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New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
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New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The Health Department of Chicago has sue
ceeded in enIisting the police force in a fight to
check contagious diseases particularly diphtherta.
Dr. Evans the Health Commissioner, is responsible
for this new alliance of brain and Drawn Cult
ure tubes and antitoxin for IN diphtheria cases
will be sent TO all of the police stations Physi-
clans are expected to cooperate with the police
''Dphtheria can be prevented and can be absolute
" cured If the antitoxin is administered early
enough" DR.. Evans says. AS sooon as a physl-
clan reports case of suspected diphtheria po
liceman must take culture tube to him When
the physician obtains the culture the policeman
will take it to the city laboratory, where the
amount Of anttoxin required for that particular
stage is determined. The policeman then reports
back to the physician"
the door of the postofhce building, what is the
meanin' thin letters, 'MDCCCXCNlIiE 80.
They mean eighteen hundred an ninety
7Dennis, don 1t sthrke you thot they're carry
in this shpellin reform entoirely TOO farE Every
bOdy's Magazine.
Forestry officials Of several New England states
have adopted a joint plan which they hope VIII
materially diminish the losses by forest fires Whlch
we're so extensive this last fall. They have agreed
to ask their respective legislatures that railroads or
individuals proved responsible for fires shall be
Liable for the cost of extnguishing them; that
portable mills shall not be operated or brush fires
be set except under official permits; that the rail-
roads shall establish patrols among the dangerous
sections of their lines whenever the states deem II
carrying OF firearms into the woods during the
closed season for game and that each Governor be
authorized to issue under advice from the state g
chief forest official a proclamation prohibiting
sportsmen and others from traversing the woods
unnecessarily.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
ELECTRICITY FOR LONDON:

Another proposition for supplying Lohuon
with electricity cheaply has just peeh ?y..to,1
by a Parliamentary committee, anu Ine -
oS on iu,nortsnt industrial problem mas again
heen POSTPONED Within the last hve years
eral schemes of this sort have Deen ple00
for legislative sanction, and one calhe cr
Ansl enactment Some of them have alined l"
a,,thorj-a tho County Council of London to en-
co,a In the business. Others have contemplated
tho creation of private corporation Such was
the nurport of the bill which has now falieu. 1ne
mess sure is said TO have been radically amehueu
nv the two committees 10 when II "as SUI
mitted vet its hackers were apparently unaoAo
10 inspire confidence in their financiai resources
This rather than any defect In the programme
itself. is said to have caused the reJectloh Oil
the bill.
All plans for the production of electricity On
large scale for the English capital have OF
course. been opposed by the small companies
already engaged In the industry. These NUMBER
seventy or more and most of them have c.
pacity of only 4.oOO horsepower. How TO ueHi
with these interests justly has been perpleA-
inp Question. As originally framed. the Dill
which was last defeated provided for buying
out the small companies. but 1t was changed III
committee so as to increase the difncuIty OF
purchase Its chief feature was an author1za-
tion Of the manufacture of current and It's sale
to oil purchasers The small companies were
at liberty to buy electricity wholesale from the
big company and retail it to their own custom
ers or to continue TO generate 1t themselves.
An easy way to dispose of their plants outright
however, WAS not opened. Perhaps they would
welcome the privilege OF selling out altogether,
but they are doubtless satisfied to be relieved
temporarily at least-of the necessity Of decid-
ing what to do. If they could be assured that
their present immunity would be permanent
they would be even better pleased.
Measures Of the same general character as the
one which has now failed will probably come
up for considerable from time to time until one
is finally adopted. Reasonably to protect exist
ing interests and also insure a reduction in
prices for light and power is difficult, but not
necessarily an impossible. task. The attain
ment Of a satisfactory compromise may vet be
witnessed. though whether Parliament will
intrust the responsibility TO private capitalists
or to the municipal authorities cannot, Of
course be foreseen.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
AUTHORIZE LINCOLN MEDALS,
Centenary Committee Also Arranses for
Pamphlets for School Children.

