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The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01

HE Quarrel With Tursensif and In
Reconciliation That Followed.

bJSo O0otfOS WIN uOe000OU ana S0o
Reconciliation That Followed.
Raymond Recouly in the Paris FL
caro- gives the following account of
an early encounter between T0lstoy
and TuvgeneR. which shows the Rus
sian sage in q different frame Of mind
from the one In which the world has
since come to know him:
It was on the estate Of his friend.
the poet Fet. near Yasnaya. Turgenen
was among the invited guests. The
hostess inquired after his daughter.
who was being reared In France.
Turgenefr spoke highly Of his Eng
lish governess. with q truly British
exactitude." he said. "she requested
me to fix the sum which my daughter
might spend for charity. And now
she teaches her pupil to mend the
ragged clothes Of the poor"
And you consider that a good
thing?" asked Tolstoy.
Certainly" replied the other. 1T
brings the benefactor into direct con.
tact with the persons whom he Is
helping"
ION my part. 1 think that a well
dressed child who handles dirty and
Ill smelling rags is playing q hypo-
critical and theatrical farce"
II must ask you not to speak in
this way" exclaimed Turgeneff. with
menacing looks.
"Why should l not say what I am
convinced IS the truthY' remarked
TOlstoy.
"Y0N think. then. that I am educat-
ing my daughter badly" and, while
Fet was interceding. III you will talk
in that way ! shall box your ears"
Then he left the room. begging his
hosts to pardon his abrupt departure.
TOlstoy also went. At the neighbOr-
ing station he wrote to Turgene6 de-
manding an apology. He ordered pis-
tolls and tried to provoke his rival to
duel. Turgenef's answer. very digni
fed. brought the apology demanded
by Tolstoy. He closed by saying that
he thought 1t best that two men with
such opposite tempers should hence
forth break of all relations. TOlstOy.
carried away by his anger lit was In
1SCD, declined to be satisfied with
such an answer. He felt that he had
been gravely offended. He demanded
reparation by arms. He therefore re-
peated his provocations. His friend
Fet. who attempted to pacify him.
only in drawing from him
this vigorous reply: Il beg Of you
not to write to me any
more. 1 shall return your letters un-
opened. the same as I do with Turge-
ne1f's." After these occurrences Turge-
nen returned to France. where he
passed the greater part Of his time.
Some months later. on reflection. Toll
stOy regretted his violence. Seized
with remorse. he sent Turgene6 let
ter asking his pardon. II find 1t ex-
ceedingly painful" he wrote, Ito
think that have made an enemy Of
you"
Turgenef forgavc. as one may i'm
agine, but the complete and definitive
took place much later.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
HOW FARES ROOSEVELT:

Roosevelt's candidate was beaten in
New York, but the verdict is by no
means the overwhelming and obliter.
ating one his enemies prayed for OF
the New York newspaper headlines
and cartoons indicate. A defeat Of
sc, 600 in New York state is not any.
where near the beating the popular
David B. Hill received at the hands
of the colOrless, old Levi p. Morton in
1894, when post-tarifr conditions were
much the same as now and the drift
was against the democrats as it is today
against the republicans. When one
considers the enormous massing Of
money and newspapers against Stimson
and Roosevelt it is to be wondered at
that the Dix victory was not much
larger, especially in the city. Coler
there in 1902 got plurality about ten
thousand larger, although he had no
such elements Of support in his favor
and it was republican year. So far
as up state" is concerned the results
show rs our newspaper forecast pre-.
dicted last year. There was no land
slide, no overwhelming rebuke to
Roosevelt, but = defeat which hurt
him sore and shows that even he can
not understand the force of q nation
wide movement. Wilson's %, 600 vic
tory in New Jersey, Fos' $4,000
plurality in Massachusetts,, and the
election Of democratic congressman in
Chicago are much more emphatic con.
formations of the republican leaders
IN that region than is the sixty. eight
thousand Dix victory in New York.
Nor Is the republican loss in the states
in which Roosevelt spoke any serious
indication of . slap ut him. We know
he cost Draper votes in Massachusetts,.
but not to any considerable amount.
It may be remembered that after the
campaign of 1880 Tom Reed figured
that in every congressional district in
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The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
A PANACEA AT LAST.

