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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-07
SENATE WILL RUSH
LEONARD WOOD CASE
Nomination Will Be Called Up at
the First Possible Moment
and Action Taken.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Washington. March 1.-THE Leonard
Wood nomination, delayed from time to
time since last December. because OF
sickness and deaths among prominent
persons interested more or less directly
in the matter. Will be called I'd in h
senate in executive session tomorrow.
provided such a request does not inter
fere with the consideration Of a~ppropria-
ton bills.
If it does interfere. Senator Foraker
will call I'd the nomination at the first
opportunity on some succeeding day. the
intention now being to secure action by
the Senate as soon as possible
This arrangement, II Is saId. has been
agreed upo oy Senator's Interested in the
Wood case.
The hearing OF testimony before the
Military Affairs Committee was finished
the middle Of last December A tavor-
able report to the Senate was postponed
until after the holiday recess to Offset
any view of the country at large n
snap judgment 2 been passed on tho
case. and that the committee had made
up its mind collectively before the testi-
mony was heard
Since the favorable report in January
one poStpoDement after another has oc-
CURED ALL have been on account of ID
parenuy Unavoidable causes.
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Hate the United States.

The World To-day.
The general impression of the masses is that Colon
bia is a small South American Republic. given to comic
opera warfare, whore c~ockfghts are popular and gam
bling universal. This is more or less true. but at the
same time it is well to take into consideration that the
State of Cauca alone. one of six States. is territorially
nearly as large as the Empire of France.
The idea of an amalgamation of the Chilean, Bra
lillian, Argentine and Peruvian fleets as against the feet
of the United States would be excellent food for thought
and there is not one Latin American Republic. Panama
and Cuba included, which would not sit back and
chuckle at the first reverse of their northern neighbor's
arms. They don't like us; We are to them as the canine
Is to the feline. One has only to hear the opinions ex.
pressed in the cafes and theaters in Rio and Buenos
Ayres, Pernambuco, Lima and Valparaiso, and the thun-
derols applause when the United States is ridiculed by
some hummer, to realize the drift of public opinion and
feeling. To-. t.ly
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Mercy.
7. N. in Life.

7. NJ. in Life.
The quality of Mercy is not strained.
AS a matter Of fact, this is in accordance with the
strict tenets of Science, for straining would do no good,
anyway.
Mercy. to be effective. should be either sterilized,
Pasteurized or Morganized.
Strictly speaking. however, Mercy is no longer de
rigueur in the best circles-that is, in circles where
money is predominant.
We need have no mercy on those people obliged to
pay twice as much for the necessaries of life. just be-
cause we have formed atrust to keep up the prices and
promote the standard of the most exalted education.
Mercy is weakness, and peculiarly septic, thereby
running contrary to the course of the very strong. Be
ing mightier all the time, we must rot foonshly allow
it to stand in the way. -"" g g.
Whatever quality Mercy has. therefore, must neces-
sarily be poor and unfit for the use of the best financial
interests. How can there be Mercy in a railroad COM
bination or a corner in wheat? We tremble with right
eous indignation at the idea.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-07
IS TT EYE OR oCULIsT?

Medical men persistently make a practice of dis
covering things calculated to disturb that calm
equanimity, that serene outlook which we so much
wish to preserve. Until sick we never think of the
doctor, and don't want to. Possibly it Is to assert
himself in the period of our health that the medical
gentlemen continue to huyl forth their discoveries"
The American Medicine advances the newest
and most disconcerting proposition that has come
from the profession in some little time. The gist of
it is that reading weakens cerebral action; that use
Of the eye explains the increase of insanity. In the
light of science We now see ourselves, as we burn
the midnight oil over instructive pages. heading di-
rect toward the insane asylum, instead of growing
in mind and spirit, as we so fondly had imagined.
Printing, books. schools, libraries, cheap books,
newspapers. and handicraft occupations have ap-
peared," says the journal in question; land compel
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-07
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.


