The National tribune., 1907-07-11


hurled by means of a mortar into
mammoth boiler-plate cylinder, whic'
has previously been filed with gas, an
the effects will be carefully noted. /
ignition fails after severe test, the eX
ploSive will be known as "permissibl
Explosives" and their use will be urge,
upon the mine owners of the country
| In addition there will be importan
experiments in rescue work. 1t is de
clared that in serious gas explosions il
mines hundreds Of lives could be saVe'
were it possible for the rescue party t.
enter Immediately after the accidents
As it is now the deadly fire-damp Otter
holds the men back for hours Will
their comrades are slowly being suffo
Gated or burned to death.
Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott, senio
member of the Harvard Corporation
said recently:
President Roosevelt is one of tn
most loyal Harvard men and, of course
very friendly to the college; but ther
is no possibility of his ever becomin'
president of the University"
DR.. Walcott'S statement was evoked
by the remarkable utterances which thu
! President is reported to have made II
delegation of Harvard men at Lans
ing. Mich: I'm a year and II month:
| expect to be an active member of the
organization"
DIR. Walcott further says: "As
friend of President Roosevelt, l have
reason to believe. in common witf
others. that his earnest hope after his
term at the White House is to become
Senator from New York State.
Il should not vote for his selection to
head the Harvard faculty, because. in
the first place. he is not what you would
call an academic man."
Government officials are greatly dis
turbed by the fact that private and per.
sonal messages transmitted by wireless
stations along the Atlantic seacoast are
being intercepted by Washington man
| who has established station in his
home.
BY this private station he can receive
and transmit messages with the Govern
ment stations.
Notwithstanding that the expert is
known to the local authorities. they are
powerless to act. because there is no
law to protect official wireless stations
during the exchange of messages.
The owner of the station is A. F.
Harmer, a practical electrician. OF this
city. Within recent years he has per-
fected an apparatus that compares "a
vorabiy with any maintained by the
Government. Not only can he commu-
nlCdte Win WdTSHipS dt Std. Dut Ht tdit
interpret every official message received
or sent from the National Capital. The
most sacred governmental messages
that probably would disrupt the placid
relations between this and other ma
tions. were they to become known. are
to him but common communications.
When President Roosevelt, aboard
the battieship Louisiana. was returning
from Panama some months ago, Mr..
Harmer received, sitting at his dining
room table. every message sent from
the ship to the Navy Yard Station. Sew
eral of the communications, he says,
were of an important and personal ma
ture.
Here are some sayings of Secretary
Wilson: tsi-.s
The producers from the soil are the
Nations jury when questions of public
policy are to be settled.
When the professions need quiet
nerve and capacity for study and strain,
the farmer is in request.
As a people. we are quite success
full in governing in the country; in the
city we are perplexed.
Good farming Is the basis of bank ac-
counts in our country.
Fill the pupils stomach before you
teach altruism, and see that the teacher
has had beefsteak for breakfast.
Robert C. Proctor, who for several
years was Senator Lodges private sec
retary, and in the full enjoyment of the
Senator's confidence. failed to put in an
appearance at court in Boston the other
day. when his case was called. and his
bail bond was forfeited. 1t will be re-
that last Winter Proctor was
indicted and prosecuted on the charge
of applying to his own use the sum of
$3.50 which had been entrusted to him
by prominent Massachusetts Republi-
can as a contribution to the campaign
fund. The jury found him guilty as
charged, and his punishment was as
sessed at 10 months penal servitude
He appealed the case, and the higher
court confirmed the sentence the other
day. but Proctor was not present to
surrender himself. The young man
was very well and favorably known in
where he had for some
time been associated with Senator Lodge
in the important capacity mentioned
The Senator discharged him as soon as
the facts in the case were developed.
The Senator now has his son. George
Cabot Lodge. acting as his nominal pri-
vate secretary. Young Lodge Is of a
decided poetic temperament, and has
written some verse that has the gem
uine flavor of poetry.
The Navy Department has been in
formed that Joseph L. Stickney, the war
who stood on the bridge
of the Olympia with Dewey at the battle
of Manila Bay. expired last Saturday at
his home in Michigan.
For several years Mr.. Stickney had
been an editorial writer on The Chicago
Evening Post and also a frequent con-
tributor to the magazines.
Mr.. Stickney was 58 years old.
the double advantage of
being a trained newspaper reporter
and a graduate of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. he was unusually well
equip to report the battle of Manila
Bay.
He was the man who gave to the
world Admiral Dewey's famous order,
You may fire when ready, Gridley."
Mr. Stickney's account of the battle
of Manila Bay was the first published
story OF the light in accurate detail. Ad-
miral Dewey. in his official report of the
battle to the Navy Department. said:
y. l.. Stickney, formerly AN officer in
the United States Navy, and now a news
paper correspondent, volunteered for
duty as my Aid and rendered valuable
service"
The Adjutant-General has been ad-
vised of the death from heart failure
of Brighten. Henry S. TurriIl, United
States Army. retired, which occurred in
New York city Friday. Gen. Turrill
was born in Connecticut Sept 8, 1912.
and entered the volunteer service as As
sistant Surgeon of the 18th Conn. Feb
i3, 1854, from which he was mustered
out July 19, 1865. He was appointed AS