Of more wonderful importance
and effect than at FIRST reported is now
understood to be the marvellous specific
recently discovered by DR.. Ehrlich of
Frankfort, Germany.
When the announcement of DR..
Ehrlich's discovery was first made to
the public, it was his idea that the
substance, which was designated "6OG,"
was q specific practically only in cases
of loathsome blood poisoning, but a
few days since it was proclaimed by
DR.. Samuel w. Lambert, dean Of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in
New York, that purely by accident
DR.. Etener had discovered new prop
critics in "6O6" which proved its
capacity to drive from the human body
all the germs Of all known diseases.
It was in fasing the tips of tubes
containing 1905" to protect the re-
naming contents, that the discovery
Was made. It is stated that the heat
applied for the fusing modified the
drug within in some way to make it
more toxic.
Experiments conducted upon ami.
mails after the substance was heated
seems to confirm the theory of . toxic
modification Of the drug BY the heat.
DR.. Lambert declared with great
enthusiasm that the discovery means
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01

A French contemporary tells .
piquant story of the composer Of ga
lone" He was dining one night with
q party of musical friends when the
conversation turned on the compost
tons of the kaiser. Some Of the
guests had expressed their opinions
pretty freely when Herr Strauss put
his finger to his lips and said: ''Sh-sh:
You should never run down the COM
positions 1T crowned heads In com
pany. There IL d" telling who wrote
them"
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
SIMPLIFYING COURT METHODS.

SINlfLlr 1IN&B N-OuNl ME f1ODS.
Senator Elihu Root, in the capacity
ofpresident of the New York State
Bar association. has called the atten-
ton of that body to the time wasted in
the restating by judges of established
legal opinions in new forms. He con.
dennis this practice and asserts that
the briefest possible opinion from the
bench usually serves the purpose quite
rs we'll as an opinion of interminable
length. He also favors a statutory
rule which would preclude reversal of
q judgment upon the error of ruling
relative to the admission or rejection
of evidence in trial unless it appears
that different ruling would have led
to different judgment. He declares
that such rule would put an end to
the countless objections and exceptions
which now dis6gure legal procedure.
No doubt these two changes in me.
thods would help considerably. The
average layman, however, does MOI
care how the legal fraternity reforms
itself provided it does so at the earliest
opportunity. He wants removed the
snares and pitfalls which tangle his
feet when he goes to law and which
make legal redress appear outrageous.
" difficult of attainment. He would
like to see abolished the garrulity of
the Law which seems to create an i'm
penetrable fog for al save the lawyers
Themselves and frequently for them,
ifindications count for anything.
In short, the average layman and
Ill the rest of the public will welcome
anything and everything which tends
to simplify and make more plain the
processes of the law, 80 that exact and
even Justice may be dealt out more
certainly and more speedily Chicago
News.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
A BAR TO UNITY,

The agreement of the committees
upon . plan for the uni6cation of the
Methodist church, the Methodist
Church South and the Methodist Pro.
testant churches is expected to result
eventually in the merging Of these
bodies, but it is . mistake to assume
that the change can be brought about
by simple resolution when the gen
eral committee meets in Chattanooga
next May. There are practical as
we'll as sentimental difficulties in the
way. Perhaps all the committee can
do is to sweep away the physical OBJ
stacles and then allow the churches to
grow together if they are so minded
during the coming generation.
A strong tendency exists At the pre-.
sent time to bring back to the parent
churches the email bodies that have
broken away over matters of minor b.
lief and practice. The Methodist
Protestant church, which sprang from
the original Methodist church in 1880
as protest against the management
Of the church by the clergy, can return
without loss Of dignity, because the
main points asked FIR by the secetlers
were long ago granted. The Method.
list Protestant wing is comparatively
small and ought to reach unity with
the old church without difficulty.
The union Of the Methodist Episco-
pal church and the Methodist Episco.
pal church south is an entirely differ
ent matter. The division took place
in 1915. 1t was caused by slavery.
Since the war the two branches have
still been far apart. They have ad-
opted q common hymnal and have
shown a disposition to work in har.
mony when possible. Recently two
churches belonging to the different
wings at Chattanooga were united and
have agreed to overlook the historic
division. Along the border the ten.
dency is to amaglamate or at least to
avoid maintaining different churches
in single communities. All this. tax.
en- in connection with the committee
work just done At Cincinnati, is hopeful.
But 50 long as the negro question
remains unsettled there will be no un.
ion OF the two chief branches of the
Methodist Episcopal church. So long
IS public opinion in the church in the
north considers the negro a man and
50 long As the prevailing sentiment in
the church in the south is that he is an
animal in the shape of q man, it will
be better for the two bodies to live as
neighbors and not rs members Of the
same Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
Some Letters.

