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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Big and Little COnscripts

Every year about this time the
French papers entertain their readers
with the names of the smallest and
the heaviest, and sometimes the tallest.
of the conscripts, for this is the season
when the youths join the army to
commence their training. says the Lon
don Globe. The commune of Viney, in
Isere, has this year the distinction of
not only providing the the smallest
soldier, but also the fattest
The first is boy named Marchland,
who is 1.06 meters in height; that is,
feet ~ inches.
The Daniel Lambert of the conscripts
is one Bonnard by name, and he turns
the scale at the colossal weight of 1872
Kilograms, or 26S pounds. Military
training, it is to be hoped. will have it's
effect on both.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21

Uncle joe Cannon has personality which
can not be bea ten-at least not at this stage of
the insurgent movement. His official prestige
was curtailed on Saturday and the powerful
committee of rules was taken out of his zone
of influence and the people freed now of
odious restrictions legislations, but the in
surgents as a faction would not vote to remove
him from the speakership. Champ Clark, the
democratic minority leader, athirst for Can
mons blood, expressed the admiration which
was felt for the personal, not the official, -Uncle
Joe''' when he said
This is not fight against Joseph G. Cannon
personally. 1 lay my hand nay heart and
truthfully assert that the personal relations be-
tween that distinguished parsonage and myself
have always been pleasant This is fight
against a system think it is bad system,
as far as this committee on rules is concerned.
II does not make any difference to that this
system is sanctioned by time There has
been any progress in this world except by the
overthrow of preceders and the establishment
of precedents"
And If ever there was precedent personfed,
animated attired in conventional clothes and
smoking frayed cigar. that precedent is Jo-
seph G. Cannon still speaker of the house of
representatives. Moreover, he is a blood brother,
a Samese twin OF all other precedents, partie-
nlary those bearing the regular republican
party label and to kill of those established
conventions would be to sap the life blood from
the representative from Illinois.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
FIattering the Kaiser

1t is well known that the kaiser was
opposed to the production of Doctor
Strauss "Salome" in Berlin, and 1t
might never have been given there,
says M A P. but for the composers
clever inspiration. Hearing that court
influence was against his opera, he sat
down and composed two brilliant mill
tary marches.
OF course, the kaiser heard of this,
and his love of things military. made
him wish to hear the marches. Shortly
afterward Strauss was invited to the
palace and was asked to play his
marches to- the emperor
The stirring martial music so ap-
pealed TO Wilhelm ii that Strauss heard
no more about the opposition to ''Sa-
LONE.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
vAUGhN'S BODY IS
fxHUMfD. AT NIGHT
Attorneys for Accused Widow
Expect Cancer to Justify
Theory of Suicide
[ Special Dispatch to The Colll

PARIS, Mo-, March 20.-The body of
Prof. J. T. Vaughn was exhumed for
the second time in Monroe City, Mo-,
neys for the state were taken COM
pletely by surprise and were not aware
of what happened until the body was
once more in the grave.
The exhumation was done at the re-
quest of James Proctor Jr.. brother of
vaughn's widow. Attorneys also rep
resenting her decline to state what
portions of the anatomy were removed.
but it can be stated good authority
that the operations were confined to
the tongue and spinal column. The
work was done by DR.. George Still of
Kirksville and a young professional
man of st. Louis. assistant to one of
the pathologists in tire employ of the
defense. The parts removed from the
body are now in ST. Louis, in posses
sion of the same experts who are an
alyzing the viscera secured by the at
torneys of Vaughn's widow on a writ
of replevin last Monday.
Attorneys for Mrs. Vaughn expect,
it is stated, to discover cancer at
the root of Vaughn's tongue. His al
legged statement that man with such a
maiady would be justified in ending his
life. will, 1t is reported. be advanced as
evidence that he died by his own hand.
Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor Doctor Hull,
jointly indicted on the charge of mur-
dering her husband with strychnine,
had any intimation that Professor
Vaughn's body was to be exhumed.
Doctor Hull asserts his innocence. Mrs.
Vaughn, who is in Texas. will make no
further statements.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Delay Fixing Duty
SOMALILAND RICH IN
NATURAL RESOURCES