ssas., Sewer Commissioner Valliants plan TO expert
"a gRRent with a small sewage publication plant in Ca
=. rohdelet Park may result in the adoption of a scien-
-. tifc method for better sanitary conditions in all
fas public recreation grounds. None of the methods N
sssSn.vuse seem to have demonstrated their efficacy, when
....F9'eeonomy is also considered, for large sewers; but
50 most, if not all, of them appear to be useful for
skhall sewers and in meeting the requirements of
-.spall towns.
Municipal engineers are taking greater interest N
Athe question of sewage puriication. Prior TO the
&fre Baltimore, was considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
Purifying its sewage, as there is vigorous objection
TO letting it empty into the bay in a crude state. 1t
was virtually decided to make experiments with
filtration in Anne. Arundel County. Cleveland has
been considering the installation of an experimental
keptic-tank system. Other cities are giving atten-
ton TO the scientific disposal of sewage.
Atithe last meeting OF the international Congress
sv of Hygiene and Demography. in Brussels, the sub
y .sect was thoroughly discussed and very practical
c2oBciusions were reached.
1G;Ay n Infringing the subject up in st. Louis Mr.. Val
&SRt does not suggest that bacterial publication
Roufd be successful on a large scale. AS he says, its
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RECENT COMMENT.
Church and a1o Attendance.

Current Literature. t-
While the tariff question is still in the foreground in
English politics, the social condition of the poorer
classes is still the deepest concern of the serious people
of England. Mr.. william 7. Stead who, whatever we
may think of his taste or judgment, has the faculty of
doing things 20 that they appeal to the popular innagfna-
ton, recently conducted a census Of church and saloon
attendance in one of the poorer quarters in London.
which revealed results that cannot begin to be paralleled
in any American city. In December. it may be recalled,
a canvass was mode of church attendance in New York
City, which showed that in nearly every section about
one-half of the adult population-nearly one-third of the
men and t~wo-thirds of the women-attended church.
According to Mr.. Steads census of Paddington. out OF
$4,000 people, only $1,000 attended church-S0O men, 5000
women and 1000 children. These figures. however, are
not SO significant as those giving the attendance at sA-
looms open the same Sunday. Both at church and at the
saloons each person was counted each time ne entered.
and at the saloons there were naturally many repeaters.
While there were only $1,000 men and boys in the dis
trict. $500 men and boys went into saloons that Sunday,
ten times as many as went into church. Among women
the figures, though smaller, were more disheartening.
In this district, in which only 1900 women attended
church. 5000 were found in saloons. 1t is a picture of
the London abyss which well justifes the lines of Will
liam Watson on the real duties of England, in his strik-
ing poem on the True Imperialism"
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POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS.

=. y
The editor of a ladies' journal, or high-class liter
AIRY bazaar for hOme-consumption, believes that the
public is losing confidence in the daily news reports.
siSgHe thinks that the. loss, of faiths due to the distor-
lion and establishment of facts as they are re-
xA ~neved from cold storage and prepared with edi-
Htofial condiments for the morning and evening
"Sz meals. =
A monthly review wonders, editoriaily. whether
rraa-the public does ever get quite an accurate concep-
essiion of any strong public man" Enlarging upon;its
.gssdoubt, it mentions that the public held a wrong i'm
S~'spression concerning Senator Hanna. Further tide
SSlares: $50. too, with the late Mr.. William C. Whit
Tpey. More men thought of him during his last years
Hs9 as a patron of the turf than as the ablest Secretary
.,ssf the Navy perhaps that we have had"
"a And what is the deduction? That the public has
s~'a' misconception of President Roosevelt. The re-
view evidently believes that Mr.. Roosevelt is a
:safe' official, and the public, it thinks, has a more
or less opposite notion of his temperament. The
characteristic that the public ascribes to him is il7
peruosity.
Mr.. Roosevelts defenders are following "a tor
srsstuous path in an endeavor to set him right with
esgthe voters. And the magazine promoters are going
= out of the channel in trying to question the reliabili-
fy of news reports. After all is said, the average
conservative newspaper is a reliable document, as it
has a policy of sincerity which it follows in present
eng information.
,0As for popular misconceptions, it is doubtful
~ whether they conld exist for a long period. You
&kScan't-f fool all the people all the time,' though some
Iofs them can be fooled now and then and though
sssss3spme diligently fool themselves. General public
assss6pinion relative to a man prominent in public life
- usually is. correct.
= " The public, as a rule. considers a man for what
he is, and not particularly for what he was or might
be or may become. Should he be a bon vivant, that
is a habit which must be studied in connection with
better qualities that he possesses. Should he be
'seFratic, that fault is measured against his genius,
.b@rwhatever its type. Should he devote time and eff
,sr fort to many subjects and diversions, the public will
question whether he has capacity and time for more
y serious matters. The public aims at a generally
crfjust estimate Of the worth of a public man, and,
although its estimate may be temporarily unfair, it
VIII ultimately adjust itself about as nearly right as
- 4 ,neighborhood adjusts its estimate of any of its
members.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-07

, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
, TODAY IN ST. LOUIS,

= From The Republic, March s. 1879.
= Ethan A. Hitchcock, assignee of
. Appleton. Moves and Maude, made
q a statement showing assets OF $685.
. COS, 907 and secured Indebtedness,
= 1923, 401.S7.
= Mrs. Mary ]. Smith, one Of the
= Oldest residents Of Florissant, was
y buried.
. The Board of Health decided to
= prevent the sale of milk from COWS
e fed on swill.
= Emma Abbott and her company
D sang Faust" at the Grand Opera
. house.
. jay Gould was reported to have
. purchased the Kansas Pacific Rail-
D road.
. Peter o'Brien of carondelet an
. nounced that he was tired Of the
D House of Delegates and would not
. be. candidate for reelection under
. any circumstances.
. At the thirty-seventh annual COM
. mencement exercises Of the St.
. Louis Medical College. addresses
. were delivered by Professors j. T.
. Hodgen, W. H. Eames and E. III.
. Gregory.
= The Knights of ST. Patrick COM
p 1pleted plans for the annual banquet
= and elected the following as mem
. bers:'R r. NJ. Foster. A. C. Dunlevy
. and Joseph Wangler. who received
~ the "caed mile faiithe'' of the So
= ciety. . ~.
~ Mrs. Rehecca, wife of Norton
. Newcomb, was buried from the
y family home. No. 1924 Pine street.
- lawrence Barrett in ''Richelieu"
opened an engagement at the olym-
= pic Theater.
q q AA
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a physiologic and unphysiologic activity which,
whether harmful or not, is a new function, and one
to which, in evolution, neither the mind nor the body
has been habited, and especially to which the high
est, the most delicate and the most used sense organ
exactly in proportion TO the number of hours of
school life and study demanded in the country con-
cerned. To this suggestive fact is now added the
demonstration that insanity is almost precisely in
the same proportion. When it is found that the IN
sane and criminal have an astonishingly high pro-
portion of high optical defects, the suggestion grows
TO conviction that the morbid action of the eye and
its resultant cerebral function are considerable
causes Of the increase of insanity
Are we to adobt the corollary of this theory? Are
we to conclude that if we persist with our printing,
books, our newspapers and our handicraft occupa-
tons we shall end as suicides or insane?
This medical opinion profoundly alarms a lay
mind. Mere gray matter undignifed with the NJ. d.
deduces from such reasoning that the eye is unable
to stand the pace and that we are evolutiRg. beyond
its capacity.
Still. we doubt whether society will agree with
the doctor view of the matter. Society will main
tain that. if any truth lies in tho. suggestion, it is the
with the procession. The thing reverts back to the
custodians of our health during our onward push
ing-the medical fraternity. We must investigate
all the evidence in the case. If the oculist has been
derelict. if he has not taken proper care of orr eyes,
we shall rise united as society and cast him out. He
charges too much, anyhow.
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VISITORS AT ST. LOUIS HOTELS.

o W. Pruitt Of 1ndiaaapoiis - At tho
Planters.
B E. Lacy and I'M Furch Of Nyxtau
Fields. Tex, are Registered At the IAclede.
Il L Pendletnn OF Buffalo. No.. n 4 e-est
at the Moser.
John b. Park of New York Is Mt the M.di-
SON ...e ~ fTEIA
Doctor " H Hobson Of Richmond. XIV.
WIS among yesterdays arrivals at the South
ern. -
j. n Price OF San Antonko, Tex, IL rers-
tered at the New st James.
Fl z. Bower OF Keoto. Ia. WAS a. the
LAndeu yesterday
Harry Moore OF Nevada. Mo-. is q guest At
the St Nicholas .
Ernst Mayer. a business man Of Matnx.
Germany, is at the Planters. "
Thomas A Carter or ozark. Ark, In at thu
AOser.
walter c. Arlington Of Detroit lis registered
at tie Laclede.
ton. Mo-. are at the Planters
Mr.. and Mrs C. r. Snyder OF Nome. Alash.
registered yesterday al the Lindell-
E c. Davis OF Chicago is at the st. Nicho-
las.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. J.. Sweet Of Detroit are On
the ghest list at the Southern.
R. W. Waite. a nnancier of Southern In
diana Is at the Planters. His home Is in New
Albany.
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The MIcrobe Mt Home.
Life.