An ingenious person has discovered
that the three most forcible letters in
our alphabet are N n G (energy'. that
the two which contain nothing are VI
T empty. that four express great cor
pulence. o B C T obesity; that two
are In u decline. d X decay: that
four indicate exalted station. x L "
G (excellency,. and three excite Onr
tears. yet when pronounced together
are necessary to u good understanding
Il E G telegy and leg'.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
MIR. TAFT AS FNANCIER.

MIX. TAFT As FINANClEN.
President Taft has proved himself
IN Exceptionally able finance minister.
When be came to the national capital,
Mr.. TAFT found an extraordinary state
of confusion and lack of coordination
in the departments of government
Many of the details Of administration
dated from the days of the fathers and
the eighteenth century. 1t Was like
carrying transcontinental freight in
wheelbarrowa Things had been
heaped together, they could hardly be
said to have grown. There was dupli.
cation, confusion, inefficiency, and
eomplexity.
Pro6ting, l think. by his practical
experience as IN administrator in the
Philippines, where he had to do much
creative work, Mr.. Taft began to over.
haul, and to direct the overhauling Of,
the whole complicated and overgrown
structure. He soon found that in
every department the work could, by
the application Of modern administra-
tive methods, be much better done, at
much less cost.
1t was not at all . question of dis
honesty or personal ineficiency. Pres
i,lent Taft is very clear about this, and
very highly commends the energy,
honesty, and efficiency of the great
body of public servants. Not the per
sonnet, but the system, was at fault.
Rather, there was almost no system in
the modern sense. As single exam
pie: at some of the minor ports it cost
$500 to collect 81 of customs revenue.
And this is symptomaric of the whole
structure.
Here, then, Mr.. Taft is achieving,
and has already achieved, the most
noteworthy results; results directly
beneficial to the nation as q whole;
results briefly summed up in the
words, "a fifty.two million dollar cut"
Which is, of course, q million dollars
. week saved to the American people.
Johnston in Harper's.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
WASHINCTON'S BIRTHPLACE.

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHPLACE.
Perhaps every patriotic American,
aud almost every intelligent foreigner,
who visits the national capital makes
reverential pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon as q part Of that visit. Yet
few Americans know and still fewer
have ever visited the birthplace Of the
Father Of His Country. In this case
the usual order has been inverted. 1t
is generally the house in which great
man was born rather than the one in
which ne lived or in which he died
that attracts the hero worshiper at the
shrine of the great.
In Lincoln's case his home in
Springfield, ILL.,, attracts only mild
degree of interest: but so great was the
interest in the spot where he was born
in Kentucky that the original log
cabin, or what is considered to be the
one that formerly stood on the site,
after having been sent about the coun-
try as a show attraction, has been
re erected on the original location and
the farm itself is now owned by the
Lincoln Farm association.
In Washington's case the house in
which he was horn Was long ago per-
mitted to fall into decay, and not
timber or stone of it probably remains
on the original site, which is at Wake
field, Va, on Popes Creek, near Colo
nial Beach. The plans of it, however,
have been preserved, and now the
Washington board of trade is consid.
ering the possibility of q scheme to
reproduce the house on the original
site. The latter is now marked only
by a shaft erected by the United States
That the state of Vir.
ginia and the government of the
United States have so long suffered
the place where Washington was born
and where he passed his earlier years
to remain neglected is due only to an
oversight and to the fact that Mount
Vernon, where he lived and where he
lies buried, has become a national
York World.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
The Cabal.

