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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-03-23
Sour
Stomach

No appetite. loss OF strength, nervous
ness, headache, constipation, bad BREATH
general debility. sour risings. and catarrn
OF the stomach are all due to indige stion.
Kodol relieves ind gestion. This new oiscov-
cry represents the natural juices OF diges-
ton as they exist in healthy stomach.
combined with the greatest known tonic
and reconstructivc properties. koooi Tor
dyspepsia does not only relieve indigestion
and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy
helps all stomach troubles by cleansing.
purifying. sweetening and Strengthening
the mucous membranes lining the stomach.
Mr. S. S. Ball, Of Ravenswood w Va says
II was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years
Kodol cured me and we are now using It in mik
for baby"
Kodol Digests What You Eat.
hoktles only. Relieves Indigestion. sour stomach,
becEing OF eas, etc.
Prepared by {. 9. Dewitt & co., CHICAGO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[From &c Tribune Bureau.

Washington. Jan. 14.-AIany early and small din
parties given tonight in order that guests
might attend the entertainment given for the ben
eft of the House OF Mercy. Mrs James Pinchot
Mrs. William Emo. Mrs Nicholas Anderson, Mrs
GaR. Mrs. Glover, Mrs. satterlee. Mrs Addison
Mrs. Barney Mrs. Randolph Clark. Miss Foraker.
Miss Kean, Mrs. William x. Carr. Mrs. Oliver
Mrs. Shonts. Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Newberry. Mrs
Reyburn. Mrs. Richard Townsend Mrs William A.
Slater and Mrs. John r. Mclean were patronesses
and the spectators presented almost as brilliant
the entertainment itself. One OF the chief
features OF the evening tableau, in which
Miss Jennings. the Misses Shonts Miss Jean Crosby
Miss Dodge Miss Slater, Miss Marian Crosby Miss
Caryl Crawford. Miss Laura Mills Miss Leutz and
Miss Clabaugh appeared. THE Muses. afforded
TO pose. and St. Margaret's Quartet gave Liza Leh
nann's In Persian Gdrden'
Captain and Mrs Richardson Clover were among
the dinner hosts OF the evening. entertaining the
Secretary Of the Navy and Mrs Metcalf Senator
Kean Miss Kean, Senator and Mrs. Buckley, Rep
resentative and Mrs Weeks. Mrs. Postlethwaite
Henry Croker. Captain and Mrs. Southerland Ad-
mral and Mrs. Goodrich and General and Mrs.
Gillespie.
Miss Jean Reid. who has been the guest OF Rep
resentatiye and Mrs Nicholas Longworth since
Friday. returned 10 New York to-day.
Miss Lucy Margaret Roosevelt who came over
TO be the guest OF the President and Mrs Roose-
welt at tho diplomatic dinner, and Saturday
night was the guest of honor at P dinner and dance
given by her grandmother and uncle. Mrs. Kean
and Senator Kean. returned to New York this
morning.
The Benedicts'' organization Of last season.
which gave several OF the prettiest dances Of the
winter. has been displaced by Tho Benedictines
a organization, which will give a dance the
night OF January 81 Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt,
Mrs William Corcoran Eustls. Mrs. Ward Theron
and Mrs Purdy are members OF the committee OF
arrangernents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
FRANCES AID TO ART.
Storm Of Protest OUer Attempt to
Cut off appropriations.

Paris. Jan. 14.-An unsuccessful effort has
Just been made 10 strike from the budget OF the
government subventions which help TO maintain
the four great national theatres. the opera, the
Opera Comique the Comedie Franchise and the
Odeon. Probably no country in the world is so
generous IN thu encouragement Of the fine
arts as Franco, S3.495O0O being annually ex-
pended for this purpose. The cost Of the
maintenance OF the four national theatres ap
proaches S1,S0O,0OO annually. The personnel Of
the Opera includes 1870 artists, musicians.
dancers. choristers, etc; the Coincide Francaise,
6IO: the opera Comique. 602 and the Odeon.
ESQ The receipts. however. serve to cover the
larger part Of the expense OF elaborate pro-
auctions. and the deficit which the government
was obliged to meet last year was only about
SECS. 600
The attempt to strike out the appropriation
was based on the ground that these theatres
served no public utility, but the mere sugges-
ton OF Gripping the national drama and the
opera, which form such a great part of Partisan
life, raised a storm Of protest. The doors of the
national theatres are open to artists and au-
thors and genius and merit are always assured
of the opportunity which they seek. The prize
winners IN the conservatory. IN virtue of that
fact. receive engagements according TO the class
in which they are competing. either in opera or
drama.
Gustave Rivet. chairman Of the senate COM
mittee which reported against the proposal
made warm defence OF encouragement of art
recalling the words of Noltaire. that every
people which has not cultivated the arts has
been destined to remain unknown" He called
attention to the fact that the Greeks numer-
ically the smallest people OF antiquity, had left
the greatest impress upon civilization among
their poets. philosophers and artists. Art which
so many people consider superfiuous." added he
us n necessity of nature and is of supreme util-
tty by its Incompatible influence"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
SAVING ON THE BARGE CANALS.

