforded by the resurrection of anclent and modern stories credited Tom Reed and Tom Ochiltree. The man who is a genuine millionaire nowadays is of necessity an meronaut. The row of ciphers hitched on to his pile com- prise his stock of balloons. “'A set of false teeth,” exclalms a North Dakota paper, “awalts an owner at this office. Owner can have the same by prov- Ing property and paying a dollar hu money for not advertising where found." What with Mascagni’s baggage attached and five of Duse's trunks dellverea‘hy mis- take to Mrs. Doose, keeps a grocery store on the South Side, Chicago must ap- pear to eminent Italians & very unsate town. Admiral Frank Wildes, in command of the Asiatic squadron, has been condemned for physical disabllity by the naval board of medical survey and relieved from duty. On his return to this country he will be placed on the retired list. Admiral Beresford says he does not want to see another acre added to the British empire. The last real estate transaction Britain bad a hand in made a deep impres- slon on the imperial pocket and touched the taxpayers on a tender spot. A poem four feet long celebrating the Greek victory at Marathon was found in one of the tombs of Egyptian kings. Mod- ern versifiers whose songs are buried In waste baskets should provide more enduring tombs and achieve fame a few centuries hence. Few men of his years are as active in business affairs as Abram 8. Hewitt, ex- mayor of New York, who is now turned 80, It is sixty years since his name began to assume prominence in the commercial and political life of New York City, but he shows no sign of retiring as yet. Florence Burns of Brooklyn, who figured in a recent murder case; Pearl Hart, the stage coach bandit, and a dramatized Mo- lineux case, are diligently elevating the stage in Greater New York. No doubt the stage coyld bear a slight uplift, but the first essential is a copious downpour of chloride of lime. 5 “Santa Teresa,” the young woman be- lieved by the Yaqui Indians and many Mex- icans to possess divine powers, has sued her Indian husband, G. N. Rodriguez, in t Los Angeles, Cal., courts for divorce. It is alleged the marriage was forced upon the young woman at the point of a revolver by her impetuous admirer at Clifton, Ariz., June 22, 1900. —_— DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Chicago Post: “What dia the lovers quarrel about “‘She wanted him to promise to love her forever and ever, and he said he wanted the day for himself. Philadelphia Press: “She says she would DOt marry him if he were the last man oa r ‘“What nonsense! If he were the last man any woman would marry him just to spite the other women." Smart Set: Fludubbe—Do you suppos that girl Bilkins is to marry i rich she is said to be? . Pinhedde—No question about it—I know Bilkins. Town Toples: Mrs. Von Riumer—The doctor told me today that my vitality was at its lowest ebb between 4 and b in the umer—That's the reason I always t home about that time. 454 Chicago News: Growells (at the theater) —Mrs. Nelghbors certainly does look charm- |n£ tonight. She has a husband rs. Growells—Yes. who likes to see her decently and dressed isn’t too grouchy to pay for it Washington Star And_do you never wish to experience love's young dream® ' asked the romantic young woman of her bachelor brother. “No. sir,” replied he, dreams go by contraries.” “for, you kuow, Judge: YOU WATTY mel” tremb- | ingly inquired the honest youth of the coy w. wide: answered the difident ask mamma first ™ maid, “you m “T aff avers the truthful swain “but she sald she couldn't ha she was engaged to old Goldrox." .hng ter of the “Oh, kind —_— JUST THE SAME. James Barton Adams in Denver Post The New Year is coming and people will swear Just in the same old | wa they are disposed to boast of thelr longe- | and does it with 5o free a hand that 1| That drink will be cut fram their Nat for a year. Just in the same old way With moral intentions our bosoms will swel The good resolutios frem soal-founts will—well Enough to pave every Mghway ln—well, Just in the same old way We'll glance o'erthe year that"is dying o ast Just in the same old way, And vow that the next will not be as the iast, Just In the same old way We'll vow that we'll shed our transgres- slons and sine As shakes In the spring winter skins. And enter the X shed their old ew Year as bright as new Just in the same old way. In writing each manly *Resblved” we pre- pare Just In the same old way, We'll read and revise them with studious care, P Just i the same old way. Our souls Wil expand With & feeling most & When ned I of the Mst we have finally scan- And .:‘m;‘\ we will sign them with resolute an Just in the same ol way In less than & month we'll be flled with & yearn Just in the same old way; We'll wish the reform lane would show us a tura, Just in the same oM way We'll view the old templer at Orst with rm, Then 1augh at'the thought Be can bring wa o in arm, Just in the same old way.