The British Medical Journal tells a curious story at
the expense of the French Academy of Medicine, which
has recently moved to new quarters. On the place being
cleaned. the room in which the Council used to hold its
meetings was found to be a kind of museum, containing
specimens of Paris dirt, collected in the course of many
years. AS a first step in the process of publication the
carpet, worn and heavy with the dust Of ages. was
taken up. when, to the wonderment of the beholders.
another carpet. still more ragged and grimy. came into
view; under this was another, below that again a fourth.
and so on until some ten layers Of molderng carpet had
been removed. Surely this will shake the public faith in
the microbe boyle!
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Her Idea of Ii.

Harpers Monthly Magazine.
The world of little Elizabeth was entirely the world
of day. Her nights we're spent in the Land of Nod. so
that her small soul was in ecstasy when she was given
permission to stay up to zee the stars. But it was not
their twinkling that allured her. A new sickle moon was
in the sky, and her eyes travelled straight to it and fas-
tened in baby amazement upon it. 81
'oh, papa, see!' she cried, with a little gasp; Gods
eyebrow showsi" t
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Missourians In New York.

New York, March 6.-Among the arriv.
ais at the hotels here to-day were the fol-
lowing from Missouri.
st. Louis-F. d. Walsh, S. L. Stephens. Grand
Union: o. J. Schweter, Mrs. NJ. p. Stevens.
Broadway Central: w. NJ. Morse, Jr.. Gilsey:
c. l.. Relfsnider. Victoria; ]. S. Landeman, St
Denis: Il. z. Stromberg and Mrs. Stromberr.
Cadillac.
Kansas City-M. B. Aaron. Hoffman,: p. G..
Weber. Criterion: A H. Brown, Vendome.
ST. Joseph-W. II. Gordon. Darlington.
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WORTH KNOWING.
TRUE NOBLENESS.
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

ct OP this true nobleness I seek in vain,
In woman and in man 1 find it not; taa 3
/ almost weary of my earthly lot,
My lfe-sprinss are dried up with burning pain,
Thou fnd'st it not? | pray thee look again,
Look inward through the depths Of thine own soul.
How is It with thee? Art thou sound and whole?
Doth narrow search show thee no earthly STAIN, f
Be NoBLEi and the nobleness that lies F-.5S
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own; r--
Then wilt thou see it CLEAN in many eyes,
Then will pure light around thy path be shed,
And thou wilt never more be sad and lone.
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The 800 new policemen will hold their positions
eight months, draw S65 a month each and see all
the parades. They will rank as probationary and
act as veteran p%atrolmen. If they do their duty
well. they will be permitted to see Chief Kiely's
white uniform and g%litterinS broadsword. for Chief
Kiely belongs to the Prussian Order of Eagles and
the knights of st. Patrick.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-07

r When President Smith gets back to Salt Lake
City he may get even by putting some gentiles of
Washington on the record of public testimony. If
he keeps his eyes open he will get the necessary
facts.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-07

In reply to a request that it sell Worlds Fair
souvenir gold dollars for 50 a coin, a Colorado bank
says: rs it not straining a point TO ask a silver
mining camp to pay 200 per cent premium on gold?'
Possibly. But hereabouts and farther east we pay
a greater premium on water in mining stocks.
So pardon us, so pardon us.
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AT Chicago Hotels.