The report of Colonel Thomas w. Symons,
of the engineer corps of the army consulting
engineer in the improvement Of the New York
State canals shows the skill and economy
with which the public funds are being admin
istered in that work. The estimated total cost
of the canal Improvement S10l.o0oOOO. was
based on engineers estimates made in 1905
but, SO far as contracts have actually been let
there has been saving of between ID and
10 per cent on the estimates. Colonel Symons's
report shows the contracts that have been let
upon about ffty-fiye of the $40 miles of the
work. which includes the Erie, the Oswego and
the Champlain canals. On the sections let and
described In Colonel Symons's report the esu-
mated cost preceding the appropriation was
$685. 10. The engineers reduced these esti-
mates just before the contract letting to $751;
493. 39S. and the actual contracts signed make
the cost 4,779.309. The original estimate on
these ifty-five miles under contract exceeds
the contract price by S2.7661O1 and the final
estimate exceeds it by sI714,Os9. OF the eigh-
teen sections under contract In only two has
the contract price exceeded the original estl-
mate.
The advisory canal board has drawn up con-
tracts for bidders on about 200 miles of the
total 40 miles The board has prudent plan
to keep the cost of building the canal within
the original estimates. Its engineers make a
eSumato OF Ine cost OF Sacn llell OIL
work within the contract No bid is accepted
in which the price of any item exceeds the
price of that item In the engineers estimates
by more than 20 per cent, and no bid is &C
cepted IN which the total price exceeds the
total estimated cost by more than 10 per cent
A fruitful cause Of extravaganza in the past
allowances to contractors for eXcayatng more
difficult material than the contract called for
has been eliminated. There is no fear Of extra
claims for removing unexpected rock or hard
pan" A unit price is fixed for all the material
to be excavated within each contract section
The contractor knows the result Of the borings
and he takes his chances whether he will en-
counter easier or more difficult matter TO
cavate than he looked for.
The system devised promises to insure eco
nomic construction of the barge canals, and
the contracts thus far let plainly indicate that
the total cost will be we'll within the total est-
mate, On unusual experience in great public
enterprises. The work thus far accomplished
In starting and organizing the canal improve
ment reflects distinct credit on the Republican
state administration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
THE MISERY OF CHINA.

The interest felt In this country IN the Salton
Sea and the efforts at redemption OF the sub
merged land may, perhaps serve as stand
ard with which to measure the interest which
should be felt In the foods in China and the
relief Of the distress which they have caused.
Big as It IS, the Salton Sea is a mere puddle
by the side Of the tens of thousands of square
miles of submerged territory along the Grand
Canal. and, while the unrullness of the Colo
RADIO River has caused much loss to many peo-
pie and is a sufficiently serious matter TO
warrant an urgent Presidential message and
action by Congress, the Chinese floods have
brought famine upon millions and imminent
menace Of death to tens of thousands, a state
OF affairs warranting the humane intervention
OF the world
There is, indeed, a specific reason why tho
whole commercial world, and the United States
no less than any other nation, should intervene
with succor for the stricken millions of China
That is. that the world has so long regarded
and treated China q field for profitable eI-
ploitaton, and has, IN fact derived enormous
gains therefrom. The very name OF Cathay has
for generations been suggestive of riches. which
every venturer thither might secure II only
q fractional percentage OF the fortunes which
have been taken out OF China were now given
for charity. the food and famine sufferers
would be saved and all their losses might be
recouped There is certain moral Obligation
resting upon the world to care In It's need for
the country which it has so often domineered
in its prosperity
The work Of Chinese relief in this country
Is In the hands Of the American Red Cross. n
fact which gives the strongest assurance that
1t Will be done with economy, discretion and
integrity. Free transportation is to be given
TO supplies from San Francisco to Shanghai by
the Pacific Mall Steamship Company, and other
arrangements are such that contributors to tho
rehef fund have the satisfaction of knowing
lhat every cent they give will go to feed the
starving Out OF the OVERLOOKING prosnaritv IN
which America exults a stream of reIiep sbo,,1a
speedily proceed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
ADVANCES IN ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