Somaliland occupies that portion of
northeast Africa known as the Horn
of Africa" lying between the equator
and II degrees north. It's area is $780,
000' square miles apd it's population is
estimated at 100000 to 900. 600 Brit
ish Somaliland is o strip roughly par
alleling the Gulf of Alden from Bendar
Ziada, on the 49th degree of longitude.
to the Wells of Hadon in the west, with
a mean breadth of a little over 100
miles. 1t. is the most fertile and tract
able part of Somaliland, comprising the
rich pasturing valleys of the Darror
and the Nogal rivers, where enormous
1ocks. of came1s. sheep and goats are
raised, and the people are as much
herdSmen as fighters.
Somalis are negroes with distinctive
ly Aryan features and Aryan traces in
their customs and speech. They will
perform no regular or manual labor;
hence most Somaliland exports are
products of indigenous growth or from
herds. The Somali mainly lives on his
herds. When disease or lack of forage,
as result of drought, does not deci-
mate them, the number of sheep, goats,
ponies and camels found all over Soma
liland is enormous
The main exports of Somaliland are
cattle, sheep, goats. hides, skins, char
coal, ostrich feathers, cfvet and various
>
comes from Somaliland, and that port
also receives about 81 per cent of the
merchandise from Somaliland, for which
it is the port of transshipment. Re-
Gently, however, Berbera has taken
much trade away from Aden by direct
shipments and WILL some time, main
tain an independent trade with prac-
tically all of those countries shipping
in or out of Somaliland. The skins and
hides go mainly to the United States;
the rest to European countries. BY far
the most important exports are live
stock and skins. These are collected
and brought from all parts of the coun-
try by caravans to Zeila, Pulhar and
Berbera
The number of camelS in British
Somaliland is estimated now at 3.125,-
900 head; cattle are estimated at 100000
head, sheep at 5,25O,000 head and goats
at nearly 100000. That this is not too
large an estimate may be believed from
the fact that in 19O2-4 the number of
sheep and goat skins exported from
Berbera alone was 5S3,496, and in
1904-5 the figures rose to 692,626.
There are probably in all Somaliand
many times the number of animals in
these estimates. Their great number
may be suggested by their price. The
price of an OK or cow ranges from Il
to 25 rupees (rupee-$0.3244) per head.
Sheep are worth two rupees for small
to eight rupees for prime, goats from
two rupees for eating animals to 10
rupees for milch animals. The ordinary
Somali beef COW will dress about $50
pounds and the fat tailed sheep % to
SO pounds
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Injured to Cold

An interesting story is told in st.
Petersburg in connection with the visit
of Sir Ernest Shackleton to Tsarskoe
Selo, according to the London Globe.
When the famous antarctic explorer
crossed the Russian frontier at Wir-
ballen he was seen by a Russian jour
nalist, ignorant of his identity, walking &
up and down the station platform,
wearing no overcoat or any other ad-
dition to his ordinary clothing save a
light pea jacket.
The journalist. meaning well, warned
him to beware of Inflammation of the
lungs: This is Russia, not southern
country" he said.
II am accustomed to frosts,' replied
Sir Ernest. "It is sometimes much
colder in the south than here. My name
is Shackleton."
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Hygiene on a Cash Basis

Disinfection of school premises is
profitable, it appears from an expert
ment made by the Bucks county coun-
Gil. The floors of 25 schools under this
authority were sprinkled nightly for a
year with solution of cyllin, says the
London Globe. The attendance at these
schools improved so greatly that adj
ditionaI grants amounting to over $3.50
were earned, the nondisfnfected schools
showing no such Improvement in at
tendance The cost of the experiment
was less than $3.50.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
JAPAN WILL INCREASE
BERING SEA SEALERS
More Than Uusual Number
Crossing the Pacific

VICTORIA, B. c.. March 2O.-Jap-
anese sealers will come to Bering sea
in larger numbers than ever this sea
son, according to information received
from Japan.
The Victoria schooner Pescawha,
which is reported from Monterey with
209 skins. spoke a Japanese schooner
off California January IL.
It's captain said that larger num-
Der of the japanese schoOners would
cross the Pacific this season, several
having crossed already.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Cleaning Berlin's Streets