The executive committee OF the Lincoln Centenary
Committee meeting in the City Hail. yesterday au-
thorized the striking OF Lincoln medal for the
celebration In February The medal Will be In four
sizes and of a composition that It may be sold
at 10 l5 % 50 cents and 81 II was decided 10
spend IS 100 for hundred thousand Lincoln
pamphlets for school children. The pamphlet will
contain writings OF Lincoln
Herman Hddder. OF the music committee.
ported that there would be chorus OF one thou
sand at the College OF the City Of New York. and
that the Damrosch orchestra would play at tho
Carnegie Hall meeting. He said there would be
large crchestras in Cooper Union in the afternoon
and at the College OF the City OF New York and
for the biggest celebration IN Brooklyn.
Resolutions the death OF Rear Admiral Joseph
p. Coghlan Cretired) were adopted by the COM
mIttee OF which no a member.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
THE COUNTRY BOY.

President Finley of the City College probably
did not mean to be taken too seriously when he
suggested that the greater success of the country
boy, compared with the city boy, was due to the
sense of self-importance which the rural lad
gets from his environment. Old questions like
this demand new and unconventional answers
now and then and this is one of those uncon-
ventional and paradoxical answers which sug-
gest that every side Of the ma tier had not been
hitherto considered
But is the country lad more bumptious and
conceited than the city lad? What is there
about communion with and sheep that
breeds faith in ones self which communion with
men tends TO check and stife? And is he really
full Of self-confdence? Must revise too our
conventional belief that he Is bashful. awkward
and shy. that while possessing easy manner,
free from elf-consciousness. in the society Of
cattle and horses, he is painfully aware Of him
self and III at ease in the unaccustomed society
Of his race?
This is the disadvantage Of the city boy
says DR.. Finley; the unquiet and pettiness and
''narrowness which bring home to him that he is
''swa lowed up in the crowd, insignificant
'atom In the throng. These are the forces which
''show the city boy his limitations"
But how long does it take for the country boy
coming in from the great spaces" where his IN
dividuality is important, perhaps because It has
few rivals to feel, too just keenly that he is
Swallowed up in the crowd, insignificant
atom in the throng"? To reduce ali this language
10 its familiar form, granting that the country
bov comes to town with exaggerated idea Of
the ease with which he can win his way 70 a
fortune doesn't he find his limitations quickly
that his self-confidence alone does not carry
him far?
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
HISTORICAL UNCERT4yyTyES

one Of the latest tasks undertaken br Al
miral Coghlan was the preparation of designs
Of tn boat which first put steam navigation On
a commercial basis \ new Clermont is 70 he
constructed from his drawings for the con-
bined celebration OF FutOns historic scbieve
ment and the discovery Of the river I'D which
the Clernont's voyage was made. For that
occasion a duplicate OF HudsOn's Half Moon ia
10 be furnished by Holland the requisite meas
urements having been found in the archives Of
the Dutch East India Company. The infor1na-
ton utilized by Admiral Coghlan was some
what less complete, and concerning the appear
ance Of the steamboat which began It's trips in
August, 1903, there is said TO be much uncer-
tainty. The accuracy Of the Smithsonian
model Of the Clermont has sometimes been
questioned While the work Of planning a re-
production of the craft with which Fulton
achieved his pioneer victory could not have
been committed to better hands, Admiral Cogh-
lan's work was beset with no little difficulty.
Similar embarrassments surround an inquiry
concerning the size Of the vessel which brought
the Pilgrims TO Cape Cod. Azel Ames. In his
'Mayfower Log" quotes a Smithsonian report
giving these figures Length. 50 feet: beam
% feet, and tonnage 120 Mr.. Ames himself
however, thinks that the Smithsonian estimate
is inadequate He makes the length OF the
vessel from 90 10 100 feet'-evidently being
unable to speak with greater precisIon-and
the beam "a feet, while he places the dsplace
ment at $50 tons. In most Of the condensed ac-
counts of the size Of the Mayhower found in the
encyclopedias only the displacement is specified
and this is usually represented as being 1s0
tons. To these instances may be added a third
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