The term "cabar' as applied to Sc
cret factions of any kind had its rise
in England about 1867, being first mp.
piled to the cabinet Of Charles II. and
formed from the initials Of the cabi-
net members names-Lord Clifford.
Lord Ashley. the Duke OF Buckins-
ham. Lord Arlington and the Duke
Of Lauderdale-C. A. B. A. l. Since
that day it has been customary. in all
English speaking lands ut least. to ap-
ply the name to any secret cOnclave.
especially in politics.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01

At n teachers conference Que Of the
school principals rose to prOiHnss, thr
toast. "l.on:: live the teachers.
And meager pallid assistant In
structOr In u hollow voice nSksd- ''t'D
what Home Journal
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
Willing to compromiss.

Willing to compromiss.
Didn't you promise never to do that
again.
"Yes. father"
And didn't ] promise to whale yOn
good II you didn't
"Yes. but ] broke me promise and
won't hold you to yours" - TOleCi"
Blade.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01

you must not mock people. Hazel.
Once upon q time. the Bible says. q
crowd Of little children Knocked q good
man named Elisha. and two bears
came out Of the forest and killed for.
ty-two Of them"
wasn't that IN awful thing Toe
their mothsssf'1Nswafk NewA
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01

did the man whose auto was in ''"'
amlnatiOnT'
1T sounded that way. sir "-Raiti
more American.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01
The studied effort on the part Of the
World. Herald and other democratic

The studied effort on the part of the
World Herald and other democratic
newspapers to push Bryan into the
background is attracting attention out
side of Nebraska. Here is what the
Sioux City Tribune rises to remark
about it: "What sort of mischievous
purpose is it and where does it come
from, this denying Of Mr.. Bryan by
the Nebraska democrats? They are
playing for a fall, these democratic
newspapers and politicians, who are
trying to build up the Nebraska demo-
cracy around organized opposition to
Mr.. Bryan. It won't work. 1t is not
a question of Bryan's presidential as
pirations, if he has any. It's ques-
ton Of the integrity of the democratic
party at this time. Is the party hon.
est? Is it intending to follow the pro-
gressive trend that Mr.. Bryan's leader.
ship gave to it, or is this anti-Bryau
move engineered by the corporation
influence that want to be in with de-
mocracy in 19l2?"-Lincoln News.
The Columbus journal., 1911-02-01

With the sufferings Of our federal
circnit judges on their miserable pit.
lance Of $1,000 q year We can all
sympathize. Most of us know what it
is to he poor. We were poor ourselves
once, and know just how hard it is to
maintain . $4,000 family and a
5000 automobile on wages Of S5S3.SS3
. month. Nevertheless, the refusal of
the house of representatives to increase
this stipend to $4,000 a year is likely
to meet the approval of all of us.
Unfortunately there are not wages
enough in existence to give each of us
al he would like to have. Where
there is money to spend in wage
increases, therefore, We are compelled
to consider supply and demand. When
. circuit court vacancy was in this
vicinity a few days ago it did not 60
begging, not by big margin. Many
applied, and Walter l. Smith was
accounted . lucky man when he got
it. Meanwhile some thousands of jobs
at Chicago sewing machines 60 beg
ging because girls have refused to sew
at 81 q week. We need clothes
almost As badly as we need justice.
Men were swapping at the poorly paid
judgeship. Why should We not take
the extra wages, then, to lure the girls
back to the deserted sewing machiness
This is what We do when We refuse to
raise the judges salary, for all these
government expenses the ultimate
consumer" pays.-Lincoln Journal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Crippled Man Asks
the Commissioners
for a Wooden Leg
Is Not Able to Get Out of the House
Since the Old One Was
Broken.