The total length of the streets cleaned
in Berlin in 1907 was 800 miles. The
total working force was 2,056, including
sos street sweeping boys" These
boys get from AZ to So cents day: the
adult laborers get 80 cents, and, after
three years, $1.19 day
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
TARIFF WAR MAY
YET BE AVERTfD
Taft Confers With Canadian
Minister and Still Hopes for
Friendly Settlement

ALBANY, n. Y, March 20.-At the
conclusion of a conference which, with
two or three interims, lasted nearly
all day. President Taft tonight seemed
hopeful that tariff war with Canada
may yet be averted.
The negotiations between the presi-
dent and w. S. Fielding. the Canadian
minister of finance, did not result
either in agreement or disagreement.
Many details remain TO be. worked out
and the following official statement
sums up the situation:
The president and Mr.. Fielding
were in conference on the tariff today
for several hours. No conclusion was
reached, but the situation remains
sTiendly"
Eleven days remain for friendly ne
gotiations" before the maximum rates
of the Payne-Aldrich law automati-
cally go into effect against those coun-
tries that are regarded by the presi-
dent as ''unduly discriminatory" against
the United States. The law is arbi-
trary as to it's application, but the
president is given judicial powers in
reaching a conclusion as to what
constitutes undue" discrimination.
Up to this time Canada has been re-
garded by the presidents tariff ar
Visers s on the ''unduly' discrimina-
Tory IISI, ana, unless concessions are
granted by the dominion government to
place the United States on an equal
footing with France and 13 other coun-
tries it seems inevitable that Canada
will be the one important country in
the world against which the 25 per cent
increase in the maximum American
rates will be applied
The fact that /. President Taft to-
night summoned James Mcdonald of
Toronto to the governors mansion and
thanked him for his part in helping
to bring about today's meeting indi-
Gates that the outlook is not so dark
as it appeared few days ago.
Delay Fixing Duty
NEW YORK. March 20.-In view Of
the acute stage at which tariff negotia-
tions between Canada and this country
now stand the board of general ap-
praisers in New York is holding off ac-
tion in one of the most important mat
terS to be adMsted-the duty to be
levied on wood pulp and pulp wood,
used in the manufacture of paper, i'm
ported from Canada
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Fresno to Send Delegates

FRESNO, March 20.-Upon receiving
word from Santa Barbara to the effect
that the exposition conference there on
Tuesday would be state wide affair.
A. l.. Hobbs, president of the Fresno
chamber of commerce. tonight appoint
ed a committee of four to represent
this county at the meeting. THE Fresno
delegates are Frank III. Short, Z. f..
Mannheim, George c. Roeding and VIII
liam Robertson. They will leave to-
morrow for the Channel city
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Speakers Scalp in No Danger

1t was even stated toSay by prom
inent member of the house that sec
ond assault might occur upon the
speaker to remove him from the speak
ership and it was pointed out that the
insurgents who stood by the. speaker
might next time be leading the night
to down him A motion to declare the
speakership vacant is in order at any
time in the house, and this member
believed that the precedent for its use,
established yesterday, might be IN
voked any time the situation seems to
warrant ii.
There was talk also of a further
attack upon the rules of the house now
that a big entering wedge has been
inserted, although it was doubted gen
erally whether this would be expedient
from a political standpoint or neces-
sary for the present
The appointment of all the commit
tees of the house by the house itself,
instead of by the speaker. is spoken
Of as the next move of the reformers
of the rules, but as such action at this
time would entirely disorganize the
house, it is not likely to be considered
before the beginning of the next con-
gress.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
New Smokeless Powder

The Paris Eclair announces that an
absolutely stable smokeless powder has
been discovered and is now at the serv-
Ice of the French army and navy.
Chemical agents, heat, excessive cold,
humidity, light and Hergian waves have
no effect upon this powder
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21

Clifford Pinchot walks slowly" says
the Des Moines Capital Probably has
a numbering gait.-New York Evening
Mar
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21

What is one mans meat is another
mans bankruptcy.-Was ashington Times.
The short ballot" and a long memory
might bring about reform.-Milwaukee
Free Press,
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Pile, cured I'm 70 - nav.