Il has long been known that for the degree
of illumination which 1t affords the lncandes-
cent lamp consumes more current IMAM any
other device for lighting with electricity Many
attempts have been made to remedy the fault
without abandoning the principle of incandes-
cence In some of these ventures an enure4y
different substance has been employed in the
filament. With magnesia and the rare metals'
tantalum. osmium and tungsten, fair degree
of success has been attained, though In one
case the original simplicity of the mechanism
has been sacrificed. and in the others the ma
terial of which the thread Is composed is more
costly than the one for which 1t is substituted.
Experiments have also been made with the
object Of getting more light if possible. out OF
carbon itself. By depOsting coat OF graphite
on the filament O trifiing gain In this respect
has already been effected and other incidental
advantages have been secured. The results
thus attained, however, are apparently not
comparable with those which Professor Her
schel c. Parker of Columbia University, and
Mr.. Walter G. Clark say they have secured.
By coating a filament with something which
they call "helion"-a compound the nature
Of which has not been fully divulged-these
electricians report that they are able to OBJ
tain as much light as the old incandescent
lamp gives with only about one-fourth as much
current, and that the durability of the flament,
on which the term of its usefulness depends, is
sensibly increased
If the expectations which have been excited
In the Columbia laboratory are borne out in
commercial practice notable advance In cleo
tric lighting will be witnessed. Whether the
color of the "helion" light, which is said to be
@ pure white, Will be as well liked as the
orange tint Of the present lamp remains to be
seen. AS yet 1t is impossible to tell much about
the cost Of the new device. Though it has been
intimated that the materials OF which "helon"
is composed are abundant and inexpensive, the
processes Of manufacturing it and applying it
TO the flament must be considered. There are
other questions to be determined also by tho
test of use on an important scale, but, on the
whole the public seems to be justified In await
ing further information with good deal Of
interest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
DR. SHE1RER DROPPED,
Loses Clerkshp of Presbytery While
III an Hospital.

&c Rev. DR.. F. E. shearer. while Ill with
rhe trlatism In the Presbyterian Hospital was
retired yesterday afternoon by the Presbytery
of New York from the position of stated clerk
The Rev DR.. George Alexander pastor OF tbs
University Place Presbyterian Church, was
elected TO succeed him.
DR.. Shearer has been stated clerk OF the pres
bytery for five years. He was elected three
years ago. after filing out two years OF an IN
expired term. caused by the death Of the Rev.
DR. George W. F. Birch.
This change has been planned by some leaders
in the presbytery for several months They BE-
lleved It is said, without casting any reflections
on DR. Shearer, that the clerkship should be sub
ject to rotation.
From an authoritative source IL was learned
last night that the vote was approximately 50
10 S. in DIR. Alexarder's favor. The name OF
DR.. Sheerer put IN nomination by the Rev.
DIR. ]. Fe-d Sutton. of New Jersey, after DR..
Alexander had been nominated by the Rev Dr..
Howard Dufleld. pastor of the First Church.
Some acrimony occurred during the nominating
speeches.
DR.. Sutton's contention was supported by tbs
Rev. DIR. W. q. Buchanan, pastor of the Fourth
Avenue Presbyterian Church. who acted as
seconder for DR.. Shearer. and who. II is
ported. said he would challenge" any member
VINO nSIu JIldI Ut. SueaTSE ndQ not DduS 4 5000
stated clerk"
During the time of DIR. Shearer's tenure OF ths
stated clerksS.p the presbytery has been rent
with several serious turmoils. not the least OF
which the difficulty the withdrawal OF
the Westminster Presbyterian Church. in West
sd street. The connection OF DR.. Shearer in
his official capacity with 1t was often connent-
ed upon. but his stand. according to some nlerl-
bers OF the body. ultimately vindicated-
Some time ago. in connection with charges made
by the Rev. Or. Carter and by the Rev. John
Howard Hobbs. DIR. Shearer's name was men
toned but he was indicated by the local pres
bytery.
The presbytery yesterday passed a resolution
regretting DR.. Shearer's serious illness
The presbytery learned yesterday that big
money raising campaign is planned, with the
object of collecting 100000. and that some New
York Presbyterian. whose rame IL carefully kept
secret. has already made = big conditional gift
o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
Amusements.