Wooden legs have long been the butts OF
Jokes and the butt ends OF wooden legs
often times have been made 70 do service
worse than that. There IS absolutely no
humor In the wooden leg situation for
George stephens, s23 North Twenty-sixth
street. South Omaha who wrote a pathetic
letter 10 the county commissioners. fmplor-
ing them 20 buy him wooden leg. so that
his wife and six children may not starve
because OF his inability 10 work.
He says he r. laboring man and that as
he has only ore leg IL Is necessary for him
10 wear an artificial limb. He says for
some time he mas been wearing a wooden
leg twenty-one years old and that like the
one-hoss shay it went TO pieces all at once
and IL useless. So long as he had a wooden
leg with which to move about ne was
able 20 earn enough TO buy bread for his
family. but nov IL is just the same as
though he were sick in bed. for he il help
less and without an artificial limb. and the
outlook Is dnear ana hopeless He says he
has no money 10 make even a part payment
on q wooden leg and therefore begs the
county commissioners 10 buy him a Lex so
himself and family may not become a
public charge
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
FOOD PRICES are sTILL Low
esq Refuse 60 Rise in spite OF the
Prevailing Cole. Malay
weather.

Foodstuffs Of every variety were reported
holding the low price 10 which they cropped
a week ago or were falling lower IN price
Friday morning. In most Of the retail
stores eggs had dropped 10 % cents and in
tWs places they we're quoted az n and ia
cents q dozen retail. which was a drOp Of
2 cents from the day before.
The finest patent flour y being sold at
retail for sl-aO whereas Il had been listed
AZ Si-se per SACK
Among the grocerymen q vas announced
that the prices probably would rise some
what IN the next feW days, owing 20 the
continued rain and the bad condition Of the
roads But d vas explained that further
reduction In the oosi % f0odsiuns would
surely follow the drying ~ 81 the roads.
~ that the farmers could SET their truck
20 the city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18

married on March 81. So the wedding an
niversary viii also be a birthday party.
James c. Keen being s. years old and Mrs
Keen S.
W. w Keen is the oldest Of the chill
dren. who is living six having been born
10 them. Al present there are living seven
teen grandchildren 20 Mr.. ana Mrs. J. c.
Keen. and eleven reat-grandchiidren. In
all the years in which the old couple have
been living together they have never had
q serious quarrel. and this they assert is
one reason for longevity. Another Is that
they both come OF long-livod family, Mr..
Keen's father having died a. IS and his
wifes az So
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Death Results from
Tumble on Doorstep
Fatal Injury Incurred by J. W. Moon,
Travelling Salesman, When He
Trips on Entering Home.

Failing on his doorstep coat the life Of J
W. Moon. travelling salesman, lf29 North
Nineteenth street. Thursday night.
AIR Moon was returning home early in
the evening when the accident occurred.
The apparently trivial accident caused the
rupture Of an important artery and death
resulted half an hour later.
The dead man was employed BY the firm
Of Groneveg a SehOentgen. Wholesale
grooers 81 Council Bluffs. He was Sc years
old. A widow and four children survive.
Funeral arrangements have not been com
pleted.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
TESTING GRANDFATHER LAW
Thirteen EIectiOn Officials Indicted
by Federal Grand Jury In
OkIahOma.

MUsKoGEE. Oh.. Feb. III. II. Tai
bot, an election inspector. was arrested
here today on a federal grand jury in
dietment charging that under the grand
father clause" Of the Oklahoma eOnstitu-
ton he prevented a negro from voting a.
the last election. Twelve more election
officials, indicted yesterday. have not been
arrested.
At Muskogee today Thomas ID. Taylor
lawyer. and John Flaherty, a police ser
geant were also arrested on a similar
charge
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Manufacturers Club
is a Thriving Body
Membership Has Grown at q Rapid
Clip Since the Club Was
Organised.

In a small meeting Of the Omaha Manu-
facturers' club. which VAS formed several
weeks aEo. the report VAS made Friday
noon that the club had grown from thirteen
members 90 sxty-eight members
This h said 20 be the NEST remarkable
Erowth % any organization In such a
period o. time IN the history Of the city
Only q handful Of the members attended
ne meefing owing 70 the occurrence Of
other meetings In which many % the man
ufacturers have memberships an the same
hour. but gloNinE report vas made a. %
aociation.