Chicago. Ill. March 6.-These st. Louis
folk are registered at hotels here to-day:
Auditorium.Mrs J. H Hart. r NJ. Han
kaIserhon-J- B. Ellis. E W. Hall. T. b.
Windsor-chfton-H N. churchill. F. h Res
ser, r. l.. Young.
Palmer HouseSw. E Cody. 8. J. Flint, ].
S. Carey.
Grand Paciho-o. ]. Aztell. H. S. Turtle. A.
w. Wagner.
Brevoort-H- L. Burnett.
Great Northern-F. A. Curtiss, z. S. Nc
Garthy. W. c. Thompson, J. II. Villas, r. H.
saratoga-O. S. Hook. r. ]. King.
Weliington-R. A. Austin, J. c. Marble.
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baptized $50 Persons.

FFtNLAL
Galena. Kas.. March 6.-The Reverend
Charles +. Parham, ii Kansas City a
Eelist. who has been holding meetings in
Galena and vicinity. since August. to-day
Baptized converts for the third time. The
ceremony took place at lowell this after
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-07

A telegraph operator, t~estifying in court, said
he is capable of identifying the touch" of another
operator. He ought to be able to save his money.
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&C., saoo FROM Drur store.

noon. Two hundred and fifty persons were
immersed.
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success has not been But for parks and public
hospitals there would be sanitary benefit from a
scientific method of publication.
MR.. ROOSEVELT SAYS.

MIR. SAYS.
In the March Critic Mr.. Roosevelt makes, among
others, these very interesting remarks: =
1t is of course the merest truism TO say
that a party is of use only so far as 1t
serves the nation, and that he serves his
party best who serves the nation best In
1856 and in 1850. the party was of use. be
cause it stood against the extension or
slavery; in 1864. because it stood against
all. slavery as well as against the destruc-
ton of this Union; in 1865. because it stood
against those who wished to undo the re-
suits of the war. These are now dead
issues; but we can learn how to face the
live issues of the present by studying in
good faith how men faced these dead
issues of the past.
And this leads Mr.. Roosevelt 10 consider the fine
type of statesmanly character which tells for true
greatness: mentioning Lincoln. We cannot help
reading between the lines, or at least guessing be
tween the lines, a vaguely attempted vindication of
Mr.. Roosevelts course in stirring up anew the negro
question, i%ustifying it upon the plea Of n great
Statesmanly mission.
Just what principle of craftsmanship extending
throughout the1ong past history to which he refers
could he found to square with his policy of flirting
with the negro convention vote through the door of
hope is by no means obvious.
We assume of course that Mr.. ROosevelt~iH say
ing that we can learn how to face the live issues OF
the present did not have tariff revision and the
trusts in mind. Mr.. Roosevelt has faced both Of
these issues backwards ever since he became i'm
pressed with the possibility of his nomination. It
would be difficult to conceive Mr.. Roosevelts facing
live issues of the present" and at the same time
looking into the past for eonsolation-necessarily he
would have his back turned to the live issues.
Nevertheless there are some good lessons in the
past. Incidentally just prior TO rs Mr.. Tilden
demonstrated what a mere private Individual might
do in the way of cleaning out corruption. A Tilden
in Mr.. Roosevelts place now would probably face
the Post-Ofice Department standing with his heels
in Mr.. Roosevelt's toe-prints. And there have been
numerous statesmanly examples in the past of what
honesty and vigor could do to monopoly and in the
way of proper tariff regulations. There have been
many great men in I'll times who, when they took n
position or proclaimed a principle, stuck to it, but
history furnishes few instances of men who an
nounced a readiness to die for free trade, or as Mr..
Roosevelt did in later years, a promise TO effect
tariff revision. and then when the time came for
action capitulated 10 a set of money -grubbing poll
ticians. declaring the tariff to be no issue.
Nevertheless Mr. Roosevelt writes most inter
estingly.
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Kinmundy. ILL.,. March 6.-The drug store
of F. ]. Nirider was burglarized last night
and over $500 taken in money and mer-
~chandise.
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Cireulatien puring Eehruary-

.Y<r ". B. Carr. Business Manager Of The st. Louis Re
public. being duly sworn. says that the actual number
y of~full- and complete copies Of the Daily and Sunday
- Republic printed during the month of February, 1904, all
in REGULAR editions. was as ner schedule below:
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Err OF SUBSCRIPTION:
DAILY AND ISSUES A WEEK
BY Mail-In Advance-Postage Prepaid.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-01-11
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