Pazo Ointment guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro-
truding Piles or money refunded. soc >
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Cannonism Now Dead

What about the issue of Cannon and
Cannonism?" was asked.
THAT is going TO be taken care OF,
and you can count upon it, was the re-
ply 1T is good prediction to make
that Speaker Cannon will announce long
before the campaign for the election or
a new congress begins that he Will
not again be candidate for speaker.
Where, then. will be the issue you
speak Of? 1t will not exist. 1t is upon
this basis that the warning elements
of the republican party can be most
easily brought together, and that is
what is going 10 happen"
This republican believed that the et-
feet of the battle of last week would
be advantageous to all administration
legislation now in congress. He ex-
pressed his opinion that both sides in
the republican ranks would now stand
solidIy for the Taft program and that
the party pledges would be fully re-
deemed.
In the meantime all these various
conjectures of party seers must await
the verdict of time. All sides are rest
ing, if only from the sheer exhaustion
of the struggle from which they have
lust emerged Tomorrow the bedrag-
gled ranks will be reformed and move
forward to whatever there may be to
meet.
Much depends upon whether the in
surgent republicans who lined up and
prevented the crushing defeat of Speak
er Cannon and his ousting from the
chair only TO be rewarded last night
with denunciation at the speaker s
hands. can be placated or whether they
NAV be made TO feel further resentment
and thus driven into more relentless
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
CANNON'S SCALP
STILL M[NACED
BY INSURGENTS
Speakers Caustic DenunciatiOn
of Rebel Republicans. .ArOuses
Much Anger
Selection of New Rules Commit
tee to Be Made Within
Next Ten Days

just ended will be followed by another,
beside which the first one would be but
q skirmish.
I can speak for no one but myself
but if this is TO be our reception, 1 am
done. We are not towards. We of the
insurgents who cast our votes yester-
day against unseating Cannon were the
brsvest men in that house. 1t took
oonsummate courage and il viii prob
ably cost me my seat in congress. But
if we are to be met with calumny be-
cause we sacrificed ourselves TO save
the house of representatives from
chaos and disorder and to prevent the
ruin Of the republican party, then
am in favor of carrying this war to the
finish"
Have Knife for Cannon
This member said he had talked with
one or two insurgent leaders who voted
10 save Cannon, and they were in a
similar frame of mind.
When / read in the papers this
morning the speech which Speaker
Cannon delivered before the Illinois
association last night my blood boiled
with Indignation said this insurgent.
The portion of the speakers speech
that has thus enrageo the insurgents
who saved him the speakership follows:
There was a new majority made
today 1t consisted of the demo-
Gratis and 5 per cent slough from
the republican party. They de-
stroyed the committee on rules.
Then what did they do? A reso-
luton was presented declaring the
office of spea ker vacant.
Then what did these men who
have been denouncing my person
ality, these simon pure followers
of Cummins and la Toilette do
then? Only eight of them had the
courage Of their convictions The
result was that, while I was elected
speaker by a majority of 26 last
March they refused to turn me out
by q majority of Sc
This combination abolished the
committee on rules, which has after
all simply the power TO report to
the house, although some seem TO
think it is like the biblical example
of Let there be light and there
was light"
You in Washington know diff
ferently. But the people in the
country apparently believe the up
lift magazines and the cowardly
members OF congress who wrought
such havoc today. They said the
speaker should not be a member
of the committee on rules. which
they made over into committee of
O. Much depends upon the make
UP of that committee.
May God bless and keep these
men, for so far as / am concerned
he only can bless them. Many so
called republicans are, in fact,
popuhsts and are trying to outdo
Bryanism.
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abuse the insurgent members, but on
the contrary, an effort TO eonciliate
them.
Il make a guess that the congress
sional committee will from this time
forward lend its aid to the election of
those men who yesterday stood by the
party, and every effort viii be made TO
secure their return to congress.
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fulfilled his promise down to the last