be as useful for a sea level as for high ieVei
canal. so that very little would be lost py
change of plan. Elsewhere In to-days paper we
print some extracts from an exhaustive discus
sion of the subject by practical and expert Ell,
gineer The technical parts Of his paper VIII
commend themselves to professional engineers
more than to the general public, but IN tne rea-
sons which are given for distrusdng anu con-
demning the lock scheme and for adopting or
rather readopting. the sea level plan. there Is
much which will appeal strongly to the prac-
teal lay mind. We publish the matter as an
intelligent contribution to the discussion OF
what is probably the most important questloh
of the kind which has ever come before this
No
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
GERMAN CONSTITUTIONAL ANENDMENTs.

GERMAN
No fewer than five formal proposals have been
made IN the German Reichstag for the establish
ment Of some form Of ministerial responsibility
TO parliament. They vary considerably In phrase
ology and detail, but ali have practically the
same end in view. They are all alike, moreover,
in involving specific alteration Of the imperial
constitution. In estimating the chances thnt any
of them will be adopted will become effective
It is necessary to consider the character Of the
German constitution. its provisions concerning
the Chancellor and other ministers, and the
method by which alone 1t cal be amended.
The constitution made by Bismarck In
1870 and with the exception OF three amend
ments In 1873 and one in 1888 it remains to day
precisely as he made II. So far 1t relates to
ministers It ates no imperial cabinet The
only federal or imperial minister is the Chan
celIor He has subordinates, but no colleagues.
He is not responsible criminally and he is
sponsible politically to nobody but the sovereign.
AS for amendments to the constitution, they may
be proposed by the Reichstag. but must be 8ctu-
aliy made by the Bundesrath. In the latter
body the negative vote OF the seventeen Prussian
representatives constitutes absolute veto upon
any change In the constitution, and those
seventeen members are appointed By the
Emperor, or by the King Of Prussia, and their
votes are all cast for them by the Chancellor
precisely he peases In brief any cha nge in
the constitution or in the imperial laws relatin
to the army, the navy or taxation is utterly
impossible without the assent Of the Emperor
The four amendments which have already
been made follows: Extending the right
of the members of the ReIchsag to vote on mat
ters not directly concerning their own sta ties
putting lighthouses, buOys, etc. under imperial
control; extending the legislative power OF the
empire over the whole field of civil and criminal
law, and prolOnging the term Of the Reichstag
from three to five years. 1t is OF course possible
that If the Reichstag should by a substantial
majority present request for a constitutional
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
LARGE SALES OF RED CROSS STAMPS
tuberculosis Fighters Report Encouraging
Returns in Campaign for Funds.

Sale of the Red Cross Christmas stamps TO raise
funds for the societys crusade against tuberculO-
sis is well under way, and the returns far have
been large The society maintains day camp and
a visiting corps OF physicians and trained nurses
working in harmony with the Health Department
It is as much an educational crusade OF prac
tical help belief is that instruction In how
TO avoid and prevent the disease will produce great
results in work OF eliminating the white scourse
There sixty-nine places. including stores
Young Mems Christian Association branches. hos
pitfalls and colleges. where the stamps may be pro
cured and sill subway and elevated stations they
sale
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
NEW PLAN FOR sCHooLsHIP NEwPOEf'
Navy Department Now Places Regular oncsrs
In Command

The Board OF Education. with the help H =. =
Navy Department. has practically rsorsanisee =
executive personnel OF the schoolshtp NS~VS
since she returned from her first cruise as 'cn'V
ship. The Newport. IN winter quarters
moored on the south side of the East e@th stfees
pier. She is rated In teh navy as a sunooat' -
was lent in January the Board OF EducAu0n "
replace the St Mary's
Believing that better discipline could &c - -.
tanned by naval officers than by those of me -
chant marine O. Marsden the executive oroe,'
and Mt LittIeneId navigator who had saileo ~, -
Commander O. g Hanus. OF the 81 Mary ; -
asked to resign Their places have been me- -
Ensign Reuyvick ]. Hartuus as executive. anu -, -
Z Gross navigating officer Both are srau~
OF Annapols Lieutenant Commander Lay H@Ans
ton Everardt L. s n. has been the coii'iiN'- -
OF the Newport Her chief engineer IS Conl.ill-
G IL Mathsws and the surgeon Is KERN y SE10
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
CHRISTMAS TREES.