ACADEMY OF MUsIc-s15-Ths Girl OF the Golden West
ALHAMBFh-2-S-Vaudevil
zSTOR-s:3o-The Straight Road
5ELAsCO-S;15-The Rose Of the Rancho.
RROADWAY-s:19-The Partisan Model.
CASINOS :15-Princess Begsar.
observation-disclosures.
CRITERION-S:15-The Truth.
DAILY S-6:l5-The Belle OF Mayfair.
EDEN MUSEE-TEe World IN Wax.
EAPiRE-S-Fster Pan.
6ARpEN-6:ia-The Student King
GARRICK-s :30-Caught In the Rain.
HACKETT-s: 30-The Chorus Lady
fiAAMERsTEIN'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HERALD SQUARE-2-6:ib-The Road 10 Yesterday.
H'PPODROME-2-S-Neptune Daughter and Pioneer
Days.
HCDsON-S:i5-The Hypocrites.
IRVING PI4ACE-s:20-Der Blinde Passagier.
KNICK ERBOcK ER-S15-The Red MIL
LlBERTY-s;16-The Girl Who Has Everything.
LyCEUM-s:I5-The Lion and the Mouse
LYRIC-S:J5-The New ! DIRK Idea.
MADISON SQUARE-s:15-The Three of CE.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-io g. to. IL p H.
Automobile Show.
MAJEST1C-2-s:15-Brow-no OF Harvard.
MAEHATTAN-S lilies Aserahles.
&ENDELSSOHN HALI<-S:15-Concert.
NEW AMSTERDAM-S:i6- Brewster's Millions.
NEW yORK-S :l5-The Vanderbilt Cup.
PRINCESS-2:l5-A Dolls House s:2o-The Great Dvioe-
6ATOY-S:i6--The MN OF the Hour.
PHILHARMONIC HALLS, Ais. $500 s;45-Electfio
music.
wALIACKs-s:15-rhe Rich Hoggenherner.
wEBER'S-2-s-Dream City and The Magic Knight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
COED Production AND BUSINESS.

One factor in the expansion Of business and
the stimulation Of prices which has been more
or less overlooked is the rapid increase in the
worlds gold production. In 1906 according TO
the estimate Of the Director Of the Mint the
United States alone added almost S1OOOO00O0
10 the worlds stock of gold, and the output last
year OF all countries probably amounted to
nearly S4o0,O00000. These figures tell their own
story-the story of enormous replenishment
of our supply of primary money. Twenty or
twenty-five years ago economists were express
ing alarm at the shortening OF money stocks and
agitation for a return TO the double standard
derived some FEASIBILITY from the fact that the
output Of the worlds gold fields was actually
declining. Gold production shrank from $751;
100000 in 1860 to S9T.OO0.OO0 In 1915, and after
q slight recovery fell in 1888 as low as sos 000-
600. Between 1883 and 1s91-the height Of the
bImetallic crusade-it slowly climbed again to
s130,00oO0o But in recent years the world has
passed the s3o0,0o0,0e0 point In production, and
the S4o0000Oo0 mark has now been closely ap-
preached. Since 1900 nearly $1,000 100000 has
been added to the volume of money Of ultimate
redenption-an increase which would have
seemed incredible twenty years ago.
II pleases the silver agitators Of 1896 to say
that nature, by exposing new sources OF gold
supply and enlarging our monetary stocks only
accomplished fortuitously what they meant to
0CIOipiiru ny ISSieldtiOI TeidUlilCdtQg silver
as a money metal. Hinds!ght is easier than
foresight. ana Mr.. Bryan and his associates,
conveniently forgetting their prophecies and
their famous argument that wheat and silver
were linked together by some mysterious tie so
that one could never rise or fall In value without
enhancing or depressing the value Of the other,
now plume themselves on having planned to do
n one way what Providence decreed should be
done in another. The point is that their way
was the wrong way and the dangerous way
They wanted TO do by fat and by violence what
could better be left to the slow operations of
natural law. They would have arbitrarily de-
langed values and robbed the creditor to help
the debtor. They would have Disseminated be-
tween classes, while nature, knowing no class
interests or prejudices. has acted as blind god
dess OF Justice, leaving no one with ground for
complaint that prices have risen and the pur-
chasing power of money has been forced Down,
because the process has been gradual. automatic
and impersonal
There are those who are seriously disturbed
at he steady augmentation .ae our gold supply
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
lFrom. The Tribune Bureau.l