6COuklOTSl.
In his European campaigns. his le-
gious always conquered: but in the eye
and voice of Caesar was something
which conquered the legions them
selves. Finally, by crossing the Rubi-
con. he challenged the power which had
overcome all nations: but Rome her
self had to yield to Caesar, the gambler
who made chance obey him.
Then, that slim aquillne, sallow little
Corsican student at Brienne-he too
had the soul Of an heroic gambler. Be
fore he was 80, the continent vas at his
mercy. But, like other great gamblers
whose game is war, Napoleon was at
last destroyed by forces he had himself
unleaShed.
Gamblers who, like Solomon, win In
the long last, are those who devote
their genius and fortune to the cause
of prosperity and peace. For, then, the
laws of nature and the interests of
humanity fight OF their side.
The latest famous gambler Of this
sort died only the other day.
His name was Cecil Rhodes.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-14

" along-even before my feet touched
the Enthusiastically racing the tiger
for dear life. The very instant 1 got
fairly under way I heard the huge
a make his first leap in my direc-
ton. The fourth leap of the tiger
brought him to within about six yards
of my back wheel, and although 1 was
going as fast as a first class bicycle
can travel, a sixth leap almost brought
the claws Of the monster within strik-
ing distance Of my back tire. But still
l pedaled away desperately.
Just at this momen l saw in front
OF me another straight road opening
terror, however, when 1 tell you that,
as soon as l had turned into this new
road. l beheld. lying right across my
path. a huge tree that had fallen
through decay. | charged the object
headlong. and just before crashing into
1T l leaped from the machine and
scrambled over recklessly, feeling GER
goes without saying that I literally
threw myself into the saddle again
with frantic energy. and pedaled away
from the memorable monster. 1 heard
the tiger leap over the fallen tree, and,
SICK at heart. l realized that If the
chase lasted much longer l should have
to give up.
Greatly to my relief, however, a short
distance in front on my left 1 saw yet
another road. and a ray Of hope came
to me as 1 noticed a steep descent.
This l entered Upon like an arrow, and
a minute or so later put so or 60 yards
etwee my pursuer and myself. 1
was pretty we'll done for, however-so
much so, that at one time l felt
U fall out of the saddle.
A little farther along 1 looked around,
put the tiger was nowhere to be seen;
he had given up the chase.
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TALENT IN NAPKIN.

Now arises a pink-faced gentleman
IN a plump white w~aistcoast.
He says: Gambling, as you term it
speculation might be a more accur-
ate words all very we'll for persons
with large fortunes. or for men Of in
dustrial and inventive talent. But
most people are only fairly we'll off.
Why is it not wiser for them to stay
on the safe side ?-retain what they
have, rather than risk losing 1t by
grasping after what they may never
get?"
This gentleman owns a talent. done
up in a napkin. in a safe deposit
drawer.
1t is doing nothing there-helping no
one. But he thinks it's safe.
Well, he will certainly not lose IT.
But then he will never use it either,
And what, after all. is the difference
between losing and never using?
The p~ink-faced gentleman is a con
~servative.
Were all like him-were there no
firm Of Solomon, Columbus, Rhodes
and Company-he might still have a
pink face; but he would not have a
white waistcoat. For he would be a
prlmeval savage in a grass girdle. And
nothing would have been done since
the flood to make the world different
from what it was at the start.
Men who live by brains and cour-
6 live in their deeds after their
bodies are dust.
Parasites (conservatives) live on the
brains and courage Of Solomon G. Co.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-14
THE COMPANY.


But whether Rhodes had lived or
died, men Of his strain always arise
to keep up the great tradition.
Always will there be great world
builders. leaders Of civilization, to car
ry on the mission begun by their pre-
decessors.
Invention. discovery, commerce., in
dustry, are immortal. The firm Of SOL
onion, Columbus, Rhodes and Company
will never lack living representatives.
Benjamin Franklin got the first hui
man grip on electricity in 1852. Morse's
telegraph followed 80 years after. Edi-
son, 81 years ago, made it print it's
messages. Bell. in 1876, taught his
voice to ride on the current with but
a wire to hold on by, for thousands of
miles: and only the other day, young
Marconi dropped the wire, and car
ries on living conversations, through
empty air. across oceans.
These members Of the company have
transformed the business world, and
hundreds Of thousands Of men and
women find daily employment in ham
ding their inventions.
George Stephenson built his loco
motive in 1880. Mankind began rum
ming to and fro upon the earth, sub
DUNG it. n making one another's
acquaintance. In 1859 George Pull
nan enabled them to go to bed and
sleep at night on their way. And