Littleton N. HI dispatch TO The Boston Herald
Litteton farms and pastures will furnish about
1900 Christmas trees for Philadelphia homes and
churches Oliver Lutz, of st. Johnsbury, Vt who
has been in the business Of harvesting trees for
many years, is causing several OF young
woodland I'm this vicinity TO be stripped of fine
young spruce trees. 1t Is said that in many cases
the owners OF the trees receiving more than
8 or cents apiece for the trees Mr.. Lutz saws
that the trees VIII net him about t25 a thousand
sold at wholesale In Philadelphia, while the retail
will get twice that amount. The 600 trees are
sacrificed for only few hours enjoyment, and the
people in this locality are deporing the denudnR
of the land this account
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
LOCAL TROOPS TO ESCORT GOVERNOR
Squadron and Detail of 1st Battery VIII
Attend Inauguration

Albany Dec. 7.-Announcement was made TO-DAY
that Squadron a and a detail from the 1st Bat
organizations TO take part IN the inaugural csfe-
monies here on January l. Squadron 4 - 10 be ths
personal Of the Governor from the ExscutVs
Mansion to the Capitol a detail from the battery
will fire salute from Capitol Park at the coH2ls-
tion OF the ceremonies.
Squadron A Will be guetss az ball to - gwen
on New Years night I'm honor OF Governor and NTA
Hughes
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
KING EDWARD IN POOR HEALTH.
Suffering from Cold and Rheumatlsm-Io
Visit the South Coast.

London. Dec liking Edward has had some d't-
fcIltv in shaking the cold and touch Of rneuIha-
tism from which he has been sunerlhs ioI SoiN0
-. rIa was obliged TO remain indoors at San
drineham ALI last week and his visit to Lord ana
Tadv Leicester this week has been abandoned his
majesty accompanied by the Queen. arrived IN
London to-day
rrbe King viii go to Brighton tomorrow, where
he will be the guest OF Arthur Sassoon- 1t Is Off
cauy announced that the King did not suffer IN
anv way from his Journey to London.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

.orhe New York World Is mistaken IN I'M
putting 10 The Tribune dissatisfaction WIN VI
concern over the decision Of the Supreme Cour.
in the Virginia rate case. We merely Poih'eu
out what the decision meant as iha'1ei %
public interest, taking the trouble. Unlike So,Ho
=, o,,- con+emnoreries including "The World"
20 and ont first what 1t did mean before dis
cussing IL.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
Abouf People and Social Incidents

when Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter will come rom
Chicago for the Christmas holidays. and she VIII
give dance for Miss Roosevelt December -
Mrs Thomas F. Bayard gave dinner this even
ing in honor Of the Attorney General and Ms
Fonaparte and the British Ambassador and ArA
Rrvce inviting other guests meet them
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

amendment establishing responsible ministry
II has never vet thus made any request for
constitutional amendment of any kind-the Bun
desrath would grant it. But 1t Is obvious tiiat
such a grant would be in fact personal gran.
from the Emperor, just much as the grant Oh
constitution by the Gar, the Sultan or 'he
Shah
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
CONFERENCE ON MARITIME WAR.
Proposals Submitted at First Business Session
Three Meetings a Week

London. Dec. THE business session o. the n
ternationaI conference now being held IN Locdon 70
frame code for naval warfare, held its first sss-
sion to-day The delegates. including Rear Ad-
representatives. read the proposals Of their 7es7ee
tive governments and then explained them n short
speeches This was followed by brief preliminary
discussion.
It has been decided to hold meetings thres times
a week and to adjourn Tire Christmas holidays
The social entertaire OF the delegates VIII begin
on December 10 with dinner for the delegates ana
their secretaries. given by the Earl oc DessTt
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
9en71ork Dsriln Grtbn1ts
TUESDAY. DECEMBER S. 1908,