Washington Jan. 1.-THE President sent TO the
Senate to-day an additional message the
Brownsville incident" containing the result Of
recent Investigations made into the acts for which
the Negro soldiers Of the 18th Infantry We're dis
missed.
Six Ute braves, headed by Appah. the ranking
chief had a ''powwoW'' in the Presidents office
to-day Indian Commissioner Francis E. Leupp
Colonel Alexander Rodgers, OF the 9th Cavalry
and Captain Carter Johnson, of the 10th Cavalry
escorted the Indians to the White House to give
them an opportunity to lay their grievances before
the Great White Father"
Representative Littauer. of New York. discussed
ship subsidies with the President and expressed
the opinion that the House would pass a measure
favoring South American mail carrying lines
Other callers at the White House included Senators
Hale. Hansbrough and Piles, Representatives Bede
French. Often, Cocks. HOgg Brooks and Allen
Secretary Taft and J. B. Bishop, secretary of the
Panama Canal Commission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
TWO NEW SENATORS.
From The Hartford Courant.


Michigan's Senator-elect has served a dozen
years in the House. No shadow OF danger which
he can avert will ever come nigh the Michigan
beet sugar Mills we fear he will need lot of con
Vertlng to free trade with the Philippines. But he
has been a hard working Congressman. according
to his lights. and he does not his promotion
to money, nor yet to the political machine in his
state that was for another man. a millionaire
William Alden Smith had a boyhood OF poverty;
twenty saven years ago he was a page in the
Charles Curtis. had boyhood Of poverty too He
sold newspapers in the Topeka streets, and rode
as Jockey In the races, and drove q cab while he
was studying law. He is serving his fourth term
In the House, and is said to be that bodys only
full-blood Indian. Tho Kaw tribe gave Charles
Curtis to Kansas, are told.
There are much more undesirable and risky WAYS
of getting United States Senators than the old
fashioned way of promoting digent members of
the House of Representatives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-15
OLD AGE PENSIONS.

The McCumber Service Pension bill, so called
which passed the Senate on Friday, might he
more accurately described as an age pension bill
for veterans. Twenty years ago such q meas
ure would have been vigorously opposed, but to-
day 1t receives unanimous support In the up
per house OF Congress, and no sharp hostil-
ity is likely to be manifested In any part
of the country. The explanation is simple
We have reached point of time when all the
survivors of the Mexican War and nearly all
the survivors of the Civil War have passed the
limit OF disputable disability. We have already
established by executive order and legislation
system OF age pensions, and the McCumber
bill extends that system only a little further.
Under President Rooseyelt's executive order of
March Is, 1904, the pension examiners were di-
rected ito consider as an evidential fact If the
contrary does not appear, that when a claim
amt has passed the age of sixty-two years he
lis disabled one-half in ability to perform man.
'ual labor and is entitled to be rated Mt SO per
month" 1t further provided that after
eiXty-f the rate should be SIS n MONTH after
sixty eight $40 q month and after seventy So
n month-the full rate for disability proved by
medical examination. The Pension Appropria-
ton act of April "a, 1906 directed that the re-
buttable presumption established by the Presi-
dents order be accepted as final and absolute.
Mr.. McCumbers measure goes further In
ua labor at slxtv-two and abolishing all grad
ings between sixty-two and seventy. veteran
pensioned on an age claim under the present law
would receive little less than IS month for
the eight year period between sixty-two and
seventy. Under the proposed act he would re-
ceive the fiat SD rate. After seventy and I'D
to seventy-five he would receive SIS instead of
SIP, and after seventy-1ve $50 instead Of S12
1t is impossible to guess how much this change
of rates would cost the government. One esti-
mate is S1j,000O00 a year But this seems ex-
cessive for 1t is difficult to say how many of
the possible benefcaries under the new law
would take advantage OF its provisions. When
President Roosevelts order was issued in 1904
some hented imaginations figured It's certain cost
at 100000 to S20000000 AS a matter of
fact the order caused no perceptible increase In
pension expenditures. The veterans now on
the roll who will be enabled to draw increased
compensation under it cannot survive on the
average more than few years, and il may be
argued that the government can well afford this
small additional recompense to its defenders in
their advancing years. 1t must be remembered
too that the cost Of living has materially in
creased and that SO goes little further to-day
than So did ten years ago.