Omaha daily bee., 1908-01-20

buNl6s moHlsf ENpuHNtu n i've AAbh h0h
been discovered in the hollow of a lime
stone rock I'm a mine near there The
Montana story indicated the toad had
been found something like 500 feet un-
der the surface. Congressman Joseph
Howell of Utah has just received a let
ter from one of his constituents, upon
whose veracity he is willing to stake
his reputation. in which the writer
shows that the Montana toad was
comparatively recent addition TO the
surface Of the earth. Mr.. Howelrs cor
respondent writes in part as follows;
Found in solid sandstone.
ION receipt of the thousand -year-old
toad from Butte, Mont, found in lime
stone, I must say something Of our
toad, found in the solid sandstone at
silver Reef Utah. You will recall that
that is the largest and possibly tho only
silver mining camp in sandstone in the
United States. It was about the year
1888 that Robert Campbell, a miner
had known from childhood, and who is
a man of his word, told me that he and
his partner, working in one of the
mines of the reef down on the 6o0-foot
level. were doing some shooting and
blasting in a drift. AS you know, after
shooting they return TO the face and
pick out the broken rock still left In
the face of the drift. In doing this
they found a crack running in deeper
than some of the rest and picking out
the rock they found a small cavity, con-
tanning a live toad. II was of pinkish
flesh color and somewhat transparent
After carefully taking 1t out on their
shovels to the surface. the toad seemed
to collapse from contact with the air
They gave it to Mr.. Rice, superintend-
ent of the mine, who placed II in al
oohoI and for number of years af-
terward It was seen by n great many
people / wanted Campbell to go be-
fore notary and make affidavit 10 the
facts and send them to the smith
sonian institution, which he promised
to do. But the affidavit was never
made 1t is, however, possible that
can still find someone who was there"
Mr.. Howell declares that the silver
Reef mine was located in the sandstone
of Utah after some of the most emf
nent geologists of the country had de-
clared that no silver could by any pos
sible chance be found in sandstone
where Grant Monument Goes.
At the foot 90 tno Capitol plaza fronting
on Pennsylvania 'enue Is located what
has long been know as the Botanical gar
dens 1t covers three or four blocks Of
ground, but is surrounded on all sides by
the evidences Of busy life A high iron
fence surrounds the garden which gives
Il the appearances of soEae landed estate
and within the enclosure lives William A
Smith. the superintendent of the garden
friend of Andrew Carnegie and collector
of writings of Burns. In fact, Mr.. Smith
has the finest collection of BuTnsiana in
the country.
It is in this same botanic garden that the
magnificent monument to General Grant is
to be erected and about which big fuss
has been raised because some three or
four historic trees must be removed before
the foundation for the monument can be
commenced.
Resolutions have been introduced in con-
gress looking to the repeal of the law
| fixing the site and a lot of eloquence eX-
| pended over the destruction of the trees.
| Judge Walter /. Smith of Iowa, who rep
| resents the Council Bluffs district in con-
! gress, however, has not taken the flights
/ of oratory much TO heart On the con-
| trary, has insisted that the site selected
| by the Grant Monument commission, of
| which General G. NJ Dodge is a member,
as well as Secretary Root, should stand,
I and that IL necessary the botanic garden
| should be abandoned.
AS far back as 1889 bill was passed
4 QlreCtlnR AndIf lile iron renee WHICH sur
rounds the botanic garden should be pulled
down. but Superintendent Smith has been
able through his friendship with senators
and representatives to keep the fence in
| tact Now, however, that Mr.. Smith has
been protesting against the placing of the
| Grant monument in the southeast section
OF the garden because It will necessitate
the removal of several trees planted by
/ former statesmen. the controversy over the
botanic garden has been revived and IL
may be that although quite an old man,
! Superintendent w. A. Smith may have to
vacate his comfortable cottage and the
high iron fence be pulled down to mako
way for growth and progress. II can be
said that the Grant monument will be
put where originally planned even If the
Chittenden tree and the Beck tree have
to go.
when Uncle Joe Was Free Trader.
Uncle Joe" Cannon was once free
trader. or course It is pretty hard to be-
! leve, but he confessed il the other day in
a reminiscent talk on some of the high
lights in his busy life. But that was in
the days when l a doctrinaire," he
said. II had never enjoyed the advant-
ages of collegiate education, but when
was acquiring an education later in life by
absorbing and devouring everything could
lay my hands on in the way Of books ]
conceived it would be noble thing to
throw our markets open to the world.
4 When / began to get practical sense later
along / changed my mind about free trade.
am now a pretty good protectonist.
/ am believer in the theory that 1t is a
duty we owe ourselves 20 dominate and
control our markets. and incidentally to
dominate the markets OF the western hem
! isphere and as much OF the rest OF the
world as we can take possession Of. The
first step to commercial supremacy is for
us to get as much as we can and to hang
on to all We get. Some day when our pop
ulation has increased from S6o0O000 70 500.
10000 and all our resources are fully de-
! veloped, free trade may be the thing for
us, but not now. In our own preservation
we must foster our own enterprises and
nurse our own resources until they are de-
veloped and full grown. This Is a practical
world in which we live, and we must take
care Of our own before we try to look after
the rest Of the world"
New Ruling ExplaIned.
Congressman Hinshaw has received :
number Of complaints from Nebraska pub
fishers about the rule OF the Postoffics
department by which. It was supposed
newspaper subscriptions must be paid IL