This newspaper is otoned aud paot|shoa ob
The Tribune Association. Ne1o York corpora
ron: Office and principal place OF o%s'neSS,
Tribune Building. No. I54 Nassau street. He0
YORK. OGDEN Mails. president; James H. Bar.
-etf soc-efqrv and treasurer The address OF
the o6foers Is the office Of this ne'cspdpeT.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

Another midnight 10y ride" in an automoohe
and another man knocked down and killed ana
no stop made by the scorcher- But there Is
satisfaction in the circumstance that the incl
dent occurred in New Jersey, where justice Is
generally well administered.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

The report that this state this year has sur-
fered a direct loss OF more than S7S0OOO from
forest fires suggests the inquiry how much II
would have cost to adopt and enforce precau-
tions which would have prevented the great
majority of those fires.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

little while ago relations between America
and Japan were said to be the chief menace TO
the worlds peace. Now they are declared TO be
its most potent guarantee We inclined TO
think that the latter estimate Is far more ac-
curate than the former
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

That Brooklyn grand jury gave General bins
ham an excellent excuse for using some OF MS
celebrated mine gods Of war" language
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

Would the bill against limitations introduced
in Congress yesterday debar Mr.. Bryan as
Presidential candidate?
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

The New Jersey excise report seems to be Oh
the whole conservative and tudicious and de
serving of careful attention from the Legis
lature.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-08

Maybe the Yankee has an ambition to show
what she can do as a submarine.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-21
THIS CEMENT WALL A NOVELTY.
Action of Nature Has Given II Dis.
tinct Artistic Value.

There is a wall of cement in Los
Angeles which shores up one side of
building lot that has an artistic
value never intended by the builder.
He had moved his bags of cement
on to the ground to be ready for work
and was then called away on some
other job for day or two. In the
meantime one Of the very infrequent
rains came on and each sack turned
into stone under the action of the wa
ter and the fabric of the sacks them
selves were absorbed into the cement
so that 1t was impossible to remove It,
Consequently each sack was wrought
into the wall as If 1t had been a boul-
der on the line of an old stone wall.
They were then chinked and bound
together with worked cement and
after time the weather disposed of
the gunny sacking, but left the blocks
marked with the impress of the weave.
The result is a highly ornamental
cement wall, resembling at a little dis
lance wall Of some woven material.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-21
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.

Notice to the Tax Payers of Forrest
County, Mississippi, OF the Proposal
of the Board of Supervisors of said
County to Issue Jail Bonds in the
sum of 100000
Notice is hereby given to the tax
payers of Forrest County, Mississippi,
that the Board of Supervisors of said
County propose at the June term,
1908, to provide for the issuance of the
negotiable bonds of said county in the
sum of not exceeding Forty Thousand
Dollars to provide new County Jail
for said County, as provided by Sec
tons 331, 1872 and 333 of the Code of
1906, the same to be twenty-year five
per cent bonds, the interest to be pay
able annually At said meeting, unless
ten per cent. of the adult tax payers of
said County, exclusive of those who
pay poll taxes only, shall petition
against the issuance thereof, said
bonds will be issued; but in case of
such petition the same will not be
issued unless authorized by a majority
of the male tax payers voting in an
election to be ordered by the board
for that purpose,
This May 9Th 1908.
T. E. BATSON, Clerk
State of Mississippi,
County of Forrest
! l, T. e. Batson, Chancery Clerk, and
ex-officio Clerk of the Board of SUI
pervisors in and for the County and
State aforesaid, do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing transcript is
true and correct copy of an order
passed by the said Board of Super
visors, and entered at their May Term,
A. d. 1908, on the 9Th day of May,
1908, as fully and as completely as the
SAME appears of record in my office,
in Board of Supervisors Minute Book
l, on page 12S.
Given under my hand and the seal
of said Board of Supervisors, at my
office in Hattiesburg, Miss, this the
9th day of May, A. d. 1908.
7. e. BATSON,
m7-14-21-2S. Clerk.